The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-11 00:00:00

IT INTELLIGENCE.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
The Wandirer of Vienna concludes an ail& on
the atlas* of Herr Von Biamarok to the Atottrian
note, as follows :
When the German conflict shall have been bdd
hen-
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fore the only competent tribunal (the Diet), w
Austria shall have resumed a policy which will no
longer make her isolated in the eyes of foreigners ; then
only, when the last decisive word is spoken, will it be seen
whether these nuisances of the Marches—we can scarcely
refrain from using a less parliamentary word—these ad-
venturers who have been raised to power by their adora-
tion of divine right and their sovereign contempt of the
people, and who now guide the destinies of Prussia,
will further dare to treat Austria as a fallen
power and heap upon us insult after insult. As things
now are no question of compromise with that cabinet can
arise, no attempt at mediation on the part of foreign
powers. Where Austria's honour is at stake, the sword is
the only possible mediator. But if war should break out,
the responsibility of it must fall on him who has provoked
it, and not on that power which, against her will, haste
forced into it, morally and materially, in spite of he
A correspondent writing from Copenhagen on
the 6th says :
The Prussian Colonel Mitten has arrived in Sonderburg,
for the purpose of inspecting the ground for the new
fortifications. In addition to the soldiers, 2,000
workmen have been employed, in order to complete
the works. The Prusabum are also engaged night and day
on the works around KieL We hear from Fionie and from
Jutland that considerable purchases of cavalry and artil-
lery horses have been made for the Prussian government,
and that they are sent at once to their destination.
(azoraa's TILLEGILUGS.)
VIENNA, Aram 11.

The Presse of to-day publishes a telegram, stating
that the Prussian reply to the last Austrian note
gives a decisive refusal to the Austrian demand that
Prussia should withdraw the order for the mobi-
lisation of her troops, this order having been
issued only as a defensive measure. The
Prussian note further declares that, warned
by the fact that the Austrian government
denied having made warlike preparations, the Prus-
sian cabinet is bound to consider these prepara-
tions as destined for aggression against Prussia.

THE FRENCH SENATE.
PARIS, APRIL 11,

The Senate has adopted the previous question
upon the petition for a modification of the Consti-
tution relative to the right of petition.

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 10, Emma.
The treaty of peace and amity concluded between
Spain and China has been laid before the Congress.
It is stated that General Leraundi has been
nominated Captain-General of Cuba, replacing
General Duke, who has resigned that post.

ROME.

ROME, APRIL 10, EvrsiNG.

The official Giornale di Roma, of to-day, energe-
tically protests against some assertions contained
in a letter from Rome to the French jour-
nal, Le Motirk. It declares the critical re-
marks made in that letter against the fide-
lity of the functionaries employed by the
Roman government to be entirely unfounded,
and stigmatizes as calumny and slander the
statements in the same letter referring to the Roman
nobility, " who," says the official journal, " are,
with very few exceptions, faithful to the temporal
power of the Pope, and will bequeath noble ex-
amples of devotion to their descendants."

THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE PRUSSIAN PRO.
POSAL TO THE DIET.

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The Temps says :—" The news that Prussia had
propoz.ed to the Diet the convocation of an assembly
directly elected by universal suffrage from the entire of
Germany, although there was a foreshadowing of it in the
famous Prussian circular of the 24th March, burst upon us
like a bomb. It excited for the moment onr financial
world, who did not know whether it was a 'Lep towards
war or peace. The intelligence from Germany to-day in-
forms us that the Diet, on the motion of itz President,
resolved that the proposition should be at once communi-
cated to the respective federal governments, and that, in
conformity with usage, it should be discussed in a week's
time. Herr von Bismarck cannot delude himself as to the
reception which his daring motion will get from the official
organ of the old Germanic body. The replies of the second-
ary States are known beforehand, the governments
to be consult:d will not commit suicide. Herr
von Bismarck knows this as well as any one,
but yet such is his confidence in himself that he perhaps
imagines the German people will, in the presence of the
brilliant vision of national unity, forget the examples of
his internal policy, his attacks on the liberal party
in Prussia, his attempts upon the constitution and
liberties of that country; and that he will produce
in Germany a public opinion so general and so
powerful that it will carry with it the recalcitrant govern-
ments, or if not, that he will be able to pursue his designs
without them. If he is not already deceived in his hopes,
he soon will be. We learn, indeed, from Frankfort
already that his motion has been unfavourably re-
ceived, and that no one is taken by the snare
which he has set. The committee of Thirty-Six,
even before the proposition was laid before the
Diet, 'anticipating the move, agreed to a declaration on
the 7th of April, in which they protest strongly against
the danger of a civil war, which would bring the foreigner
into Germany, and ruin upon public liberty and
prosperity. It denounces the manner in which the
two great German powers treat the Elbe Duchies,
dealing with them as if they were a booty and a subject
for forcible annexation. It points out the weakness of the
Confederate states, and demands an entire revision of the
federal constitution, but at the same time energetically
rzjects the initiative of Prussia. Any government,' it
says, which, disregarding the rights of its own people,
should present projects of federal reform with the inten-
tion probably of obtaining allies in a civil war would not
possess, owing to the want of confidence of the German
people, the guarantees requisite for ensuring the success of
the great work of national unity.' "
The Debate remarking on the promptitude exhibited in

taking the Prussian proposition into consideration. says :
" In this energetic style of treating questions we can no
longer discover the proverbial slowness of Germany.
With regard to the proposition itself, it appears, from the
declaration of the Committee of Thirty-six, that the pro-
iects of Herr von Bismarck will meet with strong opposi-
tion from the Liberal party, who, while anxious to see the
unity of Germany, will not give their support to the

absolutist policy of Prussia."
The Arenir National regards the proposition of Prussia
as a proceeding to which Herr von Bismarck was driven
in onler to get out of the fix into which he was forced by
the diplomacy of Austria, who probably intimated in her
last note that she would submit, in virtue of Article 11 of
the Federal pact, the difference between the two powers
to the arbitration of the Diet.
The Independance Beige asks :—" What will be the
result of Herr von Bismarck's appeal to the aspirations of
the German nations for a revision of the organisation of
I the Federation ? Will this appeal procure him that popu-
lar support which his policy has hitherto failed to obtain
Can he who is so unparliamentary at Berlin become
parliamentary at Frankfort! Will the populations follow
him against their governments, and if they do will he be
able to maintain in their face the rule which he has carried
out in Prussia r
The Nord regards the Prussian proposition as a coup de
theatre, which Herr Von Bismarck has been holding in
reserve for the last month, and that it is of the same cha-
racter as the proposal of a European congress made by the
Emperor of the French, when France, Naglsotand Austria
were driven into an impasse in consequence of their inter-
vention on the Polish question.

Sir Jervoise Clarke Jervoise will ask the Vice-
President of the Committee of Council on Education to-
morrow when the third report of the Cattle Plague Com-
minion will be published•