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 London Standard of Yesslerday.)

This day the august and interesting ceremony of the mar-
riage
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 clapsed
since the nuptials of a reigning Queen of this country were
celebrated, would be sufficient, independent—Of the in"gnill'.
cent and splendour attendanethereon and-the-yotitli"sif (Air:
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 what a disaffected few may sar or
think, naturally and intrinsically a loyal people, 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 for the wel-
fare and happiness of their young and lovely Queen; • No im-
perial mandate was necessary to compel a cold observance of
respect. The homage was neither forced nor feigned, hut
the voluntary offiring of warm hearts, participating in the
joy of the Royal bride, beating hopes for brighter with ghter days,
and breathing prayers for a prolonged reign of purity and
peace.
At early dawn " the busy hum of men" arose from the
vast metropolis and its populous suburbs. The canons roar
saluted the !penie day, and • •
morning trumpets' festival proclaimed
Through each high street," •
and as the hastening crowds moved towards the chief point
of attraction, the lin- of road through which the Royal pro-
cession was to pass, they- beheld, on each side of the way,
the houses adorned with• various ornathental• devices, con-
sisting of (*ay flags, gorgeous banners, and costly prepara-
tions for the night's illuminations. The neighbourhood of
the palaces was speedily occupied by cheerful groups, ever
and anon gathering additions, till the ti hole, intended_ route
was lined with vast multitudes. Constitution- hillnnd 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 beads, as did those. also of the man-
sions and dwellings of the close, thoroughfares through
which the cortege was to pass. Even. the roofs were tenanted
by eager spectators, who from the giddy height looked down,
seemingly unimndfUl of their perilous position. Besides all
this, every niche and practicable spot, was•made the resting-
place of platforms and galleries, gaily fistooned and :de-
corated,

" With seats where all the lords, and each degree
Of sort might sit, ju order to behold,"
for it was not possible to 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, if not quite, the majority of the spectators on
this festive occasion. A profusion of white favours was dis-
played, and the handywork of the senipstress was exhibited
in a thousand varied forms on the graceful and beauteous.
wearers. If beauty needed ornament, the skill of fashion
supplied it plentifully.
" Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown
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 depar-
ture 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 her 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, her 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 tempeed grace
The looks of inaje.. , compose her face,
And mingling s r.,ecness shines; or how her dress.
And how her pomp an inward joy confess. .:
Then fill'd with pleasures, to herglory due,
_ With shouts—the chariot moving on—pursue."

Rut 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-
pelled to remain stationary ; but not so their enthnsiam.
The shouts of those whom the procession had passed fol-
lowed it, and united with the bnrsts of loyal cheering from
those a head. Thus a feu de jcie of huzzas was• kept up as
far as the ear could drink in the cheerful sounds.
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 station. 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
Palace 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 faint sound indicative
of the progress of the ceremony within. .
" They seemed to hear the full-dei-otional quire
To heaven's high dome their awful anthem raise,
Now chanting clear and now they all conspire
To swell the lofty hymn from praise."

And what truly British heart is there -unwilling to join in
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 more
Our streets the tender passenger afflict,
Nor shiv'ring age, nor sickness without friend,
Or home, or bed, to bear his living load ; .
Nor agonising infant that ne'er.earned
Its guiltless pangs 1" •

Adr't moreover that • " peace,andhappiness, truth and jus-
tice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all
gt,erations "'

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, •
In descending now into the details of the .proceedings 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, and the rain frequent and heavy.
Nevertheless the loyalty of the crowd was not damped, but
in 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. , _ _

.bout 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 stations along the lines which
had been previously formed-by various_di.visions of the police
force, of whose conduct in geneial we are able to-bear a grate-7:
fill testimony to the temperate and effective manner in which
they kept order. But a corps of -the A division near Buck-
ingham Palace were much too forward in using their staves,
and some persons received blows on their beads, 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 buck the moment they were spoken to by the
policemen, who were thus unnecessarily violent. We have
also complain too, of the rudeness and want of disposition
to afford the slightest service to the gentlemen of the press,
the cugmuh_they were kindly furnished with the following from
oss wuers

" To the " Pts the bearer onP foot along the line.

(Signed) 1" C. Row.A.N.
Some of the constables of the C divislul;,RQ.2bleAin7sEh.o"wn
this card refused to pav
„We attention to it. The reply of
one of waoni was,
not to he deceived by such
things as them." This was, however, not the case generally,
and by the inspectors a-ad
with civility. It appears, the , that the man who acted
superintendentsefore we were treated
otherwise was ignorant of the nature of the authority of the
pass. A more good humoburcedocca
a, and therefore that
uncalled f and orderly multitude was
never assembled on any public
thee should be " bludgeoned '' in the manner described, was
or.
Many were the harmless jokes, and feeble attempts
ticisms which were' resorted to by the crowd to at wit_
beguile ,he
quantities
time Portraits of the Queen and the Prince, and rnaend?ili-
ons commemorative of the event were sold in great qu
by numerous vendors; and, in troth, we must say,
though the price was low, they wit re admirably executed.
Soon after ten o'clock the Lord Chancellor drove by, and
was followed by the Duke of Ca.nbridge and the Duke of
Sussex, at intervals. Good place& 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 ore made way for chummy. The tresslb' the -GreeTi 'Park, although saturated with rain,
were tilade so many lodgments by those who had very little
re,:aid for their apparel, or cared not what sacrifice they
i
I_l,af to get a glimpse of the passing pageantry. The spirits
°iitiltaeryPebople were occasionally cheered. by the music of the
military ands, wro played several invigorating. marches,
and now anti then' men' tune of
Come ha the •old-fashioned but Y
haste to the wedding."
About a (-planer h
,ssuecl from the t,fore.l2 the first procession of carriages
Palaceconveyed arch. Theycourt-yard,. through the triumphal
and Goths. the father otir reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg
Prince of Saxe Col •-- Prince Albert, also the Hereditary
~• , 'a brother ; and his Royal.l-li-izliness.
himself, escorted l ; i...trcl of '
Royal cortege adva.c.c...l in thehonuor•
page. At 12 o'cloCk the
order detailed in our second
On arriving at the Palace her '
closet, behind theTallestY irone-room.
conducted to her was immediately
at.riala'en'd the bal-
Nothing could exceed the splendour and animation of the
scene which the palace presented
gracious Queen was escorted to the state Inc
of gentlemen were ranged along the parapets,
of title
Crowds
carriage,
.conies were filled with most elegantly-dressed
zzas,
and fashion. Every eye was directed to the state
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and as soon as it was in motion, the sounds of
and the strains of the national anthem rent the air,
every side the Waving of hats-and handkerchiefs greeted her
Majesty as she left the court-yard to proceed to the 'he-
Chapel
Royal. . . .
ST.. JAMES'S PALACE.
Long before the hour appointed fdr opening the doors of
the Chapel Royal to those distinguished personages and
members of the.haui ton who had obtained the Lord Chum.
berlain's tickets of admission -to the' Chapel Royal, and the
suite of state apartments through which the Royal procession
was to pass, the avenues in the vicinity of St. James's Palace
were
crowded with carriages, filled with the beauty, fashion,
wealth, and talent of the '
nation, and cnutinued to sit down
without intermission
until half-past eleven the
at which it had been fixed the doors of the chapel and Palace
should be closed. The Foreign 'Ambassadors the Ministers
of State, and the members of the most hon. tht Privy Council
were set down at the entrance of the Ambassadar's Court, and
the general company
ier alighted at the great gate of the
Palace, where a covered
Royal, or at the leveeenti;
aj had been erected, to the Chapel
The servants of the nobilityeeadoor near Marlborough House.
wore their state liveries, and were gentry, for the most part,
fa-
vours, and, despite the unfavourable .with wedding
state of the morning,
the streets in the vicinity of the Palace
animated but very gay appearance. presented not only an
the arrangements or the metropolitan *foerre, as in the.parks
and the regulations were, so far as carte under our
admirable,
tion, implicitly obeyed by the drivers of the nruolur observa-,
des br:n;ing spectators to witness the august andn interestingus vehi-
ceremonial. ShortlY after haif.psst nine o'ilock,4the Cabin
ministers began to arrive, and-as thost of them were not re.
-cog the assembled thoukihdi, they elicited no' notiece-
eit .er of a plauditory or condeinnatory character. The