The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-31 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND PlOB5l/.

Almost all of to-day's journals, both daily and weekly,
cantata articles on the state of the relations between
Austria sad Prnasii. As might be 'expected, war between
the two great Garman powers is deprecated by all, ant by
most the oondoct of Prussia is severely oommootedopos. The
criticsl position in which these powers stand towards each
other is admittel, and the malts to which a conflict is
Germany might lead to ars dwelt ones of the moot serious
character.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Yaws 30.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess el
Wales, Princess Helena, and Priam, dr,ve oul
yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four.

Princess Louise, with Prinoesa Holmlobe Langembourg,
also west out driving.
The Prince of Wee rode on horseback, :oda ty
Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel.
Prince Arthur, attended by Elejor Elph,nstono, arrived
at the Castle from Greenwich-park.

The Queen, the Prince sad Princess of Wales, Prioeess
Helens, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Arthur, sad the Prince and Princess of Hobenlohe Lawn.
bourg, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, at-
tended divine service, Ibis morning, in the private chapel.
The Honourable and Very Reverend the Dean of Windsor
officiated.

I Meier& Dickenson and Till, of Bond-street, had the
hoector of a sitting from the Queen yesterday, for a sketch
(after a photograph) of her Majesty.

CABINET COTTNerr.—Summonses have been issued
for a Cabinet Council at the First Lord of the
Treasury's official residence, in Downing-street,
on the 7th of April.
Loan CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ST. JAMIB2B
PALACE, RAI= 24. —Natio° is ketwity shwa, that hew
Majesty's birlitiey will be celebrated on Saturday, the 96th
of MAT next.—SYDNEY. Lord Obamlwalala.—Oweette.

Hie Royal Highness the Duke at Cambridge, as
Piel4-/4rshel Commandiag-la-Chief will, early I. the *G-
ents; week, eonnueacs a tour of iispeation of the digerent
Nullifier, libations.

The Duke of Rutland, Lord Loughborough, Mr.
Cheney, and Mr. Gilmour hay, *sad the &ale mina-
bled at Dot.. Park, as a 'nit to the Earl and COWAN' of
Oardigme.

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AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

A despatch from Breslau of the 30th announces
that Austrian troops to the number of 40,000 have
successively passed through Pardnbitz and Kuenigs-
graetz, and are to concentrate at Theresienstadt,
near the frontier of Prussia and Saxony.
The Norddeutsche Zeitung of the 26th says that
Austria is forming three corps d'artn4e, one at
Cracow, one in Austrian Silesia, and one in
Bohemia. The fortifications of Cracow, which
have been enlarged and reinforced, will form the
basis of the first corps. The troops in Cra-
cow, which were directed towards Bohemia,
have been replaced by troops from Gallicia
The second corps will have a strategic direction,
determined by the line of the Oder and the rail-
way between Oderberg and Velakirchen, and its
flank will be protected by the Cracovian corps
d'armoSe. The towns in the country are being filled
with troops. The black and yellow brigade, the
9th battalion of chaaseurs, and a brigade of cavalry,
are kept in Vienna as a reserve. The cavali7brigades
in Upper Austria and the Radetzki hussars in
Saltzburg and in other places are ready to march.
The third army corps, which is being formed in
Bohemia, will be provided with a large artillery
force, which is being despatched chiefly in the
night. The men on furlough have been
called in, and it is probable that the Bohe-
mian army will take the offensive, whilst
the other corps will act on the defensive.
On the 23rd three extra trains, each conveying
500 infantry and large quantities of artillery,
passed by Otstz. According to information from
Upper Silesia of the 25th, the 12th battalion of
chasseurs and six regiments of infantry,
the Henedorf, Hanover, Joseph, Prince William,
Mecklenburg, and Scbmerling passed through
Cracow on their way to the Prussian and Saxon
frontier. In the Norddeateche of the 27th other details
are given of further movements of Austrian troops,
and "yet," says this journal, " the Vienna press
would have the world believe that the Austrian
army is on a peace footing, and that the movement
of troops to Bohemia is for the protection of the
Jewish population there. The solicitude of the
Austrian government for their Jewish subjects in
Bohemia is no doubt praiseworthy. We can only
wish that the same disorders which have disgraced
some towns in Bohemia may not spread to other
provinces, for otherwise, the whole Austrian army
will be in motion."

The Kretar Zeitung says that Prussia, on her
side, must arm also, to be able to negotiate with
success and to maintain pease. Austria, it says,
would be able in four or five days to enter Saxony
with 80,000 men, and should Von Benat unite with
Austria, we should have 100,000 on our frontier.
The Austrian journals, on the other hand, declare
that Prussia is silently and secretly preparing
for war—that Austria will only act on the defen-
sive, hut that Prussia has miscalculated if she
thinks that Austria will be caught sleeping.