The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-14 00:00:00

CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.

(From the Brighten Gazette.) •
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. The following extract front the familiar letter of a lady of
rank to her sister in this czounty, with the sight of which we have
been favoured, contains so interesting an account of the recent
confirmation of a princess, upon whom the nation's hopes ate
at present.fixed, (lute its insertion we feel persuaded will afford
much gratification ttoaur readers e......
" I witnessed/ :a:beautiful touching scene the day before:yes-
terday,:at the Chapel Itoye-I—the confirmation of the Princess
Victoria by the. Archbishop of Canterbury. Nobody ,was pre-
senthut the royal fuutily, and such peers and peeresses as took
their places. It was a most touching scene—the beautiful,
pathetic, and parental exhortation of the Archbishop, on the
duties she was called upon to fulfil, the great responsibility that
her high station placechher in, the struggle she must prepare for
between the allurements. of the world and the dictates and
claims of justice and religion, the riecessity.of her looking up to
her Maker for counsel in all the trying scenes that awaited
her, gic. She knelt before the altar, being led up by the &Mg;
her mother stood on one side of her, sobbing aloud,
as did the Queen and all the ladies. The .old King
wept frequently, nodding his head at the impressive parts;
the little thing herself drowned in tears, and frightened
to death. The ceremony over, the King led her up to
kiss the Queen and the royal ladies present. -Her hat was taken.
off, and she wore a beautiful lace dress over satin. They were
all in white satin pelisses hats, and white feathers, We were
more -pleased with the ofd King
.tiein we ever bad beau, he
showed so much feeling and attention."
FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES.—TO a man of exalted mind, the
forgiveness of injuries is productive of mere pleasure and satis-
faction than vengeance obtained, Louis the Twelfth of France,
in answer to those who advised hint to revenge hiniself on those
who had been his enemies before his accession to the throne,
replied noble, "The King of France does not remember the
injuries of the Duke of Orleans." A sentence of equal mag-
nanimity is recorded to have been uttered by the Emperor
Adrian, on seeing a person who had injured him in his former
station. " `You are safe, lam emperor." It would be well if
all men in power imitated the true greatness of these illustrious
individuals. Then mankind_would net have to regret that
"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn."
PAIS.LEY.—QUEEN OP SPAIN'S Tnooes,—Wednesdav, as a
boat was passing town the river with some recruits for the
'Queen pf Spain, a party assembled on the banks to attempt a
iestue. One of the n.ob threw a stone' nod hit the officer in
the boat with such violence, that be was knocked down. They
then poured fresh vollies of stones into the boat; threatened to
cut the tow-line, unless the boat returned, and the beat had
no remedy but put hack. The case is inthe hands of Mr. Hart,
the Fiscal, undergoing examination. The whole number of per-
sons who have set down their names this week, as recruits,
amount to sixty, but only the half of these were ultimately
forthcoming. Among these are two widowers, who have left six
and seven children respectively to the tender mercies of fortune.
IRRELIGIOUS ome.—lf there be one curse more .bitter
than another to man, it is to he the offspring of an irreligious
home—of a home w here the voice of praise and prayer ascends
not to God, and were the ties of human affection are trot purifi-
ed and elevated by the refining influence of religious feeling_
—of a home, to which, if the cares or the sorrows of life shall
bring religion to the heart in after days, that heart cannot turn
without bitterness of feelings, without anguish and vexation of
spirit. If there be a curse to any country were the truths of re-
ligion are known, the deepest and bitterest curse which can be
inflicted on it is a multitude of homes like that which I have sup-
posed I Such homes send forth their sons unchecked in evil
thoughts, unhallowed in their habits, and untaught in love to
God—the name, the cross of Jesus Christ stamped perhaps upon
their forehead, but not written in their hearts—and they send
them forth to prey upon the land, and to become its curse and
its destruction, But, on the other hand, there is a blessing to
the religious home, which no tontine can speak, no language
can describe ! The home, where, in early years, the heart is
trained to a love of God, and to take pleasure in his worship
and service, interweaves with the existence of man's holy affec-
tions, which die not with the circumstances that gave them birth
—which last long even though they may for a season be torgot-
ten and neglected—and which exercise at least souse cheek.upon
the evil of the human heart, and often, nay commonly, recal it
to hear again the voice of God, and to return to the paths of ho-
liness and peace ! 'How great, how unspeakable is the happi-
ness of a land where homes like this are commOtt hue,-
can Lectures.

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