The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(nom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.
The negotiations for an armistice between the
belligerents, aided by France, proceed rapidly and
earnestly, but, as I informed you yesterday, per-
haps a fortnight may elapse before the requisite
forms can be completed. There is yet no positive
official statement thatthe Powers engaged will agree
to an armistice. In the meantime the present posi-
tion of the troops is this. The headquarters of the
King of Prussia are established at Pardubitz. His
troops occupy the principal passages of the Upper Elbe,
whilst the Austrian army ha re-established itself,
as best it could, between Brunn and Olmutz. The
Prussians coming from Ratibor have entered Trop-
Paine, Aaarre-s's-ed .;o the inhabitants of Austrian
Silesia, states that the most severe discipline will be
maintained. The K;ng of Prussia will return to
Berlin, to be present at the opening of the Cham-
bers on the 13th. Although there is full hope and
expectation that there will be an armistice, some
military operations still proceed, which prove that,
although there have not been any fresh hostilities
since the battle of Koenigsgratz, hostile preparations
are not absolutely suspended. The Prussians, indeed,
seem disposed to avail themselves of such strategic
facilities as they can possibly obtain from their suc-
cess. The two united armies of the Prince Royal
and Prince Charles Frederic have invested the

fortress of Kcenigsgratz, where an Austrian garrison
still remains, but which does not appear to offer
any serious resistance. Descending the course of the
Elbe, the Prussian troops occupy the railways.
Benedek's army is reforMing at Bcomisch-Truban,
at the junction of the Bohemian lines of railway
with those of Olmutz and Brun. The latter is on

the grand route to Vienna. On the other hand, the
line of Olmutz, and even that of the fortress
itself, seems to be threatened by the march of
Prussian troops in that direction. Prince Alexander
of Hesse, in the direction of the Rhine, marched
towards Giessen and Marbourg. In Italy it appears
the Royal troops were repulsed in attempting the
passage of the Po, at the bridge of Boggoforte,
near the confluence of the Miucio. The Austrian
troops who were guarding Venetia have retrograded
towards the left bank of the Mincio, and now main-
tain a strictly defensive position only. According
to the Vienna papers the greater portion of the
Austrian Army, after the Battle of Koenigsgratz,
rallied together at Hohenbruck. It appears that
about 30,000 of the troops, who were engaged in
the battle on the 3d, have turned back in the direc-
tion of the mountains of Gatz.
The Italian journals have received the news of
the cession of Venetia with great coldness, almost
amounting to dissatisfaction. The Provincia of
Turin says—" The proposal of the armistice has
produced a very painful impression upon the whole
of the Army, and especially upon the King.
According to the Italie—" The terms of the de-
spatch have wounded, and not without reason, the
national feeling."

The comment of the Nazione is —" The cession of
Venetia, in the terms in which it was made, does not
satisfy the feeling of national dignity in Italy."
L' Unita Italiana speaks Still more strongly—
" Should Italy accept the transfer of Italy to France
she will no longer be the Italy of the Italians—ltaly
would be a French province."
On the other hand the journal La France is
highly indignant at the attack of the bridge of
Borgoforte by the Italians, because it says
has been French territory Since the sth, and the Ita-
lians cannot think of attacking a country protected
by the flag of France." Venetia

La Liberte, in its comments and anticipations
respecting the proposed armistice, says :—"
It would
be strange if this armistice, so urgently asked for
by Austria and politely accepted in principle by
Prussia, should not be a law for Italy, and even
become law there before the conditions have been
finally arranged and accepted,"
The Mentor/a/ Dip/oniatiqu defends Marshal
Benedek, and contends that his reverse is not to be
attributed to strategical faults, t; If the Austrian
army have been conquered, it was because it was
badly commanded, because its arms were not so
good as those of the Prussians, and because, in
short, from bad arrangements
numerically inferior to that of, the invaders of
Bohemia." it was always

The opening of the railway from Aix-les-Bains to
Annery has been inaugurated with much ceremony
in the presence of M. Behic, the 111inister of Agri-
culture and Public Works. The whole population
was in waiting for the official train which brought
his Excellency from Aix to Annery, and the air re-
sounded with cries of " Vivo l'Empereur." The
Bishop having pronounced a blessing on
the line