The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

The Cologne Gazette copies a statement of the Bremer
Zeitung to the effect that a Prussian vessel which passed
through the Sound on the 28th ultimo was fired upon by
the batteries nn chime, and that come damage was done to
her rigging. The Cologne Gazette adds that the veracity
of this statement is very doubtful.
A letter from Rendsburgh, in the Cologne Gazette,
states that the provisional government have despatched a
letter, containing a summary of their grievances, to the
King of Denmark. They add that they have taken the
direction of affairs upon themselves in order to prevent
the impending dangers of anarchy, and to open the way
to an amicable understanding.
A letter from the Eider, of the 31st ultimo, in the Bre-
meir Zeitung, reports that a strong firing of artillery and
musketry was that day heard in the direction of Schleswig
or Eckeruforde. Information was received at Kiel on the
30th (though it can hardly be relied on) that the Danish
war-steamer Hecla had been boarded and taken by the
students of Kiel and a battalion of riflemen.
The Rob Roy, Captain Knocker, from Hamburgh, ar-
rived at Hull, on Sunday, with papers and correspondence
of considerable interest. She left Hamburgh on Friday
morning.

The Danish Minister at Hamburgis has been dismissed,
in consequence, as is alleged, of having refused his pro-
tection and assistance to the many Danish officers and
subjects who had taken refuge in that city when driven
by recent events from the Duchy of Holstein.

It appears that the King of Denmark left Copenhagen
on the sth of April to put himself at the head of his army,
which already amounts to 18,000 men. llis majesty is
expected to have landed this day at Fredericia, the most
southern port in Jutland, and the nearest to Colding,
where the Danish army is concentrated, which town,
being on the very bOrder of Schleswig, is forty-five miles
due north of Flensburg.
There P"pZars to be the greatest enthusiasmon both
sides. The volunteers for the Danish army are said to
arrive in shoals ; they seem determined to make a
vigorous struggle.
The Danish fleet is being prepared with all possible
despatch, and the government has announced its inten-
tion of making reprisals upon German and Prussian vessels,
and to blockade Stettin, Dantsic, Memel, and other ports.
They have seven ships already equipped.
The Prussian division of 5000 men has passed through
Hamburgh into Holstein.
The Hanoverians are at Stade, on the southern bank of
the Elbe, and will immediately cross that river to Gluck-
stadt, marching thence upon Itzchoe, en route to Rends-
burg.__

A:discount bank has been commenced at Hamburgh.
The island of Alsen continues in possession of about
800 Danes. Several of the inhabitants have been appre-
hended and imprisoned by the Danish authorities of the
island, and it is supposed they will be detained in the
Castle of Sonderburg. All communication between the
island and continent is completely intercepted.

RUSSIA.
MANIFESTO OF TIIE EMPEROR

The following manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas has
been published at St. Petersburg and received with the
greatest enthusiasm :

" After the benefits of a long peace the West of Europe finds
itself at this moment suddenly given over to perturbations
which threaten with ruin and overthrow all legal powers and
the whole social system.
" Insurrection and anarchy, the offspring of France, soon
crossed the German frontier and have spread themselves in
every direction with an audacity which has gained new force in
proportion to the concessions of the governments. This de-
vastating plague has at last attacked our allies, the Empire of
Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia, and to-day in its blind
fury menaces even our Russia, that ussia which God has con-
fided to our care.

" But Heaven forbid that this should be ! Faithful to the
example handed down from our ancestors, having first invoked
the aid of the Omnipotent, we are ready to encounter our ene-
mies from whatever side they may present themselves, and
without sparing our own person we will know how, indissolubly
united to our holy country, to defend the honour of the Russian
name, and the inviolability of our territory. We are convinced
that every Russian, that every one of our faithful subjects will
respond with joy to the call of his Sovereign. Our ancient war
cry, ' For our faith, our Sovereign, and our country,' will once
again lead us on the path of victory, and then, with sentiments
of humble gratitude, as now, with feelings of holy hope, we
andwill
submit, for God is on our side.'
eaollpcler,ywith one voice, ' God is on our side, understand this
" Given at St. Petersburg, the 14th (26th) of March, in the
year of Grace, 1848, and the 23d of our reign."

A Paris letter in the Allgemeine Zeitung states that the
foreign diplomatists there do not think that Russia will
engage in a war with Germany in order to keep possession
of Poland. The Emperor Nicholas is expected to leave
the present European movement to itself, even though he
might lose Warsaw, and to turn his whole power towards
the ultimate end of all Russian policy—viz., towards Con-
stantinople. England is the only country which he is
likely to meet in that direction ; but it is thought that he
is prepared to propose a division of the spoils of the Orient
among Russia, England, France, and Greece.