Year: 1862

However, Racenons nos moutons, the
Prince of Wales. whom have alluded to,
but not as lost sheep, though he will be
lost to the view Of that portion of the
public who will attend the opening cere.
mony at the Worlds Fair the cause of his
absence from which does not spring from
the Princes desire of seeing foreign coun.
tries, it is not from his approaching mar.
riage with Danish Princess, nor does it
arise from his love passages at Windsor;
but the reasons for his absence are now
sufficiently manifest The Prince of Wales
is already married ; the ingenious eldest
son Of Her Majesty is, at the present mo-
ment, and, indeed, for the last six months
has been married to a fair subject.


The enthraller Of the Princes heart and
recipient of his troth is a beautiful young
Hiberlan lady whom he met and fell in
love with during the period Of military
training at the Curragh of Kildare in Ire.
land, where his Royal Highness had ap.
propriated to him. little removed from
the main line of tents which formed the
encampment, a neat hut with pretty lit.
tie garden attached to it. Though he hsd
everything to make him comfortable there,
during the idle days and long evenings,
he sometimes cantered off to see some Of
the leading gentry of Kildare whose de.
mesnes fringe the great plain on which
the Prince was stationed. 10 one of those
houses in particular, and which was in
habted by a family Of ancient and almost
historic standing, his horses head was of.
tenest turned; and bis visits became SO
frequent that they ceased TO be formal.


Nothing was suspected by the Princes
mentors, until one afternoon two young
ladies galloped over the green sward, pull
ing up in front Of the Prince hut, and
the alacrty with which he came out to
to meet them, and his particular manner
to the younger one, attracted the attention
OF an officer in high rank who happened
at that momert to be calling on the prince,
and who, being q veteran in love as we'll
as in war, iancied he saw something more
than the mere poiteness of young Prince
to young lady. The visits were repeated,
and they were also seen riding about the
country. However, to cut long story
short, in a certain little church not many
miles from New wbridge (the next town to the
Curragh) there were, one morning, united
in matrimony tive young people, one Of
Hhom was the lady in question, and the
other the Heir Apparent to the throne of
Great Britain, the only other parties pres.
eat being, besides the clergyman, broth.
er officer of the Prince and the brides
brother.


The late lamcnted Prince Consort was
made aware Of the fact Just before quitting
Ireland, when they visited the lakes of
Killarney in the autumn. By the Royal
Marriage Act need scarcely say, such q
uiion would be unlawful, but SO WRAPPED
upin this beautiful Irish bride is the Prince.
that this Journey of his TO the East, which
vas determined upon before the FRINGE
Consort's death, was suggested BY the lat.
ter as means Of weaving him from his
foolish attachment, upon the principle of
- out OF sight out OF mind" But nothing
will do; the young Princes heart un.
trameled, fondy turns towards a certain
old mansion on the confines of the Car
ragh and which holds "what is dearer to
him than his future CROWN the fair object
of his thoughts almost daily receiving a
letter from under her youthful and royal
lovers hand