The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-07 00:00:00

the Prince of Wales had reached the shore alife,
and had brought with them in their boats packages
of goods, portions of which were subsequentl,v
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strate. The Brazilian 5-11"-_,:z, a local magi-
P.-utnorities had declined to
do justice,
na had delayed inquiry by every means
in teir power. Under these circumstances her
Majesty's Government, in demanding reparation,
had acted within international law and in accord-
ance with the long-established policy of the country.
Lord R. CECIL thought the question was not
whether the vessel bad been plundered, the crew
murdered, or whether the tribunals of Brazil were
similar to our own, bnt whether the Government of
Brazil had done anything to justify us in adopting
a measure of force which, if resisted, would have
been a measure of war. He did not think they had.
Mr. BUX7ON was of opinion that Lord Russell
had atoned for the severity of his despatches by
offering to submit the question to arbitration.
Mr. C. BENTINCK supported the resolution, and
threw dotbts upon the trustworthy character of
Consul Vereker's statements.

Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD contended there was
nothing whatever to show that there had been any
such negligence on the part of the Brazilian Go-
vernment as would make them responsible. On the
contrar'c, their conduct had been considerate, dig-
nified, end legal.

Mr. LAYARD spoke at length in opposition to the
motior, contending that there could be no moral
doubt but that the captain and crew of the Prince
of Wiles had been murdered. So far from having
acted with precipitancy, her Majesty's Government
had acted with the greatest forbearance and with
thenicest regard for international law. The evi-
derco upon which they had acted was. to their minds
coiclusive, and if they had not sooner or later called
tie Brazilian Government to account, it would be
inpossible to expect that British life or property
=ld be safe in the wide-spread territories of Bra-
zil.

sir. COBDEN commented upon the speech of Mr.
Collier, which he described as that of a counsel who
had got his brief and had followed his instructions.
Indeed, so entirely had he identified himself with the
position of an advocate, that he had addressed the
House of Commons as " gentlemen of the jury."
He (Mr. Cobden) took exception to the evidence of
Mr. Consul Vereker, and urged that that person
had acted all through on a fixed and foregone con-
clusion that murder and robbery had taken place.
But even if they had, no claim ought to have been
made on the Brazilian Government, unless it could
have been clearly shown that there was complicity
on the part of the latter.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL argued that a case suffi-
cient to warrant the demanl made by the Govern-
ment had been made out on the evidence of the
Brazilian authorities themselves.

The motion was then witidrawn, and the House
went into committee of supp y pro forma.
In committee of the who .e House a resolution
was passed on which an ammded bill to regulate
the tobacco duties is to be founded.

The orders of the day were iisposed of, and the
House adjourned at 20 minutes past 12 o'clock.

Since the BLACK PRINCE rode into London by
the side of the captive and defeated Monarch of
France, never has a Prince of WALES made so
triumphal a progress through tie capital as his
Royal Highness ALBERT EDWARD has done this
very day seated side by side with his fair young
Bride-Elect, the Danish Princess ALEXANDRA.
The enthusiasm of their reception has never
been surpassed. And never was popular welcome
more sincere or more unaffected. The demonstra-
tion of to-day (Saturday, the 7th of March, 1863)
is the most signal tribute of gratitude that
coild by possibility have been afforded to her most
' gracious Majesty the QUEEN in recognition of
her Majesty's Happy Reign now of fully
one quarter of a century's duration. Within these
five-and-twenty years of the reign of Queen
VICTORIA, the constitutional form of Government
has been materially advanced and strengthened
not only in this vast empire, but more or leas
throughout the world, accordingly as our friendly
relations with foreign powers have extended,
accordingly as our commercial enterprise has ex-
panded. In signal witness of which direct conse-
quence of the Reign of the QUEEN in the diffusion
abroad of constitutional ideas—were we not re-
cently made aware of the estimation in whioh Eng-
land and England's Sovereign are held by a people at
the other side of Europe, a people speaking a dif-
ferent language, wearing a different costume, be-
lieving in a different phase of Christianity, when
Greece, but a few months back, proffered her
vacant throne to the acceptance of the second son of
our beloved Monarch ? Diplomatic considerations
alone have precluded the young Prince ALFRED
from its acceptance. Circumstances may yet lead
in time to the removal of those obstructive consi-
derations. Yet, however this may be, there is the
wholly unparalleled tribute we 'alluded to. The
spontaneous offer, namely, of the crown of Greece
to the second son of Queen VICTORIA, because
of the beneficence of the rule of that Sovereign
Lady over her own people during all the five-and-
twenty years of her authority. No marvel is it then
truely that the eldest of her sons the young Prince,
destined with Heaven's blessing (though we will
hope and pray at a period as remote as possible) to
succeed his Royal Mother on the ancient Throne
of England—has met to-day with a welcome so
ardent and exultant in its signs of enthusiasm.
Never has Princess been hailed by more pure and
unselfish acclamations than the young Princess of
WALES that is to be—the fair and graceful Princess
ALEXANDRA. As for her beauty, we have all now
beheld it. As for the graces of her character and
temperament, we can all now credit them as phy-
siognomists. The Prince of 'WALES'S countenance
also we have been enabled to recognise as one which
was, indeed, most truthfully described of late
by a graphic observer as a face to which as yet but
slight justice has been done "by painters and pho-
tographers. It is a pretty face on paper and can-
vas, but nothing more, and it looks unmeaning
almost in its extreme juvenility. The living ori-
ginal is very different indeed from the carte-de-
visite portrait. The blue eyes look serious almost
to sadness ; the small mouth and high forehead
beam with intelligence, and the whole ex-
pression of the face is that of the thoughtful
and earnest man rather than of the growing
youth. The Princ© of WALES has the features of
his late father even more than of his mother. - He
has that look of extreme modesty which so much
characterised the PRINCE CONSORT; that same re-
fined outline of the lower:face, denoting the ab-
sence of grosser passions ; and those same small, but
not narrow lips, given to thinking rather than
talking. The visible modesty, nay, shyness, is
striking in one whose crown lay in his cradle. The
virgin flush which covered the temple of the Heir
Apparent on his entering the House of Lords, does
not disappear while he is standing at the side of
the grave clerk who is reading the constitution of
Parliament.' That same virgin flush of ingenuous-
ness mantled the head of the young PRINCE this
very afternoon as he passed through the midst of a
sea of enthusiastic Englishmen in the carriage
bearing onwards himself and his young Bride to-
wardse
a her future home at Windsor. There the
widowQUEEN at this moment awaits
them to perfect their reception this same
afternoon. May all GOD'S blessings wait upon the
young couple henceforth as they shall journey on
together through life, after the now fast approaching
date of their espousals. That is the one heartfelt
wish that has animated every ringing cheer by
which they have been greeted to-day—shouts of

welcome that LI4Te btrdly so much expressed the
of an earnest hope, as the fervour of an

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ardent prayer to Heaven.

The foreign news to-day is of little import, being
chiefly made up of complications—one party endea-
vouring to outwit another in the never-ending
game of ambition. That one will be sure to win, is
the apprehension of many ; but which that one is
the more likely to be depends on circumstances
happily beyond the control of any. Thus their
mutual fears and hates of each other is perhaps the
best safeguard for all. Take, for example, what the
7 Imes' Correspondent says from Vienna, March 3 :
" England and France are trying to persuade Aus-
tria to join them in a diplomatic intervention in
favour of Poland, but this Cabinet is not inclined
to renounce ita policy of strict neutrality. The
British Government is of opinion tbrt the stipula-
tions made in favour of Poland in 1815 must be
carried out to the very letter, but this view of
things is not to the taste of Austria, ea she is
neither prepared to relinquish Cracow nor to agree
to its again having a republican form of govern-
ment. The French Government aims at the resto-
ration of the ancient kingdom of Poland, but Aus-
tria cannot listen to the proposals which have
been made to her on the subject. M. de GRAMONT,
the French Ambassador at this Court, is said to
talk of " desirable" changes in the map of Eu-
rope, but Count RECHBERG is not the man pa-
tiently to listen to propositions for the surrender
of a part of the German territory to France. Aus-
trian statesmen greatly dislike M. VON BISMARR
and his German policy, but I am convinced that
there is not a man in the Imperial Cabinet who
would like to see France in possession of the left
bank of the Rhine. The King of PRUSSIA com-
plains bitterly of the conduct of this Government,
but it would be more to the purpese, and more just
withal, if he found fault with the policy of his own
Cabinet, which had brought him into a dilemma
from which he will hardly be able to escape without
-serious damage to his reputatian. The General)
Correspondence yesterday contained a Paris letter
in which were discussed the newest plans of the
Emperor NAPOLEON, but no great importance h
here attached to the intelligence, although it is
known that 'Reparations for war are now being
made in France. According to the Paris cor.
respondent, who is said to be in connexion with
one of the most influential persons in France, the
programme of the Emperor of the French is as
follows :—" A great Germany under the House of
Hapsburg-Lorraine. (The r'storation of the Ger-
man Empire ?) A kingdom of Poland, to be
composed of the Polish possessions of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria. Austria to relinguish the
province of Venice, which is to be a free port, but
to retain the Quadilateral, it being required for the
protection of the Tyrol. As an indemnification, a
member of the Imperial Austrian family to reign
in the new kingdom of Poland or in the Danubian
Principalities. The left bank of the Rhine to
belong to France."

All welcome to the Happy Pair as they pass our
door in the wild joy of an enthusiastic people!
All hail to the Princess of WALES with the Royal
Hope of Empire saluting his future subjects! We
have witnessed many occasions of happy triumphs
along this great line of processions—but never one
in which the national heart exulted with such out-
spoken manifestations of inward joy and true
welcome as to ALBERT EDWARD of England and
his lovely Royal Bride the Princess ALEX-
ANDRA yet of Denmark but henceforth to be of Eng-
land also. She comes from a land whose King has
adopted for his motto—" The People's Love, my
strength," to a congenial country where the be-
loved Sovereign and the people are ONE ! Yes,
VICTORIA and her happy subjects breathe the air
of Freedom and rejoice in the quiet Majesty of
their strength. And now the HEIR to that Throne,
on whose dominions the sun never ceases to shed
his beneficent rays, beholds by the side of his beloved
Bride the true loyalty displayed by a people exulting
in their tumultuous rapture, spontaneous as the
scene around. May it prove a happy presage of
their future felicity, as it is a national homage of
loyalty and love. Bless their happy union ! is the
universal cry, as the eyes of all witness their pro-
gress along a sea of voices rejoicing ever and anon
like the waves that rush eternal to our envied
shores. It is indeed a spectacle to be seen—not
to be described. The crowds—the music—the
happy faces—here, there, and everywhere—push-
ing on eager for another peep the lookers on
above, around, all gazing in wonder and delight,
present a scene altogether indescribable.
The journey of the Princess has been an ovation
from the day of her departure until the present
auspicious gratulation of a nation's welcome. Much
and varied as must have been her delight in passing
along on her way from the far North towards this
land of liberty, we may conceive what she must now
feel, while contemplating the crowning glory
of all her fond anticipations! It must be
happiness realised such as falls to the lot
of only one in an age. But true happiness can only
be enjoyed by sharing it, and the Princess ALEX-
ANDRA is made happier still by imparting her own
joy to the heart of him whom all hearts delight to
honour and Iove—ALBERT EDWARD, the future
hope of England and the joy of his beloved mother
and Sovereign. Long may she live in the hearts of
a happy and a devoted people.

GIFT TO THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.--The ladies
of Edinburgh are not to be alone in the city in
offering a bridal gift to the Princess Alexandra. The High-
land companies of our gallant rifle volunteers have ar-
ranged to tender their homage and good wishes to her Royal
Highness in the shape of a magnificent Highland brooch.
The basis of this splendid piece of jewelry is a wide
circlet of silver, richly enamelled with an elaborate
twisted ornament, above which the initial letters of the
Christian names of the Prince and Princess are raised in
gold. The circlet is surmounted by a crowned shield of gold,
having the armorial bearings of the Prince as Duke of
Rothesay, and the Royal arms of Denmark impaled upon it,
the crown sot with pearls. The shield is supported upon
Prince of "Wales's feathers in silver, and thistle leaves in
gold. Upon a scroll under those is the ancient Scottish
motto, "In defence, God me defend." At each side of the
brooch is a deep-coloured cairngorum raised upon a crown
of gold, while below is a St. Andrew's crown in enamel
upon a setting of thistles formed of pearls and amethysts.
The whole is surrounded by an engraved rim of gold,
studded with Scotch pearls. On the obverse is an in-
scription in Gaelic—" Welcome and Hail to the Daugh-
ter of Denmark— From the Land of the Mountain,
1563."
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by Mr. James Drummond, R.S.A., and the work has been
executed with great skill and taste in an almost incredibly
short space of time by Messrs. G. and M. Crichton, North-
bridge, who are celebrated sot only here but in London for
their works in Scottish jewellery. The design was placed
in their hands only on Monday last and the work is already
complete. We trust that the ladies who have subscribed so
handsome a sum for a bridal gift will be equally fortunate
in securing a tasteful and characteristic piece et work. The
speed with which this beautiful brooch has been prepared
shows how much may be done ; but even though the gift
should not arrive till a day or two after the wedding, it
ought by all means to be made a suitable and in every sense
a national one.—Scotsman.

THE ILLUMINATION ON TUESDAY.—Besides the
police arrangements to enable persons in carriages
as well as walking to pass through the streets of the prin-
cipal illuminations, the gates of all the Parks of the West
end, including those of the Horse Guards and at the top of
Constitution-hill, will be kept open until 12 o'clock at
night, for private carriages and cabs to pass out of the
crowded streets.—Metropolitan Police-office, March 6, R.
MAYNE,