The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1863,

The Marriage of the Prince of Wales.

THE ROYAL PROCESSION.
As some uncertainty appears to exist with regard
to the time at which the great cavalcade of Saturday
may be expected to reach the city, our readers will
be glad to be informed of the hours now officially
fixed for the arrival at, and departure from, the chief
points through which the procession will pass. The
Royal Yacht is expected to arrive off Gravesend
Terrace-pier at 11 o'clock on Saturday. The Prince
of Wales leaves London, from the Bricklayers' Arms
station, shortly before that hour, so as to be enabled
to go on board the vessel as nearly as possible at
half-past 11. The Prince and Princess will land on
the pier at a quarter past 12. The presentation of
the chief members of the Gravesend Corporation,
with their address and the gift presented by the
ladies of the town, will not occupy more than three
or foar minutes, and 25 minutes is allowed to tra-
verse the distance between the pier and the a ailway
station-1,100 yards. The Royal train is
fixed to start from Gravesend at a quar-
ter before 1. It is timed so as to pass through
the principal stations at a rate not greater
than ten miles an hour, but the time of
the whole journey will not exceed 40 minutes.
It will arrive, therefore, at the Bricklayers' Arms
station between 25 and 20 minutes before two. In
the reception-room at this station the chief autho-
rities of the county of Surrey and borough of South-
wark will be presented, together with the Lord
Mayor and the deputation of the Corporation of
London. The members of the Royal families will
partake of a slight luncheon in the reception-room,
and will enter their carriages to leave the station at
about 5 minutes to 2. The time expected to be oc-
cupied by the procession passing from the Brick-
layers' Arms station to Paddington station, calcu-

laied from the pace at which a carriage-horse
ordinarily walks, is a little over two hours, and
upon these data the Royal train has been ordered
to be ready at Paddington at 4 o'clock. Allowing
however, for the little delays certain to arise on such
an occasion, the train is not expected to start much
before 4 30, arriving at Slough as nearly as possible
at 5 o'clock, so as to bring the Princess into Wind-
sor just before dusk, at 6. The procession through
London, therefore, is expected to arrive at London
bridge at about a quarter past 2, to reach Temple-
bar at about 20 minutes or a quarter to 3, to enter
the park at about half-past 3, to quit it by the
Marble Arch by 10 minutes to 4, and to reach the
Paddington station by at latest 20 minutes past 4.
All the streets in the city from London-bridge to

Temple-bar through which the procession will pass
are to be closed against vehicles of ever description
as early as 10 in the morning. The streets west '
of Temple-bar are not likely to be shut before 12,
or even later in the neighbourhood of the Edg-
ware-road. The two railway stations, the Brick-
layers' Arms, by which the Princess will ar-
rive in London, and the Paddington, by which
she leaves it, present just now a marked contrast.
The former is being rapidly converted into a mag-
nificent saloon. The walls are quite hidden under
a profusion of banners and garlands. The floor is
to be carpeted and covered with groups of exotics
and statuary, and the reception-rooms are being
decorated in the most beautiful manner. At the
Great Western, on the contrary, nothing whatever
has yet been done.

I,t Glocester Artillery Volunteer Corps-3d North Riding
of York Artillery Volunteer Corps--let Middlesex Artillery
Volunteer Corps-2d Middlesex Ai tillery Volunteer Corps
—3d Middlesex Artillery Volunteer Corps—lst Tower
Hamlets Artillery Volunteer Corps-2d Surrey Artillery
Volunteer Corps.
2d Battalion—let Middlesex Engineer Volunteer Corps—
let Tower Hamlets Engineer Volunteer Corps.
3d Battalion-4th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-
-32d Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-Ist Administrative
Battalion Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps-6th Hertford
Rifle Volunteer Corps.
4th Battalion—•let Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-
18ta Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps--47th Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps.
sth Bat talion—llth Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps—
' 36th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.

21) BRIGADE.

Ist Battalion-21st Middlesex Rifle V olunteer Corps-
38th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
2d Battalion-9th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
3d Battalion--4th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps—
Gth Glocester Rifle Volunteer Corps.
4th Battalion-2d Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
3D BRIGADE.
Ist Battalion-37th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
2d Battalion-48th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
3d Battalion-3d Administrative Battalion Essex Rifle
Volunteers-4th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps.

4th Battalion-2d Administrative Battalion Essex Rifle
Volunteers.
sth Battalion-40th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
4TH L ILI (JADE.

lst Battalion-15th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.

2d Battalion-20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
3d Battalion-22d Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (let
Battalion).
4th Battalion-22d Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (2d
Battalion).
sth Battalion-19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
5111 BRIGADE.
Ist Battalion-39th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.

2d Battalion—let and 2d Adminstrative Battalions 6ur-
rey Rifle Volunteers.
3d Battalion-19th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps-23d
Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps-14tla Kent Rifle Volunteer
Corps.
4th Battalion-7th, 10th, 12th, and 21st Surrey Rifle
Volunteer Corps.
sth Battalion-Ist Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps.
6TH BRIGADE.

Ist Battalion-21 Administrative Battalion Middlesex
Rifle Volunteers-2d Battalion 29th Middlesex Rifle Volun-
teer Corps.
3d Battalion-46th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps-
4th Battalion 2Sth Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
7TII BRIGADE.

Ist Battalion-7th Administrative Battalion Middlesex
Rifle Volunteers.
2d Battalion-Ist Administrative Battalion Tower Ham-
lets Rifle Volunteer Corps-12th Tower Hamlets Rifle
Volunteer Corps.
3d Battalion-4th and 6th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volun-
teer Corps-4th Battalion-2d, Bth, and 9th Tower Hamlets
Rifle Volunteer Corps.
6th Battalion-sth Administrative Battalion Middlesex
Rifle Volunteer Corps.
BTH BRIGADE.

Ist Battalion-Ist Oxford Rifle Volunteer Corps—lst
Administrative Battalion Oxford Rifle Volunteers.
2d Battalion-Ist and 10th Wiltshire Rifle Volunteer
Corps-sth, 10th, and 11th Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps
—l2th Essex Rifle Volunteer Corps-27th Stafford Rifle
Volunteer Corps-sth Hants Rifle Volunteer Corps,
3d Battalion-Ist Administrative Battalion Warwick-
shire Rifle Volunteers—let Administrative Battalion Hert-
ford Rifle Volunteers-11th Hefts Rifle Volunteer Corps.
4th Battalion-23d Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps.
War•office, March 4. By order. M. Bl'MultDo.
The London Scottish were accidentally emitted from the
list of corps about to take part in the Volunteer demon-
stration in Hyde-park on Saturday.

PROPOSED BEACON FIRE ON MALVERN HILLS
A continuance of the extraordinary fine weather with
which we have been lately favoured would render this pro-
posed beacon fire, to be lighted on the highest peak of the
range of Malvern hills, dividing the counties of Worcester
and Hereford, on the night of the 10th inst., a most inte-
resting feature. When a similar attempt was made in 1856
it was frustrated by thick weather and bad management,
the bulk of the combustibles being coal. It is intended on
the present occasion to light the fire chiefly with tar bar-
rels and dry faggots of wood. It is expected that answer-
ing fires will be lighted up on some of the distant hills, and
it is even contemplated to light up a chain of such beacon
fires extending to Windsor. Ile Cotswold range of hills
on the opposite side of the Vale of the Severn, is
clearly visible from Malvern ; and even the White
Horse Hill, in Berkshire, a good way towards 'Wind-
sor, can be seen on a clear day from the Malvern ridge. A
light either on Cleve Cloud or Leckhampton-hill, over
Cheltenham, it is believed, would be seen from Malvern,
and Leckhampton-hill would be visible in Berkshire. Other
prominent hills visible from Malvern, which would be ad-
mirable places of observation, are the March and Dinedor
hills, in Herefordshire ; the Black Mountains, in Mon-
mouthshire ; Radnor Forest, belonging to Sir G. C. Lewis;
the Blorenge and Brecon bans; Clee hills; the Long Mynd ;
and the Wrekin, in Shropshire; Dudley Castle; and be-
yond it, the Derbyshire Peak; Edge hill, Warwickshire;
Bromsgrove, Lickey, and the high grounds about Birming-
ham ; the Ilmington hills, in Oxfordshire ; Bredon and
Broadway hills, in East Worcestershire ; the Mendip hills,
in Somerset; and, nearer, the Stroud bills and May hill,
and the Dean Forest Heights, in Gloucestershire.
BIRMINGIIAM.—A desire having been expressed that a
wedding present should be made to the Princess of 'Wales,
the mayor, a few days ago, issued a circular expressive of
his cordial concurrence in the propriety of this proceeding.
He added also "that it was proposed to open a public sub-
scription for the purchase of some specimens of Birmingham
art manufacture to be hereafter selected." This proposal
has been very generally responded to, and yesterday a meet-
ing of the subscribers was held at the Midland Institute—
the mayor in the chair. A resolution was passed appointing
an influential committee, who are to solicit subscriptions for
the purchase of the repousse table manufactured by Messrs
Elkington, and exhibited at the International Exhibition.
CARMARTHEN'. —The Royal marriage day will be ushered
in with merry peals of the church bells, accompanied by the
firing of cannons,
day. At 9 o'clock boat and coracle races will take place.
which will be continued throughout the
At 11 o'clock a grand procession will be formed in Guild-
hall-square, in which fishermen will take part, carrying
their coracles in the manner of their ancestors, and at 2
o'clock rustic sports will commence in the enclosure in front
of the cattle-market. Early in the afternoon the school
children will be treated, and at six o'clock a public dinner of
the mayor, corporation, and inhabitants will take place ; a
display of fireworks will follow, and the rejoicing will termi-
nate with a public ball at the Assembly-rooms. At 2 o'clock
en Monday, the 9th, tickets for food and other necessaries
will bo distributed in Guildhall square to the aged and de-
serving poor of the town.

THE ILLUMINATION OP ST, PAUL'S

The following letter appeared in the lames, o
:he 4th inst

Sir,—l am now enabled to inform you that arrangements
have been made with Professor Pepper for illuminating the
dome of St, Paul's on the occasion of the marriage of the
Prince of Wales, and in addition to this I have much plea-
sure in stating that Messrs, Dakin and Co., of St. Paul's-
churchyard, have also engaged Professor Pepper to light
up the western facade of the Cathedral with the electric
light at their own expense.—. Your obedient servant,

F. C. PENROSE.
Surveyor's-office, St. Paul's Chapter-house.
Messrs. Dakin and Company beg to say that the light to
light up the western facade will be placed on their premises,
No. 1, St. Paul's-churchyard, at present considered the
most favourably situated of any for the purpose, and, as
they doubt not that Professor Pepper will be successful in
carrying out the idea entrusted to him, they expeet the
effect will be novel am: striking, and very well worth wit
ne,sing.
Number One, St. Paul's Churchyard, March, 1863.

COUNTY COURTS.,—Mr. Bouverie's bill, prohibit-
ing (unless by leave of a judge) actions for debt in
the superior courts where the debt claimed is under £2O,
provides also that the plaintiff may bring his action in the
county court within the jurisdiction of which he either
44 resides" or carries on his business, if he " dwells" more
than 20 miles from the defendant ; or if the course of action
does not arise in any material point within the jurisdiction
of the court within which the defendant resides or carries
on his business, the plaintiff in such case giving security
for costs not exceeding £lO.

DEATH ON THE WAY To A CEMETERY.—On Mon-
day afternoon George Holiday, about 45 years of
age, a collar and harness maker of 8, Clarendon-street,
Clarendon-square, Somers-town, expired under the follow-
ing melancholy circumstances. It appears that deceased
got into an omnibus in Ox'ord-street, accompanied by his
sister-in-law, with the intention of proceeding to Kensal-
green Cemetery, for the purpose of planting flowers on the
grave of his brother-in-law. The omnibus had not gone
more than 100 yards when the conductor was called to and
informed that the deceased was in a fit. A cab was imme-
diately procured, and the deceased removed in it by Bird,
114 C, to the Middlesex Hospital, where life was found to
be extinct,

Meeting to Sympathise with Poland.

Last evening a public meeting was held at the
British Institution, Cowper-street, City-road, to
protest against the brutal injuries inflicted on the
Polish people. The attendance was numerous.
Baxter Langley, Esq., took the chair shortly after
8 o'clock.

Mr. WALL, secretary, read letters from Sir M.
Peto, Bart., M.P. (enclosing a ch( que for /5). from
Wm. Ewart, Esq., M.P., Sergeant Parry, Mr.
Sleigh, barrister, and others, apologising for their
unavoidable absence.
Mr. HEMILTTE then moved, "That the treatment
to which the people of Poland have been and are
subjected is a disgrace to civilisation and humanity,
and imperatively demands the active exertions of
every Englishman to arrest and terminate those
barbarities." He did not think it would require
much argument to induce the meeting to pass the
resolution. (Hear, hear.) Adverting to the treaty
of Vienna, and the violation of its provisions, the
speaker said he set very little value on mere pro-
tests when a public wrong was inflicted, and was
therefore inclined to ask for more on behalf of the
Poles than was considered necessary by the chair-
man. He hoped the Government would, in accord-
ance with the opinions expressed in the House of
Commons. reflect fairly the opinions of the people
of England, and demand justice for the Poles.
Mr. JOHN SMITH seconded the resolution.
M. LUBLINSKI, a sculptor and a Pole, supported
the resolution, and dwelt with much feeling on the
horrors of the conscription enforced by Russia on
the unhappy Poles. The operation was usually per-
formed in the dead of the night, when an armed
force invaded the houses of the peasants, and carried
off forcibly such male members of the family as were
able to carry arms. These persons were transported
often to a distance of 3,000 miles, some being sent
so far as Tobolsk, in Siberia, and places so remote as
to deprive their families of all hope of ever again
seeing them. No wonder the Poles should have
displayed such noble and determined resistance.
(Hear.) All the Poles wanted was arms—arms!
(Cheers.) Poland was determined to have freedom,
or to die to the last man. If they had arms they
would soon finish Russia, but the Poles were not
able to fight against two giants. Let the interfer-
dom of Prussia be put an end to, and Polish free-
dom would be accomplished. (Cheers.)
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. Cox, M.P., said he had great pleasure and
satisfaction at being present at a meeting assembled
for so laudable a purpose. Poland has been divided
into three portions, between Austria, Prussia, and
Russia, the latter having the larger part. Austria
was willing to give up the portion allotted to her,
provided it was not to Russia; and he hoped that
Russian Poland would soon throw off the hug of the
Russian bear, and then it would be impossible for
Prussia to hold her share of the spoil. (Hear, hear.)
He believed the English Government were deter-
mined not to permit Prussia to continue in her pre-
sent pernicious course. (Hear, hear.) Sir R. Clif-
ton said the other night, in the House of Commons,
that had there been a free Poland there nea er would
have been a Crimean war, which cost England so
much in taxation and in blood. (Hear, hear.) This
in itself was a sufficient reason for Englishmen to
advocate the cause of Polish independence. As
France and Austria were with us, if England now
spoke out the matter might be achieved without any
war with Russia. (Cheers.) Believing the cause
to be a noble one he was happy to be present at so
large a meeting to promote it. (Cheers.)
Sir ROBT. CLIFTON, Bart., M.P. for Nottingham,
declaring similar sentiments, said the Poles wanted
something more than arms—they wanted a mani-
festation of sympathy so strong, so powerful and
continuous that the British Government could not
resist the demonstration. (Cheers.) It was said
that there were no Poles except those in exile.
He thought the noble conduct of men who, with no
other arms than scythes and bludgeons, accom-
plished such great a3hievements under the glorious
Langiewicz, were not long likely to remain en•
thralled by the chains of the oppressor. Let the
people of England, by a strong and united effort,
show that they willed the freedom of the Poles
and the Poles would be free. (Hear, hear.) He
hoped England and France, now in combination,
would show the world what they could do for the
cause of freedom. (Cheers.)
Other resolutions in accordance with the objects
of the meeting were proposed and agreed to.
It was then agreed that a memorial based on the
resolutions be forwarded to Lord Palmerston for
presentation to the Queen, and a deputation for
that purpose was appointed.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the
proceedings.