The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.

The National Gazette supplies u with the follow-
ing circumstantial details of the negotiations at Ber-
lin at the commencement of the war :

Oa the 14th of April the Archduke Albert strived bore, for
the purpose of inducing Praia to take part immediately in
the mama, sad of effecting an agreement about the military
111•Warle. He samouseed that Austria would mad without
delay as ultimatum demending a disarmer:war, sad that after
the !ejection of that ultimatum, which rejection might be
looked upon as certain, she would invade Piedmont imme-
diately. He added dist Austria only attached a secondary
importance to the war, and that she would soon bring Pied-
mont to her senses without sayged display of form.
That which chiefly megeoref his attaition was the war
on the Rhine that was so mane forthwith. Austria offered
for this war 200,000 mat who wen to operate beyond
the Upper Rhine with the' fade al Corp.r of Southern Oar-
miry. under the command of the Archduke Albert. With the
Peoria= corps and those of the northern Mates, an army of
the berth would be formed on the Lower Rhin, and Prowls
was to take the command. To facilitate the natty of motion
a Sliml gesandieskno via sot to be sppothes• bet the
Oath= was to proofed from general head-quareirs, where
perm Frauds Joseph and the Prince Bogen wend
palseallp deckle what the operations Were to be. Amnia
iwasif then sektowledged that the military ainstilutka of
Oa DIM was impracticable, and the proposed combatant was
be suspeati it ; h is of special importance to nodes this feet,
ea account oldie sumacs, protests occasioned by the Ptom-
ain proposnon of July 4. For the rust, It appears that
*War protests bad been already made egoism the Arch-
duke Albert's
sossiag that Boyars, ler insteam,
Inastad en ea commend. From the coescenco-
sarist of the the Preesiaa govonamen bad
elated kseeeii to prevent the two Herman powers from
n
from through the meat agent motives,
Russia
eitosemed a that time to less very armegly on the
side of France ; It seemed the MOM prudent, thereikes, not
I to reemmes too basely the conatorpoise aimed by nob •
triple althea, aad sot to man it to tweak up reams
latiglsners propoiale of mediation bound Austria fa
so rupee, as is kaoline, to yield la the matter of the brass
of ISM ; those proposal@ mansion be, poseassicas, m-
ended all isderiwnee with her internal straits, and was
atonal spirt the special trestles done. The Promina
pennon completely admitted this Loris, and teas not at
eft dispessd to Isunch derataty precipitously into so An-
mho ma itodast Frans in order that Austria In the star
Yee Sight make short work of it with Piedmont, and over-
throw the last barrier opposing ha dominstiollin lady.
The idea of entering on the contest beyondlhe Alps in •
most arbitrary manner and contrary to the traaaes, then to
bring the Rhine into the van and to make it beer the whole
brunt of the war, this ides found no favour with ne. The
meet pressing ra;mentation were mole to the Archduke
Albert what this unceremonious despatch of an ultimatum
that wouH be sure to mortify Enlace' eancially, and almost
Mdse. bra to go over to the enemy. The Archduke Albert
apperal to to also convinced of it, and on the 20th of April,
whim be quitted Berlin, it wee thought that the adventuroue
pAna of the moment were postponed, and that steps were
being taken for omoing to an egreenstat respecting the
&tun cm several Important pave. But sumo holm after hie
departure a telegraphic despatch was received from Vienna,
that the ultimatum had just ban salt. The
ONO she won 'ooosakeed by this intelligence.
The himself was hardly lees affected. we have been
armee{ opts receiving It at Deaden ; and, in fact, daring
his whole Nay at Bolin be had behaved with the most per-
fect 1071A7.
The Pia!ional Gaudio thea compares the mission
of the Archduke with that of Prises Windischgratz,
without, however, stating any new fact about this
second mission. A campaign on the Rhine for the
status quo ante, and all at once the conclusion of a
peace at Vii Ithaca, painfully surprises the prince.
There must be (aye the National Onsette) in the relations
between the Cabinet of Vienna sad our own some radical
defect, since all the coolidential overtimes, tree those where
the bemere act is perfect good faith, end after all in such
Illusions.