The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

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to be presented to the Diet for the withdrawal
of the Federal troops from the Duchies of Hol-
stein and Lausnburg, and for reconstituting the
Federal contingent of the Duchies without modi-
fying in any way the present administration. The
right of the Diet over those two Duchies is
incontestable. It is Count de Rechberg who com-
municated officially to the Cabinet of Copenhagen
the conditions under which the two German Powers
were ready to open negotiations of peace. The jour-
nals publish a letter addressed by a M. Schramm to
the inhabitants of the Duchies, in which he openly
advocates the incorporation of the latter with the
Prussian monarchy. M. Schramm, who was fon-
merly a republican, but deserted his party to join
the reaction, thus continues at Berlin the propa-
gandism for Prussia which forced him some time
back to quit the Duchy of Sleswig."

THE OCCUPATION OF BENDSBURG.

BERLIN, July 26.
The official Staats-Anziger of to-day publishes
the following communication, which it states to be
derived from a well informed source :.
"In the contact which has occasionally taken
place between members of the allied army and of
the Federal executive division stationed in Holstein,
an irritated feeling has for some time past been ob-
servable, which finds explanation, if not excuse, in
the situation in which the Saxon and Hanoverian
troops have been placed by the policy of their Go-
vernments since February of the present year. Fur-
ther, it is well known that the Federal commanders
were in many instances compelled by their special
instructions to annoy the allied army both when ad-
vancing against the enemy and actually engaged,
by all kinds of trivial formalities, refusal of quarters,
&c., and thereby to obstruct its efficiency. At the
same time it is readily acknowledged that, so far as
we are aware, everything was done upon the part of
Lieut.-General von Hake, the commander-in-chief
of the Federal division in Holstein, to render those
obstructions as little disadvantageous as possible to
the allied army, notwithstanding the instructions
of the Diet. On the other hand, it is also not to
be denied that the Hanoverian troops in especial—
and we regret to say we cannot entirely acquit the
officers—expreseed their annoyance, fully intelli-
gible to every military man, at the unpleasant
position in which they were placed by the sin-
gular policy of their Government, by turning
their ill-humour against the members of the vic-
torious allied army. These troops had, on the con-
trary, the very best claims to the sympathies of
their German companions in arms, and would un-
questionably have greeted their Saxon and Hano-
verian comrades with hearty joy if it had been
granted to the latter to take part in the conflict
against Denmark, in place of carrying out a long
since objectless execution in forced inactivity in
Holstein. A to some extent official expression of
the dislike prevailing towards the allied armyamong
the Hanoverians was first received by the occur-
rences at Rendsburg upon the 29th June.
The greatest astonishment and most intense an-
noyance were justly aroused, not only among the
public, but also in the allied army, when it was
seen from the newspapers that the Hanoverian
Lieut.-Colonel Dammers, at that time Federal com-
mandant of Rendsburg, had thought proper to have
the flags of the allied army, hoisted by a private
individual among other flags in his joy at the cap-
ture of Alsen, hauled down by a patrol. It is un-
necessary to discuss here how far the commandant
was right with that individual, and ought perhaps
to have made him accountable for his act ; but he
ought never to have permitted himself so gravely to
insult an allied army, bleeding from fresh wounds
after recent victory, by the forcible removal and
confiscation of its flags. The commander-in-cbiei
of the allied army was therefore unquestionably
fully justified, after receiving an official report of
the occurrence, and finding it in the main to con-
firm statements of the newspapers, in applying
forthwith to Lieutenant-General von Hake with the
demand that L'eutenant-Colonel Dammers should
be relieved of his post as commandant of Ronde-
burg, and that this measure should then be notified
o the commander-in-chief of the allied army.
Lieutenant. General von Hake thereupon gave

the required satisfaction, and informed H.R.H
Prince Frederick Charles that he had ordered
Lieutenant-Colonel Dimmers to be superseded.
It is probable that this occurrence is intimately
connected with the gross excesses which were com-
mitted a few days later—the 17th and 18th—
against Prussian soldiers by Hanoverian non-com-
missioned officers and men. Street riots arose out
of a soldiers' fight in a dancing-house, to all ap-
pearance previously concerted. Prussian sentinels
were grossly insulted, and even the hospitals dis-
turbed by stone throwing and threats against the
wounded and sick ; even on the night of the 18th,
three Hanoverian officers not on duty drew their
swords upon a Prussian patrol to effect the libera-
tion of a Hanoverian con-commissioned officer who
had attacked a sentinel.
These occurrences required the most speedy satis-
faction. The commander-in-chief of the allied army
could not permit members of the forces tc be further
exposed, at an important station, to insults dictated
by envy and hatred, and the repose of the badly
wounded and sick to be again disturbed by similar
tumults. Major-General von Goeben therefore re•
ceived orders to move into Rendsburg with a com-
bined brigade upon the 21st, and to make himself
master of the place.
This order was carried into effect at noon of the
day specified: A Prussian commandant was ap-
pointed, and the posts were occupied by Prussian
troops. The Federal garrison which has hitherto
occupied Rendsburg voluntarily evacuated the place
before the entrance of the Prussians, and occupied
some of the villages lying south of the town in the
course of the forenoon. We understand, further,
that his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Charles
communicated the arrangement made to General.
von Hake by letter on the 21st. General von Hake
protested against the entrance of the Prussian
troops, and is reported to have added a second
formal protest by order of the Federal Diet. We
fully admit the extreme unpleasantness and diffi-
culty of the position in which the Federal troops
in Holstein have been placed since the commence-
ment of the year by the fault of their Govern-
ments, and we can understand that the most
recent consequences of the deplorable excesses
in Rendsburg have rendered this position
almost unbearable to military feeling. An army,
however, in front of the enemy cannot allow itself
to be insulted with impunity in its rear, and vi as
unable to permit its efficiency to be injured by the
possible repetition of excesses at an important
station, by its connection with its base being cut off,
and by the quiet of its sick and severely wounded
being threatened. Those who have placed the
Federal troops in so false a position must take the
responsibility of the present situation.

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that the Vintage Wino Company have been com-
pelled, through the Times, frequently to caution the public
against certain houses who attempt to sell as genuine an
imitation of the company's celebrated X.-ffesComida Sherries.
It is not, however, in sherry only that colourable imita-
tions have taken place, for the company have felt it neces-
sary to announce that, while their brand for all sherrivintag es is
s
the Spanish arms, no champagne sold as the
Champagne is genuine unless the cork )gars the name of
the company, surrounding a shield which. is impressed a
on
St. George's Cross.
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