3050 Inhab. The greater part of it house. Pension: Frau Von Schack, was destroyed by fire in 1830. 172 m. Spandau Stat. (Inn: Rother Adler). A town of 30,000 Inhab., and second-class fortress, including some of the most important inilitary establishments, cannon foundry (conspicuous building), &c., in Prussia, at the junction of the Spree with the Havel, which is here crossed by the railway. These rivers afford the means of inundating the surrounding country, in the event of a hostile attack. Its citadel stands on an island. The Church of St. Nicholas, a Gothic edifice of the 16th cent., contains several monuments, and a very ancient metal font. The Penitentiary, once the Palace of the Electors of Brandenburg, is admirably managed, and is capable of containing 750 prisoners. rt. About 3 m. before reaching Berlin the railway crosses the Spree, near the Palace and Gardens of Charlottenburg. (See below.) 179 m. Berlin Junct. Stat. This Hamburger Bahnhof is to the N.W. of the city, outside the Neue Thor. Some trains, however, run to the Lehrte Bahnhof, close by, but a little nearer the city (plan 4. B). Cabs in waiting; a metal ticket is handed to the traveller corresponding to the number of the cab he is entitled to in his turn. : Inns: Central Hotel, opposite the Friedrichstrasse Rly. Stat., on a vast scale;-Kaiserhof, a gigantic Hotel, corner of Wilhelms- and Ziethen-platz, large, well-situated ;-H. St. Petersburg;-Meinhardt's H.;-H. du Nord; -H. de Rome;-H. Victoria ;-H. Royal;-British H., all situated Unter den Linden, expensive, good ;-H. de Russie, near the Spree, the Museum, and Palaces, good;-H. d'Angleterre, also good, and well situated in the Schinkelplatz, near the Schlossbrücke, and the Bau-Academie; --H. Brandenburg, Charlottenstrasse, comfortable; Markgraf's H. de l'Europe, with baths, 16 Taubenstrasse ;-Schlösser's H., 17 Jägerstrasse, good, quiet German 203 Friedrichstrasse, 6 marks a day. Charges, top rooms, 2 to 3 mks.: it is best to inquire the price on arrival; breakfast, 13 mk., table-d'hôte, 3 to 4 mks. Café-Restaurants (Dinner between 1 and 5, 1.75 to 2 mks.)-at the Kaiserhof, Hiller, 62 Linden;-Borchard, 48 Französischestrasse ;-de l'Europe, 33 Linden; Dressel, 50 Linden, and Julitz, 14 Linden ;-Dedel, 85 Leipzigerstrasse, good wine, and many others in the same street ;-Bellevue, outside Potsdam Gate. (Sandra, pike-perch, and Teltower Rüben, turnips from the village of Teltow, are Berlin delicacies.) The Rathskeller at the Rathhaus, Königstrasse side. Confectioners, &c. - Kranzler, 25 Linden; Josty, 22 Bellevuestrasse. For Ladies,-Weiss, 38 Jägerstrasse. General Post Office (7 A.M. to 8 P.M.), Telegraph Stat. and Poste Restante, 60 Königstrasse. Letter-boxes in various parts of the town. English Embassy, Office, 2 Pariser Platz; Consulate, 63 Behrenstrasse. Droschkies or cabs (open or shut carriages). Superior (driver wears white collar and blue coat), 15 min. drive, between 7 A.M. and 11 P.M., 1 to 2 pers., 1 mk.; 3 to 4, 1 mk. 50 pf. Inferior, 1 to 2 pers., 60 pf.; 3 to 4 pers., 1 mk. From Rly. Stats., 25 pf. more. By night, double fares. Omnibuses and Tramways, of which latter there are upwards of 30 lines, traverse the city in all directions. Steamboats on the Spree from the Jannowitzbrücke every hr. to Stralau, Treptow, Eierhauschen and Köpenick (see below). Shops. The best are in the Unter den Linden, in the Friedrich, Charlotten, and Markgrafen-strassen (all three running into the Leipzigerstrasse), on the Schlossplatz, and in the Brüder, Breite, and Königstrasse. Haberdashers, Gerson, 10 Werderstrasse ; Amber trinkets, Rosenstiel, 48 Linden; Glass and China, Royal Porcelain Manufactory, 194 Friedrichstrasse ; ictures, Sculpture, &c., Industrial fertility. Previous to the reign of Frederick I. it was an unimportant Museum. Philosophical Insts., Pistor and Martin, 34 Mauerstrasse; Travelling Articles, Demuth, 1 Schlossfreiheit; Ackermann, 62 Königstrasse; Venetian Glass, Salviati, 149 Grosse Friedrich Strasse and 16 Linden Strasse. Booksellers, books in all languages, old and rare works, Asher & Co., 5 Unter den Linden. Ornaments in cast iron (Benecke, 16 Mittel Strasse; Puls, 6 Tempelhofer Ufer), and china transparencies, are peculiar to Berlin. Sunday.-Waterworks at Sans-Souci, 12 to dusk. Märkisches Museum, 11-2. Monday.-Märkisches Museum, 12 National Gallery, 1-3. Post Office Museum, 11—1. -2. Tuesday.-Ravené's Picture Gallery, 10-2. Zoological Museum, 12-2. Rathhaus Tower, 10-4. Sans Souci after 3 P.M. Great Fountain. Wednesday. Observatory, 9-12. Mineral Cabinet at University, 2-4. Rathhaus Tower, 10-4. Thursday. Sans Souci, Great A Valet de Place receives about Fountain. Märkisches Museum, 12— 4 mks. per diem. Baths.-102 Friedrichstrasse; H. de Rome; Ascanisches Bad, 19 Königørätzer Strasse, near the Potsdam Gate. vimming-baths in the Spree. English Church Service.-Sunday at in the neat Gothic Ch. in the garden oining the Monbijou Palace, erected the Crown Princess for the use of r countrymen 1885. The chaplain pends a good deal upon casual visitors d travellers for stipend. 2. Post Office Museum, 11-1. Rathhaus Tower, 10—4. 10-2. Saturday. Observatory, 9-11. Berlin, the capital of the Prussian realm and of the German Empire, the Physician, Dr. Oppert, 128 Leip- residence of the German Emperor and gerstrasse. Time-Table of Sights.-N.B. As the ys and hours of admission are liable vary, consult the Hotel-Zeitung, a opy of which is usually brought every orning with the coffee or tea-tray. Daily: Royal Palace, 10-1. Royal ibrary. Public Library, 10-1. Naional Gallery of Modern Pictures, inluding Raczynski's Gallery, 11-3. Zoological Garden. Charlottenburg, Monbijou, 10-5. Hohenzollern Museum, 10-3. Beuth-Schinkel Museum, 10-1, except Sat. and Sun. Rathhaus, Reichstag, Exchange, 12-2. Arsenal, 10-2, except Sat., 12-3 on Sun. Bethanien, 10-4. Botanic Garden, 8-12, 2-7, except Sat. and Sun. Aquarium, 9-7. `Changing Guard, 11 A.M., and Military Band opposite the Guard-house. 10-4, ascent of Rathhaus Tower, 50 pf. Daily, except Monday: Royal Museum of Pictures, Sculpture, &c., Industrial Museum. of the foreign ministers, the seat of Government and place of meeting of the German Parliament, stands on the Spree, a small stream with a very sluggish current; which, however, by means of canals, communicates with the Oder and the Baltic on the one hand, and flows into the Elbe on the other. In population it now ranks third among the capitals of Europe (after London and Naples), numbering 1,250,000 Inhab., having had only 250,000 in 1833-a rate of increase almost without parallel. Of these, 25,000 are soldiers of the garrison, giving to the city, from their number, the air of a camp; 16,000 Jews, 6000 French Protestants, descendants of exiles driven out of France by the intolerance of Louis XIV., and 50,000 Roman Catholics. The city is situated 110 ft. above the sea, in the midst of a dreary plain of sand, destitute of either beauty or fertility. Previous to the reign of Frederick I. it was an unimportant town, confined to the rt. bank of the Spree, and to the island on which the Palace and Museum now stand. It is surprising that the foundation of a town should ever have been laid on such a spot; but it is far more wonderful that it should have grown up, notwithstanding, into one of the most flourishing and magnificent cities of Europe; and should have become, since 1830, a great manufacturing and commercial centre, and the capital of a great empire. Berlin is indebted for much of its prosperity to its position as a great railway centre, to the importance of its money-market, and to its flourishing trade in brewing, enginebuilding, cattle, wool, and grain. Owing to the want of stone in the neighbourhood, the larger part even of the public buildings are of brick and plaster; still there is much to admire in the modern architecture of the city buildings, and especially of the private houses on the outskirts, the Thiergarten, &c., which display originality of design and elegance of taste. The flatness of the ground and the sandy soil produce inconveniences which the stranger will not be long in detecting. But at least Berlin is now well supplied with fresh water pumped up from the Spree by 8 steam-engines, and is furnished with a complete sewage and drainage system. The passing traveller in search of amusement will soon exhaust the sights of Berlin, and may find it less attractive than most of the great European capitals. The stranger coming to reside here, provided with good introductions, may find an agreeable literary society among the professors of the University, many of whom enjoy a European celebrity. The society of the upper classes is on the whole not | very accessible to strangers. The hotels of the Diplomatic Corps are an exception, and in them the most agree able soirées are held in the winter season. The finest buildings are concentrated in the very small space of m. between the Palace (Schloss) and the Brandenburg Gate, or very near it. Few European capitals can show so much architectural display as is seen in the colossal Palace, the beautiful colonnade of the Museum, the Guardhouse, the great Opera, and the University opposite. These, with the Arsenal and the Academy of Arts, are all within a stone's throw of one another, and the greater part may be seen by turning round on one's heel, while the two churches and theatre in the Gendarmenmarkt are not many paces off. The following route embraces the principal buildings and objects of interest in the city : Proceeding E. up the "Unter den Linden," on the 1. the Academy of Arts, University, Guard-house, and Arsenal, in the centre Frederick the Great's monument; rt. Emperor's Palace, Library, Opera-house, Imperial Prince's Palace. Across the Schlossbrücke to the Old and New Museums and Dom; cross to Friedrichs Brücke, up the Neue Friedrichstrasse, through the old town, and by the Königstrasse, back S. past the Rathhaus, across the Lange-brücke to the Schloss and Royal Stables; across the Schleusenbrücke and Werder Markt to the Französischestrasse. St. Hedwig's ch., S. down the Markgrafenstrasse, past the French ch., Theatre, Schiller's monument and New ch. into the Lindenstrasse. S.W. to the Belle Alliance Platz and Column, N.W. up the Wilhelmstrasse to W. the Leipzigerstrasse, in which on 1. the War Office, Imperial Parliament House, and at end Leipzig Platz, Count Brandenburg's monument and Potsdam Gate. turn E. into the Wilhelmstrasse, and up it N.W. past the Statues of Frederick's Generals, Prince Karl's Palace, Foreign, Finance, Home, and Law Offices, on to the "Unter den Linden," and W. through the Brandenburg Gate to the Königs Platz, Column of Victory, Raczinsky Palace, Kroll's Establishment, along the 1. bank of the Spree, past the Café Zelte, to the Bellevue Palace. S. to the Gr. Stern, and W. to Charlottenburg, S.E. to the Zoological Garden, and back N.E. through the Thiergarten, passing Fred, Re |