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Alt -mom. lb. OR To-Ilmow—Mornws, 13 36m Afternoon, 2b. 2331. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11. THE opinions and intentions of the late Pre sident of the Poor-law Board concerning the treatment of the sick poor of London may, we presume, be fairly, deduced from the important Report just published by Mr. FARNALL of the re sult of his official inspection of all the workhouse infirmaries of London. He wisely starts by accepting as a standard that which Mr. Viniaas had accepted publicly, arid which we shall all be disposed to acknowledge as an authority, the brief statement signed by Sir THOMAS WATSON, M.D., Sir WILLIAM ?HMI:180N, Sir JAMES CLARK, Dr. BURROWES, Dr. JAMS; and: others of the most highly eminent of the medical authorities, who had set down 1s minima of what could be accephok.'as suitable accommodation for sick prams under any public charge, a brief series of /Squire meats, calculated, as Mr. Paint infotiked the President, on a scale at least one-third loftier in all respects than that which is recogniadd and em ployed in the voluntary hospitals et London for the casual poor, and in some respects, we may add, considerably inferior to the recognised standard for the sick convict. It will certainly be admitted on all hands that the sick ratepayers and the poor chargeable on their parish, and legally recognised as an admitted charge of the State, are entitled to no leas consideration than this in their time of sickness and infirmity. These desiderata include 1,000 cubic feet of space, and 80 feet of floor space per bed ; suitable construction and site for hospital wards ; nursing by a paid and trained staff, not less than three for fifty patients (the hospital regulation is usually three to twenty) ; resident medical officers ; classifica tion of patients, and separation of lunatics, im beciles, and epileptics from the sick and bed ridden; and a supply of drugs, in which the medical ofilcers have no pecuniary interest. Mr. Faorint reports, as might be expected, that these desiderata are not to be found united in any workhouse in firmary in London ; none combine them all ; and the majority do not supply any of them. The average of cubical space is very little over 500 feet—half the supply of sick convicts, less than half that of sick soldiers, barely a third of that af forded to any vagrant, who has no claim upon a parish and no " settlement," but is carried to the nearest hospital. Five hundred feet is the aver age, 206 feet is the lowest, and is found at Marylebone, a parish of which the guardians have been the most energetic and insulting in their attacks upon those who first laid these facts before the public. We can state that there is certainly one workhouse in London where, during the winter, the women and children have had less than 200 feet of air, and as 300 feet is, we believe, the minimum which is permitted even in a common lodging-house in tended fur the occupation of healthy people of the lowest grade by night only, so we conclude that if these guardians and those others whose estimated space falls below that terribly low allowance had kept a common lodging-house for the purpose of making a private profit out of the most abandoned characters, instead of administering national relief to decayed parishioners, they would have been liable to be indicted for a common nuisance. Of the forty workhouses only fourteen pre sent facilities for rendering the infirmaries satisfactory in their accommodation, and this by extensive building operations upon the grounds which (surround them ; eleven of the rest can not be so improved by any means, owing to irremediable defects of site and construction. Thirteen could be rendered " available for use " if " half the beds now in the sick wards could be " drawn." But, if they were so drawn, where are the sick occupants of the beds so removed to be sheltered? The parishes are bound to provide for them ; and they could only do so by providing buildings elsewhere. Mr. Faorin.r. concludes that " the difficulty of carrying out even these " suggestions regarding space is almost insuperable, " for it would be necessary to withdraw nearly " one-half of the beds now occupied by the sick " and bed-ridden." But even if this could be overcome, there are other more serious objections to this kind of patchwork, which have been already urged, but which Mr. FARNALL now puts forward as the deliberate result of his long and careful observation of workhouse infirmaries in the metropolis. Pauper nurses are incapable, cruel, and unfit for the duties entrusted to them. The medical officers are overworked and underpaid ; the airing-grounds and general arrangements for idiots, imbeciles, and harmless lunatics are lamentably and cruelly insufficient ; there are only three resident medical officers to look after the 18,000 nick and disabled persona lodged in the infirmaries. But the 'HE ,EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY DrOKG, JULY 11, 1 Board has no power to compel bosollepf gulag to build infirmaries for the oc.k goer, to medical o ffi cers adequately, or to -provide dr and its urgent representations *we repeatedly 1 slighted. The final result at whichAlr. Fare arrives is that which Mr. Him has from the first, and since, repeatedly urged upon the public atten tion ; it is that which we have from independent observation and judgment repeatedly advocated, that which Mr. Vna.isas avowed himself prepared to adopt, that which public opinion has sanctioned, and which we trust will be universally accepted and carried out without delay. He expresseis it thus—" I think that hospitals should be built " apart from the metropolitan workhouses for the " reception of the sick poor, and that the cost " of building and maintaining these hospitals, and "of supporting the sick poor in theni, should be " defrayed by a common rating of the metropolis, " based upon its rateable value ; for I am sure, in " the first place, that the present pressure of the " rates intolerably unequal, and I am also " sure that no ingenuity of contrivance can " render the majority of the present sick wards in " any way equal to the just requirements of " sound medical science." These are words which express clearly and forcibly the convictions at which most of us have arrived as the result of un official inquiries ; it is satisfactory to find an officer of the Government speaking so distinctly and boldly on this important question, and as these are the precise considerations laid before the Poor-law Board by Lord CASNARVON, a member of the present Cabinet, we hope that the present Administration will not be slow in giving effect to them. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE WAR.--TIIE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S ADDRESS. The Tines has never read sadder words than those which the Emperor of Austria addresses to his people. Never has a state been struck by a greater and more sudden calamity : the supremacy of Austria over Germany is gone ; the projected conquest of Berlin is turned into fear for the safety of Vienna. All is lost, unless the intercession of a foreign potentate stay the progress of the invaders. Yet in this misfortune the Emperor does not lose his dignity, and the address he has Just issued will move the hearts ot all who read it. But though Austria must undoubtedly yield much and leave the leadership of the fatherland to her rival, we do not expect to see the empire submit to the last indignities or conquest. Were her hereditary possessions threatened by Prussia—if it were an nounced that the King demanded the permanent ces sion of Bohm* the old obstinate spirit of the Austrian Caesars would.show itself as of yore, and neither inefficient generals not inferior arms would prevent Austria from trying the ehancee of another campaign. But the new movemenietof Pruawia and Italy only show that both are true to tfielr alliance, and are far from excluding the hope of an kiroistice. !l wing in another article the battle of &doers, a 11Cfi de gion of which from the Austrian side has now oo me t o , the Times comes to the conclusion that the : e did not disprove the supremacy attributed to the e-gun, and that the defect of strategy as regards that battle for which General Itenedek is blamed, was probably a defect of, means, though what passed proves that the Atuttrian strategy was bad in not resisting the Prussian armies in the passes from Saxony and Silesia, inasmuch as it was shown that it was only where natural advantages countervailed the advantage of a broach-loading rifle that any equality of force between the combatants was pocaible. As the Daily News reads the imperial address, the Emperor is lending all his energies to prepare for a renewal of the war, and like the other belligerents, does not desire the armistice so ardently as the Emperor of the French desires it, excepting so far as Italy is concerned. What Prussia simply wants is to be left to form a united Germany and to thrust Austria out of the organisation of the German nation, and we must venture to think that a power which rest on a population in which the German elemont is in a proportion of lees than one 4 1 four, should have something else to do than seeking for predominance over homogeneous German states. A heavy blow has been struck, but the vitality of the monarchy is not even threatened, and the Daily News can only hope that the Emperor's advisers will be able to take a clear view of the situation, and distinguish between what is really worth fighting for as belonging to the real interests of the empire, and those pot lions of its traditionary and obsolete pol'ey which may be abandoned with advantage to the whole state. The Post thinks it is not to be supposed that Austria has no reasonable hopes in taking the fickl. It is doubt less true that Victor Emmanuel would consent to no arrangement by which his ally would be left to bear the entire brunt of the Austrian forces, but it may be that his consent will not be asked. The cabinets of Paris and St. Petersburg evidently feel that the allies have gone far enough, and that no further attempt should be made to weaken Austria. It remains to be seen whether Prussia and Italy will learn to be wise in time. Prussia, the Star assumes, has no wish to strip Austria of any territory Austria possesses. She merely desires that Austria shall be depraved of all right to think herself or call herself Germany. Prussia is determined to be Ger many, as Piedmont, under Cavour, was resolved to be Italy. This is the question at stake in the war. There is nothing in the imperial manifesto which denotes ► posi tive determination to contest this point at all risks. There- fore it does not discourage, but perhaps rather encourages, the hope of a possible peace. Ifrel:69 in ell4 " gall 4 1 11.161111 ' 1 es no .judge would adviie • rd a true hill for Illuder against Mr. lest jury Od act nOlin suit advice, tlait no NOW coo him or Oultilaa, dadtlyil na would recommend her Ma to allsw thel law to take its course. His act may We been highly " criminal," as it is criminal to plunge a nation into an unnecessary war ; but unless it could be shown that .ha les ratuated by personal malice,. like Governor Wall, it would be equally • violation of law and common sense to identify it with murder. The Times hears with . ranch satisfaction that Mrs. Gordon herself is not Insensible to this consideration, sad doubts whether she has been well advised in lending herself to tivs proneedings. Though • dangerous agitator, her hissUnd was cruelly wronged, and the victim of • grievous error of judgment on the pert of Mr. Eyre ; but, in the talemmee of a malicious intent, no individual can be singled out as his murderer. This being so, Mrs. Gordon will place herself in a far more favourable position by abandon. ing the idea of revenge, and seeking other means of redress. In a petition presented on her behalf to the House of Commons by Mr. Mill she asks for justice, but such • re quest obviously could not be granted while the petitioner was engaged in a prosecution which must involve the de cision of this very issue by a court of law. The Herald, after restating the circumstances of the Jamaica outbreak from its own peculiar point of view, does not think it strange that " negrophilists " like the members of the Jamaica committee should talk of prose cuting Mr. Eyre for murder, although, to sane and sober minds, the proposal appears too utterly absurd to be seri ously entertained. that no tin (curt. OSBORNE, JULY 10. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, went out yesterday afternoon, and walked in the grounds this morning. Her Majesty held a council at half-past one o'clock to day, at which the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Nal mesbuzy, and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote were present. The Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Tankerville, Earl Cadogan, Lord Colville, Lord Burghley, Viscount Royston, and Mr. Cave were sworn in as mem bers of the Privy Council, and took their seats at the Board. Previous to the council the Bari of Besaborough.Viscount Sydney, the Marquis of Ai'ciliary, Lord Foley, the Earl of Dncie, the Enrl of Cork, Viscount Cast'arouse, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, and Lord Proby delivered to her Majesty their wands of offioe, which were conferred upon the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Bradford, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Tankerville, Earl Cadogan, Lord Colville, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord Burghley, and Viscount Royston. The Earl of Devon was sworn in as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Mr. Helps was clerk of the council. Mr. Gooch was clerk of the council of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Prince of Wales, attended by major Grey, inspected the brewery of Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co. yesterday. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Confess of Morton, in the afternoon. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales went to a ball given by Lord and Lady Carrington, at the- resi dence, Whitehall. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial. *Moe, from the Governors of Gibrdtar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Labuan. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—(THIS DAY.) --..-- WIMBLEDON, WZDNIIIIDAY Moaxmo. Last night a pleasant evening was spent in the different camps ; amateur concerts, vocal and instru mental, being beard at every position of the common. The First Surrey Rifles, who have appropriated a very nice portion of the ground to their use (called the Mac donald Heights), tastefully decorated their tents with candles, Chinese lanterns, &c., and were honoured by the presence of a very large audience. The " tattoo" sounded at 11 o'clock, and the company re tired to their respective streets, or "lines," as they are called here, and nothing was heard or seen except the Surrey Volunteer Firemen going their rounds to see that all was safe. Great preparations are being made in the theatre for the dramatic perform• ances by the St. George's Rifles, the first of which is to take place this evening. A &imp of Paper and Done on RNA Sides, are the pieces selected. The band of the London Scottish will form the orchestra, and there is every reason to believe it will be a genuine success. On Monday next IVoodawk's Lade Game, the second act of Tat Critic, and the farce of A Fearful Tragedy will be rendered. The stage arrangements are under the super intendence of Mr. Dominick Murray (of the Princess's Theatre), and Corporal Platts, and the following ladies have consented to assist:—Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss E. Harris, Miss Austin, Miss Harvey, and Miss M. We are glad to be able state that the hospital and sur gical tent, which is under Dr. Westmacott (of the London Scottish), Dr. Wyatt, and Assistant-Surgeon Johnson, is unoccupied—no accidents having been reported up to this time. To-day commences the shooting in the first stage of the Queen's Prise, which is at the 200 yards range, and it is expected to be very good the weather is very fine, the sun very hot, and no wind. There are about 2,000 entries for it. The other prizes to be shot for to-day are :—The Duke of Cam bridge prize. First series extra prizes :—The Secretary of State for War, the Albert, the Daily Telegraph, the Alexandra Prize. Second series extra prizes, and the Enfield Association Cup. Yesterday the Prince of Wales visited the brewery of Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co., at Spitalfields, and spent a considerable time in vies ing the various departments of that great establishment. His royal highness was accompanied by the Duke of Stahel-- land, and attended by Colonel Grey. Before the Prinoe left the yard the men surrounded him at a respectful dis- tance, and raised a peal of hurrahs which must have been heard at a long distance from the brewing. The cheers were taken up by a dense crowd outside, who gave his royal highness an enthusiastic greeting as he appeared in the street. The Prince of Wales subsequently honoured the firm by his company at luncheon. Lord and Lady Houghton entertained at dinner yesterday, at their house in Brook-street, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, the Earl Cadogan, the Earl of Bective and Lady Madeline Taylour, Lady Marian Alford, Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Prince Borghese, Viscount St. Asaph, Viscount Jocelyn, Hon. Mrs. Norton, &c. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS. —MF. Eastwick, late Secretary of Legation in Persia, author of the " Auto biography of Lutfullah," and other works on India, has been appointed Private Secretary to Lord Cratiborne.— We believe that the Right Hon. S. Cave will ap point Mr. W. Emerson Tennent to be his Private Secretary. Mr. Tennent was formerly Private Secretary to Earl Percy, Mr. Hutt, and Mr. MonselL —Mr. Ward-Hunt, the Financial Secretary to the Trea sury, has appointed Mr. Welby as his Private Secretary. —Mr. Welby occupied the same position with Mr. Laing, Mr. Peel, and Mr. Childers in the late government.—Col. Taylor, the Patronage Secretary of the Treasury, has ap pointed Mr. Clement his Private Secretary.—Lord Bel more, the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, has appointed Mr. Wharton his Pri vate Secretary.—Mr. Whitmore, M.P. 'for Bridg north, has been appointed a Lord of the Treasury. We are informed that the Hon. Reginald Abbot, eldest son of Lord Colchester, is likely to be appointed Plivate Secretary to Mr. Disraeli.—We are informed that Sir Graham Montgomery, Bart., M.P. for Peeblesshire, will be the Scotch Lord of the Treasury.—We understand that as Lord Henniker is abont to be raised to the House of Lords as a Peer of the United Kingdom, his eldest son, the Hon. Major Henniker, will be a candidate for the representation of East Suffolk, in the room of his father.—Owl. Tax CHIEF BARON. —ln the course of a few days Sir F. Pollock, Lord Chief Baron, will retire, and Sir F. Kelly will become Chief Baron. A garden at Trowbridge, in Wilts, has produced strawberries this year some of which measure nearly eight inches in circumference. ~~~~ INTELLIG: ANSI LORD DERBY'S SPEECH. The Tines goes over the speeches of Lord Derby and Lord Russell in a sense favourable to the former, though it i■ slightly amused at his lordship's picture of mutual approx imation and of liberal self-denying conservatism. Our contemporary repeats the accusation against Lord Russell that he invited the liberal majority to take the oath of allegiance in the shape of a Reform Bill, concerted not with it or with its leaders, but with an isolated minority, having little in common with the rest, and not even sym. pathy. The majority had not obeyed the summons, partly from dislike to the matter, partly from suspicion of the 'tierce. But there began and ended the relations of the liberal government with the liberal majority, with which there never was confidence, ►nd whose confidence could not therefore be lost. The Daily !Ines observes that Lord Derby starts in business with • declaration of "no effects ;" and it must be some subtle sense of analogy—the °pennon of some latent sympathy—which leads him to restrict his programme of domestic legislation to the congenial subjects of bank ruptcy and pauperism. As to the constitution of his ministry—between a " liberal conservative " and • " conservative liberal," Lord Derby says, there is really no difference at all ; while Sir Edward Rut. wer Lytton, on the other hand, has declared that they have as much resemblance as a horse chestnut has to a chestnut horse. As for tories of the old school, whose praises are the constant theme of Mr. Disraeli's prose and Lord John Manners' verse, Lord Derby scarcely believes in their existence. The Doily News would refer him, how ever, to General Peel and Lord Cranborne, and thinks no one can doubt that the sympathies and convictions of the head of the government are with this the least liberal portion of it. Without suspecting them of a desire for war, it is to be hoped that their pacific intentions will have • sounder foundation than Lord Derby's political economy and history. That landlords, for whom war means rising or falling rents, have • greater stake in the presses ration of peace than artisans and shopkeepers, for whom it means starvation or bankruptcy, is • doctrine which could have been propounded only in • House of Lords. That the re puted warlike tendencies of toryism have no foundation in past facts, is an assertion which could have been made only by one whose historic researches have omitted the history of the past hundred years. It is not their belligerence that is to be feared, but the exercise of their " good offices "by foreign powers. At the present time, a European settle. went framed by an English tory cabinet, in cones t with France and Russia, will scarcely bear thinking of, and the bare chance of it makes a few months of Lord Derby seem perilous. THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE. The nett& thinks its quite peasible that an exciting discussion on Jamaica affairs may still be raised by the 31111111.11 ft THE t l e r //to is TRESH CObfPLI . CA . received to-day AM6 scene of war adds little or nothing to our previa information. The Prussians continue to advent slowly, and by the last accounts the head quar ters of Prince Frederick Charier were at Zwittau, a station south of Pardubita on the line of railway leading to Brunn and Vienna. While the proposals for the armistice are going en the Prussians are making good use of their time, and are so far on the road to Vienna that in all probability the Austrian government will de cide on not attempting any further resist ance till the enemy reaches the Danube and appears before the capital of the empire. The fact of Cialdini having crossed the Po is confirmed, and, as it appears, without meeting the least re sistance. It is also re-affirmed that the Austrian troops in Italy are being drafted off in great num bers to Vienna. But simultaneously with this news comes the announcement by telegram from Vienna, and also from Toulon, that the French iron-clad fleet was preparing to leave, if it had not already left, for the Adriatic, and that Prince Napoleon was to leave Paris yesterday evening on a special mission to his father-in-law, the King of Italy. It is not stated with what object, but it may be conjectured that it is for the purpose of preventing the Italians from pressing on the retiring Austrians. The Italian press is almost unanimous in protesting against any possession of Venetia except by force of arms. This will be seen from a few specimens : The italic' of Florence says :—" The Italian people demand that the army shall seize on Venetia, and that the deliverance of that province shall be due only to Italian hands, and we are sure that what we state will be done." The Opini ons publishes along article which seems written under the same dictation as that just quoted, and which terminates thus :—" Proceeding with reflection and calmness, but with unshakeable firmness, the King's government will save the honour and the rights of the nation. United and allied to Prussia, let us move onward with resolu tion." The Turin Gazette desires the adoption of the programme which Count de Bismarck summed up in two words :—" To Vienna !" The Milan Gazette mentions tke demands of Prussia for the armistice, and adds :—" We think that our government, on its side, will insist on guarant3es, and will order its army to march for ward." The Paris journals, on the other hand, employ very different language, and express their astonish ment at such an invasion, at the very moment when any act of the kind was totally unnecessary. It would indeed be a very singular result of the present position of affairs if Italy, disregarding the advice of France, should determine to join her fortunes for good or for evil with Prussia, and endeavour to accomplish that which the journals of both countries at one time said was the real object of the war—the total dismemberment of the Aus trian empire. The Berlin proposals, it is stated, are that Austria should be pushed out of the German Federation, and that Hesse, Hanover, and Saxony should be incorporated with Prussia. From another source, said to be authentic, the Italian proposals are : " 1. If Venetia is ceded to the Emperor Napo leon the final transfer must be made by Austria hampered by no conditions with regard to Rome. " 2. That the question of the district of Trent should be recognised as one to be discussed." Suppoaing these facts to be correct, it is evident, if the Emperor of Austria is determined to carry on the war to the " last extremity" rather than submit to dishonourable and humiliating terms, that there is little chance of seeing its speedy termination. In Vienna great confidence is felt in the Emperor Napoleon, and if we rely on the statement of the official Vienna Abendpust, his line of policy is becoming more accentuated, fur it is asserted that he is about to assume au attitude of armed mediation. It appears in a correspondence from Paris that the satisfaction and confidence with which the note in the Munittur were at first received have given place in many quarters to grave anxiety, and ru mours floated of the Corps Legislatif being convoked, of large subsidies being asked for, and of the calling out of the reserves in the expectation of a general war. A contrary opinion also prevailed, and it was hoped that by the intervention of France united with England and Russia the armistice would be effected and peace ultimately secured. THE LATE AUSTRIAN DEFEAT. From a lofty tower commanding the Prague gateway, whence Josephstadt on the north and the whole of the positions of the armies were displayed as if on a raised map, the special correspondent of the Times saw the whole of the late battle of Sadowa looking on a scene in which every village was vomiting forth fire and smoke, every knoll the scene of murderous conflict, every valley the indiscriminate grave of thousands of men, every cornfield covered with the full harvest of death, and trodden under foot by furious legions before day was done. From this point the main incidents of the battle could be followed. At one moment "My God, Imilovitz is in flames," exclaimed the guardian of the tower. The officers who was in the tower said " Ja so!" and "Hem !" and uttered various other sounds of varied import possibly, smoked their cigars, and looked on, Soon after "Gott in Himmel:" cried the guardian of the tower, " Sadowa burns now !" From the left of Klum to the Prague road, and beyond it, all was fire and smoke. The tumult of voices was dread ful, and such as is never to be heard save in some such awful agony of bailie. Soon there were six or seven villages and hamlets on fire from left to right. The battle was assuming a more awful and tremendous aspect, and the faint rays of sunshine which shot at intervals through the lifting clouds only gave the scene greater terror. Horses with out riders careered among the wounded, who were crawling all over the plain, dismounted dragoons dragged themselves to the rear, and men came crawling along in such numbers that they ap peared like a broad fringe to the edges of the battle, At length a wedge growing broader and driven in more deeply every instant was forced into the very body of the Austrian army, separating it at the heart and dividing its left and centre from the right. The troops in the centre and left were dis mayed at hearing the enemy's guns in their rear, and were soon exposed to the fire which most of all destroys the morale of soldiers already shaken by surprise. Chests and Visa were now burning, so that from right to left the flames of ten villages, and the flashes of guns and musketry, °untended with the sun that pierced the clouds for the honour of illuminating the seas of steel and the fields of carnage. It was 3 o'clock. The efforts of the Austrians to occupy Blum sad free their centre had failed, their right was driven down in a helpless mass towards Koniggratz, quivering and palpitating as shot and shell tore through it. " Alla lit terieren ," Artillery still thundered with a force and violence whisk might have led a stranger to such scenes to ~~5.,,f..;..-. y r---- no curry.could withstand it. The Austrian still Yang like white thunder-clouds on toni flanks, and threeleed the front of the Prus k them kr square and solid columns. s tim;jesins were streaming away from ggrats, placing the Elbe and Adler between 6 -, tismn and the enemy. The grip of the Prussians could not be shaken. Word was brought to me to leave at once, for the city gates were about being closed, and the gunners on the walla were laying their pieces to cover the in undations and the causeways. One more glance showed a very hell of fire—own-fields, highways, slopes, and dells, and hill-sides covered with the slain—the pride and might of Austria shattered and laid low. What happened more I can only tell from hearsay. But lam told that at the last the Austrian horse saved all that was not lost, and in brilliant charges rolled back the tide of Pruden infantry ; that the gunners threw their pleas into the Elbe and into the inundated fields as they re treated ; that men were drowned in hundreds M they crowded over pontoon bridges hastily laid and sunk or burnt era the columns could cross over: that luggage trains, reserve ammunition, guns, and prisoners, the spoils of that enormous host, fell into the hands of the victors, who remained masters of that bard-fought field, covered for nine miles with myriads of the slain. Well might Be nedek exclaim, " All is lost but my life ! Would to God I bad lost that too !" The correspondent thinks that the Austrian looses including prisoners amount to 25,000, and the loss of guns from 150 to 180, though it would not astonish him to hear it was more. Marshal Benedek's means he considers were not inadequate• The battle was not unexpected, and the posi tion was favourable. His army consisted of at least 225,000 men, but a large deduc tion must be made for the baggage guards, the various escorts, the garrisons of Josephstadt and Koniggrats, the sick, and those tired by march ing, and the killed, wounded, and prisoners in recent actions—so that, probably, he had not more than 190,000 or 195,000 actually in hand. The ground he had to oover from right to left was about nine miles in length. Gene ral Benedek spent, it appears, the previous day in arranging for the battle, but his plans were only communicated to his chief of the staff, Count Henichstein, who is now deprived of command, and if General Benedek had fallen in the momeut+ d victory it'ia very likely his generals would not hive known how he intended to use it. "So people say, at all events. But, oddly enough, we are always hearing in camp of gcaerals betraying secrets to the enemy, and the fear of treason is epidemic." EUROPE ARMED. In the present position of Europe the following statement, drawn from official sources, of the armies on a war footing, is not without interest : " France, 903,617 ; Prussia, 650,000 ; Austria, 651,612 ; Italy, 424,193 ; Russia, 1,200,000 ; England, 265,000, not including 230,000 volunteers ; Germanic Confederation, 407,361 ; Spain, 171,900; Portugal, 64,118; Holland, 92,000 ; Sweden and Norway, 137,800 ; Den mark, 41,940 ; Switzerland, 198,291 ; Belgium, 80,650 ; Turkey, 341,580 ; Egypt, the Danubian Principalities, Montenegro, and Servia, 152,000 ; the Roman States, 12,000; making a total of 5,996,062!" BELGIUM.-TOUR OF THE KING. The Indipenclance Edge has the following : Yesterday King Leopold 11. commenced a national tour to the same places where in 1831 and 1860 his august father received popular ovations. Ghent was the first city visited by his Majesty. In any case the royal visit would have a political significance. In ordinary eircum_ stances it would be a sort of compliment to the enthusiastic reception given to the young prince on the 17th of December, 1865, in the capital. Now, in the distant roar of the cannon, the visit which the Bing is about to make to the prin cipal centres of population w;11 have a special meaniug— it will give the countty a fine and an exceptional occasion to affirm its dynastic and national sentiments. The huifpendance then proceeds to give a long account of the reception of the King and Queen by the people of Ghent, wbich seems to have been a most enthusiastic one. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE PROPOSED ARMISTICE. PARIS, JULY 11. The Muniteur of this morning contains no com munication relative to the armistice. VIENNA, JtLY 10, Eviornia. (Delayed in transiniaaion.) The Aberuip,t (evening edition of the official Wiener Z.-dung), says : " The Emperor of the French has taken fresh steps of an energetic diameter to effect the conclu sion of an armistice. " The French fleet is on its way to Venice, and General Lebceuf, the French Commissioner, has been ordered to occupy Venetia. General Froissart has been sent to tha Prussian head-quarters to announce the armed mediation of the Emperor of the French. " It is the pronounced will of the Emperor of the French that Austria should not be weakened in her position as a great power. " The army of the south is evacuating Venetia and has commenced the march northwards." THE PRUSSIAN DEMANDS. PARIS, JULY 11. The Journal des Debats of to-day says :—" We have reason to believe that Prussia persists in ex cluding Austria from the Germanic Confederation, and maintains her project of Federal reform. She also demands the incorporation of Electoral Hesse, Saxony, Hanover, and the Elbe Duchies with Prussia." AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE GERMANIA. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 11. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, from New York on the 30th ult., has arrived. She brings 112 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 180,000 dollars for Eng land, and 22,920 dollars for Hamburg. The Germania experienced thick weathe throughout the voyage, and on the 10th instant was detained 11 hours by fog. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 11. The Inman Company's steamship City of New York arrived here at 7.15 a.m. with the mails, 84,576 dollars in specie, and 211 passengers. She landed 57 passengers and proceeded at 7.25 a.m. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. The following telegram has been received by Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) at 1.38 p.m. on the 11th July, from Mr. R. A. Class, director of the Telegraph Construction an Maintenance Company (Limited) : VA LENTIA, JULY 11. Her Majesty's frigate Racoon left this morning to join the cable fleet, which is awaiting the arrival of the steam-ship Medway, supposed to be detained by fog, which has prevailed on this coast since Sunday last. It is now quite clear and sea calm. May expect to complete splice to-morrow. The following answer is recorded of the Empress to a marshal who expressed to her his admiration for the courage she had displayed daring her recent visit to the cholera patient. at Amiens :—" Monsieur, c'ert noire msniere d'aller au feu "—(" Sir, it is thus we go under fire "). EXPRESS FROM PA] (noM °um OWN 001116PON0IM PARIS, TUKHDI I have reason to think, is;twitb;t: sanguine paragraphs in the evening the prospects of the armistice are v promising. The argument that be Napoleon is Victor Emmanuel's son-ix old supporter of the Italian cause, h of a mission to Italy is proof that the exactly as his patron st the Tuileries wi me a very weak one for many re Emperor has a great--almost a dupes in preventing his mediation—a mediation, be it remembered—froi the ground. Should it do so, his suddenly raised to the highest pin little paragraph in the Moniteur, wh the illuminations last week, will cos many degrees ; and wars are in the ducted so swiftly that unless he ma plunge France into a great war with which it will be extremely difficult I plausible justification, he will not ge territory from anybody. The c Prussia and Italy seems to be the speedily push on the astounding *Aver gained by Prussia, they may achieve j which it will be very difficult for Fri Cialdini has crossed the Po, and is n Verona, while 80,000 Austrians al been withdrawn from the Quadrilate Vienna. The Muniteur du Spit manifest vexation that the " better that the Austrians will offer no re then it peevishly says the " entry o forces upon an undefended territoi event of any great military sign apprehend Italy will not be much this taunt. The Italians say fairly their " defeat " of Customs did go their common cause with Prussia be I would not in all likelihood have gains battle of Wows had not the : 150,000 of the best Austrian trop One of the rumours of this eve Prince Napoleon is commissio and take possession of Verona by wi seisin of the cession of Venetia ti Cialdini should be beforehand witi seems quite upon the cards, the an the Tuileries would be sadly disturbs fully admitted by the government the brag about Venetia having been in French territory by the telegraphic nonsense. They do not dispute the at war with Austria, has a perfect rip warlike operations in the Quadrilat armistice is signed. The Prince d arrived in Paris this morning din King of Prussia's headquarters in Bc the bearer of King William's personal has already seen the Emperor. Thei cations that the interview was conclu not believe it was satisfactory. The Bourse is sustained by the fac stimulated by the enormous rise c having oversold themselves, and also which command belief there that the certain. Rente to-day fell 10c. for 4 for account, closing at Mfr. 30c. an Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c., and there wai Italian. Despatches from Cherbourg and that the fleets in both ports hate rei orders. M. de la Ponterie, now a nClacteur and lately on the staff of the Frulice, the author of two articles which lat without signature in a review—one King of the Belgians and the other o of Cieaar"—is gazetted in the Mod morning a Chevalier of the Legion of " exceptional services." THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT Z EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF D: (From the Brig/tem Gu irdian of ti In our columns will be found the inquest on the body of Mrs. Warder, wife with whom she had been lodging a.t a hot square. The lady had died there under su stances, and the medical men engaged in refused to certify any natural cause of de was communicated with, and the first stag opened. The facts then disclosed were of that Dr. Warder was placed under the our police. It is said that on the day of applied to a Ilhton chemist for som the chemist refused to sell him any. Not transp;red since then till Monday morning, constable (Mr. George White) was in pos-e. that Dr. Warder had gone by train to Lond evening intelligence was brought that he h. appears he went back to his lodgings in where he had remained since the death of whence, on Saturday, he followed her corp. There was nothing vet) , unusual in his d when Miss Lansdell, the landlady, an. went to bed about 11 o'clock on he was in his sitting•room. There is scan that as soon se he ascertained Miss Landed vant were gone to bed lie quietly let him front door; for at half-past 11 he enter Hotel and asked for a bed. He was then . bac and was taken by the servants to have Brighton. When a room was indicated I go to bed at once, and went upstairs direr morning his room was not vacated like the out the hoteL As the forenoon wore on, sleep of the new arrival was, of noun of conversation and speculation among but it was not till 2 o'clock in the after active steps were taken. The room that hour, and Dr. Warder was found having apparently been dead some hours. not then known at the hotel ; but on the his room was found a letter addressed to Mi as soon as this fact was made known to the the idea of the real truth was given which absolute proof by the sight of the unto body. Close beside the body was a boo prussic acid, and the medical men called doubt from the appearance of the body caused by that poison. In one of the clothes was a box containing two pills, w be, mainly, a strong preparation of laud. His watch, keys, km were all found in the Meanwhile his absence from his lodgings When he did not appear at his usual ho, looked into his bedroom and found that hi The front door also was found on the lat thought he might have gone out early fc his lengthened absence Miss Lundell we. room and it was then found that the be lain in all night. Still not much anxiety when Miss Lanadell first heard the news fi she was no leas surprised than shocked. The letter left for her by the utifortu request that she would forward an encl Miss Godding, at Brompton. The letter • the chief constable, and, we believe, will the inquest. It asks Miss Godding to t valuables, Ise. We believe it will transp ceased hail four children whom he placed iu care. It is thought that the journey of the u to London and back was for the purpos the poison. There might have been sof doing so at Brighton. His going to the may have been the vagary of a nimlinan ; had the object of preventing further anxiety to Mus Lansdell. We believe tha was about 43 years of age. We believe we are but forestalling evidei brought forward in the course of the pendii when we add that the unfortunate suicide viously married. His first wife, we and apart from him for some time, but died cohabitation. The life of his second wife, are informed, eight months after marriage, His third wife (Miss Busmen) brought Ina marriage portion. The coroner's inquiry into the unfortunal will take place to-day. Lieutenant Broglie, of the Franc resigned hie eonuniasion to enter iato holy i II