d the
furnishing and Correggio-painting of these sublime rooms: but this
of the masses of wrought silver, this was done by Friedrich
Wilhelm,--incited thereto by what he saw at Dresden in August the
Strong's Establishment; and reflecting, too, that silver is silver,
whether you keep it in barrels in a coined form, or work it into
chandeliers, mirror-frames and music-balconies.--These things we should
not have mentioned, except to say that the massive silver did prove a
hoard available, in after times, against a rainy day. Massive silver
(well mixed with copper first) was all melted down, stamped into current
coins, native and foreign, and sent wandering over the world, before a
certain Prince got through his Seven-Years Wars and other pinches that
are ahead!--

In fine, Wilhelmina's Wedding was magnificent; though one had rubs
too; and Mamma was rather severe. "Hair went all wrong, by dint of
overdressing; and hung on one's face like a boy's. Crown-royal they had
put (as indeed was proper) on one's head: hair was in twenty-four
locks the size of your arm: such was the Queen's order. Gown was of
cloth-of-silver, trimmed with Spanish gold-lace (AVEC UN POINT D'ESPAGNE
D'OR); train twelve yards long;--one was like to sink to the earth
in such equipment." Courage, my Princess!--In fact, the Wedding went
beautifully off; with dances and sublimities, slow solemn Torch-dance to
conclude with, in those unparalleled upper rooms; Grand-Aunt Meiningen
and many other stars and rainbows witnessing; even the Margravine of
Schwedt, in her high colors, was compelled to be there. Such variegated
splendor, such a dancing of the Constellations; sublunary Berlin, and
all the world, on tiptoe round it! Slow Torchdance, winding it up,
melted into the shades of midnight, for this time; and there was silence
in Berlin.

But, on the following nights, there were Balls of a less solemn
character; far pleasanter for dancing purposes. It is to these, to one
of these, that we direct the attention of all readers. Friday, 23d,
there was again Ball and Royal Evening Party--"Grand Apartment" so
called. Immense Ball, "seven hundred couples, all people of condition:"
there were "Four Quadrilles," or dancing places in the big sea of
quality-figures; each at its due distance in the grand suite of rooms:
Wilhelmina presides in Quadrille NUMBER ONE; place assigned her was in
the room called Picture-Gallery; Queen and all the Principalities were
with Wilhel