The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-30 00:00:00

THE DRAWING .110031.-(THIS -114 r)

be weather was unfavourable to the Drawing
Room to-day ; throughout the forenoon rain fell heavily,
and the streets and parks wen muddy and damp;
few epectators, therefore, ventured out to wllases the arrtvai
of the company, or the ordinary procession from Bucking-
ham Palace to St. James. Indeed, up to half-past one
o'clock, the Mall was almost entirely in pommies of the
polies. Not more than 100 people were on the ground,
and half-a-dozen police would have sufficed for the
°maim Judging from the immense display of the
foroe the authorities at Scotland-yard must have ors:
templeted as great a gathering as on Monday. Prom
Bond-street to St. James's-park there was an unbroken line
et police in their capes dripping with wet, and their niter
want of occupation added to the forlornness of
their appearance. Carriage* were in the neighbourhood of
Bt. James's at an hoar decidedly unseasonable for draw-
lug-room eastunter—a line extending the entire length
of fa. James's-street as early at ten o'clock. The
magmata whiled away the time for the most part with scan-
ning the columns of their favourite morning journal.
At one o'clock precisely the doors of the palms were
epee& and front that hour until the time of oar going to
prim the swivels and settings down were continuous.

The Lord Mayor and member. of the Courts of
Mailmen and Common Council, attended by the chief
officers of the corporation, assembled at Guildhall at half-
pest twelve to-day, and proceeded in state to Buckingham
Palace, for the purpose of presenting to the Prince and
Princess of Prussia the address of the corporation oon-
gratulsting their royal highnessee upon their marriage.
Owing to frequent unavoidable stoppages it was twenty-
five minutes to two, before the civic procession reached the
Palace. The entry into the park was at fit. James's-gate,
and it so happened that the plain and unpretending
vehicles in which most of the civic dignitaries were
seated, gamed up one side of the northern avenue,
et bile the splendid equipages of the Ras of the
ealetooracy were parting down the other. Of course the con-
trast was against the Bast-end, and the accidental meet-
ing afforded some little amusement to the hypercritical
in such matters. The presentation of the address occupied
bat a brief ewe of time, and while the Lord Mayor
sod sheriffs proceeded to the drawing-room the majority of
the members of the corporation returned to the City. From
the moment of starting until the return, the bells of the City
alatrohes rang merry peals.
Her Majesty had dud two o'clock as the hour for holding
the drawing room, and at that hour there was
a good master of the public in the Mall. There
was, however, no crowding, and most of the spectators were
able in sea bar Majesty and Prince Frederick William of
Pleads and the Priming without straining or inconvenience.
♦ troop of Life Guardsmen, in their long picturesque
cloaks, and with their band, were on the ground, and formed
She moon of the royal party.
The Priam and Princess were exceedingly well received;
they were In a carriage by themselves, looking remarkably
well, and loud cheers burst from the crowd as their carriage
passed. The Queen and Prince Consort preceded their royal
highness:re by a few minutes with a separate cortege.