The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-09 00:00:00

THE. iIIetPIIESIVRIATINIBIL EVEN:IIIOj' ANKTIX: I 11.94.34- :!

tin elionfilmmlbses few mansie
shstNnim 25 eambilstille* war had Noma-
eamellekbeie esse a strange feed lissintistieg alters-
tion la Leith policy.l3/ig Olds** mid Bishop
Konrad, observing ear stately vestal boring down
'towards them, and readying elders ci saireszsge-
meet from her crew with a nod of resognitice from
the ministerial helmsman, nailed their colours to
the mast. It was true that a couple of formidable
antagonists lay ready to open fire upon little water-
logged Denmark. She might have yielded to her
fate, thereby avoiding destruction ; but then there
was that great three-decker, called "British Sym-
pathy," under full sail to the rescue. " Will
you surrender r through a Prussian trumpet,
was answered by Denmark with the signal, "We
stick to our treaty." A German broadside scattered
death upon its tiny recipient, and 10, like the Flying
Dutchman or other phantom ship, " British Sym-
pathy " bad vanished at the first explosion. That
towering hull, those dabs cleared for action, and
the cloud at canvass spread above them, bad in-
stantly disappeared, and whilst murderous work
went forward close at hand, the sea was covered
with despatches and blue books, with empty pro-
misee and torn parchments, through which igno-
minious wreck two or three noble lords and some
right honourable gentlemen pulled eagerly in the
cabinet cutter towards • shabby craft that bad
soddenly hove in sight. The " Non-Interveation "
oast anchor just out of range, affording them a
retreat. She displayed the smallest possible Union
Jack, for fear of offending Germany, and carried
one flag, which bad on it the inscription, " It's year
own fault ;" and another with the words, "We still
sympathise."
This nautical simile exactly represents what
Denmark has suffered and has beheld during the
last week. The Danish politicians never dreamt of
encountering the allied powers • mooed time,
, unless England would stand by them. Soldiers
and 'aides, though deisruniaed to do their duty,
were hopeless of success without English assistance.
,'here has been some grievous blunder on both
sides. Denmark should have trusted nothing upon
the strength of British swagger, and our govern-
ment was bound in bosomr to maks its peaceful
intentions clearly known to the Dane.. This
unfortunate country is stunned by the blows that it
hes so promptly received. Conference and erode-
Gee served well their purpose in bringing diplomats
together. But, as • whole, the delay was most
disastrous for Denmark. Every preparation had
been mad* by Prince Frederick Marisa for his
skilful attack against Alma ; whilst Genteel Stein-
mann, more scrupulous, allowed no &sages until
the truce was completely over. lamin • position
to state with certainty that an important
mining operation was forbidden by the Danish
authorities before 12 o'clock on the night
et Jane 25. Of what was done saran llama we
eau best judge by the startling result. Now that
Prussian accounts et the event of the 29th nlb
wee& us, it is obvious that their manoeuvre* were
ably planned. The Danish troops had not • chimes
et resisting four distinct amanita supported by
heavy batteries. It is a melancholy boast that
Steinmann's retreat was managed to perfection.
But let the beaten army have its full share at
credit. I regard this Alums affair less as • surprise
than as a mighty effort in overwhelming force to
establish Premed's military repubition. Europe
led sneered at a trained athlete who exulted is
throwing his little unprofessional opponent; so
Frederick Charles resolved to win in such style
most time es should deserve laurels, even against
Danes, however few.
The Premises appear to exaggerate the number
el their enemies, which is very natural.

sificelit "
.70144CNIMPOOGIE,
el the forlbtrier les& heceferivo Ogle&
captain * &bets s wetness pr-
ofane& to jaiegiseeefo as he had seen
oar cards. liosastailmit watched rather)
sharply ; are Anelrian
stearsiee, se*Pet vistebed &ratio-
nal. A hundred Lips Can swoop upon the
Danish position withewt the least notice. Perhaps
diplomacy will patch up some further trove, or the
cruel unjust invasion may be allowed its evil course.
If this last should occur, all hops of saving Fyen
must depend on timely vigilance, for, once ashore,
the enemy has everything in his favour.
Relieved from shielding Alma by Wednesday's
disaster, the Rolf lint° has come hither to assist
against the aert attack. Of her three masts only
oue remains, two others having been shot away.
She did not go into Romp Hay, as was ink
reported, but acted entirely on the nee* et
IMound. A couple of small craft filled with troop
were manceuvred out of danger by Captain Rothe.
IHe kept his iron-clad between the transports end
1 the Prussian batteries, saving a thousand men that
had been stationed near Nordborg. _

NO peso• was hurt in the Bolf Enke, whom
plating sustained some tremendous blows, and the
military were also protected from lore. I think
that in England it will be thought highly credit-
able to Steinmann, this well-managed retreat; field
artillery and cavalry preserved from capture ; moat
of the infantry likewise removed. The heavy guns
ware naturally abandoned, and Prussia may enjoy a
repetition of her Daianewirke and Dybbiil triumphs,
is for a third time parading Danish trophies They
say that the enemy fought well upon Jane 29, though
disgracing his arms by merciless ferocity. Both
praise and blame are perhaps untrue : I give them
together because it was so that I received them.
My entreaty to M. Vas Bismarck is—Rescue
Poland Snatch Strasbourg from Imperial France !
In common parlance, " Hit sums sue of your own
sire ; " -but do not seek glory in slaughtering these
gallant Danes. If Prussian troops must have
bloody exercise, Ist • neighbourly strife put
Hungary on her feet. Yes, try conclusions
with Austria—since liberating is your bobby
—and leave unhappy Denmark in pacer
The opinion of all competent judges was,
that Alen could not long resist I ventured to
predict • misfortune there as the probable came-
queue. of renewed hostilities. Not as a reason for
Danish submission—men must defend their couatty
at any risk—but to show England beweeriously bee
active aid was required. We led Denmark into
trouble—that is, our government did by big woods
—and the guilt of all that has happened will tees
on the selfish Weed almost asi meth as mpea
the open enemy. A terrible mistake was
surely committed either by Danes at by
Englishmen when the conference terminated
without bringing a solution of the D•no-German
l'-e -.". Of wrens we regret what has followed.
I bare never doubted our national "sympathy"
with Denmark, and equally certain is it that the
Danes would have agreed to very bard terms rather
than attempt another single-handed contest. Yet
here is the former ecelliet resoninseesed, and
either British sentiment cannot find utterance
or it was irefully misunderstood in Den-
mark. Every public journal had maintained
that peso, moat come, or else a general European
war.

Now lace a wild distorted vision is the old hopeless
struggle going on again. Austriam ships are un-
checked, Alma alas fallen, Fyea is threatened,
diplomatists bare not even been able to predict the
storm. Whilst political murder r.l- Al place their
chief anxiety is that the victim should die easy and
avoid a noisy end, which might disturb the lean-
quility of &mope. What an invaluable ponstmiou
must this nominal tranquility be considered !
I wonder bow Ulkebol and its dear old puke

THE HARROW AND ETON CRICK=
MATCH.

look with Prussian waters ;my worthy consul, If the hypothetic foreigner, whose intelligence we
mu,
and his family ;
elan that setter whims we
deactipatlitornooameut with suchan tedia ails i,....tetration, stood._
_.,__yester.
English sheltered after Sonderborg's bombardment) twist. jaws Wood remit haw'"'"4 ep'enmdirywre::::
The inhabitants spoke so thwinan—rit faults that some peculiar festival was in course of eclairs-
perhaps, in their deliverers' opinion. Almond tic= His conception of Harrow might be limited
must have new bridges ere this, and Augusteaborg to realialog ~..the forms cd._
__,s, certain sgricsit ural
be ready for the prime who bears its title. • implement c'"?' °•trffu unknown ; and the
system of vigorous Germanising will possibly eon- :old thew the eigao;7bor oir'aromillso du;
vest poor little Allan into Part of " Sioaerillied- in the breast of the continental Englishrium ; but
stein." The brave soldiers that axe bariedat Bonder- oleo assuming this, thew was something ausaintly
bon and Ulkebol may be left to sleep untroubled by marked in the aspect of the streets, and in the
Hamburg excursionist'. Bet a thousand memorise heaciofilthe Podasiziaaat equestrians, and carriage
a um Dybbol
siege will hang about those stoutly
attetolkawtion
and cocas
theyounwerei,..throsiged,.
ir...._to__,stinielste.__
eisfeetisel banks of Almond—the lista wherein a th„tanag piaZdause oa theltie7ornm'el7me7norYr
good cense was borne down. the ribbons clustered on whips, parasols, harness,
At Middelfart there has been to-day some liveries, bossed, and coats ; nor the steadiness with
slight excitement. Crowds of laboumn won seen which the teal& converged to a common
tre • nor the joyous holiday look of the
'reeking upon • batierfeene" the Belt BPeculfr ladies sad gentlemen, young and old ; nor the
tics was rife as to whether we should pre- cl;.,i,ti., et oose,:dholl..,
arietomutio
aspect
..,
191112t1y hear the thunder of cannon. From harda;,,,, lhahawiraw. withanceemilw=i;yoll7
this side went a boat with officer and their yams, Haaaomi,
inn,
flag of truce. He landed, spoke to the now reaping the rewards of wisdom ; nor the num-
Austriaes, then returned. I know not what was his hoe cd yormg clergymen who were off duty ; nor the
MilliCill over there, only that he received no warn- Pr!ealanee a liglit and dark blue coloorg is
• bonnets, dresses, mantles, scathes, awd
ing of intended bombs:ding—di frail securityagainat n:lete, which „rho of the t maim mesa el
it, but enough to make people comfortable in stay- the year. Hovering about great
was that tie-
ing on. Many houses are still occupied, a few definite evidence of community of interest sad
ohoo, •continue to trade . . . . we wait and identity of observation which makes even Clapham
watch, being you mid know, in utter ignorance Field to mundane pleasures, and seem to lean to
if as
great international „ mire.peiline, that horseflesh upon one day in the year. The ap-
,_ prosches to Lord's yesterday oontabsed many
may be settling the fate of IrYwa- News 1. people who, perhaps, cared little enough for
stale and scanty in Ididdelfart ; the troops say Cricket in the. abstract, but who knew that the
let them some, we're ready ; the citizen', give us equipages passing them were bent oa doing Ironer
time to serape i wagons stand prepared for a to the pluck, endurance, and skill of the lads who
rapid flight of non-combatants. Will they get suf. ;ere waging fri_e_o_ily
abudattle,.....and Acting
whom
ficient notice I that's the rub. I shall not remain share in their g=„."..„icw 17108 ;Ain the
here much longer, should it seem probable that ground the uninark;"--ahinnticindas ai the
Dybbol-like delay is to be expected. On. narrow tow of people looking en wire fully apparent
theatre of adios seeds movement to keep alive its There wen of wane so poor. Those who arrived
I intend, especially when cut of from all foreign during the interval allowed
skirt for dininier
_might
intelligent*. With the Rolf Brake, and other
stn sad
merendtire raekuurae cemfagrte, emit=
I vessels at band, a hostile effort may be repulsed ;17; a thigia figanaQpweana
b,„pcd.
before the enemy gets ashore. His fleet has not aught hut plenitude pi man& Hampers wars un_
yet arrived to support the Kolding barges. We packed in the various carriages, anal eaten and
long to hear what England says. wine quaffed, much as cm the hill at Epsom ; but
COPENHAGEN, Jun 4 the gaiety was without alloy, and to lady visitors
. the great match at Lord's must paean more then
A day that in another hemisphere is doubtless the advantages of the racecourse without any
of pa
hailed with general acclamation, though oven there drawbacks. The multitude of hatted boys, the
much of its earlier importance has been lost, ammo scrape of conversation having matriculation, or
upon Denmark sadly enough, opening the seeond "little go," or the name of a college for their hey-
week of an unaided contest against Germany. This note ; the raid exchange of cards and reciprocity
morning finds Alien torn away from King Chris at invitation frequent recognitions between
t young men who had been intimate at school and
tie." rule, Fru seriously menaced, and aelletT who had not met since ; the number of clergymen
beginning to arise for the safety of the Danish ca- who were ticking off the score of malt
Ipital. Sweden still talks, it is true, of using her payer with perhaps more than secular relish,
1 fleet in a last necessity ; but England has drawn and ;he keen interest taken in the gains by
I back from all promise that she would interfere—at
the aristocratic
U aided to invest the old
dtch of yesterday who
wen
ith
1 least so the words of her Majesty's ministers mein distinguishing and exceptional attributes. yii:t if
to imply. I can assure you that the Danes regard this there was no fashionable languor, there was
plausible worship of expediency with bitter con- assuredly no boisterous demonstration ; and it is
I tempt. They are left alone to battle in defence of necessary to insist on this, as yesterday's Tines
' their national existence, ruin and misery stare them °coital/sod a leading article in which some very
fair strictures wereun-
in the bee, a fresh slaughter of their soldiers has passed upon the players in and
of the match between Eton sad Harrow.
pandered to Prussian animosity, and the indiscreet iic„7,;;;, accused of "an exoefti„ Li of
friend )who bas virtually betrayed them stoops to , chafing'" of "bowling out for the very purpose
pleasantry whilst announcing his tergivorsaticm. of balking a player ; of being " ungenerous and
To say assistance shall, perhaps, some when Copan. enchirsirous in the highest degree "in their noisy
award of praise or blame ; of conduct which is
began is stormed and the King made prisoner is
a sorry jest
which Knoll feeling
will
repudiate. "unfair, and
.i therefore discreditable ;" of exhibiting
a strange want of good feeling " towards the
Theme events are not so improbable as PeoPle at eleven against whose mamas their sympathies
i home may fancy. The interval, filled up by min• eated ; and of an indulgence in I' indieniZer.
ate

akissidaes via* at" ameeniein, astLimune
Waf
M 110now11112: 111 sell for a little
11 militias,* 'which took the foe= of de-
simeinehig the emit* of the H sad
and their Meads*" "diarrowegreosful sad
• sail of Worsen the former &attic&
"character for gentleassalike bearing mes at
stake." Afters scrupulously careful obesrvatioa of '
ihedenteamourof players and bystaadersthroughout
the afternoon of yesterday, we honestly believe
these sweepingemisares to be unfounded. "Methiales
the lady doth protest too much." We are persuaded
that—in emulation of Fielding's Mannakin—our
oontem first made the giants, and then slew
them. Neit boy's nor man's nature changes
into an antithesis of its former self in the time it
took to wither Jonah's gourd ; and when " chaff"
in the sense used by the Times is unheard ; when
the demeanour of everyone parent is so naturally
rola, and pleasantly appromative, that to connect
the unfair balking of a player with them would de-
note a greater depth of folly than capacity for in-
sult; plain people arguing from the evidence of their
own sasses must be excused for doubting the
justice, of the diatribes against former matches they
had read in the moaning of the same day. We did
not hear • single ungenerous comment, or a solitary
instance of undue cheering. The clever hits, the
good runs,the skilful cateles,and the well-delivered
balls all met with discriminating, but by no means
" unmeaning" or "ignorant" applause, and this
tribute to excellence came from o is as well
as hiends. On the Prince and in at Wales
driving into the enclosure shortly after 4 o'clock
there was a slapping of hands, a waving
at handkerchiefs and bats, and • lifting of
voices, such as no " over " had obtained ; but we
have yet to learn that this is • practise to " be dis-
antraged by all true cricketen r and it was by far
the noisiest derooastration of the day. The royal
pasty stationed themselves at the east side of the
easiontre, and though there was of course theater&
I wish to see ea much as possible of the Prince and
Princess, there was little crowding, and after the
first burst of welcome, no noise. A dimmest member
of the A. division said occasionally, in an appealing
whisper, "A hale farther back, ladies and gentle-
moN if you pietas," and found his hint docilely taken
by the well-dressed crowd, some of wham seamed to
apologise to thensesieres for what, perhaps, the inward
amoaitor ccolemand as irrational curiosity. One
stalwart etendry gentleman explained to his com-
panion that he "did not want to stare either Prime
or Princess out of countenance—not he • but he'd

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Mto whisk bornorr. 4-the Oramisidas, Wean
Ur. egibrirmti wail sot wee. Theeespen Mr. Spook.
ars presesda • gladiola ter • whaisirsp miler. (
dams,.mmy, IWO* diesetore amid Ma lid Ma other
Madeathirom for 4.505 L far eolft. la them mime the
pleaded areaother Ole, that the feint's-
ties el the vs.sad 1 intim thus the calls
were frendsillitnefore, ay advs.& wee gives is the
mama, Speeksiesa wiedacg-sp peonies was hem* awl die.
mimed, se wee ea appeal tem that amide& lipeekises,
lintoser, isie that the eareissy ought to he die-
leiced, mod refused to emote hi the reposed arreacareest.
The otaiiney dadieg Hr. lipselunes • troshiespale
_Mere-
haleer,4 whoa they were mashie per fee be rid themedeee,
wag that they were is debt, ..d that aslesi the erreage-
meet proposed were carried eat they met come lo se Mi.
owed • gaserel modes. Wan whieb they Lid their
clidlieshieu The raced we. Met the dureheidess esp-
pedal the views of the &mien, who thee fleeted • eein-
resin at the 'diem with Sesames sad seem. howl
whom they remind she MU et 4,0001. is lies of the 4,5001.
=end his fridge beaded their inns to the
mid awed to be dbsetoes or thereheldere el the
sempasy. Hader the eflassuirsares the quads. wee
whether the ampreidee wee ultra vine the coven of the
reatiney or boat fide. It we. costesded Shut if altos vireo,
or in my degree Isisted with baud, * (sight ems sow co De
est aside, sad the 10111111 ndaed tO the het.
The Attamey-Gerserel, Mr Hugh Cairns, Mr. Eliwys, Mr.
Dash& Kr. Sostigete, Yr. Ilegp/Isy, Kr. Roxburgh, dr.
Bea, Yr. H. T. Ellapeee, Mr. Swesetes, sad Mr. Lsmj ap-
pend for the several puttee.
Hieexprece Honour
eg after Made. Me feels et the at/ samidls care-
fully l his *aim el the the
weed " baudhe say other ins liel=liasera, mid be
ocweidred she essipiey had power to estateis the guides
of the aceeprocone, that they had heed W made see, 44
that Me result Mentor. wee that Hs fleadomete lane
p
mild sot to be ieced as the lit et es ,eits. The
sppliattios would therefore be dienamed, and with ecate.

heard that they didn't drive very good cattle, and
would just like to get sear enough tow whether
this was tree.* As this involved getting as Glom
to the royal carriage as the people who were swayed
by lass laudable motives, the philosophic stoicism
width prompted the re.nark did not affect malts,
and it was more satisfastory to me its author
filling a good Riedel* scene three or four
yards from the Prmosse than to hear his muttered
verdict that the horses "weren't a patch upon the
hays which took the Isepsrce down the Champs
Lys& to see the Guild Prime It will be seen
from the sows, subjoined, that Harrow had *rat
innings, and obtained the high score of Ma
The public opinion of the field was oonsiderahly
affected by the spieled: ilouplay of the Harrovian;
aid the wearers tithe bias cams might be
heard good tssapsredly yips each other upon the
heatz work out out for Etonia. The clouds of the
morning dispersed daring the afternoon ; the
ground was in good order ; and the whole tenor of
the day must have been cheering and *Matador/
indeed, to those who love cricket as the first of our
manly gams. ; who believe to it as the fosterer of
youthful health and strength ; and who uphold
it for the earnest and self-reliant qualities it calls
forth. The following is the ware :