The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

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COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR IN
DENMARK,
COPENHAGEN, FEB. 1.
The German troops have crossed the Eider. The
first cannon-shots have been exchanged.

The Danes have blown up the Sorg-bridge, and
have withdrawn all their war material.

Advices from the army state that the
troops are eager for battle and enthusiastic.
The King is expected to arrive to-day.

PASSAGE OF THE SCHLESWG
FRONTIER.

KIEL, FEB. 1, Twelve o'clock.
Full confimation has been received of the passage
of the Schleswig frontier by the Prussian troops.
Their headquarters are transferred to Gettorf, in
Schleswig.

GENERAL ORDER OF FIELD-MARSHAL
WRANGEL.
HAMBURG, JAN. 29.

Advices received here state that Field-Marshal
Wrangel, accompanied by his general Staff, and
Prince Albrecht of Prussia, left to-day for the
North. He goes first to Nortorf, where the Aus-
trian headquarters is established.
A general order of tha Field-Marshal has
been published here. It says that, as fifty years
ago the Austrian and Prussian armies, when en-
gaged in the same struggle, wore the same badge,
now, when fortune, which cannot be sufficiently
praised, leads them again shoulder to shoulder into
battle, they are to adopt the same symbol as of old.
This consists of a white band round the left arm.
Several officers have already been seen wearing this
distinctive mark, and a supply of 40,000 is said to
have been ordered.

EFFORTS OF ENGLAND TO AVERT
WAR.

BERLIN, JAN. 30 (Evening).

Confirmation has been received here of the state-
ment that England's efforts to induce France to a
mutual step have hitherto proved abortive. The
Emperor Napoleon, it appears, is not disposed
to commit himself by any decided expression of
opinion in favour of the London Treaty, and his
Ambassadors here and in Vienna have seem-
ingly received directions to offer feeble support to
the proposition for six weeks' delay—such as, in
fact, amounts to offering none at all.

England, however, is said to be pursuing her en-
deavours to engage Russia and Sweden at any rate,
failing France, to more decided support of the in-
tegrity of Denmark, accompanying, as one of the
Berlin papers observes, "her recommendations with
general warnings and vague threats."

ORDER FOR THE ACCELERATED AS-
SEMBLY OF THE RIGSRAAD,
COPENHAGEN, FEB. 1.

A provisional law was published this morning,
enabling the accelerated assembly of the Rigsraad.
A Royal Patent was issued at the same time,
ordering the elections to the Rigsraad.
The postal and telegraphic communication with
Germany is broken off.
King Christian, accompanied by Bishop Monrad,
the President of the Council, left to join the army
at midnight. Large crowds assembled at the rail-
way station. His Majesty was continuously and
enthusiastically cheered.
The Government has placed a steamer at the dis-
posal of the Prussian and Austrian ambassadors,
by which they left last evening.
Owing to the decided refusal of the Danish Com-
mander-in-Chief to evacuate Schleswig, intelligence
of the outbreak of hostilities is hourly expected.
News has been already received that the Austro-
Prussian army is to be drawn up in battle order
within three days.
Slight frost prevails.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 1.
The provisional law for the convocation of the
Rigsraad contains the following passage :
" As circumstances may perhaps render an earlier
assembly of the Rigsraad necessary than is provided
for by the electoral law, the elections to the
Folksthing are to take place upon the sth March,
and to the Landsthing upon the 29th March next.

RENDSBURG, JAN. 31 (Evening).
The Austrian Lieutenant-Field-Marshal Von
Gablenz arrived here by this evening's train.
The Kronenwerk is still occupied by 25 Danish
foot and 25 cavalry.

ENTRY OF THE PRUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN
ARMY INTO SCHLESWIG.
KIEL, FEB. 1, 9.50 A.M.
At midnight the general alarm was beaten, and
the army immediately marched. All had left by
this morning.
It is rumoured that a collision took place yester-

day.
The Prussians advanced to-day as far as Gettorf,
in Schleswig.

KIEL, Jan. 26.

The address of the Schleswig-Ho).etein Associa-
tion at Kiel to the Federal Commissioners in Hol-
stein, in reference to the re-establishment of the
Holstein Contingent to the Federal army, runs as
follows :—" Since the year 1852 the Danish Govern-
ment has illegally compelled the Holstein troops to
perform garrison duty without the country, while,
on the other hand, the country of Holstein has been
occupied by Danish troops. This state of things
continued until the very moment of the Federal
execution. In consequence of this the Holstein
troops, in spite of the suspension of sovereign
rights, are now serving in the ranks of the Danish
army, and the Holstein contingent, which in con-
cert with Lauenbuig, according to the Constitu-
tion of the Federal Diet, should be placed at its
disposition, has no existence whatever. It is an
unbearable thought for the inhabitants of the
Duchy of Holstein that her sons should fail her
in the not unlikely case of a Federal war. This
is not only opposed to the honour of our coun-
try, but also to the rightful claims which Ger-
many has on our country. It is the rightful condi-
tion of us the undersigned that, since Denmark has,
practically at least, refused to dismiss the Holstein
troops to their homes, the high Federal Commis-
sioners are equally entitled in the interests of the
country now under their jurisdiction immediately to
take in hand the reorganisation of the Holstein con-
tingent. We can with certainty assort that the
whole country joins in our wish, and we therefore
believe we may reckon upon the granting of our
respectful request that the necessary steps for the
reorganisation of the Holstein contingent to the
army of the Confederation be at once taken by a
high Federal Commission."

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, JAN, 31.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Magdalena has arrived here from the Brazils, and
will leave for Southampton at 9 a.m. to-day with
55 passengers, specie £12,221, 1,114 rolls of tobacco,
459 bales of cotton, 593 bags of coff3e, 79 packages
crystals, and 217 packages of sundries.
The Magdalena met the Oneida at St. Vincent
with the outward mail of the 9th January.

FRANCE.
The Moniteur says:—" Several foreign journals