The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-12 00:00:00

ENGLAND Ain!this country no postilion drives more than two
isa
I horses, so the additional weight of a burly red coated
DENMARKHOIi DI TWENTY
l)anc was added to our already somewhat laden
Iconveyance. Each of these portly persons had
his whip and trumpet, and it might
have been inferred that two lashes would be found
more inciting to speed than one. It was not so,
however. The front horses refused at times to go,
being evidently unaccustomed to the position they
occupied. and then they were only got forward by a
sort of caressing shampooing from tho postilion. who
gut down for the purpose of urging them oa ; ulti-
mately the beasts had to be unyoked altogether, and
the vehicle proceeded with one pair of horses and

one postilion.

From Warde to Endrup, and through Estrup,
few roads can be worse than that which we tra-
velled. At one moment threatened with an upset
on one side, a deep rut would at o,we suc-
ceed the obstacle, and cause a corresponding jump to
the other side of the road, and involuntary reminis-
cences of Dickens's travels in America ro,e in our
mind as we slowly toiled through the heavy track
which the Jutlanders were pleased to cull roads.
The wind had fortunately very much lulled as tho
evening came on, and darkness setting in saw us
driving through Estrup farm, a long square of build-
ings most favourably situated for a strategic position,
and remarkable for having been the scene of military
operations in the first campaign between the Dance
and llolsteincrs. The road passes right across tho
farm, and its approach on one side was through o
thick wood—the scene of many a skirmish between
the tirailleurs on each side. Some lively pictures of
the mode in which each party dodged behind trees
and took advantage of every sinuosity of ground were
presented to us in Copenhagen. The road through
the forest, beyond the farm, was in the same state as
it had been fat since the passage of the artillery of
the Prussians, who had occupied Estrup. It was full
of ruts and holes, all the way into Kolding, a dis-
tance of 16 English miles, which took four hours
to drive.

We were much interested on the way by the
numerous barrows, or tumuli, which we could see in
large numbers scattered through the country. The
legends, or unwritten sagas of the olden times, ars
still told of these funereal mounds ; and though many
have been gathered and published, others, in far
greater numbers, remain unchronicled, save in tho
memory of the most venerable inhabitants. The
searches made in these barrows have led to the form-
ation of a numerous collection of old Cymric arms
and pots at Copenhagen, under the fosteilug cure of
Professor Thomsen. Oyster shells, too, have been
found in the tumuli, and lead to the knowledge
that as an article of food these fish were well known
by our ancestors. Superstitious ideas respecting the
barrows are also very rife, and in many pluses the
peasantry refuse to allow of their being opened,
unless a spade left on the spot for three days
untouched justifies the searcher in proceeding.
It was about midnight that we entered Kulding,
a gentle descent from the hills above it enabling tho
elear,;-bancs to rattle on at a somewhat greater speed.
Kidding consists entirely of one street—nut a straight
one, but winding like a serpent, in an endless variety
of house and cottage. Through thisstreet the &him-
wig-Holsteiners fought their way, driving back the
'Sines, who tired at them from the windows on each
side. Threats of bombardment from the ikighbour-
ing hills had no small share in the surrender of tho
town to the men of the Duchies. From Kolding to
Snoghoi on the Little Belt was a short run which
was performed in the that covered carriage that wo
obtained. A boat took us across the Belt hi twenty
minutes, the day dawning over the clear deep water,
and the noise of the oars in the rowlocks alone break-
ing the stillness of the night. Mittellikt is the
place of landing on the island of Fatten. We re-
sumed there our covered carriages, and the roads being
swoil, well macadamises', and kept in order, wo
reached without difficulty the town of Offisise in
time for breakfiist. nihilist is a pretty open coun-
try, well cultivated, growing capital rye and burley;
and its chief town, Odense, is a bustling plats., hay-
ing a garrison, a royal palace, and is spparently
, I most thriving. From it to Nveborg, a drive of three
• hours by the Danish post brought us to the border
of the Great Belt. Nyeborg is a krt : it has a littlo
harbour, in which we found a steamer ready to tuko
us over to Korsor, on the other side of the Great
Belt. The deck of this little steamer was covered
with soldiers, going home on leave. Their blue uni-
forms, little caps, horses of every colour, passengers
with their furred cloaks and heavy boots, altogether
mode a pretty picture, albeit the sight was more
pleasant thatiihe odour which arose from the horses,
the bilge water of the steamer, and the various
pipes of the soldiers, who lay in lazy groups
about the deck. There is a dreadful clearness about
the waters of these belts which creates osrvous
Icd-
ings as to boats being able to float in so limpid a
no dium. The depth being very great, and the hots
tom dark, gave the water of the Great Belt a black
appearance, which contrasted singularly us we ad-
vanced with the blue hills of Fuhnen, which loomed
in the distance. Evening set in us our party left
Korsor, and it was early morning before Ibieskild,
• the St. Denis of Copenhagen, and burial-place of
Danish kings, was reached. There the only railroad
that Denmark boasts of commences its iron course,
and getting into its minty carriages we reached
Copenhagen on Wednesday morning.
The time spent in the journey from Illerting to
Copenhagen must not be taken as a criterion to
regulate that in which it might ho done. '!'hero
were many obstacles in the way, and the stoppages
were unavoidably numerous ; die roads through Jut-
land were bad ; the course taken indirect. At Copen-
hagen we were assured by the chief ministerial
authorities, that seeing the efforts made in England
to promote a new route, roads properly macadamised
and kept in order would be made under the direc-
tion of the government engineer through Jutland,
direct from Hjerting to Kolding. The land is
eminently favourable for making rbads. The bogs
asd wastes are nowhere impassable or deep,
and they possess a subsoil of gravel and limestuno
that makes capital roads. The stations, which aro
now too many miles apart, would be made closer
to each other, and in fact every facility given to open
up the route. A diligence will be established be-
tween hljerting and Kidding in May, which will bo
fur preferable to the Danish mode of posting.
Count Datmeskiolde, the Postmaster-General, re-
gretted that one impediment should exist ut present
to postal communicution in the shape of a contract
between the English post-officc and the Hamburg
steam company, which precluded the possibility of
obtaining the passage of mails direct from Englund.
Hopes, though I believe them distant ones, arc enter.
tained, however, that a change may bo effiseted for
that portion of the mail service specially relating to
Denmark. Batt even though this difficulty were
not solved, there is no reason why the direct
line of steamers from Lowestoft to Hjerting should
not be eminently successful. As a means of direct
transport for cattle, the line is already in use; Jut-
land, abounding with bullocks of the best breed,
somewhat resembling the Durham, and which, though
not fat enough fur the London market, might be
made sufficiently so by a fortnight's good killing is
Norfolk and Suffolk. Pork, too, is most abundant,
, and from its cheapnesswould be welcome in the Loa.
I don market.

Such being the advantages of the route, it only
remains for the Danish government to complete tho
arrangements for bettering the roads, obtaining tho
passage of the mails, and making a small quay at
Iljertmg, and the direct line from London to Copen-
hagen will be in a fair way to become a favourite tbr
commercial as well as pleasure traffic. I shall de-
scribe our stay at Copenhagen, and our return, in
another letter, first premising, however, that doubt-
less the measures taken to ensure our quick return
will enable me to give more favourable accounts as
to the speed of our overland journey to Iljerting

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
—Yesterday, information was received by the metropolitan
police that the Royal Ordnance Powder Dlilla at Waltham
Abbey had been burglariously entered and plundered of a
large amount of property. The thieves broke into tho
cashier's office, and, forcing open the iron safe, they took
front it 3201. in Bank of England notes, 196 sovereigns, and
18s. 2d. in slyer and copper. They also effected an entry
into the storekeeper's room, from whence they took 121.
Besides the cash, they took a quantity of powder, and got
clear away with their booty.
TUE LATE MR. Gaissirn.—lt is understood that
one of the approvers in the late burglary eases has made a
statement relative to this murder.—Brisflaum