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STA3IPED sd.

Inc endeavour to offer you the results of a few
hours' observation.

The entry of the Prusqaus into Hanoverian ter-
ritory, the occupation of the capital, and the resto-
ration by them of corn nunications which_ the re-
treating Hanoverians had temporarily destroyed,
will, doubtless, have b.en fully reported to you,
The direction taken b 3 the Hanoverian army was
southerly, upon Gott &]gen, with a view to unite
with the Hesse-Cassel. battalions, and then to effect
a permanent junction_ near this town with the Con-
federate army formi .i.z; on the Main. Their line of
retreat would lead Camel through Marburg
and Giessen to Frankfort. But the Prussians,
whose first steps in. this war have been taken with
Much energy and foresight, were ready for the at-
tempt. From Cologne and Coblentz, both strongly
fortified towns art that portion of the Rhine which
traverses the detached possessions of Prussia in the
west, two lines of railway conduct, by the valley of
the Sieg and tha.,6 of the Lahn respectively to Wetz-
lar ; there they unite before reaching the main
line which connects Frankfort with Cassel, Hanover,
and Hamburg at Giessen. In anticipation of what
would occur, the Prussians had without noise con-
centrated a considerable force at' Wetzlar, com-
posed of battalions pushed forward from their base
upon the Rhine, and of troops which had volun-
tarily evacuated Federal fortresses in the south,
such as Rastadt and Mayence. No sooner was the
occupation. of Hanover announced than they seized
Giessen, on the main line, tore up the railway,
and dest-dyed the telegraphic wires. At Fried-
berg they came down_ upon a. Hesse._ Darmstadt
regiment, which was in no position to resist supe-
rior forces, and at once gave way. Here they re-
ceived information that 40,000 Wurtemberg and
Bavarian troops had already occupied Frankfort,
and were prepared to dispute their entry into the
town. If such an intention had ever entered the
mind of the Prussian commander, which is ex-
tremely doubtful, the false information conveyed to
him answered its purpose. Ilis soldiers fell back
upon Giessen and Marburg, and hearing that the
llanoverians, intercepted as we have seen, were re-
tiring by the Fulda road towards the Rhon-Gebirg,
with a view to gain Wurzburg, he has moved on,
according to the latest accounts, to meet them at
Hersfeld and Fulda. In this direction the hostile
forces must shortly come into collision, and we shall
probably within a few hours hear that they have
been engaged. The Prussians are supposed to
number about 35,000 men ; the united troops of
Hanover and Hesse-Camel ought not to be inferior,
unless desertion has thinned the ranks of the former
army, or some of her regiments were cut off by the
rapid entry of the Prussians.

The Southern Germans appear to be behindhand
in their preparations. With great difficulty some
20,000 troops, principally Bavarians and Wurtein-
bergers, have been concentrated in this neighbour-
hood. • It is announced that 15,000 Austrians are
to arrive here to-day. Where they are to come
from no one can tell, and that they should be sent
here, where everything is perfectly quiet, when
their services are so urgently demanded on the
plains of Hesse-Cassel, appears to me highly impro-
bable.

There can be no mistake about public feeling here;
the indignation is deep and general against the Prus-
sian Minister. The watering-places iu this neigh-
bourhood are deserted, and all trade is at a stand-
still.

Every one is expecting intelligence from the Bohe-

mian frontier with intense anxiety ; but the Prus-
sians appear to have occupied Dresden and the im-
portant post of Pirna without opposition on the
Austrian part.