The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

one Prussian." In another place we read :

There was no artillery engager' on either side ; it
purely an infantry action, anal the Prusaisns derived
great advantage from the superiority of their enlist
that of their opponents, not only in the rapidity, bat
the direction of their fire, for a man with an arm I
the nipple of which he has to place a cap natural.
raises the muzzle in the air, and in the bum
excitement of action often forvta to lower it,
only sends his bullet over the heads of the opposite
while the soldier armed with a breech•loading mr
keeps his muzzle down, and if in haste he fires
without raising the butt to his shoulder, his shot
takes effect, though often low, and a proof of this
very many of the Austrian prisoners are wounded
legs.

To this we may add, that the medical oi
have officially reported that the proportii
wounded Austrians to wounded Prussians
five to one. Thus has the needle-gun told both
the battle-field and in the hospital. _ .

Two or three " institutions" in the Prussia
army are thus described :

THE BICE-BEARERS.
The sick bearers, one of the most useful corps which .
army possesses, were at work from the very beginsill
of the action. Al the combatants passed on these
minded men, regardless of the bullets and careless
sonal danger, removed with equal hand both frieno
enemy who were left writhing on the road and rani
them carefully to the rear, where the medical
seemed to make no distinction in their care fur both
trian and Prussian. Not only was it those whose

duty is the care of the wounded who alone were
their best to ease the sufferings of those who had gni
in the combat ; soldiers not on d ity might be seer
rying water for prisoners of both sides alike, and
affording any comfort which it was in their
to give to those who overnight had been firing 16116
their own helrts ! Nor is this wonderful, for after •
flash of the battle is over, and the din of the male"!
has died away, the men of this army cannot forget that'
common language links them to their adversaries, &
that, after all, it is probably Germ en blood which, Beal
from an Austrian, trickles over the white livery
House of Hapsburg.

THE FIELD TELEGRAPH AND THE FIELD rim-finial
Two excellent institutions of the Prussian army 110
been quickly established and put in working order atoll
halting•place ; they are the field telegraph and the 0
post-001m As soon as it is determined when bilk
quarters are to be fixed for the night, the field Id°
graph division start to the nerrest permanent
graph station where the line can be fixed in
iog order ; from this starting point they cuff
single line along the side of the shortest road to the 110
quarter house, and generally by the time the chief of lb
staff arrives at his quarters he finds his telegraph 1101
by which he can get information or send his orders. fil
Field Post-office, to which I am indebted for heist 1!
to send my correspondence to you since we crowd 7,
frontier, is established also at headquarters, but has MPI
offices at the headquarters of each apps d'aratie;
carries the private letters of soldiers and officers, as weal
official despatches, and sends out a mail nearly deal.
is a greater caiman's°e than the field telegraph, MS
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