The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-03-13
BALTIMORE.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1853.

The Danish ministry have resigned. Does any
body know why the Danish ministry resigned
Everybody knows why the British ministry re-
Signed-what Lord PALMERsToN said in the House
Of COMMONWEALTH Earl GRANVILLE said in the
House of Lords-how Lord DERRY went to work
to make a new cabinet-whom he asked to take
office with him and who accepted, who refused,
and all that the London Times and the rest OF the
English press had to say about the affair after it
was all over All this and more one may read
i'll yesterdays papels-to say nothing of sundry
sage speculations about the probable policy and
probable duration of the new Administration
but not one word about the resignation of
the Danish ministry. Nobody knows-nobody
cares whether they resigned or not Yet the
same steamer brought the news of both
events-the same telegram informed us of both
tacts-and of the two occurrences, the at
London and the other at Copenhagen, we con-
slider the latter by far the more important. Why
did the Danish ministry resign? Is there any
thing ''rotten in Denmark? The resignation of
the British Ministry grew out of an attempt on
the part of France to bully England into a
compliance with the Imperial wishes - that
of the Danish ministry has resulted from a
similar bullying process on the part of the
German Bund towards 'that stubborn little pow
er." The German Bund There is nothing in the
politics of Europe half so puzzling TO understand,
or impossible TO explain the nature, quail
tiles and accidents of this Bund nothing in the
boundess regions of uanscendental philosophy more
incomprehensible than its essence--nothing in the
profoundest abyss of German mysticism more I'M
tathomable than its meaning. 1t is-the Bund.
We can only define it by naming it. II is Il sort
of fossil remain-a kind of half galvanized corpse
of the ancient empire of CHARLEMAGNE of FREDERIC
BARBARossA and of CHARLES the Fifth-it is an
outward and visible sign of that inward and
spiritual unity which pervades the body polite
Of which the German Diet is the head; it is the
duplication of that political pantheism which
dwells in the PROFESSIONAL mind of heidelberg and
Gottingen, which is enshrned in the talismanic
word, fMherland, and which is best represented by
kossuth's idea of the solidarity of nations
Well this Bund it seems has been bullying Den
mark-nay, is actually going to war with Den
mark at least we descry speck of war in the
news that the Danish ministry have resigned on
account of the attitude demanded of them in the
dispute with the German Diet " aud in the further
fact 'that the representatives of the States whose
contingents form the tenth corps darmee have been
called to meet at Hanover in the course of the
present month february" We have not yet
heard what was done at this meeting at Hanover;
but the news sounds warike. The dispute is
about Holstein and Laueuburg, two provinces of
Denmark, possession whereof is coveted by the
Bund, and possession whereof the Bund proposes
to take with an army of &c, 900 men. So the Bund
is going to war; and innumerable lieder will be
composed and sung in honor of Tdteland and Frei-
het; vast deal of sympathy will be expressed for
the poor down-trodden Hosteners and Lauen-
burgers; a great army will assemble on the banks
of the Elder; there will be conferences and arms-
tees and diplomatic notes without number, and in
the end the great Powers of Europe will nterpose
as they did in 1852, and Holstein will continue to
be Holstein, and Lauenburg will be Lauenburg,
and both will be declared to belong to Denmark,
and there will be no at all. All these events
we find prefgured in the resignation of the Dan
iSh ministry.