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Show A 3oble Wedding. For the first time in many years, a member of the English royal family is to marry a Brith-h subject. The Princess Prin-cess Louisa, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, and now about 22 years of age, is about to be married to the Marquis of Lome, eldest son of the Duke of Arcyle, one of the few Liberals in the lloue of Lords and a steady friend to the North during our late war. The young man is about 2 years of age, and made an extensive tour a few years ago ;hrouth the United States. He is said to be a person of decided character snd religious conviction-, an I that this is purely a luve matci, a .-or' of thing that the Oaeen. a('lcr iltr happy "life with 1'rim-e Ailicrt, thoroughly thor-oughly beiieve in. It will certainly have a good effect in breaking down the extreme convemionantie- by which the English court is surrounded, and making it more accessible in the future. Bc-ijes this, the little German Ger-man Puchie that were always ready to supply hu-bands to order to English Eng-lish royal beires'C. arc a!l being rapidly rapid-ly swallowed up in an all-embracinsr Yaterland, and henceforth England will have to look eiscwh-re fur her supply. Where letter than to the heir of such a proud r.amc as that of Argyle. especially if it. bearer can give his bnde vkIi an Kngli.'h home-as home-as will redeem, in a ii.ea-ure, the di-graee di-graee which o:her members of the royal family have brought npen mon archical institutions. |