The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-25 00:00:00

BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

This morning her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent arrived early, and very shortly afterwards
the bridesmaids were in attendance. The other
members of the Royal Family also arrived early at
the Palace, and were admitted to her Majesty's
private apartment!.

The Ladies of the Bed-chamber, the Maids of
Honour, and the principal Officers of State hav-
ing arrived, took thsir places according to their
rank in the suite of rooms and galleries leading
from the royal apartments to the Grand Hall.
The hour fixed for the departure of the royal
party was twelve o'clock, and several hundreds of
persons were admitted to the Grand Hall and por-
tions of the grand staircase to witness this pre-
liminary step in the grand ceremonial, by tickets
from the Board of Green•cloth. About 10 o'clock
elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen, in full
Court costume, all of whom wore wedding favours,
began to arrive—they were immediately conducted
to the places allotted to them, where they had ex-
cellent positions for seeing the two illustrious per-
sonages whose marriage was about to take place.
Shortly before twelve her Majesty, the Prince
Consort, the Princess Royal, the other members of
the Royal family, and the distinguished ♦isitors
descended the staircase, and having entered their
carriages proceeded to the Chapel Royal.

As the Royal cortege emerged from the Palace-
gate it was received with loud cheers, which con-
tinued until it reached the entrance of St. James's
Palace.

the extraordinary change that had been made in so
short a period of time, and with the chaste and
beautiful decorations and appointments of the
whole of the interior of the building, which ex
ceeded her Majesty's expectations, although she
had been informed by his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort of their nature and extent after his
visit the week previous. Many of the alterations
that have been made in the state apartments are
of a practical character, and though in the first in-
stance intended only to answer the temporary pur-
pose of the Royal marriage, they will be retained
and made permanent, thereby greatly removing
many of the loud and just complaints that hat. e
lately been made against the inconvenience ex-
perienced, especially by ladies, on drawing-room
and levee days at St. James's Palace. In this re-
spect a double object has been attained at a single
cost, at all times a highly satisfactory circumstance
to John Bull. The whole of the arrangements and
decorations are as complete and perfect as possible,
an opinion, we feel confident, the public will parti-
cipate in on inspection of the state apariment. and
Chapel Royal during the time they will be thrown
open to public view. But a few, if any, will, we
think, be able to recognise the old palace under its
new and greatly improved aspect.
THE PALACE ENTRANCE.
The Royal personages entered the palace by the
garden opening on the Mall in St. James's Park,
where a handsome corridor or covered way had
been erected for the occasion about 70 feet in length,
and covered with rich crimson hangings, relieved
by yellow facings and cords. It is well It by win-
dows at the sides and top, and supported by 12
pillars, connected by festoons and laurels. The
principal door has been widened, and its architrave
covered with Christmas berries, ferns, and ever-
greens. The window of the Palace to the west had
been converted into a door fur the accommodation
of her Majesty's suite. This door and also the
windows are decorated with plants. Along this
covered corridor are seats, which were occupied
principally by ladies in elegant attire.

' r

Gent emen
Duchs. Kent

Gentlemen of
Duchs.Camb.

THE ALTAR.

Lady
Jocelyn

Miss
Macdonald

Gentlemen ofl
Dukeof Camb

Miss
Cavendish

Gentlemen 01
Pmes.Mary

Lady C.
Copley

Duchess of
Wellington.

Gentlemen of
King of Belg

Lady C.
Barrington

Marchioness
of Rreadalb.

Ditto.

Lady of
D whs. Kent

Marchioness
of Abercorn.

Gentn. of Dk,
of S. Coburg

Doke of
Norfolk.

b itto.

Lady of
Dchs. Camb.

Lady of
Prncs. Mary

The Suite of
the
Bridegroom

H
MI
tt

Doke of
Wellington.

Marquis of
Abercorn

Gentn. or Dk,
of Brabant

Earl of
St. Germans.

Gentn. of Ct.
of Flanders

Lady of Doh:
of S. Cobari

Gentlemen '1
the Bride

Ditto

Opening.

PE LPIT.

Countess of
Bernstorff

laentn of Pr
iohenzollrn.

Master of
Buckhounds
Prince's
Lord
Prince's
Groom
-
Prince's
Equerry
Prince's
Usher

Lady of Pros
of Prussia

Countess of
Mulgrave.

Lord
hancellor.

Ditto

Co Intess of
Bessborough.

Lo rd
President.

Pruss an
Minister

Count
Redern

oS
L.) 1-e,

Viscountess
S dney.

Lord
Privy Seal

Pr. Reuss, of
Prus. Legatn.

Ct. Br indhg.
Bras. Legatri,

V scountess
Combermere

Gold Stick.

:Ring,

PI ussiau
Suite

Ditto

Treasurer

Lady Ernest
Bruce.

Capt. Gentn.-
at- Arms.

Comptroller

Privy Purse

Queen's
Lord

RECEPTION OF HER MAJESTY AND THE
OTHER ILLUSTRIOUS PERSONAGES.

Lady Foley.

Yeom.
of the Guard

Silver Stick.

Near this entrance is the Ministers' room, iu
which the Great Officers of State assembled to
await the arrival of her M ijesty and the other
illustrious personages imm dirtely connected with
the ceremony. 0.1 their arrival the Queen was
conducted to the Royal cl..set. The bride, with
her father, the Prince Consort, and h- r uncle, his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, was conducted
to ihe Queen's retiring room, and the bridegroom
to the presence chamber, where his Royal High-
ness's procession was formed, aod followed that of
her Majes.y's, which was the first to enter the
Chapel Royal. The route being down the centre
of the Council Chamber, Throne Room, Presence
Chamber, and Queen Anne's Drawing Room to
the Chapel Royal, along which a broad strip of
handsome crimson carpet was laid down, over which
the Royal procession passed.

Lady A.
Paxet.

'IONS.

Opening.

Queen's
Groom

7ning,

THE ROBING ROOM.
Passing into the hall, on the left, is the Royal
Robing Room, used by her Mijesty, with a similar
apartment on the opposite side of the hall for the
lathes in waiting.
THE BRIDE'S BOUDOIR.
Ascending the staircase, on the right of the land-
ing is the bride's boudoir, an apartment of singular
beauty, entirely refurnished and fitted up in ex-
quisite taste. The walls are of white and gold, with
gigantic mirrors, rising from the floor to the ceiling,
placed round the room, which contains an elegant
console table, with toilette requisites. The ceiling
is painted a delicate white, picked out with gold,
in keeping with the elegant paper with which the
walls are covered. To this apartment the Princess
was conducted upon her arrival, and here her Royal
Highness remained until summoned to lead the
bridal procession.
THE QUEEN'S BOUDOIR.
Turning to the left, on reaching the top of the
staircase, the Royal Bourdoir is entered. This was
devoted to the use of her Majesty, and here the
bridesmaids assembled to receive their illustrious
charge. The walls are hung with paper of a hand-
some gold pattern on a white ground. The cornice
is gilt. The curtains are white lace, and have very
rich silk draperies—crimson, flowered vri th gold and
bordered with crimson velvet and gold lace. The
toilette table is covered with Honiton lace over rose-
coloured satin, festooned with silver cords, tassels,
and fringe, with looking-glasses and rose coloured
candles. The table is also adorned with a superb
pincushion of white I ice, and some exquisite
Limoges vases filled with flowers. The frames of
the mirrors are carved and gilt. The furniture is
covered with crimson silk damask. The door and
panelling of the room are white and gold, and the
floor is covered with a crimson carpet. This is a
most elegant room, and one worthy of the august
personage for whom it was fitted up. The most
remarkable and novel feature in connectlon
with it is its floral decorations, more espe-
cially at this season of the year. These decorations
are due to the taste and energy of Lady Hall, who
personally superntended the whole of them. Toe
idea of introducing floral decorations origivated
with her ladyship, and was at once caught at by the
chief commissioner of Works, who sent f,r a large
body of his Welsh retainers annually to decorate
the seat of the right hon. baronet on festive occa-
sions. The whole reflects the highest credit upon
her ladyship's skill and taste.

THE THRONE ROOM.
Leaving the Royal boudoir, the Throne Room is
next entered, the neeleus for she assemblage of the
illustrious foreign potentates and other distinguished
personages. the guests of her Majesty ; an l here,
and in the adjoining apartment, usually c tiled the
Drawing Room, the bridal procession were mar-
shalled.

The Throne Room and Queen Anne's Room have
a miniature parterre of flowers on the mantel-piece,
so contrived that they appeared to grow there,
while delicate twining plants in diminitive festoons
fringe the edge of the white marble. Each window
ie filled with flowers the whole length of the state
apartments as well as in the Armoury and the
Tapestry Room. At the top of the great staircase
the coup d'ceil is both striking and enchanting.
The first object that meets the eye is the initial of
V. A. and F. W., formed of white flowers upon a
background of evergreens, plaited in so artful a
manner as to compose a rich natural tapestry, the
deep emerald tint of which admirably throws out
in alto-relievo the initials of the royal bride and
bridegroom. This entablature is supported and
ornamented by real palm branches from Kew Gar-
dens, united by the colours of England and Prussia.
Within the Throne Room is placed the table on
which the attestation of the marriage was signed by
her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, the foreign princes, and the dig-
nataries of the church officiating in the ceremony.
The table has a cover of crimson velvet, and the
sides are ornamented by draperies of the same ma-
terial, with cord and fringe of purple silk.
On the occasion of the marriage of her Majesty
the right-hand side of the Throne-room wis filled
up with seats for privileged spectators ; but this
was found to take up t.o much space, and
materially inconvenienced those of the guests who
took part in the ceremony. To obviate this, teats
have been raised at the end of the waiting or crush-
ing room; and as the doors of the Throne-room were
left open, the effect of some 20J elegantly-dressed
young ladies in full costume added materially to
the general effect.

THE CHAPEL ROYAL.
The taste and jugdment displayed in designino.
and effecting the necessary alterations and embel
lishments for the celebration of the nuptials of the
illustrious personages which took place this morn
ing cannot be too highly commended. The whole
of the magnificent decorations and excellent ar-
rangements which the confined limits of the Palace
and Chapel Royal admitted of were finally com-
pleted oil Saturday, having previously received the
lcunqualified approval of her Majesty, the Prince
wrllsort, and the Prince and Princess of Prussia,
9 spent a considerable time ou Friday iu the in-
-BPeeticla•Her Mi‘jeety appeared much pleased at

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The annexed list of distinguished personages present at the ceremony, accurately indicAtts the position
each occupied in the Chapel.

Bn.deLangen
Prus. Leg atn.

Cha lains of
Le,,ation:

Pruslan
SuT•e

Ditto

Clerk
Marshal

Queen's
Equerry

Master of the
Household

Field Officer!

Govrs.

Mon. Mr.
Phip.ps

fon. Mrs.
Grey

Mon. Mrs.
Wellesley

Hon. Mrs.
Biddulph

Govrs,

Hon. Miss
Paget

l+ovrs.

Mr.
Glover

Page of
Honour

Page of
Honour

Garter King
of Arms

Lady
Hall

Lady Clark

Slr B
Hall

drums and trumpets filed off. The Gentlemen-at-
Arm, remaining outside the cilapel door, in the ante
chapel, during the cereuony.
The Yeomen of the Guard remaiced at the foot of
the staircase, in the ante-chapel.
Her Majesty was conducted to her chair of state
and the Royal Family to the seats prepared for them on
the Haut Pas. The bearerof the sword of state stood on
the Queen's right hand, and the Mistress of the Robes
near her Majesty. The several persons composing
the procession were then conducted to the places ap•
pointed for them in the choir.

The Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain,
preceded by the drums and trumpets, then returned to
the Presence Chamber, and the Bridegroom's Procession
having been there formed, moved to the Chapel Royal
in the following order :

. THE PROCESSION OF THE BRIDEGROOM.
Drams and Trumpets.
Sergeant Trumpeter.
Master of the Ceremonies.
The Biidegroom'e Gentleman of Honour,
between Heralds.
The Prussian Minister with the Members of his Legation.
Vice-Chamberlain of Her Lord Chamberlain of Her
Majesty's Household. Majesty's Household.
THE BRIDEGROOM,
Supported by his Father, his Royal Highness the Prince
of Prussia.
followed by the
Attendants of their Royal Highnesses the Prince an i
Grand Duke.
On reaching the chapel the drams and trumpets filed
off, outside the door, and the procession advancing, the
Bridegroom was conducted to the seat prepared for him
on the Haut Pas leading to the Altar. His sup
porters occupied seats noon the Haut Pas near his
R.iyal Highness. The officers of the Bridegroom stood
in the nave of the chap,-1. The other gentlemen in
attendance were conducted to seats.
The Lord Chamberlain and Vice. Chamberlain, pre-
ceded, as before, by the drums and trumpets, again
returned to the state apartments, to attend the Bride
whose procession having been formed in the Royal Clo-
set moved to the chapel in the following order :
THE PROCESSION OF THE BRIDE.
Drums and Trumpets.
Sergeant Trumpeters. _

Sir James
CI irk

Mr.
c;ibbs

Lieut.
enwPll

Door Separate

tion of gold and silver threads is exceedlngly b, au-
tiful, anti the sheen is of the softest and most deli
eat, character. British manufacture may be justly
proud of having produced fabrics of such extreme
beauty.

Officers of Arms.
Marquis of Abercorn, K.G.,
Groom of the Stole
to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort.

Officers of Arms.

Vice-Chamberlain of hei• Lord Chamberlain of her
Majesty's Household. Majesty's Household.
THE BRIDE,
Supported by her father, his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort,
and by
His Majesty the King of the Belgians.
The Train of her Royal Highness, borne by 8 unmarried
Daughters of Dukes, Marquises, and Earls.
The Lady Susan Pelham The Lady Cecilia Gordon
Clinton. Lennox.
The Lady Emma Stanley. The Lady Katherine Hamil-

ton.
The Lady Susan Murray. TheLadyConstanceTilliers.
The Lady Victoria Noel. The Lady Cecilia Molyneux.
Followed by
The Lord of the Bedchamber, Groom of the Bedcham-
ber, and Equerry in Waiting, the Private Secretary,
and Gentleman Uglier to his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, the Treasurer and Private Secretary to her
Royal Highness the Princess Royal, and the gentlemen
in attendance on his Majesty the King of the Belgians.
On arriving at the Chapel the Bride was conducted to
her seat in the Chapel, on the left side of the Haut
Pas leading to the Altar, near her Majesty's chair of
state, and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort and
his Majesty the King of the Belgians were conducted
to their seats on the Haut Pas, near the Bride. The
Lord Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain stood near her
Majesty.

PrrfulitiAio Chaplain to the Queen ; and the Rer. Dr.
Sub-Dean of her Majeqy'e Chapels Royal.
The Prince repeated the responses in an audible
and distinct voice, and, having taken the ring from
hiS - father, placed it on the bride's finger, after
which his Grace pronounced the words of the.ser-
vice, " those whom God bath joined together, let
no man put asunder." The other part of the ser-
vice was thbn gone through. 1
_

•The ceremony was most magnificently and im-
pressively performed, the choral responses being
most beautifully and efficiently rendered by the
profesiional gentlemen present, under the direction
of Sir G. Smart, who presided at the organ.
The ceremony occupied about thirty minutes,
and the proceedings terminated.

At the conclusion of the service Handel's Hallelujah
chorus was sung, and Mendelssohn's Wedding March
was played as the proces'ion left the chapel.
The following Gentlemen in Ordinary of the Chapel
Royal officiate.i in the choir :—Hessr=, T. Francis, W.
Lmckey, J. Goss, G. W. Martin, Benson, R. Baruby,
N. Smith, Foster, ➢lachin, Lawler, Thomas. White-
house, and Bennett: _ _ _

Sir G. Smart presided at the organ. assisted by Mr.
Cooper. The chorister boys attended with their nasster,
the Rev. T. Helm ,re.

(I,jevn,,r-clinatuire in the apartments of the yew-4g
couple a 1 o'clecl.. At 7 o'clock a cour rill be
held in the Ritter-Sral and iu the picture-gallery.
(Cour signifies here-a
reception of all and anY'Per-
sons who are entitled, by their birth or station, to
be present at Court, festivities.) At 8 o'clock there
is to be a Polonaise Ball in the White Saloon.
0n Wednesday
the Prince and Princess of Prussia
will give a grand dinner, after which there will be
a gala performance at the Opera-house.
On Thursday Prince Carl is to receive the mem-
bers of the Royal Family at dinner, and in the
evening there will be a rout giv,n by the Prince
and Princess of Prussia.

LITERA'

Tt ceremony over, the procession of the bride
and bridegroom returned to the state apartments in the
undermentioned order :

Officers of Arms.
Gentlemen of Honour to the Bride and Bridegroom.
The Master of the Ceremonies.
The Prussian Minister,
accompanied by the Members of his Legation.
Groom of the Stole
to his Royal Highness the Princess Consort.
THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM.

,E..

The Edinburgh Review. Longman & Co.
This " potent, grave, and reverend seignor"
on the bench of critical judgment exhibits its usual
amount of erudition and classical elegance. The
engrossing topic—" Prospects of the Indian.
Empire ;" a learned expatiation on 4, milman,s
Hisrory of Latin Christianity;" a paper oil
"Scottish University Reform ;" and a digest of
"Lord 0 verstone on Metallic and Paper Currency,"
constitute somewhat heavy but able articles, which
are delightfully relieved by discourses on "Tom
Brown's Scliool Days," "Memoir. of Bossuet,"
and Hawker's "Literature of France." There is
considerable truth in the following, taken from the
remarks ou "Tom Brown's School Days"
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the ambition
to be a man of genius, and to decline what so many idle
and vapouring minds consider the vulgar pursuits of
tra,ling, fessional or social life, is a silly and not a
very harmless fancy • but in the hundredth case the
refusal to admit the claim is nothing less than a public
crlamity ; for if it does not neutralise powers of incalcu-
lable importance to the happiness of mankind, it is only
too likely to vad them into rebellion against the whole
social fabric. * * s It would be hard to nuntion
any weicbtier responsibility than that which is involved
in the education of a peculiar boy. To treat the symp-
toms of what differs but little from disease as being
symptoms of genius, is almost certain to produce an
overweening vanity, fatal to the boy's future capacity
for any of the taroers of life ; whilst, on the other hand,
there are few more melancholy histories than those
which record the tortures inflicted on youths whose
genius was mistaken for disease. A mistake in the one
direction may convert a lazy dreamy lad into an emas-
culate coxcomb. A mistake in the other may lash a
Cowper or Shelley into melancholy madness. These
are the exceptional cases, for which no general rule can
be laid down. All that can be done is to recognise the
faot, that sensibility often greatly needs vigorous cor-
rectives. What correctives are likely in any case to be
vigorous is smatter of experiment ; but *bore there ia
sufficient constitutional vigour in the subject, publie
school life is often an admirable prescription."

The Supporters of their Royal Highnesses on either side.
The Train of the Bride, borne as before.
The remainder of the Suite of his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort.

The Gentlemen in attendance on his Majesty the King of
the Belgians, his Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia,

and his Royal Highness the Grind Duke of Baden.

Her Majesty's procession then followed to the
presence chamber in the same order is which it
entered the chapel. . .

Her Majesty the Queen, Lis Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, the Bride and Bridegroom, with the
rest of the royal family, the royal guests, and the great
officers of state, passed on to the throne room.
The foreign Princes and guests who did not take
part in the procession were conducted to the throne
room by the Master of the Ceremonies.
Finally, the dignitaries of the church having entered
the throne room, the registry of the marriage was
attested with the usual formalities.
The remainder of the procession proceeded no further
than the presence chamber.
The knights of the several orders present at the
solemnity wore their respective collars with white
rosettek

The Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet
Ministers, and other visitors in the Chapel Royal ap-
peared iu full dress uniform. The ladies in full dress.
After the ceremony had been concluded, her
Majesty, the Royal Family, and the Prince and
Princess of Prussia, and the members of the no-
bility who had received a special invitation, re-
turned to Buckingham Palace.
THE WEDDING BREAKFAST.

A wedding repast was prepared at Buckingham
Palace, at which several of the illustrious partici-
pators in the previous ce.temony, the officers of ttJe
household, and the Ministers of State were present.
It is needless to say that the taste and ingenuity of
the confectioners and table deckers were promi-
nently displayed at the festival—a splendid wed-
ding cake forming the chief object of attractio?i.
After partaking of the sumptuous dejeuner, the
Prince and Princess set out for Windsor, attended
by the military, and on the road they were loudly
greeted by the vast assemblage.

The paper on the "Memoirs of Bossuet'3 is full
of interest ; but though painting in vivid colours
the genius of the orator, it shows us a somewhat
mournful contrast in the character of the man. It
is remarked, in speaking of his " Oraisona
Fun4bres," a class of compositions In which he
stands unrivalled, that " the inspiration of the
lyric poet, united with the deep voice of the histo-
rian, swells out in the noblest passages ; and
the poetry of Eranc3, can hardly produce
a page comparable to the diction of her
greatest writer in prose." The characters who then
were passing away from the stormy turmoils of
courts and factions, gave ample scope for the elo-
quence of the orator, whether in their personal
characteristics, the vicis-itudes of their lives, or the
incidents attending their deathbeds. His first
funeral oration was on Henrietta, the daughter,
wife, and mother of kings; justly styled " la refine
Malheureuse." His second " ()raison Funebre "
strange to say, was for her daughter, another
Henrietta, the wife of M. D'Orleans, brother of
the Grand Monarque, who died of poison its the
bloom of youth. And so on through a long cata-
logue of noble and illustrious names eminent for
birth, valour, or misfortune, down to his last dis-
course on the great Conde, a worthy termination
to his gorgeous " Oraisons." Those who prefer
political retrospections to literary essays will find

THE BRIDAL PRESENTS

subject fur gratification in a paper on "The Adding-
ton and Pitt Administrations."

The Quarterly Review. Murray, Albemarle-street.
The "leader" in this number is on "The
difficulties of Railway Engineering," and conveys
a deal of attractive and edifying matter connected
with the subject, from James Brindley's great canal
schemes, to George Stephenson's greater achieve-
ment and victory over the swampy bog of Chat
Moss. Thousands of us know little cf the toil and
ingenuity which have been expended on the iron
road along which we fly in thoughtless enjoyment
of speed and comfort. It is, indeed, difficult to
form an adequate idea of the immense quantity of
earth, rock, and clay that has been picked, blasted,
shovelled, and wheeled by English navvies during
the last thirty years. "Of the 8,635 miles of rail-
way now constructed in Britain, about 70 miles
pass through tunnels, and more than 50 miles over
viaducts ; whilst of railway bridges there have been
built some 30,000, or far more than all the bridges
previously existing in England."
An article on "The Historic) Peerage" traces out
each title ever held by our lordly rulers from its
earliest date to its extinction, or its present pos-
sessor. Those who are prone to investigate the
ancient particulars of Rewards, Percys, and Tal-
bot., may get an agreeable reading from it.
There is much of valuable philosophy and elevat-
ing sentiment in the paper which handles Rowell's
Essay on the " Beneficent Distribution of the
Sawa of Pain." We give a short marital :
" Montaigne held cru-ltv to be the extreme of all
vices ;it is also one of the commonest. Humanity
seldom or ever shows itself in inferior dispositions, and
where it exists is readily destroyed. No unnatural taste
is so rapidly acquired as the taste for shedding blood.
There are few who are ignorant of the oircumstanoe
which occurred at the execution of Tbistlewood and his
fellow conspirators for treason. A thrill of horror ran
through the crowd when the first head was severed from
its body, but so rapidly did the spectators become
accustomed to the sight that on the executioner accident-
ally letting the third head drop, there was a shout of
Ah 1 butter-fingered !' * * * * It is
told of Henry IV. of France that he twice whipped his
son, afterwards Louis XIII., with his own hand—the
first time because he had taken such a dislike to a gentle-
man that his servile attendants could only appease hint
by pretending to shoot with a pistol without ball the
object of his aversion ; the sec)nd time for crushing the
heal of a sparrow. Though the just punishment he had
received was small in comparison with the unje.t
ri pels • hment he had inflicted, his mother objected to this
di‘ciplina of her son. Pray to God,' replird
ill-treat
y'
othua:t ITT,
The
y experiencelive, for
oWfhtehlle klsi
nueg
taught him that
cruelty seldom knows any distinctions, and that he who
gonehad
will
begins by crushing the heals of sparrows in sport would
seneked.,i, dby,ireCting venom &gales: the very breasts he had
u
With many points of argument advanced in " This
Future Management of our Indian Empire," we
must beg leave to differ. Our estimation of the
Sepoys is many degrees lower than that which the
writer in the Quarterly expresses, and we fear our
desire for vengeance is not so mercifully modified.

The National Review. Chapman and Hall,
Piccadilly.
The opening article in this quarterly is on the
most absorbing subject at this moment—viz., "The
Principles of Indian Government." A deal of good
sense and plausible elucidation relative to the
terrible movements in the East are afforded, and
we have perused the paper with infinitely more
satisfaction than we do the average of discussions
now put forth on the same theme. From all we
hear and read we are inclined to think that India
has been treated by us as a Pyrotechnic Ma-
nufactory on a large scale. We have
derived from it boundless and brilliant
con uscations of wealth, to dazzle and.
enchant our gold-worshipping eyes ; but we neg-
lected to pay sufficient heed as to the security of
the gunpowder which formed those bewildering
delights, until an " awful explosion" and. "fright-
ful loss of life" awoke ua to the peroeption of our
folly, and remorse for the consequences. The
governing policy of England seems to have been
curiously at fault of late, both as regards theoretical
knowledge and practical science. An article on
" George Saud" treats fully and impartially of the
writings and influence of that greatly gifted
woman ; and after a very able digest of her
power and productions, the conclusion is given
in these opinions :

" View her from whatever side we may, and judge of
her by whatever of her novels we may chance to light
on, we shall always leave her with mingled feelings of
admiration and regret. But if we look at her works u
a whole, and read several of them in succession, her cha-
racter, we think, will rise in our estimation, although
the works themselves lose interest by their prolixity,
their want of plot, and their surfeiting fullness of vague
theorising being thus forced on our notice. We catch
through them glimpses of a woman with many faults—
haste, rashness, morbid sentimentalism, and %proneness
to indulge in a secondhand philosophy often caught up
from men inferior to herself—but still in the main truth-
fol ; loving in a blind and capricious way what is good ;
indignant at the sophistries sad the (mous of polished
vice and conventional virtue. If in the midst of the
display of her great intellectual gifts she sometimes
startles us by moral errors, she never shooks us by moral
depravity. The more we try her by a foreign standard,
and the better we appreciate the circumstances under
which she wrote, and the influences to which she was
exposed, the more gently and sparingly we shall censure
her."

" The Czar Nicholas" has a somewhat lengthy
and somewhat partial commentary ; and " T
i to
Monetary Crisis" is attempted to be explained n a
more lucid style than we often meet. Other peP.eers
of interesting and enlightening tendency, r
the number most acceptable to the library DI

SERTIOES OF THE NEW K.C.B.'S.

Our readers will have learnt from our impression
on Saturday that her Majesty has been pleased to
promote to the honours of the Order of the Bath
several of thoseheroes who have wonfor themselves
a name in the suppression of the Indian mutiny.
First and foremost stands that of Colonel John
Eardley Wilmot Inglis, the gallant defender of
Lucknow, who has been recently advanced to the
rank of Major-General in the Army. He is a son of
the late Right Rev. Dr. Inglis, Bishop of Nova
Scotia, and is married to a daughter of Sir Fred., rick
Thesiger.
He entered the army as Ensign in a foot
regiment in 1833, served with the 32d Regiment in
Canada during the rebellion of 1837, and was pre-
sent at the actions of St. Danis and St. Eustache.
He took part also in the Punjaub campaign of
1848-49, and was present at the first and second
siege operations before Mooltan, including the
attack, on the enemy's position in, front of the ad-
vanced trenches on the 12th of September, where
after the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Pattoun,
he succeeded to the command of the right
column of attack. He commanded the 32d Regi-
ment at the action of Soorjkooned, and he was also
present at the storm and capture of the city and
surrender of the fortress of Mooltan, the surrender
of the fort and garrison of Cheinote, and the battle
of Goojerat, for which service he received the
brevet rank of Lieut. -Colonel, together with a
medal and clasps.
Capt. Wm. Peel, R.N. (who, we observe, is ap-
pointed also a naval Aide-de-camp to her Majesty
for his services with the Naval Brigade in India),
is the third son of the late Right Hon. Sir Robt.
Peel, and brother of the present baronet and of
the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, late Secretary-at-
War. He is quite a young man, having been born
in 1824, and is unmarried. He has seen active
service, however, on more than one station, and
has rendered such efficient service in India that no
one will grudge him his well-earned honours.
Colonel James Hope Grant, of whose successes
at the -head. of his column we have lately heard
so much, entered the army as Cornet in 1826 ; he
acted as Brigade-Major to the late Lord Saltoun
in China, and was present at the assault and cap-
ture of Chin-Kiang-Foo and at the landing before
Nankin. He served with the 9th Lancers at the
battle of Sobraon in 1846, and bears the medal for
that engagement, and he commanded that regiment
during the greater part of the Punjaub campaign of
1848-9, including the passage of the Chenab and
the battles of Ramnuggur and Chilianwallah ; he
also took an active part in the battle of Goojerat,
and has the medal and clasps for his services. His
commission as Lieut."-Colonel dates from 1850.
Col. Edward Lugard, of the 29th Regiment of
Foot, entered the army in 1828 ; be served as a
Major throughout the campaign of 1842 in Affgaa-
istan ender, General Pollock, and was present in
the actions of Ilazeena, Tezeen, and Jugdulluck,
the occupation of Cabool, and the different engage-
ments leading to it, for which he received a medal.
He served throughout the campaign on the Sutlej,
for which he also received a medal ; he served as
Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General to Sir Harry
Smith at the battles of Moodkee and Ferozeshah,

where he was wounded, and at Sobraon. He
served as Adjutant-General of her Majesty's
forces in India from the battle of Sobraon at
the end of the campaign, when he was appointed
Assistant Adjutant General to Her Majesty's
forces in India. He again officiated as Adjutant-
General throughout the Punjab campaign in 1848-9,
and was present at the passage of the Chenab, and
the battles of Chilianwallah and Goojerat, for
which he received a medal and clasps.
Colonel the Hon. Charles Beaumont Phipps,
whose name is associated in the Gazette with the
above officers as a K.C.B. is a younger son of the
first Earl of Mulgrave and brother of the present
Marquis of Normandy ; he was born in 1801, and
married in 1835 a daughter of Archdeacon Henry
Bathurst. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Seots Fusilier Guards from 1837 to 1847, and
was made a Colonel in the army in 1851 ; was
secretary to his brother the first Marquis of Nor-
manby, when Governor of Jamaica, and was
steward of his household wizen Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland. He was for a short time secretary to
the Master-General of the Ordnance, and was ap-
pointed Equerry to the Queen, August, 1846 ;
private secretary to Prince Albert, December,
1846 ; Keeper of the Queen's Privy Purse,
treasurer to Prince Albert, and treasurer and cal
ferer to the Prince of Wales, October, 1849.

(Prom tie Times.)

What do we En dishmen most delight to honour?
Worth, says the patriot, solid integrity, that type
of character which makes the especia greatness and
security of our native land. The noblest work of
God is an indigenous product of these isles, like
our oaks and our strong-limbed youths, and we are,
above all things, proud of the race. Very true ;
honest, benevolent, self-denying men are in great
vogue among us, so much so that the gentleman
who would speculate commercially on the credulity
of the world often finds it good policy to put a
sober, half-clerical attire, and to be great in the
matter of churches and hospitals, martyr-converts
from Popery and reclaimed cannibals from the
South Seas. Wealth, would the sneering foreigner
say, is the chief object of British adoration. English
alliances are only questions of cotton, sugar, and
tallow, and her private life is chiefly influenced by
worship of the great dealers in these staples, or
their children, who have turned them into well-
tilled acres or Consols ; and there is much of truth
in this also. But within the last few months the
answer of most persons would probably have been
that we honour, and duly honour, brave men who
have lost or risked their lives for their country above
all other persons or things. For four years now
we have been incessantly fighting. The country
was roused from an easy sleep of prosperity, which
had lasted 40 years, by the calamities which befell
a nobly army. The energy, the liberality, the
devotion by which all misfortunes we: e repaired,
and a larger force than ever landed on the Crimean
shores, will long be remembered in history. The
moral effect we are accustomed to consider most
happy, and to cite as a proof that out of evil
comes good. The sudden plunge into the
cold bath of adversity braced the nerves of the
nation, relaxed by ease and money-making or
morbid intellectual speculation. The community
has become sensibly more patriotic, and the
Persian War and the Canton episode hardly
gave it occupation in the interval between the
peace with the Cz.tr and the outbreak in India.
Since the beginning of these terrible trials, what
heart has not beat high, what eye has not fired
with enthusiasm, for the valour of brave men ?
The cypress has been so much mingled with the
laurel, so many have fallen under the hand of
assassins, or, more fortunately, in open fight—
•holera, and fever, and overwork, and long d iys
and nights of watching, have slain so rainy, that
something of a sacred awe is added to the feeling
with which we contemplate the exploits of those
who survive. The aged veteran and the youth sent
but yesterday to join his regiment may be at this
moment equally beyond any honours or rewards of
ours. When we speak of such a General or such
an administrator in India we speak of one whom
we only believe to live, and who may never bear
that his name has been on the lips of thousands,
and selected for chivalrous distinction by the
Sovereign herself.
But it would seem that there is something still
more honoured by England, if England be repre-
sented by those who have the gift of titles and ap-
pointments. How, indeed, shall we address our
native country—that "riddle, jest, and glory of
the world ?" Shall we call upon her as the Holy
Mother of heroes and of jobbers, the common
parent of the eagle that soars and the caterpillar
that creeps to the summit of the teitple of fame I
Shall we feel pride in the taunt that liberty has
never rescued us from oligarchy, and that wherever
the
.feet of Englishmen are planted, there go
patrician assumptions and plebian sycophancy, there
are established new official nests for all who belong
to V. e governing class at home by birth or marriage
or who have attained to it by years of lip-serviceond
and adulation ? Are we never to get
beyond
the close atmosphere of Court and M;narial
favour ? Are we never to escape from the
jungle growth of jobbery into the open path which
should lead the most deserving to honour and
reward ? It would seem not. Reformers in Par-
liament and Reformers out of Parliament, the
newspaper press, and the satirical novel,sti, and
the orators on education and social science, have
all worked, it would seem, in vain. The boatman
who endeavours to row Against a swollen stream,
and finds himself after au hour's oil abreast of the
same clump of trees, or even slowly drifting down-
wards, has not more reason to be discouraged.
Let us illustrate the feet. We have to go back no
further tl,an the lest Gazette. All our readers must
have received with satisfaction the list of names
selected for the Order of the Bath which we pub-
lished on Saturday. A number of officers have
been pointed out by their achievements and the
admiration of the people as worthy of this much-
desired honour. Of ad these none has been con-
sidered to deserve the List of the three classes.
General Wilson, the conqueror of Delhi, was made
a Knight Commander, so was the brave old
Havelock, and in the last Gazette we have the same
rank conferred on General Inglis, who defended
the Lucknow Residency in a three, months? siege ;
on Captain Peel, who has renewed' in our time the
exploits of Sir Sidney Smith ; on Colonel Lugard,
who has been engaged in nearly every Indian cam-
paign for the last 16 years, who was Chief of the
Staff in the Persian Expedition, and who is now
Adjutant-General in India ; and also on Colonel

Hope Grant, whose brilliant service the other day
is fresh in the recollection of all. Only these four
are thought worthy of the second rank. The fol-
lowing are only allowed the dignity of Companions
of the Order :—Admiral gir Henry Leeke, late Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy ; Caonel
Greathed, who marched from Delhi to Lucknow
and beat the enemy half-a-dozen times ; Colonel
Showers, Colonel Cotton—the so-called. Gun-
Cotton, of Peshawur—Colonel Baird Smith, who,
nearly exhausted by sickness, conducted the engi-
neering operations at Delhi with never failing
energy and skill till the place was taken, and
many others. Now we come to the announce-
ment which shows what influences are still powerful
in this society of ours. Havelock and Wilson and
Inglis are sufficiently rewarded with the K. C. 8.,
Greathed, and Showers and Baird Smith do not
get so much ; but we have gazetted to be an Or-
dinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second
Class or Knights Commanders of the said Most
Hon. Order,—
Colonel the Hon. Charles Beaumont Phipps,
C. 8., Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse.
There may be some whom these columns will
reach who know not the highly-honoured Phipps
even by name, others to whom he is only a mythical
being, who is always attending some Royal per-
sonage or another in the " Court Circular." But we
must all now learn to think of him with reverence.
We know that in the eyes of authority he is of
greater desert than men who have been described
in official despatches as evincing singular energy,
and skill, and devotion in a war of unexampled
difficulty. We must believe in the greatness of
" Privy Purse." Like the planet Mercury, he has
not been visible to the eye, simply because he has
been lost in the effulgence of Royalty. But he
possesses a sensible magnitude which clan be mea-
sured by the superior intellect of the official world.
Indeed, he comes of a most extraordinary and gifted
family, a family whose genius is so exquisite and
recondite that it entirely escapes the observation of
the vulgar, but yet qualifies the race of Phipps for
the highest and most difficult posts.. It is thought
by some that, since we have no mission at Rome,
the Envoy at Florence should be an able and ener-
getic diplomatist, and that an infirm old Peer might
well give place to one who could and would take a
part in the complex politics of Italy. But the Mar-
quis of Normanby, the chief of the house of Phipps,
is, and we presume will be as long as he chooses,
England's representative on the banks of the Arno.
Most people who travel and think have also some
anxiety about the condition of our North American
dependencies,inhabited by a spirited population, and
with some twenty-five millions of Republicans for
neighbours. Nova Scotia is an important colony,
and Halifax is the finest harbour in the New
World. There are in England men who have made
colonial governmen t a study, or at least have shown
capacity for business at home. But another Phipps
in the person of Lord Mulgrave, has been appointed
to the office. We must take it on trust that he is
the fittest man. Now we have the steady hanger-
on of the Court elevated to the same honours as
Havelock, and to a higher rank than some twenty
devoted and heroic soldiers.
Truly the authorities are setting up their judg-
ment rather too much in independence of national
opinions and feelings. It is not enough that Lord
Clanricarde should have been replaced in the Cabi-
net, to the astonishment of the country and even
of the less scrupulous Continent ; it is not enough
that aristocratic favouritism is seating its nominees
on the Episcopal Bench, and has even invaded the
precincts of the law ; it is not enough that every
appointment, both high and low, is grasped at by
the poorer members of aristocratic families with a
greediness, an indecency, and a success beyond all
precedent ; but in this hour of the nation's trial and
enthusiasm we are to have elevated above its no-
blest sons the name of one who is distinguished by
nothing but the favour of a Court. Patronage has
recently run wild, but we know no worse instance
of its exercise than the present. The " Privy
Purse" might at least have waited a few days, and
saved himself from contrast with the names of men
who have reconquered for their country the Em-
pire of the East.