The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-29 00:00:00

PUBLIC FEELING IN HANOVER.

(Taos ova owe coussrosnur.)
HAMBURG, Amur 15.
Ugly revelations have just been brought to light
in Hanover. In the archives of its Foreign-office
were discovered documents and correspondence
showing how the Prussian monarchy was to have
been cut up and apportioned between the allied
German sovereigns in cue the fortune of war had
gone the other way. There was even a map of
Germany to illustrate at a glance the new distribu-
tion of territory. It is instructive to learn how
they had settled the division of Prussia among
them, which was as follows :—Austria was to have
Silesia, the States of Thuringia to be given to
Saxony, the Prussian county of Henneberg to Saxe-
Meiningen, Westphalia to Hanover, Hohenzollern
to Wurtemberg, the province of Eichsfeld and a
part of Thuringia as far as Langensalza and Nuh-
lenfeld to the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, some parts
of Rhenish Prussia to Nassau, and the rest divided
between Bavaria and Hesse-Darmstadt. It ap-
pears further that Russia was to be tempted to
concur in the spoliation by the province of Posen
or Prussian Poland, and all that was to have been
left to Prussia was to consist of the provinces of
East and West Prussia, Pomerania, and Branden-

burg. All this was fully settled by the diplomatists
of Austria, Saxony, Hanover, Bavaria,Wurtemburg,
and Hesse-Cassel, and would no doubt have been
executed had the treaty of peace been dictated
before the gates of Berlin instead of Vienna. Cor-
respondence has also been discovered in the bag-
gage of Austrian generals killed at the battle of
Koniggratz confirming the above details, and more
over promising them royal domains in Silesia and
Prussian Saxony, as a reward for the victories it
was hoped they would achieve over the Prussian
armies.
The chamberlain Von Bock-Willfingen, who it
will be remembered was arrested by the Prussians
on a charge of high treason, for being concerned in
smuggling the regalia and crown jewels out of the
kingdom, and who has ever since been kept in
the fortress of Wesel, has now been restored to

liberty.
It is now stated that the King of Hanover has al-
tered his plans, and will take up his residence for the
future at the palace of "Het Loo," near the Hague,
which has been placed for that purpose at his dis-
posal by the King of the Netherlands, as a proof
of his sympathy with King George's fallen fortunes,
The Queen continues to reside, with the two prin-
cesses and a small suite of attendants, at the
country palace of Herrenhausen, near Hanover,
where she intends to remain till circumstances
oblige her to seek another asylum.
As some of the German papers maintain that
negotiations have again been opened between
Prussia and Hanover for the restoration of King
George, it may not be superfluous to state that
nothing of the sort has taken place, nor in fact any
communication whatever between the two sove-
reigns since the capitulation of Langensalza.
What probably gave rise to the rumour was that
last week King George sent his Minister of Justice,
Baron von Hodenberg, to Berlin with an offer to
abdicate in favour of the Crown Prince, but had
the mortification of receiving from Count Bismarck
the humiliating reply that it was " too late."
Though it has been known for some time past to
be the intention of Prussia to incorporate Hanover
as an integral part of the monarchy, the
Hanoverian could not be brought to believe in the
possibility of such an act ; and it was only when
the King's message was read to the Prussian par-
liament, and Count Bismarck laid on the table of
the House of Representatives the bill for the an-
nexation of the conquered dominions, that the
Hanoverian awoke to a sense of the reality, and
began to look the danger in the face.
Being thin rudelyawakened out of their dreams of
security, the first question that offers itself for their
immediate consideration is the oath of allegiance
which they will be required to take to their new
sovereign ; and this is a subject that is fraught
with some difficulty, as King George V. has
hitherto flatly refused to release them from
their oath of allegiance to himself. The ez-
monarch appears to be systematically kept in the
dark as to the rapidly passing events of the day,
and not being personally able to read the news-
papers, which would alone give him an insight
into the state of public affairs, is dependent for
information on his little suite of followers in exile,
who for their own reasons continue, as they have
done all along, to withhold from him the knowledge
of many things of the utmost importance, and
which are well known and understood by every-
body that has eyes. King George, who is one of
the great sticklers for the theory of " kings by the
grace of God," still fully believes in his speedy re-
storation to the throne of his ancestors ; and I
have it from the lips of a Hanoverian officer who
last week had an interview with him at Vienna,
that he is quite sanguine of being very
shortly reinstated on his throne at Hanover,
and is busily employed in drawing up plans for
the future. Among other things he told that
officer his plans for the re-organization of the army,
and his intention of re-introducing the original scar-
let uniform, in which the Hanoverian gained
their laurels in the Peninsula and at Waterloo.
It is the uncertainty of their future position that
now most alarms the inhabitants. This feeling
might be considerably mitigated, were Prussia, as
soon as the bill for incorporation has passed, to
convoke the Hanoverian Chambers, and come to
an understanding with the representatives of the
people, so that the transfer might be made
with some apparent show of legality. But
this does not appear to be the intention of
the Berlin Cabinet. On the contrary, it is under-
stood that only a few of the notabilities of the
kingdom will be convoked, with whom an arrange-
ment will be made concerning the most pressing
questions affecting the administration of the coun-
try.

It cannot be said that the fallen fortunes of
King George have caused an overwhelming feeling
of regret among his subjects, for he was far from
being popular ; but great sympathy is felt for the