The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

WINDSOR-MONDAY.

The Queen and Royal Consort arrived at the Castle at a
little before seven o'clock this evening. The royal pair came
under a guard of honour of the second life guards, commanded
by Lieutenant Tottenham.

On arriving at the Castle, the royal bridegroom conducted
her Majesty from the carriage to the royal apartments.
The following attended the royal couple, and will compose
the royal dinner party this evening :—Lady Sandwich, the
lady in waiting ; Hon. Miss Cocks and the Hon. Miss Caven-
dish, maids of honour; Viscount Torrington, the lord in
waiting ; Major Keppel, equerry ; and Capt. Seymour, groom
in waiting.
MONDAY EVEN IN G.—The weather during the past night
was more boisterous than any we have experienced during
the winter. "It " blew great guns," from 10 o'clock until
sunrise, when—
".The dawn was overcast, the morning lower'd,
And heavily in clouds brought on the day,
The great, th' important day,"
on which were to be celebrated the nuptials of our maiden
Sovereign and Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg.
It continued to rain almost without intermission until
noon;_when the weather partially cleared up and continued
fine, but threatening, during the remainder of the day.
From an early hour in the morning the bells of .the parish
church continued to ring merry peals, until long after the
arrival of the illustrious pair this evening.
Never until this day. has the Royal Standard of England
floated from the turret of the round tower in the absence of
the sovereign ; but this afternoon at a quarter past twelve
o'clock .

" The flag, which braved a thousand years,
The battle and the breese,"
was displayedfrom the tower, leading many persons to ima-
gine that her Majesty and the Prince had privately arrived
at the castle ;. several. persons immediately proceeded to the
royal residence to make the necessary inquiries, when it was
ascertained that the flag had been hoisted in pursuance of
orders to that effect.

The most extraordinary and culpable delay has taken place
in preparing some of the apartments at the Castle for the
reception of her Majesty, and at one time it was feared that
even the bridal chamber would not be ready by the time the
royal pair arrived. During the whole of yesterday several
workmen, consisting of gilders, &c. were most busily engaged
in completing the necessary alterations and embellishments
—her Majesty .having relinquished her former domicile for
one of larger dimensions in the Augusta Tower, which is
situated just on the right of the grand entrance to the castle,
and looking towards the Long Walk. Some portion of the
old furniture has been retained, but the greater part is either
new, or greatly embellished. The' bedstead, which is a
beautiful specimen of workmanship, was manufactured .by
Seddons, of maple wood. The hangings, and curtains of
the room, are of figured green damask, and the remainder
of the furniture is in perfect keeping throughout.
Such is the extraordinary -delay which has ever been mani-
fested-by those who have, or who had, the arrangement of
alterations, &c. in the private apartments in the castle, that
it. was no uncommon occurrence, during the lifetime of
George the Fourth, and the late King, when the Sovereign
arrived at Windsor, for the workmen to retire at one door of
an apartment, as the King walked in at the other.