The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-25 00:00:00

GERMANY AND DENMARK,

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
BERLIN. Feb. 22,

By this time you probably know positively not
only that the Prussians are at Kolding, but that
they mean to remain there, and also to hold Godse
or some other point to the north-west, on the road
to Frederica ; so that Jutland is decidedly invaded.
It may be doubted, however, whether such invasion

will, at least for the present, have such serious re-

sults as some here have anticipated. The stringency
of international law, or at least its enforcement,
seems to have slackened of late. With respect to this

occupation of a nook of Jutland by the allies, it ap-
pears that it was effected by Marshal Wrangel in
conformity with the general instructions with which
he was furnished at the commencement of the cam-

paign ; bat probably the Berlin Government thought
he would again have referred to it before carrying
out that portion of the plan. This is explained the
declaration alleged to have been made in Vienna by
the Prussian Cabinet, that this Government was as

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surprised as that of Austria on learning the event.
In Berlin to-day it is not believed that there is any
present intention of a more extensive occupation of
Jutland than that above indicated. A glance at the
plan of Fredericia shows that it would be a pretty
hard nut to crack, if, as well defended as we may
fairly expect that it would be. The gain to the
allies by their occupation of. Kolding and a email
portion of the adjacent country is supposed to be
that they will thereby hamper the enemy's commu-
nications between Jutland and the islands. They
cannot prevent, but they can impede them. It
may be asked 'if this advantage is an equivalent
for the political complications arising out of
the invasion of Jutland. Some people are in-

dined to treat these complications lightly, by
reason of the many rents that have lately been
with impunity made in the code of international
rights and of usages having force of law. Prussia
and Austria seize upon Schleswig, they say, as a

guarantee for Denmark's execution of her engage-
ments. They are not conquering or appropriating
the country, they merely hold it as a pledge. One
might suppose, therefore, that it was their duty to
maintain the status quo, and at least to take nothing
oat of the land, nor to destroy anything in it. We
fin I them, however, carrying away the guns from
the fortifications,'—eight were lately exhibited,

which assuredly cost the Prussians neither killed nor
wounded, on one of the public squares of Berlin—
and the official Anzeiger has just informed us that
the works of the Dannewerk and those of Fried-

richstadt are to be disarmed and razed. By what

right do the Germans dismantle the fortresses that
have been abandoned to them, and appropriate ord-
nance which does not belong to them, in a country
which they declare themselves to have become pos.
sessed of only as a material guarantee? And only
two days ago it was declared in official quarters here
that Prussia was not at war with Denmark ! With
the Guards at Kolding that silly figment can hardly
be maintained.

Among the vast number of persons in Germany who
busy themselves with journalism there is a certain
class which is particularly occupied with the compo-
sition or combination of news, chiefly for transmis-

sion by telegraph. The usual abode of these hatchery
of canards is in the large cities, whence they purvey
novelties of their own fabrication to greedy telegraph
agencies. Siace the war brokgout not a few of those
gentlemen have abandoned their usual nests, and
have strayed forward as tar as the Prussian cordon
would allow them, and they continue their incubat-
ing process in the towns of Schleswig. It is surpris-
ing how they succeed in imposing even upon some
of the more intelligent of the German journals. I
know not whether the following precious specimen
of bosh—one of the many daily inflicted upon us—
has met your eye :
" Flensburg, Feb. 19, Night.
" The demonstrative march of the Prussian Guard
on Kolding is only intended to exercise a pressure
on the Western Powers, who aro interposing to
bring about an armistice. No further advance is
ordered, but the recali of the Guard is, on the coa-
-1 trary, probable, as well as the conclusion of the ar-
m istice."

It would be difficult to express more absurdities

and misstatements in the same number of words.
Prussia, whom we know to be dead against an ar•
mistice, goes into Jutland to exercise a pressure on
the great Powers—or, as we must suppose the
writer to mean, if he means anything, to induce
Denmark to accept the suspension of arms, to which
she is known to be equally averse. As to its being
probable that an armistice will be agreed upon,
there is not a shadow of foundation for the state-
ment. According to all present appearances there
will be more fighting as soon as the necessary pre-
parations can be made. These may take some time,
owing to roads and weather. We are again in the
depth of winter, with heavy snow and hard frost.
Yesterday the snow was very severe ; to-day it is
milder, and more snow is falling. The last week of
February is little better than was the first. Letters
from officers describe their straits and privations up
in the front as very rigorous. Either the Danish
army had swept Schleswig of its stores, or the
riches of that duchy have been much exaggerated.
There is literally nothing to be bought there; the
troops live on their rations of meat and bread,
brought up from far in the rear; brandy and coffee,
which the climate and exposure render most de-
sirable supplies, are stated in some of the letters
referred to to be for the most part wanting, while
the quarters afforded by the North Schleswig vil-
lages are generally very wretched.
A widely-circulated Belgian paper lately published
a telegram announcing that Gen. Manteuffel had
failed in the object of his mission to Dresden. This
is quite incorrect. The object was to prevent Fede-
ral reserves being sent into Holstein, and it was
attained ; not, however, it is related in political
circles here, until Gen. Mantenifel had given the
Saxon Government plainly to understand that
Prussia was resolved not to tolerate opposition on
the part of its puny neighbour, but would, if neces•
nary, have recourse to very strong means to over-
come its obstinacy. This announcement, employed
when all other arguments had failed, brought M.
von Beast to his senses.
The communication with Copenhagen is again in-
terrrupted, and letters have to go round by Sweden.

VIENNA, Feb. 2

Yesterday morning the Austrian Government
learned from Hadersheben in Schleswig that there
had been " an unimportant rencounter with the
enemy's cavalry at Gudsoe," a small place in the
Danish province of Jutland, to the north of the road
which leads from Bolding to Fredericia ; and later
in the day a telegram from Copenhagen announced
the arrival "of a considerable body of German
troops in Paaby and Eistrnp in Jutland." The news
was not made known to the Vienna public until
yesterday evening, and when known but few per.
sons appeared to be fully aware of its importance.
Late in the evening of yesterday I saw a person
who must be well acquainted with the opinions and
views of the Imperial Court and Cabinet, and he
gave me the assurance that the entry of German
troops into Jutland had both surprised and dis-
pleased the Emperor and his Ministers, "it
being a violation of one of the conditions of the
Aw4tro• Prussian convention." A few hours ego
had a long interview with a person high
in office, and he requested me to state that the 1m
perial Government highly disapproved the step
which Marshal Wraugelhad taken. In the course
of the morning I managed to acquire information
which will enable you to form a tolerably correct
idea of what has been doing here during the last
four and twenty hours. On the receipt of the news
that there had been a collision with the Danish
cavalry on the northern side of the frontier of
Schleswig, Count Rechberg requested Baron NI
Cher, the Prussian Minister at this Court, to call on