A noteworthy telegram has been received from Copenhagen, dated March
30. The King has dissolved the Folksthing, by a decree in which he states that he can no longer "delay those mea- sures of military defence with regard to which no understanding with the Folksthing has been obtainable." The "Folksthing had not only rejected the most urgent measures, but coupled them with a condition—the income-tax—with which they had no connection." The King may intend to call a new Parliament, but it looks very much as if he, backed by the soldiers, whom the Radicals have affronted, and the upper classes, whom they have frightened with the income-tax, were about to strike some kind of a coup d'itat. The decree would produce a revolt, but that the Danes are well aware that &Republican movement would not be tolerated either by Russia or Germany, and are afraid of a foreign occupation.
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