9 OCTOBER 1830, Page 4

The German Diet has, it is said, declared its intention,

if any attempt be made to change the dynasty of Brunswick, to compel the people by the troops of the Diet to abandon it. Should the very foolish people of the Diet persist in this resolution, the Duke ‘vill not escape the next time, even had he a couple of horses instead of' one.

The Duke of SAXE-GOTHA has, with great good sense, called on his people to meet and freely to state any grievances they labour under, and he will do all he can to relieve them. The condescension of the Duke has given extraordinary satisfaCtion, and will probably save his throne from disturbance when greater thrones are shaken.

There have been a number of riots, most of them apparently for local objects, reported during the week. At Mentz and at Hanau, the n-iob attacked and burnt the customhouses. At Prague, a quarrel has taken place between the Catholics and Lutherans, the issue of which has been the destruction of the chapel belonging to the latter. Carlsruhe and Jena, and various other towns, have had their mobs. All these, and much more serious exhibitions of popular disquiet, might pass unnoticed, or if noticed, be attributed to what is probably their true causes, petty feelings of casual irritation; but at a moment when monarchs are perplexed with fear of change, and palaces all over Europe seem to be toppling on their warden's head, trifles light as air serve to alarm the timorous and to rouse the brave.