The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-09 00:00:00

THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN AUSTRIA

AND ITALY.

The Debats of yesterday says :—" The negotia-
tions for the armistice between Italy and Austria
have not yet led to a satisfactory result. Accord-
ing to the Fremdenblatt, the cause is the claim of
Italy to conclude the armistice on the basis of the
tali possidstis ; now the Italian army is actually in
possession of the greater part of the Italian Tyrol,
and a small partof Myna, and Austria willabsolutely
cede Venetia only. The Trent, which contains a
population of scarcely 500,000 souls, has really no
importance except in a military point of view ;
and if Italy on the one hand considers it, and
rightly so, part of her natural frontiers the posses-
sion of which is indispensable to her security, it is
difficult to see on the other hand what motive
Austria can have to cling to it with so much
obstinacy if she wishes to conclude a solid and
durable peace without nourishing thoughts of
future aggression."

THE WEST Iffntss. —The mails per the American
from Jamaica were landed at Liverpool yesterday. Mr.
Eyre was to leave for England on the 24th July. A move.
meat had been set on foot for the purpose of offering him
• testimonial, but, except in Kingston, it had met with
little support. The Jamaica Guardian trusts that at
least I,ooof. will be collected. The rebellion at Hayti eon- I
tinned. It was stated at Kingston that &Ina,. warn at ,
the head of the rebellion, and that the Haytian troops
had mutinied.
THE SEIZURE OF SEVEN STEAMERS AT LlVER-
root.—Our Liverpool correspondents state that they have
been requested by Mears. Fraser, Trenhohn, and Co. to
correct the report which was published yesterday from a
Liverpool evening paper relative to certain proceedings by
the United States government against the property of that
firm. Were the facts as stated yesterday, there might
have been some apparent grounds for the action of the
United States government. They are, however, quite
otherwise. The proceedings seem to have originated in
London, where a Mr. Mullins, clerk to Mews. Howard,
Dollmann, and Co., solicitors to the United States Oo-
vernment, made an affidavit to the effect that he " had
been informed and believed " that seven steamers lying in
Liverpool and Birkenhead were the property of the
United States, and were wrongfully withheld from that
government by Mr. Prideau, in whose name six of them
are registered. Thereupon the Court of Admiralty issued
against each of the steamers • warrant for 20,000 f., the
nailing of which on the masts and the pladme of • man in
possession were Massie. Fraser, Trosho, and Co.'s first
intimation of the claim. One of the boats in question
belongs to the builders, and bas never been registered. Of
the remaining six, three are already part of the subject of
a suit now before the Court of Chancery, brought by the
United States against Mr. Pridean for the poiwasn of
some cotton brought out through the blocks&, and the
other three are the private property of Mews. Fraser,
Trenholm, and Co. upon which the United States have no
claim. The peculiar rules of the Court of Admiralty give
them the oovortunity of arresting on • simple aMrnistion
of belief mills by an attorney's clerk.
RUMOURED LOSS OF THE YACHT MOSQUITO.-
General circulation has been given for the last few days In
Queenstown to a report of the loss of this well-known
yacht, by collision, on her way to Swansea.