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Correspondence Of the New York Tribune.]
LONDON, March 81.
There never was such a marriage. That 10
agreed on all hands. Royalty mating with the
heir to a Scottish chieftanship, great personal
worth on both sides, youth, beauty, talents
also on both. sides, an empire listening for the
sound OF the cannon that announced the we'd
ding of the daughter OF the Queen of England
to the son of one of her greatest subjects. The
artillery roar has drowned, ! hope, forever the
echoes of all the gossip about these two be-
trothed which has filed the saloons Of London
for months past. 1t is q happy marriage OF
two Young people, each worthy of The other,
each loving the other parents and kinsmen
giving their hearty blessing to- both. All to-
ayxwas sunshine streaming down from the
sky!' and beaming from joyous faces of bride
and bridegroom and the brilliant troop OF
friends that saw them married. and heartily
wished them the long, unclouded married lille
they have q right to expect.
as for the popular interests IN the ceremony,
whether YOU quarrel with 1t or share 1t, there
il no use in denying its existence. There are
some millions of people in England who care
more about the marriage than about the
revolution in Paris. The London papers Will
print half q dozen columns apiece about IL To-
morrow morning. Nay. ]! suspect America
cares too, and New YORK VIII nave us accounss
and read them, and / need not make any iur.
ther moral reflections on the subject, but may
set down at once what I have seen and heard.
But .s no one man did or could see the whole
pageant, I shall borrow without scrupie from
other witnesses what is wanting to make 0nI
my story. The marriage was announced to De
made between twelve and one, in the OLD
Chapel of St. George, which makes part of
Windsor Castle. or the guests who were to
witness it.. q part had been invited to the
Castle itself to. enjoy the Queens hospitality,
and had arrived the day before. The greater
number of distinguished persons who were!to
come down from London left only Just In
time to see the ceremony itself. Besides
these two classes, there was a consider.
able number Of favored persons who
we're not precisely invited, but who, by
mueh interest and passionate solicitation,
had Wrung tickets from the Lord Chamberlain,
either to the chapel which was the central
point Of attraction, or to the castle grounds,
through which the bridal procession would
pass on its way to the chapel. Among the lat
ter were the Elton boys, 900 strong, who had
the proud satisfaction OF stationlng themselves
on Castle Hill to see and cheer their old
schoolfellow on his way 70 wed q Princess
WOT6 Ludu luS CUu&luS lluS- " AohS 1sASs
ButAesldei the few thousands who were thus
favored, there was the great outside world
that wanted to see the Princess married, or to
gee the carriage in which She rode, or the
plume OF some dragocnwho escorted her, and
so carry away some memory, belt ever 80
slight, ofthe day which should bring nearer
to them the great %splendors and shining; state
of the royalty they still cherish and strive
hardAto. honor, This curious multitude had
little enough for its pains, but was, wlt1O1t
knowing 1t, itself one of the most curious parts
Of the spectacle, giving rise to reflections
which rigidly suppress. "
windsor on any day is one Of 1.-THE places best
worth seeing in England. Every Travelled
American has seen II; TO most antravelfed It's
familiar through epgravings and photograpfA
But neither the memOry-of 1t nor any picture
of 1t lessons the impresslveness OF The view
which one gets of that huge grand castlewhen
approaching it from London. Most great
buildings at first disappoint the eye. They gre
not 30 big as you imagined, which Is only
another way of saying That the eye needs edu-
eating to take: in their real greatness. But
Windsor Castle Is a w OF. itself, with endless
variety OF outline and reach OF graaite wall
with indented parapet anG plnnacled towers;
which, the eye follows till 1t is weary; and
thought of ,Kinglake's description. of the Pyra:
mids as the only thing that could express the
idea of pastness adequate to this mass. Only,
In the case'of the Pyramids, 1t Is the weight
that impresses you, and here 1t Is the extent.
The beauty of the early spring foliage was
wanting 10 dap, hut the :iurrets blOssomed
with flags, and when tgot into the streets
there were so many flags that l could not see
the houses.
It was not long after the guests arriving by
train had passed up to the castle and In
through the guarded gateaof the chapel, that
The head of the bridal procession left Windsor
Castle, in the Queens carriages, for. the south
entrance of St. Georges Chapel. The bride
Groom passed first, In q carriage;drawn by two
horses, Lord Ronald.Ieveson Cover and Earl
Percy, his '.best men" accompanying him.
The Eton boys seemed the first to'recognize
crowd seeming not clearly 70 understand VINO
he was. Arriving at the chapel, he was re-
ceiyed by the Eice-Chamberlain and, escorted
to q room assigned to- him III :the chapel,
whence he presently passed into the chape! IL
self. What the crowd awaited more:eagerly
was the procession that was to precede the
bride. The royal family, excepting the Queen
and the Princess Louise, were assembled In the
green draWlng.room OF the castle. At II they
left the Queens entrance Of the castle for the
entrance of the chapel. In the first six carri-
ages rode officials 6f the court and the attendS
ants of royal personages; II me lnree ioiio"nS
Prince and Princess Teck, Tile Duke of CAM
bridge, who was cheered d little as ne leaned his
hald head out OF the window, Prince Leopold
and Prince Arthur, Prince Christian, and the
Princess Beatrice. Last Of all came the Count
Of Flanders. the Princess Christian, and the
Princess Of Wales. The Princess's .populart-
ty seems as great as ever, her kindly, lntelil-
cent race has always o smile for the people
who crowd to see her, and the cheers came
heartily out from the crowd as she drove
slowly BY: A captains escort OF the Second
Life Guards. steel-helmeted and culrassed, &c.
companied this part OF the procession, and
when they had passed, aud the last waving
nlllme had bowed ,as it disappeared beneath
Inc uointed! arch, there was a pause. Then
came a plain carriage, containing, NOBODY
knowed or cared who; then others; then ano-
Their pause. 1t. was. not tile quarter OF an
hour had gone slowly by, that, TIE queen anu
the bride were seen Coming. The crowd hailed
The sigAI Of another troop OF guards tnat an
nouncsd them. They came on at a trot;
troop ], passed; four carriages passed IN
noticed; nth; and alone, alone, among all the
procession, drawn by W pairs Oh Greys,
arrived the carriage that contained the Queen
and the Princess Louise. Joyful snouCs
preceded it, the Queen bowed grayely from the
back seat, bit 1t was not The Queen whom the
world wanted to see. On the front seat was
the bride, a little paieibeneaih her heavy cor
onet OF orange blossoms, her white hanq ner-
yously plaSing'with q coach tassei, her eye
lashes lifting to let pass q grateful glance as
her head bowed In recognition OF The welcome
that the crowd gave he, thsn quickly Yelling
her eyes again.. It Is a strong, sweet iaee,