The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-09
EUROPE.
DETAILS BY THE ASIA, dc.
GERMANY 7.

AT a Military Conference held yesterday, it was
resolved that the Guards should remain at Berlin
and Potsdam, and six regiments of cavalry and in
tantry should be cantoned in the province of Bran
denburg
''Three corps ddrmee will take up positions be-
tween the lower and the central Rhine Two other
corps d'drmee will be stationed upon the Uuper
Rhine and the River Maine. One of these corps
will proceed to its destination through Silesia Say
ony and Bavaria. The departure of troops will
take place about the lst of july"
The basis of the mediation which it is said Prus-
sia will propose to the beigerent Powers is, that
Lombardy shall become an independent State, Ven
eta be governed by an Austrian Archduke, and an
energetic application shall be made to France and
Austria t o bring about armistice.
The Independence Beige gives another version of
the propositions which Prussia is said to have
made for the establishment OF peace but does not
guarantee their authenticity. According to this
latter information, Prussia proposes that Lumbardy
be annexed to Piedmont; Parma Modena and Tus
cany to be restored to their legitimate sovereirns
the auth lrity of the Pope to be re-established in
the Legations; Venice to become Independent; and
the four famous ortresses of the Mincio to be an
nexed to the Germanic Confederation, so prevent
ing an aggressive return o Lombatdy on the part
OF AUSTRIA and protecting Venice from the ag-
grandizng projects OF Piedmont.
The Journal des DeJat8 asserts that the Bayari n
Government had refused to allow Prussian troops
to pass through its territory until the Prussan
CabiIes shall have answered series of questions as
to the meaning and purpose of the resolutions
says
The FrancoSardinian army is moving near the
frontiers of Germany. The Prussian Government has
repeatedly declared that regards the security of
Germany intrusted to its care. The Italian con-
fct is assuming ever-increasng dimensions Eng
land and Russia arming on the greatest scale
The Prussian Government would be faithless to it's
duty and to the of the nation if it should re-
fuse to act commensurately with that spirit by
which Prussia has become great. Prussia is free
from every engagement. She obeys only those i'm
pressions which spring from the innermost nature
of her State interests. 1t will soon be seen whether
Prussias initiative will be supportedb by the German
States. Prussia's policy stands firm, and who
ever lay obstacles in its way may consider that he
is rendering services to the enemies of the Father
land"
The London Post says the mission of the Prus-
sian ambassador at Vienna to the headquarters
of the Emperor Francis Joseph is formally contra
dicted.
The Grand Duchess Dow ager, mother of the Prin-
cess of Prussia, and aunt Of the Emperor Alex
ander, is dead.
POPULAR FEELING AND PREPARATION FOR WAR.
Correspondence of the Cork Reporter
STUTTdARDT, June ISL have been in all the
principal towns between this and Antwerp, and
during the entire time-eleven days-I have heard
little else spoken of than la guerre in Belgium and
der kreig in Germany.
All through Belgium found all whom met in
the hotels and railway carriages, well informed of
events as they occurred in Italy, and dspassionate
and impartial. The unanimously expressed sympa-
thy for the sufferings of Italy, and hatred of Aus
trian tyranny, but expressed ~ distrust in the de-
clared intentions of Napoleon ILL.,. and a belief
that policy alone influenced him, and not any sim
wish to give freedom to the Italians which
Frenchmen do not themselves possess.
The Belgian Government too, like all the Cont
mental Powers, is increasing its army, and putting
its strong holds in order Antwerp, it is said, is
shortly to receive garrison of 5000 men, and there
the drilling of recruits is going briskly on.
Having passed through Belgium in the province
of Rhenish Prussia found the people expressing
just the same opinions as | heard in Belgium, and
well-infOrmed OF passing events.
The Prussians toO hard at work setting
their house in order The garrison of Coblentz and
Ehrenbreitstein is now more than 10 900 men, while
Maintz, fertilization of the Bund and garrison
ed by Austrians, Prussians and Hessians, at
present contains above $4,000. These for
tresses are at present being put into perfect
state of defence All around the Notifications of
CoblentZ and MaintZ, both of which towns are per
haps over three miles in circumference, great pal
sades feet long and from IL to 5inches thick are
being put into the ground just inside the outer
slope of the bitches of the Qualifications The stakes
rise about 3I2 feet above the ground, are placed
with an opening of about inches between each and
pointed at the tops with the axe. They ar e
placed far enough down the ditch to be out of reach
of fire, while in case of assault they would oppose
an almost insurmountable obstacle to the enemy
Opposite the projecting angle of every bastion they
also run across the ditch.
| was admitted into the fortress of Ehrenbreit-
stein, the Gibraltar of the Rhine Tickets are sold
for ~ groschen-or 3d.-by the Government and
a sergeant is sent with you who shows you every
thing and expects ~ groschens more a trink-
geld or drink money. In this famed stronghold,
on which enormous sums of money have been laid
out to make it impregnable, | saw no guns larger
than 81 Founders, and no mortars save from the
time of Lewis XIV. which once belonged to the
French. There are heaps of shot here, but none
larger than 80 Founders, so far as l saw.
Passing into Southern Germany, amongst the
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find the tone and temper of all classes greatly
changed; while on the Rhine people content them
selves with carcatures of the French Emperor here
all are for immediate war; "Why not march at
once, take Paris burn it, and annihllate it utterly
the hot-bed of all European disturbance ?' say
they.
In Stuttgardt the windows of the printshops are
filled with pictures of the brave deeds and battles
of the Wurtembergers in the last war against the
French. War songs appear daily in the papers, call
ing on Germans once more to rise and defend the
fatherland from the Po to the Rhine. Old Arndt,
the famous writer Of as soul-stirring songs as
ever were written, has now in his old age, after
long silence written more, which appears beau
tifully engraved, with border of cannons, ban
ners, soldiers, and horses in every window of the
sixty shops where books are sold. The soldiers
here are mere lOuts-not one has ever seen shot
fred in earnest, they awkward in their move
ments, walk badly, small OF stature, and very
young. Ten thousand of them would run before a
French regiment.
On Monday next the Wurtembergers are to march
to the neighborhood of Heilbropn where tbey are
to be encamped. For the last week the mothers
sisters and aunts of the officers have been hard at
work scraping old linen into lint for the wounds
that their relatives soon hope to receive. In the
windows of the ironmongers are displayed field
cookery apparatus for officers. fear that evil will
come of this hatred of the French by South Ger
many. 1t was only yesterday, on the news that the
Prusslan Government had mobilised six corps
Gdrmee, that one OF the newspapers here wrote
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to draw the sword which has too long rem aimed in
the scabbard" Here nothing is known of what is
going on in Italy; no telegraphic dispatches
published In the newspapers; all is Austrian. The
fact IS, these small German States seem to dread
the diminution of Austrian preponderance in the
Bund, and fear absorption into Prussia.
In Bavaria, too, the feeling is quite the same as
here. The Bavarian corps is to be near Forcheim,
ON the French frontier while the Prussians, it is
sad will be posted to the west of the Rhine in the
Prussiau Rhine province. This, the South German
papers boast, will prevent the French from sending
their entire strength to Lombardy, and thus be a
good help to the Austrians Gyulai has become
unpopular and all the late disasters attributed
to him; while Hess is considered to be more then-
retical than practical in his strategic combinations
Won Benedek it is said, will obtain the chief com
mand before long, and then great things are hoped
of the Austrians. To give the Austrians their due
they are, indeed, fine sOldierly-ooking fellows and
l am sure can fight WELL but l don't think they
have the dash OF the French.
Isl was late for the post Yesterday | forgot
to mention in former part of this letter that the
Prussians are hard at work everywhere putting new
elloes to the wheels of their old gun-carriapes and
ammunition-wagons This looks like business |
think that if the French enter anv part of the Tvrol
which it is here supposed they must do in order
to cut off the Austrian supplies-the Germans can
be no longer restrained from avengng what they
call an invasion of Bund territory.
FRENCH GUNBoATs FOR THE LAKE OF GARDA.
A letter from Alessandria, dated the 18th inst
says:
''The passage of French cavalry through this
place has ceased and now comes the turn of heavy
artillery and all the imposing material composing
complete siege park. | have also seen here sew
eral officers of the French navy, which rather sur
prised me, this place is more than fifty leagues
from the sea. went to the railway station to get
some explanation relative to the appearance Oh