The Gazette of North Germany, of the 18th instant, contains
the royal patent of King George of Hanover, announcing the death of his father, and his own accession to the throne. The young King pledges his royal word to "the inviolable maintenance of the constitution of the country " ; he retains his Ministry, and all his servants, clerical and lay ; and assures them and his people of his "earnest desire to promote, with the help of the Almighty, to the utmost extent of his power, the welfare and happiness of his subjects." The patent is signed " George " ; is counter- signed by Munchausen, Lindemann, Kossing, Jacobi, Meyer, and Ham- merstein; is to be "deposited in the archives of the General Assembly of the States," and to be announced in the first division of the body of laws."
The Queen of Spain has performed an act of clemency in favour of our countrymen. At the intervention of Lord Howden, she has granted a free pardon to twenty-three British subjects who were deluded into joining the piratical expedition against Cuba from the United States.
The Paris Constitutiosinel has news by letters from Taganrog, of a ter- rible defeat of a Russian corps d'armee by the Circassians, near Derbend : the Russians lost the whole of their artillery, twenty-eight guns.
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