NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rpHE event of the week has been the death of the King of Denmark, which changes the question of Schleswig-Holstein from the most irritating of bores into one of some urgency and importance. King Frederick died at Glucksburg on the 15th inst., of erysipelas of the head, and Prince Christian was proclaimed on the following day King of Denmark. The grief of the Danes, who have been dreading the termination of the line of Oldenburg for a genera- tion, and who had begun to appreciate the almost Republican man- liness of their sovereign, appears to be most real. The cry of the crowds in Copenhagen was for "the Constitution for the whole monarchy," and this has been already ratified by King Christian IX. It is, in fact, an Act of Union between Denmark and Schleswig. The throne of Denmark is undisputed, bat the Duke of .A.ugusten- burg, child of a morganatic marriage between his father and Miss Daneskiold, has claimed the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, and has been recognized as Duke by Saxe-Coburg, Saxe-Weimar, and Baden.
