The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-18 00:00:00

owner any compensation. Neither is there any
allowance to tha people of Schleswig for the sol-
diers quartered on them. I make no reference to
Jutland, because we know that there another sy3-
tem is adopted, and it is treated as a conquered
country, while in Schleswig the population is sup-
posed to be in great measure German in sentiment
and aspirations—even many of its inhabitants who
speak only Danish—and the allies have come in
some sort to relieve the land from a foreign yoke.
From various persons who have had Prussian sol-
diers repeatedly quartered oa them, I learn that
they were invariably required by the terms of the
billeting paper to supply them with food for the
first day, on the ground that immediately on coming
off the march it is difficult for the regular rations to
be served out and cooked. I have not been able to
ascertain that the Austrians act upon the same
system, and it they do it is certainly by a rare ex-
ception, not as a rule. Perhaps this difference may
have contributed to the popularity of the Austrians,
who, in some way or other, have certainly managed
to ingratiate themselves with the population they
have lately dwelt amongst.
I find a few memoranda from Fredericia which I
had not time to avail of in my letter from that
place. As already mentioned, the preparations for
defence were far more complete than those at
Duppel, but the intrenched camp was a weak point.
It had little protection for the troops, which would
have been hardly dealt with by such a fire as was
kept up on Dappel. There were many wooden
barracks, but hardly anything casemated. Great
labour had been expended upon it ; the palisades in
the ditch were thickly and firmly planted ; there
were chevaux de frise of wood and iron, trous de
loup, and other contrivances to harass or impede
assailants. In short, the whole place was so well
and carefully prepared for defence as to prove that
the one really essential thing for holding a fortified
position is equality in respect of artillery. From
Danish sources I learn that the largest number of
men in Fredericia at any time during the war did
not exceed 14,000 men, and that on the 18th of
April, when Dappel was taken, there were not
more than 10,000.
At a short distance from Fredericia, outside the
Prince's-gate, stands the monument that was raised
to General Olaf Rye, who fell at the head of his
division in the fsmous sortie made from the fortress
.on the 6th of July, 1849, when the Germans were
utterly discomfited and driven away. It is an
imitation of the old tombs of the Scandinavian
Vikings, a large stone resting on several smaller
ones, upon a mound of regular form. The inscrip-
tion is brief, and confined to the facts above stated.
The Danes do not seem addictedlo bombast in their
records of brave deeds and signal victories. Wit•
ness the mere date on the base of the statue:of the
Tappere Land Soldat.
General Gablenz was invited to be present at the
assault of Duppel forts, but he either declined, or
was prevented by circumstances with which I am
enacquainted, witnessing the crowning action of
the campaign.

The Hotel de l'Europe has to-day been a point
of no small attraction to the Hamburgers, very
few of whom have passed it without rais-
ing their eyes to the windows of the first
floor, in hopes of getting a glimpse of the
Royalists there lodged. From the roof of th© house,
the largest in this city, were triple banners, the
arms of Hamburg, the Eagle, which i 3 just now
winging so unusually daring a flight, and the
jilack-Red-Gold of that united Germany of which
sanbvuine enthusiasts dream, and practical politicians
Up to sunset this evening the Blue-White-
despair.
Red adopted by the partisans of an independent
Schles wig-1-151stein had not made its appearance
beside the others, notwithstanding that Prince Fre-
derick of Augnstenburg arrived in Hamburg this
afternoon and took up his quarters in that hotel.

Presentation to Lord Houghton at
Pontefract,

Yesterday, Lord Hough ion met a number of hiS
late constituents at the Town-h.°ll' Pontefract, when
a superb silver salver was presentOd to him in re-
cognition of his former services as meOlber for the
borough. The Mayor (Mr. John Moon) p7esented
the gift, and read the inscription as f0110c,74
" Presented to the Right Hon. Richard Monekto2
Milnes, first Baron Houghton, by many of his
friends, to mark their appreciation of the manner
in which, for twenty-five successive years, he repre-
sented in Parliament the ancient borough of Ponte•
fract, after which, in recognition of long and emi-
nent services, he was elevated by her Most Gracious
Majesty to the Upper House, carrying with him
the good wishes of the whole constituency, to whom
he had endeared himself by urbanity, kindness,
and generosity, as well at, by constant solicitude for'
their privileges. Pontefract, May, A.D. 1864."
Lord HOUGHTON returned thanks, saying that
often it had been his lot to address his constituents,
and often his pleasure to receive from them marks
of approbation in the solid manner of being re-
turned as a representative in Parliament, bat he
could not say that on any occasion he had received
any testimony of their confidence with greater plea-
sure than the present. At the same time ho was
bound to say there were many feelings which beset
his mind in looking back to so large a period of his
life which tended to give to the present meeting a
certain solemnity which had been absent on former
occasions. Though he hoped he should often meet
them again, this event was, as it were, tho official
close of a large portion of his official life. It closed
in the most kind and gracious manner, on the part
of the constituency, "-period of his life spent in a
great degree in the- service. He did not know
what he could say upon such an occasion, except,
perhaps, that he might sketch out feebly some of
the circumstances which had marked his connection
with the borough. It was no rhetorical fiction to
say that the relation between himself and the
borough had formed the most important portion of
his life, and that bat for the existence of those rela-
tions between his family and the borough which at
one time events threatened very much to dissever—
that but for the renewal of that connection, he did
not think it would have been possible for him to
pursue in public lire a career under such favourable
circumstances as that which they had given him.
(Applause.) Every man who had come to the time
of life at which he had arrived should know pretty
did
what hie own character was ; and he knew he
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with large constituencies, greatly recommended him
to their favour. He knew he had not those natural
gifts at his command which enabled a man to sway
crowds and to hold dominion over the minds of
multitudes of men, and therefore, although, pro-
bably, if he had nothing to do with Pontefract he
might have come into Parliament for some large
constituency, he did not think he should have re-
mained their representative for anything like the
period for which he had retained the representation
of Pontefract. His main difficulty always
was in believing his own side to be entirely
in the right, and other people entirely in the
wrong. It had been said of some lawyers—such,
for instance, as Lord Denman and Lord Truro—that
for a fee of two or five guineas they really did bring
themselves to think their sides respectively were
absolutely in the right, and the other side absolutely
in the wrong. Now, he never had that faculty, and,
whatever might have been the disadvantage to him-
self or his friends, he never had been able to throw
himself into that full partisanship which in a coun-
tryeefo like this wAR, perhaps, almoot essential to the
prominent success of any public snen.
he was thankful that his connexion with Pontefract
had been such as had enabled him to prese.sve their
confidence, while at the same time it had ()Cabled
him to act with so much personal independeLne:
That private independence, he was very thankfu
to say, had carried with it some advantages. He
ceuld not forget that period in the political history
of his time when Sir R. Peel threw the whole of his
followers into
a condition of things
com-
pelled to determine whether remain in
a position in which they were
they would
rather going backward
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or than forward in the world,
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would they ally
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