The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-03 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov.2i.—To-day being appointed for
the opening of the two Chambers here, the
King opened them in person in the White
Saleon of the Palace. Before eleven o'clock, the
time appointed for the ceremony of opening by
the King, the two galleries of the White Saloon of
the Palace were filled, the one by the numerously

r represented corps diplom
atique,and the other witii
_ the wives or families of the members of the two
1 houses and a numerous attendance of everybody of
s note or eminence.
A few minutes after 11 o'clock the King entered
• the saloon, the President of the Council having
just previously left the Assembly as though to
fetch him. The Ministers were already stationed
cl in a line to the left of the Throne ; the Princes
PI and Adjutants who followed iu his Majesty's
suite occupied the chairs (or rather stood in
front of them) to the right of it. The King en-
tered the saloon in full general's uniform, and car-
.
n rying his helmet in his hand, which he waved to
i and fro in acknowledgment of the " E's lebe der
1 Konig hoch !" which was given in a poor imitation of
a our three times three. After mounting the throne,
a the King received the written speech at the hands
s of the President of the Council, Baron von Manteuf-
li fel, and read it in a distinct but somewhat thin
a
✓ voice, after having first put his helmet on his head.
✓ It was perhaps owing to the presence on this occa-
sion of men who have themselves formerly been
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Sovereign Princes and of others whose fathers
ewere so that the King to-day did not first seat him-
() self on his throne before commencing to read his
O speech, and evidently it was in reference to those
gentlemen that the speech itself, instead of com-
a mencing with " Gentlemen," began as follows—
'f I
" Illustrious, noble, and dear Sirs of the two
~
Houses of the Diet."

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.

We understand that the Roman Catholics of London
and of the central districts are at length beginning to
take up the movement already so widely spread on behalf of these excellent institutions. A large house ad-
joining the Training College at Brook-green, Hammer-
smith, has been taken by Lord Edward Howard, the
Rev. Dr. Manning, and other private individuals, and is
now being adapted to the reception of some twenty-four
inmates, who of course will be mostly poor Irish Roman
Catholics. The management of this Reformatory School
will be in the hands of the " Brothers of Charity," who
direct all these institutions in Belgium, four of whose
members, including one English brother, have recently
arrived in England for this especial purpose. The order
of the "Brothers of Charity" is of recent date, having
been founded in 1335 by the Rev. Dr. Scheffers, one of
the canons of Matinee. This Reformatory School will
be at once commenced, as soon as the Inspector of Pri-
sons has certified it in his report. Another institution
of a similar kind is about to be established in connection
with the monastery of Mount St. Bernard, which was
founded in 1840 by the late Lord Shrewsbury, in Charn-
wood Forest, Leicestershire. It appears that this step
is the result of a suggestion ;:om the late vicar-general of
the order, who established a reformatory school with the
assistance of the Emperor Louis Napoleon, about two
years ago, at La Grande Trappe, on Mount St. Bernard,
in the Alps. The reformatory will be worked under the
care of the abbot of Mount Bt, Bernard, not, however,
by the choir or lay monks, but by " brothers of the third
order of St. Benedict," who will have a special code of
regulations drawn up for their use. Ore of the fathers of
the abbey will have the immediate superintendence of the
institution, which is to be commenced immediately at the
Abbey Grange, distant about half a mile from the pre-
sent monastery. The boys will be partially employed
with the monks in silent labour on the adjoining bleak
old barren bills, and the government inspectors in France
have pronounced the Reformatory Institute of La Trappe
one of the best in that country, and second only to the
one established at Mottray.