The Press.
London, England, 1853-05-07 00:00:00

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SkiI:I:DAY EVENING.
BRUSSELS, Friday, May fi.
(From our own Correspondent.)
The journey of King Leopold and his elder son,
the Prince Royal, to Germany, is a political event
which occupies diplomacy a great deal, and is yet
enhanced by the reception the Belgian Monarch en-
counters. Our papers are filled with details brought
mostly by telegraph from Berlin, where the august
travellers arrived on Wednesday afternoon, after
having slept the night before at the ducal palace at
Brunswick. At Potsdam the King of Prussia stepped
into the royal carriage, and accompanied to Berlin
his guests, who, having declined the apartments pre-
pared for them at the palace, took up their abode at
the hotel of the Belgian minister, Baron Nothomb.
Immediately after their arrival they received another
visit from the King, accompanied by all the Prussian
princes at present in Berlin. King Leopold assisted
at Potsdam at a grand dinner, and a great review was
to take place the next day in honour of his Majesty,
who will also be present at the ceremony of the
delivering, by the King of Prussia as elder member, to
his brother the Prince of Prussia, the order of the
Spanish Golden Fleece. The decoration is that worn
by the late G neral Castanos, Duke of Baylen. The
King of the Belgians and the Duke of Brabant will
spend some days at Berlin, and then leave for Vienna,
where they are expected on the 11th. It seems now
positively decided that the King of Prussia will not
start for his announced visit to the Emperor Franz
Josef before the 18th, so all rumours about a con-
gress of sovereigns fall to the ground. A telegraphic
despatch announced that the King of the Greeks was
to leave Athens for Vienna and Germany on May 4.

BERLIN, Ftitlay Morning.
(By Telegraph.)

Yesterday, after the return from the Opera, the
King of the Belgians received Lord Bloomfield, the
British minister, with whom he remained closetted
until midnight, and to whom his Mtkjesty delivered a
letter li►r Queen Victoria.
This morning the King and the Duke of Brabant
were present at a grand review of the Gna►tis. and
returned to Berlin at half-past eleven, when the King
received Baron Budberg, Russian minister.
At one the King of Prussia called on his august
guests, whoa► he accompanied in a visit to the ►oyal
museums.

The Prussian Gazette states that three Prussian police-
officers have been sent to England, alien., through the
gond offices of the English police authorities, they a.wer-
leaned that salt of the war munitions thseo‘ urea at 110-
t herliit he had been onlered by revt diet it 'tiler% pntties,and were
paid for by ready money sent from Berlin end IZosti They
',naught home several specimens, and the original corre-
spondence of the parties, which throws a Vaalitli w light en
the proceedings. A new arrest took place at Rostock on
May Ist, when the advocate Wiggero was taken in enstody,
and immediately sent to the fortress of linstow.
For the first time since the last attempt on his life. the
Emperor of Austria held on m —ay 'dud a grand reliew at
Vienna. The Prince Daniel() of Montene!tro was at his
side. The latter is to leave shortly. to return to his estates,
hearing with him, it is thought, the acknowledgment of
his independence by Austria.
It is mated that the new Austrian law on marriage is
ready, and was sent from Vienna to Rome to lee submitted
to the, approval of the Pope for the part %hid! touches the
twt» laws. The enneordat will be eonelittled before the
end of the year.
r A despatch felon 31 date states that the rigour of the
state of siege has been ' htvl ; the assiteiations are
again nutlet wised to ml4l, and the town gates are to remain
open from four o'clock in the illionling UIl ten at night.