The misgivings which we expressed last week respecting the future
policy of the new King of -Hanover have been strengthened far sooner than could have been anticipated. Notwithstanding his express declaration that he intended to make no Ministerial changes, the Miinchausen Cabinet has been replaced by one of an unequivocally reactionary character, before his father's dead body has been consigned to the tomb ! The King of Prussia has been obliged by his attendance on the obsequies of his relative King Ernest, to allow the Prussian Cham- bers to be opened by proxy, or has found in that pious duty an excuse for so doing. The royal speech or message, read by M. Mauteuffel, is entirely silent respecting foreign politics. What it says of -internal polities would be in the main satisfactory, could any reliance be placed on the King's sincerity, consistency, or firm- ness. The convocation of the old. Provincial Diets is spoken of as only a temporary measure, and their decrees are called proposi- tions" only.. A determination is expressed to abide ,by a liberal commercial policy: The financial condition of the country is re- presented as prosperous. Then follows one of the bad signs of the times: ,the augmentation of the army is declared to be mdispen- sable.
