The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

often in c.ricatures. The peak in front has got a
fellow in rear rather longer than itself, and as the
article is seldom brushed or well polished.*/ the:.;
leathers, it would make a Guy of the smartat
dier. The boots are of the Wellington pattern, well -
made and sufficiently roomy, and of excellent ma.
terial. The shape must not be taken as altogether
inferior to that of English soldiers' ankle boots, and
as involving an unnecessary redundancy of leather,
because in Denmark the winters are long and sloppy,
and the trousers can be worn inside the boots—the
appearance of the men's lower limbs being much
better than that of British soldiers in their new
gaiters. Tire knapsack is of calf-siriu coieriog, and
contains the usual requisites of what I believe you
call the kit, two spare shirts, comb, brushes, spare
trousers, knife, fork, &c. The weight of this article
Ecems greater than that of the knapsack borne by
the British soldier. The firelock is too frequently
the old smooth-bore, in fact, Brown Bess with a
percussion lock. But Belgian rifled muskets are
being fast substituted, and I only hope that the
soldiers are as quickly trained to the peculiarities
of their use. The bayonet is rather short and not
very handy. As to the manner in which firelock
and bayonet and other appointments are kept, the
less said the better. There is a want of smartness
and taste on the part of the men, and the officers
seem altogether too law, so that it is quite
impossible that they could see everything.
forgot to mention that the undress cap is
of dark blue cloth with a small leather peak.

It is a sensible, useful, and becoming head-
dress for campaigning. The officers' dress is the

same as that of the men, but of course of different
and finer quality of material. Their buttons,

like those of the men, are of white polished
metal without device. They have nothing to wear
indicative of their respective regiments, as their
shoulder-straps are narrow and without numbers.

The marks on these shoulder-straps p.,int out the
rank. It is the sole outward grade of infantry
officers. The sub-lieutenant wears upon his
shoulder a plain narrow double cord, while the
lieutenant has upon his cord two small wafer-like
buttons. The captains rejoice in a third button,
and often very aged gentlemen wear them, as pro-
motion, in cotnnion with a few other things in
Denmark, is frightfully slow: For field officers
the shouldor.straps are made more wide, of
plaited gold lace, plain for the major, with two
buttons for the lieutenant-colonel, while the gen.
tlemen well stricken in years, who has attained
the rank of full colonel, has his three small buttons.

These are the shoulder-knots worn in war and on

active service. In peace, for court and dress recep-
tion, epaulettes, showing in their distinctive deco-

rations also the rank of the wearers, form the com-
pletion of the uniform. Officers' swords hive steel

scabbards. They are large, heavy weapons, as if
made for use, and hang from the good stout waists
of the wearers—we never squeeze our waists in
Denmark to the waspish proportions of the mid.
body of French military men—suspended by black
patent or polished leather. Such are the Danish
officers and Danish soldiers in their uniforms and
appointments.