The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-19 00:00:00

Stamped, Id. Additional.)

carrying a model locomotive aloft, as a very ap-
propriate standard. A fierce looking troop, in
leather aprons and with dreadful looking axes
over their shoulders, were the shipwrights ; and then
followed in rapid succession joiners, tailors, house-
painters, and last, although not least in dramatic
effect, the chimneysweeps who all joined most
heartily in the mirth which their extraordinary ap-
pearance created. Everyone in London has seen
the useful individual who obliges Professor Pepper
at the Polytechnic by descending into the well
every quarter of an hour and performing sundry
subaqueous experiments with the (living-bell, and
I if they imagine that individual multiplied by forty
or fifty—they are a select body—they will have a
lively idea of the incorporated romon
in eurs of Konigs-
berg gala costume. A very picturesque contin-
gent was the "Schutzengilde"—l don't pledge
myself to the orthography—or burgher guard.
Their costume was green "f ager, for, like all
cockneys, they like to be deemed sportsmen. Their
march was excellent, and their arms and appoint-
ments quite ready for action. They were all well-
grown 1111311 t and up to a respectable standard of
specific gravity.
I must not be supposed to have here enumerated
all the sections of the civic procession, which were,
like the items of an auctioneer's catalogue, " too
numerous to mention ;" and which, besides, I shall
see marshalled in greater splendour at Berlin.
They all had " musik"--German bands : I need
say no more.
The royal carriages going down to the station
created a great sensation, and justly, for they are
very splendid, much finer than our own ; and the
royal coachmen exhibit all the dove-like and tran-
quil dignity of their order. Then would some
sprinklings of soldiers, horse and foot, but nothing
in amount to indicate that the pageant was to pos-
sess anything of a military character. Ten o'clock
eleven, twelve ! we waited and smoked, and smoked
and waited, and it was not until near one that the
report of artillery announced that the King was
coming, and that the excitement of expectation
began to communicate a tremor to the vast crowd.
Thu President of the Police—a most efficient and
judicious officer, quite a favourite with the people,
and to whom, as a stranger, I am indebted for
many acts of courtesy—came in advance, and very
soon cleared a passage for the royal cavalcade.
First came the royal body-guard, about a troop,
and then the King in full military uniform, and
riding a magnificent bay horse. There could be no
mistake about the genuineness of his Majesty's re-
ception. The people cheered again and again, and
the white plume in his Majesty's helmet was in a
perpetual motion, graciously acknowledging the
popular plaudits. It may be necessary, for some
readers, to state that his Majesty is a remarkably
fine-looking man, healthy and soldier-like, sits his
horse well, and has altogether a majestic and be-
coming presence. The Crown Prince rode with his
horse's head advanced as far as the King's saddle
bow ; but his Royal Highness's appearance is too
well known in England to require any particular
mention here. His Royal Highness looked, I
thought, delicate and worn, for so young a man ;
but his friends Ray he is very studious, and
wastes much of the midnight oil in literary and
scientific pursuits. I did not perceive that his
Royal Highness's appearance was the signal for
much enthusiasm on the part of the crowd.
Immediately' following the King and Crown
Prince came the Queen, in her state carriage, and
her Majesty's reception by her people must have
been moat gratifying to her feelings. Englishmen
who were present at the wedding of the Princess
Royal in St. James's Chapel will remember having
been struck by the peculiar elegance and regal de-
portment of the then Crown Princess. I can assure
them that that deportment has been only matured
in the Queen, and that her Majesty's acknowledg-
ments this morning were full at once of sympathy,
dignity, and grace. It could be seen that she was
quite delighted, and that she was not too proud or
too reserved to let her delight be seen.
The long train of notabilities in carriages and on
horseback that followed I do not pretend to enu-
merate, nor the minor incidents of the procession,
but I must find a line for the fifty young ladies who
tendered loyal suit and service at the city gates, and
promised faithfully to stand by fatherland in
panoply of crinoline and white muslin. Their
leader, a very graceful young lady, the daughter of
the Ober Burgomaster, recited a couple of German
poems, of which I was favoured with a copy, but
which must be reserved for a future day.

Over the green bridge, up the street with the
dreadful name, and onwards to the old castle,
slowly proceeded the royal cavalcade, escorted by
but a handful of soldiers, but guarded with cheerful
readiness by a hundred thousand free and loyal
people. It was like an English royal parade, the
soldiers few, the people inyriads—all frank con
tidence and graceful deportment on the one side".
ready but not servile homage and loyal affection
on the other. I followed the crowd, and observed
the variety of beads. Soldiers' helmets glistening
in the sun, peasant women's caps almost as con-
spicuous by their whiteness. A most extraordinary
variety of civilian hats in shape and colour, and here
and there the square scarlet or blue or green caps of
the students from the different provinces now
domiciled at the university, a particularly " fast"
looking set of young men, and who are,
like students everywhere, pathetically described
by their friends as being " always in trouble." A
hundred thousand German cigars Dent a hundred
thousand spirals of thin smoke up into the clear
air, the bands crashed, the people shouted and
pushed on, and the procession arrived at the old
" Schloss," where his Majesty held his court. The
Crown Princess, fatigued with her jormey from
Berlin, had not joined in the procession, but was
in waiting at the Palace to receive her royal rela-
tions. _ .