EMIGRATION OF THE CROWN JEWELS.
ENDEAVOUR.S have been made in London to soften the announce- ment that the Crown Jewels were to depart; but the softening assurances are not confirmed by what is said at Hanover, where they are all exultation at extorting from England the value of a million sterling. A certain degree of light is thrown upon the subject by the German papers. They ascribe the result in some degree to Prussian influence, the Prince Regent of Prussia being on very friendly terms with the King of Hanover. But they also show that the movement is only part of a larger course of action. The King of Hanover appears to labour under an increasing im- pulse to enjoy "his own," or what he thinks to be his own. His Ministers have for some months past been working to define a distinction not hitherto existing:, between the " Krondomainen," or domains of the Crown, and the " domainen," vested in the government. The produce of the Crown domain is graciously destined by the King to go into his own private exchequer ; leaving only the " domainen," the smaller part of the revenue, to glo, as hitherto the whole has gone, towards the expenses of government.
Though otherwise a very obedient body—almost as obedient as the French Imperial Parliament—the Hanoverian Chamber of Representatives is decidedly opposed to the encroachment, and the public is still more opposed. But King George is fortunate enough to have found a proper instrument for his purpose. He has met a very zealous snail, a Herr Bar, formerly a subordinate employe in a small Hanoverian town, who has already pushed the Krondomainen demand through its several stages, so that only a last and nominal assent of the Chambers is wanting to place it beyond revocation. This M. Bar, it is said, will receive, as remuneration for his services, the congenial post of Keeper of the King's Privy Purse—keeping what he has so augmented. It is calculated that when the King shall have got "his own" out of London Tower and the Hanoverian Parliament, he will be one of the wealthiest monarchs in Europe.
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