A ceremonial was gone through at Berlin on the 27th
nit. which is believed to be of importance to Europe. A special mission from St. Petersburg, headed by the Grand Duke Michael and General Gourko, just appointed to the highest command in Poland, waited on the Emperor of Germany to congratulate him on the seventieth anniversary of his investi- ture with a Russian Order, and to present him with a Marshal's bilton in the Russian Army. The Emperor received them with his whole family dressed in Russian uniforms, and it is said that the Grand Duke spoke of " the sincere attachment and immoveable devotion" of the Czar to his great-uncle. Cere- monials of that kind in Berlin, where those tediums are invested with significance, mean, at all events, that the Emperors, who between them control two millions of soldiers, desire to avoid fighting each other, for the present.
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