The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, JULY 9.
The government has withdrawn the exequatnr of
the Austrian' Consuls in Prussian porta, declaring
that it has been compelled with regret to adopt this
measure, on account of the course pursued by the
Austrian government towards the Prussian Con-
sul-General in Trieste.
It has been stated in several South German
newspapers that the Prussian custom-house autho-
rities on the frontier refuse to allow goods in-
tended for German States at war with Prussia to
pass with the usual permit, on the ground of their
destination being foreign territory. This state-
ment is unfounded. Articles liable to export duty
are sent, is heretofore, free of duty to those States
which belonged to the hitherto existing Zollversin,
even if those States be hostile to Prussia. The
same course is adopted with regard to goods sent
through Prussia to Austria.

PRUSSIAN lILLD-QUARTERS,
PARDUBITZ, JULY 9.

The army of the Crown Prince, which forms the
tete d'armee of the pursuing force, is already far
beyond Pardubita. The proportion of the wounded
is eight Austrians to one Prussian.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, JULY 9, Eriarnia.

A rumour is current here that Count Belcredi,
Minister of State, and Count von Lariach, Mi-
nister of Finance, have resigned.
The Vaterland of this evening says :—" We
learn from an authentic source that the army of
the North is still 200,000 strong."

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE ITALIAN
LOSSES AT CUSTOZZA.
FLORENCE, JULY 9.

A supplement to the Official Gazette,' published
to-day, contains the following report of the Italian
losses in the battle of Custozza on the 24th ult.
The loss among the officers was 69 killed, 203
wounded, 63 prisoners, and 20 missing. The First
Army Corps had 369 men killed, 1,759 wounded,
and 2,853 prisoners and missing. The Second
Corps, 2 wounded and 9 prisoners. In the Third
Corps there were 281 killed, 1,133 wounded, and
1,362 prisoners and men missing. The reserve
cavalry division had 1 killed, 13 wounded, and 38
prisoners. Total loss iu men, 651 killed, 2,909
wounded, and 4,252 prisoners and men missing.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION.

VALENCIA, JULY 9.

The Albany arrived here yesterday afternoon,
has landed stores for this station, and sailed to-day
at noon to join the cable fleet at Berehaven. Her
Majesty's frigate Racoon, Captain Armitage, is in
this harbour, and will proceed to sea to assist in
the operation of splicing on Wednesday next.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(NEON OUR OWN CORRLSPANDENT.)
PARIS, DI.NDAT finer o.

The departure of the Emperor from Paris has been
so often announced and contradicted, that no news
on the subject can be considered as definitive. It
is, however, quite settled that in consequence of the
critical state of Europe he will neither go to Fon-
tainebleau nor Vichy before the visit to Nancy.
According to present arrangements his Majesty will
leave the Tuileries for Nancy on Saturday next,
June 14, and will breakfast en route at Epernay
with M. Perier, the great champagne grower, who
was lately returned as a government candidate to
the Corps Legislatif. The Empress and Prince
Imperial will be of the party. The stay at Nancy
will not be prolonged beyond the Fah.
The following is the latest news given by the
Patric, dated " Three o'clock :"

It is not impossible that the negotiations for the armis-
tice may be concluded to-day or to-morrow. It is said that
the belligerents have been brought to an agreement so far
as concerns the position of the Prussians in Bohemia, and
upon all the questions relating to the victualling of that
army. The difficulty yet unsettled relates to Venice. The
• government of Florence insist upon the immediate occupa.
• tion by Italian troops of two of the fortresses of
the Quadrilateral, of which Peschiera must be one. The
grounds urged for this demand are that it is necessary to
give satisfaction to the national sentiment in Italy. A
final answer from Victor Emmanuel was expected to-day.
Both from private information and the general
, turn of events, as shown by the latest telegrams,
I venture to predict, contrary to the vaticina-
tions of the Patric, that the negotiations for
an armistice are not likely to be successful
either to-day or to-morrow, or for a long
time afterwards. The "definitive " answer
; of the King of Italy is given by Cialdini having
I crossed the Po with all his army. Diplomatic
despatches no doubt represent Italy as the chief
difficulty ; but Italy is heartily supported by
I Prussia, and M. de Biamarck is more haughty
than ever. The opinion makes way daily that
Austria in ceding Venetia to France instead of to
: Italy, or to Italy's ally in this war, Prussia, has
done a miserable thing, as cowardly as wicked,
with the design in her impotence of doing as
' much mischief as possible.
Admiral Jurien de la Graviere's carriage acci-
dent turns out to have been more serious than the
first reports led one to suppose. Dr. Nelston is
; anxious about his condition, and predicts that at
tho best he will be lame for life.

The Bourse was without any remarkable feature.
Rents fell 10c. for caah and bc. for account, closing
at 68fr. 40c. and 68fr. 55c. Italian rose SOc.,
closing at 52fr. SOc. Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c., and
Credit Foncier 10fr.

BIRMINGHAM Hones Snow.—This exhibition,
the first of its kind held in Birmingham, will be opened
this day (Tuesday). It is held in Bin ley-hall, and LI the
offspring of the Birmingham and Midland counties cattle
show, the council of which have for several years meditated
an exhibition of this character, but from various causes it
has been postponed. The horses were arriving all yester-
day ; there are nearly four hundred and fifty entries, not
including the foals. The clamors of hunters are exceedingly
well filled, and the thorough-bred sires include representa-
tives of many of the principal studs in the kingdom. The
other divisions tare equally satisfactory, and there are good
grounds for the anticipation that the exhibition will be the
best representative of the different breeds of horses which
has ever been brought together in this country. A very
convenient ride has been arranged for jumping the horses ;
and Miss Beverley has been engaged to try the ladies' horses.
The pitigee will make their swards in the presence of the

THE WAR IN ITALY.

(PEON OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDINT WITH GARIBALDI.)
BRESCIA, JuLy 4.

Yesterday afternoon the Garibaldini sustained
on the borders of the Tyrol, at a point called San
Antonio, between Rocca d'Anfo and Ponte di
Caffaro, a check which, though on a smaller scale, must
be considered to them hardly less disastrous than
that which the regular army met with on June 24,
After marching his volunteers hither and thither
for a whole week, apparently without any fixed
purpose, Garibaldi appears to have finally decided
on an invasion of the Tyrol at Caffaro on Saturday
or Sunday last.

For that purpose, Colonel Corte, of the Ist regi_
ment of volunteers, was raised to the temporary
rank of brigadier-general, and Instructed to proceed
with the utmost rapidity to the execution of the
plan. The brigade, the immediate command of
which was entrusted to Colonel Corte, while its
movements were generally directed by Garibaldi in
person, consisted of the Ist and 3rd regiments of
infantry volunteers, the Ist battalion of Bersaglieri,
and a battery of artillery, consisting of two small
field guns.
The Rocca d'Anfo, for which place Brigadier
Corte was instructed to make, lies on the Lake of
Idro, up the valley of the Chiese, 40 miles distant
from Brescia, and 25 from Salo, whence the expe-
dition started. While the Ist Regiment, the Ber-
saglieri, and artillery left Salo on Sunday, and thus
were allowed three days for the performance of the
25 miles, the 3rd Regiment, towhich, as I informed
you in a previous letter, I was temporarily attached,
did not get off from Salo till Monday. Reaching
Barghe, a village distant 12 mules from Salo, the
same evening, the 3rd Regiment had still 13 miles
to perform beforearriving at the village of Anfo, and
three more to San Antonio, where the battle of
yesterday took place. The result was, that the
men, who had had little or nothing to eat all day,
arrived upon the ground faint and starving, and,
into the bargain, drenched through and through
by the heavy rain, which fell at intervals between
11 and 3 p.m.
Leaving Salo at 3 a.m. yesterday, in a light car-
riage dra Am by one horse, and escorted by five
guides, Garibaldi in a few hours overtook Brigadier
Corte, and during the remainder of the morning
concerted with him the plan of attack. In deter-
mining to strike the blow that same afternoon--
instead of allowing the men, or rather boys, most
' of whom had no more idea than I had, till the last
moment, that we were going into action,
to take food and rest that night—Garibaldi
much overrated the powers of endurance of
his volunteers. Partly to this error of
judgment, partly to the inferior stuff of which
at least two-thirds of the present volunteer
force is composed, partly to the strong position
taken up by the enemy, and partly to the nun-
arrival of the Bersaglieri, who were instructed to
proceed over the mountains and take the enemy in
the rear, the check of yesterday must be ascribed.
That they did not arrive in time, I must add in
, justice to the Bersaglieri and their gallant com-
mander Mosto, was no fault of theirs, for very in-
! sufficient time was allowed them for their difficult
Imarch.

The field of yesterday's battle way the steep side
of a mountain, about 1,500 feet high, sloping
rapidly down to the shore of the Lake of Idro, and
bisected by an exposed upper road, carried along
its face, leading to the village of Bagolino,
whence the Bersaglieri were expected to fall on
the enemy's rear, while lower down, and near the
shore, runs the high road to Caffaro. The entire
face of the slopes of the mountain, which is called
the Dosso Alto, is overgrown by underwood,
while it afforded perfect shelter to the Tyrolese
Kaiser-Jugers, much impeded the progress of the
volunteers. As we advanced along the upper road
to the scene of action it was the prettiest sight in
the world to see the three lines of red shirts con-
spicuously showing through the green bushes, and
stretching like a red cord from the top to the
bottom of the mountain. Iu front of the red shirts,
and forming the front line of skirmishers, one
could make out with some difficulty the grey uni-
forms of the Bersaglieri, who, at a signal given by
the tiring of a gun from a boat on the lake, which
was answered by the enemy from the shore, com-
menced a very brisk fire.
From 3.30 p.m., when the first shot was fired,
till 5.40, when the Garibaldini were in full retreat
towards San Antonio, the fire of the enemy was ter-
ribly lively and well directed, while that of the Carl_
baldini was, in general, exceedingly wild, and mostly,
except in the case of the Bersaglieri, not directed at
all. Although the order to charge with the bayo-
net, which is supposed to be the peculiar weapon
of the Garibaldini, was repeatedly given, only in a
single instance was it responded to. As that bayo-
net charge was, amidst many disgraceful episodes,
the only brilliant incident of ' the day, I may men-
tion that it was ordered and headed by Captain
de Verneda, of the sth company of the 3rd Regi-
ment, who had his left elbow fractured by a ball.
At the most critical period of the engagement I
observed the strong grey cob which Garibaldi uses
in the mountains, being led riderless to the front,
and a few minutes later saw Garibaldi himself sud-
denly appear fifty yards a-head of those on foot,
as if he had risen up from the road. Mounting
his cob, the general rode quietly towards a small
body of his men, who were crouching fearfully by
the side of the road, and calling them " Ragarzi"
in a gentle voice, tried in vain to encourage them
to advance. That Garibaldi's appearance should
have been so strangely inefficacious in restoring
their courage was to me, indeed, a marvel, and,
perhaps a greater marvel still, to see the general'
having failed in his first attempt, give the matter
up as a bad job, and ride gently back along the
road. The explanation probably is that Garibaldi
was faint from lose of blood, having already
received a flesh wound in his left thigh which
compelled him later to leave the field. Not once,
when the fire was hot and encouragement needed,
did I hear any volunteer raise that cry of " Evviva
Garibaldi" which is so dinned into one's ears on
peaceful occasions.
•

By 5.30 the upper road, which was continually
exposed to a moat galling fire, and, but for its
sinuosity, would have been raked by the enemy from
end to end, presented a horrid spectacle, from
being completely lined with dead and dying. Over
the prostrate bodies of their comrades, the Gari-
baldini, retreating before the now advancing
Kaiser-Jager, stumbled in wild confusion, and had
not the artillery succeeded in bringing up their
field-pieces, and pouring in a fire, which is said to
have swept the Kaiser-Jager clean off the road, a
fearful panic among the Garibaklini must have en-