The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-11 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Ten o'clock

THE ROYAL NUPTIALS•

(From the Londo,4 Standard of Yesterday.)

This day the august and interesting ceremony of the mar--
rine of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, with his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, of Saxe Coburg and Gotha,
was performed in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. An
event so novel as this, more than a century . having elapsed
since the nuptiala of a reigning Queen of this country were
celebrated, would be sufficient, independent of the magnifi-
cent and splendour attendant thereon, and the youth of our
beloved Sovereign,. to engage the universal .attention and in-
terest of the nation. It is not, then, to be wondered that
these combined circumstances should make the people of this
country who are, despite wind a disaffected few may :say or
think, naturally and intrinsically a loyal peoPlec stipend their
ordinary avocations and cease their labouring toil, to join in
keeping holiday, and publicly to demonstrate their attach-
ment to the 'Throne, and their earnest wishes fill- the wel-
fare and happiness of their young and lovely Queen. Nn
perial mandate was necessary to compel a cold observance of
respect. The homage was neither forced nor feigned, but
the voluntary offering of warm hearts, participating in the
joy of the Royal bride, beating with hopes for brighter daYs,
and breathing prayers for a prolonged reign of purity and
peace.
At early dawn " the busy bum of men" arose from the
vast metropolis and its populous subUrbs. The canons' roar
saluted the opening day, and
'• The morning trumpets' festival proclaimed
Through each high street," • _
and as the hastening crowds moved towards the chief point
of attraction, the lin- of read through which the Royal pro-
cessiou was to pass, they beheld, on each side cf the way,
the houses adorned with various ornamental deiiceS, con-
sisting of cray flags, gorgeous banners, and costly
prepara-
tions for the night'
s illuminations. The neighbourhoocio
the indices was speedily occupied by cheerful r g oups, ever
and.anod gathering additions,:till the %• hole intended- route
was lined with vast multitudes. Con,titutionrhill, arid those
points of the Parks which -commanded' even the remotest
view of the scene,

". Where the throng, -
On banks and scaffolds, under sky might stand,"
were supplied with various ingeniously contrived accommo-
dations, for the privilege of which no mean' price..was de-
manded, and no lack of purchasers was found. The distant
windows teemed 'with heads, as. did those also of the man-
sions and dwellings of the closet 'thoroughfares through
which the cortege was to pass... Even the roofs were tenanted
by eager spectators, who from the giddy height 'Coked down,
seemingly unmindful of their perilous position. -Besides all
this, every niche and practicable spot, was made the resting-
place of platforms and galleries, ,gaily festooned and de-
corated,

" With seats where all the lords, and each degree
Of sort might sit, in order to behold,"
for it was not possible ,e accommodate all the rank and elite
of fashion within the Royal Chapel. The sex most honoured
on this day mingled in the masses, and may be said to have
formed nearly, ►f not quite, the majority of.the spectators Oil.
this festive occasion. A profusion of White favours was dis-
played, and the handywork of the sempstress was exhibited
ilhOfisand varied' forms on the graceful and beautedns
wearers. If beauty needed ornament, the skill of fashion
supplied it plentifully.
" Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown
e At courts, at feasts, and high solemnities,
Where most may wonder at the workmanship.
And many a beauteous dame and worthy knight .
Came there the nuptials to celebrate."
At length the long protracted, but patient, expectation -of
the assembled myriads was worked up to the highest point
of desire, by.the premonitory sounds of the Queen's deptir-
tare from Buckingham Palace. The noise of many drums,
the. brazen throats of signal guns, and the clang of martial
trumpets, had scarcely ceased their loud announcement, when
the state carriage in which her Majesty rode issued from the
marble portal.

" At sight of tier the people, with a shout,
Rifled the air."
The troops presented arms as the Queen passed ; the bands
struck up with renewed vigour the National Anthem ; and
the Royal cortege moved forwards, ber Majesty bowing in
return to the greetings of her subjects.
" Fair Honour, drest in robes, adorn her state,
And in her train- the crowding people wait,
Who, pressing, view with what a temper'd grace,
The looks of majesty compose het face,
And mingling sweetness shines ; or how her dress.
And how her pomp an: inward joy confess.
Then fill'd with pleasures, to her glory due,
With shouts—the chariot. moving on—pursue."
But it was physically impossible to keep up the, pursuit ;
the "thick phalanx of embodied men," which already. filled
the upper space rendered' the progression of. the Multitude
in the rear impracticable. The mass was, therefore, corn,
Relied to remain stationary ; but .not so their. enthusiam.
The shouts of those whom. the processiau had' passed fol-
lowed it, and united with the burgs of loyal cheering froth
those a head. Thus a feu de joie of huzzas was -kept up as
far as the ear could drink in the cheerful rounds.
Such was the joyous manner in which the bridal. Queen Of
these realms was hailed in her progress to the holy-temple
where that solemn rite was performed, which has united her.
to the man of--her choice, a circumstance somewhat unusual-
to persons in her Msjestiy's -staticn. Her entrance to the
Royal Chapel suspended the joyous acclamations Of the mul-
titude, and the silence which ensued was calculated to awaken
other and higher emotions than those which are devolved
in the gesticulations and huzzas of mere animal excitement.
The interval between her Majesty's ingress to St. James's
Paktee and her return was one of tranquillity, the crowd
in the immediate vicinity of the building, when the holy rite
was proceeding seemed desirous of paying an external respect
to the solemnity, or of catching some taint sound indicative
of the progress of the ceremony within.

" They seemed to hear the full dei,otionar quire
To heaven's high dome their awful anthem raise,
Now chanting clear and now they all conspire
To swell the lefty hymn from praise,".
And what truly British heart is there unwilling to join M.
these aspirations that this "union may be auspicious of<the_
good of the country, and that under the reign of our most
gracious Queen,
" Horrid with want and misery, no morit
Our streets the tender passenger afflict, -
Nor shiv'ring age, nor sickness with Out friend, -
Or home, or bed, to bear his living load ;
Nor agonising infant that ne'er earned • .
Its guiltless pangs !"
Add moreover that " peace and happiness, truth andjus-
tice, religion and piety, may he established among ug'for all
generations!"

BUCKINGHAM PALACE,,
In descending now into the details of the proceediug's of
the day, let us state that the weather in the early part of the
morning was rather unpropitious; the few glimpses of sun-
shine being far between, end the rain frequent and heavy.
Nevertheless the loyalty of the crowd was not damped, but
hi spite of the showers they maintained their .positions until
the cortege appeared, when to add to .their gratification the
clouds dispersed and the sun shone forth with renewed splen-
dour.

About half-past ten, a small detachment of the Life Guards
arrived, and entered the court-yard of the Palace, and shortly
afterwards a stronger detachment of the Same regiment and
the Oxford Blues took up their station's along thelineswhich
had been previOusly formed by various divisions of the police
force, of whose conduct in general we are able to bear a grate-
ful testimony to the temperate and effective. wanner in whiCh
they kept order. But a
corps of the 'A division near Buck-
ingham Palace were much too forwai-d in using their staves,
and some persons received blows on their heads, which made
them bleed profusely. The—offence which they committed,
as far as we could judge was, that of not being able to force
themselves back the moment they were spoken to by the
policemen, who were thus unnecessarily vioThnt. We have
also to complain too, of the rudeness and want Of disposition
to afford the slightest service to the gentlemen of the press, although they were kindly furnished with the following from
the commissioners :

" To the Police.
" Pass the bearer ou foot along'
the line.
(Signed) I'` C. ROWAN.
Some of the constables of the
C division,R. on being .shown
" MAyNE."
this-card, refused to par attention to it. The reply of '
one of whom was, ••
supo,.rvever, not the case generally,
things as them." This ,„Xeh not to be deceived by such
and by the inspectors awl
,netendents we were treated
with civility..
.It appears, theren'faultu;ethor the man who acted
otherwise was lgrace,ut ..): ;he
the authority of the
orderly multitude was •
pass. A more goo,...,amonred and
therefore that
never assembled on any public occasion
they should be ". bludgeoned" in the in'anail'led
uncalled for. r described, was
Many were the harmless jokes, and feeble attempts at „;,.
ticistus which were resorted-to by the crowd to beguile i„'",r"
time. Portraits of the Queen and the Prince, artd"l "iaies
ons commemorative of the event were sold in great quilenatiati.ie;
by numerous vendors ; and, in truth, we must say, tha.t
though the price was low, they.were admirably executed. •
Soon after ten o'clock the Lord Chancellor drove by, and
was followed by the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of
Sussex, at intervals. Good places now became scarce, and
many "an artful move" was made to secure one. The best
of all was that practised by a young spark, who gave a chim-
ney-sweeper sixpence to go before, and thus soon attained
his wished-for object, for every. one made way for chummy.
The trees in the Green Park, although saturated with rain,
were made so many lodgments by those who had very little
regard fOr their apparel, or cared .not what sacrifice they
made _ to get a gliMpse of the pa;;sing-pageantrY- !The stdrits
of the People .
military bands,were occasionally cheered by the music of the
, .invigorating marches;
v.ho played several
and now and h
" Come haste to t
theen wedding."theoldashioned but merry tune of
• About a quarter before
issued from the la 12, the first procession of carriages
arch.• ' They conveyedeetheourt-yarfi, through the triumpital
and Goths, the father of ''f,r.9/14liing
Prince of Saxe Coburg, his hi Duke of Saxe Coburg
ee Albert, also the Hereditary
a guardr:fthl.er
himself, escorted by ; and his
,Royal Highness
Royal cortege advanced in the -oerlirlr. At 12 o'clock rue
page. . ,
On arriving at the Palace her Majesty
order detailed in our second .
conducted to her closet, behind the Thro was imMediately
Nothing could exceed the splendour and
vacar?elat when our
scene which the palace presented at the.d animation of the
gracious. Queen Was escorted to the state
the bal-
of title
of gentlemen were ranged alOrig' the parapets, and Crods
conies were filled with most elegantly-dressed laatclil
and fashion: Vvery eye was:directed to the stateesc
and as soon as it wksma'rticition, the sounds of loud ahrur,,,iag,e;
and the strains of 'the national anthem rent the air, while on
every side. the waVing-of •hateaud. handkerchiefs greeted her-
Majesty as she leftthe eburt-yard to proceed to the Chapel
Royal; - -