The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1866-07-28 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

MISCELLANYOUS WAR ITEMS.  The present commanderdndthief of the• Atnatrian troops in Venetia is Archduke Ratner.  The Inhabitants of Trent have been summoned to dellyer up any alms In their possession to the Austrian authorities' within a fortnight.  At the Stockholm Exhibition the first prlre for 'breccialoaders wu orardod to the lisrstrom needle-ann. The Oeverument has purehued the invention or tOotio thsners, and the troops are to be armed with this gun in the autumn.  The Kling of Prussia has ordered the artist who aocompanied him to the army to make a painting of the battle of Koniggrats A lithographic copy of this picture will he publ:shed for general circulation Several members of the imperial family of Austria, such as the Archduke Charles Louis with his wife, the Archduke William, the Archduchess Mary, wife of the Archduke It liner, and the daughters of the Archduke Albert, have arrived from Vienna at Gratz, and will stay while the war lasts at the castle of I:ggenberg, near the latter Lowe.  The army of the Meg of Saxony cenaisted, a:ter the battle Of Konlggratz, of 18.0u0 mu and 114-eight guns. It lash 4.040 men In the battle. subsequent retutorcements have 4,creasel Its strength to 1500.  A British officer of the hoyal Artillery will be at gnat attached, with the sanction of the King of Prussia, to tlie headquarters of the Prussian army. .• Austria's cause has here • martyr. A wowLmerchant called Joseph Milani has seat himaelf from de.pair at listing the Auatrians gone and the Italians come."—ltalian Correspondent of Morning Stet. An ont,er of the ath Italian Army Corp. writes:—" Cii the roes from Calto to Gail. we met a person In a so-rive with a great tricoloured Mg, shouting, " non l'ltalia 'Vira Vittorio Emanuele." The Gtneral of division suspected him and had him arrested, and on him were found letters from Monty, to the Austrians at Leguano. lie got the reward he deserved; be was shot."  l; mile of the Italian journals sneak of a frightful cats* trophe at Ilacensa. A email powaermill blew up, and communicated the lire to a factory of cartridge., which bkewlse exploded. About sixty young women, some soldiers, end several civil labourers who were employed on the premises, were all burled In the burning ruins. The exact number of the dead and wounded Is not yet known. The Cologne fisrate says that the 8,00 Bavarian, who had liven stationed at Schlensingen drank during their two-ands-half days may at that place 90,000 quarts of beer.  . . The Pruselans, In their march on Vienna, contrary to the usual tactics of ear, quietly passed four fortrecoes. The first vas Koniestein, near Dresden the second and third, IC.nigrate and Josophstadt, in the northeastern B 'heeds: and the matt aud most formidable. Olmut: Therlenstadt, on the Elbe, near the Saxon frontier, has no guard set to watch it  Day after day missing officers and privates are advertised for In the columns of the Berlin press, all persons having knowledge of ttem being entvated to communic ite with their sorrowing friends To those who have never seen a bottle lie d nor visits d hospitals the morrow aft. r a fight, the nt loneholy tenour of these inquires ulvol something of the dreadful realties of w:.r. Most of the missing are Austrians, whose relations, living on the borders of 'turkey or In some lonely nook In the Alps, employ the Berlin press to ascertain the refaces, aI" 'tiler, or, worst of al, a lost husbar •' •  " Captu••• I, e +Awe, • mute to arrive at Hamburg every da7 • • • •- e ••• • stsde, and on Friday two bargee to '•N balis of heavy calibre (24 and 36 p . .-,ag pa- • no loot, were despatched up the ••, p to Madgearg, whence the, Will to c . • , • ne Beat of war on a eppcial requisiii. • -hr • ••at itcrlui, which would seetn to imply ' • • .• • at ammunition was running short'- - 9dent.  at Ber  'wen collected for the wounded  The ; , at the 1,000 Bavarians who had been . 2n drank iturtna their two-andwhai • 93,00 e; quarts of beer. , The pen m of Imprisonment for debt at Vienna hair , ,st 5, ot don to the burgomaster of that capital, glee to be se, at liberty during the war, any expectation of payment being hopeless during the continuance of the present state of affairs. The German journals state that Colonel Pechmann, of the Bavarian army, in despair at the defeat of his regiment at Kissingen, alighted from his horse during the retreat after the battle, and going into the room of a wayside inn, committed suicide by blowing out his brains. You will know how near the enemy Is to Vienna. If • battle be fought it will be, a, regards numbers, on a par with the gigantic struggle In and before Lelpalc, of October, 1813 Two hundred thousand men on either side stand oppomd to each other. A question him been raised, what is tube done with the wounded that after the battle will be poured into Vienna r With the modern refinements in the art of dealing destruction, it may lie estimated that 00,000 will have to be provided for, in addition to those already liere. In expectation of the wounded that will have tu be provided for as soon as the battle which Is confidently looked for tabs. place in the neighbourhood of Vienna, all the great military hospitals of the capital have been cleared of their inmates; and the wounded men have been carried out either In omnibuses or by rail to the villages and towns surrounding Vienna "—Daily Ne. correspondent. " This morning, the King of Hanover—or Duke of Cumber. land I suppose we ought to call him, now that hi. kingdom has melted into Prnada—arrived In Vienna, and took up his quarters at the Hanoverian embrosy A great deal of sympathy, especially in official circles, is felt here for this amiable refugee, who has certainly met with hard fortune at all betide By the way, Lord Stanley's very prompt declaration of nowintervention in re Hanover v. Prussia has excited no little indigfiation amongst the Conservative and aristocratie pane here A very different line of action with respect to tlfiir Queen's first cousin was expecte I from the proverbially inignaciou• Tone. I merely mention this en paxsant, reservieg allogetherrey own opinion relative to thy advisability of Erialaill mixing herself up in this huge Continental moss. ' l'eace at any price,' however, is quite a new motto fir the gallant home of Stanley !"—Vienna Correspondent of Daily Teleyraph