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The Supposed Foundering of the Re
Galant uomo.

This day is published, in one large volume octavo, pp. 676,
price 215.,

The New York papers to hand contain accounts
of the supposed loss of the ;le Galantuomo. The
441
Star of the West had arrive 'at New York from
Liverpool, and in.
.14,gr_,2 - Are,,thajollowilag-
iirtiriiTZ ' ' ' • N
On March 7, latitude 40;40, loigitude 64.20, at 4 p.m.,
saw a large man-of-war with maintopmast gone, and colours
at the masthead, as if she wished to speak with us. ,

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2. That W. P. Andrew, Esq., be re-elected a Director of
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3. That Colonel Sir Frederick L. Arthur, Bart., be re-
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4. That Georre Gordon M tcpherson, Esq., be re-elected
Auditor of this Company.
5. That the cordial thanks of this meeting are tendered to
W. P. Andrew, Esq., for his courteous conduct in the chair
this day.

. .
At sp.m. tacked, steering south-west by the wind, until
6 p.m., the man-of-war firing guns—hove to about'4 miles
to the leeward of her. At half-past 6,p.m. she tried tp speak'
us, but could not be heard—filled the ship and tacked. At
7 p.m. passed close under her stern and asked what she
wanted, and the reply was that she was an Italian man-of-
war, and in a sinking condition, wished us to lie by her all
night, and accompany hereto the nearest land. Asked how
many people there were ott board. Reply—over 400.
We promised tO ' remain by her through the night ;
shortened sails. to lower topsails:. and foretopmast stay.
sail, and kept by ,the: 'wind, `At eight p.m. fired a
rocket, which was answered by another from the man of
war. S,wards her and hove to about two miles to
. teered to..
windward. At 9 p.m. fired abluelight, which was answered
by bne-from tha.vesisel,- the two ships being in about the
same position. At•qp-p.m..fired. a rocket; no reply. At
11 p.m: fired a recke,t ,snd,bluelight ; no reply. Wore ship
and ran to the' eastward aboht three miles ; hove to on the
other tack, en& lay 'until daylight. At 5 a.m. made sail
and ran to the eastward, a lookant at the masthead, but
could see nothing ; at 6 a.m. hauled,iy the wind, supposing
she had kept away before the wind.
Shortly after 9,p4m,-streine breeze sprang up from west-
ward; weather, ntederately clear.: Saw several vessels
steering net during the day. March.ll, lat 40, long 68,
passed Austrikt'.blig Methento, hound to Boston; 13th
inst., Id 40 Along 70, passed ship Anewan, froth Callao.
. The New Ytork,Herald says :
The Italian frigate Re Galantuomo sailed from New York
on the 34 inst.,' and"the Re d'ltalia on the 9th. From the
date of the ,supposed disaster therefore it is surmised that
the vessel in diatressnmst have been the Re Galantuomo,
though it is not generally supposed here that she hadcauch
a large nuntbei of passengers on board. - '
When the news reached'New YOrk the 'firstsinaPresion
was that the'Re d!ltalia had; suffered another accident; but
it is unnecessary to state tho such .cannel hive been the
case, as she did not /eave tite;lsTarrows until the 9tkinst.,
two days after the iupposed:tiisaster. ' - ' -
If any disaster has occurreit to :an'italitinlrirgate it must
have been the,Re GalantuortM, which: left on the 3d inst.
The above statenient of.Captitin Pesti; is, htivayer, by no
Xneana incOmpatible with the safety of the frigate: She may
have gone in a different dlr:ection from that iicirsued by the
Stitrof the Weat on the morning of the Bth.
The Italian Consul General:4. Anfora di LiCignano, in
company with 13. W. Peveock; Esq.,' and Signor Secchi di
Cassali, editor of the Eco d' Balla, visited the ship Star of
the West, Captain Pert y commanding, yesterday afternoon
~,t,
in order to ascertain the fullest and st reliable particulars
relative to . the supposed Joss ol,,the talian man-of-war,
which vessel had beenaptAyeacof Jig!, , , . :'FJIe following
facts were eliciteli..: . .?' - \ ~ , ----;1„....,, ;4,
Whet* latitudeit 40,,Mj_.,::;1/v . i i .21:--ibilliir-A.
4 p.m. on the afternoon of arc .' , 4". look-mit on the Star
of the West saw a large man-of-war. She had her colours
at the masthead and maintopmast gone. These facts proved
hat they wished to speak, and those on board the Star of
he West made the necessary movement to comply with the

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W. P. ANDREW, Chairman.
S. H. R. PARRY, /, ding, Secretary.
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1864.
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BISHOP of LONDON'S FUND.—
In order to give some idea of the spiritual destitution
in London, and also of the nature of the information which
has been obtained rep ardin v. almost every parish in the diocese,
,it has been thought desirable to publish the following details
respecting four parishes, chosen out of four different postal
dis.ricts :
,-Parish A.—The total population of this parish is nearly
2,,000. About two-thirds are of the labouring classes, and
one-third are shopkeepers, mercantile clerks, warehousemen,
lac. There is only one church, with accommodation for 2.001,
and no mission-rrom or other place for Divine service. There
are six Dissenting chapels, accommodating about 2,803.
There are three clergymen, two Scripture readers. and one
City. Missionary ; three Church schools, which accommodate
three Dissenting schcols. with accommodatio for
1,500'; one ragged school for 200. It appears that for this
population of 25,000 the Church and Dissenters together pro-
vide 4,0'0 sitting s, which would not be sufficient for a popu-
lation of I°,ooo persons. There are, therefore, nearly, 15,000
in this parish for whom no provision is made in any place of
religious worship. Again, for these 25,e01 peop'e there are
only three clergymen of the Church of England. With re-
spect to the ministers of other religious communitie it mast
be borne in mind that, hornier active they may be in visiting
the members of their own congregations, theycannot be con-
sidered as responsible for any more extended or sy tematic
visitation. Supposing. then, that their chapels in this parish
were all full, the congregations would number less than 3,000,
and would probably represent a population less than B,eoo.
There would still remain 17,000 people for who/3e pastoral care
the Church of England is responsible, and for whom only
three clergymen are prov'ded. But these wou'd be fully
emnloved in ministering to 6,001, that is, 2.000 to each. There
will still, therefore, remain more than 10;00 people in this
one parish for the personal visitation of whom by ministers
of religion no provision is made, either by the Church of
England or by Dissenters.
Parish B.—Population (in 18011 21,010, increased even since
then by 4.0e0 more, making 28,000, Ground is also laid out
for building Immediately 1,700 houses, and ultimately 2/00
more, rcpresentirg together an expected increase cf 22.000
to the pres nt ponulation. A large portion are mechanics,
and the remainder day labourers. costerriongers, &c. There
is one parish church. with accommodation for 8,0, a school
church, containing 600 or 700; and a small chapel of ens., con-
taining abou` 100. There are four Dissenting chapels. all
small, containing probably altogether about 1,200. The
total rccommodation of all kinds is 2,800. There are three
three parochial clergy, two. Scripture readers, and one City
Missionary. There are five Church schools, accommodating
a-together i.obt; yot/cZeen f One Dissent sch 001; with less
than 200 children. In this c ice there would alarm* to be at
this moment nearly 20.000 neor le more than can be reached
by the ministrations of the clergy, and about the same num_
ber who are wi. bout any provision for public worship. This
is an instance of the rapid growth of a suburban parish. the
population having increased from 6,600 in 1841, to 24,000 in
1861 ; and if any considerable part of the building proiect
now proposed be carried out, the population will, before
1871, be upwards of 50,000.
Parish C —The total population of this parish is 30,000.
Of these about 20,000 are the laboutin,r classes and poor.
A large proportion of the remainder are small tradesmen,
clerks. and persons with life incomes, while very few are in
easy circumstances, The parish church and a proprietary
chapel together cant,in acnmmodation for about 3,700
There is also an iron school church used for Divine service
which will contain 200. There is no parsonage. There is
One small Dissenting chapel. There are six clergymen of
the Church of Unglatal, one of whom is a missionary
curate; no Fcrinture r ader, and five City missionaries.
There are five Church schools, accommodating 900 children.
In this parish there appears to be 20,000 people who have no
accommodation at all for public worship, and 18,010 beyond
the number who can be efficiently ministered to by the
present parochial clergy.
Parish D.—Populati n 34,000 of thewr.rking classes, mostly
vry poor, with a few shopkeepers. There is one church.
with 2,000 sittings, and two mission rooms, one containing
2 0 and the other 71. There are nine Dissenting chapels,
accommodatine probably about 5,000. There are five paro-
chial clergy, three of them being missionary curates, one
Scripture reader, and four City missionaries; There are three
CliiirCh schools, wi h accommodation for 600; and nine Dis-
senting schools, accommodating probably about 1,000; one
ragg. d school for about 30. There appear in this parish to
, ay nous 'eft unprovided with pastoral supervision,
and about 11,010 who have no provision for attending public
worship.
These four cases, taken from diff rent districts of London,
are given because they present a view of the spiritual cond'-
tion of the ropuulation in a great number of parishes in the
metropolis, end not with the intention of mak'ng any spe-
cial appeal on their behalf. It is evident that in parishes
like these there is needed a large increase not only of
c'erg.-,y.. but of lay ^gents of various kinds, and also of schools
and mission rooms in which they may carry on their work.
In the case of 'moutons parishes, where the existing
churches are not filled, the necessity of an increase of 1 ving
agents is all the more urgent, in order to awaken the ma Oa of
the people to a greater sense of their duty and value of public
worship.
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request. At 7 p.m. passed under her stern and spoke her.
Captain Perry did not speak through a trumpet, as they had
none on board the Star of the West. The question was
then asked—
" What do you want P"
"We are an Italian man-of-war, and in a sinking condi-
tion.
We wish you to lie near us all night and accompany
us to the nearest land."
" How many have you got on board ?"
" Over four hundred."
The Star of the West then steered a short way from the
sinking vessel and fired signals up to 9 o'clock, which were
all responded to. There was a rocket fired at 10 o'clock, bat
no reply, and at 11 o'clock a rocket and blue light were sent
up; but, as before, no response was received. Thus matters
remained until 5 o'clock on the morning of the Bth, the Star
of the West still holding fast about three miles from where
the Italian vessel lay. It being daylight at this time
every eye was turned in the direction where the distressed
vessel was last seen —but no trace of her could be dis-
covered. At the time of these occurrences both vessels
were equi-distant between Bermuda and Sable Islands,
about 700 miles from New York. No person could see
the name on the stern of the Italian vessel, as it was
quite dark when the Star of the West rounded her. The
person who hailed from the decks of the Italian vessel
spoke excellent English. Captain Perry did not think it
possible that the vessel could have foundered without their
knowledge. There were no vestiges of a wreck or anything
else on the surface of the water next morning, and Captain
Perry gives it as his opinion that no vessel of so large a
size as the Italian, with such a number of souls on board,
could possibly have foundered within three miles of assist-
ance without some evidence of their terrible end appearing
on the morning after the calamity,
Captain Perry was then asked to give a written opinion,
which he did as follows :
"On board ship Star of the West, March 15.
a Having answered all the inquiries of the Italian Con-
sul-General respecting my observations of the Italian line-
d- battle ship I saw in distress in Maroh 7, as per my report,
I hereby certify that in my opinion it would be expedient at
once to send a steamer, with such means as would aid her,
to the place from whence I last saw her continuing her
course, for the search in the Western Islands. After wait •
7SiUILTON PERRY, Master.
ing two hours, and neither seeing her nor any portions of
P to that time, remained
minutely to describe the dis-
PtehreryParticulars which he did give
darkness of the night it is
thesa
f,
n.l"Witness—B.
wreck,oio cie
e_fne
Bee
01 soi e.
the
rm eueys
xct
to, have,
enakm7e,
I
ptltifatrtierne doubt in the minds of the Italian
wads,iarailiaar,gwe
hfirichgatuet,
first
was
impossiblettrbee srsee dese foretle; Captain
Consul and his friends that the vessel in question is none
other than the Italian frigate Re Galantuomo, which sailed
from this port on March 3. They also feel sanguine of her
safety. It is understood that a steamer will be at once sent
to her succour, should she need any,
and Will sail in the
direction of Bermuda Island.
of much
grTeahteer
supposed to be the vessel which had suffered a disaster.
She was formerly a sailing vessel, and was constructed at
Rs
size
eGtabl aanntutobme o s
the Royal Navy Yard, near Naples, A few years ago she
was converted into a steam vessel by the introduction of an
additional engine, which, under ordinary circumstances,
could propel her at the rate of about nine knots an hour.
At the time of the improvement no change was made in the
hull of the vessel, as is usual; for generally when sailing
ships are altered into steamers they are lengthened. Con-
sequently this ship had a chunky appearance quite in con-
y was to bring out
treat with the beautiful models of the Russian ships which
were at anchor in our harbour a short time ago.
theTohffie b
left this port on the 3d of March, homeward bound. Very
little is known here respecting the Re Galantuomo, but
from the fact that she did not bring out to this country her
coerjsec atnod f
a h eerrew visit
of t 3 o
50 thismecu oufonrtrt
be
Re
d,ltalia, She
full complement of guns, in order to ease her and fit her
better for so long a voyage, it is considered that she was not
a first-class vessel, though one of considerable size.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.
The fate of the Italian iron-clad frigate Re Galantuomo
grows more hopeless by every arrival from New York, The
Cunard steamer Sidon, which arrived here to-day, reports
that on the 18th March, when in lat. 40 45, lon. 64 52, she
was boarded by H.M.S. Styx, then in search of the missing
frigate, The captain of the Sidon was asked if he had
fallen in with the Re Galantuomo, but on replying in the
negative, the boarding crew left.

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The season for Ministerial indiscretions bas.set in
rather early this year. It usually comes a little
later, with the nightingales and the 'green peas.
What is the cause of the unusual forwardness of this
interesting crop is a question upon which a variety
of hypotheses may be sustained. If Mr. Gladstone
only were concerned, we might suppose that he felt
it his duty to bow to the order of the ecclesiastical
year. He would no doubt instinctively. feel, as a
dutiful son of the Church, that as all the other fes-
tivals were falling early, it was his busintss to take
care that the feast of personal
feast observed with much
.vo ion by the House of
Commons—should expl an ations—a
Stans-
feld cannot 1—
~e accused of any ecclesiastical lean-
ings-, inn . hypothesis must be laid aside. Still
early, too. But as Mr.
it must not be forgotten that there is a wide dis-
tinction between the two performers who have ad-
ministered so much aid and comfort to the Oppo-
sition during the last fortnight. Mr. Gladstone
was a deliberate jelo de se of his reputation ; Mr.
Stansfeld only presented a singularly awkward and
blundering case of accidental death. His suicide is
only comparable to that of a deaf old woman who
is suddenly aroused from her meditations by shouts
from an approaching 'bus, and in her agonised
efforts to save herself runs shrieking straight under
the wheels ; while Mr. Gladstone resembles more
the scientific suicide who lays down his neck before
the advancing train exactly on the place where the
flange of the engine-wheel will cut it off. Both
Ministers- fth( Cr OfiViraireFtlii dna::
their way into the mud. ;Mr. Stansfeld stepped
into it backwards, while he was medita-

ting, not over the regeneration of Italy,
but only over the regeneration of the
dockyards ; and it was only in consequence of his
clumsy efforts to pull himself out he ultimately gat
soused all over. Mr. Gladstone, on the other hand,
finding himself on fine dry ground, with no dirt
anywhere near, deliberately dug a pit before his
own footsteps, carted a vast quantity of mud from
a distance to put into it, and then, having made
these preparations, calmly executed a plunge into
the middle.
Another view which may be plausibly maintained
is that exhibitions of this kind are a species of
homage which the various members of the Adminis-
tration, taking the duty by turns, pay to their distin-
guished chief ; and that they hurried the observance
of this ceremony forward on-
:this occasion, because
from the appearance of thespolitieal horizon, there
Were obvious reasons for doubting whether he would
be in a position to receive it at a later period. This
view is unquestionably borne out by the fact that,
during the course of Lord Paltnerston's tenure of
office, the duty of tumbling into the mire in order
that he might have the credit of picking them out
again has been shared very equally by the various
members of the Government. Few of them have
appeared twice upon the stage. Lord Clarence
Paget and his runaway Admiral have exhibited but
once for the public amusement. Mi. William

Cowper has never been discovered a second time
clandestinely egging on influential writers to bully
a Committee of which he was chairman. Neither
Mr. Gladstone nor Mr. Stansfeld have taken a pro-
minent part in a personal explanation, since they held
their present offices, till a fortnight ago. Their duty
is done when they have once given their nhief the op-
portunity of coming forward to help them out, and of
uttering that mysterious assurance that " he is
ready to take all responsibility upon himself"—
which, as it means nothing in particular, has a
marvellous virtue in tranquillising the House of
Commons. The only exception to this rule appears
to be Mr. Lowe, who has been in a mess ever since
he has been in office. But then he must be looked
upon as a devotee in this kind of culte —a sort of
St. Simeon Stylites, who is willing to live a life of
perpetual mortification in order that Palmerston
may bo glorified. _
It can hardly be said, however, that the indiscre-
tions of the present year, like those of former years,
have contributed much to the credit of the Prime
Minister, or have tended to increase the stability of
his Government. They did not show him off to
advantage. In helping Mr. Gladstone out, he dis-
played, at least by the help of such a foil, some-
thing of his ancient tact ; but his speech in defence
of Mr. Stansfeld was one of the worst he ever made.
It was the wild hitting of a man who knew that he
was expected to do something effective, but did not
feel in himself the force to do it, The effect of the
two indiscretions in themselves has also been very
different. Mr. Gladstone's error has simply re-
sulted in making him one deadly enemy the more;
'Jut that will hardly be an appreciable addition to
a band which already is sufficiently large. He has
also given occasion to every one to repeat once more
the trite remark that " Mr. Gladstone can never
"lead the House of Commons." Bui. that observa-
tion has been made so frequently that it fails to
produce any impression on those who hear it.
Already his incapacity for leading is becoming so
commonplace a topic that it is beginning to provoke
the resistance of that considerable class of men who
are born dissenters—who cannot hear of anything
that is generally received without racking their
brains to detect a flaw in it. The people, on the
other hand, are coming to acquiesce so completely
in the fact of Mr Gladstone's want of tact, that if by
accident he diverges into courtesy, or on any occa-
sion contrives to avoid giving offence where it was
possible for him to do so, it is looked upon as a mar-
vellous exhibition of good-humour and self-control.
It is always a great advantage to a man to have got
to the bottom of his character. Mr. Gladstone's repu-
tation for the power of leading a party has sunk so low
that it cannot possibly sink lower, and therefore,
as nothing ever remains stationary, it must of neces-
sity mend.
The other indiscretion has been a good deal more
serious in its results. It has brought out very
strongly the fact that the chasm which separates
the Whigs from the Radicals is no accident or pre-
judice, and cannot be bridged over by a judicious
division of offices. The admission of Mr. Stansfeld
to the Treasury Bench was, as it were, the seal and
symbol of their supposed perfect union. He is the
only thorough and sincere Radical that sits upon
that bench. The very first difficult question that
has arisen shows, in his person, the flimsiness of
the bond that ties the two together. The Radicals
sympathised heartily with Mr. Stansfeld. They
saw nothing strange in his position, and could
not comprehend the necessity of an apology.
The proofs that were advanced to show
that Mazzini at no distant period believed
in the lawfulness of tyrannicide fell without
effect on them. They could not understand why a
statesman should hesitate to associate with a re-
fugee, or to become an instrument for helping in
the execution of his plots, because that refugee had
incited others to commit political assassinations. It
is very probable that this want of sympathy with
the current morality of his age disabled Mr. Stans-
feld himself from seeing the drift of the questions that
were addressed to him, and caused him to make
answers that to other minds seemed not very unlike
intentional prevarications. The Whig members,
on the other hand, as represented by Lord Harry
Vane, felt as most educated Englishmen feel
upon the subject. They looked upon Maz-
zini and his plots with unfeigned horror,
and thought that for a servant of the Crown
to undertake blindly to transmit the correspondence
that might pass between Mazzini and the band
of desperadoes he employs was derogatory to the
honour of the nation. The difference which sepa-
rates the two sets of opinions has shown itself in
this, the first serious matter that has arisen, to be
far too deep to be permanently concealed by any
fictitious community of political appellations. Re-
volutionary and moderate opinions can no more be
mingled than water can be mixed with oil ; and no
amount of external pressure will effect a genuine
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THE WAR IN DENMARK.

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Army.)
DANISH HEADQUARTELS, ►i'.OI\DLSBCnG,
March 25.
The Prussians fired about 1,000 shots and shells
against the Dybbol position on Wcdneaday, when
the Danes had cctually not ono single casualty to
deplore. Yesterday the fire began at a later hour
than usual, after 11 o'clock, and was over by 1 ; but
it displayed while it lasted a somewhat more than
ordinary briskness. The efforts of the enemy had
hitherto mainly, if not exclusively, been directed
against Bastion No. 2, which seems to be the point
most exposed to their cannon on their only line of
attack from the shore of Broagerland. Yesterday,
however, their fire ranged freely over the whole ex-
tent of the Danish batteries, from No. 1 to No. 10,
and evinced a particular inclination to flirt with No.
6, where a few men ware wounded. Last night they
kept us awake by the occasional roar of their thun-
der, with what result I have not as yet taken the
trouble to ascertain. At this present moment, 8 a.m.,
all is quiet. Altogether, after eight days' attack,
the Dybbol position remains absolutely as safe and
intact as it was.

As soon as a cannonade and bombardment cease
to strike terror, they afford an inexhaustible fund of
amusement. Not only has Sonderborg recovered the
panic into which the first shower of shells had thrown
it, but it has learned to slumber sweetly to the music
of the Prussian guns, f_A few of the smaller fishing,
craft have come back to their moorings, and I saw
on Wednesday a steamer making straight for the
harbour, with her Dannebrog waiving defiance to
the batteries, which could, have sunk her in a few
seconds from the shore of the Wemmind bond.

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sion. lam especially fond of coming ddW4..,'44a et:,- '4_4,'a
parsons. It has become as natural fgrtiivrs: , „,i g-Aa it;!°,
rend gentlemen to see me step uponkiVeirAiilgff Att;f4-1
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hold and sit down at their tables 1-... s if 4.tiletnEei--*0ik,,,,,,ii
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inmate of their house for years. Nor i;*iliti';'l.-?‘"'"`-".--, -1
pitable welcome limited to my person alone, bii't my" "
English friends, whom I often bring with me, are
received with the same cordial benevolence as if they
really came on any plausible errand, or had any
other business there besides the gratification of an
idle curiosity. Not a shade of surprise is ever ex-
hibited at any number of visitors, at any unseason-
ableness of the hour; no inquisitiveness as to the
possible object of the call. To come ail the way
from Pall-mail cr Cornhili to lunch with a Danish
" Prediger" seems to the spreader of the feast the
most natural thing in the world. There is a splendid
fellow of that cloth, the clergyman of a thriving vil-
lage about an English mile to the north-east of this
place, upon whom I popped about a month ago,with
the free and easy manner of a knight-errant mistak-
ing an inn for a castle, or a castle for an inn, and with
whom I have been on terms of the must hearty friend-
ship ever since. Gracious ! what a load of earthly
blessings has Providence heaped upon that worthy
Minister of thcGospel! What a suit of snug, wart~:,
comfortably-furnished, and elegantly decorated
apartments hide behind that long row of small and
low, but cheerfully sunny windows under that high
and heavy thatched roof ! What a nice choice of well
bound books, what a complete litter of newspapers,
what a luxury of crackling fire, what a genial,
pure, fragrant atmosphere in that delight.
ful library ! What a maze of shady walks
in that park, what a wilderness of flowers in
those beds, what a glorious look-out from that
summer-house upon the mirror-like surface of the
Nugustenburg Fiord ! What a larder and kitchen,
what melodious lowing from that steaming cow-
house, what neatness and freshness in that dairy,
what superb colts trotted out for my edification out
of that well filled stable I What earthly paradise is

ttere to be compared to a Danish Prestegaard?
What wealth of soil can compete with the glebe
of the worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard ? At
the same time what man, be he either clerk or lay-
man, better deserves Heaven's favours than this same
excellent Pastor Mayer? Wealthy as he is now,
men recall the time when he was far richer, and
brought himself to the brink of ruin by his deeds of
charity and hospitality performed in the service of
men and officers at the time when the Danish army
was quartered in this same district of Dybbol and
Aise confronting the forces of the Germans during
the Schleswig-Holstein war of 1849. The parsons
throughout North and Middle Schleswig have at
all times shown themselves loyal and patriotic even
to heroism, and have been roughly handled by the
anti-Danish party accordingly. However heavily
Herr Mayer may have suffered at that juncture, he
seems not a bit the worse for it at the present mo-
ment. He may be 50 or any number of years old,
but there is no trace of decline in that massive
square face, in that sturdy frame, in that loud
joyous humour, in that deep stentorian voice.
He may have to dine alone with his wife and
sister—the whole of his household ; but he always
sits at a table large enough and always laid out for
a score of guests. Come 10 or 20 strangers at the
very pinch of a minute, and they are as readily
cared for as if they been expected for
The parson brings forth no choice WII3OE,
no costly viands—all is plain with him—
frugal, yet plentiful. If you do not disdain
his hotife7-cured " speck," his peasoup, and "ape
pudding, you can nowhere fare better than here ;
luxury or ostentation you must seek elsewhere ; and
if what you look for in a fellow-being is sterling
worth, you will depart after a few hours spent at the
Ulkebol Parsonage in better humour with yourself
and with the whole of your species. Nor will you
be less delighted if you try your luck with any of
his parishioners, whether your chance brings you
fo the comforts and refinement of Farmer Rosen's
grange at Ronhave, or to the mere hut of Bauer
Hansen at Kizer Westermark. Fear of any lack
of communication by the means of a common
language need hardly deter you. By hook or by
crook, every Dane seems always to have picked up
some scrap of foreign tongue to be used for your
benefit. After Hansen has put on a blank look at
all the German you endeavour to flourish in his
face, he surprises you by stammering. out a few
words of very uncouth but unmistakable French.
His wife and children may not be equally ready
with their tongue, but they are pleased to see you,
and smile their welcome. The only bane of their
otherwise too happy life is loneliness. Break
through it, and you stand before them in the light
of a benefactor. Your appearance is an event, and
your look, your dress, and address, the words they un-
derstand and those they do not,will be food for their
mind and a topic for their talk for weeks. Drop them
your card, or write your name in their books, and
your pasteboard or handwriting will be a relic for
the house so long as it stands. Benevolence to the
whole human race seems to be the instinct of these
unsophisticated people. No one seems capable of
doing or receiving harm. I have not seen a weapon
in any of the hundred houses I have entered, not
a rusty old firelock hanging as a trophy on the
chimneypiece, not a sporting gun even in any of
the kitchen corners. The dog tied on the straw is
the stable-yard is no less a friend than his master.
Tramps and beggars he never sees, and knows not
how to bark. He rolls and writhes, whining in his
litter, wagging his tail, and inviting your caress by
every unmistakeable expression of his dumb lan-
guage. It is upon such a people that about 18,000
of their country's soldiers are now billeted; it is
upon them that, unless God help Denmark, as many
or more foreign invaders may at no distant time be
quartered. Heaven save them !

A number of English amateurs are daily flocking
upon us, all of them bent upon evineing their sove-
reign contempt of what are called the perils of war.
Sentries are posted at the end of the bridges on the
Sonderborg side to prevent civilians crossing over
to Dybbol unless provided with a pass from head.
quarters. The officers of the Staff are, however,
liberal to a fault, and they hardly ever dream of
refusing a card to any person, especially to an Eng-
lishman, applying for it. Armed with that talis-
man, our fun-loving tourists walk up to the wind-
mill, rummage about from fort to fort, jump upon
parapets, crouch under block-houses, stand on the
glacis, seeking the most advantageous position to
view the exchange of iron projectiles—as eager for
the sport as if it were a game of cricket or football.
The recklessness of their daring and the oddity of
their travelling costume puzzle the officers,and afford
unspeakable amusement to the men. One of these
strangers, a youth of noble blood and mein, fresh
from Oxford, clad in a sort of buff leather cap-&-
pie, has been nicknamed Robinson Crusoe, and
his indivisible companion, a stalwart fellow, "up
to anything," goes, of course, by the name of his
man Friday. The officers %I, headquarters, men of
sterling bravery, though too ready to oblige Eng-
land and the English to chny these gentlemen the
gratification of getting themselves knocked on the
head, if they are so minded, are at a loss to under-
stand the foolhardiness which makes the sons of
Albion court danger merely for danger's sake. They
never themselves (the Danes) shrink from any trial
of their mettle when it comes to them in the way of
business; but when not on duty they find no pecu-
liar delight in watching and dodging 241 b.-balls.
Life has sufficient charm for them without en-
hancing its zest by unnecessarily staking it on the
mere cast of a die. Indeed, did they hold it at its
full value, they would deem it a less worthy sacrifice
to be laid down whenever duty to their flag and
love of their country demanded it. The pleasure
derivable from the chances of breaking one's neck
in a steeplechase or iu the ascent of a snow peak is
peculiarly English. Foreign nations may envy, and
can easily understand it ; for the display of strength
and ski [l-in horasorernstiip,lfid uervii.ilia tili LI urtsuce
in mountain climbing, has something in it to flatter
the conscious pride of the possessor of similar gifts ;
but the mere ducking under a shell for the satis-
faction of being able to say that one has been under
fire, or perhaps of exhibiting the skirt of one's
coat or the knee of one's nether garment which a
fragment of one of such missiles has bespattered
with mud baffles these noble Danes' comprehension,
and gives them no very exalted idea of English
sense, whatever estimate they may form of English
heroism. There was a mere boy of 17 the other day
who had perched himself on the very top of the
Dybbol windmill to "see the fun," and no entreaty
or expostulation could induce him to alight from his
elevated station, the sight was so exciting.
Next to the joy of encountering danger must be
man's innate desire to have a hand in, or at least a
peep at, the work of destruction. I was awakened
yesterday at daybreak by the noise of the house next
to the one I live in being pulled down to the ground.
The Engineer Corps have decreed the downfall of
about a score of tenements lying in the way of the
new transversal street which is to open to a broad
avenue from the main street of the town, near the
Raadhuus or Town-hall, down to the sea in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of the bridges. The neces-
sity of providing every means for the movements
of the troops in the event of a rapid advance or
retreat no doubt justified this measure, and Sonder-
borg, like Paris, will at some future day have reason
to thank the absolute will which comes to throw
daylight through the maze of its narrow, crooked,
poky thoroughfares. The breaking up of homes,
however homely, is always a melancholy sight,
nevertheless, especially if the fiat of demolition
comes suddenly upon those whose dwellings are
doomed. The hustling together of dear, however
mean, furniture ; the tottering steps of old people
spirited away from those walls which had probably
witnessed their birth, and in which they had reck-
oned to draw their last breath undisturbed ; the
wandering forth of women and infants, uncertain
where to lay their heads for the night ; the tearing
open of the sanctum sanctorum of domestic privacy,
the laying bare of the " skeleton closet" of the
household, those crumbling walls, those tattered
hangings, those riven chimneys and desecrated
hearths—all that miserable wreck of gutted human
habitations has something unnaturally painful and
heartrending in it, tc which even the magnificent
prospects of a Rue Rivoli or of a Boulevard Sebas-
topol cannot easily reconcile a feeling being. Yet
for those not immediately concerned this work of
demolition seems to have a savage pleasure of some
sort. The Danish soldiers, the best-natured men in
the world, when plying their crowbars and pickaxes
under the direction of the Engineer Corps, go to
work with a will, a glee, and an earnestness which
they hardly ever exhibit in the making of those
trenches which are to screen their breasts from the
enemy's bullets, or even in the construction of those
wooden huts which are to temper the rigour of their
winter nights when camping out ; and the popula.
tion of the neighbourhood, happy to see the havoc
which strikes down their neighbours and spares
themselves, gather round in crowds, the men smok-
ing their pipes in grim delight, the women gaping
and giggling, the urchins clapping their hands and
hurrahing, as roof follows roof, and floor falls upon
floor, occasionally commenting on the tawdry
finery or the abject misery that the unsparing baud
of the spoiler brings to light.
Whenever I choose to tear myself away from
melancholy scenes of this nature, I have only to
take a short walk or ride to find myself among
people whose whale tenour of life is best calculated
to afford the most thorough and immediate relief.
Certainly the scourge of war never struck a popula-
tion more clearly and justly entitled to exemption
from its horrors than when it came to afflict these
good rural districts of Alsen and of the adjoin-
ing mainland. There is hardly a house from the
loftiest mansion to the lowliest cabin, the door of
which is not hospitably open to the passerby, and
there is hardly an open door into which I have any
hesitation to enter without the least fear of intru-

March 25, Evening.
We have been assured here that the Austrians
have raised the siege of Fredericia, and left Jutland
altogether,