The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-27 00:00:00

HANOVER.

GOTTINnEN, DEC. 17.—The number of students in this
hall yea,. is 909. In the last half year there were 838, so that
Vie numb. r has increased by 21. Of the new students, 36
study ; 115, jurisprudence ; 62, medicine ; and 56,
philosophy.
The German Courier giv.7.s accounts from Gcttirgen to
the 16th inst., according to wYch on thst day upwards of
500 students assembled, braving the p .trols of dragoons, and
forming again into masses as often as they were dispersed.
About 2 o'clock a body of these young men collected in the
market-place, and several were wounded by the sabres of the
military, and carried by foot soldiers stationed there into the
buildings of the University. At a meeting held by the stu-
dents, it was resolved that they should insist upon the resto-
ration of the expelled professors, and that no other lectures
should be attended. The King's a.icree was read the Pro-
fessors by Professor 13ergmann, in a tone of deep emotion ;
and they immediately drew up a protest to the following
effect :—That, according to the fundam: ntal laws of the king-
dom, no public functionary could be dismissed without a pre-
vious legal judgment having been passed upon him ; and
that also, according to the King's Decree of the 14th of Nov.,
no functionary could be dismissed without the Council of State
having been previously constilted. Neither of these formalities
having been accomplished on this occasion, the Professors
deemed it their duty to protest against the legality of the
King's Decree. To this declaration of th,i seven Professors
most of the other Professors immediately subscribed, includ-
icg the celebrated Karl Ottfried Muller, and Ritter.
On the arrival of the German professors at Witzerlausen,

they were met by about 100 students from Gottingen, who had
got there before them, and who, taking the horses from their
carriage, drew them in triumph to their hotel.
The Wurtztn(rg Gazette mentions that the Archbishop of
Mechlin has gone to Rome on business connected with the
affair of the Archbishop of Cologne.
• The following account of the stsy of the King of Hanover.
during his short visit to Brunswick, is given by a letter from
that city dated the 17th inst. :—" On the evening of his arrival
the King and the Duke went together to the theatre. The
audience rose at their entrance, but preserved a dead silence
on the performance of " God save the King." On the 14th
the King went again to the theatre, but did not show him-
self, remaining private in a closed box. On the 15th there
was a grand reception at Court, and yesterday he took his
&Partin.° without waiting to honour with his presence a bril-
liant ball given by Count Oberg,"
GOTTINOEN, Dec. 18.—The students had a meeting at
Iriek ; they resolved on an address to the seven Professors,
in which they express their affection and esteem, and the most
cordial interest in their fate. There was no further interrup-

tion of tranquillity and ordtr during the evening. All minus
were filled with consternation at the rigour which was used to-
wards the town. It transpired, that a student who was wounded
was in a dangerous state, though he had not given the
slightest cause for the treatment. The town was literally in
a state of siege.. Horse patroles rode up and down. About
fifty students were arrested, and confined partly in the new
Career, partly for want of room in the Aula. The riding-
house in the town was converted into a barrack for Cuirassiers,
who were ordered to have their horses saddled and bridled all
night. The large barracks out of the town were full cf troops,
and orders were sent to all the Bailliwicks in the environs of
Gottingen immediately to call in all the men absent on furlough,
and to send 250 men as soon as possible. Colonel Wincken,
the chief of all the horse patrol (called Landdragoucr country
dragons) in the kingdom had arrived from Hunneer, with
fell powers over all the troops of :the principalities of Gottin-
gen and Grubenhagen, orders to make use of the troops of all
arms if he should deem it necessary for the maintenance of
tranquillity. The Pre-rector declared to the students who
somplained to him, with tears in his eyes, that he could do
nothing, the Chief of the Horse Patrol alone had to command.
This state of things continued the whole of Saturday. It
was known that all coachmen had been forbidden, under a
penalty of 20 dollars, from supplying the students with m-
ines or horses, or taking them to Witzenhausen, or from
over the Hessian frontiers. The students therefore resolved on
Saturday afternoon to set out on fact. Most of them walked in
the night 3} German, or 16 English miles to Witzenhausen,
in the severe cold, and there waited the whole morning in the
open air till their belovee teachers appeared. Several pro-
fessors and masters also went up to bid them farewell, and on
reaching the bridge at Witzenhausen were welcomed with
loud cheers by the students there assembled. At length at
half-past twelve o'clock the two carriages with the exiled pro-
fessors, accompanied by their nearest relations and friends,
appeared. They were received with deafening acclamations,
and nosegays of e•erlastiegs presented to them with affec-
tionate addresses. The horses were taken from their carriages,
and they were drawn with loud buzz.is to their inns. Here
they addressed sonic words full of gratitude and affection to
the students, who certainly could have given no more
touching proof of their love and veneration, arid no body will
forget the impression made on him by the words. Not an eye
remained dry. During the dinner at the Inn, the students
sung in an adjoining room, the doors of which were open.
Dalilmann drank to their well-b& jog, and Jac )1a Grunon, to
he prirperity of our German fatherland. The taking leave
was painful. They were accompanied on their departure by
a few relations, and about 50 students, who went in waggons,
to Cassel. The ti-.king leave was not clouded by any distur•
bance, and the students returned in the quietest manner to
Gottingen. The state of siege here, seems to have ceased,
but the town is as it were dead and desolate. Most of the
Lectures could not be re.td, because there wet., no hearers.
Many students have left Gottingen, others intend to do so.
No departure, orders hive yet come respecting the Six Pro-
fessors who signed the declaration against the Address of the
Pro.rector.—llansburgh Paper, Dec., 22.