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London, England, 1864-02-27 00:00:00

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No. 22,363.

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DANISH HEADQUARTERS, SONDERBORG,
February 27.
We are in actual armistice here, though in daily
expectation of a renewal of hostilities. I was de-
sirous yesterday to see what ground there might be
for the belief, rather generally entertained here,
chat the Austro.Prussians, in their apparent state
of inaction, meditated a great stroke—no less a feat
indeed, than throwing a bridge across the Sound
from Sandbjerg or Storeskov. I rode out conse-
quently through the western districts of Ulkebol
and Kjcer as far as Ronhave and Arnkieleore. The
little triangular piece of ground which lies between
the Sound and the Augustenburg Fiord has its base
between Sonderborg and Ulkebol and its apex at
Arnkielsore. It is hilly, or at least boldly undulated,
as far as Kjcet ; but it sinks down into almost a dead
flat at Ronhave. As I approached the latter place
the signs of habitation, which were not very fre-
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Kjcer-Westermark, almost entirely disappeared.
The territory of Ronhave, up to the extreme point
of the triangle at Arnkielsore,is but one vast farm,
and the gaard or court where the landowner resides
is almost the last habitation. The rural population
is scanty every where in these regions, notwithstand-
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nothing like small farming in Denmark, a circum-
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provident municipal
administration and the all pervading spread of edu-
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or indeed sordid poverty, to which I alluded in my
last letter.

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THE AUTO GRAPHIC MIRROR.
Contents of No. 2.

A Letter of Christian IV. of Denmark, anno 1611; of Sir
Philip Sydney, Washington, Nelson, Nesselrode, Metternich,
Dumouriez, the Earl of Ellesmere, Coleridge, Mrs. Troilope,
the Countess of Derby (Miss Farren,, Charles Kean, Miss
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BUSINESSES. - MR. ANDREW HIND'S
JANUARY LIST,
Containing 503 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c.,
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HOUSES.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
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rent £25. Price £715, or separately. Also the following :
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£135 each, 4.tc. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St.
Paul's.

FARM WANTED to rent, from 50 to 200 acres,
with moderate-sized dwelling-house and outbuildings.
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Family Residence and Land.

MR. ANDRE X HIND has to LET a comfort-
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two from a station, delightfully situate on high ground, and
commanding extensive views. Contains lofty drawing
room, dining and morning* rooms, four best and five other
bed rooms, kitchens and cellars. Grounds comprise pleasure
and kitchen gardens, shrubbery, paddock, and meadow,
together about seven acres ; with lodge entrance, stabling,
coach house, green house, ornamental water, at.d bridge.
Rent, on three years' agreement, £120; fixtures, £5O ; or the
lease for 18 years at £lOO. Price, with fixtures, £2OO. Cards
to view may be had at fhe Auction and Estate Agency Offices,
corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

HOUSES.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to LET
a spacious HOUSE, at Brixton Hill, containing nine
bed and reception rooms, with usual offices, large pleasure
and kit hen gardens, Sic. Rent, £lO5. Also a large house,
furnished, and the following : —Lewisham, rent £BO ; Harrow,
ZSO, &c. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul

ESIDENCE.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to
I_lo LET or SELL an ex3ellent Detached lIOUSE at
Hackney, containing 16 rooms, basement, &c. The neigh-
bourhood is pleasant and healthy; soil grave►. Rent, £9O.
Price, freehold, £1,600. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane,
St. Paul's.

Standing on the door-sill of the court of Ron-
have, or on the skirts of the woods at Arn-
kielsore, I could distinctly see over the water a
few Prussians moving about in the woods of
Sandbjerg and Storeskov. Those woods belong
to a fine landed estate, the property of one of
the many branches of the Reventlow family, and the
beautiful Slot or Palace of Sandbjerg rises close to
the water-side, on the opposite shore, about half a
mile from the spot where I stood. In the pleasure
grounds and the Chase of Sandbjerg, then, the
Austro-Prussians have lodged themselves, and alto-
gether I may have ccunted about 100 of them. They
were all Prussians, and all infantry men; and the
pickets on duty on our (the Danish) side and the
peasantry on the spot assured me no artillery, pon-
toon, or bridge equipage was anywhere to be seen.
The evidence of their eyes or of mine goes for no-
thing, however, for very extensive operations might
be carried on under cover of the bare, but dense
plantation. The width of the Sound, which, as I
said, is only 150 yards at the bridges of Sonderborg
is, to say the least, twice as great on the narrowest
point opposite to Storeskov. What means modern
engineering may have to bridge over a sheet of water
nearly a third of an English mile in width competent
persons can judge; but what is very sure, at any
rate, is that all attempts at crossing would be gal-
lantly resisted by the Danes. Wherever I went,. all
along the Sound, on the slope of the banks trenches
were being rapidly thrown up, and at the water
edge rifle pits were being dug for picket service.
The Danes had hitherto no proper forts on the
Sound, because they relied, as they still in a great
measure rely, on the aid of their gunboats; but their
field batteries are drawn up in the very best order
at every farm house, and could be brought to bear on
any threatened spot in not many minutes.
Not only along the Sound, but all along the line of
Dybbol, on the mainland, the Danes are striving to
add artificial strength to what ie already naturally
a very strong position. They keep no less than
6,000 men constantly at work. Every time I ride
to the outposts, and that it almost daily, I see new
bastions raised, new fields levelled, palisades reared,
and huts constructed for the accommodation of the
troops. Brave as the Danes are on the open field,
they seem aware that their forte lies rather in des
fence than attack, and in this present instance they
are but too much justified in seeking in stone walls
and earth bastions a vantage ground to counter-
balance the enormous numerical superiority of their
adversary. May be all these active and extensive
preparations will have been made in vain, and
armistice and peace may be concluded before new
" Danes' work" be quite ready for use; but the
Danes themselves, soldiers and officers, will hear no
mere about the cessation of hostilities. They long
to measure their strength with that of the Germans,
and are especially anxious for a brush with the
Prussians. Next in favour to their national air,
"Den tappre Landsoldat," is the other song, "Nu
skal vi da atter med Preusserne slaaes" (Now shall
we again with the Prussians fight), which they sing
with great spirit and exultation, loud enough to be
heard at the outposts on the other side.
The whole of the Third Division of the Danes
Army has left us, part of it embarking directly for
Fredericia, in Jutland,
and the remainder crossing
over the ferries into Funen, to march across that
island through Middelfart to the same destination.
The Commander-in-Chief of the division, General
Wilsier, was still here yesterday, but has in all pro-
bability followed his troops in the night. The
Danish army is thus virtually divided into two.
However active the communications between the
head-quarters here and General Wilster'n Staff at
Fredericia, the movements of the latter officer must
to a great extent be left to his own discretion and
responsibility.

IRELAND.-Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
SALE the Lessee's Interest in a convenient Small
RESIDENCE and 78 Acres of prime LAND, pleasantly
situate near the City of Cork, and commanding* beautiful
views of the harbour and surrounding country. Good shoot-
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Price, £7OO. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

By all accounts that reach us from the invaded
parts of the Duchy of Schleswig, it would seem that
the Austro-Prussians are bent on discountenancing
all revolutionary movements and so-called patriotic
demonstrations so far as their occupation extends.
It was only on their first arrival at Eckernforde,
Schleswig, and other towns that, in the midst of the
enthusiasm got up among the German party for the
reception of the " brotherly" troops, and in their
anxiety to mind their own special business, which
was the attack on the Dannewerk, the commanders
of the two invading armies were compelled to allow
the demagogues their fall swing. But now, it
would seem, these same commanders find them•
selves more fully at their leisure, and they
have very clearly intimated to the Schleswigers
that they will bear no hand in any political
innovation, and, limiting themselves to admi-
nister the country as much as possible accord-
ing to its old laws and institutions, they will leave
the fature destinies of the Duchies in the hands of
those whom it may concern. For my own part,
there is no stronger conviction in my mind than
that the Schleswigers and even the Holsteiners,
are a people not to be moved to any revolutionary
act except by a very strong pressure on the
part of foreign agitators. Had Denmark been left
alone with her subjects, I feel sure, whatever the
feelings of nationality might be in the heart of some
of them that the Schleswig-Holsteiners would never
have given very alarming signs or disaffection ; for
it is undeniable, on the one hand, that they could
under no German Government have attained so
great an arbount of wellbeing, culture, and real free-
dom as they enjoyed under their Danish rulers, and
on the other, that they were fully aware how well
off they were, and their contentment was, to say
tho least, commensurate with their native loyalty
and submissiveness, their love of order and respect
for constituted authority.

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The Danish army consists of three divisions, com-
manded by Generals Gerlach, Da
Plat, and Wileter.
Every division has three infantry brigades, each
brigade composed of two' regiments, with two bat-
talions to each regiment. A Danish battalion
musters 800 men, a regiment, consequently, 1,600,
a brigade 3,200, and a division 9,600. Each divi-
sion ip, besides, provided with two field-batteries,
about 400 men, and half a regiment of dragoons,
about 300. Altogether a division, in its perfect
state of efficiency, consists of no less than 10,300
men. The three divisions make a total of 30,900.
There is, besides, a fourth, or cavalry division, un-
der the orders of Gen.Hegermann•Lindercrone, con-
sisting of three cavalry brigades, each brigade of
two cavalry regiments, each regiment of six squad-
rons, with 120 men for each squadron. This would
make a force of 720 men for each regiment, 1,440
for each brigade, and 4,320 for the whole division.
The Danes, as I have stated, have only infantry
of the line ; nothing like riflemen, sharpshooters,
Zouaves, or Bersaglieri. All their foot soldiers are
capital shots. There are peculiar evolutions for light
infantry, however, for which all infantry men are
not equally fit, and which require a great amount
of special training. In Italy, for instance, the Ber-
saglierinow consists of 23 regiments
(so useful has its action
been found in late campaigns), is almost wholly corps, which was once one battalion, and
re-
cruited among the mountaineers of Piedmont, Lom-
bardy, Liguria, &c., as the inhabitants of the plain
are deficient in that hardihood, agility and activity
which are required for all the running, leaping,
crouching, and crawling indispensable in ttrai cur
service. Many of the very mountain lads that are
entered in the Bersaglieri corps have soon to be made
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over to the infantry of the line, as they too often
break down under the severe exertions by which
their powers of endurance are tested. Possibly the
Danes, however strong, are not sufficiently agile
and supple for that kind of work.
All this does not include four reserve regiment,
of foot and the artillery reserve. On the ~t.
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pear on paper, and I would not undertake to assert
that the cadres of every battalion, regiment,
brigade, or division in the Danish army are quite
filled tip. Some very fine battalions of Grenadiers
of the King's Guard, and a Equaci:on of 120 gigan-
tic cuirassiers of the Life Guards, whom
greatly
admired at Copenhagen, never appeared in the
Duchy of Schleswig, even when the King 73113 at
headquarters at Castle Gottorp, or here at Sonder-
borg. Now that his Majesty has gone back to the
capital it would be idle, I suppose, to look for the
arrival of those household troops, which ought never
to move except by way of escort and protection to
the Royal person.

- It is idle to say that they were kept quiet by
main force; it must not be forgotten that the two
Duchies constituted two fifths of the Danish mo•
narchy, and a population of that strength supported
by all the national party in Germany would have
been fully equal to a contest with the crown of
Denmark, had that Crown exercised any tyrannical
sway over them, had the discontent been so rife
among them as the German newspapers describe it.
These are, however, political topics, and only to
be touched upon in the event of warlike operations
giving way before diplomatic negotiations.

Those of the readers of the Times who have had
patience to read through my foregoing letters will
have gained, I should hope, a sufficiently distinct
knowledge of the respective position of the bellige-
rent parties here to be able to follow the events
which have taken place this day to set a proper
value upon their importance.
From Flensburg and Aabenraa (Apenrade), as I
before said, the Austro -Prussians, advancing through
the Sondeved, or Sundewitt, peninsula, between the
two fiords which take their names from these towns,
and facing this little isle of Ale, or Alsen, had come
up by the south road from Flensburg, through
Ringence3, Graasten, and Aldbol, as far es Nybol,
and by the northern road from Aabenraa, through
Ullerup to Sattrup. and had pushed their outposts
as tar as the woods of Sandbjerg, on the Allssund.
Besides these two avenues, both of which concen-
trate upon the Danish position at Dybbol, the Ger-
mans had left the main southern road at Alnor,
between Ringeneei and Graasten; and from Alnor
had taken possession of the Egernsund, throwing a
pontoon bridge across that narrow strait, and thus
advancing into the minor peninsula of Broagerland
by Skodsbol and Smol they came by a third road
upon the Dybbol position. We heard the day be-
fore yesterday that Marshal Wrangel had moved
his head-quarters up to Ringensos, and that some
of the Prussian outposts had advanced into the
Broagerland peninsula as far as Smol. Yesterday
about 100 of them were seen in the woods of Sand-
bjerg and SLorekov, on the Alssund, whence they
fired on the Danish pickets across the strait, but
without any result, as apparently without object.

All these movements, however, evinced on the
part of the enemy some desire to break the mono-
tonous stillness to which they have condemned them-
selves since they first came in sight of the fortifica-
tions at Dybbol ; and we all went to bed last night
with the expectation of being awakened by the
noise of an attack in the morning.
You may remember, perhaps, that at the time of
my first trying to lay before the reader the position
of the Danes at Dybbol, I expressed my surprise
that they should have allowed the enemy a free and
easy entrance into the Broager peninsula, as I
thought that by their command of the water they
might so strongly have occupied the Egernsund as
not only to hold that strait against any force, but
also to enable themselves to send their gunboats
into the Nybol Ncr, and molest their enemy in
their advance along shore on the road from Adsbol
to Nybol. That precaution was not taken ; the
Austro-Prussians were freely let in across the
Egernsund and into the Broager peninsula; or, as
it now appears, they were lured in—they were
allowed to come up through Skodsbol and Smol
with a hope that they might be caught in a trap.
How many of them have actually ventured into
the Broager peninsula we have no means to ascer-
tain. That they had got as far as Smol, however,
was well known, and the Danes, thinking the net
was full, thought it high time to draw it up. This
morning at a very early hour the cannon was
heard. It was the Danish Monitor Rolf Brake,
which had steamed up to the Egernsund in the
night, and at break of day opened fire on the
bridge thrown by the Germans across the strait.
The Monitor, it seems, could not, owing to the
shallowness of the water, advance near enough
fully to accomplish her purpose. We know nothing
very precise, at least as to the effects of her fire
upon the bridge. She fired 72 shots, and was '
answered by the German batteries on shore at
Ainor and Holdnce3 (the latter place across the
Flensburg fiord) with 150 shots: One of the ene-
enemies' shots took effect, it is said, through her
funnel, but without materially disabling her; one
of her officers received a contusion, and two sailors
were slightly wounded.
It would seem in the meanwhile that the Metro-
Prussians, uncertain of the issue of that struggle,
which might in all probability have destroyed the
bridge across the Egernsund and completely ett off
their retreat over the road by which they had come,
felt it incumbent upon them to secure an open way
through the isthmus of the Broager peninsula by
an open attack on the outposts of the Danish posi-
tion at Dybbol. A mere glance at the map, and the

knowledge that the outpnsts of the Danes are at
Dybbol and those of the A ustro-P_ russians at Nybol,
iil satisfy the reader that the ground between
Dybbol and Ny bol, which corresponds precisely to
the neck or isthmus of the Broager peninsula, is a
kind of debatable ground, occupied by the pickets
of either party, and in the permanent possession of
neither. By far the greater part of this ground is
covered by large woods, bearing to the north of the
road the name of Stenterup Skow, and to the south
of the road that of Boifel Skov. This morning, to-
wards 11, the Austro-Prussians walked out of
Nybol in a large force, and after short skirmish-
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blished themselves in the Stenterup and Boffel
woods. By this movement they gained full com-
mand over the isthmus of the Broager peninsula,
and secured an easy escape for their troops at
Smol, had these latter been "caught in the
trap" laid for them by the Danes, in the event of
their retreat being cut off at the Egernsund by
the destruction of the bridge. The possession
of the Stenterup and Boffel woods was not to
be given up by the Danes without a spirited
struggle. About 12 o'clock are noon the a.tArm
sounded through the streets of Sonderborg. It is
one of the peculiarities of the Thnish army that it
boasts not a siogie drum, with the exception of the
Royal foot-guards at Copenhagen, not a man of
whom has as yet reached the camp. The alarm
was, therefore, given by the trumpets, and, in a few
minutes, three regiments of infantry were pressing
to the bridge towards the scene of action. On ap-
proaching the woods, however, they found the
enemy disposed to give way before them without
striking a blow, and before three o'clock the Danish
pickets had recovered the position from which they
had been driven in the morning. The morning
skirmish has cost the Danes five or six dead and 30
wounded ; among the slightly wounded an officer.
Such has been, for this day, the conclusion of an
action of no great moment as to its immediate
results, but full of serious meaning if we either con-
sider the designs which brought it about, or the
remote consequences it has had, or might have had.
To what extent the Rolf Krate obtained its intent,
which was to destroy the German bridge on the
Egernsund, and thus shut up as many of them as
had ventured into the Broager Peninsula, whence
they would have had no other egress than through
the isthmus between Nybol and Dybbol, we are not
yet able to ascertain, and we are equally uncertain
as to whether or not the Austro-Prussians marched
out of the peninsula through the isthmus, profiting
by the two or three hours in which their troops
drove the Danish pickets from their posts in the
Stenterup and Bodel Woods, and had possession
of them. We may obtain more positive information
before time comes to close this letter for the post.
But in the meanwhile there is abundant proof that
the Germans are far as yet from having it in
their power to shut up the Dines in their position
at Dybbol, and that these latter have still strategy
and pluck enough to defeat the enemy's plans on a
ground which they seemed to have already aban-
doned, but on which their command of the sea en-
ables them to reassert their hold whenever it suits
them.

FEBRUARY 18, 9 P.M.
The mail closes in a few minutes, and no fresher
ntelligence has reached us. It seemed almost posi-
:,ive that the bridge on the Egernsund is not de-
stroyed, and the position of the Germans in the
Broager Peninsula remains as it was. The experi-
ment will, however, be renewed.
FEBRUARY 20.
It was a fortnight last night since the main
strength of the Danish army marched out of Schles-
wig, beginning its toilsome and disastrous retreat
from the Dannewerk. It will be a fortnight to-
morrow evening since the Danes sought the safe
shelter of Alsen, and of the redoubted bastions at
Dybbol, the great outwork of this their sea-girt
fortress. The Austro Prussians were then in hot
pursuit, and they have ever since stood face to face
with the Danish pickets on every avenue concen-
trating from west, north, and south upon this
place. Yet the two hostile forces have been ever
since almost completely at rest, and the last san-
guinary affair was the brush between the rear of
the pursued party and the van of the pursuers at
Bilskorkrug or Oversee, on the evening of Sunday
before last, Of course, when I say this I take into no
account some occasional unavoidable and almost in-
voluntary exchanges of :*mots at the outposts, nor
even of the skirmish of last Thursday, of which I
gave an account in my letter of that date, and
which was altogether of the Danes' own seeking. It
was the attempt of the Danish Monitor Rolf Brake
to burn the pontoon bridge at Egernsund, so as to
cut off the Prussians' retreat from the Brosger Pen-
insula, which prompted the German forward move-
ment from Nybol and the occupation of the Stentc-
rup and Boffel Woods. They hoped thereby to open
a way for their troops in Broagerland through the
isthmus of the little peninsula, in the event of the
egress across the Egernsund being intercepted. The
attempt of the Rolf brake was unsuccessful because
a round cape at the entrance of the strait on the
eastern shore completely masked the bridge, and
the water on the western shore was too shallow for
her cannon to come within reach of its aim. The
safety of the bridge reassured the Austro-Prussians,
who had no further object in their advance into the
woods, and who therefore lost no time in retiring
within their own lines at Nybol, declining all conflict.
Why they should keep so quietly within these
lines, why the invasion of the Duchy of Schleswig,
which began with so much ardour and vigour on
their part, should come to a standstill before the
bastions of Dybbol, is precisely the problem with
the solution of which men's minds are busy here.

That the position at Dybbol is formidable, and
that the Germans are aware of its strength, is
matter of certainty, for they turned all their en-
deavours against it in 1849, when it had hardly
more than its natural advantages to rely upon, and
were drive❑ from it again and again. It is ex-
tremely natural for them to wish to put off their
attack until they have brought up all the heavy
material they can muster ; but a fortnight is a
long lapse of time for the accomplishment of such
a task with the present means of locomotion they
have at their command, those means which en-
abled them so soon to prepare for the storming
of the Dannewerk. Oa the other hand, they
must be aware that the Danes on their own side
are not idle, but are adding bastion to bastion
and trench upon trench, so as to make assurance
doubly sure. All that the engineers here
asked was just a fortnight's breathing time, and
during this interval new works have risen as if by
magic, and whenever the assailants are ready they
will be quite sure to find the defenders fully as
ready for them.
As day follows day and no news is the news, we be-
gin to think that the expected attack will never take
place, and we have been all this time tossed about
between the hopes and fears of an armistice till the
declarations of diplomatists in various countries set
our minds at rest on that score. The Germans will
not cease from hostilities, yet they will not dash their
heads against the ramparts at Dybbol. Possibly
they wish to carry on the war on softer ground in a
different quarter. We have positive intelligence,
indeed, that two days ago they crossed the frontier
line which separates the Duchy of Schleswig from
Jutland, and our anticipations of hot work there are
so general that I have been more than once on the
point of taking my berth in one of the steamers
sailing regularly more than once a day to Frede-
-1 ricia.

The invasion of the northern part of the penin
sula—of that purely Danish province which is
neither, like Holstein, a member of the German
Confederacy, nor, like Schleswig, a territory 4g in-
dissolubly united with it," as the Germans would
have it, and which, indeed, was not even inciden-
tally mentioned in that Treaty of 1852, the terms
of which the Austro-Prussians have undertaken to
enforce—the invasion of Jutland, I said, seemed to
the people here too monstrous a breach of all law
to be justified even by the exigencies of the mos
internecine war. That the two German Powers
who have now the whole of Schleswig in their
hands except this little island, and the four
square miles of ground adjoining it on the main-
land, should not think they had accomplished
their great object until they
held literally every
inch of
Schleswig at their discretion, might be
possible, and the war might be expected to go
on to the utter annihilation of the army shel-
tering at Alsen. But what passes all belief is, that
caning themselves, with all their enormous taupe-