The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-05 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 4.—A notable improvement has
been perceptible in the nature of the transactions
since the opening of the Bourse this morning—the
principal Securities being held firm, and little dis-
position being manifested to accept any reduction
on the closing rates of yesterday. Mobilier Shares,
however, have again slightly declined, the present
quotation being 762 fr. 50c. Threes, for the Ac-
count, are now at 67fr. 35c., and Italian Fives have
been done at 65fr. 35c. There is no change to call
for notice in the position of the Railway Share Mar-
ket, the same languor which has pervaded it for the
past few days still continuing. The market has
maintained the firm position it assumed at the open-
ing this morning, and quotations remain without
material change, with the exception of the Credit
Mobilier, which have advanced to 772 fr. 50c.—being
an. improvement of 10fr. The latest quotations
were as follows :

per Cents 95 50
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 67 35
Do. end month 67 40
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3600
Credit Foncier 1267 • 50
Roman
RAIL

Italian Loan 65 30
Do. end month 65 55
Ditto Threes —
New Mexican
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1057 50 ... 1055
Lyons and Mediterranean__ 921 25 ... 923 75
Southern 585 590
Western 520 ... 521 25
Eastern
Sardinian 305 302 50
Austrian
Lombard ' 538 75 ... 540
North of Spain 221 75 ... 225
Saragossa 350 ... 350
Ditto to Barcelona — 130

HANOVER.
HANOVER, May 2.

The following speech was delivered by the King
of Hanover at the inauguration of a new lecture-
room at the university of Gottingen
" Your Magnificence, Gentlemen, Professors
and Doctors,

" Inheriting the love of my ancestors for the uni-
versity of our country, my atttention was early
drawn to all the circumstances of the Georgia
Augusta, and even while. Crown Prince I endea-
voured with the warmest interest to ascertain all
particulars referring to that institution. It could
not therefore escape my notice that, although the
care of former rulers had erected numerous and con-
Siderable buildings for the objects of the university,
the most important edifice—viz., a suitable space for
the lectures of the teachers of science—was want-
ing. Even when heir to the throne it was my wish
that such a building should be erected. lam con-
vinced that my dear father, now resting in God,
King Ernest Augustus, whose warm attachment
and affection for the Georgia Augusta is known to
you all, who resided at the university as a student,
whose dearest youthful recollections were bound up
with Gottingen, whose heart's wish to be able to
visit the institution he so dearly loved once more in
the evening of his life, and before he was called
away, was graciously granted him by God—upon
which occasion he gave his Georgia Augusta
the splendid hospital which his paternal care called
into existence and which bears his reverend name—
I am convinced that he also would have filled up
this very sensible hiatus, if the Lord had granted
him longer life. But God determined otherwise,
and therefore, after ascending the throne of my
fathers, it became my task to carry out this work
as soon as possible,which corresponded just as much
with the desire of my father as with the wishes I had
cherished even when Crown Prince.

" Now, gentlemen, this work is accomplished,
and I hope you will be convinced how far it has
been completed in its external form in accordance
with the high position and dignity of my university.
With this lofty and significant building may new
and splendid era commence for the Georgia Au-
gusta ; not in the sense in which this term is un-
fortunately so often now misapplied, for that is im-
possible for the Georgia Augusta. But I mean a
more splendid era for the cultivation of the sciences,
whose exclusive culture upon the whole, as in indi-
vidual branches, has always been the task of the
Georgia Augusta. Thus may theology make its
exclusive task always to teach the spirit of the
purest Christianity, free from all erroneous, philo-
sophical theories, as, indeed, the wise and tried
teachers of the Georgia Augusta have always so
well known how to distinguish true from false phi-
losophy. In the department of politics and State
law in which the Georgia Augusta has so successfully
advocated in the spirit of the Constitution of the
Empire the superior rights of individual Princes as op-
posed to Cmsarism, can and will henceforth, where the
Divine Ruler of our destinies in his wisdom deve-
loped supremacy to perfect sovereignty and the bond
of empire to the federation of independent princes—
be taught only the spirit of genuine monarchy and
federation, under whose rule the peoples of Germany
can alone find secure and lasting freedom. And so
will it be also with all other branches of science, the
more so 46 our century is so especially favoured by
the daily increasing progress in the wide field of
spiritual life.

" Victory upon this ground will not be easy, be-
cause since the foundation of the Georgia Augusta
other important high schools have been established ;
but, gentlemen, without contest, no victory ! This,
however, will be secured to you by the blessing of
God, under -the protection of the ruler of the house
of Guelph, and with the assistance of such distin-
guished and great men as now belong to the Georgia
Augusta and as will adorn it to all time. If the
Georgia Augusta took up an honourable position

among German high schools at a time when it was
separated by the sea from the rulers of the country,
now, when the kings of the house of Guelph have
again assumed their lasting seat in their ancient
and hereditary lands, and, if it be God's will, will
remain connected with their subjects until the end
of all things, it will not only vie with other German
universities but will shine in advance of them like a
meteor. May God grant it!"