The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1863.

seats herself a little away from the window, and the
Duke retires, the Hon. Mrs. R. Bruce, clad, like the
Queen, in deep mourning, taking his place. It is 12
o'clock, and the noise of cheering can he heard out-
side, and then a pause, broken after a few minutes
by the great rustle and peculiar hum which the
great mass of visitors in the Nave make on rising.
The first of the three processions is at hand, but no
one moves in the Choir till the glittering file is
seen, headed by heralds and great officers of State,
coming rank in rank in stately order, filing off to
the right and left as they enter the Choir, till they
reach the dais, which none but the most illustrious
may ascend.
Dhuleep Singh, with Prince Edward of Saxe
-Weimar and the Prince of Leiningen, in his uniform

as captain in the English navy, head the line of
Royal guests, but it is on the sister of the bride, the
lovely Princess Dagmar of Denmark, followed by
her Royal mother, leaditg in each hand the Prin-
cess Thyra and Prince Waldemar, that all looks
are centred as with stately step they slowly pass up
the centre. The Princess Christian is richly yet
simply dressed, and only a feather and a few flowers
are mixed with the thick clusters of her auburn
hair. All as they reach the dais turn and make a
deep and reverend obeisance to her Majesty, and
then pass on to the seats on the south of the altar.
Hardly are they placed. in order when the cheers
from without the building come loud and clear,
with a sound that is almost noise amid that stately
pomp and quiet, and the strains of the bands playing
the National Anthem, can be distinctly heard herald-
ing the progress of the procession of the Royal
family. There is the usual slight delay while it is
marshalled in the temporary apartments, and then
the trumpets burst forth as it enters the building.
Officers of the household, pursuivants, and
heralds, lead the way as before, halting end
making a double line below the dais, while the
Princess Mary of Cambridge, her magnificent train
borne by Lady Edith Somerset, moves up the choir
with the most stately grace. At the dais her at-
tendant pauses, and she turns to gather her train
over her arm, and, moving to the centre, makes a
profound courtesy to her Majesty ; then passes
at once to her place on the north of the altar,
iu front of and just beneath those treasures
of ironwork, the gates of Quintin Matsys. As she
passes in the Duchess of Cambridge follows, with
like state and ceremony, and then the Princess Bea-
trice,Princess Louise, and Princess Helena ascend in
turn, followed by the Princes Arthur and Leopold,
the latter in Higlaland dresses of the Royal tartan.
All bow and courtesy deeply to the Queen, and the
Princess Helena, who wears a train, gathers hers
on her arm like the rest, and seats herself near the
Duchess of Cambridge. The next is the Princess
Alice, wearing a noble coronet of brilliants, who
pays the same deep reverence to her mother as all
the rest ; then the Princess Royal, looking as young,
as amiable, and as timid as when, with slow steps,
she herself was led to the altar at the Chapel Royal,
but this time leading by the band a fine little boy,
who, all unawed by the stately pomp around,
dragged on his mother's arm, as he looked behind
him at the pageant, and with difficulty brought his
little feet to surmount the three steps of the kaut
pas. All have risen as they enter, and the Queen
now rises too, and bows to her daughter with a kind
and winning smile—the first that has passed across
her face since she entered the Chapel. Beethoven's
noble march has been played as they filled in, but,
as may be guessed, its strains, though beautifully
rendered, are but little attended to in such a scene
as this, The Queen has evidently found an object
which more deeply interests her, and instead of
seating herself again she remains at the closet win.
dow, watching her Royal children as they pass one
after another to their seats beneath, and even when

they are seated she leans over the front and remains
gazing down at them steadily with an expression of
fond pride which is unmistakeable, and in which no
trace of grief can be discovered now.
Again the cheers come louder and more sustained

than ever from the outside ; again there is the same
pause, broken by the trumpets and rattling kettle-
drums in the Nave, and this time all save the Queen
herself rise and remain standing respectfully, for it
is the Bridegroom that approaches. Great officers
precede him, but they are little heeded ; all eyes
are turned upon the Prince of Wales, who,
in his uniform of General, but wearing over
all the insignia and purple mantle of a
Knight of the Garter, comes slowly up the Choir,
partly accompanied, partly followed, by his brother-
in-law, the Prince of Prussia, and his uncle, the
Duke of Saxe Coburg, similarly robed. The
Wedding March is played as they move up with
stately ease, and the Queen rises and comes fully
forward as the haul pas is reached, and the three
ascend and turn in line towards her, bowing deeply.
The Duke of Saxe Coburg and the Prince of Prussia
retire to the south side of the altar, and the bride-
groom, after kneeling a few seconds in prayer, rises
and stands " the rose and expectancy of this fair
State," in the centre of the haul pas, alone, with
his face towards the Queen.
Such an occasion is one in which few men appear
,to advantage, yet the Prince gains by passing
1 through it. With the easy graee that seems natural
to all his actions, he stood alone, the watched and
observed of all the observers, neither bashful nor
confident, but with a manly Royal bearing that be-
came his iliustrious birth and exalted station. He
looked round upon the splendid scene for a moment
quietly and easily ; and his every movement, his
look, his very bearing, seemed in their vivid like-
ness to his Royal father to impress and amaze all
—even those who by their rank end station might
be supposed to be the most familiar with his fea-
tures. As the Bound of cheering was heard with-
out, marking the coming of his youthful bride, he
kept turning his head every moment, for from
where he stood, in the centre of the altar, he could
see through the screen and down the nave beyond
to where the crimson curtains would hide the mar-
shalling of the bride's procession. Often and often
did he glance this way, but the curtains were
motionless, and gave no sign of the coming forth
of her whom all now watched for with such eager
expectation that the suspense even of the slight
delay seemed almost painful. Still he stood alone,
and, though keenly anxious for the coming of his
young bride, he bore the eager scrutiny of all with
a quiet ease that was charming—his youth, his face,
his figure, all bringing irresistibly before the mind
the lines,—
Shaped in proportion fair,
Blue was his piercing eye,
And auburn of the richest dye
His short moustache and hair.

At last, with a great clangour of trumpets, which
at first are muffled into a rich indistinctness behind
the curtains, the long looked for procession of the
Bride enters, and the Prince, giving one look to
satisfy himself of the fact of the arrival, keeps his
eyes fixed on the Queen, and never turns his head
again till his affianced stands beside him. The hush
was now so deep and breathless that even the rest-
less glitter of the jewels that twinkled everywhere
seemed almost to break it, and, despite the stately
etiquette which had hitherto regulated every word
and gesture, all now bent far and eagerly forward
as the hum and rustle in the nave beyond showed
the young bride to be drawing near. In another
minute she had entered, and stood
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls
Queea lily and rose in one,
the fairest and almost the youngest of all her lovely
train that bloomed in fair array behind her.
Though not agitated, she appeared nervous, and the
soft, delicate bloom of colour which ordinarily im-
parts a look of joyous happiness to her expressive
features, had all but disappeared as, with head bent
down, but glancing her eyes occasionally from side
to side, she moved slowly up towards the altar. The
programme tells us she was supported on the right
by her royal father, Prince Christian of Denmark,
and on her left by the Duke of Cambridge, and the
same dry but authentic document leads us to believe
both were in full uniform and wore the collars and
badges of their respective orders of knighthood.
But, without wishing at all to derogate from the
importance of these illustrious personages, we may
say any one else might have safely borne their part,
so all-absorbing was the interest with which the
bride, and bride alone, was watched. From the
way her features are now shaded by the veil and
her looks bent forward it is difficult to see her
features more fully, but as she nears the altar

she drops her arm, and for the first time appears
beneath the folds of her veil a large bouquet of
orange flowers, carried in a princely gift from the
Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.
O❑ these occasions, we believe, the dress of the
Bride ranks in general estimation as only second in
importance to the celebration of the ceremony itself,
which is to be regretted, for a lady's dress, like a
lady's beauty, can on►y be described by its effect.
It is embroidered white silk, trimmed with silver,
which can just be discerned in rich designs glitter-
ing between the snowy folds. The traditional white
is not, however, departed from, though all over she
wears a slight boddice with open sleeves of white
silk, embroidered with silver, and which, falling
tight, sets off her tapering waist and faultless sym-
metry of form to absolute perfection. Her gorgeous
train of white and silver is borne by eight young
ladies, between the ages of 15 and 20, the very choice
and flower of the fair scions of our most ancient
houses. The young ladies thus honoured with so
fair a post in the long programme of the happy day
are all the daughters of dukes, marquises, or earls
whose titles are almost as familiar as the names of
our kings of old. 'They were Lady Victoria Alex-
andria Montagu Douglas Scott, daughter of the
Duke of Buccleuch ; Lady Theodora Grosvenor,
daughter of the Marquis of Westminster ; Lady
Diana Beauclerk, daughter of the Duke of St.
Albans; Lady Elma Brace, daughter of the Earl of
Elgin; Lady Victoria Hare, sister of the Earl of
Listowel ; Lady Agneta Yorke, daughter of the Earl
of Hardwicke ; Lady Victoria Alexandria Elizabeth
Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Cawdor ; Lady
Constance Villiers, daughter of the Earl of Claren-
don; Lady Ernestine Emma Horatia Mount-Edge-
cumbe, daughter of the Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe
and Lady Feodorowna Cecilia Wellesley, daughter
of Earl Cowley.

It is quite superfluous to say how they looked, as,
robed in snowy white and wrapped in veils, they
followed their Royal mistress with soft footsteps,
though, as they were not going to be married, they
seemed to think themselves relieved from the neces•
sity of looking on the ground, and glanced about
and turned to one and another, and made believe to
look as if they did Lot know and hear that they
commanded almost their full tribute of admiration,
even behind such a lady in such a scene as this.
Imagination must draw their pictures, for words
would fail to paint them. Their dresses were all of
white—a wonderful mixture of silk and lace that
made them seem ethereal in the lightness, as partly
wrapped in long soft veils they passed as noiselessly
as a vision which cannot be forgotten or described.
Lady Georgina Hamilton, daughter of the Marquis
of Abercorn, was originally intended to form one of
the lovely train, but was unfortunately prevented
by indisposition, which, though not severe in cha-
racter, was sufficient to prevent her attendance now.

Slowly the Bride reaches the haut pas, and as she
stops to bow to the Queen some of her fair atten-
dants,who are apparently more nervous than herself,
attempt to kneel, but, finding their mistake, rise
quickly'and move on as if they did not mean it.
Then, and then only, does the Prince turn, as if to
receive her, but checks himself as he sees them all
bowing to the Queen, and for the first and only
time he seems irresolute. as to what be ought to
do. The long keen scrutiny seems to have dis-,
turbed his composure at last, though only for a
second, and the Anthem ceases, and all retire a
little apart while the Bride and Bridegroom are
left standing in the middle of the haut pas, the
latter alone, the former of course closely surrounded
by her attendant bridesmaids so closely indeed that
in that gcrgeous mass of scarlet and purple and
gold they were the only group on which the eye
could trace with a feeling like rest from the sur-
rounding glitter.
Handel's march from " Joseph" had been played at
entering, but all music had ceased as the party stood
around the altar, till its strains broke out with the
solemn words of the chorale :
This day with joyful heart and voice
To Heaven be raised a nation's pray'r ;
Almighty Father, deign to grant
Thy blessing to the wedded pair.
So shall no clouds of sorrow dim
The sunshine of their early days ;
But happiness in endless round
Shall still encompass all their ways.
The exquisitely soft music of this chant, at once
solemn and sorrowful, was composed by the late
Prince Consort. It may have been this, or the
associations and lifelong memories called up by the
scene beneath her, but certain it is that as the hymn
commenced her Majesty drew back from the window
of the pew, and, after an effort to conceal her
emotion, gave way to her tears and almost sobbed,
nor did she throughout the rest of the ceremony
entirely recover her composure.
Then was continued the usual prayer and exhor-
tation, during which the guns in the Long Walk
were heard booming forth, and the steeples through-
out the town seemed to fill the air with sound.
Then the Primate, raising his voice, solemnly pro-
nounced the benediction, during which the Queen,
who had been more deeply affected, knelt and
buried her face in her handkerchief. The Bride
and Bridegroom then joined hands, and, turning to
the Queen, gave more a nod of kindly friendship
than a bow of State, which the Queen returned in
kind. In another minute the Queen, giving a
similar greeting to the Princess, quitted the closet,
and the whole pageant went pouring in a gorgeous
stream or flood of colours of waving plumes, and
flaming jewels, out of the Choir. None can tell but
those who were present how grand and solemn was
the whole ceremony, or with how much deep hope
and true devotion the marriage of the second Prince
of Wales was celebrated in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor.

(Front the Court Circular.)

The marriage of his Royal Highness Albert Ed-
ward, Prince of Wales with her Royal Highness
Princess Alexandra, eldest daughter of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian of
Denmark, was solemnised at St. George's Chapel
Windsor, yesterday.
The procession of the bridegroom and of the
Royal guests from Windsor Castle to St. George's
Cnapel took place in the order and at the time stated
in the ceremonial. The Royal visitors were conducted
by the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice. Chamberlain
from the State rooms to the grand entrance, where
their Royal, Imperial, and Serene Highnesses were
handed into their carriages by the Master of the
Horse and the Queen's Equerries.
Her Royal Highness the Bride, accompanied by
her father, Prince Christian of Denmark, and by
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, left
the Castle at 23 minutes past 12 o'clock, escorted by
a detachment of Life Guards. The suite of the
Princess occupied three carriages.

St. George's Chapel was daly prepared for the
solemnisation of the nuptial ceremony, and every
exertion had been made by the authorities to accom-
modate as many spectators as possible with a due re-
gard to the nature of the occasion and the comfort of
those admitted to the ceremony.
The aisles of the nave were fitted with tiers of seats
covered with scarlet cloth, and which prsjected into
the body of the chapel between the columns. The
lofty doorway leading from the nave to the vestibule
at the west end of the chapel was screened by heavy
crimson curtains, and new figured red carpet with a
broad white border, on which the cipher of the Prince
and Princess alternately with the Prince's plume
and Imperial crown were designed, led through the
nave and choir up to the Haut Pas in front of the
altar. The Haut Pas was covered with blue cloth.
patterned with the riband and motto of the Garter,
while within the altar railing the floor was covered
with blue cloth, worked with the collar and badges
of the order. The altar itself was hung with blue
velvet, and bad on it numerous salvers, candlesticks,
and sacred vessels all in silver gilt. On each side of
the reredos were draperies of crimson velvet. The
Royal closet on the north side of the Chapel, over
the Haut Pas, was hung with Garter blue velvet,
richly trimmed with gold lace. The seats of the
stalls of the Knights of the Garter and all the other
seats of the chair were covered with blue cloth.
Seats of crimson velvet and gold for the use of the
Royal Bride and Bridegroom, and kneeling stools
of the same material, were placed on the Haut Pas
in front of the altar railing.
The chief point of interest in the Chapel itself is
the new east window, a memorial to the Prince Con

sort. The stonework of the ancient window having
with the exception of the larger mullion, been taker)
out to make room for West's glass pictures, it was a
matter of some difficulty to recover with certainty

its original design. Fort uuately an internal view
of the chapel in which the east window is shown is
given in Ashmole'a "History of the " Order of the
Garter," and this furnishes the only direct authority
for the restored design. Some old vestiges dis.'

covered on removing West's glass,in conjunctionwith
the authority mentioned, have enabled the architect
to recover the design with something like certainty,
and the new east window in St. George's Chapel
Windsor, was exhibited for the first time on the oc-
casion of the Royal marriage. The stone-work, of
15 lights in width and four tiers in height, was de-
signed by Mr. G. Scott, and has been filled with
stained glass, admirably executed by Messrs. Clay-
ton and Bek. Asa memorial window to the Prince
Consort, it represents a series of examples from
Scripture in whose steps he followed.
In the upper tiers, our Lord appears in glory with
Angls and Archangels to reward the righteous who
ascribing all honour to Him—" cast their crowns
before the Throne."

In the next tier, the central position (seven

lights) comprises " The Resurrection." Four side
lights contain four sainted Rulers, from the Old
Testament, Abraham, personifying family piety ;
Joseph, purity and providence ; Samuel, zeal and
integrity ; Daniel, wisdom and righeousness. The
four opposite lights are taken up by the four
Apostles—John (love and duty), James Minor (wis-
dom and authority), Bartholomew (sincerity), Bar-
nabas (sympathy).
Lower Tier.—Central subject.—Seven lights.—
" Adoration of the Kings" (Royal Piety ). Four side
lights, from the Old Testament. The four upright
Kings of the line of Judah, Asa, Jehosaphat, Heze-
kiah, and Josiah. Four side-lights—four righteous
men from the New Testament—Nicodemus (the in-
quirer after and partisan of Truth), Gamaliel (the
Just and Sagacious Counsellor), the Good Centu-
rion (the exemplary Master), Timothy (Youth
allied with learning and piety.)
The base of the window refers, in a tier of 14
small subjects, to the life of the Prince Consort him-
self; the central portion, devoted to private life, ex-
hibits an ideal princely figure (not a portrait) as a

father with his sons and with his daughters—as a
husband with his wife, in joy and in sorrow, in
prayer and in State duties. _

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The eight side-lights exhibit the same princely
figure in public life—as Chancellor of Cambridge,
Master of the Trinity House, as presiding over re-
ligion, science, art, lodging-houses, hospitals.
To the whole are annexed the armorial bearings
of the Prince, with the inscription :
" In honorem Dei, et in desideratissimi Principes
Memoriam hanc fenest.ram Decanus et Canonici
mGerentes ponendam curaverunt."

To the honour of God, and to the memory of the
most regretted Prince, the Dean and Canons deeply
mourning, have dedicated this window.
The reredos (forming a part of the memorial), is
as yet in an unfinished state, tho portion at present
undertaken being, as far as relates to its width, a
continuation to the floor of the central division of

the window above. Its principal features are
three magnificent niches, containing subjects in alto
relievo. The central niche, which agrees in width
with the three middle lights of the window, con-
tains a relief of the' Ascension," and the other two
(agreeing each in width with two lights of the
window), contain respectively representation of
the noli tne tangere, and of our Loid appearing to

his disciples, and pronounced, "Peace be with you."
The remaining four niches are not as yet under-

taken.

The whole will be executed in alabaster, and the
details are }f great richness, agreeing in character
with the architecture of the chapel. The portion
at present erected is not yet quite perfect, the plas-
ter models only of the two smaller reliefs being at
present erected, and the central relief, though exe-
cuted in alabaster, not being quite complete. The
whole has been carried out most admirably by the
sculptor, Mr. J. Birnie Philip, under the direction
and according to the design of the archiect. The
richness of the alabaster work is enhanced by in-
laying in richer materials, and will eventually be
heightened by gilding.
The entire expense of this memorial window will
be defrayed by the very rev. the Dean and the
Canons of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Soon after ten o'clock all the seats appropriated
to spectators in the nave were fille6A—the ladies
being in elegant morning toilette. At half- past ten
the privileged spectators in the choir began to
arrive, and at eleven o'clock Garter Clarenceux and
Norroys, Kings of Arms, with the Heralds in their
tabards, made their appearance—Garter wearing a
mantle of crimson satin and carrying his sceptre.
At eleven o'clock the Yeomen of the Guard, under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Patterson,
Exon in waiting, were posted at the entrance of
the nave, and two of the Guard were on the Haut
Pas, under the Royal Closet ; Lieutenant-Colonel
Cook, the Ensign of the Yeomen Guard, was pre-
sent.

The Royal Body Guard of her Majesty's Honour-
able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms was on duty in
the chapel during the ceremony, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Topham, the
Lieutenant.
At twenty-five minutes to twelve the officiating
clergy entered the chapel in procession, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury took his station on the north
side of the altar, and the Dean of Windsor on the
south. The Bishops of London and Chester, and
other clergy formed behind the Archbishop, and the
Canons of the Chapel placed themselves behind the
Dean, who wore a crimson satin mantle with the
Cross of St. George embroidered on the left
shoulder.
The Clergy were followed by the Knights of the
Garter wearing their mantles and hoods, and who
were preceded by the Bishops of Winchester and
Oxford, the Prelates and Chan3ellor of the Order
also wearing mantles of blue velvet. The Knights
present were the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis
of Salisbury, the Marquis of Normanby, Marquis
Camden, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of
Clarendon, the Marquis of Abercorn, the Earl of
Carlisle, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, the
Duke of Newcastle, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke
of Devonshire, Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl Russell, the
Duke of Somerset, and the Earl of Shaftesbury.
The Knights were conducted to their respective
stalls, and the two Bishops proceeded to the altar
and took their places behind the Bishops of Lon-
don and Chester.
The rest of the scats were rapidly filled by
the Cabinet Ministers and their wives, the wives of
the Knights of the Garter, the members of the
Royal Household, ladies and gentlemen forming
the suites of the Royal visitors, and the few distin-
guished persons honoured with special invitations.
The Corps Diplomatique occupied a low gallery
behind the Royal Family, on the north side of the
Chapel and under the Royal Closet.
Soon after the Princess Christian of Denmark,
with the Princesses Dagmar and Thyra and Prince
Waldemar of Denmark, her Imperial Highness the
Duchess of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, Prince
Willliam and Prince Frederick of Denmark, Prince
Frederick of Hesse-Cassel, Prince Augustus of
Saxe-Coburg, the Duke of Holstein, the Princess
of Leiningen, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar ,and
the Maharajah Duleep Singh were conducted to
their seats on the haut pas by Lieut.-General the
Hon. Sir Edward Cust, her• Majesty's master of the
ceremonies, and the Hon. Frederick Byng and the
Hon. Spencer Ponsonhy, two of her Majesty's
gentlemen ushers. They were seated down the
south side of the haut pas, facing the Royal
Family, and opposite the Royai Closet. Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of Leiningen,
and the Maharajah occupied a seat on the edge of
the haut pas, facing the altar, on the south side.
A few minutes before twelve o'clock the Queen
entered the Royal Closet. Her Majesty was at-
tended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Mrs. Robert
Bruce, and Lord Methuen. Her Majesty wore the
the riband and star of the Garter, and was plainly
visible during the ceremony. All the company rose
when the Queen entered. At four minutes to
twelve the procession of the Royal Family entered
the nave from the west entrance. This was pre-
ceded by drums and trumpets, pursuivants and