The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-04 00:00:00

by the issue of debentures. He found very great fault
had been found with the Board of works, because they
had not undertaken works when, as it was alleged, they
had funds to carry them on. It was only
fair before such complaints were made that the parties
making them should have taken the trouble to inquire
whether the Board of Works really had funds to
carry :on such improvements. Honourable Gentle-
men must remember that in 1847 those works in
many parts of Ireland were undertaken with the
view of affording out-relief; and works which
would not have been undertaken were under-
taken at that time with the view of affording
employment to the poor in distressed districts.
At University Hall in Galway, land which formerly
only produced 301. per annum had been effectually
drained, and now yielded the landlord 1301.—(Hear,
hea.) Borrisokane, land which previous to
the drainage was completely covered with flood was
now in a state of profitable cultivation. Formerly it
was valued at 2s. an acre, now it paid no less than
13s. per acre, and the whole expense of working
this beneficial change would be about Os. pt_r acre
for twenty years. Notwithstanding, then, what
had been said against the Board of Works,
he thought the works completed under their
direction had been most successful, and he should pro-
pose, therefore, to the House to advance a further sum
for carrying arterial drainage.—(Hear, hear.)
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
IHAMBURGH, MAY 1.
The grand battle with which the German papers have
managed to gull the credulous public here, who have
only one way of thinking, and cannot brook any truth,
however right and fair, has after all turned out to be a
very sorry affair. The accounts at the onset given in
the patriotic journals—not one of which but is well
greased in the Augustenburg intriguing interest here—
have assumed a very different tone in regard to the loss
incurred on the occasion of that presumed victory at
Colding; in which, had the Danish General, Von Bulow,
but allowed his troops to have acted in the same spirit
throughout the whole affair as they did at the com-
mencement, every different result had followed. The
loss on the Danish side has been officially pub-
lished, under the authority of the medical staff,
and consists in 300 men killed and wounded—among
these only eight of the Danish Hussars of the Royal
Guard killed, and sixteen wounded (after driving the
Holstein Infantry before them, and with the aid of two
companies of Jagers, taking some entrenchments on the
mainland), instead of having been completely dispersed,
and losing an immense number of prisoners, according
to the German pretended reports. OaA the side
of the Germans, the loss has been admitted, in an ac-
count of the correspondent of the liamburgh Nachrich-
ten, from Schleswig, to have been about 700 men. And
General Bonin in his official bulletin names 1,000 on
both sides at a rough guess, rather under the mark than
above it, beyond doubt. The tender conscience of the
Insurgent Government of the Duchies will not admit
the true account appearing ; on the contrary, they are
ashamed of the enormous loss of human life, which their
evil deeds will have to answer for to the families of these
victims of their ingratitude towards Denmark. The
cries and lamentations, however,' of the parents, the
widows, and orphans of those fallen will ultimately
reach them, and offended justice will overtake the in-
trigues of the Augustenburg princely beggars with
nowven soonerngeaancxiouestoknow or later.
what reason
rlensnhortht,ey havepeople forare
withholding: the: truth,: and, bad as the affair is,
they are desirous of knowing what has been the posis
tive loss. They reason, however, is plain. They do not
wish the great Fatherland to know that the Danes are
sufficiently patriotic and heroic in their defence of
Schleswig, and the justice of the claim of their King.
They have all along used their utmost endeavours
to make their friends believe (which they have, how-
ever, most signally failed in doing) that the native
Schelswig regiments, in the Danish service, have no in•
clination to fight against the German Holstein party,
and in some instaeces have even gone so far as to throw
down their arms. The following is a specimen of
the dirty mode of aiding and abetting their
insurgent cause, and is totally unworthy of a
great and mighty would-be-united Fatherland:—
Among the many false reports which the German
papers have recently been filled with, there is one which
states that, during the action near Colding, the 13th
battalion of infantry threw away their arms, and turned,
with seventeen of their officers, to surrender themselves
prisoners of war. As this battalion in part consists of
men from Schleswig, this falsehcod is not without sig-
nification, and this was not much relieved by the fol-
lowing correction, which again states, that the 13th
battalion, it is true, did not lay down its arms, yet the
flight of the same so hastily, gave occasion for the report
in question. The truth however is, that the brave 13th
battalion was during this action stationed at the island
of Alsen, and took no part whatever in it; nor has
there been any Danish officer, as yet, officially known
to have been taken prisoner on this occasion.
This fact will tend fully to convince the friends of the
great Fatherland, and others, how little good faith can
be placed in these Hamburgh-Holstein reports.
General Prittwitz has his headquarters at Christianfeld,
and is said to rave promised his troops, consisting of
about 18,000 men concentrated thereabouts, to give them
a turn into Jutland, which is some four miles from
the spot they occupy. It is said that he has been espe-
cially requested by the King his master, who employed
him last year in Berlin, to fire upon the insurgents in
his defence, to mercifully cause to be spared those who
are in arms against his former friend, the King of Den-
mark; and otherwise to aid them in their insurrec-
tionary conduct against his troops. The King of Prussia
even goes further, from what General von Prittwitz is
reported to have said of him, viz., that the Holstein in-
surgents were brave men, in having fought so well
against their rightful Sovereign, and deserve to be
spared from the due inflictions of Danish loyalty.
Berlin, and General Prittwitz, on the 18th of March,
1848—and Hadersleben, and Prittwitz, in front of the
Prussian army on the 28th of April, 1849, ought to be
recorded in the books of European history, in
bloody letters, that when the young princely
ideas of future sovereigns begin to be taught how to
shoot, they may well " read, mark, learn, and inwardly
digest" this instance of Prussian policy. Insurgents
shot down by dozens at Berlin by Prussian soldiers in
1848, and applauded by the same General (who posi-
tively ordered them to be so shot down at this period)
for fighting the royal troops of Denmark in their at-
tempt to protect their own King against similar insur-
gents in 1849. 0 tempera, 0 mores
There are various rumours of negotiation for peace;
but no solid foundation can be discovered. It is also
said the blockade is to be removed upon neutral
vessels, yet nothing is certain. Denmark played,
in the beginning of the contest, too generous a
game to suit German-Holstein trickery, to their owls loss.
It is scarcely to be supposed that the Danish Govern-
ment will continue this game any more until she knows
their schemes better. The complaints now made of the
ineffectual mode of carrying out the blockade of the Elbe
and the Weser are aliabsui d; and none of those making
the complaints are at all acquainted with the laws and
the nature of such a blockade, much as they may learn
hereafter, and thus grow wiser. There is no news of
any skirmishing to-day from the war department in the
Duchies. The troops are cooling themselves a little.
They are considered, however, here to be idling their
precious time away, if something is not daily reported in
the fighting line, to feed the greedy anxiety for such
information on the Hamburgh Exchange, where num-
bers aro seen smoking cigars all day long, having no-
thing to sell in the shape of goods, and paper will not
go down without in the discount markets. Things look
queer, and the visages of the people correspondingly so
—sallow and smoky in the extreme.

Mr. Bannerman had an interview, on Wednesday, with
Earl Grey.

SHOCKING SUICIDE.—This morning between the
hours of six and seven a respectably dressed man, ap-
parently about the age of thirty-five, committed suicide
by precipitating himself over the balustrades of Waterloo-
bridge, striking in his descent his head with fearful
violence against the stone abutments of the bridge.
The body was immediately recovered, but life had ceased
to exist. The corpse was conveyed to the vaults of St.
Mary-le-Strand, and was identified to be that of Henry
Ford, a compositor in full employment on the Morning
Chronicle. Ho has left a wife and four children to
lament his loss. The body remains to await a coroner's
inquest.
The Adelaide Observer, of October 28, gives a
woful account of the rapid declension of the renowned
Burra-Burra Mining Shares. It states that in the
course of thirty days the price had fallen 130 per cent.
It quotes the shares at 1001.—they were 2301. The
paper adds that nine actions bad been commenced by the
directors against it for its observations respecting their
management, So.
SHOCKING CASE OF CIIILD-MURDER AT BATH, AND
DEATH OF THE MOTHER.—BATH, MAY 3.—A shocking
case of infanticide occurred in this city yesterday, and
was speedily followed by the death of the unhappy mur-
deress. It would seem that in the course of Tuesday
night a female servant, in the service of Captain An-
derson, of 15, St. James-square, was seized with sudden
illness. Her fellow-servant, who slept with her, had not
the least suspicion of her pregnancy, but states that she
was restless, appeared in pain, and got out of bed. As
a long time elapsed before her return, the fellow-servant
was alarmed and went to look for her, and after some
time she found her apparently in a dying state. Mr.
Massey, surgeon, was immediately sent for, and on his
arrival he found that the girl had delivered herself of a
child, and was dying from the consequent haemorrhage.
In a few minutes she breathed her last; and upon a sub-
sequent search being made the body of the infant was
found concealed in the water-closet. The dreadful affair
has excited a deep and painful feeling throughout the
neighbourhood in which it occurred.
PIRACY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.—A letter has
been received from the agent for Lloyd's at Smyrna, by
Lloyd's agents at Malta, dated Smyrna, 16th of April,
1849, giving information that several piratical boats in
the neighbourhood of Scio and Mytilene have been plun-
dering small craft and visiting villages on the west of
Scio. Her Majesty's steamer Tartarus, and the French
steamer L'Averne would make inquiries after those boats,
and a Turkish war cutter is cruising in the neighbour-
hood. The two former vessels have completed a very
searching tour for the pirates, but have not met with
them. One of her Majesty's brigs will shortly proceed
in the same direction.
MOINE, THE SCULPTOR.—This artist, who had
attained considerable distinction in his profession, has
committed suicide. Pressed by numerous creditors for
deb's incurred by the suspension of occupation, and
having passed some days without food, or the means of
obtaining any, in a fit of delirium he put an end to his ,
existence,—Art Journal,