The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

THE EX-KING OF HANOVER AND HIS
INCOME.

The emotion produced by the Hietzing dinner
has not entirely subsided. A despatch from Berlin
announces that the Prussian Cabinet will
deliberate on the questiod -whether the
rent-charge allowed to the ex-King of
Hanover ought not to be sequestrated, with every
probability that such a measure will be adopted,
unless he makes an apology for the speech he
delivered at Hietzing or promises that he will not'
commit himself again in a similar way. The New
Free Press of Vienna says that the Prussian cabinet
is at liberty, if it so pleases, to sequestrate the
revenue of the ex-King and not give him one
thaler ; but it hopes that the Prussian government
will leave Austria at peace, and not make the
Emperor's government responsible in any way for
the joys or woe of the exiled Hanoverian family.

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TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Fn. n

The Imperial Ottoman Bank has published the
usual monthly statement of the government ac-
count, according to which the receipts and pay-
ments from the 13th July last to the 12th inst. for
the foreign loans and general debt of Turkey leave
a balance in hand of 135,000 fires in cash and
136,000 lires in bills receivable.
The Levant Herald publishes a report that the
Minister of Finance has concluded a loan of
120,0001. with two London financial firms. The
terms are stated to be about 18 per cent. per an-
num, redeemable in four years, and guaranteed
by the Adrianople tithe revenue.

The Emperor Napoleon and the Empress on
Friday night were present at the °plea Comique to hear
Auber's new opera of Un Jour de Bonheur. This opera
continues to be very much eulogised by the Parisian paces.
A Naples journal, dated Feb. 16, says :
" Vesuvius continues in about the same state as it has
been for the last fortnight—one day the eruption appears
on the decline, and the next the smoke and lava issue
more abundantly than ever. It has bedded the viewing,—
the learned, perhaps, it would be more reepsetful to say—
for es ordain as they have prognosticated the speedy ter-
mination of the phenomenon, or the end of a phase, within
24 hours there has been an entire change ; and that tell-
tale the aismognph informs them that the shocks and
heaving, have become more frequent. On Thursday the
smoke rose up in large columns, and in the evening the
lava stream' were more vivid. The number of tourists
who daily dock to the mountain is still very great, and the
guides are reaping a famous harvest."
Squadrons of almost all the navies of the several
nations have for some time past been mainly in the
Mediterranean. After the American and the English, the
Aludriart squadron, from the Levant, has just left the
Greek waters, and east anchor in the bay of Saint Andre,
which forms the southern portion of the roadstead of
Trieste.
Yesterday, Quinquagesima Sunday, a pastoral
letter to the clergy and laity of the diocese of Westain•
ens, boned by Archbishop Manning, was read in the
Boman catholic places of worship in the metropolis. The
Ant part of the pastoral contains an appeal on behalf of
the two orpheasips of North Hyde and of Norwood, and
a elatment showing that certain boards of guardians
have Awed the removal of Homan catholic children to
the whoa supported by their richer 00-religionnie, but,
ea the ether head, it is stated that " mere than 1,000
Nihon. &Mean in London are at this time being brought
up in the religion of the Mora of Begleat.•
At Twinworth, near Blandford, in Donstalre,
a farmer has a dock of South Dews ewes, sight of whisk
have=eed three lambs each. sad au ewe bee geottisol.
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