The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-26 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S MARRIAGE.

THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY-
SATURDAY' Nov. 23.
At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 23rd, day of No-
vember, 1839.
PRESENT.
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council_
His Royal Highness the Duke Lord Wynford
of Cambridge Lord Brougham
Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Denman
Lord Chancellor Lord Abinger
Lord President Lord Ashburton
Lord Privy Seal Lord Hatherton
Duke of Norfolk Lord Langdale
Duke of Devonshire Lord Monteagle
Duke of Montrose The Speaker
Duke of Wellington Hon. T. P. Courtenay
Marquis of Salisbury Hon. Henry Pierrepont
Marquis of Anglesey Sir Robert Peel, Bart.
Marquis of Normanby Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart.
Lord Chamberlain Henry Goulburn
Earl of Surrey Lord Chief Justice Tyndal
Earl of Albemarle Sir William Alexander
Earl of Jersey Sir George Cockburn
Earl of Erroll Sir Stephen Lushington
Earl of Tankervillo Mr. Herries
Earl Minto Mr. Vice Chancellor
Earl Howe Sir George Murray
Earl Amherst Sir Henry Hardinge
Earl of Durham Sir Robert Adair
Earl Ripon Sir Brook Taylar
Viscount Castlereagh Hon. Thomas Erskine
Lord J. Russell Sir Edw. Hyde East, Bart.
Viscount Strangford Sir John Cam Hohhouse, Bt.
Viscount Palmerston Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt
Viscount Melbourne Edward Ellice
Viscount Beresford Mr. Baron Parke
Viscount Ebrington Sir Alexander Johnston
Lord Burghersh Mr. Justice Bosanquet
Bishop of London Sir Edward Knatchbull,Bart.
Lord Willoughby de Eresby Mr. Planta
Lord Holland Mr. William Peel
Lord Ellenborough Mr. Labouchere
Lord Hill Hon. George S. Byng
Lord Bexley Dr. Lushington
Lord Bloomfield Hon. George Grey, Bart.
Lord Wharncliffe Mr. Chancellor of the Exche-
Lord Lyndhurst quer
Lord Cowley Mr. Macauley
Her Majesty being this day present in Council, was
pleased to make the following declaration, viz—
" I have caused you to be summoned, at the p:esent time,
in order that I may acquaint you with my resolution in a
matter which deeply concerns the welfare of my people and
the happiness of my future life.
"It is my intention to ally myself in marriage with the
Prince Albert, of Saxe Coburg, and Gotha.
" Deeply impressed with the solemnity of the engagement
which I am about to contract, I have not come to this decision
without mature consideration, nor without feeling a strong
assurance, that with the blessing of Almighty God, it will at
once secure my domestic felicity, and secure the interests of
my country.

I have thought fit to make this resolution known to you
at the earliest petrod, in order that you may be fully apprised
of a matter so highly important to my kingdom, and which,
I persuade myself, will be most acceptable to all my loving
subjects."

Whereupon all the privy couucillors present made it their
humble request to her Majesty, that her Majesty's Most Gra-
cious Declaration to them might be made public, which her
Majesty was pleased to order accordingly.

C. GREVILLE

(From the third edition of the Sun of Saturday.)
Her Majesty held a privy council, this day, at Buckingham
Palace, at half-past one o'clock, which was attended by an
unusually large number of members, there being upwards of
100 privy councillors present.
The proceedings excited unusual interest from its being
generally understood, that an announcement of her Majesty's
intended marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-would
be made to the Council, and as early as twelve o'clock, a
large concourse of persons had assembled in front of the
Palace, and at two o'clock, the number had increased to
several thousands : there was a very large sprinkling of fo-
reigners among the crowd.
Her Majesty looked in excellent health, and delivered the
address with great composure.
The Council broke up shortly before three o'clock ; and,
on leaving the Palace, her Majesty's Ministers and other
leading political characters were received with the usual
popular marks of applause and disapprobation. Lord Mel-
bourne, who was near the last that quitted the Palace, was
loudly cheered by the majority of those present, but there
was some vehement hooting from a mob of persons who
followed his carriage round the entire front of the Palace. •
Ills lordship smiled and bowed good-humouredly to his
assailants. The Marquis of Normanby and Lord John
Russell were in the same carriage, and came in for a pretty
equal share of applause and disapprobation. The Duke of
Wellington, who was looking extremely thin and pale, but in
good spirits, was most enthusiastically cheered. Lord Mont-
eagle (Mr. Spring Rice) was greeted with a hearty groan.
There was a sorry attempt at a cheer for Sir Robert Peel,
from the same knot to whom we have before alluded. Mr.
Goulburu, Mr. Croker, and others of that party were allowed
to pass almost unnoticed. The reception of his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge was of the same lukewarm
character. Lord Palmerston's reception was by no means
flattering ; but it would be inpossible to particularize all the
♦arious shades of shouting, cheering, hooting, and hissing
which alternately prevailed.

We observed -ai-nong the crowd a certain noble marquis
who has lately ratted from the Whigs, and a baronet of some
celebrity in East India affairs, who were signalling the
populace as to what parties they should cheer or groan.
These two gentlemen appeared to enjoy the fun amazingly,
and remained on the ground till the last carriage had left the
Palace.

Her Majesty and her attendants, escorted by a party of
Lancers, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor, and was
greeted on her route towards Hyde-park with loud and
general cheering by the assembled multitude.
(From the Globe of Saturday.)
Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg Gotha, thus signally honoured
above his fellows, is, we are assured by those who have had
opportunities of being in his company, and of observing his
bearing towards his equals and inferiors, worthy of the proud
distinction which awaits him. Reports assigns him accom-
plishments such as qualify him to adorn a court, and justify
the hope that his intimate relation to our beloved Sovereign
will, under the blessing of a gracious Providence, confer on
her the pure and refined enjoyments of domestic life, without
which even the splendour of a court, the power of a throne,
and even the affectionate loyalty of an empire leave an aching
void in the heart. That void will, we trust, be occupied fully
and enduringly by the contemplated union of which the Privy
Councillors of the Sovereign will have this day official in-
formation.

Prince Albert is the second son of Ernest, reigning Duke
of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and derives his birth from a long un-
broken line of Protestant ancestors ; to one of whom Luther
was indebted for protection, and probably preservation from
death, when after the Diet of Worms the Pope employed his
powerful influence with the Princes of Continental Europe to
effeat his destruction. Thus was the Reformatisd instrumen-
tally indebted for the protection and preservation of its great
author to an illustrious member of the family about to become
connected by marriage with the Queen of England ; of all
the other countries of Europe most benefited, in► its religion,
laws, arts, and literature, by that great event.
His Royal Highness was born August 26, 1819, and is con-
sequently the junior of her Majesty, who was born on the
24th of May preceding, about three months.

(Fro,n the Spectator.)
Of so little consideration in the eye of the constitution is
the consort of the Queen Regnant that he is not known to the
law ; and the little that Blackstone says about such a person-
age shows his insienificance " The husband of a Queen Reg-
nant, as Prince George of Denmark was to Queen Anne, is
her subject, and may be guilty of high treason against her ;"
and he adds a line about the impunity attending his " con-
jugal infidelity," which cannot possibly interest Prince Albert.
All that can be said of the husband of the Queen may,
therefore, be comprised in a few words. Politically, he can
ostensibly be nothing ; though privately he may be almost
everything. The representations and advice of ministers will
avail little against the wishes and arguments of a beloved
spouse; and the deliberations of the nuptial couch—if, as is
ardently hoped, harmony, tenderness, and love attend it—
will probably be found infinitely more efficacious than those
of the Council-board. Happily, the destinies of England do
not depend upon the will of any two human beings ; but, if
Prince Albert be endowed with great intellectual attainments,
sagacity, and firmness, united with ambition, he may, never-
theless, have immense influence in this country, and may be-
come the instrument of great good or almost irremediable
evil.

The vulgar and predominant feeling, at this moment, is
not, however, what effect will the Queen's husband produce
on the institutions and policy of the country, but what are the
" creature comforts," those possessions which the dullest
can understand and the least ambitions appreciate, with which
he will be endowed ! Their curiosity can readily be satisfied.
He will be naturalised by Act of Parliament ; he will be crea-
ted a duke, and, perhaps, Duke or ',cent, and a Privy Coun-
cillor (though, if he be wise, he will refuse all honours con-
nected with responsibility and duty,) a Field Marshal, a
Knight of the Garter, the Bath, and, perhaps, of all the
other Orders ; and, like his uncle, be authorised to quarter
the arms of England, with a grant of precedence of all per-
sons except Dukes of the Blood Royal. This much from his
wife. From Parliament, perhaps, £30,000 a year, with lau-
dations from all sides for so moderate a wish ; and the same
desire for popularity may induce him to be satisfied with
£50,000 per annum, in case he should survive the Queen.
For their illustrious progeny, the good-natured country will
"be no less considerate, and loyal people may chant the burden
of the song written on the Prince of Wales's marriage, just
forty-five years ago :
" The Royal House of Hanover, the darling of the nation,
TQ larnly, now to last for another trpneration !"

BOHEMIAN Womss.—ln every corner of this part of
Germany, each female, from the maid servant to the mis-
tress, has a spinning-wheel ; and there is no good housewife
in Bohemia who would not consider herself disgraced if she
did not spin within her establishment all the linen articles
necessary for her hoasehold.—Strany's Germany.
THE MELANCHOLY EFFECTS. OF OPIUM EATING.—The
following anecdote gives a curious example of the effects of
immoderate habits of using opium. An English ambassador
lately sent to a Mahomedan Prince, was conducted upon his
arrival at the palace through several richly decorated and
spacious apartments, crowded with officers, arrayed in su-
perb dresses, to a room, small in dimensions, but ornamented
•
with the most costly and splendid furniture. The attendants
withdrew. After a short interval two persons of superior
mien entered the saloon followed by state bearers, carrying
under a lofty canopy a litter covered with delicate silk and
the richest cashmere shawls, upon which lay a human form,
to all appearance dead, except that its head was dangling
loosely from side to side as the bearers moved into the room.
Two officers holding rich filligree salvers carried each a cha-
lice and a vial containing a black . fluid. The ambassador
considered the spectacle to be connected with some court ce-
remony of mourning and endeavoured to retire, but he was
soon undeceived by seeing the officer holding up the head of
the apparent corpse, and after gently chafing the throat and
returning the tongue, which hung from a mouth relaxed and
gaping, pouring some black liquor into the throat, and clos-
ing the jaws, until it sank down the passage ; after six or se-
ven times repeating the ceremony, the figure opened its eyes
and shut its mouth voluntarily : it then swallowed a large
portion of the black fluid, and within an hour an animated
being sat on the couch with blood returning into his lips, and
a feeble power of articulation. In the Persirn language he
addressed his visiter, and enquired the particulars of his
mission. Within two hours this extraordinary person be-
came altered, and his mind capable of arduous business. The
ambassador, after apologising for tqe liberty, ventured to in-
quire into the cause of the scene he had just witnessed.
" Sir," said he, "I an an inveterate opium taker, and I
have by slow degrees fallen into this melancholy excess. Out
of the diurnal twenty-four periods of time, I continually pass
eighteen in this reverie, unable to move or speak ; I am yet
conscious, and the time passes away amid pleasing fancies,
nor should I ever awake from the wanderings of this state
had I not the most faithful and attached attendants, whose
regard and religious duty compel them to watch my pulse. As
soon as my heart begins to falter and my breathing is imper-
ceptible except on a mirror, they immediately pour the solu-
tion of opium into my throat, and restore me as you have
seen. Within four hours I shall have swallowed many
ounces, and much time will not pass ere I will relapse into
my ordinary torpor."—Aforewood's History of Inebriating
Arsv. Liquors.
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