16 DECEMBER 1865, Page 3

The House of Peers in Sweden having yielded to the

distinct threat of the King that he would swamp them, the House of Clergy have accepted the Reform Bill by an unanimous vote. Sweden therefore has now a Parliament almost identical with that of England, except that the suffrage is lower, to the great content of the Swede's. The reform seems to have been carried almost entirely by the personal exertions of the King, who is a convinced Liberal, with a good deal of ability and much ambition. He wishes, it is said, to be King of Scandinavia, and if he will sell Hammerfest and the rest of Lapland to Russia, he may yet reach the goal of his ambition.