The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-07 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

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HAMBURG, APRIL 4.
The German papers appear to lay great stress on
the fact of the first parallel before Diippel hain
been completed in the night of the 30th of Marc
without the work having been discovered by the
Danes till the next morning. Five battalions of
General Von Canetein's brigade were detailed for
this duty, which they succeeded in accomplishing
with great celerity and in perfect silence, two bat-
talions of the same brigade being pushed forward
for the protection of the working party. This first
el begins to the right of Freudenthal, not far
from the shore of the Yenning Band, takes a turn
towards the high road below the Bpitzberg, goes
round the latter, and ends between the redoubts
Nos. 3 and 4, from which it is only 800 yards
distant. The soldiers in the trenches were agreeably
surprised the next morning to receive a visit from
the Crown Prince of Prussia, who came down to
inspect the work, and spoke a few kind words to the
men. The Danes tired a few shells into the trenches,
but (according to Prussian accounts) without any
effect. The Prussian outposts, detailed from the
3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, or " Queen Eliza-
beth," and on duty on the other side of the village
of East Dttppel, are now so close to the forts Noe.
6,8, and 9, that they exchange signs with the Da-
nish sentinels on the ramparts and facetiously drink
each other's health out of their field-bottles. They
have just discovered that the redoubts Nos. 8 and
9, to the south of the high road to Apenrade, are
now coanected with one another by a covered way.
The new battery in the trenches has been un-
masked, and a few guns were discharged to find the
range. They were found to carry as far as fort No.
5 on the left, and to 1,000 yards from No. 1 on the
rigb t.
The two pontoon bridges thrown across the
neck of the entrance to the inlet called Nobel
Nor, at Eckensund, have now been broken
up, and the whole of the materials re-
moved to Alien Sound, where an attempt
is about to be made to replace them under the
direction of Captain Kegler, who is spoken of as a
very efficient officer of the Austrian Engineer corps.
But, notwithstanding this, the Austrians appear by
no means sanguine that Duppel will be so speedily
reduced ; for they have just made some very large
contracts for horse-shoes, bedding, linen, and other
requirements for the army, it being found to come
much cheaper thus than having the stores sent from
Vienna by railway. When the army first set out
they were supplied with all requisites calculated to
last for aix months, but with the hard wear and tear
of active campaigning for only two months, they
are found to be all used up, and must be renewed.
Very little has been heard of late about the Pre-
tender, who has been living quietly at Kiel, scarcely
ever showing himself out of doors. But there are
various significant indications that he is about to
change his tactics, and take a more active
part in the direction of his own pretensions.
It is now announced by his adherents that the
Prince is going to make a " progress,"
and show himself personally in the principal
towns of the duchies. And, indeed, he has
already made a commencement, for on Satur-
day he drove over to Preetz, about ten miles
distant from Kiel, where be was received by the
associations of gymnasts, singing clubs, and trades'
unions, and speeches were made and duly answered,
after which he dined with the Provost of the Pro-
testant nunnery, Herr von Quaalen, the town being
illuminated and decked out with flags in honour of
hie visit. Late in the evening he returned to Kiel.
His two principal advisers or ministers, Messrs.
Samwer and Franke, have received throe months'
further leave of absence from their chief, the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg; indeed, the Privy Councillor
Franke seems to meditate remaining altogether at
Kid, for he has just completed the purchase of a
house and grounds in the immediate neighbourhood
of the town.

A day or two ago the second division of the Prus-
sian Field Telegraph battalion passed through this
city and excited greet curiosity, as it is an institu-
Von as useful and important to an army in the field
as it is of novel and unique appearance. Each
carriage contains neatly coiled up insulated wire of
ton German miles in length (nes•ly fifty English
statute miles), and is drawn by six strong and hand-
some horses, so that the wire can be unrolled and
laid down at a swinging trot if required he done
quickly. The staff of operators and escort—of whom

there are ten to each waggon—are all mounted, uni-
formed and armed, wearing the same helmet and ac-
coutrements u the rest of the army, their only dis-
tinguishing mark being two white cords on tbecollar.
Whilst being forwarded from Alton* by the railroad
one of the horses broke loose, and when near Elms-
horn leaped out of the railway truck, but did not
seem to be much hurt, and had galloped off across
the country before the train could be stopped.
By order of the Federal Commissioners in Hol-
ste'n the alteration of the railway tariff came into
operation on the Ist of April. Passenger fares and
goods freight are now no longer charged by Danish
money, but exclusively reckoned by marks and
schillinga of Hamburg currency.