The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-04 00:00:00

Captured Train,

One of the Federal army sergeants who was in
the train on the Baltimore and Philadelphia E. ail-
road captured by the Confederates has given his
account of the affair. He say s—"
When we crossed
Ganpowder-bridge there was a (Federal) picket at
its extremity. The officer in command was stand-
ing as we passed with his arms folded, and allseemed
as quiet as the Sabbath. Just after having turned
the curve beyond the picket the breaks were sud-
denly put on, a shot was fired, followed a moment
after by a volley. Had the engineer reversed his
engine instead of jumping from it the train might
have been saved. Oa the entrance of the rebels
into the cars all officers in unifirm were compelled
to descend, and were marched along in advance of
the train to a clear field near the depot. On going
to the place where the baggage had been thrown from
the train I found a lively scene going on, superin-
tended by certain ladies. An order had apparently
been issued that the baggage of ladies should be
respected. In order to discover what articles of
baggage belonged to officers, these ladies asked those
present to point out theirs; all baggage not thus
claimed was at once broken open and
pillaged. The
namea of some of those ladies I discovered to be Miss
D„ of Baltimore (afterwards, I was informed, ar-
rested at Havre de Grace with a rebel mail in her pos-
session' ; Mrs H. and a Mrs P. and party,aleo of Bal-
timore, on their way to Newport. It is almost impos-
sible to describe their conduct during that day ; their
exuberant enthusiasm over the rebel flag, their
familiar intercourse with the various rebel officers
and soldiers. It is simply necessary to say that be-
fore he left Major Gilmore had not a button left on
his coat, all having been cut off to present to these
friends. The rifling of the baggage was mainly
superintended by them, and the owners abused and
insulted by every
species of assertion and argu-
ment. Bundles of my clothing were done up and
sent on to various persons mentioned by name by
them through some of the soldiers. I arrived here
with nothing
bat a toothbrush and five paper
collars picked up from the ground. Now, as to the
gallant conduct of the 'strong guard,' said by the
papers to have been stationed at the bridge, and
their knowledge of their military duties, I will state
that the first train was stopped and burnt within a
little over a mileof their
post,without anything being
known by them, so that our train blundered into the
same snare; that on the appearance of a few rebels
they incontinently ran for the bridge, leaving every.
thing behind, and were actually caught upon the
bridge by our train, which had been set on fire and run
back upon the bridge, and one of these gallant men
was knocked into the water by it and drowned.
The officer and his command then took refuge on
the steamer, and at night when we were moving the
trunks and passengers aboard the same, sent a re-
quest on shore to have their tents struck and their
company property saved for them. I would state
that in the evening
one of the engines Was suffi-
ciently
repaired to be run ahead to the Bush River
bridge, where it was se tremendously shelled by our
gunboat stationed there that it was abandoned,
which accounts for the story I have seen in the
papers, that the enemy ran an engine to the river,
were repulsed, and that the engine was captured
the next day by a party landed. "—New 1 ork Times.

A YACIIT FOR GARIBALDL—The committee have
at length resolved to secure for Garibaldi the yacht
belonging to Lord Burghley. The Osprey is 35 tons
burden, yawl rigged. Length from forepart of stem under
bowsprit to aft side of head of stern post 51 4-10 feet, main
breadth 12 7-10 feet, depth in hold from tonnage dock to
ceiling at midships 6 6-10 feet, head room in cabins Gi feet.
There are two berths in the main cabin, two small ditto in
the quarter, one double berth in the ladies' cabin, and one
in the skipper's cabin. Lord Burghley has lately spent
about ..-C1,5 JO upon her, and she is now undergoing a
thorough overhaul. Tho Osprey had been to Gibraltar
and the Mediterranean, to the north of Scotland, Ireland,
&0., and is a first-rate sea boat. Admiral Mundy, in a letter
to Colonel Chambers, says: "The Osprey will answer the
general's purposes. She only draws nine feet of vat er, and
has a good character in every respect, being an excellent sea
boat in bad weather. She is having a thorough refit, and
will be ready next week. Two men and a boy, besides the
master, will be sufficient to man her. Being what is called
' dandy rigged,' she will bo very handy, and can proceed
immediately to Caprera." The committee have been urged,
in conecqueuce of the present delicate state of Garibaldi's
health, to send out the yacht immediately to Caprera,—
Liverpoq Mcrcnry.

DENMARK AND GERMANY,

(From the 2imes' Correspondent)
ELSINORE, July 30.
The men•of-war of the Danish squadron which
came in on Satarday last and made so goodly a
show as they lay at anchor off Humlebeck, after no
more than a week's rest, again passed us this morn-
ing, at an early hoar, outward bound. We also
saw a large steamer, laden with troops, following
them at some distance, and making her way out of
the Sound. Her destination was Punen. The land
and sea forces of Danmark are going back to their
former stations. The suspension of hostilities ter-
minates to-morrow at noon ; and unless tidings of
a new armistice or of peace reach us from Vienna
before that time we shall, for the third time, find
ourselves in a state of open war. There are men,
indeed, here about me who are so fully convinced
that to-morrow will usher in a new outbreak of
hostilities, and whom the idea of the possibility of
an attack of the Germans on the shores of the Sound
inspires with so much uneasiness that,in their panic,
they are once more deliberating as to the expediency
of providing for their safety by conveying them■
selves, their gold, plate, and other valuables across
the water into Sweden.

I need scarcely tell you that I by no means share
tifeir alarm. At the time of the expiration of the
truce, at the close of the London Conference, June
26th, I expressed my firm conviction that war could
not recommence in real earnest. What occurred
between that day and the 26th of this month was
in fact, not real war, The Germans only accom!
Plished in Schleswig and Jutland what they had,
from motives of their own, left unachieved in April.
They took Ale, which was never intended to offer
any serious resistance, and drove the Danes from
their !set hold of the Peninsula across the Liims
Fiord, and from those western isles the garrisons of
which were instructed only to " pretend" to stand
their ground. Had the Austro-Prussians been
bent on a real trial of strength they should and
would have attempted a landing in Funen. The
war on the mainland was over at the fall of Dybbol,
and there never was any doubt that if the Germans
chose to fight at all they must take to their ships
and come over to Funen or Zealand, or, rather, before
they did that, they must grapple with the Danes
at sea, and strike a blow with a view to establish
their maritime superiority, and open their way so
as to come to close quarters with their enemy under
the walls of his capital.
It is this kind of final, decisive war that I do not
expect to see waged before my eyes at this moment.
The Danish Government and those of the two great
German Powers have hardly been free agents at any
period during all these melancholy transactions.
The two nations (or nationalities, if the word suits
better) were eager for the fray, and the rulers at
their head, had the alternative of either leading
the movement, by giving in to it, or being
dragged into action in spite of themselves. So
far as it depended on the commanders on either
side, the war was at all times slowly carried on. The
Danish policy was throughout a yielding one; one
line after the other, one stronghold after the other
was given up, always in obedience to necessity, yet
always with a hope that each successive serious loss
might sober the excited feelings of the people, and
how them to their fate. On the other hand, the
Germans advance d by mighty strides, but only by
fits and starts. They struck heavy blows, hoping
that each one might be the stunning and finishing
one, but always under compulsion to proceed further
and farther, in the impossibility either of falling
back or coming to a final stand.
The Governments on either aide, I repeat, never
went with deliberate purpose into this fatal war.
The real contest was between them and their people
.—between the upholders of the present order of
things and the revolutionary opposition. In this
contest the constituted authorities have now very
nearly secured the upper hand. The Danes have
been brought into that frame of mind that their
King may announce a peace almost on any terms
Such, at least, was the disposition of the people of
this country a few days ago. The conviction that
Denmark had been utterly forsaken by the neutral
Powers, and that she was alone, had at length
brought about a consciousness of the utter im-
possibility of prolonging such a contest. War
being out of the question, peace became a necessity;
and the vanquished must resign himself to pay the
CUIS of war, however heavy they may fall upon
him. Of late, however, the magniloquent tirades
of the Freneh press have given new food to the
ever-reviving illusions of the Danes. "If Germany
is not of one mind," the Danes say, "if the Bund
and the minor Princes and the National party are
still in a position to brave all the power of Austria
and Prussia, and France is going to support their
pretension, and place herself at the head of a new
Confederacy of the Rhine, why should Denmark
strike her colours, why should she throw down her
cards and give up the game, just as matters are
about to take a favourable turn a°'
No doubt, if the present negotiations come to
naught, if M. Quaade comes back from Vienna with
no better conditions than he obtained in rondon, or
if the conditions he brings back are of a nature that
the Government here dare not make public—if,
consequently, the thunder of war once more awaken
the echoes along the shores of the Little Belt, the
new complication of affairs mast be ascribed to the
attitude lately taken up by France.

If France is going to meddle with the matter, of
course the question is as far from its solution, and
Europe exposed to as great a danger, as ever ; but
if, as it is more natural to presume, the language of
the French press is mere empty sound, and the two
principals in this ill-matched duel are still to be
alone on the ground, as they have been since
February, then the war may be considered as hav-
ing been long since virtually at an end, and the new
outbreak of hostilities, if it must needs occur, will
be mere make-believe. On the part of Denmark, at
least, resistance will be mere matter of form.
JIM 30, Evening.

Jest as I am about to close my letter the rumour
gains ground, confirmed by telegrams from Vienna,
that the armistice had been prolonged. I hear also
confident assertions that the Danish Government
has accepted, or is ready to accept, all the condi-
tions imposed by the German Powers, and to
obtain peace by acceeding to all their demands.
Whale ier we may believe as to the truth of these
reports, there is no doubt but the King's Govern.
merit here keeps up all the appearance of a stubborn
determination for resistance, inasmuch as in obedi-
ence to a recent decree they are now calling in all
the conscripts due for the year 1865, a measure by
which they will increase the army by about 5,00 u
or 6,000.

Elopement of a Clergyman's Wife with her
Man-Servant,

At the Castle of Exeter on Monday, before A. 11. A.
Hamilton, Esq., and J. W. Sillifant, Esq., John Mutters
was charged with stealing 13 silver teaspoons, two pairs of
sugar-tongs, a box, and a silver watch, the property of his
roaster, John Fluewe/lin, and also with eloping with Mr
Fluewellin's wife.

Prosecutor, on being examined, said he was a clergyman
of Mount Radford. On Thursday last he missed two boxes
and the plate named in the indictment from his house. His
wife also went away that morning. On finding the articles
missing he gave information, and had since recovered his
property.

Police constable Pearse said that on Saturday last he
went to the house of Mrs Slade, Southgate-street, Bath,
and there found the prisoner and Mrs Fluewellin in a room
with a Led in it, taking refreshments. He there charged
Mutters with stealing a box, 13 silver spoons, and other
things, the property of the prosecutor. He said, " I have
not stolen anything, but what I took was with the consent
of her" (weaning Mrs Fluewallin). Mrs Fluewellin
said, " Yes, I ordered him to get a fly, and take my box
away. I and my husband had a quarrel the night before,
and I thtermined I would not live with him any
longer." Witness left the room for a minute or two, and.
on returning, Mrs Fluewellin opened a box which contained
all the plate above mentioned. On searching the prisoner
afterwards ho found a watch on him which had belonged to
the prosecutor.
The case has created a great deal of excitement amongst
the lower classes of the city, as the rev. gentleman and his
wife were supposed to have been a very happy coupie ; but
they appear to have had a quarrel on the Wednesday night,
and the frail wife having taken a fancy to her husband's ser
vane, took her flight.—Western Daily Mercury.

The Lord Mayor of llubliu claims ex•oBicio to be
a member of the Kingstown Yacht Clubs. By a late dis-
covery among the old corporation papers, he is by patent
Lord High Admiral of Nianabide.

THE PETITION OF RIGHT.