The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-10 00:00:00

THE Sui', LOINDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1864,

DE:

,MANY,

(From the Times' Special Correspondent lately at the
Danah Headquarters.)
COPENHAGEN, June 6.
Copenhagen had yesterday her own Grundslovfest,
or Constitution-day, and a very happy town it was
made by it, from early morning till 2 o'clock after
midnight. It is no exaggeration to say that not
one soul was left in the city. The day seemed to
be made to order, the brightest and most joyous
that could be had in any climate. Spring is in full
tide at last, even in Denmark, and all, the trees,
with the exception of the sleepy oak, are out in full
blossom. it was a sin and a shame to be indoors,
and we went out with the crowd, happy to follow
wherever anybody might lead.
I shall waste no ink in the description of the drive
to the Deer•park (Dyr-have), past the pleasure
grounds of Charlotten Lund, the watering-place
of Klampenborg, the Hotel Bollevue, and other
spots mentioned on a former occasion. I beg to
carry the reader at once into the very middle of the
park, close to the Royal Slot pavilion, or hunting
box of the Hermitage, also already described, where,
in the afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, the vast
assemblage of citizens, who have keen hitherto early
people, scattered about, reclining under the trees,
and consuming their lunch or dinner, are now com-
ing together from every quarter of the vast forest
ground. A throng of about 20,000 persons are
pressing upon each other on tiptoe within a compass
of two or three square miles round the Palace, creep-
ing under, vaulting over, breaking through the long
line of carriages, private or public, that were packed
together as they are at Epsom, round the Royal
Lodge, a building which, notwithstanding the
different use to which it is put, bears in its shape
no little resemblance to one of the great English
race stands.
Just about 4 o'clock a wave-like commotion
seemed to stir the surface of that dense multitude;
cheers rent the air, a lively atrain of martial music
rose above the din of voices, and presently a string
of modest Court carriages, drawn by a single span
of horses each, drove up to the doors of the Lodge.
A gentleman and lady in mourning attire alighted
from the first carriage, a young lady and a boy six
years old from the second, a number of gentlemen
from the following ones. The former couple stopped
on the threshold, and acknowledged by bows the
applause of the shouting masses. They then went
in and were lost to view for a few minutes. What
occurred within the walls of the pavilion, we, the
outsiders, of course, could only guess. A deputation
from the corporations of the ,capital and of the
adjoining townships made, we were led to suppose,
their salaam to their Sovereign, who, no doubt,
answered in " terse and appropriate language."
In the meanwhile, those of us who had ears and
voices joined in the execution of a song—" Til
Kongen"—written and composed for the oc-
casion, As the last notes were swelling in the
air the central window was thrown open, and
the subject of those few lines and his Queen ap-
peared on the balcony. The cheers rose to their
highest pitch, the Royal couple expressed their
thanks by benignant inclinations of their heads.
The tumult was then hushed up, and from the
midst of the awful silence a clear ringing voice—the
King's voice—was heard, each word as distinctly
audible to every man as to every one the throb of
his own heart thrilled with breathless emotion. The
King's words were few. He gave utterance to his
gratitude for the affection so loudly testified by his
subjects, and begged them to join him in his "bless-
ing on Denmark." (" Gud beware Danmark!") The
short speech ended with another bow, upon which
the Royal personages instantly withdrew. Cheers
were then given for the Queen, who once more came
out and bowed her thanks. A new song struck up
4, For Danmark !" but was interrupted by the ap-
pearance of a young fair head just peeping out
above the stone balustrade of the balcony. There
was a shout for Prince Waldemar, whose he in-
stantly ducked under, terrified by its ow-s, rashness.
The boy was, however, brought b
4ck by his fond
parents, and made to do eb2i:Atn„,
delight of the bystanders., to the intense
There were more songs
for " Constitution," ',O, " Army and Navy," and
for "Norden," for the great Scandinavian
FatherlandA rush to the marble stairs leading to
the PiV.ace then ensued, and from the midst of the
thrrnged multitude the Royal party made their way
back to their carriages, and were soon out of sight,
on their way to the Castle of Bernstoiff, his Molesty's
chosen country residence for this summer, a few
miles off. There was not one soldier on duty on the
ground or at the Pakce doors; rot one policeman;
the people knew how to make room for their beloved
Monarch, and needed no marshalling, no let or hind-

ranee.
The whole scene was simple in the extreme, yet
sufficiently impressive. There is something to me
unspeakably touching in the sight of that young,
modest, affectionate, royal couple, who have come
to the throne at an epoch of so much trial and peril
for the Danish monarchy, and who take as little of
the pomp and pageantry of their new station upon
themselves as if they sighed for the quiet domestic
bliss on which the cares of a tempest-tossed State
have so rudely trespassed. The King preserves in
the midst of his newly accrued greatness all the easy
grace, 'the courteous simplicity which belong to a
tb:eroughbred private gentleman. It would be waste
of breath to say that the Queen is every inch a lady.
There is in both their fine handsome countenances
an expression of anxious care, a touch of sadness,
conveying very plain hints of the share both of
them take in the sonows and fears by which the
country is distracted, and making irresistible appeal
to the sympathies of all beholders. The King has
made immense strides towards the best grounded
popularity a Sovereign should aspire to win among
his people, a popularity grounded in firm faith in
the uprightness of his inventions, and on the ac-
knowledgment of his sterling public and private
virtues. There is nut an instance of a familiar face
among the old acquaintance of the Royal pair in
private life whose presence is forgotten, or even not
expressly solicited; no instance of a stranger with
any pretensions to gentle manners who is not wel-
comed in this unassuming household, English
visitors, especially, easily find themselves at home
in a Court bound to their own reigning house by
such near ties, and where their own language is as
readily spoken as at Marlborough House.
When the King had left the grounds, a set of
patriotic gentlemen stepped upon a platform, and
delivered set speeches, of which the songs above
alluded to supplied the themes. I did not wait to
hear the last of them, you may be sure, for greater
attraction was exercised upon me by the people's
lair, which was held in another part of the park,
where there were whirligigs, swinging boats, shoot-
ing matches, trials of strength, and a variety of
other open air exercises of which these good Danish
citizens seem to be inordinately fond. After saunter-
ing from booth to booth, I drove back to town, and
proceeded to Fredericksburg, a park or vast garden,
where the same pleasures, and those of eating and
drinking, were carried on on a very large scale, and
where the great treat was to be—please the ever-
lasting summer day of this high latitude ever
to come to a close—a magnificent display of fire-
works. From Fredericksburg we went to Tivoli,
a better sort of Cremorne, a very paradise in the
estimation of these worthy Copenhageners. If a
stranger happened to feel or to look particularly
dull during the winter months, the citizens, jealous
of the good fame of their "merry" town, used to
say, " Wait till 'Tivoli opens, and you will no longer
complain that time hangs heavily upon you in the
D tnish capital." Well, Tivoli opened, and it was
Cremorne and Vauxhall all over, with music, wine,
and beer, dancing on the green, montagnes Russes,
balloons, and fireworks. Only the people here do
innottoh-adpapye.n tsp:o
vteirrye
btao-tynagorereoswtoofTwivhealit, delight
pre-
sence of the respectable scares away the disrepu-
table. The great delight at Tivoli this day was a
show of oil lamps, which put to shame the never-
t() be
waning twilight. I do not know whether there
was
a larger crowd at Dyrhave, or at Fredericksburg,
impression.l‘alynd managed is thatat
or at the
multiplied
gthemselves
the three mreeuplaces at the same time. Of the behaviour
of all that mass of people it would be superfluous to
speak. Three English gentlemen were with me
from beginning to end, en:l we all agreed that the

Danes are more entitled to the appellation of
" angels" than even those Angle progenitors of
theirs on whose bare-legged children an old Pope
perpetrated that memorable pun.

The Danes were not allowed to keep holy their
Constitution-day in some other places as they did
in Copenhagen. At Aalborg, Randert, and other
towns in Jutland, the Prussians would not allow the
national flag to be used by the citizens, and these
could not or would not celebrate their anniversary
without their wonted show of colours. To be sure,
their Dannebrog—their dear old banner—fallen
we
had
Dyrhave and every-
where
Swedish, and
French, not good display of Red and
Whitefrom Hvbeoathe n !
herein
Danish standards, but of
Italian, and English—of all
European flags, 041 Jr not Prussian, Austrian, or
German. only of

Railway and Public Companies in Pulls,-

meat.

Yesterday the case for the parties opposing the
proposed extension of the-Metropolitan Railway to
Trinity-a-quare and Tower.hill having terminated
in Lord Stanley's committee, Mr. Denison and Mr.
Kerslake opened the case for the promoters of the
East London Railway, the committee deferring their
decision on the Metropolitan Company's project
until they shall have fully gone into that of the East
London, which is proposed to be incorporated with
a capital of £2,015,000 in shares and £670,000 by
loan. The company propose to reticulate the East
end with railways, some thirteen in number, uniting
the localities of the district with the leading metro-
politan railways. The first line will :run from a
junction with the Great Eastern Railway at Tap-
street, paeeing over the eastern end
of the et,
w Bethnal-green,techapa
ree'd and the western end of the
Commercial-road East,teSevernestreet,:St.George's-
ehi
in-the-East) thence under the London and Blackwell
Railway and a part of the London Docks, through
along the west side of the Grand
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SurreyTimberTham e s Tn u
pnoecl, k
a, to the New-cross station of the
London and ;Brighton Railway, with a connecting
branch. A second section of railways will connect
the first with the Great Eastern at Bethnal-green,
with the Deptford branch of the Brighton, where it
passes under the London and Greenwich, and with
the South Eastern Railway. A third section will
form el junction with the first at Severn street,
across and under Whitechapel High-street, and
thence by the east side of Houndsditch to a junc-
tion with the Finsbury Extension of the Metropo-
litan Railway at Little Moorfields and the remaining
seotions in their turn connecting with the others
will run from the esest side of Moorgate-street ; to
the North London Railway, City Branch, near
Sun-street, and to the Liverpool-street Terminus,
Whiteehapel, and London and North Western
depots at Haydon-square. In addition, the com-
pany seek power to purchase the Tnames Tun-
nel, to appropriate it to the purposes of their rail-
way and to discontinue its use for other purposes,
and the promoters propose by the bill to pro
vide morning and evening trains for the conveyance
of the labouring classes through the tunnel at a
penny for each passenger. The Board of Trade,
in reporting on this latter object, state that having
regard to the interest which the Government have
in the Thames Tunnel in respect of the large sums
of public money advanced to the Thames Tunnel
Company, and remaining unpaid, it seems to be
proper that arrangements for the purchase of the
Thames Tunnel by the East London and the rail-
way companies, parties to the bid should be ap-
proved by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.
The representative of the Grand surrey Dock Com-
p:.ny was examined relati re to laying the rails on
the quays of the company by Mr. Round v. Mr.
Holy and Mr. Slight, secretary of the Brighton
Company, by Mr. Rodwell, and others, relative to
the merits of the:measure, and the interest that com-
2any proposed to take in it. The bill to enable the
Lynn and Sutton Railway to provide, side by side
with the bridge over the river Nene, a separate
public roadway along the railway, was passed in
that committee. The bills for the Brecon and
Merthyr Tydfil Junction (No. 2) and Rhyrnuey
Railway and Cardiff to Caerphilly were further
considered and settled, subject to the insertion of
some qualifying clauses, what is termed the Pur-
chase Bill, being thrown out. The case for the
North Staffordshire new lines was forwarded a stage
in the shape of further evidence as to traffic, and
the detailed provisions required in connexion with
the East Gloucestershire and Burtonson-the-Water
and Lancashire District It always occupied those
committees all day. Mr. Massey passed the South
Eastern (No. 4) Bill, Dublin and Ballinglass, and
Rickmansworth, Amorsham, and Chesham. A
committee of the Lords, consisting of Lord Mont-
eagle (chairman), Lord Clinton, Lord Poltimore,
Lord Talbot de Malahide, and Lord Houghton,
met, and, after hearing counsel and evidence,
approved, the bill of the (London, Brighton, and
South Coast for their proposed Ouao Valley
line, and then took the bill for the Sewage Im
provement of Edinburgh and Leith, Mr Stephen
son being examined by Mr Locke. In Lord Redes

dale's committee the Southampton and Netley, East
India, Hamilton and Strathaven, Scottish North
Eastern Bills ; Denburn Valley, North British
(abbey Holmo and Lcev.te branch), and Liverpool
and London Fire, Ea.' Egmont's Estates and Chit-
tcnden', Disabilities Bills were considered and passed.

timation of his intention, a bill which they said
would interfere with their control over funds placed
in their trust for the public advantage. Alderman
Rose, Mr L. Taylor, Mr De Jersey, Mr F. W. Trus-
cott, and Mr Medwin were among those who sup-
ported the recommendation of the committee that a
petition should be presented to the House of Com-
mons by the corporation is opposition to the bill.
Mr beputy Harrison and Mr Cockerell thought,
however, that the Court should pause before they
appeared to oppose a meastre whit% would improve
the condition of the City traffic, Deputy Harrison
suggesting that they should wait and see what was
done at the second reading of the bill,
The motion of Mr. Webber was, however, agreed
to, and a petition directed to be prepared in accord-
ance with the terms of the report.
A petition sign©d by John Remington Mills, RFq.
M.F,, Samuel Morley, Eeni., and a large number of
other influential gentlemen, was presented by Mr
Deputy C. REED, praying that the Court would
take steps to secure the present condition of the Bun-
hill-fields burying ground, and to secure it for ever
against any possible perversion to other uses than
those for which it had been for two centuries sacredly
appreip fated. The petitioners stated that the spot
mentioned had been set apart by the corporation of
London as a place of interment 200 years ago, and
for 190 years had been used for that purpose, until
in the year 1852 it was closed by an order in Council.
They also stated that 120,000 corpses had been in-
terred there, which number included the remains of
men whose memories were among some of the most
precious of our national heir-looms—men who not
only adorned the age in which they lived, but had
rendered permanent blessings to the land, and whose
names the world would not willingly let die. To
allow the disturbance of a spot so hallowed, they
urged, could not but be regarded as an injury to the
nation. Individuals had bought graves and family
vaults in the ground under the impression that they
were securing permanent and immovable places of
sepulture. The Corporation, too, were evidently
under the impression that it could never be alienated,
and had at various times, especially in 1787, given
assurance that the ground should not be built on;
and to allay apprehensions that had arisen that it
might be converted into other purposes, declared by
public advertisement that every part of the ground
should at all times hereafter remain as burial
ground, and be used fox that purpose only.
In answer to Mr. Lowman Taylor,
One of the gentlemen attending to support the
petition said that they had been positively assured
that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had already
prepared plans for converting it into building
ground.

The petition was referred to the City Lands Corn.
inittee.

Mr. H, L. Taylor and Mr. J. E. Saunders were
re-appointed to represent the Corporation of Lon-
don i❑ the Metropolitan Board of Works, under
the provisions of the 18th and 19th Victoria.

A report was brought up from the Library Com-
mittee on the reference to reconsider the report re-
specting a collection of manuscripts be:onging to
Edward Tyrrell, E4q., late Rnaernbrancer, and re.
commending that the same be not purchased.
The report was agreed to, and the court shortly
after adjourned.

The Proposed Siege Operations at Chatham,

CHATHAM, June 9.
The following details of the siege operations to
be carried on by the troops of the garrison of
Chatham on Saturday, in the presence of the Prince
of \Vales and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, with other members of the royal family and
English and Foreign Ministers, are offieially an-
nounced, by the sanction of Major-General H.
Eyre, commanding the district, and Col. H. Har-
ness, C. 8., the director of military field works :-
1. The officers and men of the Royal Engineer
establishment will, in conjunction with the other
troops of the garrison, and with the assistance of
the captain superintendent of the royal dockyard,
and the naval tneang at his disposal, carry out the
concluding portion of a supposed series of siege
operations on the 11th inst. against the eastern or
lower end of Chatham Lines.
2. The siege works are considered to have been
advanced to the extent seen upon the ground, and
preparation made for opening the place to assault
by mining the escarp acrd conaterscarp between St.
Mary's barrier and the casemate barracks.
3. Against the assault the besieged are supposed
to have made the fallowing dispositions :-
4. They have formed countermines, and lodged
charges of gunpowder under the French Cavalier in
front of the demi-bastion, and under the head of the
lodgment on the glacis in front of the left face of
the Redan. They have constructed a boom across
St. Mary's Creek, in which they have also sunk
several torpedoes to destroy any boats which may
attempt to turn the left of the lines ; and as a fur-
ther security to this flank, they have formed a
stockade between the ditch of St, Mary's Hornwork
and the piece of water adjoining the military bath-
ing-pond.
5. The operations will commence, the time being
supposed to be just before daylight, by a party ad-
vancing in a boat up St. Mary's Creek to attach a
charge of powder to the boom, which being effected
they will retire. On the explosions the assailants
will open fire upon the lines from the batteries and
advanced trenches, and also from the gunboats,
when the garrison will spring their mine under the
French Cavalier, and shortly after that under the
head of the lodgment.
6. After these explosions an armed party in boats
will advance up St. Mary's Creek, when the tor-
pedoes of the garrison will be fired in succession.
As soon as the party in the boats have effected a
landing, the breaching mines of the besiegers will
be sprung. The general assault will then be given.
7. On the left, a column, provided with ladders,
will escalade the lines at the re-entering angle of
the right face of the Redan. In the centre, a column,
also provided with ladders, will escalade at the
re-entering angle of the left face of that work. On
the right a column, headed by a party of sappers,
provided with short ladders end entrenching tools,
will storm the breach made by the mines.
8. During the execution of these operations, and
while the assailing columns are establishing them-
selves within the works, the party in the boats,
taking advantage of the confusion in the garrison
consequent upon the springing of the mines, &c.,
will press in front of St. Mary's Hornwork, and,
turning its left flank, will breach by means of gun-
powder the stockade near the bathing pond,
9. The assaulting columns will then advance to
the attack of the works near Cumberland Bastion,
which may be considered as an entrenchment.
10. The left column, detaching a party through
the parade of the casemates, will pass between the
ramparts and the soldiers' casemate barracks to clear
the defenders from those works, and will then force
their way into Prince Frederick's Bastion, through
the postern, and over the right face of the work.
11. The centre column will advance between the
casemates and the right face of the Ravelin, and,
passing round its gorge, will effect an entrance
into the entrenchments through the curtain between
the Cumberland and Prince Frederick Bastions.
12. The right column will move over the ground
between the left face of the Ravelin and St. Mary's
Prison, to attack the front formed by the 'Terrace
and Cumberland Bastions, by the curtain of which
the enter the Inner lines.
13. The boat division will proceed by the road in
rear of St. Mary's Prison to the new guard room,
from whence they will advance and turn the left to
the Terrace Bastion by the Fieldwork Terrace, &c.
Lieut.-Colonel Lovell, C. 8., R.E., will be the
engineer officer directing the attack. Lieut.-Colonel
Browne, C. 8., R.E., will be the engineer officer
directing the defence.
The troops will assemble on Saturday, the 11th,
at 12,4.5 a,m. on the different parade grounds.

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