The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-07 00:00:00

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After the dissolution of the assembly had bees de-
&wed the snembers separated with cheers tor the coo-
agitation. BOSS persons in the gallery, by whom the
dissolution was unexpected, called for a curse for Has-
maple&

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

RENDSBURO, Ara 31.
The generale was beaten this morning under my win-
dows with great vigour ; on inquiry, 1 learnt that the
whole line of outposts was already under fire ; that the
Danes hrd attacked on the right and lett wings
and centre all at once, and that a general engage-
ment was to be expected. I hurried to headquarters,
and found that the staff had already left for
the scene of action. A pair of good horses soon
serried me beyond the walls of the fortress, and past
the long columns of infantry wending their serpentine
march along the winding road in a northerly direc-
tion. Doubts soon began to rise in my mind as to the
reality of the alarm, seeing that no firing was to be
heard, nor could I perceive in any direction a single
waggon with wounded in it. I progressed further
inward until within three miles of Eckerr.forde, when
I met the commander of the advanced guard returning,
and speedily my doubts were confirmed. No
Danes had been seen, that is to say, in Any force. A
few shots had been exchanged very early :in the
morning between a patrol and a Danish outpost, and
one Danish rifleman had been made a prisoner. More
than this nothing had taken place in the direction of
Kternforde. Col. Gerhard, who commands the ad-
vance guard, hod been within musket shot of Eckern-
forde without encountering the enemy. Subsequent
inquiries as the movements in the centre and on the left
wing produced similar information, and the alarm was
found to have been a false one. It is not impossible,
however, that the alarm was intentional, and that
General Willisen desired to reconnoitre the enemy.
False alarm or reconnoitring, whatever it was, the
affair was attended by a very laughable circumstance.
A great macreavre had been ordered for this morning
close to the advanced posts at Sorgbruck. The bri-
gade lying in the neighbourhood was divided into two
equal portions, and a sham fight was to have taken
place between them. Both had occupied the
positions assigned them, and were waiting fur orders.
The orders for the sham fight were crossed by those
for what it was supposed might end in a real light.
The commanding officers of each demi-brigade were
suddenly informed that " the enemy is approaching."
The astonishment of the commander of the corps des-
tined to commence the sham attack was not a little
astonished at the .sudden change in the prescribed
order of things. He proceeded, however, like
a good soldier, to make his preparations for
this unforeseen attack, when be was stopped by
another order requiring him to advance against the
enemy. " What enemy, and where," were his natural
questions. The explanation which ensued was more
satisfactory to him,tlf and the men under his com-
mand, since it held out the expectation of seeing a
real instead of a sham foe. The same ludicrous mistake
took place with the other demi-brigade, and required
the same rectification. Both, however, were ding-
paint-d. They saw no Danes.
P.S. I have just learned that the government has
resolved, this afternoon, on assembling the parliamen-
tary representatives of the duchies. The Schleswig-
Holstein Landeseersameilung is to meet on the 9th
of September at Kiel. The chief motive fur calling
the parliament together is to provide the means for
carrying on the war during the winter, if it should be
necessary. The finances of the ductile, are in excel-
. lent order, and there e.t.a funds in the treasury suffi-
cient to meet the enormous demands upon it fur seven
or eight weeks to come.