The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-20 00:00:00

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well trimmed, untrampled borders. ' '"-e.e:k fgt. ~cif.y.,_,'"Y
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leads his harem afield without dang..lYVVrefiel
served up a .14 Zortavo, and ducks end chins -sie S
to be seen pet Ariously in every pond and
lane. These small traits show the character of an
army. Nevertheles the 30,000 or 40,000 men (pro-
bably the latter) now in front of Duppel,and whose
commander's headquarters are at Gravenstein, form
a grievous burden upon the land, the little Pialuenc43
and modest ease of which seem, so to spunk, to
perish under the pressure. The exorbitant amount;
of billeting is severely felt now that it has lasted
so long. I know of one house in Gravenstein,
inhabited by a respectable family and containing
eight rooms, one of which is reserved to himself by
toe proprietor of the house. Of the remaining
soewvne n,
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the tenantsoldi e
Soldiers
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occupy
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rnhessirathe room in
p which
exclusivelyrbeedaephp appropriated
a bedchamber
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fiveoffice
rooms
in different ways entirely to the use of rori
they
the army.
I must suppose that there are not a few others
equally incommoded, and all but turned out of their
houses. If this army remains here much lonper it
would be better and healthier to put part of it under
canvas than to keep it crowded in close cantonments.
In weather that is neither wet nor severely cold, a
clean well-aired
.tent is a more salubrious abode
than frowzy, low-roofed, stove-heated rooms.
I lately wrote to you that the Rolf Krake had
been in the direction of the Nobel Noer and had
exchanged a few shots with the Alnoer batteries.
This seems to be an incorrect version of what took
place. At Eckersund ferry (the pontoon bridge is
not yet replaced) I yesterday was told that, the
night being very dark, the men in one of the bat-
teries had fancied that a small oraft which lay near
was moving, and their heads being doubtless full of
the Rolfe Krake since her exploit of the 28th of
March, they imagined they had before them that
adventurous cruiser, and accordingly fired upon her.
,One shot only was fired, it isaaidtand some rifles
'by the in fantrftnae at hana,'6i*re ttakerror was - --,,,
discovered. Luckily no damage was done. The
day before yesterday a steam corvette, said to be
the Dannebrog, and to carry 15 guns, anchored in
the water south of Alsen, between Venning Bued
and Hornp Haff. It is reported here she is iron-
clad. Ido not know whether the Danes have so
large a vessel protected in this manner. She left
again ye3terday. .
Since the outposts have been so near together,
up to the 13th inst., there was some fraternisation
between the Danish and Gernpn sentries, who met
half way and drunk and talked together. On Wed.
nesday, down near the Venning Bend, to the right
of the third parallel, where the Prussians and
Danes stood but 60 paces apart, in pits and behind
parapets on opposite sides of the same field, I saw
several instances of this. A soldier would step
out of his cover waving a white handherchief, and
would advance to the middle of rho field, where
his opponent met him, and they drank out of the
same flask, or, in one or two cases, merely ex-
changed a few words, shook hands, and parted.
The thing was latterly forbidden, but it still con-
tinued more or less. I suppose an end will have been
put to it by the fight of the night before last and
the withdrawal of the lines, at least on a great
part of the line, within their entrenchments. The
Prussian soldiers say that some of the Danes ex-
pressed to them their great weariness of the wart
but said that they expected it to cease on the 12th
inst. Perhaps they had heard that the Conference
was to meet on that day, as reported, and had a
vagne notion that it would put a stop to hostilities.
Northwards from West Duppel the Prussians
have now a chain of batteries, consisting of 6, 12,
and 24 pounder rifled guns. The 24 pounders were
yesterday (two batteries of four guns each) firing at
the north end of Sonderborg and at the second pon-
toon bridge, but they are reported to have made poor
practice. The distance is great. Ten 5-pounders, in
the two batteries nearest to Deppel, yesterday fired
at forts 7to 10. Then there are three 12-pounder
batteries which engage the lhnish forts en Alsen
shore. The furthest of these, close to Sondberg
Castle, was yesterday firing from behind a bank,
there being no regular breastwork as ytt made for
it. Further on, near Schnnbek, hard by tha exit
from the harrow portion of Alsen Sund, where it
widens and turns more eastwards, are some more
12-pounders.

Railway and Public Companies in

Parliament.

Vert:sc.lay, before the committee on the new metropolitrn
railways, the evidence of Mr. Seymour Clarke on the gene—
ral merits of the Groat Norhern Railway Company's pro-
posed Barnet branch, and for other purposes, having been
concluded, Mr. Fowler, the engineer, and Mr. Fenton,
traffic manager of the Metropolitan Railway, were examined
in opposition to the proposal of the Great Northern to run
over the Metropolitan Railway between King's-cress and
its Farringdon•street terminus. Mr. Hope Scotc, Q.C.,
was heard in opposition on behalf of the Midland Rail-
way Company, relative to the acquisition of some lands
for station purposes to the westward of the Great
Northern Company's goods station at King's-cross, of
which the Metropolitan possessed the freehold, but of
which the Midland company claimed the leasehold. The
committee will not give their decision on the Great Northern
Company's bill until they have heard the case of the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company's No. 1 bill,
which involves questions for adjudication common to both
schemes. The case for the Staines, Egham, and Woking
Junction Railway was opened by Mr. Phinn, Q.C., in the
committee of which Mr. Scholefield is chairman. It is pro-
posed to be incorporated with a capital of £48,000, and
£lO,OOO loan, for a five mile line from a junction with the.
Staines and Wokingham Railway eastward of its Virginia
Water station to the Woking station of the London and
South Western Railway. Mr. Gregory, C.E.,was examined
in favour of the line, and after hearing the general traffic
evidence, the committee threw out the bill, subsequently
passing the proposed extension of the South-Western to
Chertsey, which had been considered at previous sittings.
The further hearing of the North British Company's exten-
sion to Perth is adjourned in Mr. Hassard's committee, who
then considered the proposed Denburn Valley Railway,
which proposes, inter alia, to empower the Scottish North
Eastern to make a short line through Denburn valley to
the Great North of Scotland, with a joint passenger station
and approaches at Aberdeen, the first company to be em-
powered to apply £70,000, and the second £125,000 for the
purpose. After hearing Mr. Sergeant Bellasis against, the
Railway to
toptasheseselcotteishbilNhortThhEe
asbitllernfo,r lbeeaisningg thunooppAols3e-thd,
was sent down to Mr. Massey's committee. The committee
on the competing schemes proposed by the Sheffield, Ches-
terfield, and Staffordshire Railway, and by the Midland
Railway, from Chesterfield to Sheffield, resumed its inquiry,
taking the case of the latter bill for a new line of 13 rallies
between those places, to raise £455,000 by shares and
£151,000 by loan. The traffic case was considered. The
bills passed in Mr. Massey's comm.ittee were the Bod-
min and Wadebridge Railway, for a line of three
miles between those points in Cornwall, and to raise

S 48,000; the Wallingford and Watlingtoi; Railway, of
eight miles, to raise £BO,OOO by shares, and `.:,P).000 loan ;
Bedford and Cambridge Railway, to raise a furthCr sum of
£50,000; Witney Railway, and Ely, Haddenham, at,:d Sat-
ton. The Edinburgh and Leith Sewerage Improvetoent
Bill was opened by Mr Forsyth, Q.C., in a committee over
which Mr Roebuck is chairman, and the bill for the estalw
lishment of a park,town hall sites, and other improvements,
was passed in the committee of which Mr Evans is chair-
man, Mr Gaskell's committee on Irish improvement pro-
jects was occupied with the consideration of the Belfast
Improvement Bill. In committee of the House of Lords,
the Duke of Devonshire chairman, the other members being
Lord De Roe, Earl Somers, Marquis of Bath, and Lord
Congleton, the Port Glasgow Harbour Bill, South London
Market, and Liverpool Exchange Bills were passed, and the
Herne Bay, Hampton, and Reculver Fishery was
opened
by Mr Calvert, Q.C. The West London Docks and Ware-
houses Bill was passed in Earl Cathcart's committee; and
that for the proposed amalgamation into one undertaking
of the London Docks, the St. Katharine Docks, and the
Victoria Docks proceeded with, Mr Chandler, secretary ot
the London Docks, being examined by Mr Coleridge and
Mr Round. Aiter several days'
inquiry, and considerable
local opposition to the project, on the ground that it would
be detrimental to the navigation, the committee, ot winch
Lord Wodehonse ischairman, threw cut the bill f,,r the
proposed Bute Docks at Cardiff. The bills for the Gnat
North of Scotland Railway and Lymington Harbour sza
Ducks went through Lord ILeriesda.le's committee.
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