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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1864.

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VICTOR HUGO'S NEW WORK.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, is 1 vol. Bvo.,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
By VICTOR HUGO.

iN what " Happy Land" can 1 see you after the
"Opera?" 1 only know of One HAPPY LAND
in which a Gentleman may Sup—EVANS', COVENT_
(;ADEN, my dear fellow!

cipal characters, which were sustained by Mr. Jas. Ander-
son, Mr. Jas. Fernandez, and Miss G. Pauncefort, were
well sustained; and whilst mention is made of those who
took the most prominent and attractive characters, the
acting of Mr. Green as the honest and faithful Scotch
retainer (David Leslie) of the Duchess of Nairuo. and
the vivacious and humorous performance of Miss Eliza-
beth Webster (Clemente), in the little part she had to
sustain, deserve a word of praise. The piece was very well
put upon the stage ; the scenery and decorations were good,
and the dresses strictly in character with the period to which
the incidents of the piece referred. Mr. Anderson, Mr.
Fernandez, and Miss G. Pauncefort, who appear, and
deservedly so, to be the greatest favourites, were repeatedly
applauded in the course of the piece, and at the fall of the
curtain were honoured with a call. Tho performances ,
terminated with " Black Eyed Susan," the principal cha-
racters in which were sustained by Mr. Shepherd, Miss G.
Pauncefort and Miss Elizabeth 'Webster. These artistes
are now so fully recognised by their supporters, and their
performances so highly appreciated by their admirers, that
nothing further is needed from us than to say that they
were received as old favourites and friends, and were also
honoured with a call before the curtain.

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careless, and somewhat mischievous maid of honour,
Countess d'Estrella; and the Duchess of Canara, in
Miss Kate Carson's hands, was interpreted with consum-
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of Canara, but he ultimately proves to be the Prince him-
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Whitsuntide Amusements,

Whitsuntide has indeed come in with the " sun," which

its " tide" fortels, albeit its occurrence, depending upon
Easter, is this year especially early, The country is in
its fullest of May beauty, and London was indeed tempted
" out of town." If the numerous lines of rail have dimi-
nished the passenger traLe of down-the-river steamboats,
by supplying a readier, a cheaper, and a more rapid means
of transit, they have widened the area of country available
to holiday. makers, and increased the excursionists to an
extent that the limited modes of egress of former times
would have rendered utterly incredible. The travellers
yesterday who availed themselves of all the great lines out
of London, may be counted by myriads ; and the great rural
attractions at Kew, Richmond, Kensington, Cremorne,
Chiswick, Sydenham, Rosherville, Woolwich, ike., were
crowded with pleasure-seekers, in holiday attire and with
pleasant faces, which bespoke the prosperity and happi-
ness of the millions, despite the too-numerous cases of
destitution and suffering which are ever-recurring in the
columns of the daily press. Yesterday was eminently a
people's festival, therefore quitting the pleasant fields, we
will return to the populous city, and briefly note what there
attracted the many.

At Drury-lane the splendid revival of " Henry the
Fourth," with Phelps's Falstaff, was repeated.
The Haymarket found no necessity for checking the
career of Mr. Sothein's latest assumption " David Garrick,"
supplemented by the classical extravaganza, entitled
" Venus and Adonis."

The Lyceum is closed until Saturday next, when Mr.
Fechter will produce " Hamlet," with something sensa-
tional in ghost effects,

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PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
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in Dominick
the
Australia, made his first appearance at this theatre last
night
aavneriaecytoßr,rowwne
ibnelimovre,,Hf.roFm.
Beyn o'sn petitect drama,
e Old Story." Brown, it will
b
enjoy rural retirement takes a
cottage orne6 in the village of Tattleton, and no sooner is
he become located than he is beset by tuft-hunters for his
niece,
and old maids, widows, and blue for himself and his
nice little property. Both, however, are rescued from the
clutches of the schemers by the real lover of Miss Lucy
rroece
Brown, who, to test the sincerity of the hangers-on, gets
up a report
of the irretrievable ruin of her uncle. No
sooner
is this heard than all fall away from the "dear
delightful Mr. Brown," and he is left to meet his fate as
best he may. All however come to rights at last, and
Thompson receives the hand of Lucy as a reward for his
services.
Mr. hurray as Waverley Brown, a timid, good-
natured, silly old man, acted with care and judgment, and
if we cannot compliment him upon being a first-rate artist,
at least, we can Fah he is a vary judicious one. He gave
us some nice little "bits" of acting now and then, which
makes us feel anxious to see him in a character of greater
Brow
importance than Waverley n.

the enterprising lessee, Mr.
was the novelty produced
A.STLErs.
‘
E. T. Smith. Mr. Edward Stirling has turned to good
account the materials furnished to him by the French Re-
at tliTishetheSaptyreolfas ttheevening Republic"
volution, and converted them into a three-act piece of very
considerable merit. The drama is of the most exciting
b y
character, and turns upon the villany of a certain M.
Charles Danville, who, to obtain the absence of his mother
and wife, and afterwards marry the daughter of a wealthy
republican, denounces them to the Republican Tribunal,
which of course decrees them to suffer death. A faithful
person of
friend, however, turns up in the Lentaque—the
spy of the Republic—who defeats the schemes of Danville,
and saves both mother and wife from the death to which he
had consigned them, and retribution follows on the would-
be matricide. The drama was well received. Mr. Stirling,
Mr. Edgar, and Miss Fiddes were called before the curtain
and warmly applauded. „ The Three Black Seals" fol-
lowed, and the performances altogether gave great satisfac-
tion to a well and fashionably attended house.

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SURREY.
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The entertainments pr " provided at this favourite transpontine
place of amusement were, first, a most powerful domestic
drama of thrilling interest,"tled "Cloud and Sunshine,"
enti
performed here for the first time ; and Douglas Jerrold's
celebrated nautical drama of "Black Eyed Susan," which
from the continued applause with which it has been nightly
received for so long a time,
would lead to the inference that
districts around London, in all
it has found a permanent habitation here, . The fine
cwuerastihoners,insotofatvhoeucroaubnletrtyo out-of-door amusements and ex-
probability had a material effect in thinning the number pre-
sent last evening; and, although the house was not so
densely crowded as we have known it on former occasions,
yet there were more than sufficient present to render the
atmosphere agreeable with the present state of the ventila-
tion,
as it
.Buitgatsotthhiseepeufbeclitc,and knowing their desire to do
must be as palpable to the proprie-
torseverything which will contribute to the comfort of those
who so liberally patronise them, there can be no doubt that
every effort will be used on their part, before the hot weather
has really set in, to make the house as comfortable as pos-
sible. The new piece of " Cloud and Sunshine" is one well
adapted both to the audience and the performers, and from
the manner in which it was received will no doubt become
as great a favourite ea ploy of its predecessors. Who priu-

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THE WAR IN DENMARK,

(From the Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald.)
ASSESS, ISLE OF FUNEN, May 10.
Little more than one division of the army, or
between lour and five thousand men, is concen-
trated round Assens. Of these but a regiment
occupies the town. The other. extend their quar-
ters to the outlying villages in radii of about three
miles from the centre. Amongst the regiments in
the district I recognise some of my old friends of
the 2d. They are now indeed few, only five or
six officers remaining, and about 230 men out of the
two battalions of 1600. Of course the remnant is
not amongst the number of killed and wounded;
hundreds of them, I am sorry to say, have gone as
prisoners into Germany. But I believe the gallant
Second, who had been previously much distin-
guished, did all that men could do in the terrible
fight of the 18th. The more I hear of that sad
affair the more I am convinced that the success of
the Prussians was almost altogether due to a sur-
prize. Of course, a successful surprize is part of
good military tactics, and reflects credit on the
general who makes use of it with effect; and,
doubtless, also, it shows want of military skill, or
at least prudence, in the commanders of an army
to suffer themselves to bo taken unawares. I
have no more doubt than I have of my
existence that if the Danes had been aware of the
intention of the enemy on the 18th, and could
have made any tolerable guess as to the hour
of the attack, the assaulting columns would have
been hurled back with immense losses. The whole
affair cannot in its misfortunes be attributed to the
least deficiency of undaunted bravery on the part of
the Danish soldiers. Slowness of apprehension,
confidence that all things take their usual routine
course, and, most probably, the slaughter of the
officers in immediate command nearly at the same
moment and early in the attack, caused a disaster
which there is nothing new to retrieve. One of the
2d Regiment tells me a story which is difficult to
credit, but which must be true from the authority
on which it is given. In one of the forts a Danish
officer was fighting desperately even when sur-
rounded by the enemy. A stout Prussian closed
upon him behind, and held his arms pinioned, while
another came in front, and, defenceless and at
their mercy, really made a prisoner as the poor
gentleman now was, the barbarous ruffian put the
muzzle of his rifle to his forehead and blew his
brains out. How sad it is in war that the most
gallant men generally go down, and in the ardour
and brutal excitement of a fight the very acts of
bravery which should render them glorious for
ever lead to the loss of their useful lives.

I am told that in Alsen there is not a shot fired,
and there seems to be there a well understood
truce. This is probably useful to both sides—to the
Danes if they believe the place to be untenable, and
intend to evacuate it should a real attempt to take
it be made; to the Prussians, because they are
completing their works, and leisurely making all
necessary preparations to erect batteries in order
to sweep the banks of the Sound. If the Danes,
however, intend to defend the island I fear they
are not playing a very wise game to leave the
Prussian gentlemen at rest. But it is so entirely a

national characteristic to resist obstinately, but to
originate no attack, that one could not expect any
other course to be pursued. lam here assured
that the real intention is to resist vigorously the
passing of the Alsen Sound by the enemy, and that
there are many more troops on the island than I
had believed possible. This intelligence I receive
with reserve, but as a military friend promises to
accompany me in a few days to the scene of our
former campaign, I shall, as an eye-witnese, be able
to give you wore precise information. At the
same time you must not expect from me any
intelligence which I consider calculated to do in-
jury by its publication to the Danish cause. Such
would neither be grateful nor gentlemanlike. This
once quiet town of Assens seems utterly surprised
at the additional bustle which must necessarily
arise at the seat of the head-quarters of an army.
It ie a pretty but very dull place, with an excel-

lent harbour sheltered from all winds by the
islands which lie near it. The streets are very
clean and wide and the houses well built, but
the whole ground has an unsightly flatness
about it, and there is only hill enough to pro-
vide a lodging and a breeze for three windmills
_ _

instead of over a dozen which one generally sees
surrounding most of the Danish second-rate towns.
Assens has one advantage not usual in small towns
in any country. It boasts of a very pretty little
park, well planted and tastily loud out as a pleasure
ground and promenade for the people of the place.
At one extremity of the park is the public ceme-
tery, entirely removed from the town. In fact, Den-
mark is by no means behind the rest of the world
in many of the improvements of modern civilisation.
If she follows somewhat in the rear of our fast days,
it is in retaining freshly some of the virtues of a
purely agricultural people—love of truth, honesty
in dealings, unshowy hospitality, and firmness of
purpose when she thinks she has a just cause to de-
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liif•-r.i
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fend. If such be remnants of an antediluvian era
and the pre-railway period, they will doubtless be
sneered at by the money-getting men of more push-
ing countries; and yet I hope such virtues—let
others call them follies—may linger a little longer
amongst the simple Danes, who are the truest gen-
tlemen of nature that I have yet met. They may
be "too good to live," as a cynical friend of mine
said, but they possibly have a nobler boast—they
are good enough to die. This is what many
cannot say. The town here, though pretty enough
and clean enough, is thought a miserable quar-
ter by the officers of the staff. This is quite
natural on a sudden transition from all the
excitement of a continued battle, as the
defence of Dybbol may really be called for, for six
weeks, to a little summer bathing place. Some slight
efforts have been made to retrieve the natural dul-
ness of the place. A theatre has been established,
and a pompous playbill placed each morning on
your table announces the able cast of the novelties
specially got up for the great occasion. A military
band, too, plays each evening at five before the win-
dows of the mess-room of the staff officers at the
hotel. Again, at watch-setting, at nine o'clock,
military music parades the streets, and loud brass
instruments and national airs attract crowds of little
boys, and, indeed, of more full-grown and of
better dressed persons, who seem, so unusual is
the thing, to look upon as "airs from heaven"
what better educated ears are sometimes obliged
unwillingly to acknowledge as more resembling
" blasts from --." I need not complete the
sentence, but you have sometimes heard our own
English volunteer bands of music in the early stage
of their existence. 1)o not understand me as

dier. The boots are of the -Wellington pattern, well
made and sufficiently roomy, and oi excellent ma-
terial. The shape must not be taken as altogether
inferior to that of English soldiers' ankle boots, and
as involving an unnecessary redundancy of leather,
because in Denmark the winters are long and sloppy,
and the trousers can be worn inside the boots—the
appearance of the men's lower limbs being much
better than that of British soldiers in their new
gaiters. The knapsack is of calf-skin coveting, end
c'intains the usual requisites of what. I believe 3 en
call the kit, two spare shirts, comb, brushes, spare
trousers, knife, fork, &c. The weight of this article
seems greater than that of the knapsack borne by
the British soldier. The firelock is to) frc gauntly
the old smooth-bore, in fact, Brown Bess with a
percussion lock. But Belgian rifled muskets are
being fast substituted, and I only hope that the
soldiers are as quickly trained to the peculiarities
of their use. The bayonet is rafter short and not
very handy. As to the manner in which firelock
and bayonet and other appointments are kept, the
less said the better. There is a want of smartness
and taste on the part of the men, and the officers
seem altogether too few, so that it is quite
impossible that they could see everything. I
forgot to mention that the undress cep is
of dark blue cloth with a small leather peak.
It is a sensible, useful, and becoming head-
dress for campaigning. The officers' dress is the
same as that of the men, but of {course of different
and finer quality of material. Their buttons,
like those of the men, are of white polished
metal without device. They have nothing to wear
indicative of their respective regiments, as their
shoulder-straps are narrow and without numbers.
The marks on these shoulder-straps point out the
rank. It is the sole outward grade of infantry
officers. The sub-lieutenant wears upon his
shoulder a plain narrow double cord, while the
lieutenant has upon his cord two small wafer-like
buttons. The captains rejoice in a third button,
and often very aged gentlemen wear them, as pro-
motion, in common with a few other things iu
Denmark, is frightfully slow; For field officers
the shoulder-straps are made more wide, of
plaited gold lace, plain for the major, with two
buttons for the lieutenant-colonel, while the gen•
tiemen well stricken in years, who has attained
the rank of full colonel, has his three small buttons.
These are the shoulder-knots worn in war and on
active service. In peace, for court and dress recep-
tion, epaulettes, showing in their distinctive deco-
rations also the rank of the wearers, form the com-
pletion of the uniform. Officers' swords hive steel
scabbards. They are large, heavy weapons, as if
made for use, and hang from the good stout waists
of the wearers—we never squeeze our waists in
Denmark to the waspish proportions of the mid•
body of French military men—suspended by black
patent or polished leather. such are the Danish
officers and Danish soldiers in their uniforms and
appointments.

throwing any general imputation on our music
here. I have heard one or two very tolerable bands,
but ears that have listened to the Austrian soldier
music, and the Imperial Guards' band at raris, and
the Royal Artillery's sweet strains at
Woolwich,
will sometimes be a little more exacting than in
reason is quite fair.
One can now see something more of the Danish
soldier than during the winter, when he was enve-
loped in enormous great.coats, which seemed never
removed from the body. The clothing of soldiers
of the line is a dark blue tunic, of substantial
material, piped in red, and having a broad
shoulder-strap, on which the regiment is notified in
brass numerals. The buttons, which are in two
rows in front, are of white metal, plain and
made
ebelro n ogr device whatever. The
trousers without
are
ey
and full, in colour of
Danish or light blue, having pockets at the sides
which seem to have wonderful attractions for the
wearer's hands. They are seldom removed from
them, and hence, probably, the rather stooping
gait and rounded shoulders. The full-dress cap is
one of those ugly transition hats which we have
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