The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-28 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1866.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(2X1171117/1101WIL)
THE WAR IN GERMANY.

PROLONGATION OF THE ARMISTICE.
PRUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS,
NICHOLSBURG, JULY 2&

The preliminaries of peace were signed to-day,
and an armistice was agreed upon. Bohemia and
Moravia are to remain in the occupation of the
Prussians. Notice must be given prior to any
resumption of hostilities by either power.

VIENNA, JULY T.

The Abendpost (evening edition of the official
Wiener Zeitung) says :—" The truce has been pro-
longed to the 2nd of August, and a four weeks'
armistice, commencing from that date, has been
concluded. Count Karolyi has arrived here with
the preliminaries of peace agreed upon by him and
Count Bismarck, for ratification by the Emperor
of Austria."

BERLIN, Juct 27.
-The Sadkradts Corrupt:ma.= of to-day says :
" Peace will probably be concluded very shortly.
The future position of those Princes who have been
forced by recent events to quit their dominions
must be reserved for special arrangement between
them and the Bing of Prussia, and for the appro-
val of a German Parliament, as the countries occu-
pied by the Prussians cannot all be treated alike.
The mediatory efforts of the Grand Duke of Baden
in relation to Southern Germany will probably
meet with a speedy and favourable result."

ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE PRUSSIANS
AND BAVARIANS.
(orrictm..)
MUNICH, JULY 26, Hvitruto.
An engagement has taken place with. the Prus-
sians near Wurzburg, which resulted unfavourably
for the Bavarians, who suffered serious losses,
especially in officers.
The Bavarian headquarters are to-day at Roten-
dort

ASCHAFFENBURG, Jct.: 27.

On the 25th inst. an engagement took place
near Geracheim, between the Goben Division and
the Bth Federal Army Corps, in which the Prus-
sians were victorious. The Beyer Division was
also victorious over the Bavarians near Helmstedt.
The Beyer and Flies Divisions repulsed the Bava-
rians near Rombrunn. The Prussian army is three-
quarters of a mile west of Wiirzburg.

WURZBiJRG, JULY 27.

Yesterday and to-day conflicts took place between
the Prussians and Bavarians at Dertingen and
Helmstedt on the road to Wurzburg, and other
encounters at Rossbrunn and Waldbuttelbaum
between the rivers Tauber and Kain. The Bava-
rians sustained heavy losses. The Bavarian head-
quarters are now at Itottendorff, a quarter of a mile
south of Wurzburg.

THE PRtISSUN CHAMBERS.
BERLIN, JULY 27.

The following royal order has been promulgated
here to-day :—" Whereas I am desirous of open-
ing the Diet in person, and shall possibly be able to
do so next week, I hereby postpone the opening
which had been fixed for the 30th inst., reserving
to myself to determine the precise date on which
the Chambers shall meet.

(Signed) " WILHELM.
" Nikolsburg, 27th July."

ADDRESS TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JULY 27.

An address of the inhabitants of Norden, East
Friesland, to the King of Prussia has arrived hero
for transmission to his Majesty. The address ex-
presses the wish for the union of the whole of
Hanover with Prussia.

PRUSSIA AND HOLSTEIN.
ALTONA, Jett 27.

An address to the King of Prussia, demanding
the incorporation of Holstein with the Prussian
monarchy, has been drawn up by the Burgomaster
of Thaden, and is circulating among the inhabi-
tants for signature.

THE PRUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF
FRANKFORT.
BERLIN, Jri.7 27.

The semi-official Nurddeutsche Allgenteint Zeitung
of to-day says :—" To form a correct judgment in
the affair of the Frankfort contribution, which is
everywhere interpreted in a manner most invidious
to Prussia, it must be borne in mind that Frank-
fort has a revenue of three million florins, with a
yearly surplus of 500,000 florins, and that conse-
quently the town could without difficulty raise the
amount of the contribution by means of a loan.
That Frankfort should be unwilling to contribute
to the enormous burden borne by the Prussian
people for the cause of Germany can
only be explained by the constant agi-
tation kept up in that town against Prussia.
It is officially stated that Senators Fell-
' ner and Miller had consented that the question
of paying the contribution should be speedily
settled in a satisfactory manner if the Senate and
council of burghers were allowed to deliberate on
the matter. The Senate was almost unanimously
in favour of procuring the amount required, while
the burghers urged in opposition to that course
that the right of agreeing to pay the contribution
did not belong to it or to the Senate, Prussia
having dissolved the State bodies of Frankfort.
The action of the assembly was thereupon made the
pretext for street demonstrations against Prussia."

MONETARY UNION BETWEEN FRANCE, &MOWN,
ITALT, AND SWITTERLLND.—TheMoniteur of yesterday pub-
lishes an imperial decree, promulgatingthe terms of a mone-
tary union concluded on the 23rd December,lB6s, between
France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland. The convention
is to remain in force until January 1, 1880 ; and if no
notice to terminate it be given a year previously, it will be
renewed for fifteen years, and so on every succeeding
fifteen years. The object of the union, u stated in the
preamble, is to establish more complete harmony between
the monetary legislation of the countries forming such
union, and thus to remedy the inconvenience resulting
from the differences between their currency. The coinage
of the four contracting powers will be accepted at the
public treasury of each of those powers, subject to ocedi-
lions respecting the amount issued, which are specified in
I the convention.

Jsusres.--Owing to the business of supply
having been corialudedon Thursday, Mr. Gilpin was enable
to bring in last night the motion of which he had given
notice. He has accordingly given notice far Taesday
next.

BOARD OF TRADI, WHITEHALL, JULY 26. —The
Bight Honourable the Lords of the Cormuittee of Privy
Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a notice Mooed by the
Prussian government, to the effect that all goods liable to
duty, even when destined for dates of Southern Germany
at war with Pram* are allowed to pass without duty being
levied upon them at the Prussian frilutiar.—Gassas.

THE PRITSSIANS IN FRANKFORT.

(rnom A CORRESPOIMINT.)

FRANKFORT, dtria 25.
•
Reporta were current on the 23rd that the Senate,
the Connell, and the Income Tax Commissioners
had refused to pay the additional contribution of
26 =Rhona of florins. Late in the evening it was
said that if the money was not paid the town would
be given up to pillage, but though this caused a
sleepless night to many it was supposed to be an
idle threat. Next day the soldiers reported that
they were to parade at 5 o'clock in heavy marching
order, as they were not to return to the same
quarters, but were to be billeted on the senators
and those authorities who had refused to pay the
25 millions. I believed this to be one of the
numerous canards which infest this town, but seeing
the 4-pound battery getting all ready for action and
nurchin,g away to take up a position on the

Muhlbeig, a height above Sachsenhausen, on the
other side of the river, and commanding the town, it
became clear that something was to occur. The bat-
sedens of the Landwehr were on parade, and I took
the opportunity of examining them. They are a i
very fine body of men, all, in the prime of life, well
clothed, and armed with the needle guns, and
with the bayonet in sheaths by their sides.
They appeared quiet, respectable, and thought-
ful soldiers. The battalion was divided into
parties of 87, 37, and 27 men, and each
party was furnished with a billet. The parties of
87 were to be quartered in the houses of the senators,
of S 7 in those of the commissioners, and of 27
with the Town Council. I really could not believe
what I heard, so I followed the men until I saw
the house of a senator, a commissioner, and a
councillor furnished with his punishment quota.
Besides a bed each soldier has food. Most of the
dwelling-houses are in flats, far too small to con-
tain such numbers, and the inconvenience must be
also great for the soldiers. No sooner were the
men thus billeted than a notice was published to
the inhabitants to let them know that this was the
first instalment to those who refused to give to
the King of Prussia the money he demanded.
This billeting system is a very harsh measure, but
in this case it is a sort of diamond cut diamond.
In 1848-49, at the request of the Senate and
authorities of Frankfort,. a body of Austrians,
Prussians, and Bavarians took up their quarters
here. As they remained a long time, the authori-
ties thought the best way to get quit of them was
to let their barracks fall out of repair, and thus
force them to leave. I Ina asked by a Prussian
officer to see their barracks, and I have no health-
, tion in saying that if swine had been put into such
places the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
animals would have interfered.

It has been reported to me on the beet authority
that M. Rothschild and four citizens of Frankfort
are going to have an interview with the King of
Prussia at the seat of war. To-morrow it is proposed
that ►t the funeral of the burgomaster,who is said to
have oommitted suicide, the bulk of the citizens with
their wires shall attend. As the oommandant has
ordered that no assemblies of people are to take
place I siseptct he will interfere. The people look
in better spirits, and seem determined to pay no
more money. No one here seems to know anything
of the Federal army.