The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-19 00:00:00

HANOVER.

MARCH 13.—His MAJESTY'S endeavours to form a
new Ministry having entirely failed, and both the
Chambers having expressed their confidence in the
Ministry, and their desire that they should retain
their office, the KING wrote to them, stating
that he had received the resolution of the
Chambers, and requested them to remain at
their posts. His MAJESTY, in his letter, states
that he has sent to the Deputy Vox Mimics-
lIAUSEN, of the second Chamber, requesting an opi-
nion respecting a programme containing the princi-
ples of a new constitution, but to which no answer
whatever had been returned. It will be remembered
that the rock upon which the Ministry lately appeared
to split was the non-introduction of the fundamental
laws, as proposed by the Central Power of Frankfort.
In reference to this point, his MAJESTY has written a
long letter to the States, countersigned by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, stating that the obstacle
to the introduction of the fundamental law will
be removed so soon as they form an in-
tegral part of the federal Constitution of
Germany ; that, however, several modifications will
be indispensable to their general adaptation to Hanover.
To the Hanoverian Plenipotentiary at Frankfort his
MAJESTY has also sent a note, touching the five points
under consideration on the 10th of February, and
stating that he will request the assent of the States
to a law of the following purport :—That the resolu-
tions of the National Assembly of Frankfort, passed
by the Provisional Central Power, shall be in full
force until the adoption of a permanent Constitution
for Germany shall have been sanctioned by the KING.
His MAJESTY has prorogued the Chambers to the
12th of April, which appears to give great satisfaction.
—Hamburgh Papers, March 16.

DEATH OF THE KING OF
HOLLAND.

His Majesty WILLIAM 11., King of the Nether-
lands, expired at Tilburg on Saturday last, after an
illness which lasted only a few days. During the
night of the 13th-14th his MAJESTY had a severe at-
tack of inflammation of the lungs, which obliged the
physicians to take a quantity of blood from his arm.
During the night his MAJESTY had a second attack
which rendered a repetition of the bleeding necessary,
after which his MAJESTY was rather better.

An extraordinary supplement of the Staats Courant
published the following bulletin :

" Tilburg—, March 16, Six o'clock, P.M.
" The early part of the morning was ♦ery fatiguing
to the august patient, the fever and oppression of the
chest was much more severe than before, especially to-
wards the middle of the day.
(Signed) " EVERARD,
" VAN HERS,
" MIES."
The QUEEN quitted the Hague at half-past ten this
morning for Tilburg, and Prince HENRY of the Ne-
therlands set out from thence the night before last.
The severity of the symptoms continued to in-
crease, notwithstanding the utmost efforts of the
physicians, and on Saturday his MAJESTY expired.
The KING had completed the 6lth year of his age in
the month of October last.

The late KING was educated in England, and bad
been in every relation intimately connected with this
country. Having been driven from Holland, with
his father, on the foundation of the Batavian Re-
public, he was placed under the charge of the late
Archbishop of CANTERBURY, and received his educa-
tion from that distinguished Prelate. At the age of
19 he was appointed, as Prince of ORANGE, a lieu.
tenant-colonel of the British army, and served as
extra aide-de-camp with the Duke of WELLINGTON
in the Peninsula from 1811 to 1814. He was present
at the sieges: of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and
the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, and
Nivelle. He commanded the Dutch troops in the
campaign of 1815, and the Ist Corps d'Armie at the
battle of Waterloo, in which he was severely wounded,
after having taken an active part in the preceding
engagements.
In 1816 his late MAJESTY married the sister of the
Emperor NICHOLAS of Russia. His eldest son and
successor (now King WILLIAM I 11.), who is married to
a daughter of the King of WURTEMBERG, is at present
in London. His late Majesty WILLIAM 11. succeeded
to the throne on the abdication of his father in 1840.