The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

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HAMBURG. Tn. 15.

Count Reverters, the newly appointed Austrian
Civil Commissioner in Sleswig, has arrived here from
Vienna, and after a short stayproceeded forward to
enter on the duties of his offiee. The count eras formerly
Secretary of the Austrian Embassy at St. Peters-
burg. He is accompanied by a Count &held, one
of the Emperor's Chamberlains, and late Secretary
of the Imperial Legation at Dresden, who is at-
tached to the Civil Commissioner in an official
capacity.
Several Austrian officers of high rank have also
arrived from Vienna, and gone on to take their
respeetiveeocomands. Among them are Lieutenant
Field-Manbal Count von Neipperg, Major-General
Count von Coudenhave, lientenant-Colooel Count
Hergard, and Colonel von Leiner, all accompanied
by their respective aides-de-camp and suites.
Count von Trantmannedorf, who was at first men-
tioned in connection with the appointment of Civil
Commissioner in Sleswig, is chief of the diplomatic
cabinet at the Austrian headquarters.
It is quite surprising to see the zeal and energy
displayed by the inhabitants of this city fotreeZ
listing the sufferings of the wounded officers and
soldiers. Independently of the central committee,
formed for receiving contributions of mousy, lint,
bandages, blankets, and other comforts fur the
wounded, numerous private clubs have started into
life with the laudable object of collecting mast
sums amongst the friends and relatives of the mem-
bers, which are then transmitted to the antral
committee. The rags for picking lint and making
bandags for wounds is so general that 1 coarsen-
dowdy believe there is not a single house in this
city in which all tbs ladies and even servants, are
not actively engaged in this charitable oestmatiou.
And, indeed, it wa fully wanted. Trustworthy
accounts from the North give a most heartrending
picture of the sufferings of the wounded in the first

actions that took place, when the want of lint and
bandages was so great that hundreds of the
injuries had to be bound up with twisted wisps
of straw.

After the affairs at Miseunde and Oversee in-
quiries were made whether wounded officers would
be received into private families here for treatment,
and if so, how many I After a very partial inquiry
as to the feelings of the inhabitants, the committee
were enabled to telegraph back, five hundred
wounded officers will find gratuitous quarters and
every care and comfort in the private families of
Hamburg." Since then nearly an equal number of
families have charitably come forward to volunteer
to take in as many more. A well known pillar of
the Hamburg Exchange, conspicuous as much from
the extent of his charities as from his great wealth,
has fitted up his own private mansion as a temporary
military hospital for the accommodation of forty
wounded officers till their perfect recovery at his
own expense, and engaged the services of one of our
first surgeons to attend them professionally. The
officers and privates of the Hanseatic contingent
have opened a subscription among themselves, and
collected enough to purchase two puncheons of rum
and two casks of French brandy for distribution to
the soldiers of the allied armies in Sleswig.
Mr. Schmidt, the Wurtemberg consul in this
eity,,_bas proceeded to the seat of war top lotegio
mansion at the disposal of Prince Waken
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tern berg, colonel in the Austrian service, who wa.
severely and even dangerously wounded at the heed
of his regiment (tbe Lichtenstein Humors) whilst
charging the Danes at Oversee.
Owing to the increased traffic on the Berlin and
Hamburg Railroad—in ordinary times there are
only three trains a day each way—caused by the
frequent extra trains with Austrian and Prussian
troops, horses, artillery, ammunition, and other
materials of war, which during the last three weeks
have been arriving at all hours, night and day—
the limited staff of officials has had very hard
work, and many of them have not been in bed for a
whole week together. It is understood that the
directors intend to compensate them for their extra
work.

A large transport of Hungarian wine for the
use of the Austrian army in Sleswig arrived here
yesterday from Vienna by rail, and, in the absence
of a junction line to Alton'', it bad to be sent out
in common waggons, which was of course attended
with much trouble, expense, delay, and risk.
Complaints are made bare of the difficulty of
getting telegrams from Sleswig, as the Prussians
have taken possession of the telegraph offices, and
not only use them almost exclusively for state
despatches, but exercise a strict censorship and con-
trol over the few private telegrams they condescend
to forward.

From an official of the Berlin and Hamburg
Railway I learn that the number of Austrians that
arrived here in 48 special trains on that line was
693 officers, 20,786 non-commissioned officers aria
f.raiLaat;es, 4,979 bones, and 673 ammunition mid
waggons. The number of guns he was
not at liberty to state. The sum paid to the com-
pany by Austria for these special trains amounted
to 263,339 Prussian dollars.
Eleven hundred Danish prisoners arrived here last
evening, and after being provided with refresh-
ments proceeded under Prussian escort to Magde-
burg by railway, where they will be confined for
the present. They are all natives of the Danish
islands, and scarcely one of them can speak a word
of German.

Field-Marshal voa Wrangel has laid an embargo
on twenty-four Danish merchant ships In the port
of Flensburg, in addition to the seven government
transports seized, which, with their cargoes, con-
sisting principally of provisions for the troops and
oats for the cavalry hones, are valued at 100,000
dollars.

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Intense excitement was produced to-day on
'Change by the receipt of the telegram announcing
that the Danish frigate Niels Joel is now cruising
in the Channel, with orders to take homeward
bound German ships, as many valuable cargoes
from China, South America, and other parts, are
known to be at sea, bound to this port, which may
arrive any day in the chops of the ChanneL