The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-06 00:00:00

THE ANNEXATION OF HANOVER.

The Journal des Dibats of to-day mays :

The reply of the Bing of Prussia to the Hanoverian do.
putation is of the same stamp as the declarations made by
him in his message to the Prussian parliament and in his
reply to the address of the Prussian deputies. William I.
always considers himself not only as Sing of Divine grace
and as a representative of God upon earth, but likewise as
the involuntary and continued instrument of the design.
of Providence. It was to accomplish the mission which
Heaven entrusted to him that at the age of 70 this
monarch, the friend of law and of justice, decided

" with his heart full " to have recourse to
violent conquests instead of moral ones, the only
ones which he had hitherto ambitioned. But the
power of circumstances, the increasing hostility of his pre-
tended allies, and finally, his duties towards Prussia,
forced him to take the gravest of decisions—that of the
entire annexation of Hanover, in order to remove for the
future the probable return of the dangers which might
have been caused to Prussia by the hostile attitude of the
little kingdom which borders upon it. The Hanoverian
deputies have not left this reply unanswered. It appears
from their answer that the Hanoverlans only resign them-
selves with regret to seeing the moat ancient branch of the
illustrious family of the Guelphs disappearing from the
number of royal houses, a family which was one of the
great powers of Germany when the Hohenzollern/ were but
petty middle men of Swabia. "It only remains for us,"
they say "to pars from the feelings of animosity, excited
by the project of annexation, to those of resignation to the
inevitable decrees of Providence." We may certainly con-
sider the fall of the dynasty of Brunswick-Hanover is irre-
vocable. It is now for Prussia to show that she can unite
winds and hearts as well as annex territories.

(111113TEIN TZLEO WM )
AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Szrr. 6.

Major-General von Moring has left for Venice
to carry out the transfer of Venetia to General
Lebcenf.

The Austrian Gazette says that the negotiations
for the solution of the Austrian constitutional
question have hitherto been conducted in reference
to material changes only. The question of the
persons to be entrusted by the Emperor with
carrying these changes into effect has not yet been
announced. We hear newspapers speak of personal
changes as impending, or already effected ; these
statements are simply based upon unfounded con-
jecture.

- The Neue Fresidenblaft asserts that a meeting of
the leading members of the German party in
Austria will take place shortly to discuss a plan for
the future constitutional organisation of the
Empire.

The same paper adds that the principle which
will be adopted by that party will be that of per-
sonal union between Austria and Hungary.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN.
SOUTHAMPTON, Barr. 6.

The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, from
New York on the 25th ult., has arrived, with 57
sacks of mails, 69 passengers for this port, Havre,
and Bremen, and 257 bars of silver for London,
value 483,162 dola.
On the lst inst. she passed the ship James and
Ellen bound west, and the American ship Culti-
vator bound east.

The Count de Chambord, the Duchess de Berri,
and the Duke de Modena are remosing from their palaces
at Venice all the moveable objects, mirrors, panels of
marble, and gilt or carved woodwork. " Those precau-
tions," says a letter from that city, " were quite unneoes.
nary, for those residences are placed under the special
protection of the law, and no one would certainly have
touched them. There is nothing to prevent the Count de
Chambord end his mother from continuing to pass the
winter at Venice, particularly as that city w 31 be gayer in
the approaching season than it has been for the last
80 years."

It is reported from Brescia that Ricciotti, the
youngest son of Garibaldi, two days since was out riding
ou an Arab horse given to his father by the King, when
the animal ran away and dashed against some iron rail-
ings after having thrown his rider. Bicciotti was picked
up insensible, and his state inspires some uneasiness.
Ausrazaws AND PRUSSIANS. —The following is an
extract from a letter from an English resident in Frankfort,
dated August 31 :—" I thought it best to remain here to
look after our property and the soldiers quartered upon us,
We had as many of one side as the other in due course, and
I must say they all behaved most creditably, being very
orderly and expressing more thanks for our kindness than
it really deserved. The Austrian troops were a strange,
patchy party. Not a man among them could speak a word
of Germs*. The Hungarians were a fine-looking set, but
the rest made but a poor show. Our men were Italians—
Venetian gondoliers, I fancy, for the most part, with a
Croat for captain, who could n.t speak their language. The
poor fellows were delighted to chat with my wife, who took
care to serve them their native poleract. After they had
rested the second night they all sang in chorus an Are
Maria in thanks for ther good quarters, and afterwards
many Italian airs, from our garden all along our Maumee,
each party taking up the same strain, till the whole road
was alive with it. It was truly charming, and recalled to
my mind Venice and the delightful days we spent there
together. The poor fellows were very young—too young, I
thought, for the hardships they had to undergo. You can-
not imagine the state they arrived in here—fainting, lite-
rally dying with fatigue, all along our road, at our very
doors. Of course, we all ran out with wine, coffee, water—
anything we could think of ; but of what nee among so
many thousands' They all preferred the water. Our man
could not fill his buckets fast enough. They would not have
it poured out, but drank from the bucket like thirsty
wolves. dome were past cure, and carried away dead.
Their hunger, too, was past belief. Among our men enor-
mous ribs of beef disappesred, bone and all. We truly
pitied them and did all we could to relieve their pains.
Their love for Austria was not, of course, very strong. It
was hard for them to suffer and perish in a muse not their
own. The Prussians offered a marked contrast to these,
being perfectly well oared for and wad disciplined. When
I saw tiara was not at all surprised et their sumessive
victories. The real character of this war seems to be re-
ligious, though both parties have all along kept this sedu-
lously .ia the hackgromd. Towns end even villages are
divided against themselves ; the catholics aiding with
Austria, the protestants with Prussia."

Settled weather at present. The
southward at Pensanoe and on
LI the blab mate, with a fresh
a gale yesterday on the coasts of
probable.

REM,
There are no apparent signs of
winds have again backed to the
the French coasts arul to B.E. of
fell of the barometer. It blew
th, Channel, and snore wind la

DRESSES AT THE FRENCH SEASIDZ.—A letter
from a lady at Trouville says :—" There are • very few
English people here, ditto Spanish, ditto German. The
majority of the French are from Paris. In the morning
they bathe ; afterwards go home to breakfast ; then,
if the weather permits, go on excursions (there
are many round here). At half-put 4 the concert
begins at the casino, at which time all the ekgants and
the et iyantea make their appearance, in the most ex-
traordinary costumes, and so short (the ladies' contume)
as to be quite indecent. The ladies here all wear
those high boot+ with tassela, with such high heels that
they look perched upon stilts ; these throw the body
forward, which is most ungraceful The petticoat only
meets these boots, which makes about half a yard from the
ground to this aforesaid garment. They are generally red,
blue, violet, mauve. The dress is shorter still, without
sleeves. This is of the same colon as the petticoat, some-
thing in the jockey style. Ido not despair yet of seeing
(perhaps next year) a sleeve of one colour, say red, and the
other yellow. Red is the prevailing colour, because it
attracts attention. Small cam:mu, or peplums, without
sleeves, is the outside garment which terminates these cos-
tumes; and, to crown all, • small sailor's hat, with very
long ribbons hanging behind, the colour of the petticoat
and sleeves, is worn on the tip of the head, falling very
much over the eyes. This costume they wear at the balls,
only the texture of the dresses and slip are changed for
more elegant materials. Crinolines are much smaller and
shorter of course ; but when the wind blows or they turn
round and round in the waltz, you are much edified as to
the shape of the legs and the colour of the stockings,
which are mostly red, black and white, red and white, &c.
I was saying yesterday to • friend that • stranger coming
here for the first time would not think much of the mo-
desty of these said ladies. Formerly they hid even the
tip of their toes ; now, were it not for the trousers, they
would show up to their waists."
A FRENCH DEFAULTER.—The Canadian steamer
Damascus, which arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday night,
had on board M. Ernest Burrell Lamiraud, late • clerk at
one of the Parisian banks. He recently embezzled 28,000/.
and escaped to Canada. He was arrested in Quebec by •
French detective sent after him. He has been sent on to
Paris. The French consul wished the magistrates to act
at Liverpool, but they declined, having no jurisdiction.
TRIALS FOR RAPE.—Apropos of the Toomer
case, a correspondent of the Times draws attention to •
similar trial which took place at the last spring maims at
Derby. The prisoner in that ease was • fanner occupying
a respectable position near Derby, and the prosecnUix was
a married woman living hard by. The facts, according
to the evidence of the prosecutrix, were aa follows :
On an evening in last spring the prisoner called at the
hones of the husband of the proeuntrix to spend the
evening. The prosecutrix went in the course of the
erviieg to a neighbouring village to fetch a bottle of
gin. The prisoner soon after left the house. In
about an hour's time the prosecutrix returned. There
was at that time nothing unusual in her appearance. Her
countenance was composed ; her dress was neither dis-
ordered nor torn, and there were no marks of violence
upon Ler. Soon after the prisoner returned, and spent the
remainder of the evening with the prosecutrix and her
husband. No complaint at that time was made by the
prosecutrix ; but the next day she told her husband that
the prisoner had, during her absence on the pre iso, even-
ing, committed • rape upon her. The prisoner was then
apprehended and committed for trial. In craw-examina-
tion at the trial the prosecutrix said that the offeror)
was committed by the roadside that she did not scream
nor cry out, that she held the bottle of gin suspended
from her arm all the time, and that the bottle was not
broken. To the astonishment of a crowded court the pri-
soner was found runty, and sentenced by Mr. Justice Shea
to a long term of penal servitude. The Indignation felt
in court was so great that before the prisoner left the dock
proceedings were eecninenced at the instigation of the
magistrates who sat upon the beach to obtain a reversal of
the sentence. From that time to the present • "eery (Mori
has been made to obtain a pardon for the prisoner, but
without avail.