The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-25 00:00:00

TO OUR READERS.

A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
be published on the FIRST SATURDAY in the
Parliamentary Session, and mothused onus& weeks
es the length of the Parliamentary Debates shall
render desirable.

Ir seems to some of us but the other day that the
first judgment was pared on the first of the new
generation of England's royal family. It was the
decision of a great judge, in the of sense, and
of a well-qualified one in the domestic sense. Whet
the gutter's first born was serried, at the age of one
minute or so, into the next room, for the inspection
of the chief Ministers of State, Lord Chancellor
COM:KHAN pronounced on her, " A fine little lady
" as ever I saw ;" and he had seen an unusual number
in his own house. How very recent that &nee-
dote appears to those who are accustomed to the
passage of busy years ! Yet that " fine little lady "
is to-day to leave the altar a wife. She then in-
augurated a happy domestic period in a royal house,
and to-day she is to inaugurate, we trust, another
happy period in another royal house. On the
former occasion, in the midst of dark and threaten-
ing times, a glow of exhilaration passed through the
country's heart. On the present occasion again, we
have oar griefs, but are ready to forget them, in Byrn-
pithy with the joy of Prussia, which gains more
than we shall lose, and with that of the parents,
who briny what a happy domestic life is worth, and
especially with the young people, who are Seely to
enjoy a rich and full draught of the best everyday
happi nem of human existence, before entering upon the
period of care which all men and women have to paw
through, if they deserve the boon of life, and which
is, in the ease of princes, of a peculiarly grave and
searching quality. The joyous period lies nearest
at hand, stretching from the very feet of the wedding
pair on into a bright future. We may confine our-
selves to it to-day, and regard the young people as
bleat without drawback. It is very properly desired
that nobody within the ken of the Court shall wear
mourning to-day ; and, foe oar part, we will obey
the suggestion by putting away for the comes of
this day's run, the thought of any national calamity
and anxiety which pressed on es yesterday, sad
must weigh down our spirits again to-morrow.
A mare truly joyous royal marriage is not an oar
records ; and it would be difficult to say what weld
render it more so. As for the broad external
view of it, the two nations are more than
pleased : they are satisfied. Prussia may claim
to be most entitled to rejoice, because she
receives what we are parting with ; and yet mess
because, sooner or later, these young people are t•
reign there; and it is tree that, in natural coarse,
the welfare of the bridegroom affects a greater
number, and affects them mere seriously than that of
the bride. Yet England would be unwilling to admit
today that any nation could be more interested or
mere joyful than her own people in this first marriage
from the house of their Queer. Let all, then,
abroad and at home, take their fill of rejoicing, and
pour oat their good wishes as if the wedding were
going from their own door. If all rejoice to the
utmost, it matters little which may have most cause.
One comfort ia that the grief which so miserably
dashes most weddings (and the more in proportion to
the family love which exists) is absent here—the
'immediate parting. It meet come ; but not today ;
and we aced not think of the affsetkaate heneehold
as struggling with that insuperable pain in the midst
of their disinterested plearnre. The bride will not
go abroad jest yet. When she does, we shall all
be saying that we hope to see her here often
again ; but still we may be glad that she does not
go
to-day.

A very warm sympathy will follow her to her
sew house i and the most sluggish imagination will
try to pietism her there, so young a creature to go
and live among another nation. If we mast find a
topic of regret in the mu, it would probably be that
she has had so very short an enjoyment of the happy
years or girlhood. in which are combined the inno-
cent gaieties of childhood, and the more sober and
nebetantial enjoyments et this opening and maturing
intellect and osnaciesmaina. fibs will not believe
that she has missed anything, and we may
admit, on our part, that than is past advise-
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