A MEMORABLE SCENE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2180, 4 July 1890, Page 6

A MEMORABLE SCENE.

The Times' Berlin correspondent giv< j s the following description of the departure of the It on Chancellor from the Q-erroan capital : —

' Prince Bismark had spent the last few days in paying and receiving farewell calls, and among the most interesting of the former was a long drive to Charlottenburg. The exChancellor had already taken personal leave of all the Royal princes, but on Friday there still remained one member of the Hohenzollern family to whom he owed his devoir, and this was the Eoaperor — King William I. — now lying in marble stale beside his Royal parents in the Mausoleum at Charlottonburg.

" Quietly driving out here towards the gloaming, the Chancellor entered the solitary vault, and laid a few roses on the tomb of the monarch whom he had served long and nobly, and loved so well. Sad and overpowering must have been his thoughts as, rising from his knees, he took a final farewell of the man whom he bad made an emperor, and who had kept his vow to cling to him to the last.

' That was a touching farewell ; but a mn"e overwhelming leave-taking still awaited the Prince, when, in his accustomed cuirassier uniform, with his son, Count Herbert, at hiu Bide, and his wife and daughter and her son in a carriage following, he yesterday left the Radziwill f-alace, at?d began his progress through the denselycrowded and excited streets to the Lehrter Station here to take train for Friedrichruh. As if the funeral of some great and doeply-mourned man were afoot, Berlin had poured out all the best elements in its population to weep and wildly wave their hats and handkerchiefs, to scatter flowers, and to struggle to shake and kies the hand of the man who was about to pass from their midst and be lost to them. This is not the languagfe^^ exaggeration which I am usingTiS^ the sober record of incidents which I" saw with my own eyes. I have never seen bo respectable a crowd in Berlin, which contained none of the usual constituents of a mob, but was recruited from all tbe best circles in Berlin society,- especially the official world ; nor could I have believed that bo severe and sombre a class of people could ever betray so much downright emotion."