The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-04 00:00:00

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The hoping peace, to which the
conVass glie rise, have material an.
within the last 48 hours, and the outbreak oil
seems to be more imminent than ever. The pro-
posal of Austria to convene the estates of Holstein
to decide on question of the Duchy is regarded in
Berlin as a provocative to hostilities, and a ministerial
journal of that capital says that it amounts to a de-
claration of war. The conditions which Austria pro-
poses as preliminary to her appearing at the oon-
ferenoe will have to be referred to the mediating
powers, and will necessitate a further delay in the
assembling of a conference. In the meantime the
preparations for an extensive war are being con-
tinued on all sides. The Italian journals are full
of official orders respecting the calling out
of a squadron of guides, two battalions
of carbineers, and twenty new battalions of
volunteers. It is announced that the number of
volunteers who have presented themselves for en-
rolment to amount to 95,000. Some idea of the
feeling which permeates the Italians in the present
crisis of the nation may be formed from the fact
that 250 Italian volunteers arrived from Egypt,
and presented ,themselves for enrolment at the
depots of Como and Varese. Typhus is said to have
broken out in the Italian army at the frontier, and
the nation is becoming impatient under the tension
in which it is held. Troops are being forwarded
every day to the army of the Po and Peschiers,
the headquarters of the army is swarming with
soldiers. A train containing 100,000 bullets for
the corps of Cialdini has been forwarded, and
orders have been given for an immediate supply of
500,000 pair of boots.
With respect to the Prussian army the Coiner
Zeitung says :
The mobilisation of the army is completed. In a few
days the organisation of the army of operations will also
be completed, when we shall have have 4521 battalions of
infantry, 321 squadrons of cavalry, 1,086 field piens, 72
companies of fortress artillery, nine battalions of
pioneers, to., all ready for action. This is the largest
army that ever Prussia set on foot.
A despatch from Munich announces that the
Bavarian government has ordered a further in-
crease of the army by 18,610 men, to be completed
by the 2nd of July.
The Petit Moniteur announces that a Bavarian
corps has been concentrated under the walls of
Landau—a few leagues distance from the French
frontier of the Meurthe and Moselle.

The Alsatian reports that the government of the
Grand Duchy of Baden has ordered the whole of
its contingent to be placed on a war footing.
According to the Austrian Military Gazette the
Austrian army now amounts to 800,000 men. The
army of operations will consist of 600,000, of whom
350,000 will oppose the Prussians and 250,000 the
Italians.

The Vienna Gazette of May 80 contains the text
of the imperial decree relative to the forced loan in
Venetia. The loan is thus apportioned :—Venioe,
1,273,000 florins ; Verona, 1,862,000 ; Udine,
1,321,000 ; Padua, 1,830,000 ; Vicenrs, 1,841,000 ;
Treviso, 1,328,000 ; Rovigo, 1,039,000 ; Belluno,
308,000 ; Mantua, 1,198,000. Each province is
authorised to apportion its contribution among
the different communes.

(arum% 71:LEGRAMB.)
THE PROPOSED CONFERENOE.
PARIS, Jinn 4.

The Muniteur of this morning confirms the news
that the Austrian replies to the proposals for a
conference contain reservations which must be ex-
amined before the meeting of the plenipotentiaries.
" The negotiations " adds the official journal,
" to which these reservations will give rise, will
necessarily retard for a few days the proposed
meeting of the conference."
The Constitution/id of this morning says :
" The despatches received from Vienna seem to
render extremely difficult the solution of the
questions which agitate Europe. The Austrian
cabinet accepts the conference, but only on condi-
tion that all the powers represented shall under-
take to demand no modification of frontier and no
territorial aggrandisement."

BERLIN, Jul 4.

Should the conference assemble, Pnueia will
send a representative, whatever may be the final
resolution of the Austrian government.
Bavaria advises Austria to accept the conference
unconditionally. The visit of Count Blome to
Vienna is connected with this advice.

FLORENCE, JUNII 4.

The Florence journals consider that a restricted
congress might usefully assemble, even should the
declarations of Austria render the presence of
Austrian plenipotentiaries impossible. The pleni-
potentiaries of the other powers might agree to
place on record the difficulties raised by Austria
and consult upon the course to be pursued in
consequence.