The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-06 00:00:00

WINDSOR-WEDNESDAY EVENING.

At a meeting of the Town-Council, which was held in
the Town-ball, on Monday, it was' resolved that addresses
of congratulation be presented from the Corporation to
her Majesty and his Serene Highness Prince Albert of
Saxe Coburg, on the occasion of their marriage.
The Address to the Queen was moved by Mr. Blunt
and seconded by Mr. Jennings; tnd that to the Prince was
moved by Mr. Clarke and seconded by Mr. Griffin.
The Mayor was then requested to take the steps neces
sari to ensure the presentation of the Addresses, as soon
aketer the Queen's return to the Castle as may accord with
her Majesty's pleasure.
A public meeting of the inhabitants had previously been
held for a similar purpose, at which it was resolved, in
addition to 20 address to the Queen, that a subscription
should be opened to supply the poor with " suitable pro-
visions" on the day of the wedding, that a general ilium'.
nation should take pace, that a public dinner should be
held in the Town-hall, and that on the following evening
there should be a ball.

Tile illumination is expected to he as general as it has
been on former occasions when the Court has been com-
plimented.

The subscriptions to supply the poor with proviiona
come in but slowly. It was expected, when the idea was
started, that somewhere about 7001. or 8001. would have
been oollected ; but the Committee, who have exerted
themselves with praiseworthy industry, do not now expect
that the sum which will be collected will exceed 300/.
The dinner at the Town-hall is not expected to bt so
well .Attended as was at first anticipated. It was calculated
that between 200 and 300 would have been present; but,
from some cause or other, a spirit of opposition has sprung
up, and dinners will now take place to celeorate the happy
event at all the principal inns in the town.
It is expected that, upon this important occasion, her
Majesty will present a couple of bucks from the Royal
domain.

The teetotallers intei:d to celebrate the auspicious event
by a festival on the evening of the nuptial ceremony in the
Public Rooms. The tables, it is announced, will be ar-
oinged for four o'clock, when tea arli4 coffee and bread and
butter, ad libitum, and speeches efterwalas, pro bone pub-
lico, will be supplied for the small charge of 9d. each.

THE ROYAL WEDDING CAKE.

A select few have been gratified with a sight of the
.Royal wedding cake at the apartments of the confectionery
in St. James's Palace. This important piece of the appli-
ances of the Royal nuptials is the result of the labours and
taste of Mr. John C. Mauditt, the yeoman confectioner of
the Royal Household, and it does great credit to the skill
of till artist. If it be not quite so elaborate in the deco-
rationo as if a professed modeller had been employed, there
is a simplicity and chasteness in the design of the orna-
mental parts well becoming the auspicious occasion, and
highly to the credit of the yeoman confectioner. Of the
ingredients of the cake itself it is impossible to speak
from any experience of the taste ; but it is described as
consisting of the most exquisite compounds of all the
rich things with which the most expensive cakes can be
composed, mingled and mixed together into delightful
the most elaborate science of the con-
harmony by
fectioner. This Royal cake weighs nearly three hun-
dred pounds weight. It is three yards in circumfer-
eine, and about fourteen inches in depth or thickness.
It is covered with sugar of the purest white ; on the top
INCENDIARISM.—Between ten and eleven
is seem the figure of Britannia in the act of blessing the
era i n ,Lr- s(tiroeuebti
o'clock. on Saturday night last, a
.firdehtwas discovered in one of
illustrioos bride and bridegroom, who arc dressed some-
what incongruously in the costume ot' oncient Rome. m ?oral' yr
entrance
tnraenwcaen
tdounthoeccupi
Central uEsexachlnGg
next
These figures are not quite a foot in
_height.r ; at the feet
whatever is or can be entertained that the fire was produced
of his Serene Highness is the effigy of a ClO6, said to. (e- wilfully by some wicked incendiary. Fortunately it was dis-
covered before almost any mischief was done. Had the fire
note fidelity • and at the feet of the Queen is a pair of
turtle doves, 'denoting the felicities of the marriage state taken place at a later hour, the Central Exchange and adjacent
A Cupid is writing in a volume expanded on his knees property might have been wholly destroyed. Between one and
the date of the day of the marriage, and vs.rions other tweoao clock on Sunday morning, a fire was discovered in Mr.
Cupids are sporting and enjoying themselves as sash intc- R
niters ebYroskwerelftl.:isisrj. Armstrong and Co.'s lofts. The
in Cowgate, between Mr. Crane, the fur-
appeared some emptynot
caught
backs ad been placed near
bouquets of white flowers tied with true lovers' knots of '
old. No other damage was
white satin riband, intended for presents to the guests at the fire to
sustained.— Tyne 211,e,cury.
THE POOR.-Amon thg
many feces of high-pressure Machinery which
AMUSEMENTS og
t' to nuptial breakfast. This elegant emblun of the felici-
tie:t of roarria.e will be placed on the breakfast table of
liisfilence, than (lie ermade still in activit
the „luecn at'Buekinghael Palace a t the br..altfast which work to widen the breach between 'capital and labour, are naan"d taO i sto su'cced the Cererroc,lea is the L;;;!Ipel Royal. 1 urry ~,,,nn reyo.lation, there is none more widely
its tnituwart;spreaing in
y against
' 4n.triQus poor—the fashionable gis
the amusements of the it,_
-"c'lv minute and petti.
Uosition to enact against them oppres... ' -,ctices
fogging laws, and to enforce upon men luibits
foreign to their circumstances and associations, a"
r.

Meetings to etition the Queen in favouf of
Frost have been held in Parrhead, Hamilton, Renfrew, and
nearly every other town and viilage in the west of Scotland.