The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-13 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(HEWER'S TELEGRAMS.)
THE WAR IN GERMANY.

PRUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS, ZWITTAU,
JCLY 11, ArrEasooN.

To-day the troops at headquarters are allowed
to rest. The battalions engaged in active opera-
tions have been pushed forward about two miles
to the south-east. They are also having a day's
repose, as far as possible, this having been rendered
necessary by the rain which has set in, and the
uninterrupted marching and severe fighting in
which the troops have been engaged.
The first army is taking the direction of Brunn,
the second Olmutz, and the army of the Elbe Ig-
lau. The Austrians evacuated Landskron as soon
as the regiment of the guards of the second army
corps, advancing from Hohenmouth through Bo-
hemian Trubau, approached the town. The Aus-
trian army of the north is receiving reinforcements,
but it is believed to be not yet decided whether it
will hold the line from Olmutz to Brunn, and fight
another battle in that position. The Prussian
march on Iglau is said to be the cause of this inde-
cision. To-morrow the head-quarters will be re-
moved toCzernahora, three miles from Brunn.

BERLIN, JULY 12.

Yesterday the vanguard of the corps under Ge_
neral Manteuffel had an engagement with the Ba-
varians, and succeeded in forcing its way across
the fords of the Saale, near Hansen and Waldas-
chach, north of Kisaingen. The Prussian loss is
officially stated to have been small, while that of
the Bavarians was heavy. The Mecklenburg and
Oldenburg mobilised contingents have marched to
the seat of war.

The official Staatsanzeiger of to-day says :
The lialf'iundanee Beige, in citing a leading article
of the Journal de St. l'etersbourg, menacing Prussia,
described the latter journal as the organ of Prince
Gortschakoff. We are authorised to state that
Prince Gortschakoff has repudiated, in the presence
of the Prussian ambassador, any connection with
the Journal de St. Petersbourg, expressly declaring
that that newspaper possesses no semi-official cha-
racter.

General MiUbe, with 6,000 men, is marching
upon Prague, in order to occupy that city. The
Burgomaster of Prague has issued a proclamation
urging the inhabitants to be calm, and to meet
the Prussians in a friendly spirit. The Governor
of Prague has left for Pilsen. General Schack has
been appointed to General Midbe's former post
of Govenor General of the Saxon provinces oc-
cupied by Prussia. Herr Selchow, councillor of
the district of Ratibor, has been named civil com-
missioner of Austrian Silesia.

THE HUNGARIAN LEGION.
FLORENCE, JUT 12.

The Hungarian Legion is expected at Bologna
immediately. On its arrival there it will proceed
without delay to the seat of war. About 30 Hun-
garians who were taken prisoners in the recent en-
gagements have declared their willingness to enter
the legion. Kossuth has gone to see Garibaldi to
concert with him upon a plan of operations. Baron
Ricasoli has returned to Florence.

THE PORTE AND THE BELLIGERENTS.—A "diffi-
culty" has already arisen between the Porte and the
Italian and Prussian governments which may, or may not,
lead to more or less troublesome results. The latter com-
plain that the Turkish authorities have committed a breach
of neutrality in granting the Austrians free passage over
the nanow tongues of land at Bleck and Soutorino, on the
Adriatic, to the portion of Dalmatia which lies inland behind
these points. As the civility thus complained of can have
no possible effect on the course of the war either north or
south, this protest of the allies looks suspiciously like a
wish to pick a quarrel with the Sultan's government— with
what immediate object it is not difficult to divine. The
Porte, however, with proper dignity resists the categorical
demands of the two legations, and whilst proclaiming its
firm resolution to keep altogether aloof from the present
struggle, maintains that the mere courtesy complained of
amounts to no breach of neutrality whatever. It remains
to be seen how this answer will be received at Florence.—
Levant Herrtld , July 4.
LIFEBOATS ON THE IRISH COAST.—The National
Lifeboat Institution sent yesterday (Thursday) a new life-
boat, 32 feet long, to Ballycotton, on the coast of Cork, in
lieu of the present boat on that station which had become
unfit for service. The cost of the boat was presented to
the society by a benevolent lady residing in Lancaster. A.
free conveyance bad been readily granted to the boat to
Cork by the Cork Steam Ship Company. The old lifeboat
at Ballycotton had on several occasions been of great
service iu saving life, and was instrumental in rescuing •
few months since, under very difficult eirctuastanoes,
eleven persons from the ship Alarm, of Belfast. We may
add that all the lifeboats, numbering 27, on the Irish
FRANCE AND ITALY. coast belong to the National Lifeboat Institution.
PARIS, JULY 12. • ADMIRALTY, JLLY 12.—APPOINTMENTS. Lieu-
La France of this evening says:—" The mission tenants D. G. Tandy and KD. Law, to the Black Prince.
of Prince Napoleon appears to have been defini-
Verksa:Fas. C.
peGorond,mtoe the.lrreanlisthlt.; li.oJee.fet, t,t,to the
tively abandoned, the attack of the Italians upon P. Assistant Ziern F. Este, to the Medusa.

This is ipalpa bly an attempt to represent that .
the cams Belli propounded in the Emperor's letter
of June 11 will arise, unless Prussia abandons
ground which she has already diplomatically taken.
The Liberti, however, while referring to a great
deal of proved false news given by the France, says
thatthe special mission of that journal is to make it
appear that French policy tends to an alliance with
Austria against Prussia and Italy.
M. de Beust, the Saxon Minister of Foreign
Affairs, who has just arrived in Paris, had an
audience of the Emperor to-day. The object of
his journey is understood to be to submit to the
Emperor some arguments on the state of affairs in
Germany in a European point of view. The im-
portant part played by this diplomatist in the
stairs of Europe for many years renders his pre-
sence here at this time interesting. He has
always been greatly opposed to any such change
in the constitution of Germany as would make a
single government preponderant. M. de Benist was
received by the Empress to-day.
All the money articles of the evening papers
say that there was no known cause for the rise at
the Bourse to-day. I rather think, however, it is
to be attributed to the rumour—which I do not
believe to be true in the sense understood here—
of Russia and England having offered to join
France in her mediation ; that Prussia had with-
drawn many of her pretensions ; and that M.
Benedetti is commissioned to present a plan which
it is hoped will be accepted at Berlin, Florence,
and Vienna ; and, moreover, that Baron Ricasoli,
the great enemy of French influence in Italy, was
likely to resign. Ido not myself believe in any of
this news. Bente rose lfr. 15c. for cash, and
lfr. 50c. for account, closing at 68fr. 50c. and
68fr. 75c. Italian rose 2fr. 50c. ; and Credit Mo-
bilier 57fr. 50c.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

(1111:TIR'S IXPRIBS.)

PARIS. JULY 12.

The following is the return of the Bank of
France for the week ending to-day, together with
the corresponding figures of the previous account :
July 12. July 5.
DCirroß. Fr. e. Fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,600,000 0 182,600,000 0
Profits in addition to capital
.Art. 8, law of Jour 9,
Reserve of the bank and its

branches
Reserve of landed property
Notes iu circulation
Bank notes to order and receipts
payable at sight 31,261,90 82 31,282,06:1 48
Treasury account—current ere-

22.105,750 14 22,105,750 14
4.000,000 0 4.000,000 0
950.200,975 0 937,606,975 0

ditor
Current accounts, Paris
Ditto blanch banks ..
Dirideods payable ....
Discounts and sundry interests
lte.discaunted the last six
months 2,372,304 91 2,372.304
Surplus of receipts not dl.tri-

120,224,850 48 128,241,043 34
347,058,047 76 375,801,248 37
30,655,904 0 48,943,023 0
6,004,2'7 75 11,477,040 73
2,225,527 75 1,700,829 7

bUte.l
Buudries

-- --
15,944.172 52 23,740,233 19

1.737,924,710 11 1,772,576.199 47

July 12.
r.

July S.
Fr.

CREDITOR.
Cash In hand and In branch
banks
Cionniercial bills overdue
Commercial bills discounted,
not yet due 363.911,422 72 282,348,406 14
Ditto branch banks 3754116,115 0 378,311,124 0
Advances on deposits of bullion 9,906,300 0 9,711,500 0
Ditto branch banks 12,838,440 0 12,774,240 0
Advances on Ircuch public se-
curities
Ditto branch banks 8,831,400 0 2,464,000 0
Advances on railway shares

35,63200 0 38,001,900 0
23,802,200 0 23,615,300 0

and debentures
Ditto brunch banks ..
Advances on Credit Fonder
Bonds
Ditto branch banki 545,600 0 53:0000 0
Advances to the State (conven-
tion loth June, 1657
Government stock reserve 12,96(4750 14 12,980,750 14
Ditto disposable 36,171,967 91 36,171,967 91
Bentes immobillsees law ind
June, 16:7
Hotel and turn iture of the bank&

landed property branches
Expenses of management
Sundries

8,V8,859 0 8,272.758
.8

-"-117:102 61 60.492 15
17,017,456 st) 18.760,u60 41

1,737,D24.710 11 1,772,576,169 47
Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France
(Signed) Itot LAND.

THE WOUNDED HANOVERIAN SOLDIERS

AND THEIR FAMILIM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS,

SIR,-1 trust that, as an act of humanity, you will
kindly grant the necessary space for the following appeal
in your esteemed raper.—l am, &c.,
A. WMINER, Consul-General for Hanover.

The undersigned appeals to his countrymen residing in
England as well as to the sympathy of the English public
for some donation for the wounded and disabled Hano-
verian soldiers, and especially for the widows and children
of the killed. The people in Hanover being already very
heavily taxed in consequence of the Prussian occupation,
some relief from abroad for the above-stated purpose will
be most gratefully accepted. The donations will be re-
ceived at the Hanoverian Consulate, 6, Lime-street, C'ty,
and forwarded to the Central Committee at Hanover.
The receipt of the money shall be acknowledged through
the English and Hanoverian press. The admithatretion of
the government of Hanover being at present under the
control of Prusaia gives additional cause for this appeal
to private benevolence.
A. WERNER, Consul-General.
Hanoverian Consulate, 6, Lime-street, London, E.C.,