The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

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COPENHAGEN, Jane 13.

If the traveller has sufficient strength of mind
to resist the temptation of au evening at Tivoli, and
to pursue his course westward, he will find that the
American horse-cars, after carrying him through a
busy suburb, where the tall houses and paved
streets of the city are reproduced, enter • long
avenue which leads to Frederiksberg-park. This
avenue is lined, not only with shady trees, but with
the villa residences of wealthy Copenhageners.
About half-way down there is, on the left, a hand-
some house built in imitation of Christian IV.'s
residence, and called the "Little Rosenborg," and
opposite, on the right, is the Alhambra, a favourite
place of amusement. Its name may suggest to the
student of Spanish history a northermeprodue-
tion of the famous Morisco palace, and to the
London sight-seer an edifice which stands
in Leicester-square. These latter associa-
tions will be nearer the mark, the Alhambra of
Frederiksberg avenue being Tivoli over again on •
somewhat smaller scale. A garden, prettily laid
out and well lighted, is entered fur eight skillings
Md.), and you then become entitled to sit in any
of the arbours, to hear music in the concert room,
and to dance, if so disposed, upon what nearer home
would bestyled a " crystal platform." Then there
is a little theatre for pantomimes, a second for
marionettes, and, as the handbills would say,
" various other attractions." Danish tea-gardens
and music halls seem to me to have one great advan-
tage over their rivals in England, namely, that they.
are patronised by all classes alike, being considered
by no means "fast" or objectionable. The people
of Copenhagen, who are blockaded in their homes
by short days and severe weather during the winter
appear anxious to live as much as possible in the open
air when summer has brought delicious evenings, that
scarcely fade into night, until the earliest day-dawn
lightens the eastern sky. Those unable to quit the
city for country places rush forth every afternoon
beyond its ramparts and enjoy a few hours of fresh
air among such pleasant resorts as I am describing.
The Alhambra is visited by assemblages so mixed
that any notice of their characteristics would be but
• sketch of Danish society. Well-conducted soldiers
are to be found on one bench, with their families
around them, and officers, similarly accompanied,
on the next. The men never forget to salute, and
no one looks surprised at such a mixture. Amongst
civilians, I judged that there was an equally wide
divergence of position, though the absence of dis-
tinctive costume invested the subject with more
I uncertainty. Everybody had come to amuse them-
I selves, without wishing to annoy others or create a
disturbance. Sobriety and good humour were the
invariable rule. But now I must speak of the
pantomime, which took place in the theatre above
mentioned.

The spectators were gathered in the open air,
and before them was the stage, brilliantly illumi-
:.ated, though with its curtain down. There is •
sound of music, the curtain ries% and • slave sale
in Turkey is exhibited. Grief of Circassian captive
—Columbine—displayed by significant gestures.
Enter Clown and Pantaloon, the former dressed en-
tirely in white, his face painted to match ; the latter
'Maims old psis. no sale isomisoces.