The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-08 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian Official Gazette publishes the fol-
lowing Royal manifesto, signed by the King :
" We, William, by the grace of God, King of
Prussia, &e., make known :
" According to the decrees of Goa we have
ascended the Royal throne of Prussia, and we have
solemnly manifested our intention to conduct the
Government entrusted to us by Divine grace ac-
cording to the Constitution and laws of the king-
dom.

" Our predecessors on the throne have bequeathed
to us the respectable custom that on the accession
of the Kings of Prussia they receive the oath of
allegiance from the country. We maintain that
tradition as an inviolable right of our Crown,
and we also wish it to be equally gua-
ranteed to our successors. But, in consideration
of the changes introduced into the Constitution of
the Monarchy under the prosperous reign of our
dearly beloved brother King Ferdinand William IV.
of glorious memory, we have resolved to renew,
instead of the ceremony of rendering homage, the
solemn coronation by which our august master,
King Frederick 1., founded hereditary royalty in
our house:

" Inclining ourselves humbly before God, and
imploring the blessing of the Almighty for us and
for our beloved country, we wish, by the festival of
the coronation celebrated in the presence of the
members of the two Chambers of the Diet and other
witnesses invited by us from all the provinces of our
kingdom, to render testimony to the sacred and
ever imperishable right of the Crown to which we
have been called by the grace of God, and to con-
solidate still more the bond formed by a glorious
history between our house and the Prussian people.
" We shall therefore celebrate, conjointly with
the Queen, our spouse, our solemn coronation in
the month of October of the present year, in our
capital and residence of Konigsberg, and we reserve
to ourselves to publish ulterior regulations on the
ceremony of the coronation, as also on the solemn
entry into our capital and residence of Berlin on
return,—Given at Berlin, July 3, 1861.

" WILLIAM."
(Countersigned by the Ministers.)

DEATH OF AN EMINENT ARCHITECT.—New-
, castle-on-Tyne has lost another of its eminent men—
Mr. Richard Grainger, the architect and builder of all its
newest and most magnificent streets and public buildings,
died on Thursday afternoon, in the 63d year of his age, after
half-an-hour's illness. Of Mr. Grainger it may be honestly
said that he found his native town brick and left it stone.
Through his energy and genius the magnificent range of
streets comprehending Grey-street, Clayton-street, Market,
Grainger, Nelson, Hood, and Shapespearo streets, with the
theatre, Central Exchange, the new markets, among the
finest covered markets in England, the branch Bank of
England, Messrs. Lambton's bank, the Arcade, and innu-
merable public buildings were erected—and like the elder
Stephenson, and other eminent Newcastle men, Mr.
Grainger was self made. Mr. Grainger's father was a por-
ter on the quayside. The father died shortly after the son
was born. His mother followed the employment of laundress
to maintain her children, and Mr. Grainger received what
education he got in the St. Andrew's Charity School. Mr.
Grainger served his time as a house carpenter. From early
youth he appears to have been fired with an ambition to
effect great improvements in his native town, and the mag-
nificent streets and noble public buildings that grace it are
wonderful monuments of his genius and indomitable per-
severance and will. Mr. Grainger, like most men of his
character, was of a generous and noble disposition. Some
years ago the immense magnitude of his transactions tem-
porarily embarrassed his affairs, but the progress of trade
vastly improved his property after, and in recent years he
reaped the more substantial results of his energy and intel-
ligence.
VICTOR EM:',IANT_TEL CITED BEFORE THE CAMER-
LINGO —A letter Flom Rome of the 23d ult., describes a
curious ceremony that takes place in the Vatican on the eve
of St. Peter and St. rani. A solemn sitting of the " CarLer-
lingate " is held, and before it aro cited successively all the
tributaries who have to pay an acknowledgment of their
estates to the sovereign power of the Papacy. The
Borghese fatally are summoned and pay a silver dish; the
Princess Marie Bonaparte, a pound of wax ; the Marquis
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hear the name of " The Most Serene Victor Emmanuel,
King of Sardinia," who owes a chalice for his principality
of Masseran. The chalice was punctually paid till the acces •
bion of Victor Emmanuel. Since then this tribute has been
omitted, but still every year ho is summoned it is taken
down that he is not present, either in person or by repre-
sentative; and he is iveordingly censured, and declared tol
have forfeited the rrincipality of Masseran.