Oliacellaneatta.
The week opened with a thundering leader of the Times on the sub- ject of the Princess Victoria's marriage. The visit of King Leopold to England has excited the jealousy of the Tories, and they were vexed to find that the seclusion of Claremont was chosen for the interviews of Leopold with his sister and niece. The court of King William, said the Times, was the proper place for Leopold to meet his relatives. Na doubt, the Tories would have been glad of an opportunity to employ their spies, and circulate "lies looking like truth ;" which, as it was no- torious that none of their gang were admitted at Claremont, could scarcely be attempted with success. As to the object of Leopold's visit, it is very likely that it had some reference to the marriage of the Princess Victoria. Wherefore not ? The hand of the Royal lady is not quite so much at the disposal of others and so little at her own, that her nearest rela- tives may not talk over the subject of marriage with her. It is the general impression that a member of the Royal Family is prohibited, by the Royal Marriage Act, from ever marrying without the consent of the King ; but a learnel civilian, a correspondent of the Courier, shows, that if the Princess Victoria wait till she is twenty-five, she may marry whom she likes, and that the marriage will stand good unless annulled by Act of Parliament. We agree therefore with the Courier, and hope that, " consistently with her own happiness, our Princess may escape the snares of love and matrimony for eight years longer, and, after twenty fire, wed a worthy man of her own choice. In that case, we venture to predict that no Parliament sitting in Great Britain at that time will interfere to sunder whom God bath joined.' " King Leopold arrived at Dover on Wednesday evening ; and was shortly afterwards visited by the Duke of Wellington. At sunrise on Wednesday, the gnus on the heights fired a royal saute. Leopold em-
barked in his Majesty's packet, the Ferret, at seven o'clock, for Calais, under a royal salute.
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