The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS

ROYAL.

WINDSOR; DEC. 30.
The marriage ceremony of her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William
of Prussia will take place at the Chapel Royal, St.
James's, on Monday, January 25.
There will be present on the occasion besides the
Royal Family, his Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians, their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Brabant
and the Count of Flanders, their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince Frede-
rick Charles (nephew of the King, son of Prince
C rarles), Prince Albert (brother of the King),
Prince Charles Albert (son of Prince Albert),
Prince Adalbert (cousin of the King), and the
Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, their Royal
Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden
and Prince William of Baden (brother of the
Grand Duke), and their Royal Highuesse. the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe Ouburg, the whole of
whom will arrive ;from the Continent on the 15th
or January and the following days, and will be
her Majesty's guests at Buckingham-palace, while
apartments have been eneaged for their respective
suites at Farrance's and Fenton's hotels.
There will also be present on the occasion their
Serene Highnesses Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
the Prince and Princess of Hohenlobe Langenburg,
Princess Feodore and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe,
and the Prinr.:e of Leiningen.
Her Majesty, his Reyal Highness the Prince
Consort, and the royal family will arrive in town
on Friday, the 15th of January.
A series of theatrical representations will take
place at her. Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday, the
19th, Thursday, the 21st, and Saturday, the 23d of
January, at which her Majesty, the royal family,
and foreign visitors will be present.
Her Majesty will give a State Ball, at Bucking-
ham Palace, on Wednesday, January 20.
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William
will arrive on the 23d.

Af er the marriage ceremony on the 25th, the
Prince and the Princess Roy-. 1 will leave Bucking-
ham Palace for Windsor Castle, attended by A

mited suite.

Her Majesty will give that evening a State Con-
cert at BuckinghainPalace, to which the persons
present at the marriage ceremony, the corps diplo-
matique, the members of the Government, and a
number of i he atistecracy will be invited.
On the 26th most of her Majesty's guests will
return to the Continent.

On the 27th her Majesty and the Prince Consort,
with the junior members of the Royal Family, will
join the young married couple at Windsor Castle,-
where on the 28th her Majesty will hold a Chapter
of the Garter, for the purpose of investing Prince
Frederick William with this distinguished order.
The Knights of the Garter attending the Chapter
will be her Majesty's guests at the castle, and will
be present at a grand banquet to be given in
honour of the occasion. . _

O❑ Friday, January 29th, her Majesty, his R-tyal
Highness the Prince Consort, and the Royal Fatally,
with their Royal Highnesses Prince Frederick
William and the Princ-ss Royal, will return to
town and be present in State at a representation at
her Majesty's Theatre in the evening. On- the
following day (January 30) her Majesty will hold a
Drawing-room at St. Jawes's Palace, for the pur-
pose of receiving congratulations on the happy
even t. - -

The departure of their Royal Highnesses is fixed
for Tuesday, February 2d. Their Royal High-
m s•e• will embark at Gravesend in her Majesty's
yacht Victoria and Albert, and cross over to
Antwerp.

PRINcE ALPHONSO AND THE LEGION

OF HoNoUB.

GAS MONOPOLY.-MEETLVO OF DELEGATES

Yesterday a meeting of delegates from the vari-
ous metropolitan parisheswas held in the Vestry-
room of the Marylebone Vestry, for the purpose cf
considering what steps should be taken to frustreto
the late attempt on the part of the gas cower' is
to establish a monopoly, and to adopt such ite-• ...r-
-sures as would t ffectually protect the gas cons-totem
and the parishes generally from the irnposttiona to
which they were about to be subjected by the ex-
tortionate charges the gas companies were beginning
PRUSSIA. to impo,e tit on them, now that they had succeeded
BERLIN, DEC. 28. in abolishing all competition
It will be remembered that the city of Hamburg, Mr. FREETH occupied the chair, and having ex-
'calor° obtaining a recent loan of 10,000,000 marks
plain.ed to the meeting the reasons for calling them
,anco from the Austrian Government Bank, made
together, suggested that a petition should be pre-
_Lnsuccessful at. empts to obtain an advance from
sented to Parliament, 'praying for powers to enable
Prussia and Saxony. The circumstance tbat pro-
the metropolitan parishes to make their own -gas-
bably contributed most of all to produce willing-
He considered they had a very strong case to 'go to
all with, as the parish
binatiof M h
ness on the part of the Austrian Bank to part with
B.
B.
conse
Siin of the comon of aryltheasebone
co ad,
an article article so much in demand evetywhere as silver q uenee g
was the happy state in which that inetituJou found
parries, been compelled to /sa y lie.fi light more
than they were in the habit of paying when there
itself at the time, of not being required to honour its
notes with a corresponding value‘ in coin ; while to was competition. They had been the first tbat
that had been shot at and hit, but the rest of the':
the Government itself (and we are given to under-
_ parishes would be similarly dealt with as soona
. f their contracts run out. •
stand that the Emperor himself was among the lore
most to suggest it) doubtless the opportunity
gaining some popularity in Germany presented con- I Mr. ADDERSLEY entered into a statemeni. t. Which
siderable att t action—the more so as the two North , showed that gas could be made cheaper
than in Manchester or Shrewsbury, in L"tula°n
German States were losing ground a little in popu- and y.et they
spoil- '
lar feeling by their unwillingness to come forward. charge ! more for it in London than in either of
those places, and he did not see why
It was probably with the amiable motive ofthe metropo-
ing the joy felt by the recipient of the loan and litan parishes should not have the same powers that
the pride felt by the lender, as well as of betting ,those places had to mike gas for themselves.
itself right in the eyes of Germatiy, that the ,i Atter a lengthened discussion, resolutions were
Prussian Government recently th..light it desirable 1
adopted appointing a sub-committee of delegates to
to publish a despatch forwarded. by Baron Von draw up a petiton to Parliament embodying their
Manteuffel to Herr Von Kamz, the representa- ' views,
tive of Prussia at Hamburg, which contained an the South London Gas-consumers' Mutual Prot
ec-
expose of the motives that bad withheld the Pius- tiouand inviting Dr. Challica, the chairman of
Association, to co-operate with them and give
wan Government from, according the aid required. his valuable assistanceinda jd.
inoufrunrethering that object.
Consistently with e.the self-protecting, timidly , The meeting then
cautious course the Prussian Government took in
:Team, Diro. 21.—The murderous attack upon Count
the Hamburg matter, it has declined also to Assist
the city of Lubeck'with a loan of 6) ),000 tha!ers ; eGtterrWeisePareevulebalti' of Bergamo, who. was stabbedn.e and
the amount has, however, since been obtained w,th - Damian()
out much difficulty from the wealthy money ma ;sr ; a t
MI; i injuredayn, bas
uaslot
agattunug San
t,h e
Liberals of the ceased
la,t-named city great
he Count has the re-
th!
ctiants of Hamburg. Toe Governmenttehas
ptitation of being in too dose connexion' .11
nonsadored
Austrian police authorities ; but it is justly
refused, on tWo occasions, the importunate request
of the corporate merchants of this place .for a. spe- that his assassination could only serve to cast discredit
ii
cial and temporary modification of . the_ bankrupt upon the party by a member of which it if! nature y
law witlirespect to houses in difficulties, but whose supposed to have been committed.
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•

The President of the National Council of Switzer"
land, M. Keller, in closing the session, a few days
ago, delivered an address, in which he recapitulated
the labours of the council, and remarked that by
tl!e re-election of the members of the executive
government and of the judges it had given its un-
equivocal approbation to the manner in which they
had cwt.'. d out the principles of the constitution
of 1848. He also remarked that
in setting
aside the conflict of jiirsdiction raised by the
grand council of the canton of Vaud, it bas
preserved the authority of the Confederation,
and at the same titre acted kindly towards one
of its members. He then announced that unless
extraordinary and unforeseen events should occur,
the chambets would not reassemble until the ordi-
nary session of July, and that then the Federal
Ass mbly would meet in the Federal Palace, in-
stead of in the Hotel de Ville, at Berne ; the latter
being destined for the sittings of the grand council
of the canton. In the conned of the States, the
president, M. Staelin, of Bale, delivered a B 0 ate-
what similar address.

The Madrid journals of the 26th inst. contain
no political news. M. Gonzalez Bravo, Minister
at the court of London, had arrived in Madrid.

Since the birth of Prince Alphonso (the heir to
the Spanish Crown) the good people of Madrid
have been waiting for the Emperor Napoleon to
confer the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour
on the Royal infant. Those expectations have not
yet b, en fulfilled. Now, when the Imperial Prince
of France was born the Spanish Government, at
whose head Espartero then was, lost no time in
s.-nding to the Tuileries the insignia of the Golden
Fleece, which had become vacant by the death of
the Emperor Nichohis ' • and it was only fair that
the compliment should be reciprocated. leis Petits
cadeauxentretinnentl'amitte, as is taken for granted
that the French and Spanish Courts are on the most
friendly terms. This forgetfulness, for it can hardly
be anything else, has, however, produced soma
surprise, if not mortification in Madrid. It is not -
that the Prince of the Asturias is in want of
decorations. Quite the contrary. The innocent
babe has more than he can well bear t he has the
Golden Fleece, Charles 111., Isabella Catolica to
which, by-the-hye, are attached collars of no light
weigh., or small dimensions; not to speak of the
orders of St. John, Calatrava, die. It is right to
add that his Royal Highness himself is not the
party who makes an% complaint on the subject.
According to authentic accounts he bears the slight
with much equanimity; and, apparently, sets
more value on the caresses of his nurse than on all
the Decorations that could be offered to him, in-
chiding even the awful Lion of ZAringhen, the
Gulden Spur of Rome, or the blazing Sun of
Faustin I.