Amidst the general tumult of Europe, the people of Hanover
are playing their little part. On the 12th of September, a number of papers were posted on the gates of the Linden suburb, full of ex- travagancies, say the cre reportbs. The specimens given of the extra- vagancies of which they were full are—`• Down with the tax"— which tax is not specified ; and " Liberty for ever!" These ter- rible placards—which might have passed muster here, for we have so many extravagancies that two to the number would never be noticed—seem to have caused a strong sensation. Three hundred persons collected ; and it was supposed they intended to attack a corn-magazine ; but the dignified conduct of the chief magistrate prevented, not the attack, but the design. The three hundred having assembled, however, they determined to do something ; so they broke a distiller's windows ! The soldiers were immediately sent to the spot ; " where they remained inactive" until eleven o'clock ; by which time the three hundred liberty-for-ever and panes-hating gentlemen had quietly returned to their homes. The conduct of the citizens on the occasion, adds the report, " de- serves great praise." Fame is cheaply acquired in Hanover, where a man has only to do nothing in order to have it thrust upon him. In the mean time, as there is no saying what the people may do next time they assemble, we think the Duke of CAMBRIDGE or he of CUMBERLAND would do well to go over and look after them.
While the people of the capital of Hanover are breaking a distiller's windows to vindicate their own spirit and to bring down his, the other little towns of the kingdom are visited by similar little commotions. Zelle and Hildesheim are in a state of fer- ment,—we presume, from the near approach of the new beer-act. At Luneburg a letter is said to have been addressed to the Landrost kind of baron-of-beef, who domineers over the sirloins of the district) threatening to cut him up if he did not mend his manners and at Wetzen a receiver of taxes has run away in his shirt r Ikre confess we demur to this last account: had it been a payer of taxes, we could have swallowed it shirt and all ; but we cannot believe that a receiver would retreat with so scanty a provision.
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