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    A STROLL THROUGH BERLIN. 17

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    king ew to the oath of g the people : " This Yes is mine ! " raising strange reflections when it recals how differently king Schloss and peop few le

    met , when after the in latter that t gathered ime of tumul wildl t y 1848 round . this Beyond very is the famous a years Weisse Saal , or White Hallits , name justified by its pillars of Carrara marblewith silvered , itals and white panelled walls ,

    wi con th trast real with silver its , cornices bridal-like and mouldings lendour cap , the and brutal into which father , in of grim the

    Great Frederick had the coffin sp s brought , , which he had ordered to be made for himself and his Queen , and insisted l on the down poor lad y t

    makin before g the trial assembled of the one court . tended A fitter for her remembrance , by ying to associate with this fair White Hall is that of its having been the scene of

    the lace inau of the guration first Prussian of the Virg Parliament in Liberty held , for in i A t was ril 1847 the meeting . - p

    p Thence we descend to the recently , built Chapel , the , entire walls of which are formed of panels of the rarest marblesinterspersed

    , f with ormers paintings the columned of prop altar hets is formed pat of riarchs oriental , apostles alabaster and , given re- , ;

    strange to say , for the purpose of thus adorning a Christian temple of by mass the i Mohammedan ve silvereiht Mehemet and a half Ali feet . Behind hihrich it l is reared ilt and a inlai cross d gy g

    with jewels , valued , g at the sum of seventy , -five thousand pounds sterling enoug The h . show in these is day over - _> lig and ht hours I am of and prosperit again the in shadow y the , but Court where of death yard , when , is livel the y

    melancho the shado royal w of ly ni race warning gh , t is the over of mystic approaching the earth White doom Lad . y is This su unearthl pposed t y visitant flit over , in , future occasionis

    of said whose to ha Louisa v history e been in some seen 1810 account l and ately it as may is just certain be before giv that en the on at death a that of period the lamented crowds ,

    assem Queen bled for several evenings ; on the neighbouring Long , Bridge , to listen to a dull mournful sound proceeding from the direction of

    the not Castle uncommonl , such an attended accompaniment the having , accord of the ing White to tradition Lady , . This hostlnoise y mihtperhaps appearances at another time have been

    easily g accounted y for without g , recourse , to any supernatural

    specula-TOIi . XI . O

    A Stroll Through Berlin. 17

    A STROLL THROUGH BERLIN . 17

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/17/