The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-06 00:00:00

cross pieces and bundles of long fresh straw woven
in between them. It must be unpleasant in the
trenches to-night, and work must be difficult. We
have net here the stubborn, tenacious Crimean clay,
of odious memory, but the soil, of a much lighter
and much more manageable description, becomes
very quickly diluted into a deep sloppy mud, into
which one sinks ad libitum.
I hear that three of the officers wounded on the
28th are dead, and that another is dying. There are
with this army six servitor brothers of the Rauhe
Haus, at Hamburg, a charitable institution, who go
on the field under fire to bear away the wounded.
The Prince of Pless and Count Stolberg (President
of the Prussian Upper Chamber), who have been
here in connection with the establishment of the
hospitals of St. John, accompanied them and led the
way on the first occasion on which they performed
this dangerous service.

(From the TiniCB Special Correspondent at the Danish
Head-quarters.)
DANISH HEADQUARTERS, SONDERBORO,
March 30.

After all the storm and wrack of last Monday
we have fallen in with still waters again. The
Prussians gave scarcely any sign of life yesterday,
and only limited their action to about a dozen
cannon shots fired at random at half-an hour or an
hour's interval; but their artillery, however
loud, did not disturb the serene calmness of the
lovely spring day. Credit was given to them for
harbouring some great designs under their ominous
silence. Our slumbers were uneasy and fitful
towards the short hours of Monday night and last
night, as we were naturally expecting some such
reveillee as had roused us out of our warm beds at
three o'clock on Monday morning. Nothing came
of it, however. The Prussians have not much bet-
ter chances of carry ing the Dybbol bastions by storm
at this moment than they had on the Bth of
February, when they first came in sight of them.
Nor will their cannonade have much effect towards
crippling the Danish batteries, preparatory to an
assault, unless it be a vast deal more brisk and bet-
ter maintained than it has been for the last two
weeks, a period of time during which about 8,000
shots and shells have made little more impression
on the Danish earth mounds and breastworks than
the merest scratch of a pin. '1 he work must begin
anew, and Heaven only knows how tedious the re-
petition of the same bootless efforts will turn out to
the chronicler of these unsatisfactory events.
Mr. Herbert and his friend, Mr. Hall, left us this
morning, after a stay here of only nine days. The
former gentleman, after being the actual nine days'
wonder to the Danish army, has departed, the true
hero of the hour. I walked and rode out wan him
yesterday for the best part of the morning and
afternoon, and we scarcely passed a man or officer,
on foot or on horseback, that did not greet him and
hail him lustily as a comrade and a friend. Not a
few broke from the ranks as they marched by us in
columns and shook him by the hand, till they
almost wrung the arm from his shoulder. I

never saw such genuine enthusiasm among these
stout-hearted, and, to all appearance, phlegmatic
people. His constant presence in the trenches
and at outposts has made Mr. Herbert familiar
with the vast majority of the Danish soldiers;
but even those who had no knowledge of him
by eyesight have learnt to single him out of a
first glance from mere description. The authorities
at headquarters seem no less struck with the
novelty and oddity of the " generous whim" than
the humble privates with whom the hon. gentleman
courted friendship and comradeship. Tney have
charged Mr. Herbert with despatches for the War-
office at Copenhagen, and we have little doubt here
that General Gerlach, the Commander-in-Chief, has
sent up the Englishman's name among the candi-
dates for the decoration of the Dannebrog.
The admiration of these Danes for the English
volunteer "ambulance maa" is, to say the least,
reciprocated by this latter. Mr. Herbert himself,
as well as his friend, Mr. Hall, and Captain Bond,
all three of whom stood behind the foremost breast-
work, were very eloquent about the calm and firm
attitude assumed by these undemonstrative North-
erners as they took their places oa the trenches,
lining them but thinly and feebly with their blade-
'
pate numbers, and bearing in their countenance
the consciousness that the work of at least three
men devolved upon each of them, and the determi-
nation to do that work, or give up their life in
their endeavour to do it. The Prussians who ate
tacked the Dybbol line were, we are assured, no
more than 6,000, and so far they did not greatly
overmatch their opponents; but behind those six
battalions 20,000 were drawn up; and had the van-
guard found any where a vulnerable point in the
Danish armour the main array would have come up
with such a powerful onset as the scanty Danish
lines could hardly hope to resist; yet, calm and com-
posed, did the Danes stand their ground. They could
see the enemies' columns forming in great masses in
the dim distance. Yet they gave their fire with cool
indifference, and when their turn came to draw up in
columns, and to sally forth as skirmishers, they left
their flimsy shelter and marched out in the gray
morning light, never asking if two or ten to one
were the odds they were about to encounter. Yet
the majority of these Danes seem to all the English
gentlemen who see them,as they do to me, rather mere
militiamen than real soldiers. They have hardly
any military step, mien, or bearing; they are
scarcely half drilled, have but little skill in the use
of their rifles, know not mech about general or even
partial evolutions; they are raw and uncouth, heavy
and clumsy ; but the stuff they are made of is the
very best upon earth ; and it is most admirably cal-
culated for defensive work, for the task of patience
and stern resolution which is imposed upon them.
Gen. Gerlach published yesterday an order of the

day, in which he bestowed the due meed of praise
upon the regiments engaged in the affair of Mon-
day, with an account of the casualties consequent
upon it. it does not differ materially from the state-
ment in my last letter. The killed are set down at
4 officers and 30 men ; the wounded, 3 officers and
111 men ; the Prussian prisoners were 4 officers
and 27 men.