APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 42, 3 April 1863, Page 3

APPROACHING MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

j c - (Fftrfn <W »»«* $tev>g) ail Aerially ! im'i<>itn« l <*that upon the occn« 4 tii« arrival 111 -'lifts country of her Royal 3C * «s thfe-'PVhmwiSi Alexandra, of Denmark.Ut « to hpf tn<rfi*He early March, with 3 J ral Hifthi^ss the Prince of W-Ips, h<«r ,■ HißbriPSs -WSI land from her Majesty's "i Victoria «nfl Albert at Gravesenrf, where a- rfyal BTifthneM will be rpceired by the O j of WirTes. Their Royal Hißhnesses will /: '6ce«4 to Lot don, and will be conveyed ** Iftw^sty'tt carriages, with military pscort, re h *he metropolis to Windsor Castle. It ,i Ktinounced that it is the Queen's inten--1 at, in the course of the year, levees shall to Id, on the "part of her Majesty, by his re Highness the Prince of Wales } and that . .i jj-rooma shall also be held on her Maua behalf, by one of their Royal Highnesses incesaea, her Majety's "daiißhters; or, «« er marriage, by her Royal Highness the i , 'ss of Wales. It i» likewise the Queen's I " € ion thnt shortly after the marriage, the ]y< and Princess of Wales shall hold in her ,t tv" name, an evening reception at St. f 's pilare, at which the ladies and gentlegi nvited by th© Lord Chamberlain, by the fi- 'g command, shall have »n opporjunity of „, sj their cngratulations to their Royal ies«p.«. "We have reason to believe," ir > \e Court Journal," that the marriage of r**'tce of Wales and Princess Alexandra, •rfXng to the present arrangements, will JU lace on Thursday, the 12th March, which reiewhat earlier than was first intended. ], late is fixed in order that the Princess 7 may be present at the ceremony. Already n " interest is daily increasing, and we would p-.st, as a sratefui tribute to the loyalty of ,_»iesiy's devoted subjects, that an nrrangr\3fiir the procession, on leaving Windsor a 3 tto w t. George's Chaprl, so that it should the prin ipal entrane-e, down Hill, and enter the lower ward by Henry ghJh'.»- Oatewav. would be the means of 'T-rine thousands of spectators whom it [j. be impos ible to accommodate within the I. Tl'Pre will he seats erected on the m at Windsor Castle for the principal Ins Is who will have the entree to the Chapel lO <t though not present in the castle, and we tetand that, as the corteee passes them, r Sfill fall into the procession, according to 5H sition they will tike up in th" chapel. In ;-,. urse of a few days th° Chapel Royal of St. , c will be closed, and morning servicelaWied in the library until after the royal jw ge " The marriage contract between the T, of Wales and Princess Alexandra of prk was signed at Copenhagen on the id .<ntiary. Her Majesty's Minister at that 37i transmitted the news by telegraph to ' Russell, as Secretary of State for Forrian ot , and the information was forwarded to iW ip by telegraph.