NEWS OF THE .WEEK.
KING HAAICON was crowned lb Trondhjem Cathedral on Friday week,—the anniversary of his betrothal and of his marriage to Queen Maud. The ceremony, attended by the Prince of Wales and other ropreseptatives of foreign Powers, appears to have been most impressive in its simplicity. It baa not escaped notice that the representatives of the State who assisted in the ritual were not nobles, but the Prime Minister of Norway—who actually took part with the Bishop of Trondhjem in the crowning—and his colleagues in the Cabinet. The evidences of national goodwill towards the new Sovereign and his Consort have been unanimous and unmis- takable. Not merely by the choice of Monarchy, but also of her first Monarch, it would seem as though Norway had taken the wisest course to make secure the peaceful revolution of last year.
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