The Patric states that it is the intention of the
Government to sup- press the Fourth Battalion in the 102 Regiments of the Line, the forming of which battalion had been decided on during the war.
King George of Hanover recently received a deputation at Emaen and lectured them in the opposition they made to his government, declaring that if they repeated it or showed any sympathy for German unity he should renounce all his intentions for promoting their prosperity by means of railways and improvements in the harbour and navigation. A letter from Hanover of the 17th gives a dot inappropriate sequel to this foolish speech. It says': " The King and the royal family, who were to have returned to Norderney last night, did not arrive until eleven o'clock the next morning, in con- sequence of the steamboat on which they had embarked having remained for the twelve hours stuck fast on a sand bank in the Em."
This little accident, which might have been worse, should be a lesson even to the amiable but reactionary monarch who succeeded Ernest of Cumberland on the throne of Hanover.
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