The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-05-14

II i 4bA't4ul "Atil@I L >lH4ll longer con
tinue TO write for the BuHetin-this being
my first yarn-or indeed for any other repub.
lican paper. The London Court J1urnaL /.
the only newspaper in the known world that
IS adequate 10 my ambition Just now. and
shall apply for a permanent connection with
It. For ! have attended a royal wedding
not, II Is true, by special invitation OF any of
the parties concerned, nor have / since re-
celved the cards of Mr.. and Mrs. Wales
which leads me TO believe that :. no cards
were issued. owing to the high price Of paper.
But / was kindly permitted TO stand In the
streets near the quay at Gravesend when the
Princess Alexandra landed, and / was not
far from ST. Georges chapel when the mar
rage ceremony was performed; 50 that YOU
perceive | have some reason to feel pleased
and proud at having assisted at the royal
nuptials.
Perhaps you nave not the pleasure of
Renfrew's acquaintance. 1t suddenly occurs
to me that he failed TO visit San Francisco
while making his late American tour. For
this reason you will perhaps feel less interest
in the domestic alliance he has lately con-
tracted, than if you had stood within a mile
or two of him as | have. Nevertheless. pre-
Stunning on that curiosity which the repub-
Ican mind naturally has regarding anything
even remotely pertaining to royalty, and the
interest which ladies all the world over have
in weddings. | send you a somewhat detailed
account OF the late ceremonies which have
thrown London into an uprOar and agitated
the popular mind of all England to an extent
not equaled since the death of George the
Third. Allow me to premise by saving that
Tom Thumbs late wedding, gorgeous as
that must have been from the accounts in
the New York papers, could not have been
a circumstance to it, and that Lavinia's
trouSseau and diamonds would have paled
their intellectual fires before the GORGEOUS
presents and jewelry that were rained upon
Alexandra.
Pardon me if in my introduction / have
seemed light and trivial ; but roval marriages.
and-must | confess it ?-roval deaths stir Il
mirthful devil within me. The transition
from that prImeval style of doing things,
when Adam awaking in Eden from an after
moons nap found himself wived and settled
IN life without anything approaching to fuss
and bother, or when Cupid married Psyche
under the rose and didn't even ask his mother
to the wedding, or the contrast even between
the late nuptiaIs and the style in which one
OF our country Justices would get up a Joint
flesh and bone partnership for life between a
Susan Smith and a John Jones-alI this
strikes me as being very funny. 1t is too
bad that neither princes nor dwarfs are per-
mitted to die or get married in a decent
fashion, without having the world stand
agape to witness the Having
vented my spleen-which perhaps comes
from having had reserved places ut neither,
and none of the interesting events referred
to- will now SOberly and gravelv tell YOU
what was said and done in England on the
great day when the heir to the crown was
wIved.
The Princess's Landing at Gravesend.
If you wish to approximate to an idea of
the crowd assembled at Gravesend 10 witness
the landing of the Princess Alexandra, take
n San Franciscan wharf on Il steamer-dav. !
and multiply the people on 1t by the sum
total of all the welcomes that Mr.. Topper
extended to the bride. double the product and
the result will be somewhere near the sum
required. The Prince of Wales came down
from LOndon in Il special train and met his
bride on board of the Royal Yacht. Gen.
Grey had previously appraised Her Royal
HIghness of the Princes coming and she
awaited him at the door of the state cabin.
Prince, you know, was always Il ~favorite
with ladies, and as he walked with rapid
step down the pier to where the yacht lay
InoOred, the bright eyes of ladies looked him
encouragement, and one little dear murmur-
ed, :. Don't be afraid, Albert - To tell the
truth, Albert did not seem at all afraid or
embarrassed by his position-novel as it
must have been. owing to his never having
been married before. Taking his sweet bride
oy her delicate little hand he kissed her as
as though half England were not
on. The crowd, who always appre-
late gallantry. seemed nightly pleased at
he way the thing was done and sent up re-
1eated cheers until the welkin rang again.
The Grand Entry into London.
\ few years since | saw the reception of
he japanese Ambassadors in New York.
So 1t will be seen that | am not wholly I'M
to crowds. But what shall say
If the mass of people that were gathered
10 witness the pageant of the royal
,ntryI Words fail me. Had the street
cen Ararat, with n drowning world cluster
in7 TO ii for safety, people could not have
oeeh 0ore closely huddled together. II was
lmnPo>Slda to keep the line for the carriages
cIear' since the people on each side dubbed
INTO 1t IKE %io"qing. bursting beer the police
we're wholly Inadequate to the emergency,
md had 1t not bee, for the sublime efforts of
! body of horse artillery that CHARGED to and
70 through the mass, tairlv carving Il path
1t the point OF their Sabres the Young couple
would not have reached W.7dsor Castle TO
his day. Clothing was actually torn from
he shoulders of the wearers in the fearful
and attrition, and fragments of coats.
.ooP-Skirts. mantles and muslin foa,ed