The King of Bavaria has placed himself in a position
which but for the support of the Empire, might be serious. His Parliament accepted the hostile address mentioned last week, which imputes to the Ministry undue subserviency to the Empire, by a majority of three, but the King, irritated by some brutalities in a speech by Herr Schels, a reckless orator of the Kenealy type, refused to receive the address. Moreover, he ordered the Imperial Law, of Civil Marriage, which offends the majority, to be at once putin'force. The Ministers offered their resignations, 'but he declined to accept them, and the Government will, therefore, go on in , spite of the majority of the Deputies. As they tire slue to go as far as they dare, this must lead either to a coup di &at, a dissolution, or, a suspension of all legislation, the latter probably being the course preferred. If the King dis- solves, he must appeal personally to the attachment of the people to his House, and a defeat would shake his throne.
