The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

" 11. Atl PAR /0: RPLATV4 TO THE COUNTRY.

" 14. That it is desirable that the licensing of s new
theatre should be by the Lord Chamberlain, instead of, as
heretofore, by the magistrates; but that the powers now
exercised by the magistrates, both as regards the renewal
of limns and as regards regulations, should continue in
force.

" 15. That it is desirable that the proprietors of music
halls, and other similar places of public entertainment,
should be required to apply to the magistrates for a
license under the same or similar provisions to those which
may be enacted relative to similar places of entertainment
in the metropolis.
" IG. That the 12th section of the act of 6 and 7 Vic-
toria, cap. to, relative to the censorship of plays intended
to be produced or acted for Lire in any theatre in limit
Britain, continue in force, and that such censorship be ex-
tended, as far as practicable, to music balls, and other
places of public entertainment throughout Great Britain."

WEATHER REPORT,-(THIS DAT.)

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REFORM MEETING IN SOCTHWARIL—Lut night
a public demonstration in favour of the reform movement
and the course adopted by the late government took place
in the borough of Southwark. The place of meeting was
fixed for the open space adjacent to the Boreugh-read
railway-station, and at .) o'clock (the time appointed) a
large number of persons assembled around a van which had
been placed in position to serve as a platform for the
speakers. Captain E. Dresser Rogers, C.C., was called to
the chair. Mr. G. M. Murphy moved the following reso-
lution :—" That this meeting of working men, electors and
non-electors of the borough of Southwark, hereby pledge
themselves to oppose in every constitutional way the con-
tinuance of any government in offix which refuses to the
people of the country that share of civil, political, and
religious liberty to which they are justly entitled, and
hereby requests the lion. members fur the borough, as soon
as tbe business of parliament is resumed, to elicit from the
ministry their intention as to the important subject of
reform." Mr. Clay seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously. Mr. Pritchard then moved " That
the beet thanks of this meeting be conveyed to Earl Rus•
sell, Mr. Gladstone, and the late ministry, for their advo-
cacy of the people's claims against the hostility of the
tories and the Adullamite faction, with the assurance
that though place and power have been lost for the
moment by their honest endeavour to ensure the best
interests and prospects of the country, by extending the
rights of citizenship to many of the unenfrancbised, they
have gained the gratitude of the great bulk of the nation,
and the respect of all lovers of consistency and true (rea-
dout." Mr. Taylor briefly seconded the motion, which
was carried amidst loud cheering.

INrarsuclus.—ln the course of a recent discus-
sion on infanticide at the Halvelen Society, Dr. Tyler
Smith is reported (incorrectly, as we are informed) to have
made a statement to the effect that the late Mr. Wakley,
as coroner for Middlesex, opposed the frequent holding of
inquests in cases of infanticide, and, on public grounds,
held that such inquiries, if too frequently oonducted,
would have a mischievous effect. We feel bound to state
that Mr. Wakley was, on the contrary, foremost amongst
those who felt it their duty to call attention to the alarm-
ing frequency of infanticide. He paid especial attention
to the canoes of death among what are called " overlain
infants," and proved that iu these cases death commonly
results, not from pressure, but from deprivation of air ;
and that the child is not truly overlain, but suffocated.
He held inquests in all cases where any doubt existed of
the cause of death. He lost no opportunity of impressing
the obvious cautions which these investigations suggested,
and the columns of the Lancet for many years bore conrtant
testimony to his anxious consideration of the muses of in-
fant mortality. —Lo nce

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in its policy only half the discernment and pru-
dence it baa manifested in war, Germany will be i
proof against any foreign power that may be dis-
posed to interfere in its affairs. Everywhere the
people are looking forward and trusting that the
Fatherland is now entering upon a new era, and
that their long-deferred hopes are about to be
fulfilled. At the head of twenty-seven millions of
Germans, armed with needle guns, Prussia may
proclaim a MONROE doctrine for Germany, and
boldly warn off all intruders.
Of course, the cause of German unity has its
enemies as that of Italy had. The devout believers
in the " balance of dissatisfactions" are alarmed at
the terrible consequences that may ensue if Prussia
should be ableto constitute herself anempire of thirty
millions. They affect to believe, or perhaps really
persuade themselves, that having France with a popu-
lation of thirty-seven millions on her right flank,
Russia with sixty-three millions on her left, and
Austria with thirty-two millions in front, Prussia
thus enlarged would be a menace to the Conti-
nent. We do not share this apprehension. The
consolidation of North Germany under the Prus-
sian Government will tend to a more equal distri-
bution of power in Europe ; it is a natural deve-
lopment of Germany ; and in so far as it satisfies
the aspirations of the Teutonic family, it is an
additional guarantee of the peace of Europe.

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
ROOM for Gentlemen.—Remember, we watt for you at
EVANIV." after the Covent (harden Opera and the Theatres.

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'rata EVENING, CAETOUCiii, THE FRENCH JACK SREP-
PARD. Mr. Reynolds: Mesdames Mlles, Yarnold, Maearthy,
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scarcely necessary to argue that it can neither be consented
to by Austria, who has sneoessfully defended these strong
positions against attack, nor by France, to whom Austria
has peacefully ceded them with the object of putting an
end to further trouble in the South. If Italy will not listen
to France in this matter, there seems no alternative but
the breaking off of the negotiations for peace and the oon-
tinuance of the war. The war will, however, be waged
now under different auspices. Italy, if she attacks Venice,
will be attacking France. . .

The Tekgraph trusts that the Italians will show that
they can afford to be magnanimous, and forgive something
to an irritated and not very generous enemy. They can
aooept the concession without admitting those interpreta-
tions of it with which their hereditary foe may hope to
gloss over his own humiliation. Italy has no reason to
feel ashamed of the battle of Custozza, and will not elevate
herself in the eyes of Europe by provoking another contest
for no other object than to show that she can fight suc-
cessfully as well as bravely. An armistice, followed by a
congress which should ratify Italy's gains, and establish
her position as a great power in Europe, would be a boon
cheaply purchased by so slight a sacrifice as the forgive-
ness of a petty affront.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 10.

IT is with difficulty that the mind can at once
adjust itself to the fact that the immense revolu-
tion in the affairs of Europe which we now witness
is the work of a fortnight. It was on this day
fortnight that the first battle was fought at Nachod
between the Austrian army of the North and the
united armies of the King of PRUMIA. A fort-
night ago public confidence in the masterly
generalship of Marshal BENEUEK and the high-
wrought efficiency of his comitless battalions had
the intensity as well as the ignorance of a super-
stition. There was no undertaking to which they
were not equal. When the Marshy allowed die
enemy to seize the territory of his master's allies,
or to invade the sacred soil of the Empire itself, all
was permitted fur the best of reasons. If he did
nut march upon Berlin, and dictate peace upon
the very capital of Pnissia, it was lie-
cause he had in reserve a plan for the
more complete destruction of the enemy's armies.
That the Prussians should cuter Bohemia by three
different lines, and succeed at every point in a
war of invasion, was an expectation which no
prudent man with a decent regard for his reputa-
tion would venture to acknowledge. In the per-
fect trust reposed in the unlimited military re-
sources of an Empire which was a camp rather than
a'State, the refinements of calculation were super-
seded. The army of Bohemia was the finest in
the field, and within call, in Salzburg, Moravia,
and Silesia, were three powerful army corps avail-
able for its reinforcement. And if this were not
enough, still it must be held impossible that Aus-
tria should be defeated by a Power whose popula-
tion was not more than half her own.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The week which began with June 26th was an
extraordinary period of disenchantment. The result
of the battles of Nachod, Trautenau, and Gitschin—
all of which were reported in the first instance as
Austrian victories, embellished by trophies and
heightened by the flight of Prussian squadrons and
the haughty repulse of suppliant Prussian officers
with flags of truce—made intelligent observers re-
flect. There was evidently something behind
which we had yet to learn. The last announce-
ment which preceded the catastrophe was that in
the sanguinary battle at Gitschin the Austrian Ge-
neral had effectually prevented the junction of the
armies of the CROWN PRINCE and Prince FEE-
DERR K CHARLES, and so frustrated the Prussian
plan of campaign. Then came the crisis of the
war—the great struggle at Sadowa—to which
Kings and Princes hastened as to a world-battle
that was to make a King an Emperor, or sink an
empire to the rank of a kingdom. It will take
months, more likely years, to develop the chief
consequences to Austria of the defeat of that ter-
rible day. Then it was that the prestige of the
great military Empire depart/A ; then it was
that the headship of Germany passed from
the proud House of HAPSBrER: to the ambitious
and presuming HOHENZOLLERN ; then it was that the
Austrian Court was driven to acknowledge before
the world that the dimensions of its empire must
be contracted to suit its diminished military
strength ; then it was that the Monarch who had
believed himself to be the rightful and natural head
of Germany was glad to permit France to take in
hand the affairs which had passed out of his own
grasp, and to interpose between him and his victo-
rious supplanter. Many of the most painful inci-
dents of the defeat will prove but temporary. The
EMPEROR will be able to replace BENEDEK by a
General of at least equal ability ; the gaps in his
army will be filled up by recruiting, and the em-
pire will be relatively stronger in the north than it
was before. But the more important effects of
the battle of Sadowa are, to all appearance,
irreversible. The military greatness of Austria
has always stood very much on opinion, and
the Power which has proved unable to defend
even itself will never again be trusted as a
leader by the minor States of Germany, which now
lie open and obnoxious to the wrath of Prussia.
The victories of the last fortnight have given
the German people assurance of a Power capable
of giving them the unity and headship which
were among their first necessities. This is the
se;:ret of the bold attitude of Prussia at this
moment, and if its Government shall display

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27th Prussian Regiment went in nearly 3,000
strong, with 90 officers, and came out on the
further side with only two officers and between
300 and 400 men standing ; all the rest were killed
or wounded.
The Austrian line was now driven in on both
flanks. But a new line of battle was formed, and
an Austrian battery in a wood above Sadowa told
on the Prussian ranks with awful effect.

But the assailants fought on, at last broke down the
obstacles at the entrance, and then dashed in. The fight-
ing continued from tree to tree, and the Austrians made
many a rush to recover the lost position of the wood, but
in this close fighting their boyish troops went down like
ninepins before the strong men of the Bth Division ; but
when the defenders drew back a little, and their artillery
played into the trees, the Prussians suffered fearfully,
and about half-way up in the wood the fight became sta-
tionary. At this time the Austrian artillery were
making splendid practice, and about 1 o'clock the whole
battle line of the Prussians could gain no more ground'
and was obliged to fight bard to retain the position it had
won. At one time it seemed as if it would be lost, for guns
had been dismounted by the Austrian fire, and in the
wooded ground the needle gun had no fair field,
and the infantry fight was very equal. Then Prince Fre-
derick Charles sent the Pith and 6th Divisions forward.
They laid down their helmets and knapsacks on the
ground, and advanced to the river. The King was
now near to Bistritz, and the troops cheered him loudly
as they marched into the battle. They went over the
Sadowa bridge, disappeared into the wood, and soon the
increased noise of musketry told they had begun to fight ;
but the Austrian gunners sent salvo after salvo !among
them, and they did not push the battle forwards more
than a few hundred yards, for they fell back themselves,
and they could not reach the enemy. Not only did the
fragments of the shells tly about among them, scattering
death and awful gashes among their ranks, but the por-
tions of the trees, torn by the artillery fire, flew thickly
about, huge ragged splinters, that caused even more fright-
ful wounds.

The Prussian generals became manifestly uneasy,
and the battle might have been lost had not the
Crown Prince with the second army at this junc-
ture attacked the Austrian left flank, which turned
the position, and put the Austrians in full retreat.
Then the first army took heart again. The
Sadowa wood was carried, and the battery beyond
was stormed by the Jager..