The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

THE WAR IN DENMARK.

(From the Correspondent of the Daily New s)
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11.

A royal proclamation has been issued, addr !set d
to the Danish army, in which his Majesty annot met
forthcoming peace. " Soldiers," he begins, "the
struggle is ended. From the war's bloody sc epee
you will return to your home work." Then fol lows
mention of the heavy coat entailed by the war, of
the still heavier sacrifices to purchase peace. "The
fatherland's welfare bids us prefer peace to a con-
tinued battling." King Christian tells his army
that, though trusting in his readiness again to meet
the enemy, yet ha is greatly constrained be :muse
these hold all too large a portion of the land which
is thus open to devastation. " Therefore must our
struggle end even with an abandonment of terri-
tory that from the oldest times has belonged to
Denmark, and which is knit to the heart of every
Dane." The address goes on to say that a small
force can come oat with honour from a defeat by
the armies of tWo great Powers. His j
m
e eesty
afterwards thanks the soldiers for their brave en li
-
deavours, and reminds them that only by remaining
united for the future can Denmark's freedom be
secure. "Be in peace what you have been in war,,'
he adds, "and you will promote our country's
prosperity as you have hitherto upheld its renown."
It is a difficult task to gild the bitter pill and
make defeat seem pleasant or tolerable. An in-
vader that holds more than half your country, and
against whom no effectual effort can be made, has
the power of imposing his yoke very palpably, and
of, in popular parlance, patting your nose to the
grindstone. Sleswigera are sent back by the
thousand, discharged from military service, to be
welcomed in their native duchy by what a month
ago were treasonable songs. Jutlauders go home on
furlough in civilian dress, to pass under Prussian
authorities and be bellied by their foemen of the
late campaign. A little army of returning prisoners
will carry throughout Denmark the sense of recent
discomfiture, and will, moreover, bring with it vivid
impressions of Germany's size and power. In
America it has been customary to give the chiefs of
a conquered Indian tribe a tour through the States,
visiting Washington, New York, and Pittsburg,
that they might better judge of the greatness of the
pale faces, and take warning not to resist them
again. Danes who have travelled to Vienna and
Komorn, Minden, and Ehrenbreitstein—l speak of
the rank and file—must inevitably return north.
ward, oppressed with a sense of their enemy's huge-
ness. The lesson that ten to one is rather long
odds, and that les Bros battaillons are better than a
good cause, will have sunk deep into every
Danish captive. Soldiers remaining with Stein-
mann, or quartered upon Zealand, to whom the
royal proclamation is more particularly addressed,
were gloomy, but not despairing. They believed
that a battle might be won at Middelfahrt which
would retrieve their prestige, and were anxious to
see Prince Frederick Charles try his luck in an
attack on Fyen. So far there is perfect truth in the
official statement that the army was ready to meet

the enemy if necessary. Then, as to his Majesty's
praise of its courage and endurance, none who saw
what those poor fellows went through without com-
plaining will dispute the justice of such commenda-
tion. If England be ever outnumbered by an
alliance of several great powers, if our territory be
invaded, and we experience a struggle for honour
and freedom like that which Denmark has main-

tained, I hope that we may have better equipment
and better fortune than the Danes, but I need not
wish my countrymen stouter hearts. King Chris-
tian suffers along with his people. He is robbed as
a monarch; they are too frequently ruined as indi-
viduals; be can therefore touch unreservedly upon

the national disaster, and has done so, as above
quoted. It was impossible to put a cheering aspect
upon what is occurring. The army knows well
enough that things have taken a bad turn, and under
existing circumstances a very fair valedictory ad-
dress has been composed.
Alfred Hage, whose position in society and family

losses give him deserved weight, and wbo, as I
think I mentioned to you lately, is a member of the
Folkething is both legislative bodies, has put some
searching questions to the Ministers of War and
Marine. They are regarding Alsen's capture on
June 29th as a defeat most damaging to Danish
reputation, and keenly felt by all classes. What
answer the ministers return matters not much, since
I a new cabinet can easily throw overboard its prede.
cessor's responsibility. But there is significance in
any sign of parliamentary vigour and life at this
moment, the problem of home government being
still unsolved.

A RAILWAY POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH FELONY.
—At the Truro Police-Court on Thursday, before
the Mayor (Mr T. Truran), Mr W. T. Chappel, and Mr S
Pascoe, Frederick John Julian, a single man, aged 26 years
was charged with stealing on the 19th December last,
from the Truro station of the Cornwall and West Corn-
wall railways, a leather cash bag, containing an account-
book, a cash-sheet, and Xll 6s 4d in cash, the pro-
perty of the Weot Cornwall Railway Company. The money
had been taken for passengers on the West Cornwall
line, and on the morning of Saturda7, the 19,h of
December, it was placed in the bag, with the account-
book and cash-sheet, by Mr Morcom, the then booking-
clerk. Mr Morcom locked the bag, and put it, as usual,
in an open trough inside the ticket compartment of the
booking-office, to await transit by the next down train.
Mr Morcom having occasion to speak to Mr Watkin,
the station master, left the office for that purpose, and on
his return, the platform policeman, whose duty it was to
take the cash bag to the guard of the West Cornwall, asked
him for it. Mr Morcom told him it was in the usual place,
and thov both want to look for it, but it was not in the
place referred to. Notwithstanding repeated inquiries, no
tidings were obtained of it until Wednesday, the 3d of
August, and that under the following circumstances :
Julian was a policeman on the Cornwall line, having
charge of the points and switches at the Truro station ; and
he lodged with a Mr Glasson. the keeper of a refreshment
house on Richmond-hill. About six or
.seven weeks ago
he committed a blunderlin turning the points, the conse-
quence of which was that one train was driven against
another, and a serious accident well nigh occurred. For
this he was dismissed the company's service, and he went
to Exeter, Mr Glasson detaining his box and its contents
as security for payment of lodging. Julian sent two or
three letters entreating Glasson to let him have the box,
and on one occasion stating that it contained £2O worth of
property, and a bank-book, and he promised that on receiv-
ing the box he would pay the bill for lodgings. Glasson de-
clined, but sent to Julian informing him that if he would.
send the key he might have out of the box any article he
wanted. On Wednesday, the 3d inst., Julian sent the key
by Dell, one of the guards on the South Devon and Corn-
wall lines, and Dell, on arriving at Truro, gavo the
key to Bate, a porter at the station, desiring him to de-
liver it to Glasson, and to get the articles wanted for the
next up-train. Bate took the key to Glasson, and asked
for the required articles ; but Glasson said he had heard so
much about the valuable contents of the box that he would
not open it except in the presence of a witness. Bate ac-
cordingly witnessed the opening of the box by Glasson, and
in it they found the cashbag and accoantbook which had
been stolen from the booking-office in December. The
bag was still locked, but the bottom had been cut open,
and the money was gone. There "a as in the box no bank-
book—no other book, in fact, than the company's cashbook.
On this discovery a warrant was obtained and placed in the
hands of Police-sergeant Rugg, of the Truro borough police,
who searched the box and took possession of the cashbag
and book. On Monday last he proceeded to Exeter by
midday train, and in the afternoon of the same day appre-
hended Julian, and next morning brought him to Truro.
He sas remanded until Thursday, when, after the exami-
nation of witnesses, he was committed to take his trial at
the next Cornwall Quarter Sessions.
GREAT FIRE IN HULL.—A telegram from Hull
yesterday afternoon says :—" A tremendous fire is
now raging in this town. Several valuable warehouses in
Railway-street have been consumed. Thompson, WlCay,
and Co,, and Carver and Co. are the firms chiefly affected.
The loss of property amounts to many thousands of pounds.
The fire is still raging, and the vessels in the docks are
being removed."
A VEXATIOUS MISNOMER.-02e of what are
termed fire-proof safes has at leegth been dug out
of the ruins of Colonel M‘Murdo's residence, and, upon
being opened, was found not to have secured a single
presentation sword,
fvraolinuabLloer,
deteirenobfoprloauteglci),r
wjaiwthel:,erila•l
ADamascus blade, was
found melted in two. This sword was made at the time of
the Crusades, and was highly prized by the gallant colonel.
Another sword, presented by General Sir Charles Napier,
has also been found injured in a similar manner, and the
whole of the gold appointments and diamonds ha.ve been
lost, So much value did the gallant colonel attach to the
various presentations that he had holes drilled in the bottom
of the safes, so as to screw them down to the floor, and the
flames entering the apertures destroyed the contents. Had
it not been for the drilling of the sates their contents might
have been saved,