The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty attended Divine Service yesterday morning in
the private Chapel of the New Palace. The service was per.
formed by the Rev. Dr. Short and the Dean of Chester.
Lady Barham, Lord Byron, Sir F. Stovin, the Hon. Colonel
Grey, and other ladies and gentlemen of the Queen's house-
hold were present.
The Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty 3esterday
afternoon.

Her Majesty had a dinner party on Saturday evening. The
company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Viscount and Vis-
countess Howick, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston,
Lord and Lady John Russell, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right
Hon. T. Spring Rice, Lady Theodosia and Miss Spring Rice,
Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson, Right Hon. R. Cutlar
Fergusson, Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lady Barham, Lady
Mary Stopford, Hon. Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Dillon, Lady
Caroline Barrington, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Davys, Lord
Byron, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Sir Frederick Stovin, and
the Hon. Colonel and Miss Grey.
The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards were in
attendance during the evening.
At the Royal dinner party at the New Palace, on Friday, a
solo on the clarionet was performed in the course of the even-
ing by Mr. Burton, of the Coldstream band.
The Earl of Mulgrave had an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.
A small party, including Viscount Melbourne, Lord Alfred
Paget, and the Hon. William Cowper, dined with her Ma-
jesty last evening.
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge,
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended divine
service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South
Audley-street.
The Duchess of Gloucester and a select party dined with
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday at Cam-
bridge-house, Piccadilly.
At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the sermon
was preached by the Chaplain in Ordinary. The Duchess
Dowager of Richmond, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earls
of Mulgrave, Bandon, and Clarendon, were amongst the no-
bility present.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the office of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street. All the
Ministers attended, except the Lord Chancellor. The Council
sat an hour.
. A meeting was held at the Home-office on Saturday after-
noon, at which were present the Lord Chancellor, Viscount
Duncannon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount
Howick, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Lord Morpeth, the Attor-
ney-General, and the Attorney-General for Ireland.
Mr. Wells and Mr. Hitchcock had an interview with Lord
61,-nelg on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
The French Ambassador transacted business on Saturday at
the Foreign-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Saturday.
Sir George Arthur, Colonel Macdougall, and Major Wink-
field had interviews with Lord Glenelg. on Saturday.
The Duke and Duchess of Terceira have left Farrance's
Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Paris.
Despatches from Sir Er C. Disbrowe, at the Hague, were
received yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Despatches were sent off from the Colonial-office on Satur-
day evening for the Governor of Gibraltar.
Lord Oranmore has left town for Portsmouth.

The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
sat on Saturday. There were present Lord Brougham, Mr.
Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, and the Chief Judge in
Bankruptcy.
Dr. Lushington, on the part of the respondent, was heard on
a petition respecting an appeal from Demerara. Mr. Burge,
Queen's Counsel, opposed the petition on the part of the ap-
pellant. Lord Brougham, on the part of their Lordships, al-
lowed the petition, but without costs, and gave leave to the
appellant to present a petition to their Loadships to amend his
appeal.
Several other motions were disposed of during the sitting of
the Court.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Lord Downes, from Dublin; Lord and Lady Somers, at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from a tour; Mr. East,
M. P., and family, in Eaton-place, from the continent; Lord
Alvanley, in Albemarle-street, from a tour ; Lady Barham
in Upper Harley-street; the Earl of Meath, from Halton,
Cheshire ; Lord George Bentinck, at Harcourt House, from
Lord Suffield's seat, Gunton, Norfolk ; Lord and Lady
Shrewsbury, in Stanhope-street, from Altontowers, Derby.
shire ; Sir Francis Chantrey, in Belgrave-street, from Har-
wich; Lord Wodehouse, at the Hyde-park Hotel, from Kim-
berley, Norfolk ; Lord Devon, in Chapel-street, from Powder-
ham Castle, Devon ; Mr. Hope, in Berkeley-square, from
Kettering; Mr. Sanderson, in Belgrave-square; Lord Clive,
in Berkeley-square, from Powis Castle, and Ludlow, Shrop-
shire ; the Hon. Mr. Ord Powlett, and family, at Gould's
London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Yorkshire ; Mrs,
Greeason, at ditto, from Edinburgh; the Rev. Mr. Patterson
and family, at ditto, from Huntingdon ; Prince J. Gagarin, a.
ditto, from Dover.

DEPARTURES.
Captain and Mrs. Peterson, from Gouldls London Hotel,
Albemarle-street, for Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Archibald and
family from ditto, for their seat, Renton Park, Leicestershire;
Mr. Singleton, from Farrance's Hotel, for Hazley House,
Hertfordbridge.:

The Duke of Devonshire will return to Chats-
worth to spend his Christmas. Open house will be kept at
his Grace's magnificent seat in Derbyshire, at Lismore Hall,
Ireland, and Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.
_ _

The Marchioness of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa
Fitzmaurice have joined the Earl of Shelburne at Dover,
where a mansion has been taken for a short period for the be-
sefit of his Lordship's health.
The Marquis of Granby, Earl of Wilton, Lord
Rokeby, Count Bathiany, Lord Gardner, Hon. Colonel An-
son, Earl of Chesterfield, Mr. Errington, Earl of Ho wth,
and a large circle of sporting noblemen, have assembled at
Melton Mowbray. Several of the party will proceed the lat-
ter end of this month to Badmington, Gloucestershire, to par-
take of the munificent hospitalities of the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort.

Captain Sir Bursford M'Mahon, Bart., of the Scots
Fusileer Guards, will lead to the hymeneal altar, in the course
of the present month, the accomplished Miss Bateson, daugh-
ter of Sir Robt. Bateson.

We are gratified to hear that Sir David Brewster is
to be appointed Principal of the united Colleges of St. Sal-
vador and St. Leonard of St. Andrew's, the Rev. Dr. Lee,
who was lately appointed, having resigned.
Lietenant-Colonel Vernon Harcourt, and his noble
Bride, daughter of the Earl of Liverpool, after passing the
honeymoon at Buxted Park, will proceed to the archiepiscopal
palace at Bishopsthorpe, on a visit to the venerable Archbishop
of York.
The notice of the death of the Right Hon. William
Adam in Saturday's Courier is unfounded.
The Marquis of Londonderry and Lord Castlereagh
have become Members of the Newtownards (Downshire)
Temperance Society. The Noble Marquis presided at the
tea party of the Society on the 20th ult., and Lord Castlereagh
was also present, and sipped the simple beverage, " the cup
which cheers but not inebriates," with the members, with all
the gusto of an experienced tea-totaller.
Lord Lowther has purchased the mansion of Mr.
Broadwood, M. P., on Carlton-terrace, to which his Lordship
has removed from Cleveland-row.
The Countess Brownlow, Lady of the Bedchamber
to the Queen Dowager, has arrived in Belgrave-square, from
St. Leonard's. The Dowager Lady Clinton succeeds her
Ladyship in waiting on her Majesty.
Lord Aberdeen and his step-son, Lord Claude
Hamilton, have arrived at Argyll House, from a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Harewood, at Harewood, Yorkshire.
The State rooms in Windsor Castle, and tlue do-
n,stic apartments occupied by the Court, ate now nearly
complete. The drawing-rooms are magnificently furnished,
and the Waterloo Gallery has received several additions and
embellishments since her present Majesty came to the throne.

UNIVERSITY OF GOTTIN

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HAmatianti, Nov. 28. —The excitement here on the rute,_
verian question is, as you may imaaine, very great. Scarc
andattckt h
to display their zeal to the utmost. Among the young Got•
—of whom a very large number finished their studies at Liekf
tingen—an active littlo party has been formed, who have 0..
up an Address to the seven Professors, of which I inclasclo"
a copy. ' e
it, seem
who advocate . theos
'keis
At Kiel a few of the professors and students have 11 this
• •
joined in an Address to those of Gottingen, but, while all..
excitement is going on here, and perhaps also in some obeef:
of the city of Germany, the most perfect tranquillity Colt°
to prevail in Hanover itself. seem equally anxio 0
The question relative to the validity of the Constitution;
which thP King considers to have been null and vod,llo
origine, will in due course be brought before the erms(
Diet, several of the constituted bodies of the Kingd°lnfr°
Hanover having determined on appealing to that great a
dcral tribunal. Such a step must not, however, be looked
upon as of a hostile character • on the contrary, illelai ai.
agree with the King respecting the insufficiency of the Console
tution of 1833 entertain doubts as to the expediency ef4 is
form in which the Royal ordinances are conceived, eed it is
t
therefore desirable, in the interest of the King bites
should,
tiad,
every doubt as to the perfect legality of his conduct siwuvi
as soon as possible, be set at rest by a decision of the Geri
Diet.

ADDRES r cob
To the Professors F. C. DahlmaS nn, E. Albrecbt, Agna
Grimm, Wilhelm Grlmm, G. Gervinus, H. Ewald'

Wilhelm Weber, of Gottingen. bleb rti
" The undersigned have read the declaration cv the
have felt it your duty to address to the Curatorium .hue
Royal University, on the subject of the abolition of selves
damental law of the State of Hanover. Tney feel theta' to
impelled to express to you the joy which it has avvateavno be•
them to find that you, the representatives of science,
come the organ through which the truth has been prone"'
sir iply and firmly, ably and energetically. adoeate
While you felt impelled by your consciences to the
the cause of justice in opposition to power the Voiceti:oal
public conscience made itself heard through you• ablehie sod
rest assured, therefore, of the sympathy of all the
the sacra
4re
intelligent among the German people, for it is
of union and patriotism that has found a voice in You. ,;,,b yos
" You have openly proclaimed the standard by 5-_--aione,
judge these relations ; and, though apparently stands
yet, as the organ of the just conviction of all, you have
rected the political eye and judgment to the basis of mbar be
and justice. You have made it clear to every man mbar
owes to himself in the moment of important deter° al of
which is at hand. You have shown yourselves vi°r. like
those distinguished men whose successors you are; fs of
them, while you have shown yourselves the promote
science you have also shown that that science, not cool 101
the service of general purposes, is able, on occasion, %/ad
language and expression to the rights of warm and una., that
patriotism. It was more particularly in your acade%hee
the word of freedom formerly established its throne, roes
those men, with truth and firmness, enjoined to the,:v.ivete
and People of Germany respect for public rights. Tuet,rabll
supported by the power of a free press, now so delleage
fettered that it will scarcely be able to bring to the knc°. o or
of the German people your generous advocaey of iustic 'But
to you the universal sympathy which you have awakened.
steo
if the organ of the general voice is paralysed, let each ills of
to raise his individual cry. If we, formerly the PaPlAsies
German Universities, now citizens of a free State, PI-Tour
our joy and gratitude for the testimony you have given at jab
independence, we do so from a conviction that the in"°chl
lity of law forms the basis and vital principle of a 00.0- our
as well as of a republic. In this sense you will recm/eordi
address, and you will participate in our hope that the the
you have spoken will be understood by the good sense of 01,
nation. Those words will find an echo in every thinking m
and will call general attention to an attempt to unciev-t the
public justice; they will contribute, we hope, to prefea'or
people of Germany, collectively and individually, from 04
sidering that the dictate of power can relieve them from °, of
solemnly taken ; they will contribute to baffle the p.olv
one man, by means of the feeling of justice inherent in
(Here follow about fifty signatures.)
" Hamburg, Nov. 26, 1837."—Morning Post.
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RELATIVE MERITS OF THE HANOVErIx

CONSTITUTIONS OF 1819 AND 1833. k)
(From the Frankfort Correspondent of the Morning CliOng,c it•
I have hitherto not thought it worth my while or el; of
tention to enter into the particulars of the Constitutle!lThe
Hanover, or to compare one of them with the other.
eye.
fact of the Constitution of 1833 being an immense illir.ved
ment on that of 1819 is so well and clearly known to -de
German, that we here could not think of its being ina
latS
question in England. However, we perceive from the 0.
numbers of the Tory journals, that the writers of these.or
sert, in profound ignorance and with an impudence Old as
ginable, that of these Constitutions one is about as V° ore
the other, and that of the two, that of 1819 is, perhaps, ill
liberal.
seated

These journals speak of the landed interest as represgPied
in the first by a certain number of Deputies, and repreltniltir
in the second by more ; from which these Learned uerhea
men conclude that the framers of the new Constitution vi'9„o,
to increase rather than diminish the influence of the ;19
tocracy. Now mark the facts. By the Constitution of „ey
the noble proprietors of land, and those of the eq,og.
trian order, exclusively, enjoyed the right of 01;05,
The non-noble classes were denied this right ; even thoserop
sessing allodial property of their own, of course farmers re tj,
ing or holding fiefs, no matter on what condition, free trebles
and, in fine, the whole of the agricultural population, not loco
were excluded from the franchise by the law of 1819.
1833 these classes have had the right of electing and L'ibe
elected ; and their deputies brought forward instantlY pd
laws for abolishing feudal charges, and allowing tenants °by
peasants to redeem tithes, coreees, and feudal impoststeto
paying twenty-five times the annual value. These '(op.
passed by the united votes of the deputies of the et
noble landed classes and the burgess class. AldVeS
the Tory journals set down the former voters as "-",,rest.
and Conservatives, because they are of the landed jet, F. he-
The writers were dreaming of England, where, tbo
lieve, Lord Grey's Reform Bill has not done for the
peasants what the Duke of Cambridge ceded t 01833
Hanoverians. The overthrow of the Constitution of ,14.
in Hanover by King Ernest, is precisely as if in Po
land he, as king, were to declare that the right Of I„bles
for Members of Parliament should be confined to the rrars,
and esquires, excluding freeholders not noble, copYll°-tbe
and leaseholders. So much for the difference between
Constitutions, as far as regards electoral law. , of
To proceed to other matters. According to the
1833, the debates of the Lower Chamber were public. sea
cording to that of 1819, they are held secret and with clop.
doors. King Ernest refuses publicity and political educate
By the law of 1833, the States had a decisive vote in ,„
ters of impost and legislation, like the English and riloe4
assemblies. The proposing of measures was. indeed, con 830,
to the Government, as in the French system before I reit
But the States, according to the law of 1819, have in
op
deliberative power, the liberty to discuss their interests 9. of
no more, like the provincial States of Prussia. This,l9o
st
much as to say the Constitution of 1819 is no Constitutl° tot
all. You may congratulate the Tories upon such an eV
predilection. sub'
And now with respect to finance and revenue, on which oasif
jest King Ernest is represented by his friends as marvell to,
generous. Of old the royal domain was of course rer'Aif beperty, which the Elector or King held, but out of whig"-tatee
paid his Court expenses, civil list, &c., recurring to tbeL"-tbef
for whatever surplus was requisite to him, and which tiny
might grant of their good will. According to the Cells tbs
tion of 1833, King William gave up these domains Vf the,
States, which in return voted funds for all the expenses sou
State. In walks King Ernest, resumes the domains„ro-
leaves the public charges as they had been just votedrtbe
mises, indeed, to pay something out of the revenue rf, the
State. Thus the poor Hanoverians have been tricked "gLitioll
enjoyment of a three years' Constitution into the inal);051
of heavy taxes, and lose their liberty at the end. King eeee'
promises to abate 100,000 dollars of the next year's re- t rr
whilst by his upset of the Constitution, and corset eneriieg
sumption of the domains, he gains at least 200,0001- snta, ore
a year I Here is a generous prince I Now, I ask 'boor
the Hanoverians bound to pay the taxes voted by the sing
bers after the Constitution of 1833, and subsequent !loave-
William's cession of the domains ? I say that the l; foie
rians are the basest slaves that ever money was Will„nogtisre st
if they submit. Never was there an example of desk
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uncle once so extortionate and so mean.
Resistance is, however, in preparation. At Gett'rl'eunrie"
professors have followed the example of your bishop sat ad
James 11. If exiled, Russia will welcome them., sheitn:
rate Gottingen is ruined as an University. M ',latent
and Osnabruck the citizens are about to follow the A won
set by the professors. The states of East Friesian,"
pay what they have no right to pay. ear sure
The Liberals of Germany, however, look for one rest hat
port, and that support but an opinion. They expectf Sus hig
ses,
first Agnat of the house of Hanover, the Duke of are "
should take an opportunity of declaring publicly what
sentiments on the overthrow of the Constitution.

GOTTINGEN, NOV. 26.—0 f the seven Professors rib
not
signed the Protest a ainst the King's Patent, tfore hcrei
single Hanoverian. against the King's Patent, there '
single Ilanoverian. They were all invited from gviiiime.
tries, and most of them under the rein of King cooorel'
Dahlmann came from Kiel, as Professorgof Political E om
the
and is the first that signed. lie was the deputY fjonstita;
University
and took an active part in framing the ;arsine
tion of 1833. Albrecht is a lawyer, who, on the
e theePP Coe'
of the Patent of July 5, warmly took up the defence f rocinbe
stitution of 1833. Oswald, the great Orientalist, 9 sot 1/10
of the Theological faculty, and was one of the dePeri:air 1.115
the University to congratulate the King on big ar researched
two Grimms, who enjoy great reputation for their
ere lavitesl
into the languages and antuities of Germany, ,lector,
from Cassel,where they formerly were Directors of th?
or; boo.),
Library, and as well as Professors Gervinus and W‘l3
to the faculty of Philosophy

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