The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

On Wednesday the ministerial morning journal put forth
the following announcement
" Summonses have been issued to all the Privy Council to
attend the Queen on Saturday next, to receive a communi-
cation from her Majesty. We are not at liberty to allude to
the subject of this communication, but it may be readily
inferred"—videlicet—her Majesty's marriage with Prince
Albert of Saxe Coburg, which our Windsor correspondent
some days ago announced as positively intended to take place
" as soon as possible."
Upon this interesting matter the evening organ of the whigs
thus echoes its morning contemporary :
" The whole of the Privy Council has been summoned to
attend her Majesty on Saturday next. The communication
which will be laid before the Council relates to an event in
which the whole of her Majesty's subjects feel the deepest
interest, not only because it affects the personal happiness of
the Queen, but materially relates to the future destinies of
the empire. We need not more distinctly allude to the im-
portant subject. A few days will enable us to speak more
plainly on it, and its bearing on the interests of this great
nation."

THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT.

(From the Court gazette.)

All doubt as to the Prince destined to gain the fair hand
of her Majesty was long since set at rest by authentic infor-
mation, communicated to the public through the columns of
the Court Gazette. Those who• questioned the correctness
of the intelligence at the time,have been compelled to admit
that we were right, and that they were wrong. Everything
that has transpired from week to week, and from month to
month, has served but to prove that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert is ".a favoured wooer." The main question
disposed of, the man being known, public anxiety next turns
to the period at which the union is to take place. We are
enabled to state that " the merry month of May" is the time
fixed upon. Her Majesty, who became a Queen immedi-
ately on gaining her legal age as heiress apparent, is to be-
come a wife close on the completion of her twenty-first year.

(From the Age.)
The Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg, " my partner," and
Prince Ernest, dummy toujours, have departed, until sum-
moned to return for the happy day—doom's-day for all par-
ties concerned ; and Prince George of Cambridge has re-
turned to England, full of health, spirits, and right honest
and acceptable British feelings, to find out and rejoice over
the happy escape he has had from being chosen Prince con-
sort of these realnis. By the way, a vast fuss is being made
about the portrait of young Albert, which was left behind
him, and very tenderly exhibited by the Baroness Lehzen
in her private apartment ere it graced the royal left arm on
Thursday evening. Now really, to suppose that any human
being cares the thousandth part of the sweated abrasion of
a farthing for either the portrait of Prince Albert or Prince
Albert himself, or any of the Popish and sham-Protestant
House of Cobourg, is to suppose that the honourable and
moral of the community have abandoned their own pure and
beautiful interpretation of the spirit of the Decalogue, and
admitted the practical version of it exhibited by my Lords
Melbourne and Headfort, and divers other purists of the
Palace. For ourselves we may at once put on record our
conviction that Prince-Consort Albert of Saxe-Cobourg will
not return to England. Wherefore? Because before many
weeks are passed the people of Protestant England will have
discovered that the said Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobourg is a
Papist. He here wears the semblance of a worshipper at
our own altar, but, we repest it, he is a Papist. And be it
never forgotten, that by the Ist of William and Mary, (many
thanks, Mr. Roby, for the hint,) ch. 2, sec. 2, the sovereign
of these realms forfeits his or her right upon three contin-
gencies, viz., attending a mass-house, turning Papist, or
marrying a Papist. This act is yet unrepealed—and who
will dare to move its erasure from the statute-book ? My
Lord Melbourne, will you ?

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