The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-23 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23,1858.

duties which have for twenty years endeared her
to the people whom she governs. We learn from
occasions such as these that loyalty still lives,
and that beneath the apparent coldness and the
utilitarian professions with which an undemon-
strative people conceals its deeper emotions
there still flows an undercurrent of chivalrous
sentiment; as the vivid frescoes of our an-
cient churches still glow beneath the surface
with which modern hands have overlaid them.
It is impossible but that such ebullitions of
feeling should be welcomed with peculiar
pride and pleasure by that great historic party
which has ever been famed for its personal
attachment to the Sovereign and hereditary
respect for the Crown.
That there are other and more worldly
reasons why the great event of next week
should affect all Englishmen with complacency
is sufficiently obvious. The singular and
almost Arcadian security with which public
fes•ivities are conducted in this country, is so
familiar to us all as to require but a passing
allusion. Yet it is a source of legitimate satis
faction that a ceremony of so peculiarly peace-
ful and joyful a character should be marred
by none of those uncongenial precautions which
are elsewhere demanded for the preservation
of public order.
We may add, in conclusion, that the
marriage of her Royal Highness is free
from any of those painful circumstances by
which the, sunshine of similar ceremonies is
too often clouded. It is, we believe, a happy
marriage as well as a splendid one ; and the
youthful wife will leave the shores of her
native land not only with the warmest good
wishes of her countrymen, but with a fairer
prospect than usual that their wishes will not
be vain. That such may be the case we, in
common with all her Majesty's subjects, most
fervently desire. May the marriage of her
eldest child prove as fortunate and as happy
as her own. And may the Prussian people
long continue to admire in the consort of their
future Sovereign both the virtues which pro-
duced and the graces which adorned the hap-
piest reign in English history since the days
Of Queen ELIZABETH

THE LAST NEWS FROM INDIA.
Tun telegram published yesterday gives us no
news whatever from Oude. Two battles were
stated to have been fought with the mutineers
of Furruckabad, in both of which our troops
had been victorious, capturing in the latter all
the rebels' guns. On the other hand, another
regiment, the 11th Cavalry, had mutinied,
and though pursued had escaped with a loss
of only fifteen men. The 17th Regiment of
Native Infantry was to be shipped for China;
whither, however, we think it much to be doubted
whether it will consent to go. The plan is a
good one if the Government are quite sure of
their men; but, otherwise, it seems injudi-
cious to add to our complication by a measure
of this kind.

In. regard to Oude, we hope that no news
will be found to be good news, as the old adage
says ; but it is not agreeable to be without
some information respecting it, considering
the position in which our army, according to
the latest advices, stood. We had retired from
Lueknow, the mutineers had appeared in force
at Fultehpore, a civil station that lies about