The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-03 00:00:00

LATEST INTELuotNei

PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.

The Dresden Jourtsal states that after the corona-
tion of the King of Prussia, direct negotiations will
commence with the object of establishing more
intimate relations with Austria ; and with this
purpose a member of the royal family, perhaps the
King himself, will visit Vicuna towards the end of
the autumn. The Culognc Uuutte says that the
Prussian people will view every step of
this kiud with the greatest aversion. "We
know only too well," says that journal,
"that Austria, after having exhausted her own
energies in vain attempts to maintain her fatal
domination beyond the Alps, labours unceasingly
to throw her ruinous burden upon the shoulders
of Prussia. What we learn of Count Bern-
storff, our Minister of Foreign Affairs, seems
to indicate that that diplomatist, whose views
are not very broad, is disposed to asso-
ciate Prussia with Austrian bankruptcy. The
Prussian Diet, however, has protested solemnly in
its address to the King against any sacrifice on the
part of Prussia for the sake of Venetia. This pro-
test of our Chambers is a weight which, in a con-
stitutional country, presses enormously in the
balance."

The Bone Gazette, on the same subject, says :
"Austria, in return for the Prussian guarantee,
offers a share in the command of the federal army,
the right of garrison at Mayan*, and other things
of similar insignificance, which must come to
Prussia without the obligation of a guarantee. All
that we know," Hays the Guzette, " proves that
Venetia should be considered a lost post, which
Austria will do well to renounce as soon as possible.
Austrians who reflect are agreed on this point."

ROME.

COLLISION BETWEEN FRENCH TROOPS
AND DOURBONISTS.

The following particulars of a recent collision
between the French troops in the Roman states
and a party of liourboniats, armed and fitted out
under the combined protection of the Pope and
Napoleon 111., are authentic. Veroli, a little town
surrounded with ancient walls, situate on the
Neapolitan frontier, near Frosinone, was some
short tune since occupied by a detachment of the
19th Regiment of the line, commanded by a
captain, whose special orders were to watch Sera
and to prevent any armed force from crossing the
frontier. On September 22, this captain received
information that iu the course of the night a
convoy of arms, munitions, and money, sent from
Rome to the brigand Chiavone, would pass by
Veroli. He accordingly ordered a French lieu-
tenant, with a party of twenty men, to lie in
ambush at a convenient place for the purpose of
intercepting this convoy. At 1 in the morning
the expected Bourboniata, who were seven in
number, approached with their valuable baggage,
and the lieutenant would have surrounded them
and made them prisoners, but unfortunately
a dog, which but accompanied the French,
began barking, and thus betrayed their
position. The Bourbonists, when they saw
the red breeches, fired a volley upon
them and then took to flight. Their fire killed a
French soldier, and the lieutenant had the nar-
rowest possible escape. They were pursued, but all
got clear off except the leader, who was found
hiding behind a hedge. This man, who has now
got himself into a moat serious scrape, turns ont
to be a young captain of the ex-King of Naples'
army, named Ricci. He has been taken to Castle
Angelo, and will be tried by a French court-inar-
tial. The French captured on this occasion forty
muskets, being part of the celebrated depot of arms
which General do Goyon supinely allowed the Pope
to get hold of after they had been delivered up to
the French by fugitives from Francis H.'s army,
and also a sum of 3,000 fr. in French gold and
silver, which is supposed to have come from the
legitimist committee at Rome.