The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

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made by his mother, in exile, to bring him
within the register of Benedicks. What opportu-
nities were rendered him to make his way into the
heart of the' Grande Mademoiselle," and how little
he availed himself of them! What a subject for
an artist is that incident of Henrietta Maria deck-
ing out this Grande Mademoiselle for a ball, while
Charles held the light, and in this office of page
was instructed to move, now here, now there, to
judge of the effect of a shoulder ribbon—of the
play of a diamond necklace—of the fall of the hair
—of the adjustment of the dress—of the pose of the
whole figure—and of the flash of those lustrous
eyes.

For Charles they sparkled in vain. Even had he
not yet grown audacious, he lacked the power of
speaking French fluently, and the lively princess
was unacquainted with English. "Ah !" said the
lady, after a tete-a-tete, during which they sat and
looked at each other, "if he could but have spoken,
Heaven only knows what might not have hap-
pened !" Charles, however, did not speak, and the
Grande Mademoiselle failed to become Princess of
Wales.

And then follows Brunswick ; the first Prince of
Wales of which house—he who was afterwards
George the Second—was married to the clever
Caroline Wilhelmina, at the age of 22, and long
before he was raised to that title. When created
Prince of Wales, he had already a bevy of little
heirs and heiresses about him ; and during the time
he enjoyed the title, it was the delight of himself
and wife to be in a condition of the most irritating
antagonism against the sire regnant.
Frederick, the eldest son of George the Second,
did not appear in England till after his father's ac-
cession, and his own creation as Prince of Wales.
We believe there is truth in the old story that the
Duchess of Marlborough had very nearly succeeded
in inducing him to marry her granddaughter, Lady
Diana Spenser, who, indeed, would have made as
peerless a princess as any more noble sister born in
the purple. Fate and political considerations, how-
-1 ever, would have it otherwise ; and in 1736, when
the Prince of Wales was in his 29th year, a treaty
was concluded which gave him for a wife the Prin-
cess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Nearly two centu-
ries and a half had elapsed since a Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales had come from the altar to be greeted
by the people in England. The ceremony, accord-
ingly, raised as much excitement in London as that
of Arthur and Katharine,—but with a difference.
The Royal Chapel at St. James's is but a rabbit-
hutch compared with what old St. Paul's was ; but
though the stage was limited, the spectacle was
grand enough, in its way. The stately and grace-
ful dress of the Tudor time had indeed gone out of
fashion, and a now attire was in vogue; that of the
lady had a certain dignity, but a man in the full
Court dress of George the Second was monkeyfied.
The Prince of Wales, perhaps, bore it as easily as
any man of his day, and the Princess, save that she
was overwhelmed with excess of it, became her
dress, even in the opinion of the sternest critics in
that delicate matter. There was a banquet of course,
but the most splendid part of the day's ceremony was
the bidding "good night," at the end of it, to the
wedded pair, in their sleeping-room. There were
assembled a very mob, from King and Queen down-
ward to pages of the chamber, of the most gorgeously
and extravagantly-dressed lords and ladies, and
aristocratic swains and nymphs, that ever met to
wish happiness to a bride and bridegroom. The
former sat upon her throne-like couch, half-hidden
in clouds of muslin and of lace ; while the Prince of
Wales, in a dressing-gown of stiff costly brocade,
slipped from group to group, and fantastically
answered the greetings which saluted him by the
way. And therewith the day came to an end.
After altogether another fashion were the next
Prince and Princess of Wales made man and wife.
The eldest son of George the Third, born in 1762,
was as precocious as Prince Henry. At eighteen
he was transmitting ridiculous love-letters to Pen-
dita Robinson. At three-and-twenty he turned
from the feet of Mrs. Crouch to pay homage at
those of Mrs. Fitzherbert, a lady hard upon thirty
years of age, and already the widow of two hus-
bands. Of this lady, after a sort of wooing which
savours of the extravaganza, he became the third
husband—joined to her in holy matrimony, con-
trary to profane act of Parliament, by a venturous
Protestant clergyman, in the Catholic lady's back
drawing-room ! How this rash couple looked at
the time, and the very ring with which they were
wedded, may now be seen in the Loan Exhibition
at South Kensington.
But here was a pseudo-Princess of Wales who
was not wanted; and ten years later another was
found for the Prince, who was far less worthy, and
perhaps far more cruelly wronged. When Caroline
of Brunswick and her future husband met at the
altar, they had not seen one another before that
day. The princely bridegroom was not sober, and
the bride, despite all counsel from Mr. Harris and
the ladies, was not particularly clean. They went
" home" to wrangle—hatred dwelt where love
should have abided, and the domestic drama which
opened so gloomily, darkened as it proceeded, and
closed with a touch of deepest tragedy. There is
this remarkable in the marriage of the heir appa-
rent of George the Third, that he is the only one
who, marrying when Prince of Wales, subsequently
ascended the Throne.

I a the House of Brunswick may this happier course,
thus commenced, be henceforth the rule. The coming
match has happy auspices. The Princess Alexandra,
daughter of Prince Christian of Denmark, in
addition to external and intellectual qualities, has
earned golden opinions at home, as a "good
daughter," and the Prince of Wales, especially in
circumstances of late of some difficulty, has showy)
himself a cheerfully dutiful son. His training, !I: I

Edward,
tib:ord in our
and his experiences have been such as noneolrri own
Royal Royal predecessors ever enjoyed, and he is:
ce of
to have profited by both. He is the first
Wales born at Windsor since the birth Fibe other
Edward who, as the third 'of the name,ol-any King
glory of England in war higher
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who had previously drawn th;
country's cause. May the later coons in peace ;
in due time, make her more F ~,d, b_
y following
setting an example to all Elloc, paternal home;
that which he received in lii°
very ir Dane--for whom
and hand-in-hand with theefer_
English household
there is already laid uev,ffeetion—go on through
a rich tribute of respect
nured, and beloveds the love
a long life, happy, hf:t as ever were rendered to
and the honour 101';dant happiness as it is good
mortals, with as.°_,l
for mortals to eOSI

joSIDENCE AND CITY LIFE.—There
SUBUTIBIime when these unequal commercial relation-
must come; when even in London them agnitude of
ships wiYprove inconvenient to its mha. bitants beyond
thoPlaceoo • when central property will exceed in price the
'et i taBil"sy arrived,tee
endurolien'ants, and when suburban property will be found
reat—otant and too doubtful to obtain tenants who can pay
too
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deuce has
, in many instances, reached its culminating point.
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above ; when we couple with these faults the fact
de-
scribedj When 2% , o
we
practically
that diseases are nearly as rife in suburban parts as they
are in the crowded parts of cities, and more rife than in
Open central situations—that the death-rate is higher, in
fact, in Kentish Town than in the rectory district of Mary-
lebone ;—if we have not exhausted the chapter of faults,we
have by exclusion thrown out any merits belonging to
suburban residences, which might at first sight seem pre-
sentable. The simple truth told, in short, all the advan-
tages that could be claimed for suburban residence, in way
f cleanliness,f
trees
space, light, comfort, companion-
ship
as they are and music of the sky, are annihi-
latedproduced by the extension of the project.
For your suburban residence of to-day, is city added toicity
next year, and as the mathematicians profoundly tell us,
o
" things which are double of the same are equal to one an-
other."--Social Science Review.

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committed suicide at Payre (Vienne) from the appi.chen.
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