The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10.

Ws have witnessed many Royal Christenings in
our tune, and we have read of many more, and
among them all there can scarcely be one wb'ch
has concentrated so much interest in itae" as the
baptism of this day. Considering the quietnesa of
the course of public affairs in loyal England, and
the remarkable tranquillity of our State while so
many others are disturbed or alarmed, it is in a
manner strange that our youngest Prince should
be brought to the font under circumstances of such
singular impressiveness as we recognise to-day ;1
but there is probably no thoughtful witness of
the rite, in actual presence or by sympathy, I
who will not say to bimself that if this child lives
to be a man and • king, future generations will
inquire of history about his entrance on life,
and especially his entrance upon the moral
and responsible life of humanity through the rite
of this memorable day. We are in the midst of
suspense about events which those future genera-
tions will understand and appreciate. We know
only that this heir to the British throne iv born
into a very summer sunshine and atmosphere of
national sympathy and love, for the sake of his
mother, and his mother's house, over and above
the welcome he must L 3 secure of from the loyalty
of the country to its own royal &wily. Another
generation will have seen the termination of the
suspense in which we are, and the issue of the
complications which seem to introduce perplexing
thoughts among even the happy e•iticipetious of
such a celebration as this.

It is a little more than two-and-twenty years
since the Prince of WALES was baptized, under
circumstances strongly contrasting with those of
his child's christening. We could not speak then
of the settled tranquillity of the counti.., and the
loving loyalty of the whole people. There was
distress which alarmed the most hopeful, and dis-
content which appalled the rulers of the land.
On the German side of the royal house all was
quiet enough. Coburg Princes or their proxies
were present, and the late King of PRUSSIA was
the chief sponsor. It was on accaunt of English
troubles that some hearts were very heavy
while the child was dedicated to his high
and anxious destiny. There was bitter dis-
tress in the manufacturing districts, and tur-
bulence and menace among the Chartists,
and nobody knew how much beyond them, while
the King of PRUSSIA was supposed to be wholly
at ease and quiet at home, and to have an open
mind for our schemes of benevolent reform, from
Niger model farms to prison discipline and the
handling of our ci;:y Arabs. How are times changed
already ! The perplexity and pain come from
Germany to-day, and the relations between the
KING and people of Prussia are the most distasteful
part of the German embarrassment. At home
there is again distress in Lancashire ; but there is
no fear of the people on that account, but, on the
contrary, a trust, arising from respect and ad-
miration, such as was never felt for them before.
We have no regrets or alarms to bear about social
danger or disturbance. Our apprehensions take a
different and new direction, as far as they have a
reasonable existence at all.

This day twelvemonth how happy we were to
see the family of the Princess of W.tx..; among us,
and to feel ourselves bound to them by the union of
the young PRINCE and Pomeno. Since that they
have become the royal family of Denmark, amidst
the good wishes of all Englishmen as well as all true
Danes; and to-day neither father, mother, brother,
nor sister of the PRINCE is present at the font. But
the warmth of the popular affection supplies the ab-
sence of the family homage to this first-born grand-
child of the Danish house, and all England presses
forward, eager to fill up, if it could, to the young
mother the empty places of her own kith and kin. If
she mimes to-day the countenance of parents and
sisters she may be assured that we all feel with
and for her, and that her child has all the more
love from this country for the very cause which at
once keeps his kindred away and proves the patriotism
and valour of the people from whom, on one side
of the house, he has sprung. Many of us will
doubtless make our loyal celebration of this day in
the form of offerings to the wounded Danes.
Many of us regard the unconscious infant with
double tenderness for being born into such a lot
at such a crisis—at a time in which the founda-
tions of States, even the bravest and most inoffen•
sive, are shaken, and the most direct heirs of the
safest thrones seem to be warned that there
is no stable greatness on earth but such as great
men can win for themselves. His father ought to
be well able to instruct him in the conditions of
constitutional royalty. His mother has lived in
the practice of the most substantial duties which
can ripen the judgment, and chasten the proud
imaginations and desires which are the temptations
of high birth. They will remember the mingling
of the clouds with the sunshine on this day which
gives their child his individuality among men by
his name, and introduces him to his prerogative,
greater than royalty itself, of &spiritual and moral
existence among fellow-Christians and fellow-men.