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VOL. XXXV.
Statesman.
3 "A ROYAL MARRIAGE.

Marriage Costumes in the
Church The Religious Ceremony.
lSt Petersburg October 49, Correspondence of the
London Herald.]
Yesterday evening. at s o'clock, the
Imperial chapel witnessed anuptial cere-
money almost as sumptuous as the mar
riage of the Czarovitch with the Princess
ID ,gmar of Denmark, which was cele.
brated in the same place just year
ago. l say almost as sumptuous, be-
cause the ceremonial observed at the
celebration of the ceremony l am about
to relate would have been as complete
had not the Empress, been absent; the
etiquette, much more formal and rigorous
at the Court of the St. Petersburg than
at any other European Court, precludes
the presence Of the Empress at the cele-
bration of the marriage Of members of
the Imperial family not being her chill
dren; and the august bride, the Grand
Duchess Olga, is only the neice of their
Imperial Majesties. However, it was
most interesting on many accounts.
First. the august bride and bridegroom
are both very young; the bride, eldest
daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine
and of the Grand Duchess Alexandra,
nee Princess of SAKE Altenburg, was
born August 90, 1851, consequently she
has scarcely entered her seventeenth
year. The bridegroom, George l., King
of Greece, was born December "a, IS45,
therefor he is not yet twenty-five. Very
few marriages are recorded where hus
band and wife do not make up thirty
nine years together; ); and the occurrence
is still more striking when the young
spouses already wear royal crown
The nearest instance to it is, believe,
the marriage of her Majesty the Queen
with the lamented Prince Albert, who
were both twenty-one when they were
united. Moreover, the august bridegroom
is the second brother to the Czarevna,
who has won all hearts in her adopted
country; therefore the imperial family of
Russia is to be united to the royal house
of Denmark by another matrimonial
bond.
Verify the house of Schleswig-H -Hol-
stein--Sonderburg- -Glucksburg, now
reigning over the Danes, the Wendes
and the Goths, fairly promises to eclipse
the Saxe-Coburg family. who gave so
many consorts to queens and royal
princesses in Europe. Already the two
ELDEST daughters of King Christian are
married to the heirs of two mighty EN-
pires, England and Russia; his Majes-
ty's second son was elected King of
Greece when only eighteen, and now he
marries princess of the house of Rom
anoff. Lastly, the most interesting fea-
ture of the. marriage of his Hellenic
Majesty with Russian princess is, in
the eyes of the Russians in genes,
that it is also anindissoluable union be.
tween Russia and Greece, whose reli-
yion and interests in the East are iden-
tical. They think so, at least. The
history of politics of late years. and es.
pecially the recent events that have oc-
CURED in Denmark, show that royal alli-
ances have little weight with the fate of
But l must eschew politics
and resume my narration.
Sunday morning at eight o'clock, the
guns bristling on the fortress announced
% the inhabitants of St. Petersburg
hat the marriage of her Imperial High
ness the Grand Duchess Olga .Constan-
inova with his Majesty the King of the
Greeks would be celebrated during the
lay. The official programme had stated
hat the ceremony would take place at
eight o'clock in the evening, at the I'M
perial Chapel of the Winter Palace. AT
lalf-past seven the gentlemen and ladies
having the privilege of entree
and ranking after the Chevaliers
Gardes, had met in the concert hall
all the officers of the army and
navy in the Nicholas Hall and
its anterior chambers the mem
bers of the civil service and of
The nobility, with their ladies, in the
Heraldic Hall; the Mayor of St. Peters
burg and the principal Russian and for
eign merchants in the Marshal's Hall.
At fifteen minutes to 8 the members of
the Council of the Empire, the Senators,
the ladies of the bed chamber, the maids
of Honor, the mistresses of the house
hold of the grand duchesses, the men,
bers of the imperial household, the
and foreign ministers,
with their wives, the members of
the household of the King of the
Hellenes, and of the crown Prince
Of Denmark, the Secretaries of State,
the Aides-de-camp Generals and Major
Generals of the Emperor and of the
Grand Dukes, with their ladies, had oc-
,upied in the chapel the places reserved
10 each of them. The gentlemen, in full
Uniform, occupied the right side of the
chapel; the ladies, wearing the national
were at the left side. Among
The foreign ministers I noticed Sir An
drew Buchanan, General Clay, the Duke
l'Ossune, Baron Talleyrand- Perigord.
Count Delaunay Qtaly), Prince Reuss,
Mira Abdurrakhim-Khan (Persia), &c.
Among the Russian high functionaries
will name Prince p. Gayarine, President
# the Council of the Empire; Prince
Gortsckhakoff. Chancellor of the En-
oire; General Milloutine, Minister of
War; Admirable Grubbe; M. Valouieff,
Home Minister; Count Tolstoi, Minis
.er of Public Instruction; M. de Reu-
ern, Minister of Finances; General Me-
inkoff. Minister of the Public Works
Count Stroganoff, Marshal Bariatinsky,
Menschikoa, &c.
At z o'clock the august bride left the
palace of her father, the Grand Duke
Constantine, for the Winter Palace her
cortege was composed thus I: An equer-
ry on horseback; four outriders; NJ |
Tenyoborsky, master of the household
of the Grand Duke Constantine, and
master of ceremonies, in gilt carriage
and four; their Imperial Highnesses
and the Grand Duke Constantine, the
Trand Duchass Gope nf;oa fbo Grand