The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-03 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Tll2 BLICSWIG INVASION.
Military operations appear to be quite suspended
in Sleswig. The despatches which come from that
quarter do not speak of any warlike movements
near Dapped. A thaw has again set In, but the
operations remain interrupted.
"All the accounts received from Denmark,"
says the France, "agree in stating that the re-
sistance of the Danes may be prolonged for several
months, without the home or foreign affairs of
the country suffering in any material degree. tp
to the moment of the war the foreign commerce of
Denmark consisted principally in the export of
horses and corn. The occupation by the Austro-
Prussians of Sleswig Holstein, where most of the
horses were bred, has for the present injured • that
trade, but it was the least important. As to that
in corn, which is the most considerable element of
Danish commerce, it is as free during the war as
it was before. The Austrian navy being compelled
to protect the coasts of the Adriatic cannot come
either into the North Sea or the Baltic to im-
pede the movement of the Danish mercantile
marine, and as to the Prussian navy it is absolutely
powerless to struggle against the naval forme of
Denmark."

The Cologne Gazette affirms that the Danes have
concentrated about 30,000 men in the entrench-
ments of Duppel and of Alen. By means of their
steamers they may convey in leas than twenty-four
hour from 15,000 to 20,000 troops from Alsen to
Fredericia.
A Stockholm letter in the Patrie says :

The government bee at length granted to the °Scan of
the Swedish army permission to proceed to Denmark and
take service there during the oontinuanco of the war. Two
officers of the Ousrd—Lieutenants Dievel and Baron Rad.
bek—and another officer of the Regiment of Helsingen are
to leave to-morrow for Copenhagen. Four others will soon
follow. Orders have been given to lit out two ships of war,
to be held in readiness to limn the port of Carlskrona, the
station of the Swedish Beet

(asurca's 11:11GRAII.)
INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
miR3EILLF.s, MARCH 3, 9.23 a.m.

The Meesageries Imperiales mail steamer Morris
left Messina yesterday morning, and is expected to
arrive here to-morrow morning with the India and
China mails, 58 passengers, and 396 packages of
merchandise.

(aurria's lupins.)
THE PRUSSIANS IN SLESWIG.
BERLLN, Frs. .

The official Stoatsanzeiger publishes the following
report from the Pnisaian head-quarters in Slessrig :

Gomosesio, Fob. 26, 1864.

The Dame continue their arrangements fora determined
defence of the position at Duppel. They burnt the farms of
lboi and Frydendal, and several houses in the village of
Duppel yesterday, and are busily engaged in throwing up
fresh entrenchmeate to the south of FrydeodaL Yesterday
sad to-day we took 13 Awes prisoners. By their account
the Soderberg Zedung of the 25th stated that the 18th
Regiment (Danish) last 450 men in killed, wounded, and
missing in the engagement of the MI.
The official paper also contains a letter from the
Prussian army, which gives the following details :

Nothing has occurred deserving special mention since the
23rd. On that day a Danish corvette came up from the
South before the battery at Steoderup, but sheered off
after exchanging • few shots. A grenadier on outpost had
his arm shattered by the Bret hostile fire. Upon the island
of Fano, opposite Steoderup, the enemy is apparently mak-
ing arr►ngements for building • battery, and several boats
are lying off the island. A hostile steamer passed the
Little Belt a few nights back.
Many of the enemy's men allow themselves to be taken
upon patrol, but will not plead guilty to intention to deswt.
The measure of seeding to their homes all German Ste&
wigers who are captured, has made an impreesioe upon the
hostile troop, very favourable to our cause. A Danish sol-
dier, taken without having offered any resistance, replied
when asked his reason—" I have a wife and four children at
home."

The behaviour of our tirailleurs in the engagement of the
22nd woes* good that wounded Danish officers in our hands
declared "the fellows shot so well they'd like to kiss every
one of them." Accounts from Sonderborg state the enemy's
lugs on that day at 200 killed and wounded, and
about 200 captured—a brilliant proof of the superiority
of our firearms. Prisoners declare that a single shot
from one of oar rifled 6-pounders killed five men
and wounded 18, whereupon the entire battalion hastily re-
treated. After the engagement on the 18th the enemy arse
reported to have left several large copper cooking kettles in
fiteedernp wood, on Sundervitt peninsula. A patrol of six
uhlans was sent out to take possession. The men were
fastening the kettles upon their becks when they were sur-
prised by the Danes. The first man who rejoined his saddle,
set his lanes in rest and with his kettle upon his
back charged the officer sod trumpeter of the Danish
party. The Danes turning, rode beck to their
men with whom they again advanced. Meantime
our six men contrived to make good their retreat over the
hedges and ditches, sea obi their
prizes in safety.
_

Oar men treat the enemy after battle with much good
humour and compassion, frequently sharing their rations
with the wounded and prisoners. You may often see a
convoy of prisoners sitting at their ease upon a waggon,
eating and smoking, while the escort plod oo foot beside the
rollick along the heavy roads. "The poor devils are so
tired and hungry." is always the Mule.