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    FRANCE . The past has been an eventful and anxious week in Paris . First , there was an address hy the Presiden t to five or six hundred officers of the regiments recently transferred to the garris ? n of Paris . 'If , ' said hej « lbs Brevity of circumstances should compel me to make an appeal to your dsvotedness , I am sure that I should not be disappointed , because you know that I demand nothing tbat is not in accord with my right , recognised h y the Constitution , with military honour , and with the interest ol the country ; because I have placed at vour head

    men who have my entire confidence , and who merit yours ; because , if ever the day of danger should arrivp , I will do as ihe government which have preceded me have done . I will not say to you , " March , aud I will follow von ! ' hut I will say to you , "Imarch . folloio me V ' His Ministers could not f Xjdain away this menace to the Assembly ; but the great Conservative majo rity s <* m * d cowed by his attitude . When tin Electoral Bill came on again for discussion , it was rejected b y a majority of only seven-355 to 348 ; and it is doubtful whether a scrutiny would not equalize the votes . The whole of the Republican party supported , but Odillon Barrot opposed the bill . ,

    The Republicans very wisely put forward only one speaker—Michel de Boarges ; and he proved himself worthy of tbe selection . Au incident in lis speech g ives increasing probahittiy to the feeling that Napoleon had effected a formal alliance with the Left . M . Michel , speaking of the President , said to the Right , « He was yours until yesterday . ' 'And , ' replied M . de Tingny , * he is yours to-day . ' Yes , ' said tbe orator of the Mountain , ' be is mine . ' The leaders of the opposition are described as having frit themselves in imminent danger from a couyd ' e'at . According to the * Times' correspondent , when the result of the division was announced to M- Mole , he nearly fainted . M . Thiers was

    seen with his face hviu , and bis frame trembling all over . He earnestly urged General Changarnier not to qflit the asylum offered to them all by M . Baz ? , the Quffiitor : and the General is said to have rep lied that be was not afraid to go home , as he bad four or five men armed at his house . The number tbat really accepted tie re / nge offered them hy tbe Quxstor , some fixat twenty or twenty-eight , Others a hundred . Whether the panic so exhibited was real or affected , it is difficult to say . Iu tbe agony of suspense it is stated , that entreaties were addressed to some of tbe Mountain , to protect the members of tbe Assembly , for the sake of the Assembly itself , against the wrath of a vindictive despot . The Montagnards are said to have laughed , and gone their way .

    The proposition of 'he Qaffistor to invest the President of the Assembly with power to command the troops , in case tbe external securi . y of the Assembly should be threatened , to which we alluded last week , it was adopted hy the Initiative Committee by twenty-three to six . But tbe Minister of War , arguing that this was a decree of tbe Constituent Assembly only , declared that he would order the article to be pulled down wherever posted ; and a number of military leaders resolved that they owed no obedience to the Legislature . When tbe project was placed beforfe the Assembly , it was rejected hy 403 against 300 . So the President remains in undisputed command of tbe army .

    Carlier and Faucher still reign in spirit in the Government ot France . Victor Hugo had written some beautiful verses in praise of art , love , and liberty , to be sung at a fete of the Paris Musical Associations . Because the last verse contained an allusion to Italy , Hungary , and Poland , the performance was forbidden . ' On Wednesday a committee was appointed in the bureau , on the bill for maintaining the state of siege in tbe Cher , Nievre , and Ardeche . Eleven of tbe committee chosen are in favour of the bill .

    The only notable feature of the sitting of the Assembl y on ths same day was the refusal of the Left to take any part in the debate on tbe communal electoral law , in accordance with the protest o ! the & re democratic members of the committee , that they held the communal electoral law as perfectly distinct from the political , and therefore abstained , because tbe majority wanted to make them one and the same . When the debate opened on tbe order of tbe day , the whole Mountain rose en masse and walked out of the house .

    ITALY . The Sybil has reappeared in Borne ! and pronounced , with awful voice , the coming downfall of the Papal government . A young peasant girl of Sazza , near the Neapolitan frontier—undoubtedly a psychological phenomenon , alternating between a sort of magnetic sleep and ecstatic manifestationslas obtained , b y local miracles and oracles , tbe title of St . Catherine . She has taken , of late , to prophesying evil to the capital ; and such a sensation has been produced tbat tbe Pope himself had her brought to the Vatican—immediately after which she was sent back to a convent . The interview was of course strictly private ; but the nature

    of the girl ' s revelations was most probably similar to those with which she has alread y excited the terrors of numerous exalted applicants—namely , predictions of imminent and sanguinary disturbances , in which , although not of long duration , many persons will fall victims to popular fury . Whatever may be the influence under which St . Catherine labours , it c ? n in no way be considered reassuring for the priests , who already look forward to tbe volcanic year 1852 with sufficient apprehension and anxiety ; and it is asserted tbat great religious ceremonies are to be performed iu the Colosseum in the hope of averting the catastrophes so positively predicted .

    Pio Nono had an unpleasant fright a few days ago at tbe hospital of tbe Benfratelli , whither he had gone to pay a visit . A person attached to the establishment bad a petition to present to bis Holiness , and was anxious not to miss so favourable an opportunity of p lacing it in the Pope ' s own hands . He lost no time , therefore , in running up stairs to get the document , and rushed down again with it post baste , not expecting to find the Pupe still in the same room in which he had left him .

    The noise which he made in scurrying down Stairs and bursting into the room alarmed the Papal cortege , and made the noble guards close xound the person cf the sovereign , who was himself fri ghtened at first , but soon got calm at the familiar sijht «{ an extended petition . * How could you ( said Pio Nono to the suppliant , in a tone of mild expostulation ) , how could you , knowing my present situation , burst in upon me in that abrupt manner V

    AUSTRI . 4 . There was a regular panic on 'Change on the 14 th inst . but of a different nature from those financial terrors which frequently manifest themselves in Tienna as well as elsewhere . The panic liad its ori g in in tbe appearance on 'Change of tbe redoubtable Chevalier Weiss von Starkenfels , not in the character of bull or bear , or of any other animal accustomed to transact business on 'Change ; but as chief of tbe police , and for the purpose of personally watching the proceedings of the humble brokers and capitalists who are suspected of having entered into a financial conspiracy against the Austrian emp ire . Attended by one of his chief agents tbe chevalier slowly paced through the extensive premises in which the monied world of Vienna

    assembles to barter in valuables of all kinds , with his eyeg lass in constant operation , closely reconnoitring the faces and figures of all parties . Luckily his piercing eyes detected no signs of guilty consciences , or , still worse , of those kinds of clothing , such as hats . & c ., which are considered by him to be political demonstrations against the government . Having luffieientl y scrutinised the assemblage , the would-be Ponche of Austria proceeded to the tables of tbe 'Sensale ' or sworn-brokers , and personally inspected their booki in order to discover the names of any patties who may recently have purchased forekn

    exchanges to any large amount . After taking some notes the chevalier retired , leaving the capitalists , oankqr 3 mwcnanh f a „ a t , nkm asgemwed in a Vrr ^ A t ^ - simi , ar t 0 that experienced by a *> rooa Ot chickens when a hawk makes his appear-TSeJ &^ T ai » I ^ d wa » transacted , « - Eifnnr 0 f the Ministe " finance , Whose offen of bills on London aud Autttmre were gladly accepted at a few b » m «„ i ' g ' ., thev were nnMo , t \ i utzerfl luff « r * " &* * &»» wey were QUOleu ak oa Saturn ™ n ™ « . „ ic . t . safi ^ sfev ? -

    —a-. ™ pimtc commissary on 'ChaW « , «„ » - . o « t as having attempted * , } £££% * % changes , 'fhe value of tbe quotations of ti « S . mMket wW ** ° b 6 * t 0 ° " In conssouence of this visit nearly 200 persons domint ° rced t 0 quU Vienna « 3 nd tQ e Austrian aumiMOui , in eoiwttvuence ot being suspected to 1 ave sp 3 Cu 3 ated on 'Change with the view to in-

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    crease the price of silver . No excuse has befn listened to in any one case . The individuals on the expulsion list of the redoubtable Minister of Police have bad to cross tbe frontier without delay , many of them torn from their families and homes without the means of subsistence elsewhere . In several cases the arrests were made in the cafes and other public places ; the gendamei comforting their prisoners , in repl y to their assertions of innocence , with the remark that if the police had anything particular against them they would have been tried by cour t-martial . Among the number of the expalled are several influential mercbams Baron Krauss and his agents have the exchange to

    I themselves . An eminent house , by telegraph , refused to effect the purchase of a considerable amount of foreign exchanges on commission for a distant par y , and even offered to pay their customers the d fference between the price at Vienna and at the spot from whence tbe order was issued . Not a merchant or banker can venture under these circumstances to transact business on 'Change . Not . withstanding , however , the influential capitalists and hankers of the oily submit without a murmur . The dread of a trial by court-manial , and of a violent death , or imprisonment for life , is too great . They submit to be trodden underfoot , with the same readiness that ( he Turk accepts the bastinado .

    This same wise and humane government has virtually closed tbe harbours of the stormy Adriatic a ? ainst English and other foreign ships , by the following decree—stress of weather make no exception : — 1 . There shall not be admitted , at any one time , within gunshot of tbe harbour batteries , more than one large or two small sailing vessels of the same flag , except in case of a previous sanction of tbe Austrian government . 2 . Each ship or steamer o ( war shall proceed and anchor in such place only as shall be pointed out b j the authorities . 3 . II the armament of such ship allow of it , such ship should forthwith salute tbe Austrian flag .

    4 . On the arrival of a ship of war of a foreign dag , her commander must acquaint the governor of the port of tbe cause of bis visit and intended length of stay , which he is not to prolong without leave . 5 , Foreign men of war will not be allowed to ilre morning or evening guns in the harbour . Other parts of the Austrian dominions are devastated by flood and tempest . The accounts of the inundations caused by the overflowing of the rivers ,

    in consequence of tbe bursting of a water-spout in Carinthia , are quite distressing . Many villages are quite destroyed ; churches and hospitals were broken down by tbe fury of the water , and were speedily reduced to a mass of ruins . Many corpses have been fouud in the Tyrol ; whole districts have been swept away ; tbe telegraphic lines have been destroyed , partly by the water and partly by tbe fall of immense masses of snow . The mails have been stopped from nearly all parts of the country .

    Very considerable indignation has been excited by the rudeness of tbe Emperor on a late visit to the Burg theatre . The audience applauded most loyally on his appearance ; the Emperor contented himself with a short and ungracious nod , sat down in his fauteuil , and all tbe nudges of his archducal roothert who wishes to see her son popular , could not induce him to thank bis people iu a more gracious manner .

    Later accounts , dated the 15 th inst ., state tbat the numerous expulsions of Wednesday and Thursday were greatly exceeded on the two following days . A Belgian journal some weeks ago praised the monarchy-saving activity of the celebrated Chevalier Weiss , and boasted that be had expelled 20 , 000 or 30 , 000 individuals from Vienna within a month or two after the city was occupied , b y the Imperial troops . This we believe to be a fact .

    His doings of the last three days have exceeded everything that an English mind can compass in the shape ol police interference , not merely with resident foreigners , but with subjects of the empire and citizens of tbe metropolis . His expulsions have proceeded for three er four days at the rate of a hundred or one hundred and fifty a day . Every five minutes of day-light during tbat period witnessed some one or two well-dressed individuals led into the Stadtbauptmauuscuaft in the custody oi gendarmes , their exit after a short stay with passports , vised for the frontiers . The accusation against the individuals so treated was on the two

    first days , the mere suspicion of having improperly trafficked on 'Change ; on the two next days the accusation of improper dealings in money has been extended to dealings in grain , and corn speculators , whether bona fide purchasers or forestalled , have been treated with equal tyrannical absurdity . On the 14 th , however , the kind attention of the police was chiefly directed to the Polish Jews , who , in their long beards and greasy kaftans , were treated with much less ceremony than the cloth-coaled gentry ol the money market . The cafe in which they are accustomed to transact business was surrounded by gendarmes , and dozens at a time were hurried off to the next frontier . The officers

    employed Ott the occasion replied , to every inquiry , tbat they were acting under authority , and refused to permit an appeal to bead-quarters . From their method of proceeding , it is evident tbat tbe police authorities , with Chevalier Weiss at their head , have no distinct charges against their victims , or else the latter would speedily have been delivered over to the tender mercies of the courts-martial . Can anything be more absurb or wicked than this despotic interference with the liberty of the

    subject and the natural regulation of tbe money and grain markets ? The consequence to tbe latter is , that there is an absence of dealers , an insufficient supply , and that tbe millers and bakers complain that tbey will be obliged to go or send into Hungary and Poland , to purchase 'the grain and meat they require . Of course they will have to pay more for it there than they would in Vienna , especially as the enormous purchases makin g by government have become known throughout the

    empire . Several of the most respectable merchants and bankers have represented to the ministerial authorities the impropriety and evil consequences ' of the sudden police expulsion of many men of business connected with most important commercial transactions / This aud similar representations are in vain . Government will listen to nothing .

    PRUSSIA . The Prussian government intends to increase the severity of the laws against tbe press , by reviving the old stamp duties . The police of Breslau have forbidden the people to applaud patriotic songs and representations at tbe theatre , and hold tbe wholl audience responsible . The 'VossGazttie ' of Berlin states , on what rerepresents to be good authority , that the Prussian government intends before the end of the year to negotiate for the loan of 21 , 000 , 000 thalers , authorised by the Chambers . It adds that Messrs . Rothschild are charged to make the necessary arrangements in England .

    The municipal authorities of Breslaw have issued a notification , informing tbe public that loyal airs , when played at the theatre , are received with marks of disapprobation by many of the spectators , whilst any air or word admitting of a revolutionary interpretation is loudly applauded ; all persons who shall henceforth disturb tbe performance will be immediately expelled by the police , or arrested , if necessary . HANOVER . The explanation demanded from Hanover by the

    Diet , touching the appeal of the Ritterscbatt against the' new organisation , ' has been sent in . It has not yet been published , but all accounts agree in stating tbat it contains tbe most decided refusal on the part of the Hanoverian government to acknowledge the competency of the Bund to interfere at all in the question . This proceeding had the sanction Of the King , whilst he was able to give any attention to public affairs . This act , therefore , may be considered as the last political act of bis life .

    UNITED STATES . By the royal mail steam ship Niagara we have advices to the 5 th inst . The sttamer Cherokee brought a freight of two millions and a half of gold dust from California to New York . It is said that it is now established beyond a doubt , that tbe yield of gold is becoming larger than ever , that new localities of immense value hare recently been discovered , and that as yet we have known but little of the mineral wealth of the country . The democratic ticket has prevailed by a large majority , and the vigilance committee has relinquished Hs operations . It is said that most of the foreign robbers and convicts have departed for Australia .

    A Washington letter says : « It is ascertained beyond doubt that Mr . Crampton , the British marge ( ad interim ) here , presented to this government a despatch in which it is stated that the trench and English governments hadisssuedorders ,

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    in caae of the sailing of any further parties to invade Cuba , to search all vessels of a suspicious Character , whether sailing under tbe United States or any other flag . It is supposed that Mr . Webster has already answered this communication , and there is no reason to suppose be has not indi jn * nt ' y denied the ri g ht of any nation to search a vessel tailing under our flag . It is a fortunate matter for tbe peace of the world that tbe threatened course wa » not put iu practice , as but one reault could have followed . Congress will , of course , call for this correspondence at an early day , and , It bring contrary to usage to make it public till asked for b y Congress , we must only wait patiently . '

    In relation to tbe communications handed in by Mr . Crampton , we bear from 7 ery good authority that Mr . Webster has said , if the English or French claim to exercise the right of search , it will be good cause of war . It is said tbat a foreign war for many reasons , particularly those connected with excessive immigration , and declining manufactures , would not be very unacceptable at this moment ( o the great masses of the American people . The Chevalier HuUeman , the Austrian Charge , if we may believe common rumour , has informed the American government that if Kossuth has a public reception , he will demand his passports . This storv . however , is contradicted .

    B y this arrival we have interesting intelligence from the Isthmus . The railway has been completed to Galun , and a train drawn by a locomotive engine has passed over the road . In about eight mouths more , the road will be completed to Panama . On the 18 th of October last , a series of blood y rencontres took place at Chagres , between the native and foreign boatmen .

    INDIA . The mail which left Bombay on the 17 of Oct ., informs us tbat a riot has just broken out in that city , in consequence of the conversion of two Parsees to Mahomedanism . The Parsee population insulted Mahomet and his faith , and the believers in tbe Prophet took up arms to avenge him and themselves . It was feared that several lives would be lost . —In Madras a disturbance had risen from a singular cause , but with happier results . A few

    scholars of the Pariah caste bad been admitted to the government University , on which the Hindoo students revolted ; but the firmness of tbe authorities has won a victory over their prejudices . In the Mabaragh ' s Gholab Sings capital one of our artillery officers was talking to a young Cashmerian female , when a sepoy went up and used some sort of language which so irritated the officer that he struck him a blow which killed him on the spot . The officer is to be tried by a geneial court-martial .

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    Field-Marshal Radetzky has dissolved tbe common council of Como , for refusing , in -indecent and disloyal language , ' to appear and do homage to the Emperor during his recent visit to Ital y . The ' Nationale , ' a democratic paper , published in Berlin , has been prohibited in the Austrian dominion * . Several new regiments are to be created in Transylvania . Instead of a reduction , this will be an increase to the army of abont 20 . 000 men .

    The Roman troops have adopted a new uniform . It consists in a close imitation of the French , minus the epaulettes . The brass plate on their shakos , instead of the Gallic cock , displays the keys of St . Peter . It cannot be denied tbat black belts are infinitel y preferable to white . The Romans have adopted the former in imitation of the French , and it is surprising that the British infantry , should be still condemned to the drudgery ol p ipeclay . Letters from Trieste of the 7 th inst . describe the

    premature seventy of the winter . The communication with Vienna was interrupted . Snow had gathered in large masses between Trieste , and Laibacb . ) n Carinas tbe rain in tbe vales and snow on the mountains bad combined to fill tbe rivers and streams , so that bridges are everywhere carried off . Tbe Tuscan government has suppressed tbe legations of Constantinople , Turin , and Naples . Charge * d ' affaires are maintained in France , England , Belgium , Austria , and Rome .

    Another instance of female persecution by the Austrian police , in Pesth , has come to our knowledge . A simple girl , of highly respectable family , was denounced to tbe authorities , for accompanying herself on the piano and singing a revolutionary air . Though quite alone at tbe time , she has been arrested and confined in the famous Heu-Gebaude , where all political prisoners are incarcerated .

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    DEATH OF THE KING OF HANOVER . At a quarter before seven o ' clock in tbe morning of Monday last tbe long life of Ernest , King of Hanover , was brought to a close . The deceased monarch , long known In this COWvtty at Prince Ernest * 6 uke of Cumberland , was bom at Buckingham Palace , then called the Queen ' s House , on the 5 th of June , 1771 , and was therefore in the 81 st year of his ng <\ He spent the days of his infancy and boyhood at Kew , together with his younger brothers , the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge . During many years of youth , manhood , and old age , the Duke resided abroad .

    In tbe year 1790 the Duke of Cumberland , then known as Prince Ernest , entered tbe array and served in the 9 th Hanoverian Light Dragoons , the command of which regiment he received in 1793 , being then in the 22 d year of his age , The last regiment which he held in our service Tito the Blues , ' to which , on the 22 ( 1 of January , 1827 , he was appointed in succession to the Duke of Wellington i but , when upon the accession of William IV ., all tbe Horse Guards were placed under the immediate authority of the Commanderin-Chief , the Duke of Cumberland took umbrage , resigned bis colonelcy , and was succeeded in tbe command of tbe Blues bv the late Lord Hill .

    It was not until he reached tbe 28 th year of his age that ( on the 23 dof April , 1799 , ) he became a member of the House of Peers , when he was created Duke of Cumberland aud l ' -Jviotdale in Great Britain , and Earl of Armagh in the peerage of Ireland , with a Parliamentary endowment of £ 12 , 000 per annum . During his residence in England the Duke was not entrusted to fill any office , civil or military , of the least importance , except the Chancellorship of the University of Dublin , to which he was elected in 1805 . George III ., however , occasionally emp loyed bim in negotiations connected with tbe Roman Catholic question . Though thus employed ,

    still tbe course of his existence was not at this time diversified by any very remarkable occurrence till tbe year 1810 , when , on the ni ght of the 31 st of May an extraordinary attempt was made upon the life of his Royal Highness . While asleep , he was furiously attacked by a man armed witb a sabre , who inflated upon bim several wounds in thehead . ^ The Duke , not being able to form the least conjecture as to whence the blows proceeded , sprang out of bed to give an alarm ; but he was followed in the dark by his assailant , and cut across the thi ghs . Upon assistance arriving , Sellis , an Italian valet , who—it is alleged—had thus attacked

    the Duke , was found locked in his own room witb his throat cut ; and spots of blood were observed upon the floor of the passage leading to the apartment which Sellis occupied . On the next day a coroner ' s inquest was held upon the bod y of Sellis , which , after sitting four hours to hear evidence , deliberated about one hour and then returned a verdict of felo de se . The Duke of Cumberland soon recovered from the effects of his wounds , but this painful event gave rise to much scandal , and it must be admitted that the Duke ' s contempt for public opinion frequently exposed him to a species of hostility which persons of better judgment might easily have avoided .

    At all periods of his life the Duke of Cumberland , being a man of strong prejudices and strong passions , was a violent political partisan ; accordingly we fiad biro , in 1810 , entering with much ardour into the Regency question , and opposing the government strenuousl y on many of tbe points at issue . When tbe power of Bonaparte was nearl y destroyed , the Duke of Cumberland again went abroad , and resided chiefly at Berlin , but previous

    to settling in that capita ) , and some time before the close of the war , he joined the Prussian army , then engaged against the French Emperor , was present at several battles , and witnessed Ihe death of Gen . Moreau . Upon the defeat of the enemy the Duke lost not a moment in entering Hanover ; and , acting in the name and on behalf of bis father , resumed possession of the electorate . His Royal Hi g hness remained absent from England till after bis marriage , which event took place in tbe year 1815 ,

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    i when be was united to the Prince s Fredenca-Carclina-Sophia , who was third daughter of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz , and niece to Queen Charlotte , consort of George III . In consequence o ( the death of Princess Charlotte of Wales , strong apprehensions were entertained that the throne of Eng land mig ht pass out of the direct line of succession , and immediately thereupon the marriages of the Dukes of Clarence , Kent , Cambridge , & c , took p lace , and suitable provisions for these Royal personages were mate by Parliament . . . . _

    During the latter part of the reign of Georae IV ., and throughout the whole of the reign of William IV ., the Duke of Cumberland resided principally In England , and was remarkably regular in his attendance in the House of Lords . At the last of the memorable debates which took p lace upon the Koraan Catholic claims , the Duke of Clarence declared in favour of the proposed concession , and spokein support of the Relief Bill . The Duke of Cumberland immediately rose , and In a short but forcible speech , delivered with some warmth , condetuned the measure , and expressed bis unalterable determination to be governed by the princip les upon which his father and the majority of bis family bad ever acted . He uniformally supported in Parliament the political opinions which guided the Pitt , the Perceval , and the Liverpool Administrations ;

    while , at the period which we have now reached , he was a warm patron of the Brunswick clubs , and also held the office of Grand Master of the Orangemen of Ireland In reference to his transactions with thit Utter body a multitude of reports were at that time circulated , imputing to him political designs and objects of personal ambition connected with the succession to the crown which could never have entered into the mind of any man free from ungoverned passions or iuordinate ambition . Of the existence of such designs it may , perhaps , be said that no sufficient evidence has ever been produced . But that a large proportion of the public believed in them ; is attested not only by the Duke ' s many enemies , but by the conduct of the few friends who sought to palliate the equivocal proceedings of those days .

    Ill connexion with these Orange clubs we may state that a Parliamentary committee was appointed in 1835 to inquire into the character and constitution of their lodges in the united kingdom , in the colonies , and in the whole of our army , when it appeared that in Great Britain and Ireland alone they were nearly 300 , 000 men , forming a secret armed society over which the Duke was acknowledged to possess absolute power ; that they had established lodges in tbe army , admitting the military without payment of fees ; and that these Orangemen had

    considered and discussed the expediency of altering the succession to the throne , in consequence ot the King ' s ( William IV . ' s ) presumed attachment to principles of reform . The Duke denied any knowledge of tbe secret proceedings of the Orange societies , but on that occasion his memory did not serve him well , and his character for veracity suf . ft-red , not in the estimation of his friends , perhaps , but with that large portion of tbe public who conceived tbat the committee of the House of Commons had succeeded in bringing the participation in those designs quite borne to his Royal Highness .

    At the coronation of William IV . ho was hooted , and , during the debates on the Reform BUI , he encountered several manifestations of popular dislike . In the year 1833 , as well as for some time before that period , the temper of the people was such that the Duke could hope for no impunity from thftt desire to depreciate men in high places which usuall y marks such epochs in a nation ' s history ; and it is worthy of observation that the attacks against hjm on this occasion were not purely political . Some charges made in 1810 were now revived . At the time of the suicide of Sellis , to which reference has already been made , a statement was circulated to the effect that bis Royal Highness bad murdered his valet ; that , in order to conceal this enormous crime , ho had invented the story of a pretended suicide , preceded by an attempt at " assassination .

    and that the wounds which tho Dvke received bad been inflicted . by himself for tbe better concealment of bis alleged offence . These accusations were negatived by tho evidence produced at the inquest ; still the force of tbat evidence , and even the lapse of tbree-and-twenty years , did not prevent a i-evival of such scandal , and the Duke , therefore , thought it necessary to institute a prosecution in the Court of King ' s Bench , where , though the whole question of truth or falsehood was gone into , tbe defendants were found guilty . Upon tbat occasion the Duke himself was examined as a witness , and exhibited , not only to the jury , but to the whole court , the marks of tho wounds which he had received in the bead , from the inspection of which it was inferred that they could never have been inflicted by his own hand .

    His career in tins country was fortunately drawing to close , and from the commencement of the present rei * n he ceased to reside in England ; for at the death of his brother , King William IV ., to whom he was next malo heir , he succeeded to the sovereignty of his paternal dominions . In Hanover , as in many other parts of the continent , females ave excluded from succession ; therefore , Queen Victoria , though inheriting tho British possessions of her ancestors , did not succeed to the orown of Hanover . On tha commencement of the new reign , Ilis Majesty , with his family and suite , embarked for the continent , and in every point of view that event must be regarded as fortunate .

    Happily for tho Duke , it gave him an opportunity of exercising and displaying the better qualities of bis nature , ftbt unhappily for this country , since it removed from our soil the most unpopular prince of modern times , the remote possibility of whose accession to the throne of England has ever boon regarded by the people of this country with undisguised aversion . Hanover was thenceforward no more to England than MeoklenburgU or Menningen , while the Duko of Cumberland , ceasing to reside in this country , and becoming an independent pvince , necessarily underwent that alteration of feelings and sentiments which are consequent upon the change of condition from it subject to it Sovereign .

    In any account of the Duke of Cumberland , however brief , a few words with regard to Hanover must be thought necessary . When tho continent of Europe was relieved from the despotism of Bonaparte , and thero was no longer a Gorman Empire , the Prince ltegent induced tbe European powers to consent that Hanover should be treated on the footing of an independent kingdom , as in tho case of Wurtemberg and Bavaria ; and that the Sovereign of that State should in future be styled King , not Elector . From that time forward this small German State—hardly the size of two English counties—was called a " kingdom . " Soon after William IV . ascended the throne he gave a new constitution to Hanover , upon what were considered

    liberrl princi p les . The year 1630 , like 1848 , was one of great political change , and , after the dethronement of Charles X ., it was thought hardly safe for any monarch in any part of Europe—excepting , perhaps , Austria and Russia—to resist the almost universal demand for popular institutions . As William IV . was not a professed Tory , it became so much the easier for him to accede to the wishes of bis Hanoverian subjects , and , accordingly , thoy were invested with privileges which they hoped would , throughout a long futurity , secure liberty to themselves and their descendants . King Ernest , however , bad not Ion ? occupied tbe throne when he , and perhaps others ) " thought they discovered tbat the Hanoverians had not yet been educated in tho exercise of constitutional freouom .

    On the 20 th ol June , 1837 , when tho Duke of Cumberland became a King , the revolution of the barricades had spent its fury ; he was in peaceful alliance with neighbouring States ; be could confidently reckon on the support of his lit tie army ; and on that alio of many wealthy burghers and landowners , who , having much to lose , instinctivel y adhered to tho principles of absolutisn ; the new Sovereign , therefore , though he encountered some resistance , eventually withdrew from Ids subjects the privileges bestowed upon them by William IV . He arrived in his capital , on the 28 th of June 1837 , and on tho Sth of July announced by letters patent his intention of setting aside the constitution of Hanover . In tho month of tforemuer following he dissolved the Assembly of Estates and annulled the constitution , declaring that it never

    had been valid . His principal subjects had sworn to maintain it , and tbey held that their oath was a covenant with God—not a . compact with men . Among others , sevon professors of the University of Gbttingen refused to proceed with the election of a representative while the constitution was suspended ; tbey were all displaced and three of their number banished . Itiots then ensued , and military were called out ; the other small States of Germany expressed their discontent at such proceedings , and at length tbe King , in 1840 , offered a constitution which the Assembl y received with gratitude and joy , He was thenceforward comparatively at easej but his domestic life did not continue to be so fortunate , for his son completely lost his sight , and his Royal consort departed this life on the 21 s of Juno , 1841 , at the » ge of sixty-three .

    The political events Of 1848 are too recent to need even the most hasty recapitulation . In Hanover they presented pretty nearly the same character as in other continental states ; but the courage with which the sovereign of that little kingdom encountered his portion of tbe political hurricane will be remembered to bis honour , as contrasting strongly with tho conduct of other monarchs ; the King of Hanover , in offering large concessions , did

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    so in good time , with a goc-4 gvaee , and " of his own mere motion , " declaring that so far he would go and no further . If his subjects insisted on more , he was ready to quit the kingdom . Such was Ernest Augustus , King of Hanover . If in early life be gave way to violent passions , and fell into grave errors—if he betrayed waut of judgment and want of political foresight—he made some amends for such deficiencies by bis administration of Hanoverian affairs , and of late years lew continental monarchs have quitted this life more resret-, ... . „_„„„ „ « f , e Mo AWn

    tod . In bringing this narrative of his long life to a close , it should not be forgotten that though he devoted , as was right and fitting , his best energies to the service of his paternal dominions . fyethe was not altogether unmindful of the most unhappy portion of the United Kingdom . Durini ? tbe famine in Ireland , he munificently sent £ 2 , 000 as his subscription towards the relief fund : and with that brief reference to one of those nobie deeds which atone for some of his faults , wo commit the character of the King o f Hanover to thej udgmvnt of posterity .

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    TitR MkRCAntile Marine Act , —The commissioners of customs having had before them the returns transmitted in pursuance of general order , showing the nature and amount of service rendered during the period of six months by the collectors of the Customs revenue , who hare acted as shipping masters under the Mercantile Marine Act , 13 and 14 Victoria , chap . 03 , the commissioners havo caused the collectors and controllers at the several ports to be made acquainted that they will postpone their final decision upon this question for the present , and have directed them to transmit at the expiration of tbe present year a similar statement of the duties performed during the preceding six months , when the Board will be enabled to form a correct opinion as to the extent , < fcc , of service likely to devolve upon the several collectors in the capacity of shipping masters under the act .

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    FHAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . Tlie following testimonial is another proof t ) f the

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 22, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22111851/page/2/