It would appear that Hanover, which partakes of the blessings
of Belgian taxation, is not disinclined to follow the Belgian ex- ample in getting rid of its burdens. The district of Hartz, of ghost and goblin notoriety, has been in a disturbed state for some time past. The disorder was first openly manifested at Gottingen ; and on the occasion of the tax on slaughtered cattle being de- manded from a citizen, who refused to pay it, a troop of infantry were ordered to march on Gottingen, where they would have arrived on the 8th; but on that day an insurrection broke out, and their advance was stayed. The first act of popular zeal was performed by Doctors EGGELING and SEIDINSTICKER, who, at the head of a troop of citizens, marched to the Town-hall, and demanded of the Senate the dismissal of an obnoxious Commis- sary of Police, who seems to have been in very mauvaise odeur, as such functionaries frequently are. The demand was no sooner granted, than the citizens, emtoldened, we suppose, by the'terrible commissary's absence, proceeded to organize a buigher-guard, to take possession of the gates of the town, and lastly of the government, substituting for the ancient Senate a Communal Council of their own number. Thus affairs remain at Gottingen. The burgher-guard consists of two thousand inhabi- tants and five hundred students. The bands play the " Mar- seillaise," " Parisienne," and " God save the King ;" all the people wear tri-coloured cockades—lilac, green, and red ; and the two doctors with the alarming names have proclaimed their determina- tion to lay before the King " the grievances of the country, and the necessity of convoking an assembly of the States, the members of which are to be freely chosen from among all classes of the people, to draw up for the country of Hanover a constitution per- fectly free." The tide of Liberal principles is on the flow in every quarter to which we turn our eyes—when is it to be high-water ?
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