24 AUGUST 1861, Page 2

ihamark. — A rumour is current that the King of Denmark, who

has no legitimate children, indignant at the menaces of the Prussian Go- vernment, has resolved to set aside the European arrangement, under which Prince Christian was declared his heir, and to leave his crown to the King of Sweden. He has in theory some constitutional right of the kind, but three of the five Powers will probably adhere to the old arrangement. A junction of the crowns would be excessively unpopular in Sweden, and probably produce an insurrection in Norway.