The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-11 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

IN) the general surprise of all who were con-
cerned in the tight of July 3 the news reached
Anfo on the following day that the enemy had
abandoned the advinced positions which they had
taken Spat Begolino, Monte Suello, and Caffaro.
These three points were on the same day occupied
by the Garibaldini, who have since advanced into
the Tyrol, across the Ponte di Calm°, as far as
Storo. In order to convince myself of the fact I
made an sicursion to Gaffer° yesterday morning,
and had the satisfactk* of entering the Tyrol
without a psisport.
The enemy, whose loss on the 3rd must have
been severe, had thought it prudent to retire be-
fore the constantly increasing numbers of the
Garibaldini, of whom there must be now 10,000
on the frontier, 15,000 more marching up or en-
camped along the valley of the Chien, and 10,000
lining the western shore of the Lego di Garda.

(zzuTza's Trazoimis.)

THE WAR IN GERMANY.
PARDUBITZ, 'tax 8.

The Prussian vanguard, under General Stein-
metz, crossed the river at Wmtzlau yesterday.
The bridge over the Elbe at Pardnbitz has been
burnt, but to replace it two pontoon bridges have
been thrown across that river.

PARDUBITZ, Jur 9, Evarnrc.

The royal headquarters will be transferred to-
morrow to Hohenmauth, and the following day to
Zwittau. General von Gablens has again visited
the Prussian headquarters, in order to treat for an
armistice, but without success, as his proposals
went no further than those which have already
been declined.

The whole volunteer force at this moment con-
sista of ten regiments of infantry, averaging about
3,000 men each ; two battalions of Bersaglieri, of
1,200 men each ; and a few squadrons of Guides,
for the performance of the service of the camp.
With this force Garibaldi declares he will push
on into the Tyrol, armistice or no armistice, and
he will probably be as good as his word ; so that,
should a peace be patched up, and should the ces-
sion of Venetia become a fait accompli, the year
1866 may yet be witness to another and more disas-
trous Aspromonte, and see Italian and Austrian
arms united to put down Garibaldi and revolution.
As to the state of Garibaldi's health, I am happy
to be able to inform you that I left him in a fair
way to speedy recovery. When the General, who
was lying propped up on a large bed in a
small chamber in Rocca Bassa—the lower
portion et the impregnable fortress of Anfo—
shook my hand at parting, I know that
in comparison with mine, which may have been at
fever heat, his hand felt cool, and his whole frame
seemed wonderfully little shaken by his wound or
the reverse of Tuesday. In his calm, robust-look-
ing face there was not a trace to be read of bodily
or mental exhaustion, or any kind of suffering, and
one could read in his look and quiet smile that
he was as confident as ever in his own star. From
that looluai that smile—for there was something

The condition of Prince Auton of Hohenzollern,
who was severely wounded in the late battle, is not
considered quite hopeless. He is being treated by
Drs. Langenbeck, bliddldorf, and Wendt.

BERLIN, JULY 10.

The total number of guns captured by the
Prusaiani, at the battle of Sadowa and up to the
present time is 180. They have also recently
captured 400 waggon loads of munitions of war.

BERLIN, JULY 10, EVENING.

The official Staabianieiger of to-day says :—" We
are authorised to declare that during the recent
fighting in Bohemia not a single Prussian gun has
been captured by the enemy. If, therefore, a piece of
Prussian artillery has recently been drawn through
the streets of Vienna, it can only be the field piece
presented to the Emperor by the King of Prussia
at the time of their alliance."

The governments of Saxe-Weimar and Schaum-
burg-Lippe have notified to Prussia that their
troops, which, in accordance with the decision of
the Diet of the 6th June last, formed a portion of
the garrison of the neutralized Federal fortress of
Mentz, have been forcibly compelled to march to
Ulm and Rastadt. These governments protested
against this breach of international law on the part
of a few States belonging to the old Confederation,
and have announced the fact to the Cabinet of
Berlin.

A considerable number of surgeons, formerly
attached to the Hanovarian army, have entered the
Prussian service.

ECKERYFORDE, JULY 10, Evainto.
Five Prussian screw corvettes, including the flag.
ship of the Admiral, have cast anchor in this port.

THE WAR IN ITALY.
FLORK,TCE, JULY 10.

In consequence of the passage of the Po and the
successive movements made by General Cialdini's
army, the Austrians abandoned Rovigo last night.
They previously blew up all the works and fortifi-
cations defending the town and the Cite de pont on
the Adige, and also burned the bridges.
The Florence journals assert that Prussia has
declined the proposed armistice. The operations
of the Italian army against Borgoforte are being
continued. Count Arese has arrived at the head-
quarters of the Italian army.
According to intelligence received here, Austria
has made an extraordinary levy of men between 18
and 40 years of age in that part of Croatia not sub-
ject to the ordinary military system. The Austrian
government is also stated to be manufacturing
needle guns at the rate of 2,000 per day.
The Florence journals announce that a deputa-
tion from Trieste and the Italian portion of the
Tyrol have presented an address to Ring Victor
Emmanuel and the Emperor Napoleon, urging the
rights of their respective territories to be united to
, the common country.

FLORENCE, Jtax 10, Evorma.

This morning the Austrianamade a reconnaissance
in strong force, with artillery, in the direction of
London. They were driven back with the bayonet
by the Garibaldians as far as De la Azzo, which
place was occupied by the volunteers. Garibaldi
was present, but had to remain in a carriage in
consequence of his wound.
Later news received from Rovigo states that the
Austrians in evacuating that town abandoned all
the artillery on the fortifications, the guns having
previously been spiked.

_
BRESCIA. JULY 10, Emingo.
Baron Ricaaoli paid a visit to-day to General
Garibaldi.

CREMONA, JULY 10,

The Italian troops captured this morning by
assault the village of Motteggiano, near the tete de
pont at Borgo Forte.

THE PROPOSED ARMISTICE.
PARIS, JOLT 10.

most umnistikeably divine about it—l, too, took
confidence, and I went sway wondering, and feeling
many degrees less dejected. When on returning,
in the company of the doctor, to look for my car-
riage, in which I proposed taking two of his
wounded down to Brescia, I found that it had
utterly disappeared, and with it the whole of my
baggage, I was enabled to bear the loss with com-
parative equanimity from coming fresh from the
touch of Garibaldi's hand and that wonderful gaze
of his.

The Patric of this evening expects that the
armistice will be accepted to-day, and adds that the
term of its duration will probably be one month.
Prince von Reuss has been received by the
Emperor. Prince Napoleon had a long interview
with his Majesty this morning. The Prance of this
evening states that Prince Napoleon is about to
leave for Verona, where his highness will receive
from the Austrian authorities the preliminary
document ceding Venetia to France.

Finding my way, baggageless and carriageless,
as best I might, to Brescia, rid Salo, I ascertained
that my vehicle had already arrived, having been
pressed into their service by a couple of unscru-
pulous Garibaldini, who had, however, respected
my baggage. When I learned subsequently from
headquarters at Salo that a requisition had been
impudently put upon one of the general's own car-
riage horses that same day, I could no longer feel
surprised at the disappearance of my own vehicle•
That carriage I had hired at the rate of 20 francs per
diem ; and when I reported the fact and its disap-
pearance to an officer of the gendarmerie, he held
up his hands in amazement and vanished from my
sight, exclaiming " Pegs run Marengo (the Lom-
bard denomination for the 20 franc pieces coined by
Napoleon L after the battle of Marengo) per giorno
di su proprio costo."

FLORENCE, JILT 10, Evslinto.

The Florence journals of this evening announce
that the Prussian government has officially de-
dared to the Italian cabinet that Italy cannot
accept an armistice which, being based upon the
cession of Venetia, would be tantamount to a 'epos-
rately concluded peace, and would disengage, to

FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.-LOSS OF LIFE.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 10.

The Cork Steam Shipping Company's iron screw
steamship Osprey, 426 tons register, and 200-horse
power, came into collision this morning with her Majesty's
screw sloop Arneson, Commander Hunter, midway be-
tween Start Point and Portland, 18 miles off land. Both
vessels have foundered.
' "

The Osprey was on • voyage from Liverpool to Antwerp,
with • crew of 21 all told, seven saloon passengers, one
male deck passenger, the captain's wife and three children,
and • little boy, who was • friend of the captain's child,
and • general cargo.
The Amazon was bound from Spitheed to:Halifax, with
a crew of 130, all told, and 20 supernumeraries.
The accident occurred. about 1 a.m. The night was
clear, and both vessels were steaming at full speed. They
had their regulation lights hoisted, and were aware of each
other's presence for more than a quarter of an hour before
the collision took place. On nearing each other, the
Amazon was on the port bow of the Osprey, when the Osprey
put her helm sport, and the Amazon hers hard • starboard.
The result was that the Amazon ran her submerged iron
prow into the Osprey's port quarter, and the Osprey went
down within about four minutes. The majority of her
crew saved themselves by climbing over the bow of the
Amazon. The captain and his wife, the deck passenger, and
the little boy were picked up by the AMAZOLI's boat. Saloon
passengers, Mr.. Hubbard, widow of a barrister, of Dublin,
her two daughters,aged 22 and 15 respectively ; Mrs. Kay, wife
and two young children of the captain of the ship &e
Flower, on a voyage from Callao to Antwerp ; Mary Anne
Keating, aged 18, stewardess ; and the captain's three
children, aged 15, 12, and 10, were drowned.
The Amazon had so twisted in the collision that she
sprang a leak. The pumps could not keep the water
under, and she was abandoned in • sinking state ►t
3.30 a.m.
The two crews, in the Amazon's live boats, reached Tor•
quay, where they were very kindly received by the in-
habitants, and the Amazons crew were forwarded to-night
by special train to Portsmouth.

INMAN Piiu Moray.—An act of parliament
has lately been passed to legalise the payment and distri-
bution of Indian prise money, and one of the provisions
will meet the Banda and Kirwee case, the money in which
is about to be distributed, having been captured in 1858.
It enacts that such portions of prize money as are payable
in the United Kingdom shall be paid to the treasurer
secretary of Chelsea Hampital, to be distributed to the pa
sons entitled thereunto, according to their respective poi,
.
bons. In certain cases payment may be made on account
of officers and soldiers decamped without letters of adminis-
tration being taken out.

THE AILANTIOTELIGEAPH EXPEDITION Katy the temporal, lead; loath*.
AND. TME-LAYING THE MORS END on' ben**
OF
,THE -beat his ear—the bright erg, supple
and innocent fawn of the pealant
—acorn) and the earnestly hopeful =Premien of
.....opellllBllM BAY, VAIXNTLL, made nP a Picture impowdble to describe ar
Beaune, Jan zB. *tics. Add to this, the stealing abroptitem with
The
shccs
meiot the Atlantic oak of 1866 has *hick the tremendous cliffs stand flush out of Ille
bleu, /4g with oomplete success, and with max_ water, the alternations of bright wild flowers and
peeled
promptitude. Out
ofthe large party oa patches ci verdure with the moat desolate barren-
board the Great Eastern but very few were present nem. the mountain sheep indifferently cropping the
at what is, perhaps, one of the meat interesting,.. it : "art sweet grass, and the undercurrent of oon-
wait Seriainly one of. the most important and pia Kimmel* of the mighty interests at stake, and Mk
tureague, incidents in the expedition. These is aim_ scenes will seem more important and interesting
lutelynothisgbuttke ocean between Foillturnmeram than that of yesterday.
and
America,
and
with
westerly
or
north-westerly Professor Thomson and others ecionected with
winds the waves dash in with a force and fury the expedition arrived in the Albany to-day, to
whichAttesly. parents any ouch attempts as were learn with pleased astonishment that thz.:3
broogitt to a
someeshit imam
yesterday. ,rhe hay_ too late, and that the shore-end bad been
or rather {Wye, far it is bat a mile to a mile and kid' The promised rough weather had ahead,'
a half wide—is of bormehoe " faa earthen come, and the Albany pitched and rolled during
estramaTty the
promontory
of shape, simian the night until the esa washed her deck hese stem
far into the sea, while • large green patch of rocky to Hem- These Mg= bed been °hearted ea the
balled Bermes wand, runs Sam left to Corry steamed out, and it was no mean proof
;iigh—e:7'end.
with a group et moaner sod, sad of her special aptitude for cable-laying that
islands asairemi the opening end @holism eierbar she discharged her Precious freight without difh-
As last year, the heavy cable was to be brought to oulte or delay, It should be mentioned that the
shore by abridge of hosts spanning the „der be- extreme thickness of this heavy shore-end is mode-
tween the trench running up the cliff to the station rated every eight miles, when it gradually taper,
and the Corry. This method was suggested by off until at the point where the splice is to be made
Commander white, of the coestgosrd, to whose it is of the same diameter as the deep-sea cable.
nd dieinterested exertion the eon. Until well over the shelving land known as the
ilea7"""6""'"were
ei:e7indehted for the discovery of a Irish Bank, and about 280 miles from shore, lank
natural channel in the rocks near shore, in which Ye" able will be used. The stronger rope of
the cable was securely laid. The aborigines, who this year will be then upheld on and laid up to
show a strange mixture of simplicity and shrewd-
Newfoundland. The Albany rejoins the Great
ness, and would share their last crust with a Estes "AY ht the morning, and the whole
stranger, while higgling for the advantage in a bar- 1 squadron are expected to leave Berehaven and to
gain for hours, taught by experience the value effect the splice with the shore end, 30 miles off, on
their boats, and the necemity of speed, naturally I Thursday next.
estimated their services highly. The ship's boat I
had been sent back for fear of delaying the pro-
ceed** by its absence, and it is a fact that it was
only after the people landed from the Corry bad
themselves moved their heavy luggage from the
rising tide that a capitulation was arrived at and
they were rowed on to Knightstown. The ab-
normal demand gave an artificial value to labour,
and the poor people were shrewd enough to act
upon what we are taught are sound commercial
principles. A similar effect was produced by the
call for coaling-hands when the Great Eastern
anchored at Berehaven. Five shillings per day of
nine hours, with board and lodging, had to be paid
to some hundred and fifty peasants, who toiled
languidly and ate heartily off meat on every day but
Friday, when they preferred keeping their usual
fast-day, and dining off biscuits and coffee
on the deck. How unusual such an influx of
specie must be may be estimated from the
prices asked by the country people for the articles
they flocked on board to sell. Fine fowls at 4d.
and 5d., large lobsters at 2d., and crabs at Id. each,
were eagerly bought up by the sailors and stewards,
and even those prices were reduced later in the day.
At Valentia the sudden demand for boats and boat-
men had its natural effect, but time was precious,
and a bargain was speedily struck. Meanwhile
Captain Armitage, of H.M.S. Racoon, stationed
here to guard against Fenian attempts, sent up
other men and boats, and the process of paying-out
was commenced about noon. At one p.m. the line
of boats was perfect, and before three the cable was
successfully landed, and its end brought up into
the white hut. Signals were/ interchanged be-
tween ship and shore immediately. Mr. Willoughby
Smith and Mr. Collet, accompanied by Mr. Cyrus
Field, who with characteristic energy had seen
Glengariffe, and hurried through a two days' land
journey in ten hours, went into the testing-room, and
in a few minutes "working beautifully, all well," was
announced as the message from the ship. The
Corry then stood out to sea, and proceeded to lay
the rest of the shore end, consisting of some thirty
miles /of thick and heavy cable. At three this
morning she telegraphed that her work was done,
and after buoying the part entrusted to her in
130-fathom water, rejoined the Great Eastern at
Berehaven. The whole affair was accomplished
before those on board the great vessel, or those
who were journeying hither by way of Glengariffe,
knew it had been commenced, and in its leading
features presented a striking difference to the cere-
mony of last year. ,Earnest gravity and a deep-
seated determination to repress all show of the
enthusiasm of which everybody was full was very
manifest. The excitement was below, instead
of above, the surface. Speech-making, hurrahing,
public congratulations, and vaunts of confidence
were, as it seemed, avoided of a set purpose. Sir
Robert Peel was prevented being present. The
Knight of Kerry, Mrs. and the Miss Fitzgerald and
a few other leading local gentry ; Mr. and Mrs.
Glass, Captain Armitage and Lady flotham,
Captain Bolton, Mr. Cyrus Field, Mr. Willoughby
Smith, Mr. C. F. Varley, and a few others, stood
upon the rocks and huge fragments of wreck near,
and men, women, and children of all ages, and in
every variety of ragged costume, were perched at
strange angles in the cliffs and studded the narrow
fringe of shingle. The forty boats, each a boat's
length apart, were first steadied by a guide-rope.from
the ship, which kept them in position. Mr. Temple,
jun., superintended the arrangement of these, and
made constant flag signalsto the ship, and to those in
charge of the boat next to it. Before commencing
operations the local boatmen were earnestly
exhorted not to repeat their error of last year,
when they delayed matters at a critical time for
nearly two hours, by flinging the cable into the
sea that they might cheer their own success at
having so nearly landed it. The faithful promises
they made were duly kept, and with the exception
of an unimportant misapprehension of a signal
' which momentarily delayed the paying out, the
cable was laid without a single hitch. No-
thing could prevent the scene being intensely
dramatic, but the prevailing tone of the drama
was serious instead of comic and triumphant.
The old crones in tattered garments who cowered
together, dudheen in mouth, their gaily coloured
shawls tightly drawn over head and under the chin
—the barel'ooted boys and girls, who by long
which
cut up boots and shoes, with perfect impunity, and
with an instinctive clinging of the toes to all practice walked over sharp and jagged rocks,
pro-
jections, which reminded one of birds on a perch—
the men at work uncovering the trench, and
winding in single Sle up and down the hazardous
path cut bythecablemen intheotherwiseinaccessible
rock—the patches of bright colour furnished by the
red petticoats and cloaks—the ragged garments
only kept from falling to pieces by bits of string
and tape —the good old parish priest, who exercises
mild and gentle spiritual sway over the loving
subjects, of whom the ever popular Knight of