The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-27 00:00:00

The Arrests in Hanover.

• BERLIN, May 23.
The subjoined semi-official account of the recent
agitation in Hanover has just been published here :
" Several domiciliary visits and arrests have re-
cently taken place in Hanover, and further serious
measures appear to impend. Our Government. had
received intelligence that a delegate from the suite
of the ex-King of Hanover had left Heitting (near
Vienna) for Hanover with important documents.
During this person's passage through Frankfort a
sinces;:f al attempt was made to secure both the
delegate and the carefully concealed papers, which
afforded indubitable evidence thst treasonable plans
were being carried out amongst the king's blinded
followers. King G:!orge had calculated upon the
apparently threatening war bc.tween France and
Germany, in order to kindle di-sension and civil
war in Hanover, and to restore the rule of the
House of Guelph by the aid of foreign arms. A
Hanoverian legion was to be collected in Holland
ready to invade Hanover upon the outbreak of
the war, and to encourage the enemies of Prussia in
the province to rebel. Many zealous adherents of
the King among the former Court nobility and the
late Hanoverian army were initiated into the secret,
and a few officers directed the recruitment. At-
tempts were made, by holding out false prospects,
by leading ancient attachments and fidelity astray,
and by offers of money, to enlist persons from the
lower classes—especially reserve men and those
bound to military service—for the aforesaid legion,
and to get them secretly out of the country. The
result has only corresponded to the expectations en-
tertained in a very feeble degree. If King George
and his advisers were not impenetrable to all ex-
planation and the teachings of fact, they must have
perceived the perfect hopelessness of their cause
from the trilling result of their efforts. Notwith-
standing the net of temptation they threw out over
the country, they could manifestly not have suc-
ceeded in gaining a sufficient number of partisans
for any serious enterprise. The sound sense
of the majority of the people has withstood these
temptations. A slight exertion of strength upon
the side of Prussia would, under any circumstances,
have sufficed to crush the foolish undertaking in the
bud. All tit: efforts of the Guelph party would
only have led to bringing severe misfortune upon
those who bad yielded to seduction. Meantime the
rapid security of peace completely frustrated King
George's plans. Although, however, immediate
hope had to be abandoned, the intention appears to
have been entertained of still keeping up the con-
nections that had been made, and making them
available in every way against the consolidation of
the new Government. The discovery of the trai-
torous combinations that has been made will
serve to put an end at once for all to these ill-
judged schemes. The Prussian Government will
act most immediately in the interests of Hanover
itself by emphatically putting a stop to the incessant
allurements to rebellion against the existing order
of affairs, and to the desperate efforts of a party
which does not even shrink from treason towards
the country to secure its ends. The Government
has hitherto constantly shown consideration and
forbearance towards the ex-King and his deluded
followers ; the latter have, however, only replied to
its mildness with increased defiance. It is now,
therefore, time that indulgence should give place to
exclusive consideration for the public interest. The
Government owes it to the Prussian monarchy,
as well as to the population of Hanover, to op-
pose these ill-advised intrigues by every means at
its command, and to restore to the country the
security of undisturbed and prosperous develop-
ment. The ex-King, of Hanover, on the other
hand, will have to consider whether he will
finally submit with dignity to the fate which
has overtaken him through his own fault,
or whether, by further useless opposition and
traitorous enterprise against Prussia and Germany,
he will also forfeit the personal t,anaideration the
King's Government has hitherto displayer. ~. gn
large a degree toward.: one German sovereigns
WIIO nave fallen sacrifices to the contest of the
previous year. (4-teen Marie, whose continued re-
sidence at the NI .rienburg, near Hanover, if it does
not serve as a soppirt to tin Guelph intrigues, yet
contributes to encourage them, will, in case of her
still desiring to remain there as the guest of the
King of Prussia, undoubtedly have to submit to the
forms and conditions upon which such hospitality is
conferred.

Mr. Motley's Diplomutic Correspondence
during 1863 and 18 4.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
It is said that his Excellency J. Lothrop Motley
bas been directed by Mr. Seward to hand over his

portfolio as Minister at Vienna to the Chief Secre-
tary of the Legation, pending the appointment of a
successor. The despatches of a Minister of his great
literary celebrity will be read with interest by all,
more especially by his fellow countrymen. A glance
at these papers gives unmistakeable proofs of Mr.
Motley's opinions on many important points. He
shows, for instanco, that he is an advocate of Free
Trade. In his despatch, dated Vienna, October
23, 1864, No. 78, he says—" There is a strong party
in Austria who believe that the old ;system of ex-
clusive tariffs, and of what it is the fashion in many
parts of the world to call Protection of native in-
dustry—that is to say taxation of the mass of con-
sumers of a country, for the benefit, not of the
national treasury, but of a certain class of producers
—is an error, and a very expensive one. But the
production of beet-root sugar, of native tobacco, of
spirits, wines, and many other articles which could
be purchased far more cheaply and of better
quality in foreign countries, has been immensely
stimulated by protection, and the classes inte-
rested, are too powerful not to be able to oppose
with success any sacrifice of their vested in-
terest." Writing in this despatch of diplomatic
secrets he alludes with an evident sneer to a system
by which ambassadors in former days endeavoured
to add to their importance by maintaining a rigid
silence while looking unutterable things, implying a
fulness of information, it would be ruin to divulge.
" lam not in possession of any State secrets," he says,
" and certainly should never affect in this correspond-
ence to enjoy such an advantage, even supposing it
to be an advantage to a representative of the United
States Government, and supposing that there were
really very many profound mysteries in the diplo-
matic world to be discovered. As .to the future
settlement of the ' burning questions' of Europe
I pretend to no power of prophecy. I doubt, too,
whether there are many European statesmen who
would be willing to hazard predictions with con-
fidence. There is logic in events, but the syllo-
gisms can with difficulty be comprehended, until
they have been fairly propounded by time. Acade-
mic dissertations about Prussian ambition and its
possible schemes of annexation and mediatisation,
the chronic dualism between the great kingdom and
the great empire of Germany, and their historic
rivalry for the hegemony of the great people by
which central Europe is mainly occupied, the
embodiment of the German State-right prin-
ciple in the policy pursued by the middle and
lesser powers, the re - modelling of the maps
of Europe, and iu general, the possible future
of the world in this century or the next, are
interesting add important themes for philosophical
and historical speculation, but have surely no place
in a diplomatic correspondence, especially in that of
a transatlantic power. I shall only say, therefore,
that so far as my observation can reach, no political
changes seem very imminent, and the immediate
future eau b.; best expressed by negations."
The references to Maximilian, then about to ac-
cept the throne of Mexico, coming from such a
s?urco., have a peculiar interest. In his despatch,
o. 34, Vienna, September 21, 1863, he reports an
interview with Count Rechberg. The Austrian
Minister said that the Government considered the
matter as a purely personal one, regarding the
Archduke himself and his Imperial brother only,
and that the Imperial Royal Government had not
the means nor the inclination to send out forees to
Mexico to maintain the new Empire. Mr. Motley
appears to have spoken his mind plainly when
talking unofficially ou the subject. He held with
all loyal Americans that the act of overturning a
republic, and substituting a monarchical Goveru-