The details of the fall of Diippel reached England on
Monday, and, together with other facts hitherto withheld for prudential reasons, are most ably given in the letters of the correspondent of the Telegraph. The affair seems to have been even a more com- plete mamacre than was at first understood. The Danish loss had long been at the rate of nearly two hundred a day, the men were utterly worn out, such fortifications as they had, destroyed, their guns silenced, and still further to increase the odds they were sur- prised. Not an officer or man in the army had ever entertained a hope of success, and they simply remained within the lines to be slaughtered in obedience to Copenhagen orders. The King of Prussia thanks the Lord of Hosts for this massacre, and the army is told to consider itself covered with glory. Collectively this may appeal to the Prus,ian imagination, but ;unfortunately there are so few Danes to massacre and so many Prussians to do it that the share of glory per man must be infinitesimal.
