The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-06 00:00:00

THE WAR.

Tbe Dermas papers explain the difibrence between
the mobiliation of half the Federal contingents pro-
posed by Metre at the Frankfort Diet and the
invasivelicAaft proposed by Bavaria, and carried
with the consent of Prussia, to be that ander the
brow arrangement orders would at once be given
to prepare the army to take the field j while under
the latter the contingents would still be left in a posi-
tion to seed fourteen days' notice befew it oosld
march. The chief point, however, which Prussia,
tame, and Baxony have gained by the recent vote
Is that before that fourteen days' notice can be given
the confederates must again be consulted, and may
again delay and maim most indispensable measures
W the answer of " no instructions,* and other formal
diSculties. _ _

The Committee of the Wartemberg Chamber has
jot voted. by a large majority, a bill for increasing
the strength of the army.
• Letters from Cracow of the 29th ult. state that the
milway from Vienna continued to be used almost
caslastvely in the =avenues of munitions of war
and materiel of every. description to Lemberg. On
the other hand, every item of intelligence we receive
from Poised confirms the fact that the concentration
of troops is going on there every day on a more for-
midable scale than ever. It is chiefly on the right
bank of the Vistula that the largest military forme
are now stationed eve echelon. From that quarter
they eau, in every case, keep up their communication
with Warsaw without great difficulty, and make the
citadel of Alexander their basis, while the Austrian
army, in sue of a defeat, can always find rallying
points under the gees of the fortresses Przempol,
Oleatits, and Cracow. These old defensive works
have been thoroughly restored during the last year
sad armed in the most formidable manner.
A letter from the Polish frontier, dated Jan. 29,
states that General Hess has been indefatigably in-
specting the formation of the new railways, and the
making of main roads and eres►roads. Bridges
have bean built wherever they were wanted, and all
the old roads thoroughly repaired. At Tarnow 600
men are working on the railroad in spits of the frost
and heavy falls of snow. Great progress has been
made is the construction of the road from Edow
through Zaklaesyn to Biers, and the bridge across
the Biala near Tachow is quite finished.
The Lieutenant Field Marshal Count Clam left
Vienna on the 30th ult. for Cracow, and General
Count Schlick on the next day, for the same place.
The Issdepowisnos says:—'" We hear from Vienna
that Austria lain treaty with France respecting an
auxiliary corps of 150,000 men."
Very many Continental journals circulate the state-
ment that a French army corps, destined to act on
the frontiers of Russia, is about to march through
Germany. The Cologne Conte says:
The French trees, which will be eosoentrated on the
"adhere frontier of Bohemia, era to proceed to that locality
through Vienna.
, The Post Gazette, of Frankfort, states that an ar-
rangement has been concluded between France and
,(►ustria, with respect to the passage of Piedmontese
troops through the Austrian territory. The letter
adds, that a conference took place on the subject
between M. Drouyn de Lhuys and the Prussian
Ambassador at Paris,
Another mount states that, in order not to roues
the jealousies of the German Confederation, the
French army will make its way to the frontiers of
Buena by way of Piedmont, Lombardy, and Vienna;
and that it will march as soon as it shall become
evident, in the course of the conferences at Vienna,
that Russia was not sincere in her offer to accept the
four guarantees as the basis of peace.
According to the Danube (Journal of Violas),
letters from hew, of the 26th January, state that
numerous reinforcements are bong sent to the
Crimea. Two divisions of Grenadiers, more than
15,000 Tirailleure from Siberia and Orenburg, and
15 battalions of reserve have occupied Pertkop. A
third corps, commanded by General Read, holds the
second line of Bessarabia—its columns reach as far as
Chotin. Ismail, Kilia, and Bender have received
8,000 men. General Siewers is organising the Baltic
corps; each regiment has 8 battalion of the line and
4 of reserve.
The Corriere Dalian° calculates that Russia will
soon have in Poland a force of 150,000 men under
Prime Paskiewitch.
A treaty of alliance, says the Independents, is
reported to be on the eve of being signed with Por-
tugal on the same conditions as those made in the
recent treaty with Piedmont. The Portuguese legion
wiU, it is said, be 12,000 men. The same journal
learns from Switzerland that recruiting is going
en very actively there for Frame and England.

The German papers agree in repreeenting General
Welden's businese to be, to prepare the way for a
'operate treaty between Prussia, Franco, and Eng-
land. Austria, since the rejection of her proposition
in the Diet, has urged upon the Western Powers the
desirability of a treaty which would at least draw
Prussia closer to the allies, although no one appears
to expect that the cabinet of Berlin is one whit more
disposed than it was six months ago to take part in
the war.