The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-03 00:00:00

ITALY

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES
DANISH ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES.
From a narrative penned on the 28th ult. we ex-
tract the following particulars :—The Danes who
were taken prisoners on the 23d and 24th have been
brought in to-day. One of the large churches has
been arranged for their reception. About 400 have
been consigned to it, and 82 to private houses. The
number of officers is 13.
At a meeting of the burghers, held at ;Rendsburg,
Professor DAHLMANN, of Bonn, was proposed Re-
presentative of the German Parliament for the second
district of Holstein, and was unanimously elected.
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 27.—The reports from the
army reach only to yesterday, the 26th, when General
:EADEMANN had his head-quarters at Sonderburg. In
nis report of the battle of Schleswig the General
states that the retreat was not conunenced
till the troops engaged in the encounter
had been replaced three times, and the
last reserves were led into the enemy's fire.
the retreat to Flensburg is described as perfectly
)egular. The skirmish at Ohersee is stated without
•letails of the issue. It is conceded that a part of
he enemy and many of the burghers, intimidated
by the false alarms of some fugitive dragoons, have
fled from Flensburg on the 24th. The army, which
had bivouacked in the open air throughout the greater
part of the night, was obliged to break up early on
the morning of the 25th, fur Alsen, where the head-
quarters were established. At Sonderbnrg the
troops suffered so severely from rain and cold, that a
few days' rest is indispensable. Among the officers
who were wounded in the encounter at Schleswig
are three lieutenant-colonels, three majors, and
several officers of the inferior rank. In a document
from the Minister of War to General HEDEMANN, of
the 25th inst, in which the procedure of the General is
highly commended, the Minister declares, that the
General will have to maintain the contest for some
time, without any additional reinforcement. ORLA
LEHMANN, the Minister of State, arrived here yester-
day, by the English steamer Camilla. The Berlinger
Zeitung, without entering into any particulars,
states that the intelligence which he has brought is
satisfactory.
The Fadrelandst gives extracts from letters ad-
dressed to the Duke of GLUCKSHURG, which were
found at Flensburg. One of them is from his wife,
a daughter of King FREDERICK VI., the other from
his brother, Prince WILLIAM, who is in the Austrian
service. Both of them express disapproval of his pro-
ceedings, and are in favour of the Schleswig-Holstein
cause. The same journal contains a communication,
in which it is stated, that as soon as it is known
for certain that the Hans Towns have joined in the
war against Denmark, the royal ships of the line will
receive orders to take possession of all German
vessels without distinction, and that they will nut
escape with a mere embargo, but that they will be
unconditionally condemned.
The communication goes on to say, that a blockade
of the Elbe, according to the definition established by
the rights of nations, would offer so many difficulties,
not only in a political, but also in a naval and military
point of view, that without refraining from the occa •
sional bringing up of individual ships, the Danes will,
in the main, limit themselves to support the opera-
tions of the land army by the ships of the line.
The meeting of the Diet was opened yesterday at
Roeskilde, by the Royal Commissioner, Count SeoN
NECK. The speech from the Throne treats the oppo-
sition of Schleswig- Holstein to the incorporation of
Schleswig with Denmark as open rebellion. The
6incellor of State, M. SCROUEN, was nominated
President of the Ass -mbly ; and Prof-ssor CLAN
sENBEU, President. The President proposed an address
to the KING, and another to the army, both of which
w, re unanimously adopted.
ALTONA, APRIL 28.—1 t has been confirmed that
Count CHARLES MOTTKE has been summoned by the
KING to Friderichia.
BERLIN, APRIL 28.—N0 Berlin journals have yet
appeared, as the question for a rise of wages is not
yet settled. The demands of the workmen are in
general very exorbitant, and the compositors are
determined, if the masters cl.) not give in, to found a
printing union of their own, by shares, with an equal
division of the profits. There is very little indeed
doing in literature ; consequently the printers have
had very little employment, and this is doubtless one
reason for the present strike. No work has been de-
livered from the Royal Library since the 18th of
March. This stagnation extends, of course, also to
the other branches of the trade. One of the most
remarkable and unreasonable demands made by the
compositors is, that besides the machine-press, a cer-
tain number of hand-presses shall be used, and be
subject to an extra tax.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle,
April 29.
A telegraphic dispatch, which arrived at Altona
on the 27th, gives information that the Danes are
pushing on towards Tondern, in order to get into
Ripen. They are cut off from communication with
Alsen. Their batteries at Holnis have been taken.
Count CHARLES MOLTKE has been summoned to the
presence of the King of DENMARK at Frederica.
Appenrade is also in possession of the Germans.
From Flensburg a letter dated the 27th is written to
the Borsenhalle, stating that a Danish officer with
preliminaries for a truce arrived there on that day
A traveller, who arrived at Hamburgh from Flens-
burg on the 28th, states also that the Hanoverians
under the command of General HALKETT, intended
on that day, to commence an attack on the island of
Alsen. The Danish Chamberlain, DE ORKOLM, who
had been sent to St. Petersburgh in order to ask for
the assistance of Russia, has, according to a private
letter received from St.Petersburgh, got a categorical
answer that Russia will in no way interfere.
On the 24th, at Schleswig, they buried the bodies
of those who had fallen at the siege of the town,
They amounted in number to 102.
Mr. MUNTEN DAMON, captain of the Dutch vessel
J%coba (in ballast from Hamburgh to Hobroe in
Jutland), reports that on the 26th of April, when he
was on the point of leaving the canal of Schleswig
Holstein, a Danish man-of-war, which happened to
be on the spot, fired on him and drove him back•
Upon his appeal that he carried a neutral flag, and
was steering to Hobroe, the man-of-war assured him
that no vessel, no matter of what nation, could pass.
The Jacobs put back to Holtenau.

We read in the Echo des Alpes Maritimes, a
journal 'published at Nice :—" The recent conduct at
Lord Brougham, in which the people of Cannes have
fancied there Vk ere indications of hostile feelings to-
wards France, and to their neighbouring friend Charles
Albert, have nearly cost him his country seat. At one
of the late meetings of the clubs of the canton, after
laearing read his speeches in the House of Lords, a mu
;ion was made that the members of the club.; should
Immediately proceed--it bang then nine o'clock at
night—to his Lordship's chateau with torches and com-
bustibles. But one of the speakers rose and No,
citizens ! not now. If we go we shall be taken for
robbers. If the house of this ungenerous citizen is to
be burnt let us de it in open day.' Ilis suggestion pre-
vailed, and the chateau was saved. On the following
day the idea of burning was abandoned, and instead, a
resolution was come to that a charivari should be given
to his Lordship if he ventured to set his foot in Cannes."
A CURIOUS MOUSE'S NBST.—A few days since
\it.. Thomas Wallis, plumber and glazier, Newport
Pagnel, found a mouse's nest in bis warehouse, lined
with gold. The mice had made u-e of the gold book
which was used for lettering in making their nest.

DISPOSITION OF THE CONTEND-
ING ARMIES IN ITALY.
From the Epoca, published on the 21st ult. at
Rome, it would seem that the arming of the popula-
tion and the fitting out of expeditions to the aid
of
the army of independence progresses admirably. A
contingent of three thousand men, in addition to the
troops already dispatched were to leave Naples on
the 22d, on their road to Lombardy. Of en
we shall
which are occurring throughout Lombardy
speak in detail.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The main body of the Piedmontese army extend§
along ag, Peschiera to Pozzolongo, Ponti and
L una
Mezembano, on the right shore of the Mincio, and
on the left shore from Valeggio to Borghetto, as
far
as the centre of the province of Verona. In the
front
of Pozzolo a bridge of boats has been constructed,
which facilitates to the Piedmontese the crossing' of
the Mincio. CHARLES ALBERT passed through V'''.
leggio on the 22d ult., in order to prepare for an
attack against the heights that master Verona, tied
d
which, in conjunction with the movementdirecte
against Peschiera, seemed to give credit torahe report
of a projected simultaneous operation agait YeNae'
Peschiera, and Mantua.
The Austrians, meanwhile, are distributed in the
Those
fortresses of Peschiera, Verona, and Mantua.
three lines lie, with respect to each other, 0
the points of a right - angled triangle, the
extremities of the base indicated by Mantua
and Verona (distanced from each other about
twenty-two miles), the apex marked by
Yert
0 f
chiera, which lies about eleven miles due
westos.
Verona and about nineteen due north of
Men
Peschiera is situated on the lake of Guards, just at the
effluence of the Mincio, and this position give' it,,ils
importance in the present campaign, as it thus flank
as it were, the left issue of the defile through whit
lies the communication between Austria and L°l3l-
Three
hardy—the right being covered by Verona•
great roads lead from the Tyrol into the Itelif
plains. The first, turning to the left at Roverell
emerges into the Venetian territory at Vicensa, ea
would consequently conduct the Austrian reinforce;
inents directly into the heart of a hostile populetieof
already occupying the principal military Positi°end
the country. The second road crosses the upPer re
of the lake of Guards, and follows its wester° ieht:he
to Brescia, a town actually in the hand§rd
Italians (occupied by the Roman troops). The t'l h
threngit
descends the left bank of the Adige,
Trento and Roveredo, at which latter Phiee ed
throws off a smaller branch, the main h°go
continuing its course direct to Verona, Wen,
its offset crosses to the right bank of the streeei„
and tracks its narrow path amid the Pr.„,a,
pices of the Montebaldo as far as Osteris del le oe
gang, where, forced to the right by the nature °f of
ground, it ascends the plateau of Itivoli, end 6° tbe
connects itself with a broader line, turning off ing,n,b
direction of Peschiera, which it reaches thr;se,
Castelnuovo, lately reduced to ashes b.? the, road
trians ! The principal points along this line
enables
being still in the hands of the
them to keep up their communications wltohristric; be
resources ; and unless these coinniuni4tl
ropeign is
partially, if not utterly, broken, the cs
likely to be a protracted one- A.ustris.ns• .
e.
0"03` e
It is difficult to arrive at inv. The tali°
the actual strength of RADOSICY's ar ' rocs, the
if this be coasts,
too
papers state it as 50,000 ; but
have 150,0
boasted assertions of Austria to the cell'
be
to
00 0 •
the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom
mencement of the struggle must be looked uPre, tbs
any certain estiniate_of
Metternichian fanfaronade. We shall et ~,,,
lit
for rootit
truth, perhaps, by making allowances
deceptions—taking the original force 11561 toritr
80,000, setting down its subsequent -.-.. e eting
estie-itio
ration at 20,000, and consequently
its actual strength in._ the north el.
that one
at some 60,000. Of these it would apps er the in
half is encamped in and about Verona, under ~tbi
mediate orders of RADETSKT himself, while 01°1- re•
occupy the redoubted fortress of Mantua; 'trees'
I maining sixth is charged with the defence °1,., 0
chiera. Verona and Mantua are of course the °141:
of the chief anxiety of the enemy ; they fortDr.in43—escth
the bulwarks of Lombardy and Venice, and pc
ow
their walls the destinies of Italy will, in all pr
bility, be decided. 1 o 0
Verona is very strongly and beautifully situate' of
the lower ridge of the hills which form the he4its
the Adige, that river, in fact, flowing through , i.'
massive ramparts and outworks present us "e'tf of
lustrations ot almost every epoch in the hlerifit
fortification. The Emperor GrALLIENUS VW t:: ha/
to increase by art the strength with which betwii ere
already endowed it, and portions of his present
pointed out to the curious stranger even st,tbe.eFerryier
day. Two other lines of rampart, still -Jef'...se- iy °
aibie preservation, are attributed resPeto tries
HEODORIC and to CHARLEMAGNE', Slid 14.ro:ptflt.
which goes by the name of the former beb"-fes tif
and parapets were constructed in the !Piddle, 7,0"
the family of the Scagligeri, then Lords °` 0,009
In 1520 the Venetians added some strong °ll;,e cele:.
bwhich were planned and euperintended .bY t.7,ence°'
rated SAN MICHELI, founder of the modernAetly Ces:
fortifications, since developed and perecterr-h. . 111/,°1.:
HORN, Vox SCHEITER, and VAusio- '",eidelly",,'
these works has been again cee'fii- militia
added to, and strengthened by the Austriell— isle",
engineers. Notwithstanding all this, Ver°ll3ll.ooo
no prominent part in the wars of the firet „spa
revolution. In 1796 the Venetian RePublic POO°
permitted MASSENA to occupy it without aeltiebefide4s
resistance ; and the Treaty of Vienna in 181', of the
it over to Austria with the rest of the tern
ito9
insulted and plundered Queen ot the Adrieodtle; of t 13.9
The Nile of Mantua, in the same ep
ee segso-
- was of far greater importance' f VI!:
by both belligerent parties as the buleul‘ of efer'
hardy, in the possession of which the ultiree
tip oell
of the struggle must depend, immense f.!coptist,,
made on either side for its defence as in'. ',4/,,Sieci
Placed in the middle of a lake, formed by "of t,14;
and artificially deepened by embanklunte' f rbli,
can only he approached by five chaucsis, °
cootr
)
at the period of its siege in 1796, the 0101'0 to
couple only were fortified ; three lock§ grilibe l'::1
garrison the command of the waters c''.,oll, tfi
enabling them to increase their depth at pleTbe 009
even to flood a considerable portion °(.O, of),
approaches to their margin. The pet:0°10009
position, while it gives Mantua its immetlieroder:ol
reacts against it, in some measure, bib of cll
necessary a vast extent of outworks, *hie by cell/
demand a proportionately large garrison ; tioi ,S
buting greatly—and especially' in suguilettailf),o
the unhealthiness of its situation ; and II :000 ' 041
its blockade and throwing the beseiged -oboe,
.01
internal resources for subsistence. in c°,- eitVi
of these disadvantages, N.troesor4.9 e,ve„-•ecit f
hands full, was able to spare 5 5111";01 tab
of men to surround Mantua, and I°7e tij,o"°
a garrison which actually out-number's et
siegers, while he himself devoted all bil
e the /Dtiti:
crushing the Austrian armies sent to relic
the fell
The stubborn defence of this fortress co 00 tr
WURUSER is well known. Mantua was °fii' oetir r 4
to capitulate after a blockade of seven l3o°'
would probably have held out much longe:rtcoetVi
tri
been
for the supernumerary garrison latil,;or
which, adding nothing to its defensivetettool,6(
insufficient to assume the offensive, onlY a ti, 00,
to diminish the scanty provisions and erc'fiin tl''lr:ie
Pital4—always more or less burdened ore 1,11
healthy town. In vain did the tough ld. t 001
out the half rations of his troops bY Idillit); ttifoOldtc
ing the horses of his magnificent efoll, strii (o'l
so anxiously looked fur, and so desperateoJoiftit, ,
was everywhere intercepted by the 1 iii. ° felr;
queror of Italy, and Wusicses, seeie,gsupplf'o4,
otooft
provisions reduced to a three der the red
tantly capitulated, leaving to Itiantull olio ' 0
of being impregnable, save to fernine'ewbot dogiroi,
tion, however, was destined to be 0re,,,0 Ortfoep id
by the comparative ease with which t°l,l
jet ipo,
afterwards recaptured by 5n
ottia loii
aware that the real strength of ''''" tea bin if al
position rather than its works, dire:jos of fr 6
tention to overcoming the difficll,lreachieVi
these presented. The possession 0'
the 14,10600.',wd
Go'ito, had placed the whole line of ,0 A dr
hands, and he availed himself of t.13:6001;1
numerous gunboats, armed wit)/

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