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      — ¦ * TH E ceremonial of the Royal marriage of Monday last passed off without a single contretemps , and evoked a large amount of popular enthusiasm . London made holiday , and loyally tired itself out with wandering through and about the metropolis in search of something to see or something to do worthy of the high occasion . Bitterly cold as was the early morning , thousands and tens of thousands sought the roadway between Buckingham and St . James ' s Palace , for the chance of catching a glimpse of the Queen , or of the young bridegroom , or , best of all , of the bride ; and possibly one in a thousand or so was gratified in the way desired . But the sight of the carriages in which the principal actors in the Royal nuptial scene were supposed to be was sufficient to set the concourse shouting , and shout they did in a way never exceeded . The Queen and the young couple must have been deeply impressed with the heartiness of their public greeting . In the transformed Chapel Royal the marriage service was performed with incidents of touching grace and interest . The bearing of the young man to whom the future of the earliest born of Her Majesty ' s cliildren has ¦ been confided was such as to ' make assurance doubly sure ; ' and there is this great difference between the public feeling upon the present and upon past occasions of Royal marriages ; the public regard it wholly from a domestic point of view—they care nothing , or scarcely anything , about the alliance which it may help to strengthen j their sympathy is with the Queen as a mother—as the type of English mothers—and with her anxiety for the happiness of her child . It was this sympathy that gave heart to the cheers which greeted Hun Majesty ' s pale but serene face on Monday , and the pale , tearful , but happy face of tho Princess Royal . Thero has been groat activity in Leadcnhall-street during tho week , and tho right of the Company to remain in its present position has been debated by tho proprietary and directorate with many words " - ^ and-muclrdivision ^ of-opinionr—' Tlieir-diaoussion-iaof value , as helping to bring , tho great question of double Govornmont' to a oloar issue . Meanwhile , the arguments of the dofendera of tho present state of 4 iho Indian Government are , that tho real govornmont of India , is dictated by tho Imperial Government through tho soorot committoo ; that all tho later wars and annexations wore forced upon tho Court of Directors against their inclination , to tho

      impoverishment of the Indian Treasury , the stoppage of great works of public utility , and with other evil consequences . Sir Henry Rawlinson , a nominated Director , appointed 'by the Crown , ' desires to see the Crown exercising a direct power , instead of using its influence in the present indirect and covert way . There is no doubt " , that the opposition to the threatened bill daily gains strength , through force of argument , through dread of acting while India is in civil war , and through the aid of political opponents of the Government . Count de Persigny ' s answer to the address of the Corporation of London conveys a threat from which attention must not be diverted by the flowing civilities of speech in the midst of which it was uttered . He makes no demand with reference to the attack upon his master on the 14 th of January , nor does he call for the expulsion of refugees from England , about whose position here , on the contrary , he says some very handsome things in favour of the custom of this country ; but he does strongly suggest that the open counsellors of such attacks should be expelled . They would be expelled from France , he says , as soon as their intentions became ' notorious , ' and he thinks that the same course of aotion should be pursued in England . But this ' notoriety ' is an assumption on Count jde Persigny ' s part , and the power of the Britisli laws to expel aliens , even in the event of a notoriety such as that whioh is assumed , is also assumed . The British laws give to the Government of England no such powers , and the Minister is not very likely to be soon forthcoming who would attempt to enlarge their powors in the direction indicated by tho French Ambassador . As to the alliance between this country and France being endangered by the refusal of Lord Palmehston to attempt to make English law conformable with French Imperial necessities , and English freedom with the condition bearing tho same name in Franco , wo do not beliovo that Louis Napoleon is half so wilful as to blind himself to tho plain fact , that ho would bo ton times tho greater losor by a breaking of his present relations with England . Therefore wo do not look for . Any _ scriQus ^ rosulta _ froin _ , Couutrr _ i ) E _ PjBiisi ( 3 M . > : J ! fl . throat about danger to tho alliance ; but the tone of almost dictution assumed is not to bo unheeded , especially when it is known that tho Emperor Napoleon is using considerable moral prassuro at our Court , and is publishing in tho Moniteur the addresses of his Prastorinn guards , offoring to be tho advanoo of an army to drag tho ' wild boaats' — tho refugooa—« ' from their lair , ' England I

      The latest news from India shows that the British operations are being extended over a wider field , and the engagements reported appear to be isolated and fragmentary . Sir Colin Campbell , well rid as he is of the proximity of the Gwalior Contingent , has a great deal to do before he can fairly commence the Oude campaign . The position of Six James Outram at Alumbagh , though said to be threatened , is defended by 4000 men—a sufficient force to hold it sown against any attack that can be made by the enemy . From the Punjab a column is advancing towards the north-west of Oude , through Rohilcund ; and Jung Bauadoor , with nearly 10 , 000 Ghoorkas , is to advance by Gorruckpore towards Lucknow . These forces , with the British reinforcements steadily moving up , will leave little room for doubt as to results . But the number of troops on the way is insufficient , and more men from England is the burden of every letter from India . Yet where arc the men to come from ? Enlistment is at a discount : the standard of height for recruits has already been reduced to within an inch of what it was in the sternest stress of the Peninsular war , and the cx-y is still' Soldiers wanted ! ' The other day at Aldershott not two hundred militiamen were obtainable for the line : and why ? For more than one reason . It may be the interest of the adjutant , but it is not equally the interest of the other oflxcers of a militia regiment to turn their men over to tho line , for if they lose their men tho regiment is disembodied , and their occupation is gone . On tho other hand , the militia being composed of county volunteers , the men arc attached to their officers , and decline to be absorbed into strange agglomerations . They will readily join tho regular service bodily , officers and all , but they shrink from separation . Twenty-five now battalions arc to be created ; fifteen thousand monper annum will bo wanted for the East 5 but the routine of tho Horse Guurds displays its activity and ingenuity in doubling tho fortune of a few aristoorutio favourites , and doclinos to mako Iho army , by an infusion of now blood , a national service If tho flagrant injustioo in tho distribution . of honours wc ^ o ^ oj ^ onoug hj . 0 disgust high-iumdod gcntlemonTTlio prevailing sysloin with rcspcot to tho militia would bo Bufiioiout to dolor volunteers from tho ranks . ^ .. Tho preparatory stato-in which the naval atrt } , ' r /• ^ t military operations against Canton have ra lo « g ¦ } ' [ .. '•'*>} Istood , is about ; to pass away . Lord Ew £ g , fl ^ y " . ' , ? : ¦ . ^ - ¦ - privod of his first ; army by tho nooossitics oQndjp ,, } - % ¦ £ ij \ \ ' has managed to get togothor a second fonJgTwffll ^ -. ^ Uj \ ± A ¦ > ' ^ % M ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30011858/page/1/