Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-07-28 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MISCELLANEOUS WAR ITEMS.  The present eommander-in-chief of the Austrian troops in Venetia is Archduke Rainer. The inhabitants of Trent have I)ten summoned to deliver Up any arms in their possession to the Austrian authorities within a fortnight.  At the Stockholm Exhibition the ant prize for breechloaders was awarded to the liagetrom needle-gun. The Government has purchased the invention for 10,000 thalers, and the troops areto be armed with this gun in the autumn  The King of Prnssia ha, ordered the artist who ac. companied him to the army to make a painting of the battle of Koniggratz A lithographic copy of this picture will be published for general circulation Several members of the Imperial family of Austria, each as the Archduke Charles Louis with his wife, the Archduke William, the Archduchess Mary, wife of the Archduke Itliner, and the daughters of the Archduke Albert, have arrived from Vienna at Gratz, and will stay while the war lasts at the castle of Eggenberg, near the latter two. The army of the King of Saxony consisted, after the battle of Koniggratz, of 18,01,0 men and flfly-eight guns. It lost 4,000 men in the battle. Subsequent reinforcements have increased its strength to 25.000.  A British officer of the Royal Artillery will he at once attached, with tne sanction of the King of Prussia, to the headquarters of the Prussian army,  " Austria's cause has here a martyr. A wood-merchant called Joseph Milani hu strA himself from de,p dr at seeing the Austrians gone and the Italians come."—ltalian Conespondent of Morning Star. An olli^er of the 4th Italian Army Corps writes—' On the roa I from Calto to Oaths we met a person in a c .rti tge with a great tricoloured II .g, shouting, " Vtoa I' 'Vtva Vittorio Emanuele." The General of division suspected him and had him arrested, and on him were found letters from Rovigo to the Austrians at Legume,. Re got the reward he deserved; he was shot."  Surne of the Italian journals sneak of a frightful catastrophe at Piacenza. A small powder-mill blew up, and cornmini-utted the fire to a factory of cartridges, which bkevrise exploded About sixty young women, some soldiers, and several civil labourers who were employed on the premises, were all buried In the burning ruins. The exact number of the dead and wounded is not yet known. The Cologne Gazette says that the 8,000 Bavarians who had been stationta at Schieusingen drank during their two-anda-half days' stay at that place 90,000 quarts of beer.  - The Prussia., in their march on Vienna, contrary to the usual tactics of war, quietly passed four fortresses. The first was Koniestein, near Dresden ; the second and third, Konnigratr and Josephstadt, in the northeastern B ,hernia; and the last and most formidable, Olfrosts Therienstadt, on the Elbe, near the Saxon frontier, has no guard set to watch it  Day after day missing officers and privates are advertised torte the columns of the Berlin press, all persons having knowledge of them being entreated to communicste with their sorrowing friends To thoie who have never setri a battle tie d or violet(' hospitals the morrow aft. r a fight, the rn I ncholy tenour of these inquires unveil something of the dreadiul rea 'ties of w ir. Most of tie missing are Austrians, who-e r,tvttnns, living Olt the borders of Turkey or ill some lonely nook in the Alps, employ the Berlin press to ascertain the fate of a son, a brother, or, worst of all, a lost hu,band end father.  " Captured military stores continue to arrive at Hamburg every day from the arsenal at Slide, and on Friday two bargee loaded with 5 000 cannon-bahs of heavy calibre (24 and 30 pounders), being part of the loot, were despatched up the El, e in tow of steam-logo to Madghurg, whence they will be conveyed by railway to the seat of war on a special requisition from the War-office at Berlin, which would seem to imply that their own stock of ammunition was running short "—Daily News correspondent.  A sum of 120,742 thalami hal been collected for the wounded at Berlin  The Cologne Gazette says that the 8,000 Bavarians who had been stationed at Schleusingen drank during their two-anda-half days' stay at tLat place no,ooo quarts of beer. The persons under sentence of imprisonment for debt at Vienna have just sent a petition to the burgomaster of that capital, be:. ging to be set 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 Pecbmann, of the Bavarian army, in ,espair at the def. at of his regiment at Kissingen, alighted from his horse 'luring 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 a battle be fought it will he, as regards numbers, on a par with the gigantic struggle In and before Leipsic, of October, 1813 Two hundred thousand men on either side stand opposed to each other. A question has been raised, what is to be done with the wounded that after the battle will be poured into Vienna? With the modern r,finementA in the arc of dealing destruction, it may be estimated that 40.000 will have to be provided for, in addition to those already here. In expectation of the wounded that will have to be provided for as soon as the battle which is confidently locked for takes place In the neighbourhood of Vienna, all the great military hospitals of the capital have been cleared of their inmate,; and the wounded men have been carried out either in omnibuses or by rail to the villages and towns surrounding Vienna "—Daily Sews correspondent. "This morning, the King of Hanover—or Duke of Cumberland I suppose we ought to call him, now that his kingdom has melted into Prussia—arrived in Vienna, and took up his quarters at the Hanoverian embassy. 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 hands. By the way, Lord Stanley's very prompt declaration of non-intervention in re Hanover V. Prussta has excited no little inoigLation amongst the Conservative and aristocratic party here A very different line of actt with respect to their Queen's first cousin was expected from the proverbially pngnacious Tories I merely mention this en patseant, reserving altogether my own opinion relative to the advisability of England noising herself up in this huge Continental mess. ' l'eace at any price,' however, is quite a new motto for the gallant house of Stanley !"—Vienna Correspondent of Daily Telegraph.