The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-11 00:00:00

State of Feeling in Hanover.

The following extracts are from a private letter
written by a resident in Hanover :
"Our city is mourning, all and every one, the loss of our
beloved Queen, who has left us for her beautiful castle not
far from Hanover, called the Marienburg. Her departure
has thrown a deep gloom upon us all. It was such a solace
and comfort to the citizens seeing her now and then driving
into the town, and blessing her with our hearts and words.
Now this our last comfort is passed from us, and all seems
dark and gloomy. Everybody who lives in Hanover must
see and know how our enemy is hated, and how our own
royal family was and ever will be warmly beloved and re-
spected. The Prussians know this very well, and their
situation among us is not to be envied.
" In Hanover all is forbidden to bo published which is
not favourabie to Prussian ideas. The private property of
our beloved King they have taken possession of.
" At the birthday of our Crown Prince every demonstra-
tion was forbidden. Noyellow and white flags—our colours
—were allowed to be hung out, and service in the churches
forbidden ; but there was hardiy a house that had not got
its windows decorated with yellow and white. Every shop
also was decorated, except one —that of a capmaker—who
had put in his window the Prussian military cap, and for
that bad his shop broken to pieces. Yellow and white
gravel or sand was strewn before every house. The alle,e
leading to the Queen's palace—she was then in Hanover—
was full of young girls in white dresses and yellow ribbons,
with bouquets and wreaths, going before the palace to
sing. There were young boys in yellow scarfs, young
men in yellow neck-ties ;in fact, everybody had on some-
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accordance with the feelings of the North of Germany.
"There was never a people more hated than the Prus-
sians. There is a party of Radicals, the same kind as Mr.
Bright's party in England, who have nothing to lose, and
hope by every change to win something. This party has
for years been trying to undermine the influence of the
King, and had been playing into the hands of the Prus-
sians, and acting the spy over the King. This party hopes
to got something from Prussia, who has promised them all
kinds of liberty and glory, which, of course, they will never
get. The Democrats are already beginning to see that
they are being used by Bismarck for the profit of Prussia,
who will throw them off when they aro of no more service.
"Our Queen tried to keep her departure a secret, not to
excite her poor unhappy people, but hundreds were there.
She left quite early in the morning, and her carriage was
literally covered with flowers—all her subjects weeping
their bitter tears. She stood up to take a last farewell of
hot home, and then sank back bathed in tears. Her castle,
Marionburg, is beautiful. There at least she will not have
the Prussians always before her eyes, as the castle is situated
on a hill by itself, not far from the town of Hanover. She
has not left the kingdom, nor does she mean to do so. The
crowd were all kept back on the morning of her departure
by double Prussian pickets with drawn swords. The peo-
ple only wept, but were otherwise quiet. All the first
families have loft Hanover, and live retired on their estates,
and all have put on mourning for the loss of their King.
" The Crown Prince was congratulated by hundreds and
thousands of people on his birthday. He writes to thank
them, and, not being allowed to publish anything openly,
the letters are pushed in under the doors of his subjects.
"A curious accident happened on the first attempt to
hang the Prussian flag on one of the King's palaces. Just.
as they had hoisted it it broke off, fell into the river flow-
ing close to the palace, and was carried away by the stream.
It took some time to recover it."

THE " ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH" BARONETS.—^Sir
Daniel Gooch, Bart., M.P., has the honour of being
the first engineer upon whom the honour of a baronet has
been bestowed. Sir Daniel Gooch was for many lino,
locomotive superintendent on the Groat Western line,
and is now the chairman of the company. ife was ono
of the mortgagees to whom the great ship was mortgaged
for £lOO,OOO, and when that vessel was sold for £25,000
he was one of her
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phloeyr'ing her in the service
from which she had lately come home as popular as she
was onto decried. Sir Daniel is also a director of the
Telegraph Construction Lindenainterfl Company, and
is, wherever practical expece an ma agging energy
are required, a most valuable labourer.—Sir Curtis Miranda
Lampson, Bart., was born in Vermont, in the United States.
%he early life of Sir Curtis was passed in the hunting and
fishing grounds, which, not only in his native state, but in
Canada and the Hudson's Bay Territory, offered such ex-
tensive fields for the gratification of his ardent love of
sport. Married in Vermont, he came
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to England in the
ect, and was enrolled among the friends of la
andyribeer iattrioosolhrkßd3seilurh,bj who,
broken the public peace. On his arrival in England, ho
engaged in the business of a furrier in Queen-street,c Cheap-
whole of the home and foreign trade 7
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pressed with the value and
side, dividing with the Hudson's Ba
sirimportance of telegraphic com-
munication
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the earliest directors and Curtis Lampson was ono of
of the country.
M.P., and Mr. S. Gurney, h .shareholders of the Atlantic Tele-
graph
now connected
with the exception of Mr. Ponder,
to be mentioned, to the the
iweithis the only one of the original
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son company.Curts Llat
son and of the other dCom irectors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company,
pany, that though they have devoted it abundance
1 of earnest and honest labour
during ten to
long years of
trial they have never, from its first establishment
tothe
present day, received a shilling for their ser-
vices • , and that on repeated occasi •
ons they have
from their own resources provided the means of keeping
the organisation of the Atlantic Telegraph in existence
when its own proper funds were exhausted. On the re-
construction of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir C. Lamp-
son was elected to the post of deputy governor, and in that
capacity his great knowledge of the trade and his business-
like capacity have proved of great value to the manago-
e-
ment of the affairs of that corporation. Mr. Peabody n
minated Sir C. Lampson as one of the trustees of the ma
with
g-
nificent fund which ho founded, and, iu conjunction
Lord Stanley and Sir E. Tennent, the management of that
fund has been such as to realise with the most marked
success the wishes and designs of its benevolent founder.
The new baronet is the owner of a fine estate at Howfant,
near East Grinstead, and the old Tudor mansion, a moated
grange, is preserved as an almost sacred trust. Sir Curtis
has two sons, both of whom were educated at Cambridge,
and who will shortly, on his retirement, succeed to the
whole of his business in which they are at present partners.
—Railway News.

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