The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-11 00:00:00

ENTRY INTO BERLIN OF THE PRINCE
AND PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.

I3E RUN, FEB. 9.
The Prince and Princess left Potsdam yesterday
morning at an early hour, and, stopping at the
half-way station, Lehlendorf, on their way to
Berlin, they entered the carriages, which were in
waiting there for them and their suite, and drove
to Belle Vue Palace. In all the villages they passed
through in this short drive there were festal pre-
parations made for their reception, triumphal
arches, bands of young girls in white, flowers
showered on them, and poems recited to the full
extent that the time would admit of. In the village
of Schoneberg 40 Bauern (small freeholders) re-
ceived the bridal cortege mounted on excellent
horses, with saddle-cloths and head-gear in the
English colours, and conducted it throughout the
whole of their district, and left it only on the con-
fines of Berlin.

At Belle Vue Palace, which is situated on the
banks of the Spree, and at one side of the Thier-
garten, all the apartments had been put into festal
order and thoroughly warmed ; those more espe-
cially destined for the bride were decorated
lavishly with flowers and plants, as well as the
staircase and landing places leading to them.
After devoting the necessary time to the as-
sumption of the festal apparel appropriate to the
bridal nature of the Princess's first visit to
Berlin, the cortege left Belle Vue Palace at one
o'clock in the grand State carriage, and preceded
by a military escort. The Princess wore a white
satin or silk dress, with an ermine tippet over her
shoulders and close up round her throat, and a
diadem of brilliants in her hair. The Prince wore
a Prussian General's uniform, with the broad baud
of the Order of the Black Eagle.
At the point where the avenue leading from Belle
Vue enters the high road, between Charlottenburg
and Berlin, the cortege found 40 postillions and
other officials of the postal service in full gala cos-
tume and well mounted, who at once took as of
right the lead of the procession, blowing lustily a
number of appropriate pieces of music, which they
have been practising of late here in Berlin, under
the direction of a military musician. To the left of
the postillions were the master butchers, the jour-
neyman butchers, a deputation of the Burgerschaft,
aad another of the Kaufmannschaft, all mounted,
each body with its band of mounted muiiciana,
those of the Kaufinannschaft habite I in the State
costume of our Life Guards' band ; the members
themselves of these mounted deputations, all in
black frock coats, white neckcloths, and cooked
hats, jack-hoots and spurs, and in some cases
drawn swords, the MaisJhalls of each body being
distinguished by silk scarfs from the right shoulder
to the left hip. At the approach of the State car-
riages all the mounted deputations saluted in mili-
tary fashion, and the trumpeters of all the bands
struck up the national hymn of both countries, while
the spokesman of the party approached and begged
permission for the butchers (whose appearance,
by the bye, by no means betrayed their calling)
to present a copy of verse., and for the other
mounted deputations to take their places at the
head of the cortege. All which being duly accorded,
the horsemen all filed past the State carriage and
took up the places assigned them, and thus, with
the mounted bands playing the National Hymn,
the procession passed the spot where the " sub-
jects of her Britannic )Majesty" were drawn up
under cover of their flags, and who gave the
Princess one of those hearty cheers that Britons
know how to give when the heart is warm.
The whole distance hitherto traversed was deco-
rated with tall masts, supporting festoons of ever-
greens and flowers, from which also flags and pen-
nons were waving merrily in the wind ; on the
outside of the Brandenburgher-Thor, on the archi-
trave, stood, in flowers, " Willkoramen," iu large
legible letters.
The Pariser-Platz is a noble quadrangle just in-
side the Brandenburgher-Thor, the houses forming
which are nearly' all of uniform architecture, with
a noble gas candelabrum in the centre. Round
the candelabrum in the centre was a band of
music, that struck up the national hymn on
the State carriage passing the gate ; a salute of
three times 24 guns was at that moment com-
menced ; and the Oberburgermeister and the Bair-
germaister, and the various officers of the Murici•
pality, stepped forward on the approach of the
State carriage to present its august occupants with
au address.
On moving forward again the procession entered
first the triumphal arch erected at the entrance of
the Linden-avenue, along which no festal procession
has passed since the solemn entry of the present
Queen in 1823 as bride of the then Crown Prince

of Prussia. This arch was composed of numerous
festoons and garlands of fir-twigs and Dowers hung
on and around 12 flag-staffs that bore a further bur-
den, light and airy, of flags and pennons, armorial
ensigns of the two nations and families and of the
city of Berlin, emblazoned on silk, the whole sur-
mounted by the Prussian eagle. Immediately over
the spot where the State carriage entered the avenue
there were two little genii suspended by invisible
wires who, while thus hovering over the bridal
couple, sustained a Royal crown, in the air, as
though awaiting the future day, when it should
descend by right of inheritance on their heads.
On each side along this avenue, as well as around
the Pariser-Platz and further down near the
Schloss, were arranged the trades' companies, the
masters in the front row, the journeymen in the
second, with their flags, emblems, marshals, bands
of music, and their professional jesters, the Haus
Wurst of ancient days, but now the merry-making
wavers of flags, which they throw high in the air,
and catching them as they fall, whirl them around
and about in every imaginable and impossible di-
rection. This assemblage of the trades' companies
numbered alone 28,000, forming t wo narrow stripes
down the length of the Linden.
The whole distance of the line of procession from
the monument of Frederick the Great down to the
Schloss was marked out with a double line of flag-
masts. As the procession passed along the entire
mass of the spectators on both sides broke out into
ono long-continued cheer and shout of gratilca-
tion ; the male masses on the ground waving their
hats, the fairer spectators at the windows waving
their handkerchiefs. It resembled a human ocean
roaring its delight, the dark billows of which
beneath were crowned with the white surf of the
rustling kerchiefs above ; and the mass surged, and
heaved, and flowed, and ebbed along the two sides
of the Mall uninterinittingly, and wherever a nar-

i-row strait intervened, as in front of the Prince of
Prussia's palace, or in front of the Zeughaus, the
eddies produced a whirlpool that at times threat-
ened many a human life with destruction. Only
one fatal accident, however, has been heard of as
yet—that of a woman who fell of the roof of a
house and was killed.

It was more than a quarter-past 2 o'clock before
the State carriage reached the Schloss, where the
young couple were received by a guard of honour,
a thickly-packed crowd of invited guests, who
stood in the courtyards, all the officers of the
Court, and the Royal Princes ; hero the Prince of
Prussia received his daughter-in-law very afft,c-
tionately, and conducted her upstairs into the
Schloss. At the entrance to the Schweizer Saal the
Princess was received and welcomed by the Queen
and all the Royal Princesses. Her Majesty showed
herself most affectionate and kind to her new niece,
and conducted her into the interior of the palace. In
the various rooms of the Schloss the young couple
received the felicitations of the Knights of the Order
of the Black Eagle, the Officers of the Royal House-
holds, the Adjutants of the King and the Princes,
the Generals and Lieutenant-Generals, of the army,
the Ministers of State, the Privy Councillors,
the Presidents of the two Houses of the Diet,
are. Their Royal Highnesses frequently came to
the window to gaze at the spectacle of the different
trades' companies marching through the courtyards
of the Schloss, and each time they appeared, as
well as each time they showed themselves to the
multitude assembled on the Lust-Garten, they were
vociferously welcomed.
At 4 o'clock the Court proceeded to dinner ; tha
young couple, preceded by t wo pages and four cham-
berlains, and followed by two pages bearing the red
velvet train of the Princess ; and the ladies of her
Royal Iliglineu's household immediately Afterward,