The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
THE WAR.
As is usual in war times, the manufacture °f
false news has received considerable development ;
reports are circulated one moment to be contra-
dicted the neit. The telegraphic wires, instead of
conveying correct intelligence with rapidity, are
made the means for spreading fabrications which
would seem to be got up for the mere purpose of
pandering to excited imaginations. The public,
therefore, cannot be too much on its guard in
accepting as true everything that is brought by the
telegraph in the shape of war news.
Up to the latest accounts no movements of
importance have taken place. A military corres-
pondent of the Times, writing from Olmutz on the
19th, says that at that date everything was in
activity in the camp of Benedek, and that the
headquarters were to be changed, as he supposed,
" in a westerly direction." But on the even-
ing of the same day directions"
adds a line stating
that they were to move on Trubau,
in Bohemia. The place referred to is -pro-
bably Troppan, a town of Austrian Silesia,
on the extreme frontier of Bohemia, north-east of
Olmutz, and at no great distance from Neisae, in
Prussian Silesia, where we stated yesterday that
I the Crown Prince of Prussia was concentrating his
forces. Further information received to-day from
Germany states that the Prussian army in
Silesia is being rapidly reinforced. On the 19th
and 20th 14 trains were despatched every two hours
by Breslau, with troops belonging to the first
corps d'arm‘e to Ratibor, in Silesia, which is a
little to the north of Troppau. Regiments belong-
ing to the sth and Gth Prussian army corps have been
forwarded by other routes. Landschut, Walden-
burgh, Friedland and Hirschberg have been almost
denuded of troops. The first and second regiment of
the guards have been sent in six trains from Berlin to
Neiaae, and even the army of the Elbe, under
Prince Frederick, has been weakened to reinforce
the Silesian army under the Prince Royal. Both
armies therefore seem to be concentrating on the
confines of Silesia, and perhaps in a few days we
may hear of a great battle on the very ground
which was the scene of many a hard struggle be-
tween Austrians and Prussians in the Seven Years'
war.

in the western field of operations the Prussians
have advanced southwards to Plauen, which is the
next station to Hof, in Bavaria. In Electoral Hesse
the Prussian General Beyer is moving by forced
marches towards Hersfeld, with a view of cutting
off the retreat of the Hessians or Hanoverian
troops, who, the telegrams informed us, had
effected their junction with the Austro Bavarian
army.
Yesterday we published a proclamation, which
came by Reuter's telegram. and which purported
to be an address of General Benedek to his army.
It now appears that the document was forged. The
following is the real address of the general :
Headquarters, Olmutz, June 17.
Soldiers,—His Imperial Majesty has announced to-day
to his faithful subjects that all his efforts for the mainte-
nance of peace have been vain, and that he is forced to
take up the sword to uphold the honour, the in-
dependence, and the power of Austria and her
noble allies. The uncertainty which hitherto weighed
upon us is at last removed, and our soldiers' hearts can
beat more freely. Our gracious sovereign and head calls
us to arms. Full of confidence in God we march forward
to a just and holy war. Now, then, soldiers, our heaviest
task has begun. Germans, Hungarians, Sclaves, and
Italians from far and near, you have hastened to place
yourselves with joyful devotion under the flags of the
Emperor. Behold them flying once more ; they invite you
to combat for the just cause of the Emperor, for the most
sacred interests of Austria, for the supreme good of our
country. Those flags you will hear aloft and firm ; and
with God's help you will bear them gloriously to victory.
To arms, then ! You know, soldiers, what I am, what I
feel for you, what I require and expect of you. Let
every man, with all his heart, and all his strength,
with bounding courage, and with contempt for death,
justify the confidence of the Emperor, our beloved and
oft-tritd master, in order that I may soon say to you, with
joy, "you have behaved valiantly, as became Austrian
soldiers. The country is proud of you ; the Emperor is
satisfied with you." RIMEL/ER.
The democratic party in Germany are bestirring
themselves. The Frankfurt Journal says that " a
committee of public safety for the national defence"
has been established in the Palatinate and Rhenish
Hesse. The central committee are exerting them-
selves to found affiliated societies throughout
Germany. Every member must contribute
six kreutzers a week. The wealthy are invited to
promote the work by voluntary contributions. The
same journal adds that the National Verein have
placed at the disposition of the Rhenish committee
the funds which they had collected for a German
fleet. The object of the association is to arm the
people, and to propagate democratic principles in
Germany.
The latest accounts from Italy left the King and
Ia Marmora at Cremona, Cialdini at Ferrara, and
Garibaldi at Salo on the Lago di Garda, evidently
making his way with tremendous rapidity to the
north-east, so as to get behind the Austrians. When
people ask, Is ho in such a place 1 the answer is—
" Si, si dice ; ma non si sa." (" Yes, they say
so, but one does not know.")

ITALY AND AI:STRIA.
MALTA, JurrE 22.

On receipt of official information of the declara-
tion of war between Italy and Austria the C om-
mander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean sent her
Majesty's ship Psyche to communicate with
Admiral Persano, and to request his good offices in
respect to British life and property in his opera-
tions in the Adriatic, and a British vessel of war
will probably be present during any such opera-
tions.—Times, second edition.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE WAR.
FRANKFORT, JrNE 23.
Yesterday the federal troops occupied Giessen.
The traffic on the railway between that town and
Wetzlar is suspended.

PRAGUE, JUNE 22, EVENING.

The Prussians have marched towards Buden-
bach, but their advance was arrested by the ob-
sta, which had been placed in their line of
march. They left on one side tho Saxon fortress
of Konigstein.

ENCOUNTER BETWEEN PRUSSIAN AND
SAXON TROOPS.

PRAGUE, TuNR 72.
The Prussians have primed across the heights of
Holledorf, where they had an encounter with the
Saxon troops. They have seized 12, locomotives in
Plauen.

THE DA-NUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, Jeme 22.

Prince Charles of Hohenzollern has issued a
proclamation calling for volunteers to join the
army, as military- action for the defence of the
country will soon become necessary.