The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-16 00:00:00

HANOVER.

The following decree, just published in the
Hanover Gazette, announces the resolution of the
King to dispose of the public revenues, and aug-
ment his own civil list, in a manner which the
Second Chamber—prorogued on the 4th inst.—
has recently refused to sanction :
We, George V.,&c.
When, by the 4th article of our edict on the Ist of
August last year, and proceeding on the federal resolu-
tion of April 19, 1855, we reserved to ourselves the
right of giving fresh validity to the 6th chapter of the
constitution of August 6, 1840, in its totality, and when
nevertheless we confined ourselves provisionally to re-
establish only the 154th, 155th, and 156th articles of
that law, we indulged the hope ofseeing established
between us and the general assembly of tale States, an
understanding respecting the new financial measures
which it was proposed to bass on the principle of cen-
tralising the public receiving offices.
In this expectation we caused to be submitted, for the
deliberation and constitutional consent of the States, on
the 11th of April last, the prDject of a finance bill, which
would avoid the incompatibility between that of 1343
and the laws of the Confederation.

But our wishes have not been accomplished. Whilst
the first chamber of the General Diet has shown itself
ready to come to an agreement, the majority of the
second chamber has adhered in the essential questions to
the principles of 1848. This attitude has rendered all
arrangement impossible.
Being neither able nor willing to put off any longer
the execution of the federal resolution of Aprillo, 1555,
concerning the finances, which requires that the consti-
tution should be brought without delay into harmony
with the fundamental laws of the confederation, we have
by our edict of this day annulled the chapter in the con-
stitution relative to the finances, and have restored the
one contained in the constitution •f 1840.

Nevertheless, in the absence of an equable distribu-
tion of the expenses between the royal treasury and the
treasury of the state, which exist separately, we have
ordained merely the partial execution of the chapter of
finances, and have organised a provisional form of regu-
lations.

In virtue of the constitution of 1840, we return as
lord paramount into the enjoyment of the feudal revenues
designated in the 86th article of the constitution of 1848,
which said revenues form no part of either the royal or
the state treasury. Nevertheless, not wishing to change
the budget fixed for the current fiscal period, we have
renounced the revenues of the fiefs in' favour of the
general treasury until the Ist of July, 1858.
We have maintained, by the sth Article of this decree,
the principle in accordance with which the members of
the Court of Accounts, recently nominated by the States,
will have to be confirmed by us in their functions. The
regulation laid down in the constitution of 1848, by virtue
of which the councillors of this court, delegated by the
States could enter into the administration with a delibe-
rative voice, is too far opposed to the monarchic prin-
ciple and to the essence of the executive power of the
Crown for us to be able to tolerate its existence any
longer.
In consequence of the suppression of the 81st Article
in the Constitution of 1848, we have from this time for-
wards made fresh arrangements respecting the civil list.
The civil list, as fixed by our late father, the King
Ernest Augustus, is no longer in harmony with-actual.
- actual
circumstances that imperiously require its augmentation,
and as the Diet itself recognised in its last session.
Animated by our duty as a member of the confedera-
tion and by our royal prerogative, we shall shortly
carry into effect the separation of the treasures, and
shall submit to the chambers as soon as possible a
project for dividing the expenses among the different
receiving offices. Should the chambers, contrary to
our expectation, refuse all arrangement upon the basis
proposed, we shall reserve to ourselves the right of
taking such steps as shall be requisite for the -complete
execution of the federal resolution passed on the 19th of
April, 1855.
We declare, however, that we are still ready to enter-
tain any desire expressed by the Diet for the reunion of
the treasuries, could we but believe that our propositions
would be better appreciated by it than was the case last
se:sioa ; and we give by this declaration to our faithful
subjects the proof of our sincere desire to regulate by
some arrangement the question of.the finances in a man-
ner conformable with the interests of the crown and
those of the country.
The decree enacts that the civil list shall be endowed
with a revenue of 600,000 dols. derived from,the produce
of the domains, and also with the interest derived from a
capital of 600,0001. sterling invested in the English funds.

SPAIN.
MADRID, Sept. 14. The Gazette publishes a
royal decree appointing General Urbistenda to be
Captain-General of Andalusia ; General Leimerick
will remain at Puerto Rico. The most perfect
accord exists between the members of the Govern-
ment on the subject of the constitutional question.
The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains a circular
from the Minister of War to the captains-general
of provinces, announcing that, in consequence of
the re-establishment, of tranquillity, the Govern
meat desires that the state of siege in which all
Spain has been placed shall, without being done
away with all at once, be so modified "as to permit
all the branches of the administration of the State
to re-enter gradually in their normal conditions."
The Gazette publishes a letter from the Minister
of Finance to the president of the junta on the
public debt,
stating that the
Queen has granted
to the Duke de Berwick and Alba, in compliance
with his demand, on account of the recent di:.
turbed state of the country, a longer period
than that fixed by the royal decree of the 10th
December last for producing proofs of the sums
due to him for supplies made to the French
troops by his family during the War of lade-
pendenbe- A commission had ,been nruna e ' •t d
for regulating the,postal , communications be-
tween pain and her West •
India colonies.

The departures from the port of London for the Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week have comprised
eight vessels—three to Port Phillip, one to Sydney, one
to New Zealand, one to Portland Bay, one to Launces:
ton, and one to Moreton Bay, with an aggregate capa•
city of 5,591 tons. The rates of freight continue to ex-
hibit heavinesk,.