The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

The Hamburgh Borsenhalle of the sth says—" We
are this day enabled to confirm from an authentic
source the intelligence which we published yesterday,
that on the 2d of this month an armistice was con-
cluded far three months between Germany and Den-
mark, which, as we have ascertained to-day, is placed
under the guarantee of England and Russia, and
subject to notification of three months. Immediately
after this an armistice was concluded, and it was sent
to Berlin for ratification. With regard to the con-
ditions, we are enabled to give the following addi-
tional particulars, that not only the Duchy of Schles•
wig, but Holstein also, is to be entirely evacuated,
with the exception of a small garrison which
is to be left at Altona, and another small
Danish garrison to be stationed on the
island of Alsen for the protection of the
hospitals. Not only the ships, but also the prisoners,
are to be given up, and arrangements have been made
for the formation of a Provisional Government at
Schleswig, which is to come in force immediately
after the evacuation of this Duchy. The sum which
is demanded by the Danish Government as indemnity
for the Prussian requisition in Jutland is given at
140,000 specie. Toward the definitive settlement of
the Schleswig-Holstein question, two arbritrators are
to be chosen both on the German and on the Danish
sides. If these cannot agree on any disputed point
they are at liberty to choose an umpire whose
decision shall be considered definitive without appeal.
We must observe in conclusion, that the most
minute conditions of the armistice are not known to
us on authority of a sufficiently authentic character
to justify our laying them before the public.
The following particulars, relative to the armistice,
may be depended on :

COPENHAGEN, JULY 3.—The negotiation at Malmo,
which took place with the co-operation of Sweden,
between the Prussian Ambassador Count PONTALES,
and the Danish Minister, Count KNATH, were yester-
day concluded, so far as an armistice for three months.
Count PONTALES instantly set out for Berlin, for the
purposes of obtaining the consent of his Government
to these conditions ; and so soon as this ratification
shall arrive the armistice will come in force, and the
ships detained by the Danes will be setZat liberty.
The troops on both sides are to evacuate the Duchies ;
only a few hundred Danes are to be left on the island
of Alsen, and an equal number of Prussians in the
other parts of Schleswig-holstein, for the mainte-
nance of order. The further conditions are still kept
secret, but there is not the slightest doubt of the con-
sent of Prussia to the conditions.

LUBECK, JULY 4.—An English courier arrived
here this morning by the Swedish steamer Nords-
tejerna, bringing the intelligence that an armistice
had been concluded between the German and Danish
armies. It appears that the Swedish troops are forth-
with to quit Denmark, and the hostilities of Den-
mark against the German navigation, consequently
also the blockade of the Prussian harbours, is instantly
to be raised. It does not appear whether the deli-
very of the German vessels which had been seized by
the Danes is a stipulation of the armistice.