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July 1, 1864.

The Danish Blockade.

(From the London Gazette of Tuesday, July 6.)
NOTIFICATION OF BLOCKADE.
FOREION.OFFICE, July 5.

It is hereby notified that Earl Russell, K.G., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has received despatches from her Majesty's
Minister at Copenhagen and her Majesty's Consul
at Stettin, enclosing the following official notifica-
tion of the blockade of the German ports of the
Baltic

"The Ministry of Marine notifies herewith, that
the blockade of the Prussian ports of Colberg, Cam-
min, Swinemunde, Wolgast, Greifswalde, Stral-
sund, and Barth is effectuated the 27th instant, and
that the blockade of the ports of Holstein andSchles-
wig, mentioned in the notification of the 25th inst.
is likewise effectuated the 26th inst.
" 0. LIITICEN.

"Ministry of Marine, Copenhagen, June 28,"
With respect to neutral vessels in the abovemen-
tioned ports, it is officially notified that they may
complete the lading of their cargoes and leave these
ports without being interrupted up to July 16, but
that on July 17, and afterwards, all neutral vessels
leaving these ports will be liable to seizure by the
Danish blockading force. •
With respect to the harbour of Pilnau, Earl
Russell has received a despatch from her Majesty's
Consul at Koenigsberg, containing the following no-
tification from the captain of his Danish Majesty's
frigate Jylland, certified by the Danish consul at
Pillau

" On board his Majesty's frigate Jylland, off
Pillau, June 27.

" The undersigned has the honour to inform the
consuls residing at Pillau that the blockade of the
said port has been re-established by the force under
his orders. The neutral ships which are now in the
port will be allowed until July 16 to complete their
freight and to leave Pillau. After that period—
that is to say from the 17th of next month—every
neutral vessel leaving the port of Pillau will be
seized by the ships under my orders.

" HOHN.
"The Consuls of the Neutral Powers, Pillars."

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and scarlet fever had visited the place, and in consequence
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THE WAR IN DENMARK.

(From the Special Correspondent of the limes,)
t";tiDERBURG, July 1.

As after the capture of Duppel, the Prussians,
now in occupation of this dilapidated :own, seem
quite surprised at the facility of their last tr:emPb,
which has placed in their hands the island of Alseet.
and so completed the conquest of Schleswig. They
are all eagerness to go to Funen, which they confi-
dently assert would quickly be taken,and, although
it is probable that the chief Danish force is now cs-
sembled on that island, one can hardly call their
confidence presumption when one sees how poorly
the Danes defended themselves here. No one who
stands on the Sunda asitt shore at Satrup or Sand-
berg can help feeling surprise that an enemy should
have been allowed to cross that broad channel in
open boats with scarcely any loss. The fact shows
such unreadiness and want of vigilance on the part
of a foe who certainly cannot be accused of
cowardice, that one does not wonder at hearing
that, the crossing effected, the expulsion of the
Danes from the island was little more than a hunt,
with the exception of a stand they made at. a place
called Kjar, north of Sonderberg, on the road from
Ronhof to Ihkebnll, where they seem to have de-
fended themselves obstinately, and where the Prus-
sians say the bayonet was used. When I say the
expulsion from the island I hardly know whether I
should make an exception on account of Kekenis,
where the Danes still are at this time of writing,
and where their ships are to be seen engaged in re-
moving troops and stores. Kekenis, a patch of land
lying due south of the island, used to be connected
with it by an isthmus so narrow that the geogra-
phers in depicting it scarcely found room to indicate
the road that passed over it. That isthmus has
lately been cut through, so that Kekenis is now an
island. The rumours of today relate to an alleged
projected attack upon it, but there seems an under-
standing that the Danes should be allowed quietly
to go away unmolested, although if they depart
with their characteristic slowness the Prussian
batteries may be tempted to open upon them.
With respect to the passage from Sundewitt and the
incidents that ensued upon it, I perceive that the
Hamburg papers have, as usual, in their eagerness
to give information which they do not possess, been
drawing upon their imaginations and deluding the
public—so far, at least, as it puts faith in their pro-
verbially unreliable accounts, Thus their informa-
tion concerning the passage have been effected over
a pontoon bridge,and followed by a prolonged stoat
fight at Sonderburg, where the principle loss was
sustained, and the valiant defence made by the
Danes of one position after another, proves for the
must part erroneous. There was no bridge at all,
but the passage was made in small boats, of which
nearly 200 seem to have been employed, carrying
each from 15 to 25 men. If you trace upon the map
the west shore of Alsen Sound, beginning ati its
northern extremity, you soon come to a wooded
promontory. This is Satrup Wood, whence the
principal attack was made. Boats also went across
at Schnabeck and at two other points in that neigh-
bourhood. The crossing commenced as nearly as
possible at 2 o'clock a.m., and officers who were in
the boats have told me that they had reached the
middle of the Sound before the Danes began to fire,
and that then the fire was so misdirected (appa-
rently too high) that it had scarcely any effect.
According to some accounts only two men were
killed and six or eight wounded during the crossing,
but it is difficult to ascertain the exact numbers, as
those hit in the boats would be mixed up with others
who fell immediately ou landing. At the principal
point of,pesaage the Ist battalion of the 60th Ragi-
meat (which forms with the 35.,h the well-known
Canstein brigade) were drawn up on the Sandwitt
shore, and covered the boats by the quick fire of
their needle guns—a most serviceable weapon in
such circumstances. This battalion, by the by, was
first under fire in this war at Missunde on Feb. 2,
and the 60th, the 35th, and 64th are probably the
regiments that have done the most work since then.
The force that crossed Alsen Sund on Wednesday
morning was 17 battalions. In Sundewitt there
were two divisions, each of two brigades, each bri-
gade of two regiments, and of each regiment two
battalions crossed, Besides the 16 thus obtained, the
3d Jager battalion, old friends and acquaintances at
Broacker, were for ward in the attack, and suffered
more than their proportion of the very moderate loss
inflicted on the assailants by the discomfited Danes.
mandaitngtheir head, severely wounded in
officer, the gallant Major von
Theirwitz m
Witzleben,
ecboen
, fell
the side. The troops left their helmets and knapa
sacks on the Sundewitt shore. As soon as the Danes
(whose attention had previously been distracted as
and elsewhere) detected the commencement of the
crossingm ueh as
h possible
their
beacons flamed up as a signal to their
ships. The Rolf Krake lay in Augustenburg Bay,
but seemingly her fires were banked, as on the day
of the storming of Duppel, for a considerable time
elapsed before she emerged upon the scene of action,
and then she was received with such a concentrated
fire from the Prussian batteries that she was sick of
it, and again sought shelter behind the friendly
promontory. She opened with grape at too great a
distance, and seems to have done no harm to the
troops on shore, but she sank a couple of boats, one
of them containing about 25 men, who were nearly
all drowned. The boats were protected from the
Danish infantry fire by mattresses. A great num-
ber of these bad been got together to be used in the
assault on Duppel, where, however, they had been
found of little use, and for the most part had been
thrown aside* by the storming party before it
reached the forts. The mattresses were fixed in the
bow of the boats as a buckler, and are said to have
stopped mans shots. The Danes used their artil-
lery very little. The east coast of the Sound
has long bristled with batteries, but very few
guns were found in them—at least, long that north-
ern frontier which extends from Ahrenkiel Ore
southwards to a small bay nearly opposite Ravens-
koppel—that is to say, about halfway from the point
opposite Schnabeck to Sonderburg. As soon as the
first batch of troops, say about 3,000 men, were
across, the chief difficulty of the undertaking was
surmounted. The Danes drew back to a wood called
Holsforst, opposite to Satrup. wood, but at some dis-
tance from the shore, and soon, as the Prussians be-
came more numerous, they were everywhere in full
retreat, At Kjar, which is a long straggling village
and a good position, they fought stoutly, and also
in a wood's little to the north, where a great many
fell on both sides. It was important they should
make a stand somewhere, in order to allow time for
retreat to troops more in the interior of the island.
They did not, however, hold out long enough to
prevent the capture of a large number of prisoners.
Not less than 2,500, perhaps 3,ooo,were taken by the
Prussians. You were informed of the departure of
700 yesterday from Flensburg, where in churches
and other buildings, a great many more were there
confined. On the road up to this place I met 525
men, marching southwards, under escort of a few
Lancers. They belonged to the 10th Regiment, and
were chiefly stout fellows of from 2-5 to 30 years of
ago, with a few old nonscomnaissioned officers. No
officers were with them, although a great many
have been taken. I stopped my carriage at the
roadside to see them pass, and exchanged a few
words with several of them, who all answered me
in German. They assured me that the whole party
consisted of Schleswigers ; but that is a quality
which Danish prisoners when they speak ;:ietman,
are sometimes glad to assume, in the bops
that it may procure them better treatmen:
and even release. Some other prisoners with whom
I have conversed at greater leisurejand who were
Jntlanders and Island-Danes, expressed themselves
with indignation at the manner in which their ships
had behaved, It seemed as if they had reckoned
upon the Rolf Krake and other vessels to secure
Alsen from invasion, and perhaps this over-confi-
dence in their naval resources was the cause that ,

the military were so unpreparet I to resist on shore.
Some Prussian staff officers wit h whom I have to-
day spoken, and who were presen t at the whole affair,
declared the defence of the Dan es to have been most
wretched, compared to that which they ought to
and mi,eht have made. 1 am disposed fully to believe
this, the more so as those gentlemen would be glad
to show, ec uld they do so consistently with truth,
tLat their troops had overcome a formidable oppo-
sition. After the fight at Kj or the affair seems to
have become a mere race ; the Danes gave way on
all sides, and ware hotly pursued, losing many pri-
soners. At Ulkeb till they made some trifling stand;
but the positions no rth of Sonderborg, strongly pre•
pared though they ara for defence, did not tempt
them to any serious re sistance, Large bodies were
cut off or gave themsetives up on the approach of
the Prussians. There can be little doubt that the
admixture of the Schleswig element in the Danish
regiments greatly impairs the. ir efficiency. An officer
related to me that the body if troops with which
he was came upon several Dan ish companies (per-
haps a small battalion), and a nun;ber of them threw
down their arms as soon as they sa.w their enemy
near at hand, while others continu ed stubbornly,
firing, and some of them lost their Lives in conse-
quence. It afterwards proved that those who had
so readily given themselves up were Seileswigers.
This poor battered town of Sonderborg has
further suffered, although to no great extent, in the
capture of Alsen. A few houses have been burnt in
addition to the numbers previously levelled with the
ground by the bombardments from Gammelsmsirk.
Nobody who had previously observed Sonderborg
only from the opposite shore, even as near as the
tete-de-pont, could form the least idea of the extent
to which it had been destroyed. From Sundewitt
it looked as if only a few houses had been over-
thrown and ravaged by the flames. The northern
part, however, is in pretty good preservation, and
the whole place to-day is a scene of great bustle. The
houses were nearly all empty, little remaining beyond
the bare walls, when the Prussians arrived, but fur-
niture and inhabitants are now pouring in. A pon-
toon bridge has been established, and all day the
passage of troops and visitors over it has been con-
stant. Some of the regiments which took Alsen
are now moving northwards, rejoicing in the confi-
dent hope that they are about to assist in taking
Funen. I met battalions of the 35th and 60th,
looking bronzed and service-like, marching merrily
along the road to Apenrade, on their way to Jut-
land. The campaign has certainly wonderfully im-
proved the appearance of the Prussian troops. I do
cot mean as regards their uniforms and equipments,
which bear traces of rough service in patches and
other makeshift contrivances, but as to their style,
bearing, and alertness. Already one hardly recog-
nizes the rather slow and heavy-looking recruits
who n.arched across the Eider on the Ist of
February. Hardships and the habit of danger and
of success have transformed them. I doubt not
they would gladly find themselves opposed to a foe
better able to resist them and put their prowess to
the test than the poor, slow, enfeebled, and dis
heartened Dane. With respect to the probability
of their having to follow him into Funen I can say
nothing, and more ought to be known on that head
predictcopenh a
g that
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at Berlin than here. The troops are eager to go
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bannersso e
sanguine
carriedspirits to l be
but others believe that a naval engagement is
the next event to be looked for in this war.
The movement of troops to Jutland need by no
means be taken as an indication of an early attack
on Funen. The strong division of the Prussian
Guard and nearly the whole of the Austrians are
already north of the Konig'a Aa, and, if the attack
is to he made, they are more than enough to make
it. Now Alsen is taken there is no cccasion to
have a powerful force in Schleswig, and, of COWIN,
the allies will prefer keeping their troops in Jut-
land, where they will probably live in great mea.
aura on the o,,ntitry. It will be e, additinn.l
pressure on the Danes, tending to overcome their
obstinacy and induce them to conclude peace with
an enemy whom they have not the shadow of a
chance of successfully resisting.
Prince Albrecht and his staff were in Sonderborg
to-day, and rode over to Augustenburg, where a
large hospital is established. General Herwarth's
head-quarters are at Gravenstein ; those of Prince
Frederick Charles, who commands in chief, at
Apenrade.
Besides the infantry, a few guns and the Ziethen
Hussars went across the Sound on Wednesday
morning. The Hussars were in boots and led their
horses, which swam across. The artillery was
conveyed on platforms, formed by connecting
two boats and laying rafters and planks across
them. The weather was perfectly calm and highly
favourable to the enterprize. The loss of the
Prussians in the whole affair is estimated at 300 to
350 men, including, it is said, a larger proportion
of officers than I at Flensburg was led to believe. I
know of three being killed, and I am assured that
upwards of 20 are more or less wounded. The
Prussians account for their heavy loss of officers by
saying that they are easily distinguishable
,from
the men, as being generally in front and not carry-
ing a musket, and that the Danes are sufficiently
good marksmen to have no difficulty in picking
them off. The Danes are said to have 600 killed and
wounded, but this is probably a mere conjecture.
The Rolf Yrake, as a very trustworthy eye-witness
has just informed me, was nearly three-quarters of
an hour in the Augustenburg bay after the cross-
ing began, before she came out, and then she was
received with such a storm of projectiles that she
retired, in a quarter of an hour or a little more, with
smoke seemingly issuing from her deck, which gave
rise to a belief that a shell had penetrated and set
tier on fire. This, however, was clearly not the
case, .and indeed, from what I hear, the Prussian
batteries were not particularly successful in hit-
ting her. She soon came back again, and had a
smart engagement with the Prussian 24-pounders,
but towards 4 o'clock she sailed northwards out of
Alecu bay, and went round the island. Sho saw
that her presence in the channel was no longer of
any use. It is denied that she fired grape, and from
the descriptions I receive of her position I should
think she was never ;near enough to the Pruss
Isians for it to be of any use. Upon the whole, I
should say that she did her duty when she did ap-
pear, but was too late and overmatched. Had she
been in readiness, and had steamed down opposite
to Satrup wood when the crossing began, she might
have played havoc with the troops, at the risk of
being disabled by the Prussian batteries; but that
was a risk, it seems to me. she was bound, under
the circumstances to run. If the Danish Monarchy
falls to pieces as a consequence of this war, the ap-
propriate motto to inscribe upon its tombstone will
be " Too late." It applies with equal truth to its
Government, its diplomatiats, its army, and its navy
7 30 P.m.

An officer has just brought news that the Danes
have left Kekenis, which has been occupied by the
Prussians without a shot being fired. I have no
time to verify the intelligence before despatching
this letter, but it appears generally credited, and
is probably accurate.

THE PRUSSIANS IN JUTLAND.
COPENHAGEN, July 2.

Letters received here from Jutland announcethat
the Prussians in that province have already made
large requisitions upon the inhabitants for provi-
sions. An Aalborg paper states that Gen. Hugo
von Falkenstein has declared his intention to col■
lect the taxes 'within a few days, and, if requisite,
levy them by the aid of the troops.
to - -;ces from Viborg state--

Ach- -stile troops which passed through the
" The ht- - and the previous day availed them-
town yesterday 'rtunity to destroy numerous
selves of the opp,
•qperty of the English con-
valuable objects, the pt.. la to prevent all traffic
tractors for the railway, so .. -
,period. They also
upon the line for a conoideralk

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deslroyed several bridges in the neighbourhood,
among others the railway bridge at Rendsholm,
and cut down the telegraph wires along the rail-
way. General Munster is reported to have given
notice to Mr. Rowan, the English chief engineer
of Cie line, that the railway bridge at Langan
will be blown up on Monday next."

The following requisitions were made upon the
Viborg district on the 27th ult., the quantities
named being ordered to be sent in to the Prussian
depot at Habro every second day :-16.4001b. of
beef, 8,2001 b. of bacon, 1,4001 h. of rice, 5,465ib. of
groEte, 8201 b. of salt, 5581 b. of coffee, 1,640 qw.r:
of brandy, 2,0501 b. of tobacco, 5,400 cigars, 800
bottles of wine, 30,6141 b, of bread, 67,2001 b. of oats,
28,0001 b. of hay, and 19,6001 b of straw. The total
value of these contributions, to be supplied every
other day at the cost of the inhabitants of the dis.
trict, amounts to 8,600 rigsdallers (955).

Scene in the House of Commons Last Night,

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been previously exhibited, when the house met last
evening; but it is certain that the outward and
visible signs were less pronounced. Nevertheless,
when Mr Cobden rose, the process of packing bad
been largely resorted to, and he had no reason to
complain of either the fitness or the number of his
audience. In truth, the position he occupied in re•
ference to the matter in hand was calculated to rouse
curiosity as to what course he would take, and this
was added to the ordinary claim which he possesses
on the listening symptoms of the house. The atti-
tude of Mr Cobden, as it were in the flank of both
armies, was similar to that assumed by Lord Stanley
between Richard and Richmond, at Bosworth Field,
and a like anxiety must have been felt as to the
manner in which he would declare himself. As it
turned out he did not so act as to carry the simili-
tude out to its extent ; for though he kept up a
sharp fire on the Government all through his speech,
it was understood that he intends to vote for them,
in spite of not saying so in so many words. There
could hardly be a more remarkable instance of a
member speaking almost over the Treasury bench
receiving peals of cheers direct from the Opposition,
Not that Mr Cobden had many cheers ; his speech
was too close in his reasoning, and too severe in its
enunciation of his peculiar principles to catch clap.
trap applause ; and It was only here and there, when
he made a caustic hit more at our traditional system
of foreign policy than the Government itself, that
he elicited that simultaneous rush of voices which the
country party have probably acquired by practice
in the hunting-field. The demeanour and tone of
Mr Cobden were, however, less dry than usual; and
although ho may have "riled" Mr Newdegate by
his strictures on his idea of Dano-German policy,
yet when he quizzed—that is the right word for
his bantering assault—Lord Palmerston with
point and precision, nobody laughed more heartily
than the Premier himself. Mr Gladstone, how.
ever, preserved a stern countenance, and never
opened his eyes, which, for some reason or other,
he had kept closed through most of Mr Cob-
den's speech. Without intimating any opinion
as to his point of view, it is not to be denied
that the speech was most able and most effec-
tive ; and not the less because it was well seasoned
with what might be called Cobdenism—a phrase
which most of those who are familiar with the
gentleman's political opinions, and his way of pro-
nouncing them, will fully understand. If there
was one member more than another who might
have been, and probably was, el-pected to infuse,
we will not say bitterness, but high-spiced anima-
tion, into the debate; it was Lord Robert Cecil.
Hie chances were all in his favour ; he had a full
house; the Parliamentary hoer nt-s pccalicrly
propitious—between six and seven; and a stirring
speech would have been aocnpted gladly es a whet
to onfictite. But whether it was that he had no
reel confidence in his case, or :nw, not .01..er
iota the spirit of speaking unless he is inspired
by a feeling of personal antagonism, or wheth_r
the dark shadow of responsibility, the sense of
proximate offieialism, weighed on his soul and
manacled his tongue, Lord Robert Cecil was not
what was expected he would have been in a great
party debate. He was argumentative, logical, even
epigrammatic, but he was tame, quiescent, and
hardly rose into being aggressive ; and it seemed as
if the same conscious influence which made Mr.
Disraeli dull had clipped one of his best Parlia-
liamentary gladiators of his wonted alacrity. Mr.
W. E. Forster professed his intention to vote for
the Government, and that being so, he might as
well have spared them a speech which, if it was
anything, was an encouragement and a solace to
their opponents, and an invitation offered to waver-
ing members to vote against them. Last year
Mr. Butler Johnstone achieved a sudden success
in the house by two well conned and well-
expressed speeches, and last night he went
in for a little supplementary fame with
a curious confidence. His address was prickly
enough, and his earnestness was quite fire.
works; but the tone of his speech was in exact
keeping with the boyish voice and the boyish
figure of the orator that is to be. While he was
chirping out criticisms on Lord Russell that states-
man entered the peers' box and sat down, but in a
few minutes paid Mr. Butler Johnstone the
equivocal tribute of positively running out of the
House, whither he did not return. Then came
Lord Harry Vane, and the House almost in a body
delivered itself from him ; and by a natural sequence
came the Liddells, Lord R. Montagu, and so on,
attitudinising and " roaring gently" to a select circle
of twenty-five for a couple of houis. This interval
of dulness was broken in upon by Mr. Roebuck,
who flashed a new and fitful light on the discussion,
declaring himself, as between the two parties, as
decidedly unhappy with either, but striking a
balance in favour of the Government. Breaking
silence for the first time this session, Mr. Horsman
delivered one of his characteristic speeches, which
he seems to try to render as like philosopho..
political-prolusions as possible, and in the course of
which his negative but still powerful advocacy of
the Government brought out many a burst of de-
risive cheers from the Opposition. It long seemed
as if Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald wished to intervene
with a semi-authority as an ex-Under-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs; but at last he was in a manner
baffled, because, Mr. Horsman having spoken for
two hours, it was a quarter to twelve when he rose,
and the House was comparatively empty. By a
little activity Mr. Layard preceded Mr. Osborne in
catching the Speaker's eye, and will have the pri.
vilege of leading off the debate on its resumption
on Thursday.—Telegraph.