The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

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LORDON, TUESDAY, JULY 1.

IF, when our ParNcEss Rove, married, we had
been told that we could feel a yet deeper and
tenderer sympathy with one of the daughters of
England on her wedding day, we should have de-
clared it impossible. Yet it is even so. Amidst
all the bright demonstration of that day there
was, as there is at all true weddings, a strength of
emotion giving a sense of pathos, which we could
hardly have believed could be more deeply felt.
Yet we now find it otherwise. It moved us then
to see such young parents giving their first-born to
mark the beginning of a new generation. It
moved us to see the traces of approaching death in
the aged grandmother. The overflowing happi-
ness and goodwill of the bridegroom moved us—
delighted as he was at our enthusiasm about onr
eldest Princess, and so did the sensibility of the
young bride at the moment of passing over from
the one to the other home. Altogether, there
was so much pathetic feeling under all the accla-
mation and brilliancy that perhaps everyone of us
was surprised at his own emotions, and would not
readily have believed that they would ever be
stronger on a royal wedding-day. To-day we find
how little we knew. The next of our young
Princesses marries with the approbation and sym-
pathy of all the world, as her sister did. The en-
gagement was understood to be altogether gratify-
ing to her parents, while it wan most acceptable to
a whole people who regard love matches more
benignly perhaps than any other nation in the
world. In respect to the union itself there is
everything to rejoice in, and we do rejoice in it;
but it is with a singularly grave, tender, and
solemn congratulation.

Young as these young people are, they are
chastened by long and anxious waiting, and well
disciplined by disappointment. Again and again
has their wedding-day seemed to be drawing on ;
and once more it has been set back to a distance.
Again and again has Death bade Marriage wait.
If " they who sow in tears shall reap in joy," we
may hope for a full harvest of happiness by and
by for the generous and patient young lovers who
have had so many tears to shed for family bereavr-
ments, and have applied themselves to comfort
others while themselves carrying such heavy
hearts. It is this devotedness, which seems to
them so simple a matter, which so deepens our
feelings to-day. If all had gone gaily, wa should
have believed everything of our young Pungens,
as we did of her sister, and have hoped
everything for her from the discipline of
life which comes to all ; but, as it has
happened, the discipline has come before the going
out into life, and we know the good we were ready
to believe. Prince Loins must always have been
assured of the national goodwill towards his
bride ; but now he receives her dowered with the
rich portion of a nation's serious and cordial
respect, over and above all the affectionate admi-
ration due to her abilities and her accomplish-
ments. To us she will always be the Pangezas
who watched by her father's pillow, who sum-
monedher brother there, who sustained hermother,
and put aside her own interests and feelings, and
trusted her betrothed to do the same, for the sake
of the other mourners under a grief in which her
own share might have seemed to be enough. It
was the universal hope that the delay might not
be very long. The sooner there could be
a quiet wedding in the quietest family
retreat the better pleased the nation would
be. We rejoice that it is to-day ; and, when we
remember the many months of mourning and heart-
sickness which have been gone through since t1“1
wedding-day began to be talked about, we remem-
ber also how young these lovers are, so that it is
still full early for them to be setting forth on their
own special career. They begin it under a manifes-
tation of many and rich blessings. They know
each other, by means of their varied and grave
discipline, as few young couples do ; and they have
a very unusual sense of the realities of human
life, in its experience and in its aims. If they
may tremble at it under so many proofs of the
transitorinesa of this world's arrangements, they
have all the firmer hold of their own life-projects,
and of each other. As for the rest, everybody
greets them heartily, honours them truly, and
wishes them well. All that may be innocently
desired and confidently hoped is universally hoped
and desired for them to-day ; and the blessing
uttered from the heaving heart of a nation is an
augury for good not the less splendid for being
solemn.

If our thoughts follow those of our Psixclaa to-
day, they will rest with her brother. He is hav-
ing a large share, for one so young, of the great
partings which divide our lives into periods. With
him, these come ve-y near together, and he has
now lost the friend woo stood next when his father
was gone. He is called early to the serious
business of life, as his sisters are to their
life's homes. As his 'slither remains at her
post of duty and responsibility, when husband and
daughters are called from her side, it is for the
son to abide with her, and do what in him lies of
the offices of those from whom she has been
parted, or whom she has generously dismissed to
live their own life. This memorable year will be
one which he will not hereafter shrink to look