The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-16 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA

PUBLIO ENTRY INTO BERLIN.

BERLIN, Feb. 8.
As a sample of winter in Berlin, says the Times cor-
respondent, nothing could have been better arranged
than the weather to-day: if it had been bespoken it
could not have been better—cold, sharp, bright, and of
dazzling clearness. The festal entry of the young
bridal couple has taken place under as bright auspices as
fair weather, popular enthusiasm, and the cordial aspi-
rations of an entire country could make it. All has
gone well, in spite of the enormous masses of persons
congregrated together on a small space, and all anxious
to be as near as possible to the one cynosure of all hearts
and eyes—the State carriage containing the Princess
and her princely bridegroom. Our countrymen have
ben permitted to bring their tribute of respect to the
Princess Frederich William of Prussia to-day—a Prin-
cess in whom we shall never cease to have a "vested
interest," however we may have lost all claims of nation-
ality upon her. The authorities gave us permission to
erect the English flag outside the gates of the town (a
locality courteously described in the official programme
as "the commencement of the Thiegarten"), and assem-
bled round that attractive point to give the Princess a
hearty British cheer as she entered the town. This
item of the proceedings, as set forth in an official pro-
gramme, the Prime of Prussia was pleased to approve,
and accordingly we assembled to-day, about 130 men
strong, besides the gentler sex, under cover of a noble
Union Jack, a red ensign, a pilot flag, and a fourth
that exceeds all my flagging powers to describe; for
these our different consulates in Prussia had been laid
under contribution, and we are proud to have shown
the natives on this occasion a real English flag, a regular
bit of bunting, 17 feet long and about 12 feet broad—
none of your toyinakers' makebelieves, but a real flag
that hwi braved the breece, though not the battle, for
a good many years; and when her Royal Highness drove
past in the procession, and accidently made a short
halt in front of our post, we gave her an unmistakeable
British cheer that went to her heart, if we may judge
by the pleased and kind expression of her eyes. She
looked infinitely bettor than on Saturday at Potsdam,
where she was probably fatigued an lover excited—pale
rather than flushed at finding herself the object of the
homage and heart-worship of so many thousands, in new
scenes where all and everything—air, light, language,
customs, are so different from what they are at home.
As well as we could see, the Princess was dressed in
white, and she certainly wore a very comfortable ermine
mantle, that did one's heart good to contemplate as she
sat at the open window of the State carriage bowing to all,
and smiling a h re here and there some incident pro-
voiced it. We flatter ourselves that she smiled at the
very British manifestation which she met with outside
the gates at our hands and throats, but in another in-
stance she laughed outright, and has won the hearts of
many by so doing. The people at one portion of the
distance to be traversed outside of the town threw
flowers into the carriage as she passed before them, for
which she bowed her smiling acknowledgments; but,
just as she was at one time bowing, a tolerable substan-
tial nosegay flew in at the window and struck her in the
face. The well-meaning donor stood aghast at the
contretemps, till the hearty good nature of the Prin-
cess manifested itself in unconstrained laughter at the
oonoussion, in which Prince Frederick William joined.
The sight of that most noble of promenades, !Inter
den Linden, to-day was most imposing: from one
point where I stood I calculated, with the assistance of
a military friend well versed in these matters, that
above 180.000 persons were standing in quiet expectation
of the Princess's arrival, surrounded by the most taste-
ful and ample decorations, and in the presence of some
of the most beautiful monumental sculpture that any
capital of Europe can boast.