The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-07 00:00:00

[Stamped, ld. Additional.]

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THE WAR fl DENMARK.

(nom on 1117141 AL

JIIDDELFART, JULT 1.

This is not a war, but • measure. The Daum
ltave fought, and will continue to fight, gallantly,
but without a chance of success. I need not say
that they are outnumbered. Everyone knows bow
small is one belligerent, bow powerful are the
others. Nor have better drill and superior weapons
been at hand to counterbalance the mere weight of
masses. A brave, self-devoted militia, with officers
too few in proportion to their moo, and old-fashioned
artillery to support them, has stood in face of well
armed regular troops. As at Dybbol-hill, so again
in the taking of Alsen, hundreds of Danes have
been swept down whilst nobly defending
a jest cause. Great was the consternation in
Copenhagen when first these evil tidings arrived
of Alien's loss, but I believe that it. will appear to
have been • splendid retreat. Some particulars
reached me this afternoon from a young English
gentleman who saw numb of what happened on
"iodated/1 bat, wolf :asespierg mind, impelled
hither. His simple, straightforward narrative of
the disaster may interest your readers, and I give it
in his very words :—" We were aroused," he said,
"at daybreak [on the 29th tilt] by • loud sound of
firing. I went out to gather news and discovered
that the Danes had commenced their march
towards Horup. Sharp rattling of musketry
was heard behind them as though an
enemy were In pursuit. I had got up from
Angustenburg, where we lodged, nearly to Ulkebol,
when I met • huge force retreating steadily is an
easterly direction. Poor fellows ! They seemed
not at all confused nor panio-stricken, though
many had bad wounds. One man who was hit in
the head took my arm to guide him, and I carried
his knapsack. Major could speak no more
Danish than myself to encourage the soldiers, but
be helped another wounded man, bringing the
sufferer's rifle and greatcoat through our whole
tramp like a ' brick.' They had no proper battle
after quite the beginning, nothing beyond a severe
skirmish from hedge to hedge. The Prussians
managed their landing rather cleverly, sad placed
several thousand men on Alsen, using hundreds of
boats. I doubt whether any bridges were thrown
across Alssund, because no cavalry and no artillery
pursued us. Two guns occasionally fired upon the
Dauer, which were said to be captured pieces. On
arriving in Hainan (a peninsula outside Romp
Hay) we found the strip of shingle that unites
it to Alien guarded by eight cannon, •
small ditch, and chew= de frig& We thought
that the enemy would make a rush to finish
us off, so rejoiced to see such preparations.
. . . . What a crowded, bustling scene there wan at
Kainsis !—field batteries being embarked, cavalry
hones put on board flat-bottomed transports,
everything going forward with wonderful order and
coolness. The sailing liner Frederick VL lay an-
chored in a commanding position, while the Rolf
Kielce, fresh from fighting in Alasund, steamed into
Horup Hay and brought away a number of vessels.
I came to Faaborg with a shipload of wounded.
They bore their agonising pain admirably, and only
groaned when we rolled so as to shift them. It was
stated to me that the Prussians gave no quarter—
an impression of their ferocity prevailing very ge-
nerally. Be this as it may, there were sad losses to
Denmark during the short engagement and the
subsequent retreat. Two thousand is mentioned
as the total of casualties, few prisoners having been
made. Some Danish dragoons were in rear to
cover our march when the skirmishing bad ceased."
Thus Alsen is torn from its rightful owners—a
second glorious victory (1) has rewarded von Bis-
muck's war policy, and Englishmen must blush
to think who is to blame for this new outbreak of
hostilities.

We hear • vague report from Heligoland that
fills ns with anxiety. 111 success at sea would
expose Denmark to utter destruction ; and where
is the Channel fleet I—where British aseiata•oe I
In one week our generous sympathies for an
oppressed people have tempted them to struggle
against fearful odds, and have betrayed them.
Can I dream ? or is England really about to look
os indifferent at a sickening butchery ? Why, here
in Fyen, though as yet no attack has begun, a fresh
catastrophe may occur with five minutes' notice.
True it is that silence reigns along the Little Belt,
and that Austrian sentries pace calmly in their
works opposite this town. A good feeling exists
between the enemies, no random picking off of
stragglers being allowed. Yet in another hour the
beautiful island may pass under foreign tyrants.
I fear that if seriously attempted a movement
against us will succeed. And what vessels are
announced as cruising near Fredericia 1 Not
English iron-clads, but German frigates ! Oh,
'tis very bard on • brave nation that trusted in

England's honour' From Sweden lees
can be expected. She is in dre►d of Prussian
vengeance should her forces render help to the
Danes. Many persons think that all is lost, and
consider Denmark already doomed. Perhaps so,
but it will be a page of our history that cannot fail
to make Englishmen's cheeks burn when they read
it for years to come.

°shuns GYMNASIUM Roetierr. A fete took
place on the " Balloon grimed" is the Cryotal Palace pr-
ams, yesterday, ia furtherance of the interests of this
society, which has for its object the encouragement of gym-
paella exercises under each circumstances as may be pee-
rally appreciated. With a view to enable the society to
carry out its operations soweestally, a compeay has bees
termed upon the prirmiple of limited liability, for the pur-
pose of bedding • ounienum as a plot of ground upwards
of 100C30 feet square in the St. Paacres•road, close to the
Hines-cross Railway etation. The company (Turaveridn)
was forded I. 1861, and its income We year, is epee
of the inadequate premiers at present cerepied, amounted
to 480 i. The performances yesterday consisted of thews
various athletic sports and gymnastic aterciem which have
always been fully encouraged is this country. and may of
which catered largely into the Scottish entertainroente at
11°11mA-home some few years since. It would seem, how-
ever, that the testa of agility were more remarkable than
those of physical strength • though the competitors—
whether the exercise consisted is running, climbing, high.
leap. krog-leap, patting • close, leaping, woman&
or is any of there OVektiolfle which require eon.
rage sa well as dexterity to eocomplieh, cer-
tainly fulfilled their teak is • marmot which moat
have been satisfactory even to those who were
called epos to he the "judges" of their performances.
Prime were distributed is the imam of the evening, cad it
appeared that the competitor fur them were not coufined
to (brasses alone, but that several Eaglieh gentlemen were
immune their nuarbers, aid all were said to be eutirely
free from any aational jealousies or rivalries. The geeral
spirit(/' fairness with which the evolutions and Mall'.
wore *redacted widoebtediy pee testianiey to the feet
that or of the guiding whinnies which govern the gymna-
sia= is that all panne shall be subjected to one and the
same test of strength and powers of endurance. The pea •
SAYAMGI exertions which were tutiverially displayed Tester
day amply proved that lot one et the competitors
to "shirk" the tack allotted to bin, sad when the time
ohm* for the hapset, with which the proceedinat el the
day closed, Gish germ had well weed the relreehmeat
provided for his

[TWOPENCE

CIECULAR NOTEPRUSEILL OF AUSTRIA exp

The following identical despatch has been ad.
dressed by the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna to
the representatives of Prussia and Austria at
London, Pans, St. Petersburg, and Stockholm :

When the government of the 'Hag took past is the con.
femme at London. it was animated by the earnest desire to
tan mtd a firm and Dating pesos to the sanguthary
co byndiet which had brisket out between the two
peat Orman powers upon one hand. sod Denmark
upon the other. Firmly repaired to for Ger-
many the just satisfaction which sr broom and
interests entitled her to demand, we endeavoured
at the same time to arrive it • solstice which
should not endanger the Wane* of the North of Europe.
We easily adhered to the view that the Wood of our Wave
soldiers should not have flowed in vain, bet we were also
unwilling to protoog the contest pant the point we bad laid
down at the outset. Our attitude at the conference bee
always been conformable to these malefic's.. We sboeki
have been willing to accept • combination which, while
ala separate political existeees to the duchies. mill
atou= aa
dynastic bond to exist between them sad Dea-
-1 mark proper. As an anangenfivat of this kind did not fled
favour either with the Danish goveroineut or the neutral
' powers, we wen obliged to meth another basis.
As we therefore deeseaded that the &whim should
be cionstftoted an iadependen4 state nadir a aspirate sore.
reign, we were dispeed to cede to Delimit portion of
' Blesirig, although the union of the entire duchy with
.iteletwo wee delta' will' wig esehlp the icasetrY aid in
the whole of Oermasy. Wen *mild have made area. sad
haportast coaosinion by permitting a portion of Alemng to
be maceperated with Denmark, as st is precisely Wise
attempts at Woorporation —contrary to the obligations which
have Wee undertaken--which have embittered the dispute
between Germsey and Denmark, and occasioned the present
quarrel. When, !Wally, the impossibehty of agreeing upon
a just hue of dentarestiou became evident, sod when Ragland
.red
to the good offi
ver the more ycestoof frirtity. power, wie,
was in seoxdsarie with the stipulations of the tra:ary of
Paris. It was the Danish plea' pawl:alarm who made
*neck of the last attempt at reconciliation by • categorical
injection at the sitting of the 22nd of the month ; it was also
the Danish plenipoteithiles who refused at the same sit. '
tiag their saint to the peolongatias of the armistice re-
lquired by the Wives of Prussia and Austria.
We en edam* to state these foots. for they
prove that if the lismiloa conferee's hes not led to the
desired result. the oiliest of 4:kgmtlitot lams bear° tho
blame. this work cd pain has lnterrupted. and the
resumpekti of impends, the reeponsibility mow* • '
attach to the Gamut powers. The reepiniiliihsy rests
utterly and solely upon Denmirk, which rejected the last
offer of orecifiation and refused all prolonged°, of the
armistice. Our repressitativee ware aommiseiceect to
deliver a declaration is this muse at the opeciog of the
sitting upoo the 20th.
You, sir, will kindly refer to what has taken place at the
London 000tor000s. to domoostesto the Aare of each party
Is the events that have occurred. Be good enough to nomad
the government to which you are accredited how great hes
been the moderation of our demeanour up to the lest mo-
ment, and that we have ever been ready to put an end
to • war called forth solely by the faithlemnees of Den-
mark, and which we are sow compelled to continue entirely
through her otekaacy.—lteceive, Iced,
(Sietiod) 'Vox Bynum E.