The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20.

THE Anstro-Pruasian intervention in Denmark
has been from the first attended with dissensions,
as frequently happens where several parties join
n an enterprise impelled by discordant motives,
which they cannot conveniently avow. And now
a new and very singular cause of rivalry, one
which it was quite impossible to anticipate, has
suddenly arisen. This is nothing lee. than a dis-
pute as to the proportion in which the Austrians
and Prussians are respectively entitled to share the
gloii of the campaign. Considering all the cir-
cumstances, and comparing the military means and
resources of either of the German Powers with
those of Denmark., it is certainly a difficult
question, and it is debated with an eager-
ness that has not been surpassed since the
days of the schoolmen, when the disciples of the
Angelic and Seraph 'c Doctors disputed by the
week how many thousand angels could eland on
the point of a needle. The debate was raiard by
Prince FREDERO-R CHARLES of PRCSSLA'S order of
the day, issued after the passage of the &Wei.
This precocious young General, who has evidently
heard of the fame of the Archduke Cream"
and studied the proclamations of the great NAPO-
LEON, was not long in Slestrig before he showed the
soldiers under his command what renown they
might expect to acquire if he were allowed to write
the history of their exploits. Before the attack
on Missuude, this young warrior, addressing his
troops, said—" We shall meet with well-armed
" fortresses and large surface, of water and ice ;
" your intrepidity and zeal will be the more ma-
" nifest ; those obstacles conceal an ninny aecu.-
" tuned to fry io-fipre our regiments." The world
knows something from history of the style in which
Danish troops fight, and something also about that
of the Prussians, and did not need the teaching of
the events that so soon followed to guard it
against error. The Danes fought at Minunde as
they always fight, and it was the Prussians, and not
they, who retreated. By-and-by, however, the
Danes, too few to man the long line over which
the immensely superior numbers of the enemy
enabled him to extend his attack, did fall beck.
They abandoned the Dannewerk, and Prince Fez.
DERICE CHAILLM and his corps were able to pass
the Schlei. To the Pence nothing seemed more
natural than to suppose that they had retreated in
terrorof him and his followers. Thereupon he issued
another order of the day, in which neither the
Austrians, who had done nearly all t►e hard
fighting, nor the other Prussian corps who, we
may suppose, had contributed something to the re-
sult, were even referred to. He and his corps, the
PRINCZ said, had compelled the Danes to retreat.
If so, it was certainly by the dread they inspired,
for the Danes fell back and were on their way
towards Flensburg before Prince Cassuoi had
passed the Schlei. The Austrians, who had
stormed the Konigsberg, and suffered severely in
the battle of Oversee, read the Panica's procla-
mation with feelings which may easily be con-
ceived. He had not only ignored those warriors
of the working day, but had had the incredible
folly to congratulate his soldiers on the smallness
of the sacrifices by which the work of driving beck
the Danes had been accomplished. While he thus
marked the esteem in which he held his Austrian
comrades, he showed that in his opinion the words
in which the first NAPOLEON congratulated the
heroes of Austerlitz were not too magnikoquent to
be applied to the heroes of Misaunde. According
to him, to be able to say in aftertime, "I was an
" artilleryman at Alissunde," will be to esta-
blish title to admivation and envy. But, as the
children of the conquerors of Austerlitz are now
remarking, there is one great difference in the two
events. At Missunde the Prussians numbered
15,000 against 3,000 Dane*, while at Austerlitz
45,000 French defeated 90,000 Austrians and
Prussians. At Vienna the Pziarcs's words have been
criticised with equal severity and justice. The Prase,
after remarking that the order of the day has
caused a great excitement in military circles,
frankly declares that the Prussians did not cross
the Schlei at Arnie "until they were well assured
"that the Danes had left," as indeed is shown by
the details which their own journals have furnished
respecting the passage. The Oat Deutsche Post
more courteously affects to question the authen-
ticity of the PRINCE'S order of the day. It luta