CHAMBERS'
EDINBURGH JOURNAL
CONTENTS
TRACINGS OF THE NORTH OF EUROPE.
RECOLLECTIONS OF A POLICE OFFICER.
RUINS.
A GOVERNESS'S RECOLLECTIONS OF IRELAND.
'L'ACADIE.'
THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE.
DR ARNOTT ON VENTILATION AS A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE.
AN OLD-FASHIONED DITTY.
DEER.
IVORY.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FORTHE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.
| No. 307. New Series | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1849. | Price 1½d. |
TRACINGS OF THE NORTH OF EUROPE.
ELSINORE—GOTTENBURG.
I left Copenhagen for Elsinore on the last day of June,with two companions, in a char-a-banc; a rough butnot inconvenient kind of carriage drawn by two horses.We took the route by Fredericksborg (different from theFredericksberg already mentioned), in order to visit thatmost distinguished of all the Danish palaces. The kingwas living in it at the time; but this was understoodto present no difficulty. The life of Frederick VII.is remarkably modest and unobtrusive. Allowing hisministers to govern according to the best of their judgment,he is content to live in the manner almost of aprivate gentleman. It was stated that at this time,when half the sovereigns of Europe were in the agoniesof a revolutionary crisis, the attention of the Danishmonarch was chiefly engrossed by some ancient sepulchraltumuli found in his neighbourhood. So great ishis disrelish of royal state and parade, that he can onlywith difficulty be induced to come occasionally to townto give audiences and attend reviews. Yet Denmarkis a year old in a constitution which grants somethingapproaching to universal suffrage. Very probably theSleswig-Holstein war is what has secured this internalpeace. Uniting in this external object, the people haveescaped as yet the danger of falling together by the earsabout progress and reaction. So for once a democraticmovement has not been attended by a crop of folly andoutrage.
The country passed over in our drive is composed ofthe tame undulations usual in the chalk formation,varied only by a few lakes and some fine woods. Wesnatched an interval required for resting the horsesto see the queen-dowager's palace at Lundby, which wefound to be a plain building situated amongst somepleasant groves, but in no way remarkable, except thatthe domain was open at all points to any one who choseto