The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-12 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAILS.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
MALTA, JULY 11.

The Pera left at 5 a.m., and the China at 4 p.m.
The former may be expected at Marseilles on the
14th, and the latter at Southampton on the 20th
instant.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
GIBRALTAR, JULY 10.

The Delta, from Southampton, on the lat inst.,
arrived to-day at 1 a.m., and left at 10 a.m. for
Alexandria. She had experienced head winds.

THE WAR.

Some of the interest which attached to the great
military operations in Bohemia has been trans-
ferred to Bavaria, where some sharp fighting
has been going on since the 3rd and 4th of
June between the Prussians and Bavarians.
The first encounters took place near Fulda and
Meiningen, when two divisions of the Bavarian
army, the 3rd and 4th, were engaged and suffered a
loss of between 1,000 and 1,500 men. The Prus-
sians having followed up their successes, entered
the Bavarian territory, and on Monday last a fresh
encounter took place at Bruckenau. The Munich
Official Gazette states that the Prussians were re-
pulsed, but it appears from the report of the same
journal that the battle was renewed on the fol-
lowing day—the 10th—and fought with more de-
termination than any of the previous ones. The
following is the report, as contained in the
Bararian Gazette of yesterday :
An obstinate engagement has taken place near Kissengen.
The Prussiaus attacked the bridge over the Seale from the
right bank. They were driven back several times by dis-
charges of grape. Shells feU into the town,
and the belfry of the church and the Town-
hall were struck ; and the hotel known ea the Cour de
Baviere was destroyed by the cannon balls. TLe troops
are full of courage ; the infantry fired admirably. The
reserves have joined the army. Since lin the afternoon
no further telegraphic news has been received from Kis-
sengen, which is explained by the proximity of the tele-
graph office to the building struck.
A second despatch adds :

No details have been received concerning the combat at
Kissengen ; but a despatch from Schweinfurt states that
the result was favourable to the Bavarians, who repulsed
their opponents.

It would appear therefore that a battle of some
importance was being fought the day before yester-
day in South Germany, and probably had not ter-
minated when the foregoing despatches were for-
warded.

Of the Prussian army in Bohemia and their
actual position nothing certain is known except
that they are continuing to advance further into
the Austrian empire unopposed. If a despatch
which announced their arrival at Iglau be
confirmed, they are far down on the road
to Vienna. Iglau is a town of some im-
portance, the capital of one of the districts
into which Moravia is divided, and about 50 miles
north-west of Brunn. Judging from the boldness
and rapidity of the Prussian commanders, it
is by no means improbable that they may be
pushing forward towards Vienna by the more
direct Iglau-Znaim and Brunn routes so as to
get between the capital and the Austrians who were
retreating by the more circuitous Olmutz road.
The movement would be a daring one ; it would
require great rapidity of execution, but with the
present clan of the Prussian army it might be ac-
complished, and if so the complete disorganisation
or capture of the norgiern army would be the
result, or the sudden appearance of the Prussians
before Vienna. This is of course based on the
supposition of the accuracy of the telegram which
makes the Prussians already so far advanced as
Iglau.