The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-28 00:00:00

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

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MAY 24.—The bombard-
ment of Fredericia is still carried on by the Germans
with untiring energy, and the Danes seem disposed
to carry out their menace of defending it to their last
man. A division of the German troops, however, led
on by Captain KROHN, has succeeded in driving the
Dane 3 from the blockhouse which they had erected
close to the southern gate of Fredericia for the pur-
pose of covering their sallies. During the attack the
Danes, both in the fortress and at the batteries of
Funen, kept up a brisk fire on our troops. The
Danes had several killed and ten taken prisoners, and
as soon as they had evacuated the blockhouse it was
fired by our troops. The Germans say that on their
side they had not a single man 'killed and wounded.
Immediately after the burning of the blockhouse, the
Commander ordered 150 of the same battalion who
had made the attack to pierce the dam in order to let
out the water and leave the moat dry. This they
effected under a murderous shower of balls from the
batteries.

The Danes afterwards made a sally, in which
eleven of their jagers were taken prisoners. The
Danes kept up an incessant cannonade.
"Yesterday General BONIN, attended by his staff,
rode along our entrenchments, when an unexpected
shot from the Danes struck down the brave aid-de-
camp,
Captain DELIUS. In him our country will
lose
is one of its most valuable officers. It is true that
heat this moment still alive, but no hopes are en-
tertained of his recovery.
The Danish blockade continues to be a great impe-
diment to trade, and the authorities of Dantzic are
preparing a
the
i speedy conclusion of peace with Denmark,
petition to the King of PRUSSIA, for
as, n consequence of the stagnation of trade and com-
merce in the harbours of the Baltic, there has arisen a
want of employment not only among the day
labourers, but among all the smaller masters who are
occupied in
shi building, &c. Panic and anarchy
have attained an alarming height among the working
p
classes.

The Chamberlain REEDTZ has left Copenhagen for
Berlin. He is charged with the mission of arranging
the preliminaries which are at length to serve as the
basis of the treaty of peace to be concluded in London.
The Hanover Zeitung
says the Prussian Minister
is said to have notified to the Regent of the Empire
that he may be free from all anxiety in regard to
the Danish war, because Prussia will now undertake
the sole conduct of it. We have received this intel-
ligence from a source which has hitherto always been
worthy of credit.
The Baltic Journal of the 22d says that the Eng-
lish war-steamer Hecate, Captain Oldham, with
eight guns and 117 men, arrived at Swinemunde on
the 22d. The object of their visit is to ascertain the
actual state of the blockade in the Baltic. After
Ming in coals the Hecate will go to Dantzic, We

have not seen any Danish cruizers for some days, but
the Hecate saw a Danish frigate eastwards this
morning.—Hamburgh Papers, May 25.

RUSSIA.

A journal called Koezloeny, quoted by the Breslaw
Gazette of the 21st, states that a conspiracy has been
discovered at Moscow, the object of which was to
overthrow the dynasty of the Romanows, and replace
it by that of the Demitrows. Three of the conspira-
tors, who had in their possession 300,000 roubles in
paper, were arrested, and sixteen others took to flight.
At St. Petersburgh six, and at Sharkoffseven arrests,
were effected in connexion with the same affair.