The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-02 00:00:00

, THUR§Dff = EVENING, AUGUST 2, 4166.

LATEST INTELLIGEN

AUSTRIA.

The Vienna correspondent of the Debuts gives
the following description of the state of things in
Vienna, and other parte of the Austrian empire :
For some days past there has been a kind of !acute, but
an baeate of the German kind—without cries or menaces—
before the police-01m. Workmen exhausted by hunger
came to ask for labour or bread. A supply of
the latter for one week was given, but after-
wards? The Emperor, the Empress, and some of the
grandees have given liberally to this crowd, who are
dispirited sad homeless from want. The proclamation of
the state of siege is explained by what takes place here
each day. The time had come when the Civil authority
would have found itself dimmed in the presence
of a double agitation. But the proclamation of
the state of siege ought to have been dated
in 1766. There is one paragraph of the proclamation by
which corporal punishment is to be indicted for certain
crimes. In fact, the old Austrian policy has won back the
ground which it had last under the pressure of recent
events. On this head one of the leading minister. said :
" The European powers who are good enough to interest
themselves in our behalf by recommending to us a new
system should at the same time give us two things which
are necessary to put it in practice—the assurance of a long
peace and money without interest." Whilst waiting for
these two conditions to be realised, Austria is acting
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like a military power that was soon to have all Europe to
fight. Peace, it is said, will be made next week between
the two sovereigns of Austria and Prussia, and yet every
measure is taken as if hostilities were at hand. Meanwhile
there is great depression. The army, it is said, will not
fight. The soldiers have lost confidence in their officers
and moreover there are national rivalries amongst the sol;
diets. The Hungarians and Croats of the southern army look
down upon the Czechs and Austrians of the army
of the north. The &laves who are now putting
forward their national pretensions at Vienna,
say that they are 15,000,000, and that they
represent nearly half the empire. This does not
look propitious for the consolidation of the empire. I am
informed from a good source that the party of Desk will
shortly be overborne by the ultras in Hungary, wbo de-
mind the constitution of 1848, with a separate Hungarian
ministry and parliament. Desk's party still recommend
moderation and patience, but there are events in prepara-
tion on the Danube which will find an echo
along the Hungarian frontier and which may precipitate a
crisis. The Moldo-Wallachian army are en echelon so as to
be in a position to meet an attack of the Turkish troops
which they anticipate, while Russia has made an advance
to Radzivilow. Will the excitable imaginations of the
Hungarians remain calm in this state of things ? It is to be
desired that they may, but it is impossible to say. A states-
man has thus defined the situation of the Empire : "Austria
is a mighty ruin which is falling to pieces,but which may be
kept up by strong props."

(arvres's nascatues.)

OCCUPATION OF MANNHEIM AND HEI-
DELBERG BY THE PRUSSIANS.
MANNHEIM, Am's? 2.
The Pruasian troops entered Mannheim and
Heidelberg hat night.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.
VIENNA, AUGUST 1, EVENING.

The King of Prussia left Nikolaburg yesterday.
Negotiations for peace will be opened shortly at
Prague. Baron Brenner will represent the Aus-
trian, and Baron von Werther the Prussian govern-
ment.

PRUSSIA AND BAVARIA.
WURZBURG, Aucusr 7, Evsimia.
A convention has been concluded between Prince
Charles and General Manteuffel, according to which
a Prussian brigade will enter this town to-morrow
morning. The fortress and the suburbs remain in
the hands of the Bavarians.

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.
RENEWAL OF THE TRUCE.

PADUA. Auauer 1.
The Italian government being without a reply
from Austria relative to the proposed armistice oZ
four weeks, General La Marmon tele€,:aphed to the
governor of the fortress of Legnano, pointing out
the consequences that might ensue if no reply
arrived from Austria before 4 o'clock to-morrow
morning, and proposing to him a second suspen-
sion of hostilities for eight days, in order to give
time for the diplomatic reply of the Austrian
government to arrive.
The governor of Legnano replied that he was
authorised by the commander of the army of
operation to accept the proposed suspension of
hostilities.
Signor Farini is dead.

GENOA, AUG= I.

ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 2.

The North American Lloyd's steamer Atlantic,
from New York, pelted the Needles at 11.40 a.m.
to-day.

TEE BRAZIL MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, Avousr 2.

The Royal Mail Company's steamer Oneida,
with the above mails, passed the Needles at 11.40
a.m. to-day.

Tab CROWN Ram :fuss or H►xovzH.—The
Prussia* Ga:tUe publishes the following note : " Hanover,
27th July. In reprisal for the removal of a large
part of the treasures of the State from Hano-
ver to London, the Prussian government has ordered
that the Crown revenues shall be placed under sequestra-
tion. deducting the necessary charges, and that conse-
quently they will no longer be at the disposition of the
King of Hanover, as they have been until now. These
revenues arise from domains assigned to the King as his
civil list."

A proposal for the erection of a statue to
Vauban, the great m;litary engineer, having been
favourably received by the town of Avallon (Yonne), the
committm wrote to the several marshab of France to
request that their names might be planed at the head
of the subscription. A reply was immediately sent by
Marshal Vaillant, himself a fellow townsman of Vauban,
in the shape of a banknote of one thousand francs, with
the following quatrain attached :

Maximus fogad° don& qu' romper, mecca
Is rolhl exemplum et compatrlo4 felt;
Quod al disclpulum memorem demi ere megletti
Malmo par ea Zero miners panes ego.
LutetiaTarlstoram, JoL 22, 18603.—Vaimmer.
MAmnIONIAL REFORM IN EGYPT.—A letter in
the /merest du Hence has the following :—" Ismael Pubs,
Viceroy of Egypt, is about to publish a decree which will
abolish polygamy in his family. Henceforth the viceroys
will only be able to have one wife. They will only be able
to divorce her in the case that the wife shall not give
them a male child. If, at the moment of the divorce, the
wife should be enceinte, and she should have • eon, the
divorce will be void. All the high Egyptian functionaries
raise the wisdom of this decree, which has been commu-
nicated to them, and they have all declared their intention
of imitating the Viceroy." The proceeding may be bind-
ing on the Viceroy himself, but it cannot well =relye
him per form, as the Koran sanctions • plurality of wives.
ReVISING Barcaurrsaa.—The act which was yes-
terday printed to emend the law relating to the quailica-
tions of revising herniae?. simply declares that a barrister
being appointed a commissioner under the act 16th and
17th of Victoria, cap. 57 (copyhold commiasionen) is not
disqualified as a revising 6irrister. The appointment of
revising barristers, from recent events, should be known.
By the 27th section of the 6th of Victoria. asp. 18 (the
Registration of Voters) the Lord Chief Justice of the Court
of Queen's Bench Is directed in the month of July or
August in every year, to appoint a revising barrister for
the county of Middlesex, and other banisters for the me-
tropolitan boroughs aawell as the cityof Loudon. Although
annually appointed, one barrister has held the appointment
until he has succeeded to another appointment or bean re-
moved by death. Mr. Bailee has held the appointment
for the county of Middlesex for some years, and it is not
publicly known whether the Lord Chief Justice liss ap-
pointed him for the nest revision.
Tie Posrg•arsn-Gawnsa..—Yeaterday an act
was printed to amble the Postmester-Gassrel to sit in the
House of Commons. If a member assepte the ales • re-
action is to take plate, but he is eligible to be re-elected.