The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-09 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Feb. 3.

All last week the papers here, as was natural enough,
were filled with the particulars of the Royal marriage in
London. The Bth is to be a public holiday.
The Ober-Kirckenrath issued circulars last week to all
the provincial consieteries of Prussia ordering a special
prayer to be put up in all churches last Sunday for a
blessing on the marriage of the Prince and Princess
Frederick William.
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The °Sacra of the Prussian Regiment Garde du Corps
are practising an equestrian quadrille, which they pro-
pose to perform before the newly-married couple next
week.

The Prince of Prussia has given up the use of his
Palace at Berlin, next Monday, to the Ministers of State,
the Corps Diplomatique, and other persons of distinc-
tion, as being one of the best spots from which to witness
the procession.
Great Britain is to manifest herself on the occasion of
this procession, not by taking part in it, but by occupy-
ing some point of the line of the procession's progress;
at this point the Englishmen resident or staying here
will collect under cover of a very considerable Union
Jack, miniature copies of which, printed on white satin,
form the distinctive badge of the nationalty. Thus
collected, they will give the Princess a British cheer
when she passes as British lungs alone know how to
perform this interesting act, but which to our festheti-
cally refined friends here, who never speak loud, will
doubtless appear very vulgar.
The students and the dons of the University have at
length come to an understanding about the preparatory
arrangements for a Fackelzug. The number of addresses
that will be presented to the young couple is so great
that about four days will be occupied with their recep-
tion.

The Syndics of the Kaufmannsehaft have submitted to
that body a plan for a Friedrich-Wilhelm Victoria
Stiftung, which shall constitute a fund for the support
of indigent widows of tradesmen or their daughters
being unable to earn their bread, without distinction of
religion: if possible, also, a refuge or asylum is to be
erected for reduced tradesmen. The Sydnics have set a
liberal example by subscribing each 500 thalers, and the
total amount of subscriptions up to Tuesday evening
was 12,000 thalers. One of the wealthiest members of
this body has promised an additional 10,000 thalers as
soon as the asylum is commenced. The tradesmen's
assistants also are founding a fund for the relief and
support of members of their own body in old age, which
fund will doubtless be named also a Friedrich-Wilhelm-
Victoria Stif Lung.
The present which the town of Stetin intends to make
to the young couple is a silver taus for holding fruit on
the dessert table; it is 34 feet high, weighs about 601 b.,
and cost 3,500 thalers.
A Berlin letter states that among the presents to
Prince Frederick William on the occasion of his mar-
riage is a collection of 150 letters written by King
Frederick William 111. to the Archbishop Neander.
The archbishop, having lost all his sons, wished to leave
these letters to the royal family, and has availed himself
of this opportunity to make a present of them to the
young pnnoe.
The Prussian Government has sent a circular to the
provincial authorities, requesting them to state if they
think it would be useful to demand from the legisla-
ture a law prohibiting the gale of distilled drinks by
retail.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 3.
, The King of Denmark was suddenly seized, the even-
ing before last, with an inflammation of the chest, from
which he has before suffered on several occasions. The
malady showed itself by a frequent cough, attended with
fever. Yesterday, these symptoms had abated, and
last night was tranquil. His Majesty is much better to-
day.