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London, England, 1863-03-11 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1868.

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MARRIAGE

OF
THE PRINCE OF WALES

AND

PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS.)

The marriage of the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Alexandra was solemnised yesterday in the
Chapel Royal at Windsor. It is now sixty-seven
years since the marriage of a Prince of Wales took
please. More than two generations of men have
passed away since an event similar to that of yester-
day oocurred in England. It was therefore em-
phatically a novelty. But when the changes which
have occurred in the intervening period have been!
taken into account, when eapecially the afflictions'
which have taken place within the last two or three
years in the domestic circle of the royal family are
remembered, it will be felt that there was something
above and beyond a novelty in the event of yester-
day, which fully accounts for the mingled eclat and '
sympathy with which it was accompanied.
Although the town was very full overnight—so
much as five pounds having been asked for three
beds and a sitting-room for one night—the trains
from London brought an immense accession
of visitors. Every carriage arriving both by
the Great Western and South-Western lines was
se fall of pawners as it could contain ; and it was
inlitself no inferior spectacle to see the crowds of
ladies issuing from the two termini in dresses of the
most varied and brilliant colours, and proceeding
with all possible expedition to their places on the
platforms within the Castle gates. Rosettes of
white ribbon would of anise not show to advantage
on the costume of ladies, and therefore it may be
presumed, with that characteristic shrewdness
which always enables them to improve a good
opportunity, the ladies must have very successfully
appealed to Paterfamilias or husband for the more
substantial adornment of bonnet, mantle, or dress,
for never do we remember having seen such an
' abundance of spick and span new costume as on
'this occasion.
At hilf-past 10 o'clock the regiment of the Cold-
stream Guards came upon the ground, commanded
by Coldnel Leconter and were soon formed so as to
keep the line leading from the gate through which
the procession was to pass to the entrance for the
bride and bridegroom. With the Coldstream were
united in this duty the Berkshire Volunteers, who
were assembled under their commander, Colonel
Loyd Lindsay, to the number of 686. The Grena-
diers and Fusiliers were on duty in other portions
of the Castle.
At 11 o'clock the Lt Regiment of the Horse
Guards came in, and took their stations, and imme-
diately after the Eton scholars, all of them wearing
rosettes, made a rush up the hill, and stationed them-
selves on the south side behind the Horse Guards.
At a quarter-past 11 all admissions within the Castle
gates were stopped, and the spectacle which then
presented itself was brilliant in the highest degree.
The east sod of the broad drive, where it connects
itself with the park, may be regarded as the basis
of a triangle, the sides of which run gradually
narrowing till they form the main road at the town
entrance to the Castle. Along this roadway, and
immediately behind the Guards, stood a double line
of spectators. Behind these, on the south aide,
rose the upper and middle platforms, full of gentle-
men and ladies—the former with rosettes, the latter
glittering in their bright scarlet, blue, and magenta
mantles, and their light and flowered bonnets.
Still further down, in the hollow of the slope, and
surrounding the door by which the bridal proces-
sion was to enter the Chapel Royal, was the third
platform, occupied by a more highly favoured and
a more brilliantly attired group. Iu the distance,
on the north side, rose the grey, solid frame of the
grand old castle itself, in fine contrast with the hut
and varied colouring on the opposite side. The
coup d'ail, as it took in the whole view, with the
flags floating from the triumphal arch before the
castle gates, and enlivened by rays of sunlight, such as
of themselves never fail to ex hilirate any crowd in the
month of March in this northern clime, was at once
magnificent and invigorating, and, when taken in
connexion with the event with which it was asso-
ciated, may be regarded as combining with the
artistic and the natural, something of the sympa-
thetic and the sublime.
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Maharajah Dhuleep Sin4b, who presented the
Princess Alexandra with a bouquet bolder which
cost 1,0001. At 20 minutes put 11, the royal state
carriages, magnificently mounted, and some of
them apparently quite new, passed up the Park
Hill and eutered St. George's-gate. Shortly
after the equipages of the Lord Mayor, of
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, and of Mr.
Sheriff Jones drove up and also entered St.
George's-gate, but for some reason or other the
representatives of the City drove back without
being set down. Neither the members of the
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errs of Prussia were much cheered ae they passed
along in their carriages.
At this point a ludicrous incident occurred which
oonvulead all present, even to the disciplined and
stern soldiers on duty, with laughter. An elderly
Man in very plain clothes, accompanied by two
porters, the one carrying a blue bag well filled, the
other a carpet one not quite so bulky, passed up the
centre of the entire line, and entering the gate
from which the procession issued, was lost to view
within the royal castle itself. A Jew carrying
away his "ole " after a good morning's work, or
a poor traveller unable to pay for a cab (to either
of whist the strange visitor might be compared),
could tot have been more unexpected at such •
tine and place ; but although every one laughed
sad wondered what he did there, the mysterious
stranger plumed uneonoersedly along, gate-keepers,
policeman, sad soldiers yielding to the latent in-
, flue*** which he possessed, of whatever sort it
might les.
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it varied a monotony of splendour, having pared,
the third part of the procession, that of the bride-
nto move. Thin act was announced
Crzetand by the cheering of the little boys and
girls of we Queens's Windsor school, who, with •
gseciits eat humemelbasehosmia, were aloes pos.
mitted by the Queen to stand in the lawn inside
the gates, and who decidedly had thus the best op-
portunity of witnessing the cavalcade. This is a
circumstance which deserves to be recorded and re-
membered, for it redounds greatly to the thought-
ful condescension and to the wide sympathy of her
Majesty.
We shall leave the appearance and dress of the
royal bridegroom to be described as he stood in the
Chapel Royal, but we may mention here that he
appeared more thoughtful than usual It was re-
marked by several that as he grows older he looks
more like his father, but that he has unmistakeably
his mother's eyes, He was greatly cheered as he
passed along, and he bowed right and left in the
most gracious and sympathetic manner. His ex-
pression was that of one who felt that at that mo-
ment the good and sincere wishes of a people were
accompanying him to the bridal altar.
Last of all came the procession of the bride.
It need scarcely be said, however splendid was the
whole cavalcade, and however interested the sec-
tators were in the personal appearance of the bride-
groom, the young bride, the stranger amongst us,
was the object of the deepest sympathy and the
tenderest regard. It was assuredly no vulgar
curiosity that prompted the eyes of thousands of
spectators to gaze with intensity into that last car-
riage which bore the Princess Alexandra of Den-
mark, and who is now the Princess of Wales. No ;
it was a far deeper sentiment—a feeling that lies
profound in the human heart : it was that "music
of humanity," which makes the humblest vibrate
to those touches of nature which ascend in
divine harmony from low to high, and descend in
corresponding concord from high to low. The young
Princess, though surrounded by many members of
her family, was felt to be a stranger • she was
young, tender, and though her stay in England had
been short, had won golden opinions from all by her
sweetness of manner and pleasant presence ; and
these immediate considerations, with others sug-
geeting themselves in the dim future, threw a kind
of fascination around her as she passed by and was
saluted by the encouraging cheers of English women
and English men. She looked pale—exceedingly
so. One who had men her seated by the side of the
Prince of Wales on Monday afternoon as she drove
in her light open carriage to Eton, smiling and
blushing as she went, would hardly reoog-
nise the same person in the " white lady,"
arrayed in her bridal robes and pearly
wreaths. There was, indeed, about her that'
" Virgin majesty with mild
And sweet allayed,"
which has already given her a high place in the
heart of her now adopted country ; but still there
was absent that light of joyousness which flung
brightness and gladness on all around. When,
however' the circumstances of her position are
considered, the change may be readily accounted
for ; and it may be as well to state here that
on the return of the procession there was a
marked improvement in her appearance, for a por-
tion of the "something like an angel ight " had
reappeared on the countenance of the Princess of
j Wales.

The Queen did not go to the chapel in the royal
procession, but proceeded thither by the private
passage which had been prepared for her.

THE WEDDING.

The appearance of St. George's Chapel yesterday
morning, when opened to its eager and expectant
visitors, was rather disappointing to those who had
read the previous descriptions of the elaborate pre-
parations which were being made for the royal
wedding. The truth is that the whole strength of
the decorators bad been thrown upon the reception
and retiring rooms of the Princess and Prince, and
that very little had been done to alter the appear.
anoe of the chapel itself. The stalls of the Knights
of the Garter looked as sombre in their oak carving
as ever, the banners as duaty, and the coronets as
little like the costly head gear of nobles of the land
as those appendages of the moat noble Order usually
do. The reredos at the back of the communion-
table had a raw and unfinished look, its cold pale
colour toning down very much the richness of effect
given by the costly communion plate with which the
table itself was furnished. The seats which bad been
provided along the choir for the privileged visitors
harmonised so well in colour and workmanship
with the knightly stalls behind, that the spectator
was hardly aware that any addition had been made
to the ordinary interior accommodation. The haat
pea was covered with the same carpet which we
have observed on former state occasions, nor did
the central passage of the choir present any novel
features of decoration. The only novelties which
we observed were the tabourets of state on the
luset pea for the royal personages who were to
assist at the wedding, and the drapery of purple
velvet and gold which hung over the balcony of
the Queen's closet.
The interior of St. George's Chapel of course
always looks beautiful, but on this occasion
it was not until it was tilled with its royal,
noble, fair, and distinguished company, that the
spectator felt that he was gazing upon certainly one
of the moat magnificent and best ordered pageants
of modern times. The position which bad been
allotted to ourselves, being on the left of the great
orgau, had the advantage of commanding at the
same time the nave and the choir. On the one
side, as we have stated before, everything was
solemn, antique, almost feudal. The stalls of the
knights, their dusty banners overhead, and these
again surmounted by the tarnished coronets • the
I great stained glass window at the end, the reredos
, below it, and the heavy richness of the communion
plate—all combined to give to the choir an I
air of great solemnity. On the opposite
I aide, in the nave, everything was light, cheer-
ful, and airy. Abundance of light streamed in,
with now and then a stray sunbeam through the
Gothic windows, and gave great brilliancy and
I effect to the galleries, filled with ladies in toilettes
as gay and many coloured as a flower garden. At
the far end a crimson curtain hid from view the
j space in which the processions were being mar-
I shelled, and every stir in this piece of drapery was
an object of :great interest and excitement to the
company. Having, as the police would say, free
• circulation from side to side in the organ gallery,
the persons who were accommodated in that part
of the chapel beguiled the time which elapsed
between their admission and the commence-
intuit of the ceremonial in watching the inci-
dents that oocurrednow in the nave, now in the choir,
and the entrance of distinguished personages on