The affairs of the North of Europe are more unsettled
than ever. The Danish Ministry has resigned, and what policy its successors may adopt is altogether uncertain. The crisis is under- stood to have been precipitated by the conviction of some leading members of the late Cabinet, that to coerce the German subjects of the monarch), is impossible : but the high Danish party is so strong in Copenhagen, the seat of government, that it is difficult to conceive how a Ministry prepared to make concessions to the Germans can retain office. Meanwhile, Prussia is understood to adhere obstinately to her own views of the Danish question. Aus- tria, on the contrary, is understood to be wavering: but Russia never wavers, and Russia is the great antagonist of the aims of Prussia regarding Denmark and its German territories.
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