The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-25 00:00:00

(From the Morning Herald.)

The announcement made by the Queen to her Privy
Council on Saturday, having been for some time anti-
cipated, excited no surprise ; nor did it appear to
awaken any great degree of interest in the metropolis,
if we may judge from the small number of persons
who, notwithstanding the fineness of the day, assembled
before the Palace on this important occasion. The
crowd which the anticipation of the announcement of
the intended marriage of the Queen of England with a
Prince of the Coburg family brought together, and
which did not much exceed a thousand persons, was not
restrained by the joyous nature of the occasion on which
they had assembled from manifesting, under the win-
dows of the Palace, that irrepressible feeling of hatred
and disrespect for her Majesty's Ministers, which is ac-
customed to salute their ears on all public occasions.
The appearance of the Duke of Wellington called
forth great acclamations. The Duke of Cambridge
and Sir Robert Peel were also loudly cheered ; but,
except when a Minister was hooted, or a Conservative
leader cheered, a most solemn, and what upon a less
animating occasion might be called a most decorous
silence, was observed. Why is this seeming apathy in
the people with regard to the intended nuptials of their
youthful Queen ? Already have the Ministerial jour-
nals and some of the Conservative papers called upon
the public to rejoice in the prospect of an union which
is not only to assure the domestic felicity of the Queen
but to restore the prosperity and happiness of the em-
pire. We frankly confess we know so little of Prince
Albert re cannot undertake either to affirm or deny
the flattering portraiture which some have drawn of his
character, talents, disposition, and accomplishments.
We hope he is, in all respects, one who, as the consort
of the Queen, will justify her Majesty's preference,
and realise the anticipations of all those whu expect
from such an alliance consequences the most beneficial
to the nation ; hut as he is even younger than the
Queen, he is still almost a beardless youth, of whose
future conduct in that elevated position to which he is
about to be raised more must be surmised or hoped than
confidently predicted. The evening organ of the Minis-
try says, that the communication made by her Majesty
to the Privy Council on Saturday, was " second in im-
portance to none that could possibly come within the
range of privilege to receive, or of duty to advise on."
Advise upon, indeed ! Does the Globe suppose that
the Privy Council was convened for the purpose of
giving advice on a matter of such incalculable import-
ance, for good or evil, to the future destinies of Eng-
. land ? Nothing of the sort was thought of. The
' Privy Council was convened not to discuss, but to listen
—nut to deliberate respect;ng the choice of a new
' family alliance for England, but to register the royal
degree. We question not the right of the Queen
to have fixed her choice irrevocably before she
called the Privy Council together. We only oh-
I jut to the Globe mis-stating the purpose for which
Ithe extraordinary assemblage of the Council was
convened. " I have caused you to be summoned at the
present time," says her Majesty, " in order that I may
acquaint yo u wills my resolution in a matter which
deeply concerns the welfare of my people and the hap-
p:ness of my future life. It is my intention to ally my-
self in marriage with the Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg
and Gotha." If this marriage should have the effect of
purifying the Court, by chasing from its precincts those
voluptuaries and libertines who have been placed near
the person of Royalty, by unscrupulous politicians tak-
ing advantage of the inexperience and unsuspecting
innocence of a maiden Queen, it will be an auspi-
cious event for public morals. If ever a Regal
Court in England set an example of domestic
purity—of spotless honour—of high and virtuous in-
fluence to a nation, it should be the Court of a fe-
male Sovereign. Well will it be for England if
the proposed matrimonial alliance should have the
effect of ‘‘ taking away the wicked from before
the Queen that her throne may be established in righte-
ousness." In that event we shall have no reason to re-
, gret that the alliance was not, as to family considerations,
more worthy the grandeur of England and the high
place of her Sovereign among the rulers of the earth.
Her Majesty, speaking of the intended contract, says
she has the strongest assurance that " it will at once se-
c ure my domestic felicity, and serve the interests of
my . country." Every loyal heart will,, fDerovmenestltyio wishfeli
th al: :h
at assurance may be realised.only flourish
city" 11l Court or cottage can only ourishniitniotnhse. peace
f roi 13 and the purity of virtuous asso
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soon withers away:.
Well does the great didactic poet
say of that home-6_4: and heart-bred enjoyment, which
is the greatest under Reaven,
" Domestic bappinesi,. thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has vurvived the fall ?
Thou art not known where pleasure is adored,
That reeling goddess with the zonelees waist."
This is as true in the application to the palace of a mo-
narch as to the dwelling of the humblest peasant that
bows beneath the sceptre. In the character and con-
duct so amiably sustained throughout conjugal life, of
t he honoured widow of our late lamented Sovereign,
vVilliam IV., the Queen of England has before her
o,os, in this her inexperienced youth, a beautiftil and
not de example. Happy will she be if she faithfully co-
pies it. That exauaple of unassuming virtue and Chris-
tian benevolence in a high station, the journals which i

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take their malevolent inspiration from despised courtiers
and delinquent Ministers, have lately been decrying,
as if the public homage paid to goodness was a
source of indescribable pain to minds not consti-
tuted to admire such virtue, or to practise it.
Certain we are that no King ever sat upon the
throne of England was more happy in the conjugal
state than the late King William. The qualities of the
mind and heart of Adelaide ensured him, amid all
the excitement and turmoils of his eventful reign, that
which our young and innocent Queen is now seeking,
" domestic happiness." Hence does every mention of
her name touch the hearts of Englishmen, and call
forth on every public occasion those fervent and pure
praises which the proudest Monarchs of the earth
might envy. The era of the marriage of a Sovereign is
usually a season of public joy and festivity—a time of
national jubilee. But the present is a season of gloom
and discontent, and evil foreboding. The blood of civil
slaughter is yet fresh upon the land. The sword of
justice is about to be unsheathed, to offer up these vic-
tims to the violated law which the sword of military
force has spared. The popular mind is tainted far and
wide with the infection of principles subversive of all civil
society ; and the rude impostor of Ireland, who has yoked
the Queen's Ministers to the car of his revolutionary
agitation, offers 500,000 fighting Papists to her Ma-
jesty, to enable her to crush the " treasonable desig us"
of her English Protestant subjects. If such a time is
calculated to despoil a royal wedding of the joyousness
that should attend it, the blame lies at the door of h er
Majesty's Ministers, whose incapacity and profligate
misrule have sown the seeds of rebellion, and even of
barbarism, in the land—snapped asunder the ties of lave-
fill authority—and loosened the foundations of all regul:sr
government. The evening organ of the Ministry strongly
recommends Prince Albert to public favour, on the
ground of his being descended from a long line of Pro.
testant ancestors. It reminds us that the father of thf
Reformation, Luther, was indebted for protection to au
illustrious member of the family about to become con-
nected by marriage with the Queen of England ; and
adds, " that of all the kingdoms of Europe, England
was most benefited in its religion, laws, and literature
by that event"—the Reformation. And yet the Chief
Minister of our Queen is the man who did not hesitate
to proclaim his intention of inflicting " a heavy blow
and great discouragement on Protestantism"—that is,
on the principles of the Reformation, by which England
has been so " benefited in its religion, laws, and litera-
ture." But, since the connection of the Coburg family
with the Protestant religion is so strongly pressed upon
our notice, let us hope that, in this new alliance with that
family, we shall have a guarantee that the system of
great discouragement to Protestantism is no longer to
continue ; although there is a Prince of Coburg who is
a Roman Catholic in his own dominions ; another who
professes the Romish faith while he shares the royal
affections of the Queen of Portugal ; and a third
who, though professing Protestantism in Belgium,
is married to a Roman Catholic daughter of France,
and has agreed to bring up his son in the
Roman Catolic religion. If Luther had lived
in these days, what would he have said to these
things? But the Queen has made her choice, and Par-
liament will be called upon to settle the terms before the
troubles of the nation are settled. Hoping that choice
may be a happy one, both for herself and the country,
we will prejudge nothing ; nor will we, like those Con-
servatives who see optimism in everything resolved
upon by the Court, endeavour to vie with Whig
flatterers in offering the incense of adulation. If
the Queen's matrimonial alliance should prove, in the
result, a means of strengthening the bulwarks of the
Protestant religion and of civil liberty in England—if it
should have the effect of reuniting the broken bonds of
law and order—if it should exercise that auspicious
influence on the destinies of the kingdom, that will
extirpate the growing barbarism of the Socialist and
Chartist doctrines, and avert the dangers that threaten
the monarchy and the whole constitutional system of
Government—then, indeed shall we rejoice to hear the
names of Victoria and Albert wafted to immortal fame
upon the tide of a grateful people's acclamation.

( From the Courier.)
The singular fortunes of the family of Saxe Coburg,
are the extraordinary and wonderful incidents of this
age. The domain of Cobourg, the patrimonial estate of
the present Duke, the eldest of the family, and brother of
Leopold, was a very small principality ; the net revenue
did not exceed 7001. per annum. Of course, upon such
an income, the family pride was difficult to support, and
the means of education for the younger branches extreme-
ly restricted. On account of the smallness of means, none
of the family could venture an appearance at Court, at
Vienna, save the Duke, and he rarely. The portion of
the inheritance of Gotha-Altenbourg, which came to
him, greatly improved his standing and extended
his possessions, an inheritance, which perhaps would
not so readily have been conceded to him but
from the powerful alliance and countenance of this
country through Leopold. The territory of Cobourg
and Gotha may be estimated to contain together
160,000 souls. The revenue is stated at 100,0001.
per annum, from which has to be deducted the interest
of the debt or mortgage upon the property amounting
to 464,0001., which, taking the rate at 6 per cent., not
a high rate for Germany, will be an annual charge of
27,8401. The Duchy is rated to furnish a contingent
of 800 men to the Germanic Confederation. At the
time of his selection by the Princess Charlotte,
Leopold was a simple Major in the Austrian ser-
vice, and his whole means and prospective expectations
centered in his profession. His rise led to and was the
prelude of that of the whole family. His sister be-
came Duchess of Kent, adopted, like himself, into the
Royal Family of England, and in course, if not Queen
Mother, Mother of the Queen. Leopold himself is
King of Belgium ; one nephew, Ferdinand, King Con-
sort of Portugal ; and a third about to become Prince
Consort of the Sovereign Queen of Great Britain.
Never before, perhaps, in so short a space of time, did
a family attain fortunes so magnificent, without deeds of
arms or special services of any public nature.
(From the Globe.)
MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN.

The Privy Council, convened by special command
of her Majesty, met at Buckingham Palace this day, to
receive a communication from her Majesty, second in
importance to none which could possibly come within its
range of privilege to receive, or of duty to advise on.
We need hardly add that the commuunication to
which we have adverted relates to the highly interesting
and important event of her Majesty having selected
from among the Protestant Princes of Europe the indi-
vidual who, as her future Consort, is now placed in a
position which renders him an object of deep interest to
the nation, and of envy to the world. Prince Albert of
Saxe Cobourg Gotha,thus signally honoured above his fel-
lows, is, we are assured by tho3e who have had opportu-
nities of being in h ;s company, and of observing his bear-
ing both towards nis equals and inferiors, worthy of the
proud distinction which awaits him. Report assigns
him accomplishments such as qualify him to adorn
a Court, and justify the hope that his intimate relation
to our beloved Sovereign, will, under the blessing of a
gracious Providence, confer on her the pure and refined
enjoyments of domestic lite, without which even the
splendors of a Court, the power of a throne, and
even the affectionate loyalty of an empire, leave
an aching void in the heart. That void will,
we trust, be occupied fully and enduringly by
the contemplated union of which the Privy Coun-
cillors of the Sovereign will have this day official in-
formation. Prince Albert is the second son of Ernest,
reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, and derives his
birth from a long unbroken line of Protestant ancestors ;
to one of whom Luther was indebted for protection, and
probably preservation from death, when, after the Diet of
Worms, the Pope employed his powerful influence with
the Princes of Continental Europe to effect his destruc-
tion. Thus was the Reformation instrumentally
indebted for the protection and preservation of its
great author to an illustrious member of the fa-
mily about to become connected by marriage with the
Queen of England ; of all the other countries of Europe
most benefited in its religion, laws, arts, and literature,
by that great event. His Royal Highness was born
August 2G, 1819, and is consequently the junior of
her Majesty, who was born on the 24th of May pre-
ceding, about three months.

IMPORTANT INVENTION. gentleman of
this town informs us that he has invented a new engine,
immensely superior in
i every respect to the old steam-
engine. The power s created by air and steam. It
will consume only one-half the quantity of fuel of the
old one ; and the rapidity b. y which a vessel propelled
by it will sail will enable it to perform a passage to
America in six days. Owing to a particular way in
which the power acts upon the vessel, twenty miles the
hour can be realised with the greatest possible ease.
The weight of the machinery will be only one-half of
that required by the old steam-engine, and instead of
straining and weakening the ship, will brace and
strengthen it. By this method the steam power is more
than doubled.—Liverpool Albion.

eHdoni emsfidratyh week,ikia
Magistrates
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the fa-
ther their bastard children, on whom orders were made
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varying from one shilling to two shillings per week.—
Leeds Mercury.
Statements having appeared in the Morning
Chronicle respecting her Majesty Queen Adelaide, and
referring to her conduct, as well as to her Most Gracious
Majesty the Queen, we are authorised by a gentleman
who accompanied the Queen Dowager to Lisbon, and
who has ample means of knowing the falsehood of all
these statements, to give the most peremptory and un-
equivocal contradiction, both in the general and in the
particular, to the whole statement, which, as it has its
foundation in falsehood, could only be dictated by a
malicious disposition to create mischief.—Times.
FEMALE INEBRIETY.—Amongst the night
charges at Marlborough-street police-otlice on Saturday,
2:3 person: were charged with bating been found drunk
in the streets, and incapable of taking care of themselves.
and of this number 17 were females. They were gene-
rally fined 55. each, and in default of payment commit-
ted to the Westrnithiter Bridewoll.

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