The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-09 00:00:00

sion of the metropolitan police, a number of the
mounted patrols of the T diVinon, and Bucks police.
Each side of the street was lined with eager groups
of spectators, wbo, with the rides and college offi-
cials, for nearly two hours braved the continuous
drenching with great steadiness, but faintly com-
pensated by watching the slow and gradual lighting
of the lamps on the facade of the college masters'
houses and triumphal arches, which operation was
in progress up to the time of the arrival of the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra. On
entering the college the carriages containing their
royal highnesses and suite proceeded at a slower
pace, the rifles presenting arms and the band play-
ing " God save the Queen." Addresses full of
loyalty from the provost and fellows, the Eton
scholars, and the inhabitants and masters of the
college, were here presented or thrown into the
carriage of the Princess, which did not pause in

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its progress.
The other addresses, couched in the same loyal
spirit. were from the masters of Eton College
and inhabitants of the town to the Prince of Wales,
Princess Alexandra, and the Queen, offering con-
gratulationa on the approaching marriage.
Little time was occupied by the cavalcade in
passing through the college, and the carriages
swept across Barnspool-bridge and onward through
High-street, Eton, which was brilliantly illuini-
nated and decorated with festoons and devices,
amid the pouring rain, followed by an enthusiastic
crowd, whose cheering was somewhat damped by
the unpleasant weither. As the crowds of spec-
tators endeavoured to follow the carriages cordons
'f police were rapidly drawn across the thorough-
fare at intervals, thus preventing any chance of
accident from the press of people eager to catch •
glimpse of the royal couple. In this way Windsor-
bridge was reached in a few minutes, and here,
near the triumphal arch over Thames-street, which
was gaily decorated and illuminated with coloured
lamps and festoons, and devices of every kind,
were stationed the Mayor of Windsor, the Re-
corder of the borough, and town council. An
address was presented, or more properly speaking,
" thrown in," here by the Mayor.
Seemly a pause was made at this point, and the
cattle at once proceeded at as rapid a pace as was
consistent with the safety of the throng up Thames-
street, the sides of which were most brilliantly
illuminated, and so round the base of the noble old
Castle upeastle-hill, amid the cbeersof the populace
the waving of handkerchiefs from the ladies in the
windows, the merry peals of bells from St. John's
Church, and royal salutes fired from the most unex-
pected positions, and in the Bachelor's-acre, till it
passed through the splendid triumphal arch here
erected, near which the Windsor Rifle Volunteers
were drawn up, under Captain Evans, with the
drum; and fifes. These presented arms, but the
hand did not play, as this was forbidden by her
Majorty. Under the able direction of Superin-
tendent Eager, of the Windsor police, and In-
spectors Baker and Walker, the procession was en-
abled to reach the Castle with perfect ease,
the arrival in the quadrangle of the Castle
taking place about half-pet 6 p.m. The
children belonging to the Queen's schools at Cum-
berland Lodge were draws up near the entrance
to the Castle in the Park, while the school
children of the town were placed along the mound
of the Castle itself, and fronting Thames-street.
Barricades were erected in various portions of
Windsor for greater safety. With the exception of
a breakage cr two, however, we heard of no acci-
dent, owing, probably, to the large number of
police who attended from London, amounting to
upwards of 900 men of the A, R, P, Ac.. divisions.
On Saturday evening the tables were laid for a
banquet in the Music Gallery, formerly called the
Waterloo Chamber. A banquet was also to take
place in the same apartments yesterday, while the
tables for the banquet of this evening are to be
laid, we understand, in St. George's Hall.
The illuminations in Windsor were very general ;
nearly every shop and private house had its sepa-
rate design in coloured lamps, transparencies, and
devices, many of them exoenlingly tasteful and well
executed. The Town-hall was illuminated with
rows of coloured lamps around the cornices and win-
dows, while the banks and other large establish-
ments were likewise appropriately illuminated.
Across Thames-street, but more especially Pessood-
street--• narrow sloping street and busy thorough-
fare—so numerous were the flags and banners
impended over the roadway that the streets were
almost darkened in the latter part of the afternoon.
At night, in spite of the unceasing rain, the town of
Windsor presented a perfect blaze of illuminations,
the arches decorated by Mr. Wellman, who bad
to employ nearly 100 men lighting the 60,000
lamps under his superintendenee, looking exceed-
ingly pretty. The decorations at Zion are also
worthy of praise, mare likewise those at Slough. It
was not till an extremely late hour that Windsor
finally settled, or may be said to have settled
down to the quietness of • country town, after the
pester part of the visitors brought down by the
Great Western and London and South Western
Railways had returned home, though many re-
mained in spite of the scarcity of beds in the town.