The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-20 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(uoTia's masauxe.)
PRUSSIAN DESH ON THE DISSOLIJ-
TION OF THE PATC
CONFEDERATION.
• BERLIN, Jews 19.
Count Namara has addressed the following
despatch to the Prussian representatives abroad :
" I have to communicate to your Excellency an
event by which existing European law will be es•
sentially altered. The Federal Diet at Frankfort,
in its sitting of yesterday (the 14th inert.), resolved
by 9 out of 16 votes upon the mobilisation of the
entire Federal army, with the exception of the
Prussian contingent. Austria, who has already
broken off diplomatic relations with us, and whose
military forces have menaced our frontier for
the last three months, had proposed this
measure on the 11th of June, on the
ground of a pretended interference with her
possession in Holstein, the Austrian representative
appealing at the same time to Art. 19 of the Final
Act of Vienneof the Bth June., 1820. Art. 19 of
the Vienna Final Act, Which- we& put forth as the
ground of this hostile proceeding, forms, as is well
known, only the starting point for the legal steps,
prescribed by the subsequent articles, for adjust-
ing differences between members of the Confedera-
tion, when they come within the constitutional
competency of the Diet, and for which the regula-
tions for Federal execution contain the further in-
structions. The arraying of a Federal army against
a member of the Confederation, as resolved upon
in accordance with the Austrian motion, and based
on the military constitution of the Bund,
is in contradiction with the aim and spirit
of the Bund, as well as with the text
of the Federal Act, especially Art. 2 and Art. 11
(last paragraph), which form Art. 54 and 63 of the
Congress Act of Vienna of the 9th June, 1815, and
are as follows :—Art. 54. Le but de cette Confddr3-
ration eat le maintien de la seiret6 extirieure et in-
terieure de l'Allemagne, de I'ind4pendance et de
l'inviolabilit4 des 'State confdd6rds. Art. 63 (alines
3). Les taste confdderis s'engagent de meme a ne
se faire la guerre sous aucun prtitexte, et k ne point
poursuivre lours differends par la force des armee,
mais k les soumettre k la Dike. Celle-ci essaiera
moyennant une commission la voie de la mediation.
Si elle ne reussit pas et qu'une sentence juridique
devient newessaire, it y sera pourvu par un juge-
ment Austrtigal (Austrigal Instanz) bien organist+,
auquel lee parties litigantes se soumettront sans appel.
The anti-Federal motion of Austria being, Prussia's
protest notwithstanding, not only brought under
discussion, but also raised to the condition of a
rest lution of the Federal assembly by the small
majority above mentioned, the King's envoy, in
the name of his Majesty, announced the disso-
lution of the Federal Pact by a formal declaration
to the Diet, and after this act immediately with-
drew from the assembly, in which the majority of
envoys represented States that had already pre-
viously combined in measures hostile to Prussia.
It is now the duty of the ICing's government to
announce in a formal manner the violation of the
Federal treaty, of which the stipulations have lost
all validity, to those Powers who, by signing the
Vienna Congress Act of the 9th of June, 1815, ca
subsequently giving their adherence thereto, have
become co-founders of the Federal treaty, even
though they have given no guarantee for its main-
tenance. 1 have therefore the honour to instruct
your excellency to communicate, by copy, the con-
tents of this despatch to . . .—(Signed) BISMARCK.
—Berlin, June 15, 1866."

MANIFESTO OF KING WILLIAM TO THE
PRUSSIAN PEOPLE.
BERLIN, JUNK 19, Evarnsc.
A manifesto of King William to the Prussian
people has been issued to-day, the principal pas-
sages of which are as follows :—" The hopes that
an alliance based upon mutual esteem, and fur-
thering the prosperity and power of Germany,
would issue from the Austrian and Prussian bro-
therhood in arms, have been deceived. Austria has
not considered Prussia as her natural ally, but as
a hostile rival, and has therefore drawn the Federal
princes into a breach of the Confederation. The
humiliation of Prussia has been the watchword of
her enemies, but the spirit of 1813 lives in the
Prussian people. Her opponents deceive themselves
if they imagine Prussiato be paralysedby dissensions
at home. Before the enemy these disappear, and
all hitherto opposed to one another stand hence-
forth united in triumph or misfortune." The mani-
festo lays stress upon the fact that Prussia, in con-
cert with England, France, and Russia, has made
a fruitless effort to effect a peaceful settle-
ment, and proceeds :—" We are compelled to fight
for existence. We must go forth to battle for life
or death, against those who wish to humiliate the
Prussia of the great Elector Frederick, and of the
war of independence. If God give us the victory,
we shall be strong enough to reunite more firmly
and more prosperously those loosened ties of Ger-
many which they who fear the right and the
power of the national spirit have torn asunder."

THE PRUSSIANS IN SAXONY.

VIENNA, Juza 19.

Advices received here from Bohemia, dated yes-
terday, state that the Saxon royal arms have been
removed from all places occupied by the Prussians,
and replaced by Prussian arms. Considerable con-
tributions have been levied.

A slight skirmish has taken place between Prus-
sian and Saxon cavalry pickets between Meissen
and Kettschenbrade.
•

Up to the present time the Prussians have not
crossed the Austrian frontier. _

GORLITZ, .Torm 19.
Prince Frederick Charles has issued an order of
the day to the Prussian troops occupying Saxony,
declaring that the Saxon inhabitants are not to be
regarded as enemies. Private property is to be
respected, and strict discipline maintained. The
Austrian troops are to be requested to withdraw,
when met, and not to be treated as enemies except
in case of refusal.

EGFIR (BOHERIA), jzza 19.
On Saturday 20,000 Prussians occupied 3fachern,
a town about two miles from Leipsic, and subse-
quently Wurzen, Dahlen, and Riess. Railway com-
munication between Leipsic and Riess is entirely
interrupted, and the railway bridge at Riesa de-
stroyed. The bridge over the Elbe at Meissen has
been burnt. Only the southern road from Leipsic
is still open. The Westphalian army corps, which
was stationed atSchkendits, is going to the Silesian
frontier. There are now no troops at Schkendits.
DRESDEN, Joss 19.

The Prussian troops in this capital are under
command of General Herwarth. The entry of the
hoops took plods without any popular demonstra-
tion.