The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-08 00:00:00

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

ALTONA, MATl.—From the railway reports which
have arrived fiom the north, we learn that the Prus-
sian troops have at length entered Jutland ; but how
many, and for what peculiar purpose, is not men-
tioned. General vox PRITTWITZ has paid Colding
a visit to review some regiments of Holstein insur-
gents, to make their personal acquaintance, and
promised them to return soon again with orders to
advance, and, if the above report be correct, of the
crossing of the Konigsan by the first batch of
confederated auxiliary troops, he has so far kept his
word. The Holstein troops do not think proper to
venture without a strong reserve from some quarter
or another to make any advance further into the
province of Jutland; and those reports which have
been circulated through the Hamburgh papers of
their having ventured near to Viele on one side, and
Freidericia on the other, without discovering any
Danes, are far from being correct, as nothing of the
sort has occurred ; on the contrary, those worthies
are in daily alarm, fearful of the third edition of
conflict from the Danes. The head quarters of
General BONIN have been removed from Wansyld to
Cold ing, and those of General VON PRITTWITZ to
Christianfeld.

The grand rumour, circulated a few days ago, of
the intended bombardment and storming of Alsen,
has ended like many others, in a" bag of moonshine."
All is reported since, officially on the part of the
Hanoverian General WYNEKBH, and confirmed by
those from Capenhegen, as perfectly quiet. The
sentries smoke their pipes mutually together between
the outposts after their respective duties are per-
formed, and, as well as they can, exchange their per-
sonal grievances. _

TheHolsteinarmy fired away at Coking, in all,
77,248 rounds of ball-cartridge on part of the infan-
try ; 190 shots from 24-poun&r guns, principally
shells; 351 12-pounder shells; and 289 cn round
simt, and 1,129 l'ounl
part et the artiliery.
The Danes are very indignant at their claim-
ing a victory in consequence of bombarding towns
which they
ought to have spared. They give

it a term of victory upon the principle of " vandalism."'
They retired from the conflict to spare the towns, not
for any other reason.
There are rumours of peace, but they are not con-
firmed from any quarter upon which reliance can he
placed. It is likely, however, that negotiations would
have led to the raising the blockade upon neutral
vessels, had BONIN not entered Jutland so hastily,
and which has been done by the orders of the insur-
gent Regency of the Duchies, which they will, no
doubt, be made answerable for. A mass of dirty in-
trigue seems to be carried on, but whether it will
answer the purpose of the Regency and the Frank-
fort Parli,nnent or not remains to be seen, after what
the King of Prussia has now done in throwing down
the gauntlet on his own behalf and that of the Sove-
reign Princes of Germany. A civil war may be the
result, and already there are strong symptoms of an
early outbreak of the revolutionary party. In that
event, Denmark may play a different game with
I them.

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Government of Schleswig-Holstein an-
nounced, on the 2], that the Ministry of the Empire
had ordered the seizure of the property of the
Danish Crown and of the Danish vessels in the Ger-
man ports, as a set off for the German vessels seized
by the lines.
The Lubeck Gazette publishes the following extract
of a letter from the Minister of the Hanseatic Towns
at Paris, dated the, 27th ult. :—" The proposition of
an armistice between the King of DENMARK and the
Central Government of Germany, and which vas
energetically supported by Russia, has been favour-
ably received by the Danish and German Plenipo-
tentiaries. The former has even declared that he was
ready to sign a protocol. M. DE BUNSEN raid he
could not give orders to the Comma.uder•in-Chief of
the German troops, but that he would write to Frank-
fort, and warmly support the proposition, and hoped
that it would be favourably received."