The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-03 00:00:00

THE DANISH PARLIAMENT.

A Danish journal publishes the following :
I. TEE FOLICSTIIING IS DISSOLVED.
The committee of the Folkething waited upon the
King with the address containing the answer to the
speech from the throne, and the King declared he could
nnt answer it immediately.
It was then thought that the Ministers would advise
his Majesty to dissolve the house. This supposition
was not owing to the expressions of Ministers. Oersted
had commended the address for " the goodness of its
spirit," and Tillisch had declared its language to be
"fine ;" whilst Ministers declared not. only that they
did not fear, but even that they wished for a trial be-
fore the Supreme Court. The supposition was not ow-
ing to any reason afforded by Parliament (which was
fully justified in its proceedings), but arose from the
, well known character of Ministers, and the conviction
that they did fear a trial before the Supreme Court not-
withstanding all their protestations.
It is the third time Ministers have advised the disso-
lution of the house; but they are constitutionally en-
titled to do so. We may wonder at their expecting any
result from it ; we may be amazed at their readiness to
advise his Majesty to take measures necessarily pro-
ductive of much disturbance, and calculated so strongly
to agitate public opinion. We may grieve at the pre-
cipitation of his .Majesty's advisers, and their un-
willingness to meet the men chosen by the people ;
but we cannot deny that the letter of the law is in
their power.
11. THE LETTERS PATENT TO PARLIAMENT.
The premier read, to the Folksthing the levees patent
addressed to the house by the irresponsible King with
the advice of the responsible Ministers.
These letters patent are, in their contents and form,
unparalleled in history. There is no instance of a con-
stitutional monarch's ever consenting to address the re•
preventatives of the people in such a manner.
From beginning to end it is a monstrous reproach,
not only to the resolutions adopted by the house,
but the " elections which have taken place in the house"
and the way in which the chairman has conducted the
debates, nay even, as to the house's having received and
listened to addresses.
But, according to the fundamental law, this is entirely
within the jurisdiction of the house itself, no other part
of the estates of the realm having the slightest constitu-
tional right of interference in such matters.
But this is far from all. The house is reproached with
want of respect for Ministers.
As if the house had not, more than half a year ago,
declared their wr.nt of confidence in the administration.
And the letters go still further.
The ;louse is severely censured for having, " and
that in an uncalled-for manner," used improper expres-
sions respecting the two Getman counts in office in the
duchies.
But the expressions of individual members, even if
they had been " improper," could not, according to ge-
neral constitutional rules, furnish a ground for blaming
the whole house, much less for its dissolution.
One would think that the utmost severity had been
exhausted. But the letters proceed immeasurably
further.
They mention proceedings out of the house. They
assert that the liberties granted by his Majesty to the
people are abused, out of Parliament to the ruin of the
nation.

Even supposing this to be the ease, is Parliament to
be held responsible l
At length two charges are added :—The house has
neglected the consideration of important motions, and
the Danish Parliament has illegally interfered in what
his Majesty has seen fit to ordain as to the other por-
tions of the monarchy.
Ministers have here totally misrepresented matters to
his Majesty. The house has promoted the royal motions
to the best of its ability, and has only paid regard to
what concerns the other portions of the monarchy, in
as far as the kingdom of Denmark itself is concerned,
in the highest degree being responsible for the rights and
welfare of that portion of she monarchy.
The people of Denmark will not, therefore, be able to
conceive that the house has deserved these reproaches,
and they will, moreover, be deeply grieved that one por-
tion of the legislative authority should thus think fit to
upbraid the other. The whole country exclaims, with
unanimity unknown since 1848, that it is neither the
fault of the nation nor of the Parliament if the syste-
matic opposition to Ministers mentioned in the letters
patent is equivalent to a systematic and legal struggle
for the rights and liberties of Denmark.
111. THE LETTERS PATENT TO THE PEOPLE OF DENMARK.
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The Government has not stopped with the dissolution
of the Folksthing, and the accompanying document. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six day
• Saturday, Oct. 21.- Numbers, including season
`° Letters patent" have been issued to the inhabitants ending,
51 , . .
. .
,42.0, amount received admission, 4,6301.
tc;s6.,..—k °al:: Br a • SHIP AND A LONDON SQUARE CONTRI ASTED.7
of the kingdom, containing a further view of what has
been done, and expressing wishes for future proceedings.
stOilzre.:nGeaakopeualcdt the idea much
A hare statement of the dimensions of thelarge ship
which Mr. Scott Russell is just nowt. building scarcely
As regards the past, the language used is of the samee
dosdt.owAn t
character, in part, as that alluded to above. But th
ingeniousrui,ra
conveys a notion to the majority
capacity,
jotted t e°
conviction is likewise expressed that the care of the people
infrdisenodf
of
ts
ours,va s t
is unconcerned in the political agitation which has arisen
in opposition to the efforts of Government. .
points of comparison
st by the between the ship and Tavist -
ock-square, and these servo
events of the last year has been made manifest The manner in which the people of Denmark view the Mr.
the fundamental
arer. He points out that
two celebrations of the anniversary of
bl b the Tavistock-square consists law, as well as on every other public assesm y ; y
with the ex- 18 houses on one of 0f56 houses, and that there are
efforts of the whole of the Danish presul
25 feet frontage, or 450 feet.
pipes,
addresses ; It would require side,
f
ception of two of its organs ;
same Po
and by the to make the length o
ninef from the other side, or 225 feet,
by repeated elections in
.the
spirit,lf it be equal to 675 the large ship—viz. 27 houses, or
expressed opinion of Parliament.
feet. Then the houses being 42 feet deep,
unanimously
g
people
who have expressed it would r • not the core of the Danish
editors ' require two houses put together to make the
themselves, this core consists
thefofthe edit of the section of the ship, which is 83 feet; so that it would ac-
Ftevepost and the ministry,
tocrats "oi drat of
the tually require all the houses put together in two rows
hto
EjoebsnhavnsPost and a few aris 0 ,J ne o one or make a block the size of the big ship, setting aside 't •
hers of Parliament elected a year age. They are angles cut off in coming the keel. Again, the inhshi-
two members
to
the core, and the rest of the one million four hundred tants of the square may be considered eight to a house,
thousand Danes the rind I
or 44S souls ; whilst the ship will some day carry fe.ur
Ministers then advised the King to remind the people times or five times as many, Fay 2,240 or 3,000 souls:
of his gift—the fundamental law. In the letters to At any time of winter the 56 houses in the square will
the Parliament it is asserted that his Majesty conferred probably have 10 tons of coals each, or 560 tons; whilst
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it of his own plenary authority, and in those addressed the big will take nearly 20 times as much, or at I alt
to the people his Majesty boasts of never h • 10 000 for its own consumption. To carry the .00
aving been , tons
of the 56 hoes' Off to
backward in making 1 concessions to the people. parison one step further, the cost
The fundamental law appears here for the first time as build would be about 112,000/. ; the furniture
a royal octroi. The law itself completely i nor this or 170,000/. read to be inhabited. 58,0 001,,
Thisabip, it is sup.
/ beforeit is re add
idea, adding, as it does, t gel
will cost 450,0001. or 0.
~
rOO 000 .
o the clause "given by our posed,this. —no Build 'W.
own plenary authority," the
' its inmates! Rather striking
words "by agreement with for