The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-09 00:00:00

(From the Ti»les.)

The announcement that the Princess of Wales has
been safely delivered of a fine boy, and that both
mother and child are going on perfectly well, will
be received throughout the country with the greatest

delight. No news is ever so welcome among all
classes of the people as that of the happiness and
prosperity of the Royal Family. Her Majesty
centres the affection and sympathy of her people in
herself and her children so entirely that every joy
and every grief that affects them brightens or sad-
dens the hearts at each fireside in the kingdom. In
this case the spontaneous feeling of loyal satisfac-
tion is enhanced by the universal goodwill which
the Prince and Princess of Wales have won. Like
all the members of her Majesty's family, they are
regarded, if we may be allowed the expression, with
that personal regard which adds the keen sense of
a private pleasure to the enthusiasm of a public
delight. We have mixed ourselves up with their
happiness from the moment their marriage was first
spoken of. We have followed them with all our
congratulations, sympathies, and hopes; and it will
be felt as the completion of a most cherished wish
that the happiness of their marriage has been per-
fected by the birth of an heir.
For the moment this loyal congratulation will be

the first feeling in the heart of every Englishman
but the impulse will be supported by the solid re-
flection of the addition made by this happy event
to the stability of the Royal succession. Her Ma-
jesty, indeed, is happy in a numerous and healthy
family, and her dynasty seems to all human antici-
pation established beyond all the usual chances of
mortality. We are happily free, too, in England
from the dynastic troubles which seem now on the
verge of plunging Europe into war, and have been
one source of the distraction of our immediate neigh-
bours. But it is impossible to be too secure. The
mere mention of the confusion which disputed suc-
cessions still produce on the Continent is sufficient
to make us thankful for any additional pledge of

the permanence of our Royal House; and the
existence of two heirs to the Throne in a direct line
is a visible earnest of stability which will be as
welcome to the nation as to the Royal Family
itself.

Providence seems, indeed, while permitting con-
usion and gloom to settle on almost every other

country in the world, to have chosen to shower
upon us every blessing that a people can receive.
In whatever direction we look, we find nothing but
subjects for gratitude, and the only shadows of
gloom or anxiety on our prospect are cast by the
quarrels and confusion of others. A firm and equal
administration of the law, a freedom unknown in
any country either of ancient or modern times, a se-
curity for life and property which appears incom-
patible with any other form of Government, and
unparalleled public and private wealth, are
established and adorned by a Throne which rests
as deeply in the heart of the nation as it is
rooted in its Constitution. The passions of na-
tional antagonism or political enmity which spread
misery and bloodshed over the Old and New
Worlds are checked at the narrow channel and the
broad sea which separate us from Europe and Ame-
rica; and we present a nearer approach to those
happy isles which the ancients imagined in the
Western Sea than any one but a poet would have
anticipated a century ago. Even the evils we
dreaded most are softened to us. What threatened
to be an inevitable famine to three millions of our
population is converted into an additional evidence
and means of prosperity; and now we are gladdened
with a new gleam of happiness on the brightest

feature in our prospect.
This auspicious event comes at a happy time to
double the usual rejoicings of the season, and to
scatter fer the time the gloom which the troubles of
other nations have been casting over our horizon.
The Princess of Wales has presented the country
with a New Year's gift all the more welcome because
it fulfils the promise of the Old Year and holds out
the brightest prospect for the future. The Christmas
and New Year's rejoicings will be renewed with a
heartier enthusiasm, and the nation will banish the
gloomy forebodings of the last few days in unre-
strained delight and universal congratulation. We
hive all been settling down into a temper of anxious
resolution, watching with care and dread the threat-
ening signs of the times, determined, it possible, to
keep ourselves free from the quarrels sod wars which
surround us, but yet with a pair,ful expectation that
we shall, somehow or other, sooner or later share
them. But this event suddenly breaks on our view
with an aspect of hope and promise. It reminds
us that we are a united and prosperous nation ;
that if the New Year has difficulties and dangers in
store for us, it has its supports and encouragements
as well ; and as we are made conscious how firmly
the whole nation is bound together to the Throne,
and beats with one pulse of mutual trust and sym-
pathy at the happiness of the Sovereign as at the
sufferings of the poor, we feel that we are strong
enough to meet any shock that the ordinary destiny
of nations may bring.
And now that we have run the round of all other
congratulations, we must recur to the first feeling
of sympathy with the Throne, and utter the hope
that the charm of a new life may wean the Queen
from the sadness of the past, and dissipate the sor-
row of the last two years.

(From the Horning Post.)

The country will gladly learn the subjoined an-
nouncement notifying that her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales gave birth to a Prince last even -
ing at Frogmore, and that her Royal Highness has
passed through the perils of maternity safely and
well. It will be noticed by our account of the pro-
ceedings on the lake at Frogmore yesterday that
the Princess of Wales was enabled to take part in
the sports and to witness the animated scene in
which the Prince of Wales played so conspicuous
a part, and did not return to the royal residence
at Progmore till a late period of the afternoon. The
joyful intelligence was received in town late last
night by telegram, when information of the event
was conveyed to all the Ministers at present resi-
dent in the metropolis.

(From the Daily News.)
The strong interest which the nation has been
accustomed to take in the domestic happiness of
the Royal Family, and thc especial and increabiu g

regard which her Royal Highness the Princess of
Wales has won for herself, assures us that the joy
with which the happy event announced this morn-
ing has filled the Royal Circle will be shared by the
whole people. The incidents of the &livery were
in harmony with the event. It is satisfactory to
know that the Princess was not called to pass
th

rough a protracted and painful crisis. Her Royal
Highness was sharing the amusement of her hus-
band on the ice at Virginia Water for several hours
yesterday, and only returned to Frogmore with her
ladies a few hours before she became a mother.
The best wishes of the nation will attend the
Princess during her temporary seclusion.