The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-30 00:00:00

HANOVER.

The Hanover Gazette of the 223 inst. contains a Royal
Ordonnance, dated the 14th, sign( d. by the King, and coun-
tersigned by M. de Scheele, which prescribes certain official
changes, and defines various duties of the Royal Miois'ers,
It is to the following effect :
'° Art. 1. The Minister of State of the. Cabinet, sole Ca-
binet Counciller, is to present to the King reports on all affairs
belonging to the Cabinet, with. the .exception of those relat-
ing to the army and to justice, upon the first of which the -Mi-
nister of War, and upon the second the Minister of Justice,
are to present reports. All letters and dOcum nts addressed
to the Cabinet are to be delivered to the Minister of State of
the Cabinet, who is authorised to open them.
" Art. 2. The following affairs are specially attril,uted to
the Minister of State of the Cabinet :-1. Those relating to
the Royal Household. 1. The direction of the discussions
and labours of the General Assembly of the States and of
tie Provincial States. The archires of the State are to be
p'aced under his direction, as also affairs concerning rela-
tions with the Germanic Confcdera'ion and Foreign Pr:wers.
" Art. 3. Until further orders, the ministerial departments
are to preserve. their present respective att ibutions, except
with the following modifications :-1. The affairs of the
General Assembly of the Provincial States arc to cease to
form part of-the attributions of the Minister of Finance, but
are to enter into those of the Minister of State of the Cabinet.
2. The great bailiwicks (Landrestein) are to come within the
department of the Minister of the Interior, who is to propose
nominations to all employments in bailiwicks, and to appoint
absolutely to all other employments.
" Art. 4. The Ministers of Sta'e and of Departments are
to be responsible to the King alone. . They are charged with
the appointment of persons employed in their several depart-
ments, with preparing projects of laws relating to their re-
spective attributions, with decisions on all' questions within
th, it attributions, with certain except'ons specified in Art. 8.
All acts emanating from the ministerial departments are to
bear the lignatut'e of each respective Minister alone, under his
responsibility to the King.
" Art. 5. Ministers of departments are to address their re-
-I.orts to the King, and are to receive his orders either direct
or through the the Minister of the Cabinet. Each Minister
at the end of February in every year is to lay b fore the King
a complete statement of his administration during the preced-
ing year. The Minister of Finance is to present to the King
every month a report on the state of the Treasury.
" Arts. 6,7, and 8, are unimportant.
The Hanover Gazette also contains a Joyal ordonnance,
dated and signed as above, prescribinc, the following forms to
be observed in making homage and declaration of allegiance
to the King:—
"Since the decease of the most high and mighty Prince
and Lord William I V., King of Great Britain, Ireland, &c.,
as also King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lune-
berg, &c., &c., my most honoured Lord, the Government of
the kingdom of Hanover and the principalities dependant
upon it having devolved, by right of primogeniture, to his
Majesty -Ernest Augustus, who has notified his accession by
his manifesto of the sth July, 1E37 ; I, the undersigned, re-
cognise as sole and legitimate Sovereign King, Ernest- Au-
gustus now reigning ; and I promise to act as a good and
fa.thful subject, undertaking to contribute with all my power
to the welfare and prosperity of the said kingdom. In
faith of which I have signed the present form with my names
and surnames."