The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-06 00:00:00

THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF

HANOVER.

STATEMENT OF THE MOTIVES OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION
PRESENTED TO THE STATES OF lIANOVER BY THE MINIS
TERS OF ERNEST AUGUSTUS, BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING

OF lIANOVER, &C. &C.

The General Assembly of the States having urged us
on the 15th of June of last year to order the resumption of
the negotiations respecting the drawing up of a Constitu-
tion for the kingdom, we have acceded to that demand ;
and as those preliminary labours are terminated, we sub-
mit
to the free deliberation of the faithful States of our
kingdom the project of a Constitution. On the other
hand, we trust that the States, faithful to the assurance
which they have given us, will submit to a calm and se-
rious examination the provisions therein contained, where-
by the conciliation so much desired will be effected with-
out delay.
In our examination of the principles of the Constitu-
tion of our kingdom we have attended to the wishes mani-
fested by our subjects, as much at least as they have ap-
peared to us consistent with the real welfare of the country.
The relations of the kingdom, considered as an integral
part of the Germanic Confederacy, have also been con- ,
sidered in the project under every point of view in which ,
they have presented themselves. We have, in the first
place, deemed that it would b• expedient to refer to the
tribunals all the affairs which the Constitution, denominated I
Gcehrder, of the 19th October, 1719, had subjected
to their jurisdiction, such as affairs of leases, farms, and
the treasury. Nevertheless, we have been requested to
leave matters in that respect in their present state; and al-
though those wishes have determined us to submit that ob-
ject to another conscientious deliberation, we have not hesi-
tated to denominate, in paragraph 36 of the project, as mat-
ters devolving to the tribunals, the farm affairs and the suits
arising out of the servitudes and dues of landed property.
The provisions of paragraph 38 of the project, which con-
sider as a constitutional right of the lawful possessors and of
the parties obliged, the redemption of the landed and
seigneurial rights, and the compensation to be paid in that
respect according to the laws in force, are intended to ap-
pease the anxiety which may have existed on that point.
Chapter sth of the project concedes to the provincial States
a suitable field of activity with regard to that of the States-
General of the kingdom, with a view to fixing in a more
precise manner the rights of the provincial States, by
entering with them into the necessary negotiations. The
house of Stolberg figures, indeed, among the Members of
the First Chamber of the States-General. Nevertheless,
the objection raised by that House with regard to prece-
dence has not been removed by us : on the contrary, we
have preferred leaving that question in suspense during
the minority of the Hereditary Marshal of the country,
Count Munster. It will be seen by No. 11 of paragraph 81
of the project, together with the following paragraph, that
the principles laid down by the patent of the 7th of Dec.
1819, relative to the concession of the hereditary right of
voting in the First Chamber to Lords having majo-
rities, have been preserved in their essential part. This de-
parture from the principles of the projected Constitution,
presented in 1838, is mainly owing to our having taken into
consideration the views expressed on the subject by a Com-
mittee of our faithful States. As regards the provisions of
the projected Constitution respecting the finances, we shall
confine ourselves to setting forth the following brief con-
siderations :—ln the division of the expenses between our
Treasury and that of the State, such as is provided by the
Constitutional Act, we have allotted to the Treasury of
the State such expenses as from their nature must cease
in due time. The administration of the public debt will be
the more easy as it will be entrusted to one authority
only. It is for that reason that we have allotted to the
Treasury of the State the necessary expenses for the pay-
ment of the interest upon and redemption of all the debts
which now bear upon the two combined coffers, as was
proposed last year ; and we in consequence permit, sup-
posing the arrangement proposed by us should take place,
that the debts borne by our Treasury, or the interests of
which are guaranteed by a mortgage, experienced no
change in that respect.
The administration of the State Treasury shall belong
to a college, the rights and duties of which are determined
by paragraphs 147 and 154 of the Constitution. No
difficulty opposes the final establishment of the Treasury
College, but it cannot enter upon its functions before the
separation of the two coffers shall have taken place. As
regards the transaction of business in the Treasury
College, it shall be regulated by an ordinance which shall
be issued hereafter. Besides this activity conferred upon
the Treasury College, the members of that college, ap-
pointed for life, shall enter, in pursuance of paragraph 81,
No. 1 of the Constitution, the First or Second Chamber
of the States, according to their eligibility, and the para-
graph 169 grants moreover to those members the right of
taking the necessary steps, if need be, towards preventing
the principles of the present project of Constitution from
being in the slightest degree impaired. As respects the
organization of the Treasury College, the attribution of its
members and their election to the States, we deem it advis-
able to make at the present moment the following overtures
to our faithful States:—We declared to the States, as
early as the 15th of February last year, that, according to
our opinion, it would not be proper to wrest from the pro-
vincial States, without their assent, the right conferred
upon them of appointing the Treasury College. Acting
upon this principle, we shall propose to the States to dimi-
nish the number of the members of the Treasury College
now forming part of the Assembly of the States. The Trea-
sury College shall consist, in addition to the members we
shall directle appoint, and of the Secretaries-General of the
Assembly of the States, of seven members, who shall be
presented
tseudch ain intent ttot csplz the Provincial
al
Deputations Deputations.
sl be
recommended to name three candidates who shall on
eligible to one of the Chambers of the States, and four
who shall be eligible to the other. The drawing of
lots shall decide, in the first elections, the question of
the Chamber to which four Treasury Counsellors shall be
appointed, and what deputation shall appoint them. In the
event of a vacancy it shall be filled up. So long as the Supe-
rior College of the Taxes end the general direction of the
indirect Taxes shall have a distinct existence from tl e
Treasury College, our pleasure is that, after the choice
we shall make. one of the members of the Treasury Col-
lege chosen by the provincial deputation shall enter the
Superior College of the Taxes, and another the general
direction of the indirect taxes. New regulations far the
General Assembly of the States shall be shortly commu-
nicated to it. We again give our faithful States the as-
surance of our Royal favour.

ERNEST AUGUSTUS
Hanover, March 19, 1840. G. Baron de SCHELE.

TIIE NEW Poort-LAw.—On the day appointed
for the annual election of Guardians for the Eton Union, not
less than eleven parishes out of the nineteen of which the Union
is composed, declined to send in their nominations for Guar-
dians for the ensuing year. The Clerk of the Union subse-
quently held another Court at the Board-room " to receive no-
minations in the presence of ratepayers," but only two of the
parishes out of the recusant eleven then came forward. After-
wards, however, nominations from four other places were re-
ceived ; but the following parishes in Buckinghamshire, and
some are of considerable extent, will not be represented in the
Board of Guardians during the ensuing twelve months :
Dorney, Hedgerley, Hitcham, Hedgerley Dean, and Boveney.
MOST IMPORTANT TESTIMONIAL OF LIEUT.
MAcTEES, H. P., LATE OF 111 E ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND
VETERAN COMPANIES :

(Cerificate.) St. John's, Newfoundland, 12th March, 1838.
Conformably to a Garrison Order, dated 9th March. 1838,
for the assembly of a Medical Board to take into consideration
the state of health of Lieutenant Masters, R. V. C., and to
report accordingly, We, the undersigned, Staff Officer and Civil
Practitioner, forming the Board authorized by that order, after
a strict examination of the case of Lieutenant Masters, consider
him as entirely unfit for military duty. Lieut. Masters his
for several years been afflicted with rheumatic gout which has
produced serious functionary derangements of his stomach,
liver, and other viscera, and finally given rise to infirmity,
weakness and enlargement of the articulations, especially of
the ancle joints; his general health and constitution is much
impaired, and, therefore, in our opinion, he is incapable of fur..
ther service.

(Signed) ANDW. FERGUSON, M.D. Staff Asst.-Surg.
EDWARD KIELLY, Surgeon.
Letter of Lieut. Masters to Mr. Prout, 229, Strand, London.
Hawley, near Bagshot, 13th Jan. 1840.
St R —Considering that the public would be greatly benefited
by the publication of the extraordinary benefit which I have
derived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, I here-
with send the particulars of my case, and the Medical Certifi-
cate, by which I was invalided. 1 was first attacked with
rheumatic gout in 1326, from which period to 1833 I was 1
under the treatment of the late Dri. Rod, Horner, and
Jacobs, as well as by the present Dr. Davis, all of Hampstead.
From 1833 to 1533 I was at St. John's, Newfoundland, doing
duty as a Subaltern in the Royal Veteran Companies, where
I suffered most severely, and was under the care of Sur-
geon Hewson, R. V. C., Staff Assistant-Surgeon Fer-
guson, and Mr. Shea, private practitioner there, without
being able to prevent the mast violent fits of the gout three
or four times annually, which becoming so bad caused
the Garrison Order for the Medical Board, as before named.—
About the middle of last February and the whole of March my
sufferiags were dreadful ; in fact, I was unable to move with-
out being carried; when Major Birch,anodf
sCeerionngdarlee,
in
nneasor
Farnham, a Magistrate of this county, kindly commisserating
dmayvisti,tuthaatitonfmciaglhletdreocneivmeemfyorhatihf_epplurpose of taking my affi-
saeftveerr several miserable a state, advised me to try Blair's Gout and Rheu-
matic Pills, saying although not gouty himself, he knew
been advised by a then neighbour, Mr. Fedgent, of Aldershot,
to try them,but I declined until the Major recommended them.
I commenced by taking them according to the directions; and
takingh hsiaxd derived benefit from them. I had previously
et the
sincer-
ftohrempei
pills.
so. n m y
mainder of the bpoilals'effeucntudaallycessestattlie7 °thfaatllfitp.aini
had several attacks, but as soon as I feel the least sensation of
the disease I take the pills, which have at once removed all
St. John's,
,YmPtums.—l may also mention that the chalk which had
my fingers is decreasing. I have ceased to have those very
weakening perspirations to wh;eh I was subject before trying
ears has disappeared, and where it €cumed in
n
and where there are so many afflicted with Rheumatic Gout,
Newfoundland,e r e you to print
where
e case,m y andsufferings
were
earneAge
known,nt i
yon would vastly increase the sale of this valuable medicine.—
' am, Sir, your obedient servant, JOHN MASTERS,
Lieut. H.P. Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies.
On Sunday evening last an accident of a very
frightful character took place at the Zoological Gardens, in
Higher Broughton. A man named John Bowser, a joiner, who
has been employed in the gardens since their establishment,
went about five o'clock in the evening into the lion-house,
accompanied by a girl, the daughter of one of the keepers,
and being a little in liquor, he most inconsiderately
put his lett arm between the bars of the cage in which the
large tiger is confined, and attempted to stroke his face.
The animal, whose temper was always very uncertain, sud-
denly seized his hand with its teeth, and drawing the arm
further in, seized it again at a higher point, repeating this
until he got held of the elbow, the bones of which he
crushed with his teeth, and dreadfully mangled the muscles
of the arm. On the first seizure of the hand, the girl ran
out to alarm the keepers, two or three 3f whom were fortu-
nately near at hand, and they lost no time in endeavouring
to release the poor fellow from the terrific situation in which he
was placed. After some delay, they contrived to force the jaws
of the animal asunder, and to extricate his arm. He was
immediately conveyed to the infirmary, where it was found
necessary to amputate his arm above the elbow; but we are
glad to learn that he is now going on very favourably.—Man-
chester Guardian.
A petition praying for the interference of Parlia- ,
ment for the Suppression of the opium traffic with China has
been signed at Calne.