The Royal Wedding, which has interested all Englishwomen throughout the
week much more than the revolt in Paris, went off on Tuesday at Windsor most successfully. The day was fair, the attendants were the first persons in the Empire, the crowds were good-humoured, the Royal Chapel blazed with colour, jewels, and fine dresses, and bride and bridegroom, though both very nervous, looked, the reporters say, perfectly contented. All Scotland went daft with delight, and England did the same, in her usual vicari- ous way, through the journals, which were filled with the most rubbishy prose epithalamiums it was ever our ill-fortune to peruse. London, though quite content with the marriage, was rather sulky, and did not illuminate, having an idea that Royal ceremo- !lisle ought to be transacted in the capital, and not in provincial villages.
