New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-12

ofFrankfort Now il is the cousin OfQueen Victoria
the proudly stupid Guelph Of Hanover, who sounds
the clarion Of ctiOn. As the Duke OF Cum
berland he reads in the footprints of his father
the once high English Tory and as King Of Hanover
displays tie despotic desires of Ernest Augustus
The reign of this drunkard was an uninterrupted
wreste With the constitutional Institutions of his
country, which be struck st and wounded in every
possible manner. In treading on the franchises
they scsrcely can be called liberties-Of his coun-
Try, Ernest showed naughty impotence hardly
equaiei by any other crowned cur He expelled
from C0ttingen seven Of the most celebrated Swans
of Germany; among whom were Geryinus
Dahlnan, and the brothers Grimm, who, as
Professors of the University, protested against
the tbroaati0n Of the cor stitution. When it
was observed to him that such a measure would
bersave toe University of its celebrities, the
King answered that French danseuses for the
Usage and German professors for the college
care always in the market" After having in
this way destroyed the liberal constitution
crsnted and maintained by his elder brothers,
the Kings Of England, he in 1910 published a
new one, or rather kind OF statute, mockery
Of the first. II lasted precisely till the tempest
Of ls45. Then, under the pressure of events
and Of general excitement and fear of the peo-
pie liberal constitution was framed anew by
the King, conformity with the legislative body.
This work was not suited to his son and sue
cessor. After protracttd skirmishes during the
past two years, between him. his ministers, and
the representatives of Hanover, he finally male
up bis mind for holder stroke. He dismissed
the cabinet presided over by Won Scheele,
as being too liberal, and formed one which
under his father as well as under him had showed
itself conservative to the utmost limits and
opposed to every action or tendency for general
reorganization of Germany as we'll as OF Hanover
Then he appealed to the Diet of Frankfort, and in
April got their permission for the remodeling OF the
existent constitution, or in plain English was en-
powered to blot out Of II as many liberal para
graphs as he deemed feasible. Thus armed against
his subjects, he abrOgated the document of 1913,
granting new or rather restoring in most of its
parts the statute enacted by his father in 1910.
According TO the present nnOvatiOns-perfectly
contrary to constitutional usages-the new cabinet
of Hanover has no responsible premier but
the King himself He is to preside over the
cabinet, whose decisions will be signed by the
Oldest member BY this instrument the
Legislature is recast and put on an arts
tocratc and nObiliar foundation; task easy
to be carried out in Hanover, blessed with
the stifest and comparatively wealthest nObil-
ity of Germany, and where even the peas
autry CT freebOlders observe religiOusly the law
Of primOgeniture. The people, especially the
burghers, are grumbling and to hush them to
sleep the new ministry has published a mani
festo to refute the csmOr generally spread that
henceforth mobiles only could be ofIice-holders,
pledgipg their word that capacity and not
birth shalt be first considered in all official
nominations. In Wdrtemburg there is some
skrmishng between the government and the
House of Representatives, but it keeps with
in constitutional limits-the upper house, of
purely aristocrstic elements, siding, of course,
with the government and the court. The
matter OF contestation is, first, the budget
the representatives being resolved upon re-
trenchme nts bearing principally upon the court
and the higher officials, and then some internal
regulations circumscrbing the rights of towns
and parishes and extending those of the nobility.
Unquestionably dissatisfaction with the actual
state Of things prevails among mOst of the Ger
man peoples but it seems up to this mo-
ment not likely to work into decisive ferment,
ard nothing of real consequence can reasonably
be forebOded therefrOm. Besides, the war-the
foreign questiOu-absOrbs the mind Of official
&C har rift
They are still Eliminating on its eyentualities,
on the standing point which Germany should |
occupy in this momentous cOnvulsion, and
the means by which German limits and
German influence may be eventually extended.
Thus, having their eyes riveted on the Western
Alliance, on the Danube and Os the Crimea, they |
are scarcely aware that under their feet the soil
is moving, or that reaction progresses step by |
step.
OF late much bad blood has been aroused |
through all classes of Germans by the manner in !
which Lord Palmerston spoke in Parliament con- !
corning the enlistment fthe foreign legion in this
country and in Germany. He excused himself |
rather humbly toward the United States, but |
treated the impedments thrown in his way by |
the German governments with naughty and min
a.ory contempt This difference in the Ian
euase of the English premier, and also Of the |
leading English press evOkes bitter anIwers from |
German organs, showing feeling of rage at the |
humiliation thus east upon them. Now the |
Gt rmans begin to see clearly, and bitterly de-
plore having given up to England at the Con-
rress of Vienna the island of HeligOland, equally |
menacing the mouth of the two great German