The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-05 00:00:00

No. 22.474.

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THE CAPTURE OF ALSEN,

PRUSSIAN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT.

BERLIN, Sunday.
The following official account of the capture o:
Alsen appears in the Preussischer Staatsanzeiger o
this morning :
__ _

Head-quarters, July I, 1864.
Upon receipt of an order from his Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick Charles to undertake a land-
ing upon the island of Alsen within the next few
days, Gen. Von Horworth, at present commanding
the combined army corps (the 6th and 13th divisions)
occupying Sundewitt, determined, after completing
all his preparations the preceding night, to cross at
dawn on the 29th ult. The passage was to be
effected upon 160 boats and 32 pontoons by the
entire army corps at the Satrupholz, northward of
Sondberg,

The difficulties of this undertaking were very
considerable, and apparent even to an unpractised
eye. History contains few examples of the passage
of a river in front of the enemy. Here it was re-
quisite to cross an arm of the sea whose width,
depth, and rapid current prevented the erection of
a bridge, and whose hostile shores bristled with
numerous well armed batteries and entrenchments.
It was necessary to expose the troops to a foreign
element upon a number of slight boats not only
threatened by wind and weather, but by many
hostile war ships commanding the sea, the iron-clad
vessels in particular, capable of inflicting serious
losses. Even if the landing of the first batta-
lions succeeded it was necessary to be prepared for
encountering a superior enemy, who long aince
expecting this attack, would have had time enough
during the suspension of arms to re-organise his
troops and make every preparation for energetically
repulsing all attempts to land.
His Royal Highness Prince Frederick Charles,
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bad been retained at that positioa by a simulta-
neous demonstration, are reported to have em-
barked at Norburg, after blowing up their entrench■
ments at Mils, the explosion being perceptible at a
great distance. The Danes also set fire to Sonder-
borg before retreating, thus uselessly destroying the
town, already totally evacuated by the inhabitants.
The efforts of the Prussian troops which first en-
tered succeeded in extinguishing the conflagra-
tion, and preventing further damage. The
Danes also set fire to their large camp of huts
near Ulkebul. His Royal Highness Prince
Frederick Charles had already crossed at
Sonderborg towards 8 o'clock, and thence followed
the pursuing troops upon the horse of an orderly.
The beloved leader was received with loud and
hearty cheers by the victorious Westphalians and
Brandenburgers.

The trophies of the day cannot yet be precisely
stated. It is stated, however, that the enemy, who
had at least 12 battalions of infantry, amounting to
10.000 and 12d00 men, upon Alsen, has left up-
wards of 2,000 prisoners (among them one com-
mander of a regiment, and 30 to 40 other officers),
and over 50 cannon, several of them fully horsed
field guns, with numbers of vehicles and war mate•
rial, in the hands of the victors. His loss in killed
and wounded also exceeded ours.

THE DANISI-IACCOUNT.
COPENHAGEN, July 1.
The official 4espatehes of Gen. Steinman, narrat-
ing the loss of Alsen, have not yet been made pub-
lic. The following are the only official accounts
of the disaster that have transpired.
The Ministry of War published the following
telegram from head quarters yesterday:--
June 30, Noon,
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Despatches of this morning, sent off at 8 45, an-
nnunce that our troops had withdrawn fighting
from their position beyond Horup Haff. From
this point the enemy did not pursue them further,
whereupon the division retreated in good order to
Kekenis, so that our troops were beyond the Haff at
noon. At 1.30 this morning the enemy passed
Lysabbel towards Wibey, but at that time the
greater portion of our force had embarked.
The Marine Ministry has published the follow-
ing :

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surrounded by his staff, took up a position at half-
past one a.m. at the Alsen Sound, between the ruins
of Fort No. X. and the burnt farm of Steengarci,
from which point the entire operations could be
observed.

The means of transport admitted of 31 battalions
being brought over at a time. Each detachment
embarked at four different points, and was landed
at as many different places upon the hostile coast,
opposite to the Fohlenkappel Wood.
Lieutenaat General Von Mauston, to whose bold
energy the first execution of the expedition was
entrusted, had the Roder and Goben Brigades under
his command for the day. The Roder Brigade
(64th and 24th Regiments) and the Mandenburg
Tager battalion No. 3 had the advanced guard and
were first embarked. Generals Von Manstein and
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-'-‘ Rolf Krake sustained a severe engagement,
yet without material damage. The steamer Hertha
and the gunboat Willemaes with two gun sloops,
got oat of the Fohrde, in the Alsen Sand, but a gun
sloop and a gun yacht had to be blown up to avoid
their falling into the enemy's hands. The crews
were saved. The Hertha, the Willemaes, and the
two gun sloops landed 1,000 men of the Alsen
garrison at Faaborg, upon the south of Fuhnen, A
despatch from Kekenis yesterday states that the
liner Frederick VI. and the depot ship Bellona had
also reached Fuhnen with troops.

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The War Ministry publishes the following this
morning:--
General Steinman arrived at Faaborg (Fuhnen)
at seven o'clock yesterday evening, He quitted
Osterbury upon Aisen at 2.20 p.m., at which time
the embarkation of the last of the troops and war
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When the boats were about two hundred yards
distant from the hostile shore the first shots of the
enemy's outposts blazed at them through the twi-
light. The force in the boats returned the fire, and
replied to the first hail of grape from the enemy's
batteries with a thundering hurrah.
Springing out of the boats and wading through
the shallows, the brave Brandenburgers rapidly
gained the opposite bank, stormed the hostile bat-
teries, and drove the enemy back into the Fohlen-
kappel Wood, notwithstanding his desperate
attempts to hold his rifle pits.

In the meantime the enemy had thrown up fire-
balls, which, lighting up the entire shore, clearly
revealed the Prussian attack.

Scene in the Rouse of Commons Last Night.

The opening of the lists for the great parliamen-
tary passage of arms was characterised by all the
material features which denote intense public inte-
rest. The purlieus of the House of Commons were
crowded, as might have been expected, and within
the walls of the privileged chamber the gathering
of members was early and the attendance large.
Ordinary arrangements were set at nought, and in
the gentlemanly scramble for seats the rank and file
on both sides found themselves in strange and re•
mote places, and were abundantly content they had
got any places at all. On this occasion the gallery
on the left hand or the Speaker was the most full,
the point of attraction this time being the front
Opposition bench. At exactly half-past four the
hero of the next three hours entered the house, and
was greeted with a very hearty cheer by his friends.
The first object on which Mr Disraeli's eye could
have fallen was Mr Gladstone, looking remarkably
fresh, and decorated with a rose in his button-hole.
In a short time Lord Palmerston entered, and the
peculiar parliamentary applause was loud and gene-
ral from behind and below the Ministerial benches.
The slight obstruction to the real business of the
evening having been disposed of, Mr Disraeli pre.
and commenced in a remarkably
for a period counting by more
tdsehidnaatnecdtainchhtionionuseerl; and
at; nd a half confined himself to nar-
rative, interspersed with but little comment, and
abstaining almost wholly from anything like
aggression. As his manner is he turned from
the Ministerial phalanx, and talked at an
angle to a point somewhere between the last
seat ox the front bench below the gangway and the
peers' box on the left of the great door of the house.
However unconsciously, this position was well
chosen,while, and just when Mr Disraeli
was
criticising for
some of his despatches, Lord Russell
came in and seated himself exactly in the sight-line
of the Speaker. At this time every nook and corner
after :to e
of the house was full, and conspicuous in a front
seat below the bar was the Poet Laureate, sitting
in close contact with the Duke of Argyll; while
the gallery over the cloak and the passage behind
was with peers and foreign diploma-
is ,
whom was the Duke of Cam-
bridge. Seldom if ever has a great member of
Parliament had so full and so attentive an audience
as Mr. Disraeli drew on this occasion ; and probably
there has seldom been
t st overflowing
e amongst
a special party speech de-
livered underit circumstances of less excitement, or
which
h lie
cheers. Every point which
was made was faithfully caught up by the Opposi-
tion; and, as many of that body were in the gallery
hiceed
s ofew
opposite to their leaders, their cheers reverberated
with a sound as if they oame from the supporters
of the Government, producing an odd effect. But
in truth the incitement
to burst out with spontaneity
rare—the most pronouncedt invitations to laughter
ed a pathetic appeal from
the Government to France for aid and co-operation,
being when Mr Disraeli,
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humorousdesig
as it were put his voice into mourning and whined
out his words, concluding by a mock resort to his
handkerchief. No doubt When the moment of
peroration came, the right lion. gentleman exerted
himself vigorously, and went in for loud declama.
Lion ; but there was effort in this, as there was all
through the speech, and more
than an ordinary tone
of that coldness which seems constitutional in Mr.
Disraeli, and which he does not escape from except
when he flings responsibility to the winds, which
was probably by no means his intention on this
moment. Daring the first three-quarters of this
two hours and three-quarters, oration, Mr Glad.
stone, following a custom With him when Mr Dis-
raeli is speaking, lay back in his seat, with his eyes
closed, and seemed to court a slumber, sugges-

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The boats were rapidly rowed back to the
Schleswig shore. The pontooners of the 3d and
7th battalions at the seat of war had been specially
reinforced for the purpose of this undertaking by
three fresh companies from home (belonging to the
2d, 4th, and sth battalions), and the new arrivals
vied in devotion and endurance with their veteran
comrades.

Favoured by the calmness of the sea the crossing
rapidly continued with comparatively trifling loss.
The numerous battle ships did not venture within
range of the Prussian batteries. The Rolf Krake,
which lay in the Augustenburg Fohrde with some
gunboats, and from that position had already fired
upon the troops first rowed across, stean.ed to the
northern issue of the Alsen Sound, while the second
detachment of the Roder Brigade was crossing and
fired shell, without, so far as is known, occasioning
any important loss. Attaeked by our strand bat-
teries and two rifled field batteries which unlim-
bered in her immediate vicinity, the ironclad steamed
along the whole line under continuous fire, and
apparently seriously damaged, down the Alsen
Fohrde; she is said to have returned subsequently
to escort the gunboats lying in the Augustenburg
Fohrde, after which she disappeared attogther from
the scene.

Meantime the enemy's batteries were incessantly
cannonaded by our artillery and thereby prevented
from annihilating the infantry on their passage.
Pressing on victoriously, the Roder Brigade and
Brandenburg Jagers had succeeded in driving the
enemy out of the Fohlenkappel Wood. Here fell at
the head of his company, deeply lamented by his
comrades, Capt. Count Maltzahn, of the Bth Bran-
denburg Regiment, No. 64, an officer who had re.
peatedly distinguished himself before Duppel, and
had been decorated for his bravery. Lieutenant
Klebmann, an officer of the Land wehr, who com-
manded the Regiment, No. 64, was killed at this
point.

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progress. Complete. Shares.
s. d.
Dec. 24,18F3 189 63 252 15,323 11 7
March 25, 1864 llB 67 185 17,371 5 11
June 24, 1861 432 81 513 20,880 9 5
Three Quarters
ending Mid-
summer, 1864 739 211 950 53,5;5 6 11
Totals to Sept
30, 1833 15,537 4,174 19,711 701,116 18 7
Grand totals to
June 21, 1864 16,276 4,3Q5 20,661 754,722 5 6

Lieut.-General Von Manstein meanwhile col-
lected his force for further attack, which however
encountered an unexpectedly stubborn resistance at
Ronhof, and to the south of Kjas, whence the
enemy appears to have obtained stronger rein-
fereements at about half-past four. The engage-
ment was checked here for some time, but the
serried advance of the Goben brigade, which had
now crossed, and was rapidly hurried up, with the
arrival of a rifled field battery, quickly decided the
struggle in our favour. Notwithstanding his ob-
stinate resistance the enemy was driven from posi-
tio❑ to position, and shortly after six o'clock the
village of Kjas was entirely in our possession.
Towards eight Sonderborg was taken by the Goben
Brigade, although the enemy had again attempted
to make a stand to the north of this town. His
retreat by way of Ulkebul and Wallerup now
became more hurried. He tried in vain to hold
the latter place, but the impetuous attack of the
Roder Brigade speedily dislodged him from this
position.

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restoration which others sought at the critical hour
of half-past seven ; for even the " mighty master"
of debate failed to keep all the assembly, which had
mustered so thickly in every possible spot that could
copious
be occupied. Those who remained were well re-
warded by hearing a speech which, as it was step
by step an answer to that of Mr. Disraeli, was
necessarily an impromptu ; which combined argu-
ment, illustration, humour—more genuine humour
than Mr. Gladstone often developes—sarcasm, high
sentiment, and 4 boldness in defence which amounted

Shortly after 8 o'clock the portion of the infantry
of the combined army corps, two rifled field bat-
teries, and part of the Zieten Regiment of Hussars,
were upon the island ; and, notwithstanding the
fatigues of the hurried, in emulation of their
officers' example, to follow up the retreating enemy
to his ships. A brief engagement took place again
at the Suderhalz, near Horup Haff, in which part
of the Schmidt Brigade—principally, it is believed,
the 4th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 58,
took several hundred prisoners who had been un-
able to reach the liekenis peninsula, whither the
main body of the enemy had withdrawn. First
Lieutenant Bar, adjutant of Regiment No. 53, a
talented and promising officer, fell here, shot
through the heart.
From liexenis the greater part of the defeated
enemy is believed to have reached his ships.
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to indignant and honest defiance; while the closing
sentences rose to a height of eloquence which con-
trasted, with a happy effect, with the sterner and
more practical, but not therefore the less powerful
part of the speech, which was equal, and more, to
the reputation of the speaker. If a speech could
settle the political contest now going on, the debate
might have ended there. As it wee, it brought out
cheers from many a lukewarm supporter of the
Government, and concentrated with a certain in-
voluntariness, the sympathies of every member—
save one, perhaps—who were gathered in the rear
and flank of Ministers. The intervention of Mr.
Newdegate and Mr. Kinglake with their amend-
ments, and with cognate liveliness of speech, gave
room for repose to the nerves of the House, which
were not too severely shattered by the exercitation
of General Peel, redeeming his promise that the
Government should hear from him some day on their
Danish policy. It is not to be denied that the gal-
lant general made some points which compensated
for the jerkness, not to say ruggedness of his style.
As to the Lord Advocate, be is never lively, though
generally argumentative; but on this occasion had
evidently consented to perform the useful, but not
very dignified, part of a stop-gap. With a four-
nights' debate before them, Ministers must be careful
of their special reserves. Lord Stanley, judging
from the cheers which ever and anon greeted him,
must have been epigrammatic ; but his vocal defects
make it necessary for those at any distance from
him to take his points upon credit. In a struggle
between Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Osborne, and Mr. Cobden
for the adjournment of the debate, the latter was
successful, and an advantageous reopening of the
discussion will be thereby attained.—Telegraph.

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