NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE Royal wedding in Greece came off on Sunday without a hitch. The day was beautiful, though oppressively hot, and the ceremonial in the Cathedral gorgeous, though so -oppressively long and tedious that the spectators whispered all over the church, and the bride and bridegroom grew pale and faint with heat and weariness. As soon as it was finished, however, the couple had to be remarried in the chapel of the Palace with the Protestant rite, and then to drive in state through the streets of the city. The marriage is highly popular in Athens, where the people think their rulers ad- mitted to equality with the greatest; in Berlin, where they make remarks on the strangeness of such a scene in Attica ; and in Copenhagen, where it is remembered that the Danish family, thirty years ago forgotten, is now intertwined with the dynasties of Germany, Russia, England, and Greece. It is as lucky in marriage as the Hapsburgs, though, unlike them, it has failed to keep its own dominions.
