The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-08 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The Journal du Howe has the following :
" News comes from different quarters that Russia
is making great concentrations of troops on the
frontiers of Germany ; and this military mani-
festation appears designed to exercise a pressure
upon Prussia. The Russian journals hold a lan-
guage tending to confirm the authenticity of the
intelligence in question. The Moscow Gazette, the
journal of M. Katkoff, devotes to this question an
article, in which he says :
Nobody in Russia, for the moment at least, fears
Prussia, even with her needle-guns ; but if that Power
places itself at the head of all Germany, the Russian govern-
ment will find it impossible not to some to a reckoning with
a State become so considerable. The sound policy of states'
men in Russia can never wait for a combination in
which Prussia might become a dangerous neighbour.
No ! the policy of conquest peculiar to Count de Bismarck
does not yet terrify us ; but the augmentation of the
power of a neighbouring State, and above all the conditions
of European equilibrium which are incessantly varying,
imposes on us the necessity of demanding compensations
proportioned to the situation of Prussia in Europe.
M. Katkoff advises the Russians to profit by the
occasion to seize on the Grand-Duchy of Posen."

(azum's rsisosams).
PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, AUGURS 8.

It is stated by some of the Berlin journals that
the King, accompanied by the royal Princes and
the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, will proceed for a
few days to the army of the Main.

AMERICA.
(Arrival of the Hermann.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Arore? 8.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Hermann,
from New York on the 28th ult., has arrived here
with 69 passengers for this port, Havre, and
Bremen, and 33,300 dole. for Bremen.
On the 30th ult., off Sandy Hook, she spoke the
steamers Hansa and City of New York, the English
barque Grasmere, for London, the English ship
Corcyba, and the Bremen barque Union, and on
the 4th inst. the English barque Agletha.

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS.
LIVERPOOL, Auouirr 8.

The African Company's steamer Minding*
arrived here this morning after a very rapid
passage from the west coast of Africa, Teneriffe,
and Madeira. She brings 4,948 sovereigns,
1,518 ounces of gold dust, 1,440 dollars, and
5,020 franca in specie, a large cargo, and
43 passengers. Her dates are Benin, June 24 ;
Fernando Po, July 3 ; Cameroon, June 30 ; Old
Calabar, July 2 ; Brass River, 6th ; Bonny, 6th ;
New Calabar, 6th ; Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th ;
Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Cape Palmas, 1 bth ;
Sierra Leone, 20th ; Bathurst, 24th ; Teneriffe,
29th ; and Madeira, 31st.
Fever was prevalent at Bonny.
The disputes with the &glees had been adjusted.
Detachments of the 4th West India Regiment
had defeated the Mariboos near Bathurst.
No news from Madeira, on account of the strict
quarantine.

- - -
" According to letters from Berlin," says the
Patric, "the project of the government relative to the con-
vocation of a German parliament takes for beak the elec-
toral law of 1849, recognising universal suffrage. Every
citizen of the North of Germany, twenty-five
years of age, will be an elector. The Cabinet
of Berlin intends to apply the electoral law
throughout the whole extent of the Prussian monarchy
and all the puts actually occupied by the Prussian troops.
Al to the allied States, they will be invited to proceed
immediately to the elections by the application of the
same measure, liberty being left to the sovereigns either to
promulgate it directly or in ooneert with their chambers."
A Frankfort letter of the 4th says :—" During
the last few days considerable numbers of Prussian sol-
diers, wounded in Bavaria, have pamed through this town
to the Main sad Weser Railway, by which they are
conveyed to Giessen, Wetalar, Coblents, and Co-
logne. Several boats filled with soldiers from the
arabslanees also reached this place yesterday, but
as the civil and military hospitals, the orphan
asylum, and other buildings planed at the disposal of the
surgical corps are all full, those men bad to be sent on to
the north. That long line of camp beds and litters ranged
along the railway Motion, and hearing men with sunburnt
faces, but with a death-like aspect, formed a terrible
ight. I saw a philanthropist distributing a thaler (Mr.
75c.) to each of them. Most of the soldiers received it with
tears in their 'yea*