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time he spoke of rash and reckless speculations, and the
losses thereby inflicted, be did not intend to apply motives.
But what unfortunately happened was this, that persons of
great respectability involved themselves in undertakings of
this nature, which had the effect of deluding and robbing
others, without any impurity of motives on their own part.
He hoped that nothing would be lost if the policy holders
kept their policies ; awl it was not his intention to attribute
impurity of motive to the directors of the Professional In-
surance Company.
The motion for referring the bill to a select committee
was then agreed to.
The house then went into committee of suply on the
army estimates.
The house having gone into committee of supply on the
army estimates, the vote of £5,708.931 for general staff and
regimental pay, allowances and charges, elicited considerable
discussion of details, but ultimately the vote was agreed to
without a disvision; as were also the votes for commissariat
establishment, services, and movement of troops, clothing
establishments, services and supplies, barrack establish-
ments, and Divine service.
On the vote for martial law a supplementary debate was
raised by Lord HOTHAM on the late court marl ial on Col.
Crawley, of the Inniskilling Dragoons, and its effect upon
the discipline and good order of the army. No opposition
was made to the vote, but the mooting of the question
elicited remarks from the Marquis of Hartington, Lord
Lovaine, Mr Hunt, Col Dickson, and the Judge Advocate.
The Warehousing of British Spirits Bill was read a third
time and passed, and the Costs Security Bill was read a
second time.

Leave was given to Mr Hutt to bring in a bill to amend
the laws relating to the conservancy of the Thames, and to
the Attorney-General to introduce a bill to consolidate and
amend the Church Building and New Parishes Acts.
Mr ADAIR moved that the minutes of the proceedings,
and the evidence taken before the select committee, on the
Lisburn election petition, be laid before the house.
The motion was opposed by Mr M'Donogh, Mr White-
side, and Mr George, and supported by Sir G. Grey and
Mr Hunt.

Mr LYGON proposed an amendment that the evidence
in this case should not be produced, and upon a division the
amendment was negatived by 112 to 22. Tho original
motion was then agreed to, and the other business having
been disposed of, the house adjourned at 2 o'clock.

Sonderborg after the Bombardment.

(From the Tiines Special Correspondent at the Danish

Head-quarters,)

ULKEBOL, April 5.

Although it is my settled opinion that a corre-
spondent should be a thing and not a person, and
should obtrude as little as possible upon the scenes
he is describing, avoiding the fault of that notable
egotist Dante, who saw nothing in limbo, purgatory,
and the other regions except his little rancours, his
political crotchets, and theological quibbles—still,
there may be occasions when the spectator's own
adventures, and the shifts he has been put to, may
help to lay before his readers those minor particu-
lars of the situation which would otherwise hardly
find place in a more dignified narrative. It is under
the influence of these views that I shall now pro-
ceed to describe by what chances I came to make
my way back to the ruins of what was Sonderborg.
After tramping about all day, and in vain ap-
plying for shelter from house to house, I succeeded
at last on Sunday evening, the memorable " Low
Sunday," in getting my supper, asofa, and a writing
table Augustenbnrg. To find a couch, however,
was easier than to be at rest upon it, for the good
Samaritan who took us in was bent on extending to
all comers the same hospitality ha had shown us,
and as he exacted from others the same scot he had
demanded of us—viz., a circumstantial account of
the "horrors of the bombardment"—the banging of
doors, the stamping on floors, and the jabber of
voices was too incessant for eyes, no matter how
heavy, to have a wink of sleep.
Towards 11 o'clock p.m, we issued forth to post
our letters, and wishing to have a last glimpse of
doomed Sonderborg, we trudged along in the dark,
drenched and blinded by the rain, down to the
causeway crossing the Angustenburg Fiord, and
there, standing before that broad sheet of water,
we could enjoy, at about four miles distance as the
crow flies, the:sad but imposing sight of a vast con-
flagration. The air was so thick and the rain so
heavy that the flames strove in vain to light up
the canopy of Heaven, and all we could descry was
a low red streak, with dark shadows flitting up and
down on its glaring surface, like so many demons
dancing and revelling in their darling element,
stirring it and chafing it, as if fretting at its slug-
gishness, and rousing it to more ruthless mischief.

In the morning we were up early; soon after 8
we
had found
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of
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They
in all the rooms of the spacious Ulkebol Priests'
court, and had moved further west, to a neat farm
rejoicing in the sweet name of Morgenstjern. The
Feld-post and the Stu:it-post, the telegraph-office,
and all other institutions with which we had more
immediate concern had also gone all night a
begging for some nook or corner where to lay their
heads, and none of them had as yet been able to
settle down anywhere. The rain had ceased for
several hours, and the day was fine and calm, The
whole of the little world of Alsen was out with us,
and at every step we met friends and acquaintances
congratulating each other, as half-drowned mariners
after escape from shipwreck. The boom of the cannon
reached us now and thee, but the fire was slacken-
ing as we advanced, and it had ceased altogether
when, at the Uikebol turning, we
came in sight of
the windmills of Sonderborg. Uikebol lies some-
what low and flat, at about one mile's distance from
Sonderborg, and at the turning
just before the
church the road widens into a tolerably spacious
avenue, going straight to its goal, and contrasting
with all the other thoroughfares of the island,
which are as narrow and winding as the heart of
the most ardent lover of the picturesque might
wish them. The Prussians, evidently, had gone to
sleep on their work, and we determined to profit by
that lull in the storm to go and see what was left of
the little capital of Alsen after nearly 48 hours'
bombardment. The silence of the guns had de-
luded the fugitive into a notion that an armistice
had been agreed upon, and the tide of people setting
in with us was as strong as that of the people who
were still coming out against us- As many of
the persons as were saved from the havoc of the
eve were anxious for the rescue of the things they
had left behind. There were empty waggons going
in for furniture, and there were laden waggons
coming out with furniture. The whole road was
alive and swarming like an ant
-hill. The scene was
gay in spite of the misery the poor people had left
behind, or had before them, for the morning was
fresh and the sun shone bright, and all that bustling
and jostling and greeting was bracing and inspirit-
ing and the first sensation of all living beings en
their escape from danger is one of relief which no
chairs,a
prospect of future evil has power to subdue. Cart-
loads upon cartloads rolled slowly past us ; cart-
loads
of womena tables,
seems more immediately
than anywhere else identified with pillows and
bolsters, and no matter under what roof, no matter
even if in a ditch and under the vault of Heaven, the
nti
for home in h a
countryn ofd children,
beds
and cartloads of chests,
bedding especially,
underneath
good Alsener seems to think all is not lost so long
as he can have his own smothering feather bags over
and
house-gear him.
looked
Mere
the garish daylight, for
rubbish a good deal of
that
which it was never intended; equalid and woe-
begone were some of thecrouching
figures, laden
es glowing and
pell-mell in one heap with their chattels; but many,
especially of the better sex, bad not, even in those
straits, been unmindful of their outward look ;
their hair was smooth and
theirac
ruddy, their eyes smiled and sparkled, and
brisk pleasantry elicited smart repartee. I saw a
fair, bare-headed, long-ringletted young girl of
18 seated by the tide of the driver on the
front seat of one of the best kinds of chars-a-
bane. She had a large mirror on her lap, holding
it before her at arm's length, like the Goddess of
Truth ; and to those into whose eyes the polished
glass glanced back the sun's rays, and who told her
"she had better hold it the other way, and see her
sweet file.) in it," she answered with ready pertness
that "she had bLudied it long enough, and knew it
all by heart." The looking-glass was to the bright
damsel the dearest of all her ?arcs of penates ; and,
in like manner, every human being had in the hurry
of that flight clutched at anything upon which his
heart was set, and stuck to it in life as he would
have clung in death. As we toiled our way towards
town we could see the Sonderborg mills, all stand-
ing safe where we had left them, and across the
Dybbol mill was also tall and erect, all unhurt, in
its place--that Dybbol windmill which, the Dance