The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-17 00:00:00

PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING FOR THE BIRTH OF A

PRINCESS.
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God,
for the safe Delivery of the Queen, and the happy Birth
of 'a Princess. To be used- at Morning and Evening
Service, alter the General Thanksgiving, in all Churches
and Chapels in England and Wales, and io the town of
Berwick upon-Tweed, upon Sunday, the 19th day of
April instant, or the Sunday after the respective
Ministers of such Churches and Chapels shall receive
the same.

" Almighty and merciful God, by whose providence
the whole world is governed and pres,rved ? we yield
Thee hearty thanks that it bath pleased Thee to deliver
Thy servant our Sovereign Lady the Queen;trom the
perils of childbirth, and to make her a joyful.mother.
We humbly beseech Thee to keep her ureler Thy fatherly
care and protection ; and enable -her in the hour of
weakness to feel the support of Thine everlasting arm.
Defend the Infant. Princess from all dangers which may
happen to the body, and from all evil which may
assault and hurt the soul ; and grant that as she grows in
years sae may grow in grace and in every Christian
virtue. Let Thy continual help preserve our Queen and
her Royal Consort; that, Thou being their Ruler and
Guide, they may so pass through things temporal that
they finally lose not the things eternal.
" And grant, 0 Lord, that Thy continued goodness to
our land may so affect the hears of us Thy people, that
we may manifest our ihankfulaess by ready obedience to
Thy will, by dutiful allegiance to our Sovereign, and by
Christian charity one towards another, that so living in
the faith of Thy dear Son, who loved us and gave Himself
for us, we may be indeed a holy nation, a peculiar
people, and show forth Thy praise, who hest called us
to - Thy kingdom and glory. Grant this, 0 heavenly
Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, oar blessed Lord and
Saviour. Amen."

rt will be gfatifying to our lady readers," says the
Morning Chronicle, " to know that the favourable progress
of her Majesty since her aecoucheinent is in a great measure
owing to the admirable manner in which ehlorOform was
allministered"to her Majesty by one of the physicians in
attendance, De. Snow. 'The pains of lab )ur came on
about half-past three o'clock in the morning ; and in
the course of that time it was thought advisable to
administer chloroform, which was accordingly done by Dr.
Snow, who kept her Mojesty under its influence, with a
few short intermissions, for three hours."

Intel igfnce of the event was immPdiately telegraphed
from the French Embissy to the Emperor Napoleon, who
replied by the same medium, and desired that enquiries
should be made twicl daily at Buckingham Palace in the
name of his Imperial Majesty, the result to be telegraphed
to Paris.

DEATH OF MAJOR GENERAL BUNBUNT.—The death of
this distinguished officer took place on Monday last. The
gallant general led the storming party of Forts Frederick
and Z Ilanden, as a volunteer, at the capture of Surinam,
in 1,804. He served in the campaign of 1814 in Holland,
including the attack on 111erxem, and the .bombardment
of the French fleet at Antshrp. He served also in
the American war. He became a captain in November,
1808, major in April, 1814, lieutenant colonel in July, 1821,
colonel in January, 1837, and major general in November,
1846.

Tun TOBACCO QUESTION.—By a return just issued it
appears that last year the real value of tobaceo, &c ,
imported was £2,240,270. The duty last year exceeded
£5,000,000.
REMARKABLE WEDDING AT BRADFORD.-011 Monday,
a remarkable
_wedding took place at Bradford Parish
Church. James Tetlej, a pauper, well up in years, was
married to Betty Stockdale, whose previous husband was
killed at Bowling Ironworks. The parties had lived some
time as man and wife, and,:the legalisation of the marriage
was necessary to secure pauper relief. A procession left
the neighbourhood of Sticker Lane, where the couple
resided, shortly after eight o'clock, accompanied by
thousands on its onward march, and the multitude still
increasing in density as it passed down Leeds Road and
up Vicar Lane to the Old Church. It was led by a man
on horseback with white hair, 97 years of age, dressed in
a scarlet cloak, and this patriarch of the cavalcade gave
away the willing bride. Two other horsemen followed,
one dressed in a soldier's coat, and a sorry hat, with his
face painted as red as the coat; and the other in a
bearskin jacket or cape, with hat to match, and his face
painted like that of a savage New Zealand chief. Tben
followed, in a cart, the bride and bridegroom, with an
object sitting low between them resembling, 'in his
crouched position, the figure of "Old Nick," playing
the bagpipes in " 'ram O'Shanter." The bride sat calm
and meek, seldom looking around her, but the excited
bridegroom often gesticulated violently,! showing the
intended wedding ring on the little finger of his right
hand. • Thirty riders, on patient looking
donkeys, came
next. Many of them were smoking, had their faces
coloured, and were dressed in all imaginable costumes.
Behind these came several vehicles full of" weddingers"
and others enjoying the singular scene, and to add
excitement to all, a band of musicians made the welkin
ring with their furious execution of " See the conquering
hero comes." By the time the procession had reached
the Lop of the Church Bank, no fewer than 20,000 pet sons,
Who had escaped chiefly from mills and warehouses,
Crowded the churchyard and marl of the adjacent streets.
When 'the knot was 'tied, Oct were prevented from
parading thriingh the town by the police, nd Went
to a public house up Harrogate Road thousands
_still
following.