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THE SCHLES WIG-HOLSTEIN WAR.

:From the Times special Correspondent with the Danish
Army.)

DANISEI 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,
that the AustrosPrussians, 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 cense-
qeently through the western districts of Ulkebol
Ind Kjcer as far as Ronhave and Arnkielsore. 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 Kjmi ; 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-
quent in what is called Ulkebol-Westermark and
Kjcer-Westermark, almost entirely disappeared.
The territory of Ronhave, up to the extreme point
of the triangle at Arnkielsore, is bat 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-
ing the great fertility of the There seems to be
nothing like small farming in Denmark, a circum-
stance which, coupled with a provident municipal
administration and the all pervading spread of edu-
cation, account for the total absence of mendicity,
or indeed sordid poverty, to which I alluded in my
last letter.
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 counted about 100 of them. They
were all Prussians, and all infantry men; and the
pickets on duty ou our (the Danish) side and the
peasantry an the spot assured me no artillery, pon-
toon, or bridge equipage was any where to •be seen.
l'he 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 dente
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 is 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 ie 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 de-
fence then 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. Mey 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 Preusserno 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's Staff at
Fredericia, the movements of the latter officer must
to a great extent be left to his own discretion and

responsibility.
The Danish army consists of three divisions, corn
mended by Generals Gerlach, Du Plat, and Wilster
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 is, 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.Hegermane.Lindererone, 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-
saglieri corps, which was once one
battalion, and
now consists of 23 regiments (so useful has its action
been found in late campaigns), is almost wholly 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 tsrailleur
service. Many of the very mountain lads that are
entered in the Bersaglieri corps have soon to be made
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.
this All
lotand the
ti
does n
taking into account the losses the army has suffered
in dead, wounded, and prisoners, during the week's
regiments
ofwhole,
hostilities on the Dannewerke, the few stragglers on
the retreat, and the sick in hospital, it may be safe
to compute the number of actual combatants on the
line to something between 25,000 and 30,000. Some
hagen. I am inclined to think that the latter num-
ber is nearer to the truth ; but armies, as every
one knows. never are on the ground what they ap-
eort includelleryr reserve.
fourer ve. reserve
On
of the reserve having lately come up from Copen-

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 up. Some very fine battalions of Grenadiers
of the King's Guard, and a squadron of 120 gigan-
tic cuirassiers of the Life Guards, whom I so greatly
admired at Copenhagen, never appeared in the
Duchy of Schleswig, even when the King was at
headquarters at Castle Gottorp, or hero 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.

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 full 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 future 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 of disaffection ; for
it is undeniable, on the one hand, that they could
under no German Government have attained so
great an amount 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
the least, commensurate with their native loyalty
and submissiveness, their love of order and respect
for constituted authority. _ _

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.

FEB. 18.
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 Als, or Alsen, h,.(1 came
up by the south road from Flensburg, through
Ringencei, Graasten, and Aldbol, as far as Nybol,
and by the northern road from Aabenraa, through
Ullernp to Sattrup, and had pushed their outposts
as far as the woods of Sandhjerg, 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 Ringence3 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 I)ybbol position. We heard the day be-
fore yesterday that Marshal Wrangel had moved
his head-quarters up to Ringence3, 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 SLorskov, 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
Dart 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 theinorning.

You may remember, perhaps, that at the time o
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 shorn 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 Saaol
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 Krake,
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.
me 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 Holdnces (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 htr ; one
of her officers received a contusion, and two sailors
were slightly wounded.
It would seem in the meanwhile that the Austro-
Prussians, uncertain of the issue of that struggle,
which might in all probability have destroyed the
bridge across the Egernsund and completely cut off
their retreat over the road by which they had come,
felt it incumbent upon them to secure au 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 outposts of the Danes are at
Dybbol and those of the Austro-Prussians at Nybo!,
will satisfy the reader that the ground between
Dybbol and Nybol, 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 13offe1 Skov. This morning, to-
wards 11, the Austro-Prussians walked out of
Nybol in a large force, and after short skirmish-
ing they drove in the Danish pickets, and eata,