THE QUEEN'S W EDDINC-CAK ES.

IT is 110t the divine, but the poet who handles it, that enchains attention and insures immortality.• As we lumen. not learneitlotil:ttitiahne Laureate intends to sing the Queen's 4.Tithal.:m Min any he did his own; we suspect that her M:ljts-ty's wedding-cakes enjoy (under existing circumstances) mm better chance of havints iustice done them than either her -Majesty's subjects or her Majesty's self. The whole poetry of the kitchen is overflowing: " all Bedlam and Parnassus is let out." We exchange the Observer for the Times, the 7'infes for the Chronicle, but in vain we seek to shun the luscious theme. Like " the fly ghat sips treacle," we are "lost in the sweets." Our imagination is so supra-surfeited with cake, that the emotions of the week succeeding the Christmas holydays of' our boyish recollections come back upon us, so vividly as to excite envy of the lot of " Thomas 'Barnes, of Anon, parish of' Tarvin, Cheshire ; " who, as we read in the lest Ilygeian bulletin, '6 took :Morrison's pills ,12,,IPi• sfil.,111,.Y,Iet.ce V Lady Sophia Grey, and is now quite well."

The "clerks of the kitchen," who of late years have engrossed the manufficture of ffishionable revels, In stooped to truth and moralized their sonic." In the " appliences of' the Royal nuptials," as a quaint writer in the './.7mee desinnates the wedding-cakes, they have ffiund a truth surpassin1.2; fiction. 'worthy of their genius. Their muses revel in it like Ariel in the honey-bag of an humble bee. They ring the changes upon it with a persevering versatility that is tibsolutely astounding.. The days of Mother Bunch seem to be returned, wht n the maneipeme was the most important ingre

dient of ret,.0 'nun of' sweet revelations from the Royal kitchen la --a.1 tne " !tales of Araby the blest," or the

subdued the subterranean culinary re

gions, wheee ;Ii t is bridal of Riquet with

the Tuft. Canute:It wedui S s diminished head hit ve 'that of Queen Vi r t i.; whe. by anticipation seem to be licking tln•ir fingers all t time t!, •y write.

The historim the Ohs,-,"••• te..e.-i. premising that the Royal pair, on their neurn front the Chapel. will receive "the hearty e/a.,:rs of the popelace" without. and the more substantial cheer of " breakfast nr.peer,d. fee ac eeeneeta " within, thus adverts to the " Wiaaose recites.—mest.s. limiter and Ward, of Berkeley Square, have received orders to pr Tare a ;riven Inin■licr if it,.titling-makes for the occasion, (one hundred, we twar,) which are to he u ivr:L 10 tbe principal members of the Iloasehoid, and peoho!,iy Int upon this paha we cannot e..1.,..ws it di, loo,t te.curiunt description. We invite the tettnirieg at tentien of our readers to the diplomatic caution of this tanithelt pon—s" but upon this point we cannot speak with certaimy " and to the felicitous epithet "luxuriant!" The original royal hteil...ese of Chelsea—now, alas! no more— is redolent in the plies: The rile minores gentium—the sceneshifters who fill op the p.,.eession—having been thus conducted

across the se. oleerr,./:, the hera of the piece, the " great

cake," is thane 1,1 by the rm. TiturSdtty, in stately phrase,

yet 1.,:natit its local, which well might " bow strong Atlas -

0 arse, the it-titer—select among the select] have :., 51 .1. Royal wedding-cake, at the apartments c ▪ This important piece of the appli ▪ eti (he hdours and lush, or Mr. John

il!t. r of the Boyal Housebold ; and it does

gr:at credit to -. it be not quite so elaborate in its de corations as 'tea Lyn employed, there is a simplicity and

chtesleneds e;

occasion, and !d.j.'. •.• r: ports, well becoming the auspicious oii iit!, Yeoman Confectioner."

We interrupt t, • n t bespeak attention to the next sen

tence, tthich cc:" le en cemposed by no one but the author of

1 :'• one wet measure, The I.!, and future of pleasure ;"

who, having 1::: 1:,,) Dr. (/"I'oole would call " the run of the kitchen" at I.ansdowne I louse, knew all about these things, as his poetry (like the bricks in the chimney built by Jack Cade's father) is alive at this Jay to testily-

" the ingredients m* the cake itself, it is impossible to speak from any ex 01 the 2..ste : but it is de,eribeil as consisting of the most exquisite compound:, or a1 the rich things with which the most expensive cakes can be compoiei, together into delightful harmony by the most elaborate f,Ck.itee or the eonfeetioner."

" And was not that a dainty dish to before a"—King-Consort of' Eat Ons•-eree's ereatit n. Can it be, after all, the author of J?ienzi has a finger in the cake (.'on:ecture is vain : let us say of the tniknown author, as the 'Edinburgh :Reviewers said of'Brppo on its first appoaranco, that " W it be not the work of' any of our known tllstia.thilied ;tethers, these eminent individuals may pre pare tio.muselve., for it c,.;;Itest ffir superiority." The writer

proceeds to p io 0 —

" This Poyal rake weight. It is three yards in

efreline;lence, and sham tOt IL ieeti.s ie depth 01. thiekness. It is covered

with .iiignr of the purest n Lite on ilic top is scull the figure of Britannia, in the aet tnt Idessi3g tlio lank :mit bridegroom ; who [the severe cla9sield simplicity of the writer's ta;te may for a moment desert him] are dressed, somewhut irwoo;rrnondy, its silc co,tnow of ancient Itonse. These figurt, are not eoite u biot in At the filit of ilk Serene I Ugliness, is the

effigy ., • Io,te fidelity ; and at the feet el the Queen, isa pair

Of -.. ,eis,iCtl c of tile marriage state. A Cupid is writing, in it •. kne‘ the date Of the day or the mar riage ate: •-. • ore sporting and enjoying themselves as such inferexti,g 1111, This let t•ut, it 15.. ei:.• our breath : "time boy will be the death of us." A I") ■ et it tally divides our attention with the

delicate metanirephos' in the beginning of' the sentence, Cupid is tratrifermed int, it llogistrar of :%larriages. To the wanton god appointed as the coadjutor or the successor of'1■11:. l'AuE of Dirminglima

The great unknown of the 7bitnes thus concludes " on the lop of' Botiks, aro linintronS bouquet,. of white flowers, tied with true lovers' knots Li' v.1112.. -.11in ribbon, intended fir pi esents to the guests at the nuptial hreakfa.t. This clegant emblem [three yards in circumference I] r,f the fdieities of marriage will be plated on the breakfast-table of the Queen

at Buckingham Palace, at the breakfast which is to succeed the ceremonief;in the Chapel Royal."

As yet the "lollypop wheel" is in the ascendancy among the initiated, who are allowing the secrets of bridal preparation to ooze out precious droppings of that press which is not of wine.

But when the assembled "beauty and fashion of England" have dazzled us on the bridal morn, the turn of the man-milliner school

will come. Then shall we be told that "brides are of rose-colour ribbon ;" that " a tulle ruchefinishes it at the throat;" and read of "pointed bodies of a very delicate height." The music seems to have been selected with singular judgment and felicity. " The music," says the Observer, "to be performed in the Chapel under the direction of Mr. Hawes, will consist of the psalm Deus mistre«tur." How applicable to Prince ALBERT'S feelings ! What a delicate compliment to the Royal Bride!

The following satirical inuendo is keen and just : but we must be allowed to question the propriety of couching such merciless satire on the mode of conducting business in Government offices, under the detail of bridal magnificence

" The Lord. Chamberlain's Office is actually besieged by the nobility, and Isis tables are groaning under the weight of the almost innumerable applies. tions thr admission to witness the ceremonies. The Lord Chamberlain is engaged day and night. He has a most delicate and ardraneS duly to pciform. Une-tenth ailklications can or rer be attended to."

We have read somewhere of an Oriental bride smothered beneath the gorgeous voluminousness of her bridal robes: as loyal

subjects, our earliest prayer for Queen VICTORIA is that she may not be crushed beneath her colossal wedding-cake, or overlooked entirely amid the talk about it.