The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-22 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, EVENINCI,..4EBRVAILf722, 11164.

TEM WAR IN, DENMARK.

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HAXBITICG, Bee. lg.
All eves of reports are, fiyiag aliclut; some main-
%Lining liiat the Prusliantiliave made an attack on
the eatranchmento at Dap and been repuleed
with sievoie local I have realiOn, however; to believe
:that thee reports are unfinifided and Dome under
the ClittOry of canards,".' end' I prefer to omntuuni-
cats only *tat I can vauch'ifer.
The wily reliable information today from the
seat of tsar is not very important. Bo far from
having made a precipitate attack on the heights of
Diip el, Hen Prussian are but too well aware of
the difficulties they have to contend with, and that
tib:incition can only be taken, at a tremendous
of life and then only &Vendors orient.
Though the Danishl garrison is well supplied with
food asd ammunition, strong works, and stout
hearts, they are resolved to 'sake a most deter-
mined resistance, and to leave no stone unturned
that can tend to increase the lees of their oppo-,
neat& Thus they are now actively makffig use' of
the peso to undermine the different works, so as
to be able to blow them up when no longer tenable.
But in the meantime the Prussians are not idle,
and have not only placed their troops in
such a position and in such strength across
the pen*mla of Sundewit as to prevent the
possibility of the Danes making • desperate
sortie, and falling on the rear of the advanced army
corp at Apenrade, but their pioneers are hard at
work throwing up batteries for rifled field guns,
some of which are completed and armed, ready for
use when the signal for attack is made. But in
the meantime diplomacy is busy, and the com-
mander-in-chief, with the laudable wish to prevent
the effusion of blood, has sent • message to the
Danish commander to say that unless he evacuates
Aleen, which is undoubtedly an appendage of
Biasing, and contains the cradles of two of the
branches of the ducal family in the towns of Son-
derburg and Augusteuburg, he shall march into
Jutland, and occupy that province as a material
guarantee or substitute for the eventual possession
of the Island of Alien. It may be asked by what
right can Austria and Prussia take such an nun-;
sual step ; but it must be borne in mind that the
whole of their proceedings are of such an extraor-
dinary and abnormal character, that one part is
as little to be justified as the other, and inter-
national law is quite set aside to make
room for motives of expediency, or, as the Prus-
sians call it, "the policy of the free hand." As
members of the German Confederation, Austria
and Prussia had no right to cross the Eider, and
as European great powers, when they chose to set
themselves up as the champions of 81eswig and
attack the Dates without even • declaration of war,
they published to the world that their programme
was and still is to preserve the integrity of Den-
mark, but nothing was said of taking possession of
Jutland.

It is a common saying that new brooms sweep
clean, but the Civil Commissioners find it no easy
matter to sweep at all. In their proclamation on
entering upon the duties of their office they pomp-
ously prohibited all political unions or demonstra-
tions, ands great flourish of trumpets was made
about this prohibition being more especially appli-
cable to any allusions to the question of succession ,
and yet scarcely have they time to take possession
of any place before the inhabitants, caring as little
for the prohibition as the people of Holstein for the
Federal Commissioners of that Duchy, proclaim the
pretender as Duke of Sleswig-Holstein. This was
the case in all the towns and places in the south,
and such is the case now at Apenrade and }briers-
leben in the extreme north.

The Fleusburg Zeitung, though written in the
German language, has always been a steady parti-
san of the Danes. When the town fell into the
hands of the allies, and Danish protection was
withdrawn, that journal for some days maintained
a dogged silence, and besides the paid advertise-
ments published no political news at all, but filled
up their columns with anecdotes, reviews of books,
scientific jottings, and the like. Now they have
altered their tactics, and give, it is true, extracts
from other political journals, dividing the contents
into the two headings of " Inland" and " Ans-
land," and continuing to publish under the former
category of " Home Intelligence" all their news
from Copenhagen, Alain, and Bleswig, whilst their
information from Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfort, and
Vienna they classify as • Foreign Intelligence."
This is their mode of offering passive resistance to
the powers that be—as long as it lasts. But now
an opposition paper has just been started under the
title of the Fleeebury Tagblatt, or daily sheet, ad-
vocating strongly the interests of the Pretender,
though published under the very eyes of the Civil
Commissioners.

The affair of the Baillie Blaunfeldt, which made
such • sensation • short time ago, now appears to
be not nearly of so grave • nature as was at first
represented. Steps have also been taken in his
favour by the government at Copenhagen, and Herr
von Quaade, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has
made representations to A ustria and Prussia through
the medium of the ambassadors of some of the
friendly and neutral powers, laying stress on the
fact that King Christian VIII. did not take away
the life of a single spy, enemy, or traitor that fell
into his power during the last war of 1848-50. It
is therefore to be hoped that Austria and Prussia
will make a note of this.

A large transport of horses arrived here yester-
day from Berlin as a remount for the cavalry and
artillery in Sleswig. Between the 20th of January
and the present day, the number of Austrian and
Prussian soldiers quartered in this city (chiefly for
one night only) on their march to Sleswig, has
amounted to 50,500, besides the horses of the
cavalry and artillery. Of this number only about
10,000 were quartered in private families, the rest
having found voluntary accommodation at inns and
public-houses, for which the landlords received pay-
ment. Besides the above 50,500 mea, about 12,000
arrived and passed through without stopping.
When I add that the army corps of Prince Frede-
rick Charles that marched through Holstein by way
of Lubeck and Kiel numbered upwards of 40,000
men, it will be seen that the allied armies mus-
tered more than 100,000 combatants. How many
of them will return from their military promenade
remains to be seen.

The three battalions of Prussian infantry that
have been quartered here for several days have now
left us and proceeded to join the active army in
Sleswig. An Austrian corps of 5,000 men is an-
nounced for arrival hare next week as a reinforce-
ment for the army in the North.
An instance of injustice and tyranny on the part
of the Prussian officials in Holstein has just been
perpetrated at Kiel, where Professor Molbeck, a
native Dane, and professor of the Danish language
at that university, has been arrested as a spy, and
sent to prison, charged with giving a clergyman
who intended going to Copenhagen, a private letter
of introduction to his friends there.

DILNNARIL AND 7111 MIMI= 07 1720 ♦ND 1727.
—The Memorial Diplousatioise (organ of the Austrian
government) says that the detailed note in which
the Neigh cabinet called for the armed ambience el
Prance, England, Ramis, and Sweden. for the recce-
quest of Slanelg, was dated sth inst. "The Danish go-
vernment bases its request on the guarantees given to the
Danish crows by these four Powers in the treaties of 1720
and 1727. Now the Powers hare yet replied." "As re-
gards France," coetiente the Memorial, " we believe we ere
not mistaken is affirming that the government of the
Emperor is little disposed to take for Its guidance obsolete
treaties, which me attended, in the first place, by the In-
convenience of applying to circumstances which so longer
slit, sod in the ',stood, of being capable of diver, niter-
preloliena."