The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

Intelligence from HambUrgh, under date of the 22nd
ultimo, announces that another action had taken place on
the previous day, between the Danish troops and the
volunteers of Berlin, Cologne, Hamburgh, &c., in which
the latter were defeated after a fight of several hours.
The engagement took place at a wood on the way from
Keil to Eckerneforde. The action resulted from the pre-
cipitancy of the volunteers.

BATTLE IN SCHLESWIG.

RENDSBURG, April 23, One o'clock at Night.—The
Prussian troops marched out of this place yesterday after-
noon, at 3 o'clock. They were followed by an almost
interminable succession of the other Federal troops, and
of our dragoons, who had been quartered in the neigh-
bourhood of Remmels, to recover after their five days'
harassing fatigue at Flensburg. It was not till 6 o'clock
to-day that the last party quitted Rendsburg, and at half-
past 7 several wagons arrived, bringing the wounded and
a number of Danish troops prisoners. They brought the
intelligence that on the approach of the Prussians the
Danes retired from Cropp to Schleswig, and that between
2 and 3 o'clock a fierce combat ensued to the west of
Bustorf and close to Schleswig. At the first point the
Prussians, who had vowed to conquer or die, without
waiting the arrival of the artillery, stormed the newly-
fortified Dannewirke and the embankments thrown up at
Bustorf. This combat cost many lives, but terminated
in the taking of Friedricksburg and the so-called Erd-
beerenberg, while the dykes at Gottorp are still in the
bands of the Danes.

The Hamburg Borsenhalle of the 24th, dated 1 o'clock
p.m., says :—" Schleswig was taken by the Prussians
yesterday ; the fortress of Gottorp was still in the hands
of the Danes during the night. Two divisions of the
Danes, together with several dragoons, are said to have
gone over to the Prussians."
By another letter from Rensburgb, dated the evening
of the 23rd, the taking of Schleswig is said to be certain.
'I he Danes, pursued to the eastward. saved themselves
at Missunde by crossing the Schlei. In the skirmish
which took place at the Altenhot yesterday, several of
our troops were unfortunately taken prisoners by the
Danes, namely ten or twelve of the Cologne free corps,
which covered the passage. The Danes in this instance
overreached us by a stratagem, by placing in front the
corps of Lindburg, wearing green and black blouses simi-
lar to the Berlin and Colognee free corps, with the Ger-
man cockade, and displaying the German banner.
A letter from Rendsburgh of April 23, says :—Last night
the report was circulated here, though it is in all probabi-
lity unfounded, of the death of King Frederick VII.
A letter from Hamburgh of April 24, says :—By the
train last night we received the intelligence that Ecken-
ford had been evacuated by the Danes, who retreated to
the head quarters at Danewieke. There is to be a gene-
ral attack to-day. The Schleswig-Holsteiners form the
right wing ; the troops of the 10th army corps the left
wing ; the Prussians in the centre.
—§-I—CTLY.

The Parliament at Palermo has published a decree that
" 1. Ferdinand Bourbon and his dynasty are for ever
fallen from the throne of Sicily.—Sicily shall govern her-
self constitutionally, and call to the throne an Italian
Prince, as soon as she shall bave,reformed her Ittatuict.