The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-27 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The grand review which the King held in Ber-
lin, May 23, urbter den Linden, on the 14th inst.,
will be the last of the year, with the exception of
the grand maxceuvres which take place every year
in the autumn. The suite in attendance on his
Majesty on this occasion was particularly brilliant,
on account of the numbers of high and distin-
guished guests just then present in Berlin. In
addition to the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
Schwerin, the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Duke and
Duchess of Genoa, the Queen of Greece arrived on
the 13th on her way to Eutin, on a visit to her
brother, the Grand Duke of Oldenburg. Her Ma-
jesty left here on the 17th, and all the other august
guests one by one. The Court removed to Char-
lottenburg on Whitsun-eve, after the King had
been present at a Liturgische Andacht, in the Dom,
whence he returned to the Palace on foot. The
Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
sister of the King, arrived on the evening of the
17th, from St. Petersburgh, and after a visit to the
Queen at Charlottenburg on the following day pur-
sued her journey to Schwerin.
The Prince of Prussia has left for the Court of
Weimar, where the Princess of Prussia is already
staying, preparatory to the nuptials of Prince Hein-
rich of the Netherlands with the daughter of Duke
Barnhard of Saxe Weimar. Thence the Prince and
Princess will return to Berlin, preparatory to leav-
ing for London to be present at the christening of
the infant Prinee.
On the 13th instant the Crown Prince of Den-
mark, with his Princess and suite, left Copenhagen
on a visit to Germany. The Landgrave Wilhelm
of Hesse-Cassel is expected here to-day to be
present at the approaching nuptials of his son,
Prince Frederic of Hesse-Cassel with Princess
Anna, daughter of Prince Charles of Prussia.
The trousseau of the bride has been on view at
the King's Palace on the 14th and 23d inst., and
on each day about 2,500, mostly female observers,
visited it. Of the two large rooms which the
trousseau occupied, the first contained the house
and body linen, laid out for the most part in 20
dozens and 24 dozens, all marked with her Royal
Highness's name in an unintelligible letter
(12 dozen pocket-handkerchiefs had the Royal arms
woven in them). In connection with the travelling
couch were 24 dozen day and night chemises, as
many undress and night caps, and other incompre-
hensible and unmentionable articles in like pro-
fusion. The linen takes up three sides of the room,
the fourth is occupied by the chaussure, consisting
of 24 pairs of silk and leather shoes and 24 dozen
pairs of stockings. In the second room were gloves,
embroidered handkerchiefs, collars, scarfs, hats,
bonnets, artificial flowers, &c., in bewildering pro-
fusion : to make all complete, there was a riding
habit, 12 cloaks, in silk and velvet ; and, besides
all these, the ball and court dresses, as well as the
wedding robe, a diadem of brilliants, and too many
more things for us to enumerate. According to
old practice here, the body of the wedding dress of
white satin was not with the skirt and train, but
is kept in the jewel chamber, where it is decorated
with the Crown jewels, and not brought out to
Charlottenburg till the last moment.
On the 18th, after taking leave of the Queen at
the station of the Potsdam Railway, whence her
Majesty was about to set out on several trips to
visit various charitable institutions, the King left
for Vienna, accompanied by Prince Charles and
his son. Although everything like state receptions
had been deprecated, the exhibitions of feeling
towards his Majesty on his road to the Austrian
frontier have made it a " royal progress " in the
best sense of the word. It is usual here when the
King has a special train for his own purposes to
permit any inhabitants of Berlin, who plead urgent
business in the quarter about to be visited by His
Majesty, or their own inability to meet the ex-
penses, to travel in the Royal train. This last
opportunity of the visit to Vienna was thus turned
by many to profitable account.
According to a telegraphic communication re-
ceived, " the King has left Vienna for Dresden vii,
Prague. The King of the Belgians had also left. The
match of the Duke of Brabant with the Arch-
duchess Marie Henriette Anna seems to be certain."
The son of the Prince of Prussia, heir to the
throne, is rather seriously ill. His parents quitted
Weimar very suddenly in consequence.
A letter of May 17, from Hirschberg (Silesia),
in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" A domiciliary
visit has just been made at the residence of M.
Wander, for the purpose of discovering a manu-
script which he had, it is said, offered to a pub-
lisher at Bremen. Several letters and manu-
scripts were seized. M. Wander having asked
to see the search warrant Baron de Zedlitz, who
was present, replied that the action of the police
was altogether independent of the Courts of Jus-
tice, and that he should not hesitate to take away
whatever seemed to him proper. At the end of
the visit, as all the articles seized were made up in
parcels without an inventory being taken, M.
Wander expressed an apprehension that some of
them might be lost. The answer given was that
everything should be returned that was not wanted.
A letter from Manheim, of the 20th, in the Co-
logne Gazette, states that orders have been given
to the legal authorities to abandon the prosecution
of. Professor Gervinus.

The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Ber-
lin of May 23, which says :—" The President of
the Council of Ministers arrived here yesterday
from his country seat. It is announced that he
will proceed to Dresden, to join the King, who
has arrived there. The Prince and the Princess
of Prussia, and the other members of the royal
family who Were at Weimar, returned here two
days back, and immediately proceeded to Potsdam,
to visit Prince Frederick William, who is ill. The
Princess of Prussia will accompany the Prince to
London."

NEGLECT AND STARVATION OP A CHILD.—An inquest
was held on Wednesday afternoon, at the Greyhound
Inn, Midsomer Norton, before Bruges Fry, Esq., coro-
ner for the northern district of Somersetshire, and a
highly respectable jury, on the body of Elizabeth Jeffe-
ries, aged 8 years, whose death was alleged to have been
caused by the neglect and cruel treatment of her father
and stepmother, Thomas and Elizabeth Jefferies, and by
the want of a sufficiency of food. The deceased was the
daughter of a miner, who had formerly lived at Mongre,
but who now resides at a place called Dickymeads.
During the lifetime of Jefferies' first wife, who is repre-
sented as having been a kindly disposed and well-con-
ducted young woman, the deceased and an elder sister,
named Hannah Jefferies, resided with her, and were
carefully looked after and well treated by her. Subse-
quently to her death Jefferies, who held a leading posi-
tion among a religious sect called "Ranters," formed an
acquaintance with a female named Elizabeth Smith, who
had been living in service with a surgeon of the neigh-
bourhood, and to whom he afterwards got married.
Shortly after this marriage the neighbours perceived a
difference in the treatment of the children, who they
considered were very severely used by the stepmother,
and they brought their suspicions under the notice of the
Rev. C. 0. Mayne, incumbent of the parish, who re-
monstrated with the stepmother. Several of these
women were examined, and they deposed to acts of
harshness and cruelty, as well as neglect, on the part of
the stepmother towards the child, who had died. The
jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict, " That
the deceased had died from inflammation of the lungs ;
but that her death had been accelerated by the neglect
and ill-treatment of Elizabeth Jefferies, her stepmother."
The coroner said that was tantamount to a verdict of
manslaughter against the stepmother, and he accordingly
issued his warrant for her committal, to await her trial
at the next Somerset assizes.
STATISTICS OF CRIMINAL OFFENDERS.—It appears,
from a Parliamentsry blue-book, that last year there
were 27,510 persons committed for criminal offences in
England and Wales, being a decrease of 450 on the pre-
ceding year. Of that number 6,170 were acquitted, and
21,304 convicted,