The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-19 00:00:00

GENERAL BENEDEK'S ADDRESS TO HIS

ARMY.
The following is the text of General Benedek's
Proclamation :

Head-quarters, Vienna, May 12.

His Majesty, our gracious Emperor and master, has been
pleased to direct that I should assume the command of the
army of the north, which is being organised. My head-
quarters will be provisionally at Vienna from the 15th of
this month. On that day the generals, troops, the mili-
tary administrative departments and establishments be-
longing to th is army will be placed under my controL Having
been tried as a faithful and devoted soldier, I know
how to obey with joy all imperial orders. But this
sentiment of duty is still more strengthened at the pre-
sent time by the conviction that every individual soldier
under my command will bring the most resolute devotion
to combat and repel any enemy who shall dare to threaten,
inconsiderately and unjustly, our august Emperor and
master ; his illustrious dynasty and monarchy, and our
cherished country. The army will shortly be concentrated,
completely organised and equipped, strong, noble, valiant,
animated with the best spirit—the spirit of order, of disci-
pline, of honour, of fidelity, of bravery, and of absolute devo-
tion. The Emperor's eye and heart will follow it everywhere.
The determination of sacrifice and enthiodasm on the part
of all the peoples of Austria will lead us on. The sym.
pithy, expectation and hopes of our fellow-countrymen,
and of all those who are dear to us, will accompany us.
At the approach of the decisive combat for the sacred
rights of the Emperor and the country, the Imperial
army, full of enthusiasm end exhibiting the tenacity of
old Austria, will always know how to conquer or die with
fidelity to the Emperor and the country. Soldiers ! I
bring for this purpose my soldiers' heart, my iron
will, my entire confidence in you, my most humble
reliance in God, and my trust in my old fortune as
a soldier. With trust in God, I salute you, soldiers— you
whom the will and order of the Emperor have confided to
my command and my solicitude—l salute you in the firm
conviction that Gail's blessing wall not be wanting to our
just cause, to our fidelity, to our bravery, and to our per-
severance.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE STATES.
BERLIN, MAY 19.

Russia continues her endeavours with the Middle
States, with which the Imperial family is allied by
marriage, to exercise an influence adverse to their
alliance with Austria.

Among other motives Russia urges that the for-
mation of Polish regiments might load to danger-
ous movements.

Russia is principally apprehensive that Austria
might favour a movement in Posen which might
spread into Russian Poland.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, MAT 19.

The rumour that the Italian government con-
templated making changes among its diplomatic
representatives at London, Berlin, and Constanti-
nople is unfounded.

NAPLES, MAT 19.

The journals of this city assert that the late
reactionary movements in the Calabria. were insti-
gated by Austrian agents.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAT 19.

Senor Alonzo Martinez, Minister of Finance,
tendered his resignation yesterday, but at the
request of Marshal O'Donnell has consented to
remain at }Us post.
The declaration made by Mr. Layard in the
English House of Commons, relative to the bom-
bardment of Valparaiso, has produced a great
sensation here, and it is expected that the govern-
ment will be questioned on the subject in the
Cortes.

CALCUTTA AID CHINA HAILS.
SUEZ, MAY 18.
The Mooltan arrival at 11 a.m. to-day (Friday).

(Asuraa's ruins.)
ITALY AND VENETIA.
MILAN, May 15, Evaxma.

The latest ad vices from Venetia to the 14th inst.
announce that the Austrian military arrangements
hive assumed a strictly defensive character. The
cavalry and light corps that were echeloned along
the right bank of the Po from Aatiglia to Poleaella
are now moving towards the centre. It is reported
that the Hungarian troops in Venetia will be trans-
ferred to Bohemia. The emigration of young
men from Venetia into Italian territory in
order to enrol themselves in the national army
has assumed large proportions since the publication
of the royal decree for the organisation of the
volunteers. About 300 students have left Padua,
and the emigration from Friuli and Cadore even
exceeds that of 1860. Parties of young men are
also leaving Venice daily.

_ FLORMCE, MAT 16.
The Nazione of to-day contains the following :

It was reported yesterday that a note ►ad
arrived from the cabinet of the Tuileries pro-
posing a congress to the Italian government,
in concert with the other powers, for the settlement of the
pending question. France, it was added, declared that
she made this proposal with the desire of preventing war
but it no way pretended to impose the mode of settlement
of the questions at issue. The Italian cabinet is stated to have

replied that it did not decline the preppie!, btti taut 0
preliminary basis of any negotiation moat be the ele,ka
Venetia. Francs undertook to oonnounieste this detho
tiara in explicit terms to the other Power,, we pda,
the above with all due reserve.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAT.:

SATURDAY, MAT 19, $ /AL

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Nairn
10.08; N.W. ' 1 1 . N.Vir. .ab
Aberdeen
Leith
Airdromes 30.12 66 8.8 3 3 B.W. b ... .
Rreenceeile 30.07 kli 8. 1 2 8.11. be _ ;
Valentin. 80.1314 ILL 4 2 8.8. X cb _ •
,1)* (Uzi:. -1 —l - - - !,
Liverpool 80.18'57 8.8. E. 2 8 h.S.E. b
Nold lO.OBlO B.S.E. 1 1 W.R.W.W.B.W. b-.
PORZIIOOO
Brest .. '31704 I.E. 4 5 EXP.. b,
Lortent
Rochefort 29.90 88 LN.E. 3 4 E.N.E. h
Plymouth 810.09, E. 4 5 E.8.E.E.g.!. b
Weymouth 30.1558 E.S.E. 8 2 E.B.E. b—l
Portsmouth 10.1758 8.8. E. 4 3 8. c
London
_ '30.21 34 B.E. 1 2 X cb ...
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_ uth . .40.2A51 S.B.W. i
Scerborough..3o.2l 88 B.E. 1 2 8.8 E. b —ll
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VADAT. q NoaTAEItA MOIDAY.
Variable, moderate, Comm. Chiefly BIL mid LT
moderate to skies,'
B.E. to S.W. and back, Wherstah. As above.
moderate to fresh,
fine generally.
Easterly to eoutherty, Borman. X.B Eto SAE figk
moderate to fresh,

floe.
Variable, moderate, iISTIRN.
fine.

As next dem

Northern—Scotland. Western—lnland, W
osectes. Southern—Engllsh Channel and Bq
Hastern—llutward England and North Sea.

A letter from Bale to the Cowrier du Bas• Bis
says :—" Communications from Paris state that Wel.,
bition of animals of labour, which was to have takes* ,•,1
in the French capital in 1867 during the great Bane*
Exhibition, has been abandoned. The germ:met,*
appears, has interfered, because of the fears lames*
the cattle disease raging in England and some paid
Belgium and Holland. Apprehensions were entailiest
lest the bringing together of so many anin:els Was
necessary relaxation of the scrutiny on their emirs is*
France, might favour the appearance of the epidemic.'

We (Bell's Life) regret to say that Lord stam,
ford's horses, Archimedes and Thal/mains, Ago ce the
road to Epsom on Monday last met with widest' The
former turned restive in his boa at Wolverlisaftak
was so much cut about that he was sent bask ; sad Th.
Lassius, on arriving at the Euston-station, was fool is
have got his near fore leg over the rail or putinin
so terribly injured himself that he was immediately sink
a veterinary surgeon ; consequently neither of Widen
went on to Epsom.

In Bailg's Magazine for the current mad
a memoir of the owner of Lord Lyon. After sped* ef
Mr. Sutton as a hunting man, the writer sap :--`ll2,
Sutton's next venture was on the turf, on vikkhe
commenced by buying in 1836 four yearlings, ces leig
Eurydice, sister to Imperiewse, for which le pa
70 guineas. With this filly, as a two-year-old, he male
Althorp Park, which was his maiden race, sad m aim
he carried off the Cambridgeshire—the starters keel*
strange to say, were the same Orumber as last mud
also similar to those which ran in the Hunt Cup st Leaf,
which he won with Rouge Dragon. Mr. Sutton's
good fortune, however, arose from having in ltlei
into an arrangement with Colonel Pearson, one of the
and most scientific breeders of the day, for the hire d
yearling filly Gardevisure for a certain sum, with
tingencies, and her performances are too receet to
recapitulating ; but we may, en name,, observe that
his Cambridgeshire victory she realised her lessee a
very little short of sixteen thousand pounds. The
year, viz., in 1864, he followed up his luck by hiring
Lyon on the same terms, and with him he has done
fur fame, even U the Derby should slip through Minim
THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. —BeiT
Life informs its readers that " this event" is to take
in the course of next week "at a piece sad ens
which, for prudential reasons, are kept dark." A
conveyance has been obtained, there will be no at
trip, and no one need come to teen before Tuesday e
bag. " Every care will be taken by the ruana,gen
trip to secure order and regularity, and as the wee
quite new, and the starting place one where there
facility for the exclusion of a mob, we have no doubt t
efforts will be successful." Mace is represented to be
of confidence. Goes ie " fitter and bigger than
have ever seen him, weighing 1 Ist nb., and is in so
behind his opponent in his belief of success."
ABOLITION OF COMPULSORY CHURCH RAM.
great difference of opinions respecting this bill in
pressed by the newspapers which are cumaerei
more especially the organs of the established char&
1;-siardian supports it, with modifications; the Jots '
, calls upon churchmen "to petition iu such a
against the bill that even if it should pass the Carnal
the Lords may be justified in rejecting it." The
also opposes it, and a clergyman asks in yesterday's
ber of that journal, " When a man knows that by eiPiti
himself a dissenter he escapes the rate, who will think
churchman"" Archdeacon Denison, in his risitstits
charge on Wednesday, said he would prefer ssondi'
Urinal abolition to Mr. Gladstone's bill. On the sea
reading of the bill, Lord J. Manners is to move that it be
read a second time that day six months.
AWKWARD PREDICAMENT OF A MAN AT ROlll.—
On Sunday night a man named Thomas ffiakle bad
somewhat narrow escape from drowning on the best
the small cove or bay, north of the Holey Rock, Ind,raid
as the bathing place for males. Finkle had got PI
elevated at Whitburn on Sunday night, end at the Ww
where the cliffs suddenly rise at the south end of alit
burn sands, instead of taking the path through the fie*
over the top, he made his way along the narrow strip or
shingly head at the foot of the cliffs. Ile had s Ingo
dog with him, and when the twain had scrambled sing
sit far as the little bay above indicated, Finkle bad
down to sleep. He was awoke by the close proxionff
the rising tide, sad upon looking about him be found rise
the waves had effectually, cut off his escape either bi
ad
vancing or retreating. lie shouted for help, and bis
which evidently shared in its master's alarm. filmdom
unearthly howls, that the attention of P. C. WelTberad
the borough force, who was on duty in the eicunld
Roker, and River P. C. Staley, who was on his beget
the North Dock (half-a-mile off) was quickly draws MO
spot, and they made all haste to give amistance. Nettle
was to be lost, for the tide was coming in fast, and sibie/1
water the bay is completely filled. Ropes were inci"-.
by the officers and let down from the cliffs to the owes
and Pickle was safely drawn up, none the worse held,
adventure. The dog was also hauled up and saved.--Sw
derland Herald.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPRARILNCE OF ANOTHZR
PORDGENTLEMAN.—On Thursday information was bog"
to the police-office at Scarborough which leads to the,ow
elusion that another gentleman belonging to Wager,
come to an untimely end, but in what winner is,
somewhat uncertain. The gentleman now referred te
Mr. Greenwood, brush manufacturer, of Biadfork In
early part of the present week he war at Snit-swedes
where he received letters from his friends. On \Vele'
day he went from his lodgings as usual, and on the dr.:
noon of the same day he was seen on the beach, oeri
Cayton, a few miles south of Scarborough. The lietA
very secluded ; but it so happened that Mr. Grerse"-ti
was seen by a farm labourer, who was walking
cliff top. The man was struck by certain
the stranger was making, hurrying to and fro,
tbns
his arms about wildly, and conducting lenwelf,7d
extraordinary manner. Eventually he became wee.,„,
the observer passed on, thinking that exercise nee !;",
the only object of the stranger's actions. Soma
~_
later he returned in the same direction, and then
lying on the sands below what appeared to be 1
of clothes. As he saw no one near, he went to the
sili
and there found a snit of clothes. There Val 1.-6101
watch and gold chain, some money, and several 17,
and address cards in the pockets, showing the ewea
be Mr. Greenwood, of Bradford. It appeals hie 'Tie
has been somewhat singular, as he seems not to ~
duly accounted for himself to his wife, whose letters
had not answered. Being alarmed, she P
Scarborough, on Thursday, when she found Oleo
husband was missing from his lodging's. She "toss
the police office almost immediately after. Super's
Pattison had received the information given by the":;)
police. Mr. Pattison concealed the full eircumetances,
induced Mrs. Greenwood to return to Bradford, *be"
friends were made aware of the state of the am•
appears no doubt whatever that the unfortunate , gen ,
man been drowned, and swept away by the tole.. '
was rumoured in Scarborough yesterday morningtnigo
body had been washed up and found, but the report Pr°
to he incorrect.
gp
trteaht
tobelfoongingur
kittens. t thine ai
STRANGE FREAK IN NATrRE. —A short
vM
in the same room sitting on 13 eggs, which "maw
from under her. The hen immediately drove oft
and took possession of the kittens, which she sat (dal%
larly. The kittens suckled their mother daily, sod
the time they were fed the hen was placed m
egelAtettehetirimellsetehlen.tw'Velete'dieco.
close at hand. It was amusing to see the hen when.. 7.4
was released again make puss skedaddle.—Wegg'-