HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

Auckland Times, Volume 1, Issue 5, 19 September 1842, Page 3

HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail ) We are informed that his Majesty entered the harbour at Ostend shortly after daybreak on Saturday morning, after experiencing a delightful voyage. His Majesty, shortly after his landing, wrote an autograph letter to our beloved Sovereign, acquainting her Majesty of his safe arrival at Ostend, with which a courier was despatched immediately, who reached Windsor on Sunday. We learn from a source, on which unquestionable reliance can be placed, that his Majesty’s visit to the King of Belgium at Lacken would not exceed one day, as he intended from thence to go to the Hague cn a visit to the King of Holland. At the Hague the King of Prussia intended to stay two days, and from thence would go direct to Hannover to visit the King of Hannover, before returning to his dominions. His Majesty's sojourn at Hannover was not to exceed four-and-twenty hours. From Hannover the King will go forthwith to Berlin. In our journal of Wednesday we announced that we should possibly be able to give a list of the munificent donations given by his Majesty to the different charities and establishments in London; but the list we subjoin is somewhat limited to what has actually been expended by the rugust monarch, for a large amount has been given to various quarters, which, to parade before the public, might be presumptuous on cur part, and would undoubtedly give offense to a monarch so plain and unostentatious in his habits as the King of Prussia. We therefore give the following. To— Ihe Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress.. £SOO The Dreadnought Hospital Ship 100 Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’Society.. g 50 The German Catholic 5ch001........ 100 The German Lutheran Church (Savoy) 50 Ditto ditto (Little Alley-street) 50 Ditto ditto (Hamburgh Church) 50 German Reformed Church (Hooper-square).... 50 His Majesty, as has been before announced, gave £SO to the workmen of the Thames tunnel; and to the attendants of the Great Western Railway his Majesty, before leaving this country, sent the handsome sum of £IOO. The Royal bargemen, who assisted at his Majesty’s landing at Greenwich, have been presented with £25, To the Queen’s household at Windsor Castle, comprising the domestics in the department of the Master of the Horse, Lord Chamberlain, and Lord Steward, his Majesty has left, with regal magnificence, the sum of £1,500. To the poor of Windsor the King previously gave £IOO. The domestics of Buckingham Palace have, in addition to those of Windsor Castle, been left £lO9. The six beautiful vases presented by his Majesty to the Queen and Prince Albert, are reported to be unique, and ot inestimable value. I hey are of the finest porcelain, covered with exquisite paintings, and elaborately ornamented, and stand six feet high. They were conveyed from Berlin in 18 value may be judged, for they were insured at Antwerp Tor “sea risk” to this country for 100,000 fianos. At his Majesty’s desire they were unpacked and placed in the Queen’s apartment at Buckingham Palace on Saturday week. It is almost needless to observe that, on the Queen and Prince Albert’s return to London, on Wednesday sen’night, from Windsor Castle, the splendid vases were immediately shown to her Majesty and Ins Royal Highness, who were mutually gratified at the superb present of their illustrious visitor. His Majesty, we understand, g:.ve the liberal sum of £6OO, to be divided among the crews of the Firebrand and Sliearwaser steamers, proportionate to the rank of each person employed on board. As is generally the case whefra crowned head visits the dominions of a friendly state, the King of Prussia came provided with a number of gold snuff boxes for presentation. His Majesty has, we hear, presented gold boxes to the Earl of Jersey ; the Earl of Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of the Queen’s Household. The boxes are very valuable, being set with brilliants of the first water, surrounding a miniature of his Majesty on the lid. They may be considered the finest specimen of Berlin workmanship, and the value of each box is said to be upwards of £7OO. The Earl of Hardwicke, Captain Meyneli, R.N., M.P., with Colonel Arbuthnot, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in waiting to the Queen, selected for the honor of attending on his Majesty, have, we understand, also been presented W’lh similar tokens of his Majesty’s esteem. A Yankeeism. — A New York journal states, that a boy, having got his father’s snuff-box, indulged so immoderately in the titillating dust that he sneezed himself to, pieces. His remains having been gathered up, a coroner’s inquest was held over them, when the enlightened jury returned a verdict of “ Snuffed out.” Going ! — Go to Newhaven— you can go for a shilling Go to Hartford—you can go for a dollar. Go to Albany you can go there, too, for a dollar. Go to Staten Island—you can go there for sixpence, and get an excursion down the bay into the bargain, and be brought home, too, if only you do not go ashore. Go on the Fishing Bauks—you can go and be gone all day, and be jammed half to death iu the crowd. Go somewhere—go everywhere—it's so very cheap. Pray don’t stay at home.— American paper. Auctioneers —By a late decision of Lord Chief Justice Denman, in the Court of Queen’s Bench, it is lawful for an auctioneer to expel from his rooms any person creating a disturbance, or otherwise hindering the despatch of business.