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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1863.

With last night's excitement closed the public
rejoicings on account of the marriage of the Prince
of WALES, and seldom has a more general demon-
stration of public feeling been witnessed, or a more
heartfelt welcome been accorded to any stranger
coming to oar shores, Stranger, indeed, no longer
now, but a daughter of England and a Princess of
the land, and hereafter to be hailed as—

" The noble mother of our kings to be I"

It is most satisfactory to be able, in reviewing the
stirring events of the last week, to do so with per-
fect confidence that all has gone well in the multi-
dinous arrangements. The QUEEN must find it a
great alleviation to her trouble to know that her
people have awarded such a greeting to her son, and
hailed him so cordially on his entrance into life.
Royal personages are even more dependent upon
domestic circumstances being happy than are their
subjects ; and the annals of history can furnish many
an instance of monarchs being dethroned in conse-
quence of intrigues set on foot by those who should
have been their nearest and dearest earthly ties.
Without apprehending any such casualty nowadays,
it is still of vast importance that the consort of a
king should possess those attributes that most
adorn the female character, and imparting a graci-
ous and genial influence to the humblest dwelling,
add a brighter lustre to the palace and become
" the throned monarch better than her crown."
From all we hear and know of the Princess of
WALES, we have the best assurance that she will
worthily fulfil the high duties that devolve upon
her.

Thus it is more than courtly phraseology that
bids us hope she may be spared for many long and
happy years to form the happiness of him who has
chosen her to occupy the first throne in the world,
and to gain and win the affections of the people who
have now to look to her with the confident hope
and earnest expectation that their trust will not be
thrown away. In the importance of the occasion
yesterday there was no need of accessories to give
it consequence or impart to it excitement. The
inhabitants of the metropolis took quite as much in-
terest in the wedding of their Prince as if they had
witnessed the gorgeous ceremonial for themselves in
one of those time-honoured edifices, sacred from old
associations, as well as from consecrated rites. In
their minds' eye they could see the scene for them-
selves when from "that castle-palace, grey with
glorious ages" as Windsor is appropriately described
in " Coningshy," there issued the bridal train of our
illustrious Prince. Solemn as such a rite always is
on this occasion, it was invested with more than
ordinary importance, and the natural stir and ex-
citement of such a scene must have been hushed
into awe when the beholders remembered
they were there to celebrate not only
the espousals of the heir of a Queen
but the marriage of the son of a widow. The pomp
of pageantry melted away, as they thought of him
who should have been foremost in that group, and
had so lately been placed beneath the ground
where they stood, and as they gazed on the spot,
where was the chief personage present, not in
the centre of the festive throng, but retired from
general view, more sacred by her sorrow than by 1
her anointment as SOVEREIGN, more endeaed to her
family and people in her hour of tribulation than
through the long years when fortune smiled upon her,
and all trouble seemed far away. There is no happiness
in grandeur, there may be pleasure, excitement, in-
terest, but never peace. Now that the grand de-
monstrations are over, the Prince and Princess
must look for their happiness to begin.
When they return from retirement, their
life will commence in earnest, they will have
duties as well as pleasures, they will have
cues as well as privileges, and they will find that
temptations will be theirs, that those in a simpler
rank could never know, yet we need not fear for
them ; we know that the Princess has been chosen to
match the Prince, and we know that he has been
reared by parents who blended the duties ofChristians
with the offices of State that befitted their high
position. Under such tuition our future King
must have been trained to consider that he is in no
easy place; he must bestir himself to be worthy
of those who went before him. The knights
rank
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had to win their golden spurs, and no
gain approval without personal merit. As yet his
welcome is to his mother more than to himself ; bat
before another opportunity may arise to bring him
before the public, he may have had time to stand
forward in his own name. A brighter future could
not be before him, nor could expectancy look
higher ; a more genial welcome could not have
been accorded to his progress; but the Prince must
feel that ell this is due to the hope of to-morrow,
not sprung from the experience of yesterday. Let
us trust that if possible, when time and opportunity
have been given to him, that he will be yet more
enthusiastically received, as the mainstay of his
mother's widowed life, and the helper of her ar-

duous duties ; as the worthy head of a household
which is the second in the kingdom. If such is the
result of this auspicious wedding the prayers of a
nation will have been answered, the hopes
of an anxious family fulfilled, and the
most earnest wishes of our SOVEREIGN realised.
We know that days of darkness must come to all.
The purple of Royalty does not exempt from the
sackcloth and ashes of mourners, but after religious
consolation, the best refuge in trouble is for the
mind to look back on a well-spent past, duties ful-
filled, temptations avoided, kindnesses done, and
various actions performed, that, simple in them-
selves, are not so in their influence—these will
survive to soothe with their memory when the
splendours and glories of the Throne and Crown
shall only bear testimony to the moth and rust
that shall one day consume them. This consola-
tion our SOVEREIGN must have had in abun-
dance, and it is the best prayer that we can
put up ever in their bridal hour, of joy for
her children, that they may so live in these
their hours of South and happiness that when trial
comes they may know how to bear it es she has
done. Then we may be sure that the Giver of all
good gifts has answered our prayers for them, and
trust that they will so walk together on the dan-
gerous road that is before them that their youth
and innocence will be as shields against all hurtful
things, and that they will so pass through things
temporal, rich in earth's greatest gift of love, and
blessed with heaven's divin€st treasure, minds at
peace, that hereafter they may enter on an "ever-
lasting inheritance," and enjoy those better things
which are eternal.

A curious point was raised on Monday by Sir H.
WILLOUGHBY before going into committee on the
Army Estimates, which exhibits how certain sums
of money are slurred over or endeavoured to be
thrown out of view. He said that at the present
moment the house had had no details of the accounts
for the last two years, although £30,000,000 had
been granted for the army. The last detailed
account was for the previous year, 1860-61, and that
was only delivered last June, after the Estimates
has been all voted. He wished to call the attention
of the house more particularly to a certain payment
of £19,385 for German military settlers at the Cape.
In the estimates for 1860-61 it true that the words
" paid to German military settlers at the Cape"
appeared, but they were printed in italics, which
meant that there would be no call for that
money in the current year. That being the case
it was a matter of much surprise to him, on
examining the detailed account alluded to, of the
expenditure of 1860-61, to find under vote No. 3,
called " For Miscellaneous Purposes," this item of
£19,385. The accountant general of the War-
office, an able officer of considerable experience,
seemed to say that this was an excess which,
amongst others, was occasioned because Parlia-
ment had provided no pay for the German military
settlers. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to know
by whose authority that money was paid,
but in vain. The fact was that these
same German auxiliaries were the gallant fellows
who were enlisted at the time of the Crimean war,
but who never fired a shot or left England at all
until the war was over, and then they were con-
veyed as settlers to the Cape, and there kept at the
National expense, for doing nothing whatever.
Their enlistm'nt was a job, and dearly have we
paid for it. Bat the beauty of the thing was that,
as they were ashamed to repeat the charge of
these Germans in another year, they trans-
ferred the stem from another vote, which
was now detected and so animadverted upon. Mr.
WALPOLE declared that as there was no vote taken
for the German settlers there was no power to ap-
propriate the money, and that it was against the
Appropriation Act. Whereupon Sir G. C. LEWIS
rose and said that the Appropriation Act "knew
nothing of items, but only of payments in the gene-
ral!" to the surprise and condemnation of the
holm, Mr. NEWDEGATE remarking that if items
were not to be accounted for, where was the use of
the house going through the Estimates at all ?

The Poet Laureate's Welcome to the

Princess,

Sea-kings' daughter from over the sea,
Alexandra!
Saxon and Norman and Dane are we,
But all of us Danes in our welcome of thee,
Alexandra!
Welcome her, thunders of fort and of fleet !
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street !
Welcome her, all things youthful and sweet,
Scatter the blossom under her feet !
Break, happy land, into earlier flowers!
Make music, 0 bird, in the new-budded bowers !
-Welcome her, welcome her, all that is ours !
Warble, 0 bugle, and trumpet, blare !
Flags, flutter out upon turrets and towers !
Flames, on the windy headland flare !
Utter your jubilee, steeple and spire !
Clash, ye bells, in th 9 merry March air !
Flash, ye cities, in rivers of fire !
Welcome her, welcome the land's desire,
Alexandra!
Sea-kings' daughter as happy as fair,
Blissful bride of a blissful heir,
Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea,
0 joy to the people and joy to the throne,
Come to us, love 113, and make us your own :
For Saxon or Dane or Norman we,
Teuton or Celt, or whatever we be,
We are each all Dine in our welcome of thee,
Alexandra!

FIRE AND Loss OF SI% LIVES AT PLYMOUTH.—
A fire broke ont yesterday morning shortly before 3
o'clock on the premises in King•street West, Plymouth, in
the occupation of Mr. Lawrence, a pyrotechnist. It is al-
ready ascertained that at least six human beings have lost
their lives, and three more have sustained serious injuries,
and have been removed to the South Devon and East Corn-
wall Hospital. In connexion with the preparations for the
rejoicings throughout Devonshire and Cornwall, Mr. Law-
rence has recently had a large number of orders for fireworks
from various parts, and had been very busy in executing
and in preparing to execute the demands of the customers.
According to the accounts of some of his neighbours, he
got up soon after midnight to resume his work, but others
assert that at the time when the fire broke out he and all
the other inmates of the house were in bed. Extra caution
is said to have been given in consequence of the fears of
Mrs. Lawrence, who, with the younger children, have not
slept in the house for some week or two past, However, ,
shortly before 3 yesterday morning, Sergeant Murch, of the
Plymouth borough police, was alarmed by the sound of an
explosion, which he found arose from fire having by some
means communicated with the fireworks in Mr. Lawrence's
house. A portion of the front of the house is described as
having been blown out, and numbers of rockets, squibs, and
other pyrotechnic preparations were leaping, flying, and
exploding in the street. Amongst the numerous inmates of
the house are Mr. Lawrence, his eldest son, a Mrs. Lux•
moore, a showwoman, and her three children. The first rem-
nant of the missing persons found was the charred body of
a child. By eight o'clock five more bodies had been found.
Amongst these was that of Mr. Lawrence. The young
Lawrence who escaped says he saw his father fall in the
middle of the room, but could not get near him. The re-
mains of a full •grown woman have been found, but whether
it is that of Mrs. Lawrence is uncertain, It is supposed
this poor woman and her family must have been burnt
where they lay. One of the infants died with its hands up,
as if appealing for help. The son of Slr. Lawrence, who is
supposed to have fallen a victim to the fire, was on a visit
to his father, having arrived for that purpose on Friday.—
Western Morning News.
ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.—A curious affair has
occurred at Washington. Two members of Congress
asked permission to print their speeches instead of deliver-
ing them, and there are now in print two speeches, with
different names upon them, but so precisely alike as to ex-
cite astonishment. The inference is that the manufacturer
made a mistake.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.--Yes-
terday the admissions on payment were 29,833; do: by sea-
son tickets, 4,578; total, 34,411.