2 OCTOBER 1830, Page 4

While in other quarters the people are demanding or entreating,

with various success, a constitutional form of government, the people of Norway are curiously exemplifying the nature of that which, according to their own Manner of viewing it, they have .already obtained. The Storthing of Christiana addressed to CHARLES JOHN, in the beginning of September, a long and re- spectful petition, praying that the Norwegian nation might be allowed to celebrate in a becoming manner the festival of the 17th of May, "the happy epoch when Norway exchanged an unlimited monarchical for a constitutional form of government." On the 14th, the constitutional Monarch returns an answer, re- fusing to grant to the Norwegians the permission which they re- quested. Could their former unlimited monarch have done more ?