The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1859.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

MARCH OF PRUSSIAN TROOPS
TO THE RHINE•

(BY ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEORAPH.)

(IZOK OVA OWN CONHISPONDENT.)

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

Prussia hu demanded perm:a/lion to march 31,000
troops through H►nover to the Rhine between the
let and the sth of July.

The Yon: of to-day contains the following:
"BERLIN, Jtss 21.
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a At a military, conference held yesterday morning
it was resolved that the Guards should remain
at Berlin and et Potsdam. The four regi-
ments of the Landwehr of the Guards, and
two regiments of cavalry, will be cantoned
in the province of Brandenburg. The 4th,
7th, end Bth corps of the army will take up posi-
tion between the lower and central Rhine; the 3rd
and tith upon the Upper Rhineand the Maine ; the sth
corps (Posen) will proceed to its destination by the
route of Silisia, Saxony, and Bavaria. The depar-
ture of troops will take place about the Ist of July.°

The following appears in the Indipendance Beige
of yesterday evening
"If accounts which reach us this morning are
correct—and more than once we have been able to
verify the accuracy of intelligence transmitted to us
from the same source—the following are the bases
of the Prussian propositions presented at Vienna and
which are aboat to be presented at Paris, if indeed
that has not been done already :
"A congress shall settle the Italian question on
the widest moral bases conceded by Austria, with
the revision of the treaties concluded by that power
with the other states of the Italian Peninsula.

"The territorial limits established by the treaties
of 1816 shall be considered as the unalterable bases
of the arrangement.

"The annexations made to Sardinia with the
consent of France, shall not be sanctioned.

"If these propositions are conveyed to Vienna
and Paris we believe we are able to state with cer-
tainty that Austria will accept them—probably has
I already accepted them—and that France will re-
ject them. Excepting the previous disarmament
(now out of question) the ►bove are the propositions
I made by Lord Cowley—propositions that were
reasonable before the war, but which after the
battles of Montebello, Paleatro, Magenta, and
Marignan, the conquest of .liombardy, the
revolutions of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena,
the agitation in the legation., and the disturbances
which begin to manifest themselves even at Venice,
will infallibly be refused by France. If, in spite of
this refusal, Prussia insists on exercising an Mau-
sees over the settlement of the Italian questions in
such a manner that the European equilibrium shall
not be deranged, it is natural to conclude, from the
anterior declarations of the cabinet of the Tuileries,
that it will not refuse to recognise the rights of Pens-
staexerted on conditions of absolute impartiality; that
it will accede even to the meeting of a congress
charged with preserving the interests of Europe in
the future territorial arrangements of the Italian
Peninsula, but only after the expulsion of the Aus-
trians from Italy—the end assigned for the present
campaign in the proclamation of Napoleon 111. at
the outbreak of the war. As for the annexations
of territory made by Sardinia, France will be able
to reply that she only considers them as events of the
war, necessary to the centralisation of military ope-
rations against Austria, but essentially temporary,
and which, to become definitive, will require to be
sanctioned at once by the plainly-expressed wishes
of the populations concerned, and the consent of
Europe."

The Currespoltdant de Hambourg having stated
that the basis of the Prussian mediation is the abo-
lition of the private treaties of Austria with the
small Italian Sta'es, and the 'venation of reforms
in Italy, and that Austria and Prussia are now
agreed upon these points (which formed the object of
General Willisen's recent mission to Vienna), the
Pattie exclaims :—" How long has the Correspon-
dant been asleep? Does it know that we have
driven the Austrians out of Piedmont which they
had invaded; that Austria has already lost Lom-
bardy; that the allied armies are approaching the
Mincio, and that the complete and absolute libera-
tion of Italy from Austrian domination is the only
reform' that can now be talktd of ?'

The official Preoasische Altana of yesterday, in a
leading article, says, amongst other things:
" The Franco-Sardinian army is moving neer the
frontiers of Germany. The Prussian government
has repeatedly declared that it regards the security
of Germany as entrusted to its care. The Italian
conflict is assuming ever increasing dimensions.
England and Russia are arming on the greatest
scale. The Prussian government would be faithless
to its duty, and to the sense of the nation, if it should
refuse to act commensurately with that spirit by

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which Prussia has Income great. Prussia is free from
every engagement, she obeys only those obligations
which spring from the innermost nature of her State
interests. It will be soon seen whether Prussia's initia-
tive will be supported by the necessary impress of
the °ennui States. Prussia's policy stands firm,
and whoever lays obstacles in its way may consider
that be is rendering services to the enemies of the
Fatherland."