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enemy. The whole of the country between Frede-
ricksburg and Hollnstedt on the western end of the
Dannewerk is now a flooded swamp. Behind the
Dannewerk, from Schleswig to Hollingsted a rail-
way had been projected; but the news I sent you
from Copenhagen that this railway had been pushed
on with such vigour that two-thirds of the work
were ready proves, on the spot, to have been pre-
mature; the railway is as yet in a very backward
state. Were it complete, it would have the power
of actually doubling the Danish forces by enabling
them to gather in large masses on any threatened
locality, but the long frost which fatally retarded
all the labours of the Danes in the trenches, Equally
interfered with the laying of the rails ; and the
movements of the army are as yet by no means
aided by this contrivance. I left Copenhagen in a
tolerably sharp frost on Monday evening, but found
a thaw and a fog at Sonderburg when I landed on
the following morning. The weather has been
boisterous, but not cold, the whole of Tuesday,
and it rained, or rather drizzled, in the evening
when I arrived, as it still does. The thaw we had
for the last eight or nine days has not been as
active in the service of the Danes as I believed.
The ice in the narrow or shallow waters had no
time to break up, and the rain which fell upon it
again froze upon it, making with it a compact mass
over which on many points it is still possible for
the Austro-Prussians to march.

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The armament of the Danish forts is by no
means the best. They have not ono rifled cannon
in their whole line, and they actually had this
morning no more than 100 charges for each of their
guns on the Missunde forts. Great efforts are being
made at the moment I am writing to send large
loads of amunition to that place, to be ready for the
expected attack of this morning.
Were all these advantages not sufficient, the
Danes have besides to contend with the evil spirit
of the German population of South Schleswig, many
of whom v4unteer their services to their fancied
Austro-Prussian liberators as. spies. A flank move-
ment projected against the assailants of Missunde
yesterday morning failed owing to the timely in-
formation the country people gave to the Germans
of the well•combined march of the Danes. Schles-
wig itself, the Danish head-quarters, is almost alto-
gether German by language, and is what is here
called "Deutsch•Gesinnt."

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Against all this variety of evils the Danes have
nothing to oppose but their undaunted valour and
the confidence of ultimate success. They see that
they are left alone in the fight, and they know that
the world is only likely to help them to the extent
of the power they may have to help themselves.
It re quires no trfling heroism to keep up the
morale of an army against the consciousness of such
an unexampled inferiority in numbers, 20 to 1,
which are the odds in the present contest.
As far as I have had time to see yet, the troops
which I met all along my line of march are made of
the very best soldierly stuff. Tall, strong built,
earnest, somewhat phlegmatic, they are men seem-
ingly disposed to do their duty, evincing no elation
or enthusiasm, but perfectly in the hand of those
who have charge of them. They are well armed,
excellently equipped, well protected from the incle-
mencies of the season, and supplied with all that
may be desirable for a winter campaign. There is
a certain heaviness—l might almost say awkward•
news—in their movements, probably owing to the
fact that they are for the most part recruits just
called out from the reserve, and taken from the
pursuit of their peaceful avocations. Probably my
eyes, accustomed to the alacrity of the movements of
French, Italian, Prussian, and American troops, are
more unfavourably impressed by their Northern
school of drill than might be the case with any one
having only the experience of British troops. The
Danes bear no slight resemblance, both in their
physical appearance and in their bearing and :gait,
to the English,

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FEBRUARY 4.

I have not much to add to the hurried telegraphic
account I sent you last evening at 6 of the attack
of the afternoon. A large force of Germans, chiefly
Austrians, attacked the outposts of Bustrup, about
one mile and a half from this place. After the
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a second attack yesterday morning, and were out
on their lines full two hours before daylight in a
cold, pitiless rain. The whole of the wet, sad morn-
ing passed off quietly nevertheless, and just as some
of the drenched officers rode in between 2 and 3 for
a hasty meal the sky cleared, and immediately the
din of battle began. And there was " mounting in
hot haste," galloping of orderlies to and fro, march.
ing infantry, trotting dragoons, rattling carts—all
that hurry-scurry which is most marvellous order
and method to the initiated eye. As I walked
leisurely pad Castle Gottorp towards the suburb of
Fredericksburg, a group of officers passed me, and
the personage at their head was pointed out to me as
King Christian IX., King of Denmark, a spare thin
figure, in the unform of a general officer. I had
onlp a side view of him and a hurried one. I saw
a middle-aged man, a very little above;the middle
size, with brown hair, light beard, a thin
somewhat sharp, ,yet benevolent, distingue face.
He had three or four aides-decamp with him,
his " Hof-Marshal," as they called; him, and behind
him trudged, rather, heavily, his Excellency
Bishop Monrad, the President of the Council of
Ministers—the only man in plain clothes. The
Royal party, ourselves, and a few of the idlers about
town, went as far as the barrier of Fredericksburg,
an elevated spot, whence—nothing could be seen.
The sound of cannon and rifle was, however, clearly
distinct, not only to us, but to the whole town,
which shook with it. All along the road strong
pickets of infantry were drawn up in reserve.
Squads of ambulance men bearing long poles went
forward on their melancholy errand, singing and
rollicking, the wretches"as merry as undertakers,'
while the :really fighting men maintained a quiet
demeanour, resolute, but silent ; heedless of danger,
but not unaware of it. Soldiers get used to stand
,with
to be shot at, I believe, but the best of them don't
like it. The day came to an early close, however,
the firing slackened between 5 and 6 till it came to
that
a sullen grumbling end before we had reached our
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outposts, and the Danes had gallantly stood their
ground, till night parted the combatants. The affair
was not very serious.

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CATHEDRAL.—The proposal for
completing and
adorning the Cathedral is at present limited to tho choir.
Six of the windows will be filled with stained glass, executed
either at Munich or at Glasgow, from the designs of
Schnorr, in illustration of the 12th verse of the Litany : the
Agony, the Cross, Death, the Grave, the Resurrection, and
Pentecost. It has been determined to employ mosaic as
being the most suitable material for the decoration of the
wall spaces usually appropriated to frescoes ; and the three
compartments over the windows in the apse net will con-
tain mosaic pictures of our Lord, Moses, and Elijah, executed
from the Baron de Triquett's designs, which were approved
last year by the general committee, under whose direction]
the works in progress are carried on. The decoration of the
choir has been given up to M. de Triquetti, who has also
made designs for the intaglios below the east windows. To
the preference given to this artist's designs we will not at
present advert, except to remark that the reasons assigned
for preferring them to those of Messrs. Watts and Leighton
were, that, though inferior in artistic merit and more feeble
in character, they were eminently fitted for execution in the
intended material. Coloured marbles will be introduced in
the panels, and the intermediate spaces filled by mosaics.
Generally, the effect will be a glorious combination of
coloured marbles, mosaic, and gilding, yet without con-
fusion, because subject to a carefully-matured design ; the
decoration of the vaulted roof is Mr. Penrose's own work;
and the effect of it, as seen in the mode], is extremely
beautiful.
DISCOVERY OF A VEIN OF IRONSTON beN THE
SANDRINGHAM ESTATE.—A discovery
Sndbriene;
made of a valuable stratum of ironstone °nal
effected by Mr
ham estate, recently purchased by his 11°Y
Prince of Wales. The discovery has tHheighness th:
chemists in the north c
J. Wright, merchant, of Lynn,
ore obtained to some analytical
who hasb. een.
sent samples of th
England. These
state that the ironston
gentlemencent. of metallic iron, so the
found contains nearly 4:
has communicated
acres. Mr. Wright
knollys, and ha
the ore appears to be even richer
that the
th e dthepanos
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caotvoefrtshea
tClleeaysetl asn
district. It is believed o
Prince of Wales through General
applied for permission to work the ore on payment of
royalty-.