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(From the Times,)
COPENHAGEN, APRIL 3.—Out of evil comes good.
From the insurrectionary war of the Duchies against
Dcamark, and from the active sympathy evinced in their
cause by Hanaburgh and northern Germany, has arisen
the- project of ft new direct route between Loadon and
' Cop,ntiagen, which may render the Danish capital and
Denmark Proper iodependent of dissff-cted subjects and
treacherous neighbours. English and Danish money and
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of carrying between the two countries, and to confer
,great advantages on the inhabitants of both. A trip
which has just been made by a small party of persons
interested in this route proves that, even in the present
state of the roads, ait,d with the existing defective ar-
rangements for land carriage, the traveller who leaves
London on Saturday morning may arrive in Copenhagen
early on Tuesday afternoon, while there is every pros-
pect of shortening the journey very considerably. The
Northern Steam-packet Company have now commenced
running first-class steamers every Saturday from Lowes-
toft to fljerthing, or Ballam, in Jutland; and on the Ist
of May a diligence will start from the former port for
Copenhagen. These vessels will convey post-office letter
bags. •

In the following letter I will briefly detail my expe-
rience of the' route. On Saturday morning the 29th of
March, the gentlerthan referred to left the Shoreditch
station at eight o'cloCk and arrived at Lowestoft shortly
after three o'clock. There a fine new vessel—the Prince,
of Londen—was in readiness to receive them, and at four
o'clock they steamed out of the beautiful harbour amid
the cheers of people assembled on thequays. There
was no wind to speak of, but in a few hours most of the
passengers had feebly retired to their berths, when they
passed the night as gentlemen of England not accus-
tomed to sailing on the seas are generally wont to
spend it when upon the German Ocean. There are
many people who profess to discover a never ending di-
versity in the sea, but they would have been hard set to
have pointed out any variety in the landscape of the
drizzling sky and leady water through which we passed
for twenty-four mortal hours. It was not often that even
a solitary sail dotted the horizon to awake a languid
curiosity, while the very seagulls seemed to have re-
tired altogether to some remoter solitude. Somehow or
other the; time passed away till a quarter-past four
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when dinner was ready,
and just at the same- moment a sharp-eyed sailor
discerned " land," a dirty line, half fog, half
mud, resting on the eastern boundary of vision,
and scarcely distinguishable from clouds and water.
This was the coast of Sylt, an outlying island of Jut-
land, the famous home of the Jutes and Cymbri, and
more famous still in later days, when the ,Northmen
launched their sea-horses to plunder the plains of York-
shire or Suffolk. It is now the resort of peaceful, quiet-
going traders and farmers, who have, however, been re-
garded with almost as much dread as their ancestors by
the modern British agriculturist. Thus, the passage
from Lowestoft had been well nigh completed in twenty-
four hours, and it would have been possible to land in
twenty-eight hours from the time of our departure, but
the shallow shores and the obscurity of the evening ren-
dered it desirable nut to run any risk which was not ab-
solutelyuuavoidable. The vessel's head was put about,
and, to the great horror of those who were afflicted with
a Catholic ?nal. du pap, we steamed off the coast till
morning, with the exception of a few hours' rest off the
safe anchorage of List. Early in the morning the anchor
was weighed, and we stood in towards shore ; but a
snowstorm came on and turned the whole atmosphere,
the very sea and air, into a sort of floating medium, like
a mass of blancmange. This delayed us for a little, and
i was past seven o'clock before the Prince steered past
the sands of Beveer, and ran up the arm of the sea
on which is situated the port of Hjerthing. I found
there were so many to keep me company that I do not
hesitate to confess' my utter ignorance of the existence
of this particular place up to a few days before I landed
on its shores. It has, however, been used for some
years past as an occasional harbour for steamers en-
gaged in the cattle trade, for which it is admirably
adapted by nature, when compared with other ports on
this dangerous coast. Protected by the Skallugin on the
north and west and by Fanoe on the south, and thus
sheltered from the tempestuous winds that have blown
so many vessels to destruction on Jutland, Hjerthing is
almost the only point on the west of that district which
combines safety with facility of access; while, in event
of very bad weather, the harbour of Lst, in the island
of Sylt, which lies a little to the south, offers the most
secure holding ground and the moat prominent land-
marks from the Elbe to the Skaw. In the channel of
Hjerthiug there is good bottom, with twelve feet of
water at ebb tide; and there is no point on the coast so
capable of developing the staple trades of Denmark in
corn and cattle as this obicere port. The great cattle
district, covering an area of 457 geographical miles, lies
north and south of it, and 300,000 head of poor cattle
and 10.000 horses have been carried annually through
this district to Schleswig and Holstein to be grazed in
the marsh lands. The passage to England is at once
the shortest and cheapest. Between Hjerthing and
Lowestoft the distance is but 300 nautical miles, the
overage passage may be reckoned at 30 hours; and the
Danish Government have had under consideration a
plan for a railroad to Fredericia, which would open rapid
mmunication between England and all the capitals of
Northern Europe. As we advanced up the channel
nothing was visible but low sand hills cumulated by the
wind and worn into fantastic outlines by the westsrn
asd northern gales—just resembling the coast of Bel-
gium and Holland. After a run of an hour at easy
speed, splashing past a few round-sterned fishing boats,
herein 601310 bluff indolent-looking men in great jack
boots and peacoats were engaged pulling up indoleet-
looking fishes a snug-looking village of substantial
white houses, thatched with straw, and perched across
each other, so that the, gables presented as many
facets as a rose diamond, came in view; from one of
these fl wed the British Consular flag, and the sea-
sick travellers were soon rejoiced by the assurance they
were off Iljerthing. The anchor was let go once
more, and we rode about a mile from shore. An
odd-looking praam poked her way off from the
beach, and sown came alongside with the collector of the
Customs—a portly Dane, who spoke English perfectly,
and paid the party the first felicitations on their arrival.
A big man with a bigger pipe explored their luggage,
end pronounced us fit for land, but it was some time ere
a great lumbering schuyt put off from the shore to land
the impatient company. They wore not destined to
reach terra firma so easily—some 100 yards from the
shore the schuy t took the ground, and two little praams
rowed off to take her freight. Into these we were hud-
dled, with the happy consciousness that we could not be
drowned, or, indeed, be much wetter than we were, and
as the prestos grounded ere they arrived at the beach
there was only the unseemly expedient of getting to
shore on the back of the burly boatmen, who shot us off
into a mixture of soft sand and mud, as coal porters
deliver the contents of a sack down a grating. However
ludicrous the sight might have been to see such an inva-
sion, the solid-looking Danes who were assembled on
the beach did not laugh at it, and we were soon gathered
together in a primitive sort of tavern to wait for a
conveyance inland. Two shrewd connoisseurs in cattle
and horses set off at once to investigate the resources of
the district in that particular, and at one o'clock two
char-a basics drove up to the door of the inn, and the
rest of the party started off for Warde, on their way
across Jutland. Oar charioteers were a cross between
the extinct English coachman and a heavy dragoon ;
with their red cloaks, yellow facings, and semi-
military hats, they seemed more slayers of men than
drivers of horses ; but their jolly, round, red faces and
enlarged corporations vindicated their vocation as mas-
ters of the whip. The day was bitterly cold, and the
English travellers, who had smiled at the figure of the
Danish gentleman who accompanied them in the capacity
of guide, companion, and friend, as he appeared in a pair
of great fur boots, and a coat lined with the skins of a
forest full of foxes, soon experienced the necessity of
such genial clothing as they swept out of the little
town over a black moor, across which the Eastern wind
blew " sharp enough to shave a -rat." A char-i-bane
offers but poor protection against such a visitation,
and railway rugs, great coats, and cloaks were all im-
portant to save the wearers from the bone-searching
Watt. The country was nearly a dead level as far as
the eye could reach. A sort of stunted heather, cover-
ing a black and boggy soil, stretching away in every
direction to the very horizon, was all teat met the sight,
and the road soon showed signs that it had not recovered
from the effects of the Jutland winter. It seemed, in-
deed, but a mere track across the sandy waste, ploughed
up by cart wheels, and the iron back-boards of the seats
of the, carriages speedily produced an unpleasant attri-
tion of the spinal column unknown even to a third-class
passenger in England. Of course this will never an-
swer for a stage coach or for express travelling, but we
were engaged in opening up a new route, and had no
right to grumble, however great our cause of suffering.
The passage by land was, indeed, more severe than that
by water, and quite as monotonous. Endless steppes,
wrapt by the same uniform coating cf dark heath, with
darker pools of water, and now and then a white-
washed country church in the distance, or the hut of a
lonely settler, formed the entire landscape; and it was
with much the same feeling that men on a raft hail the
sight of a sail that our half-froaen party beheld, after a
drive of eight English
,(nearly two Danish) miles, the
spires of Warde in the distance. Here we fortified our-
selves against the cold as well as unlimited purchases of
flannel stockings, to be drawn over hoots and trousers
and hands and arms, and rude mufflers could do it,
and were soon as unlike our former selves as could well
be imagined.
From Warde the road passes over a desolate waste,
which every painter who has a mind to depict the
blasted heath at Forces should at once proceed to visit.
There is a sort of melancholy grandeur, for all its mo-
notony, in such a vast dark surface stretching away in a
great circle around one till it melts into the clouds, just
as if the ocean on a calm day were instantly solidified
by the wand of an enchanter. Here and there a dingy
little cabin, perched on a small patch of lighter colour
than the rest, and nearly approaching to verdure, showed
that man bad not resigned the place to sterile solitude;
and numerous churches, whitewashed to the most painful
distinctness, spotted the purple heath, as evidences that
either the population was not as scanty as might be sup-
posed, or that there was an abundance of religious an-

commodation. Nothing could demonstrate the extreme
flatness of the district more clearly than the wey in
which the spectator was deceived by the apparent prox-
imity of these edifices. It would sometimes seem as if
one of them could not be distant more than a quarter of
a mile from the other, but on inquiring it would ba as-
certained the interval was twenty times as great, and in
approaching one on the route the interval seemed as if
indefinitely protracted by some magic spell. There you
were, driving for mile after mile towards that great
white block with all sorts of gables blinking at you from
their little black eyes of windows. and at the end of an
hour it looked not a bit more indistinct and almost as
distant as ever. .

I find I have stated that the road passed through this
heath. There certainly was a light brown coloured
track of mud, sand, and gravel, over which we jour-
neyed, trenched in at each side by a juvenile canal, and
in the transition state from liquid to solid; but if any
vehicle born in Long-acre or indeed with springs had
essayed that terrible route, a very few paces would have
terminated its existence. It was really wonderful how
we held on in our sudden dives into abysses of mud
lined with small rocks at bottom, and in our equally
precipitous ascents therefrom. In fact, this road had
monopolised all the inequalities in the country and left
it a dead level. We had been too wretched in our early
stage from Hjerthing to mind this much, but the jolting
now became a prominent misery. To add to the rich
fund of matter possessed by our grumblers, the foremost
horses were generally inclined to enter into personal
conflicts with the wheelers, and at last flatly mutinied.
In the hope of getting on, we had ordered four horses to
each carriage from Warde to Hoisted, and had started
accordingly, but a consequence we bad not contemplated
soon became manifest. By the postal regulations a
driver is attached to each pair of horses, and the postilion
is not yet introduced on the roads of Jutland. The
same mysterious law which determines the selection
of the biggest men in France as riders and drivers of
horses prevails with undiminished rigour in Denmark,
and we were accordingly horrified by seeing a very large
Dane, in a huge red cloak and oilskin hat, emblazoned
with various regal devices, leisurely ascend the box and
take his place by the side of one just as big, who was
already installed in care of the wheelers. We soon as-
certained there was a division of labour in this arrange-
ment. The latter a short, the former a very long whip,
and each regulated his own peculiar pair as to him
seemed fit, so that when the wheelers were driven nearly
to frenzy the leaders were resenting such indecent haste,
and in a few minutes more, by a change of ministry,
were obliged to take all the work on themselves.
It must be remarked here, however, that we traversed
these roads in their worst state. Winter had not long
passed away; the country was still flooded with water,
the usual repairs bad not yet been commenced, and the
necessities of the late war had caused the highway to be
cut up even more than usual by the passage of ammuni-
tion and forage carts and waggons. As you will learn
hereafter, the above little incidents were in all probabi-
lity peculiar to ourselves, for the Danish Government
have promised to direct theit attention towards the ame-
lioration of the public ways in Jutland; and as there
is no Board of Works in Denmark we may expect some-
thing to be done in the lifetime of this generation.
At last we got into Hoisted, haviug passed first
through a remarkable farm called Endrupholm, which
put me greatly in mind of one of our largo agricultural
establishments in Northumberland, with its extensive
thatched outhouses, and great court yards, and there
changed horses, but were 'obliged to mount once more
into our comfortless waggons, which felt as though they
had all the capabilities of patent refrigerators. To con-
tribute to the amenities of our journey, then ain, which
had for some time been trifling with our feelings in
playful showers, came down in right earnest, and we
speedily got into a cross road which might as well have
been a mountain stream so far as facilities for travelling
went. As if fate had not done its worst, after some weary
miles at the rate of five in the hour, which our guide
assured us was rapid in the extreme, we launched on a
piece of" paved road," that is, large blocks were laid
down as if cast from the crate of a volcano, over which
we crashed after such sort as to render the con-
tinuity of the spinal column almost miraculous. This
was Cho approach to Estrupmills, a favourite outpost of
the Prusso-Schleswig-Holstein army, who certainly never
made their attack upon it in Holsteinsvogne (as these
open basket coaches are called), or they would quickly
have been discomfited, and routed with the loss of their
backbones. With much agony of mind and body we
passed this strategic position, and were soon in the re-
cesses of a wood, through which we passed at the speed,
or slowness rather, of three miles an hour. It would
have been a comfort to have got down and walked, but
an awful whizzing of the wheels told us of the depths
through which we were being carried, and we submitted
in silence and darkness to the exigencies of the moment
till we emerged from the forest once more. It would be
very rude if I did not apologise to the foxes, owls, and
other respectable inhabitants of that forest for the inter-
ruption occasioned by our passage, of v, hich, indeed,
they abundantly evinced their sense at the time by the
mort unmistakable ejaculations. Bumping, splashing,
crashing, and jolting hour after hour, we at last got into
Bolding—(the name is suggestive of an execrable
pun). If anyone has ever had a nightmare in which
ho fancied that he was driven for miles through the
ghosts of whitewashed houses pulled out to an inde-
finite extent and long destitute of living inhabitants, he
can realize our feelings in traversing this ancient town.
I solemnly aver that the street of which Kolding is com-
posed must be three miles long at the very least, and that
no fertility of imagination can give any idea of the tor-
tuosity of the said street. So absurd did the thing ap-
pear that some of us at last imagined that the coachmen,
for some inscrutable purpose (all the coachmen are paid
by the stage), were driving us up and down the town,
and were expressing their feelings to that effect when
we pulled up at a snug sort of inn, and in a few moments
a door opened on a welcome banquet of roast veal and
gooseberries, beef and cranberries, and long-necked claret
bottles, and for the nonce all the grumblers rejoiced and
heard with delighted ears of the deeds of arms in this
phantom town, when the Danes were at last, after a
protracted conflict, induced to retire, not more by their
insurgent fellow-subjects and their allies than by the
fear that the ancient metropolis of Jutland would be
bombarded from the heights which the enemy had occu-
pied. We could see the marks of the battle on many of
the houses as we drove by—great patches of plaster
knocked off the walls, leaving the brick and stone-work
visible; doors splintered, tiles smashed, and chimney-
pots and window-frames demolished.
To our great delight Kolding afforded us covered car-
riages, and we travelled in comparative comfort to
Snogbai, the ferry below Fredericia, on the Little Bolt,
where we arrived about half-past three o'clock in the
morning. The day was just breaking as we huddled
ourselves, still cold and shivering from a hearty snooze,
into two °rent boats, which certainly had not suffered
from the dry rot. As the faint light tinged the coast
we caught sight of the fine undulating shores of the
eastern side of Jutland, covered with rich verdure
and clad with trees, and just across a mile or so of placid
water, smooth as a mirror and dark as jet, rose the
luxuriant coast of Funen trending further and further
away to the north and south till it was lost in a green
distance of forest and underwood. The tide was setting
strongly down towards the south, and it was more than
half an hour before we landed on the quay of Middel-
fast on the opposite side. It was soon evident we
were in a more favoured island than the land which
we had just left. The little town smiled brightly
in the morning sun; and as we drove out of its well
kept street into the open country of Funen the
landscape of neatly trimmed hedges, of comfortable
homesteads, of fields well tilled, orchard and forest trees
throwing out the first buds of spring, we were forcibly
reminded of similar scenery in England. The roads, too,
were capital, and were all the more agreeable for the
contrast; and as the horses trotted on merrily at the
rate of six and a half or seven miles an hour, through a
gently undulating and luxuriant country lighted up by
the warm hues of morning, the party experienced feel-
ings of pleasure to which they had been for some time
strangers. At seven in the morning we halted at a little
out-of-the-way inn, Gribsvad kro, to refresh ourselves
and the horses; but the latter were the more fortunate of
the two in fulfilling that intention, and we reserved cur
energies perforce for a great meal at Odense (the city
of Odin), about 13 miles further on. A. drive of two
hours and a little more brought us to this ancient town,
the capital of Funen, and as we entered it we could
just catch a glimpse of the venerable towers of the
cathedral, founded in 1080 by Canute the Fourth,
and named after our own Se Alban; and rebuilt
a second time so far back as the beginning
of • the 12th century. I would gladly have
visited this noble old building, but as we were travelling
express a pilgrimage thereto could only be made at
the expense of my breakfast, and I was weak enough to
yield to the superior attractions of the posthouse. A
stupendous meal, worthy of the heroes of the Valhalla,
was at last completed, and after a drive of 18 or 19
miles, through a country of equal richness, over capital
roads, at the rate of some 5/ miles an hour, we entered
Nyborg, a strongly fortified town on the great Belt, and
rattling over some drawbridges thrown across deep
dykes, in which some convicts who possessed a physique
strangely conformable to that of the native British com-
modity in this country, were busily engaged in hewing
wood and drawing water, we soon entered the main
street, which was crowded with slouching soldiers in
loose frocks of green and blue, and in enormous shoes
Belt
and t o
eo r
,fairests r, in
like the Gallic sabots. After a short stay we embarked
in the steamer to cross the Great fißeet n
Zealand. The day was beautifully
scene which we had yet seen opened before us. Far
across the Greet Belt loomed the green outlines of the
Zealand shore, and the gentle undulations of the Funen
coast swept softly away to the north and south
till lost in the distance, Our steamer was
crowded. On the quarter-deck were lugubrious
Holstein Counts, going to Court for pardon and forgive-
ness, muffled in furs and melancholy. On the forecastle
and deck were groups of hursars, tamers, and infantry,
returning home to their families resplendent with riband,
crosses, and decorations, and radiant with good humour.
They were fine stout fellows, round shouldered withal,
and heavy limbed, but broad shouldered too and mus-
cular, and the horsemen fraternised with their steeds in
a kindly chivalresquo spirit that did one good to look
upon. They smoked and sang incessantly, and whether
the gallant fellows had prize money or not each looked as
jolly though hs,had come express from a tour in California.

The water of the Belt is exquisitely clear—awfully so.
The foam of the paddle-wheels seethed over it as though
it were soap bubbles floating in air—an humble simile,
but the only one I can think of—and beneath rolled a
blue profound, tinged by the hue of the sands many a
fathom deep below it. Divers ducks and puffins spotted
its placid surface in thousands, or plunged
beneath its surface, or took wing in circling
flocks es we approached them. We soon passed
the midway island of Shrogii.., where hapless
voyagers are ofttimes obliged to take refuge in winter
time when the ice sets in, or when it breaks up suddenly.
It is a sort of Danish Connaught, and the worst wish of
a Scandanavian is, that his enemy may spend a winter
there. After a very fine and delightful passage of two
hours and a half we landed at liorsor in Zealand, and a
smart drive over macadamized roads through as finely
wooded and as well cultivated a country as any in Eng-
land brought us at eight o'clock into the neat little town
of Slagelse. In the dark of course nothing was visible,
and we rattled in comfortable slumber through Soto,
where Saito Grammaticus immortalival the ancient
Danish race, on to Ringeted, where Canute the Great is
said to have found his last resting place. The horses
changed, a drive of 17 miles brought us to Roeskilde,
where a railway to Copenhagen commences; and we
were carried away by a very phlegmatic train to the
capital, a distance of 174 miles, which we accomplished
in about an hour. The morning sun was beaming
brightly as we stepped out of the carriages. Before us
lay a wide expanse of stately white houses, tall steeples,
domes, and spires, rising brightly into the clear morning
air, and at seven o'clock on Wednesday morning we
were driving through the principal square of Copen-
hagen to our hotel.

ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCE.
(From the Chronicle.)
LOWESTOFT, APRIL 10, EIGHT, P M.—The Prince
entered the harbour an hour ago, after a splendid run of
27 hours from Hjertuing. The anticipations expressed
in my communication from Copenhagen of the 3d inst.
have been almost literally verified; for, in spite of some
unlooked for obstacles, the return journey as far as this
place has been performed in three hours and a half less
than the full completent required to make up three days.
A special train, kindly placed at our disposal by the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, has just started
with the majority of the party to Norwich, where they
will catch the mail train for London, arriving in the me.
tropelie at a quarter-past four o'clock a.m. to-morrow
morning. To me, however, who have had enough of
night travelling during the past fortnight, the prospect
of a comfortable bed at the Royal Hotel presents Just
now attractions too potent to be resisted, and I shall not
resume my journey till te-morrow morning. While
supper, therefore' for which I own a keen appetite, is
preparing, I shall occupy the interval by jotting down a
few notes on the subject of the expedition from which
we have but just returned.
My last letter acquainted you with the fact of our
arrival at Copenhagen in the morning of Wednesday,
the 2d instant. Strictly speaking, our mission termi-
nated with the delivery of the dispatches which had
been confided to our charge, and we had nothing to do
but to go back again to Hjerthing. But, as the steamer
would not leave that port till the 9th instant, arrange-
ments had been made to prevent the time from hanging
heavy on our hands in the meanwhile, and a letter of
introduction to Count Sponneck, the Danish Minister of
Finance, procured us not only the pleasure of an inter-
view with that gentleman, but access to all the collec-
tions of art and objects of interest in which Copenhagen
abounds. His Excellency listened with much attention
to the details of our journey, and promised to do all that
lay in his power to promote a direct communication with
England by improving the roads in general, and by
making a good macadamized road through Jutland to
Hjerthing. The suggestions made by some of the
party for shortening the stages on the road, and
for running a diligence to Hjerthing, were favourably
received by the Count, and none of us entertained a
doubt when we retired that, as far as the Danish
Government was concerned, every possible facility
would be afforded for improving a route which cannot
fail to advance the best interests of the two coun-
tries. This impression was materially strengthened by
the communications which subsequently took place be-
tween the individuals who formed our party and the
Danish; Postmaster-General, as well as with M. de Reedtz,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs. We were all honoured
by an invitation to dine with M. de Reets on the Friday
following our arrival; but an intimation had been pre-
viously conveyed to us, through Count Sponneck, that
the palace of Fredericsborg, where the King usually
resides, would well repay the trouble of a visit, and that
it was just possible that we might have an opportunity,
of seeing his Majesty there. It was determined, there-
fore, though not without many regrets, that one only of
the party should remain in Copenhagen, and acknow-
ledge on the general behalf the honour which M. de
Reedtz had done us, while the others should proceed to
Fredericsborg, and afterwards visit Elsineur. As it was
my good fortune to enjoy the frank hospitality of M. de
Reedtz, I cannot *peak, from personal knee/ledge, of
what took place at Fredericsborg; but I heard enough
io make me lament, more than I had ever done be-
fore in my life, the physical obstacles which oppose
themselves to a man's being in two places at once.
The event which was assumed in Count Sponneck'a note
to be within the range of possibility actually did
occur; my fellow-travellers not only saw the palace
of Fredericsborg, but had the privilege of conversing
for a few minutes with its illustrious occupant, and were
afterwards royally entertained by the Grand Chamber-
lain. I understand that the King, in the course of the
brief interview with which he condescended to honour the
members of the exhibition, referred, with much emotion,
to the obligations which had been conferred upon his
Government by the English press during the painfnl
struggle in which he had been engaged with a portion of
his subjects. I have reason to know that the senti-
ments thus expressed are not confined to the breast of
his Majesty, and there is every ground foafielieving, as
well as fur hoping, that the effective moral support af-
forded to the Danish cause by the respectable portion of
the English press, during the continuance of the hosti-
lities, now happily at an end, has paved the way for the
establishment of closer relations than have heretofore
subsisted between England and Denmark.
Having availed ourselves of all the opportunities for ,
recreation which the thoughtful courtesy of the Danish
Government had placed at our disposal, we left
Copenhagen, with dispatches for Count Revent-
low, at half-past ten o'clock on Monday night,
by the railroad, which runs as far as Reek-
kilde, but which is to be continued, when the re-
quisite funds can be raised, up to Korseer. Much
delay occurred at this point owing to the insufficiency of
the railway staff, one porter being required to transfer
all the luggage of the party, which, if the truth must
be told, was more cumbrous than was necessary, from
the office to the carriages which were in waiting for us.
Wo made Korsoer, however, at a quarter to nine
o'clock, having traversed by the road Danish miles
in eight hours, stoppages included. At half-put nine
we were under weigh in the steamer for Nyeborg, where
we arrived in an hour and three-quarters—very good
work for about nineteen English miles. Through
Funen our progress was decidedly more rapid than in
the former journey. Less time was spent in changing
carriages, and the postillions drove faster; and we were
therefore in high spirits when we found ourselves, at
eight o'clock in the evening, on the shores of the
ferry by which the Little Belt was to be crossed. But how
different was the aspect of its waters! It was early
dawn when, in proceeding from Jutland to Funen, we
had embarked in a couple of shallops for Middleton.
The rays of the sun, which had not yet raised itself
above the ht4izon, had just fringed with gold the low
hills which terminate the landscape, and promised
to dispel the frost which stiffened every limb, and
made our teeth chatter like castanets. Not a breath
disturbed the surface of the water, and the heavy plunge
of the slow and unwieldy oar alone invaded the repose of
nature. Now, however, all was in commotion. There
was a stiff breeze from the south-west, and the young
moon, thou* bright, was occasionally obscured by a
scud of envious clouds, which passed between its rays
and the benighted traveller. The work of embarkation,
therefore, advanced somewhat slowly; but when the bag-
gage and ourselves—confound the baggage: were fairly
shaken into their proper places, the small sail was set,
and in less time than it takes to write it we were career-
ing over the foaming waters of the Little Belt like a horse
that has thrown its rider. The boat did not sail—it flew
over the waves, and in less than ten minutes we landed
at Snoghoe, having accomplished the distance between
that place and Copenhagen in 22i hours. It was calcu-
lated, therefore, that Hjerthing, distant only about 66
English miles from Snoghoe, would certainly be reached
in 12 hours more; but from this point we lost
ground terribly. t was indeed a dreadful night—
the rain poured down in torrents, and the _ wind
blew with inconceivable fury. The road was like a
quagmire, and when we reached Kolding, though horses
the carriages
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reserve for another letter some general observations
which may I think be properly made on the present
means of communication with Denmark, and the pro-
spects of greater facilities for international intercourse
which have been opened by the well-directed enterprise
of the Northern Steam Packet Company.

Earl Bathurst has recovered from the effects of
the recent severe accident which befel his Lordsbip whilst
hunting with the Duke of Rutland's hounds, at ,Belvoir