29 JANUARY 1859, Page 1
The electric telegraph did kindly service on Thursday, when it
informed Queen Victoria, in Windsor Castle six minutes after the occurrence, that her daughter in Berlin had given a Prince to the house of Prussia. It must have gladdened the hearts both of the Queen, and of her venerable mother, who has lived to see four generations of her house flourishing together. The little Prince is another bond of union between Protestant and constitutional Prussia and Protestant and constitutional England. As such his birth has been received here, while in Prussia he is regarded as a promise of a fuller development of solid progress and regulated freedom.
