The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. WAR and politics absorb all the attention of the English nation at the present moment, and people are beginning to ask themselves where the Con- tinental strife will end. Accounts we receive by telegram ate most confusing. Sometimes we hear of a victory over the Prussians by the Austrians, then the tables are turned and we hear of a great victory over the Austrians by the Prussians. The same may be said of the Italian efforts to obtain possession ef Venetia from Austria. Whilst Garibaldi has been successful with his volunteers in some guerilla warfares, Victor Emmanuel has had to retreat before the superior forces of the Austrians. Meanwhile blood is being shed on all sides, and the lesser States of Germany are suffering from a compulsory command to join one or other of the hostile forces of Austria or Prussia. Thus Hanover and Hesse Cassel have been taken pos- session of by the Prussians. The King of Hanover, though blind, encouraged his army for a time, but eventually sent the Crown jewels to England for security, and promised not to fight against Prussia during the present war. But by far the most formidable battle which has yet been fought has been in Bohemia, where, it is asserted, 100,000 men came into conflict, and the Austrians were worsted ia two battles. Strange to say, on the news of victory reaching Berlin, the whole popula- tion regarded the king as a hero, and his Prime Minister Bismarck as a noble fellow. A few weeks ago both were unpopular with the people; but since the Prussian flag has been triumphant, both the despotic king and his minister have received tremendous ovations. There is, we apprehend, an animal passion inherent in man that, like the tiger which has tasted blood, longs for more. It is not so, however, with those who calmly con- sider that war may oftentimes be near akin to murder. IN Spain there haa been something like revolu- tion.' No sooner had the Spanish fleet returned from the unsuccessful attempt to subdue the Peruvians than there was a revolt in Madrid, which has been suppressed with bloodshed. All the sergeants of the revolted regiments were ordered to be shot; and the execution, by martial law, of some hundreds of civilians who took part in the insurrection is expected to follow imme- diately. In the meanwhile the press has been gagged by the order of Marshal O'Donnell, who was himself a successful insurrectionist some years ago. AMERICAN news is rather of a stirring character. The trial of Fenians was going on at Montreal, and it is generally believed that those who can be proved to have fired on British troops will be hung. A great Fenian mass meeting was being organised, but the authorities had interdicted it. The Canadians, it is said, have demanded indem- nity from the United States for permitting the gathering of forces intended to invade them, and there is a likelihood of some unpleasantness aris- ing from such a claim. As to politics, we will leave them alone for the present, as we are all in the dark as to the future policy of Lord Derby. The open-air demonstra- tions have all been in favour of Mr. Gladstone and in direct opposition to a new Government; but not a few of the more orderly classes of the com- munity say, Let us not condemn them unheard; give them a chance, and if .they don't succeed, Mr. Gladstone will be a more popular man than ever." IN domestic matters we may mention that the disputed claim to the title of Earl of Bredalbane, in the Scotch peerage, was settled last week in the Edinburgh Court of Session by ten to two in favour of Campbell of Glenfallock against Camp- bell of Boreland. Glenfallock's grandfather ran away with a grocer's wife in 1781, and lived with her, without any marriage ceremony being per- formed, even after the grocer's death, which occurred in 1784, whilst in 1788 Glenfallock's father was born. The decision is, that by the Scotch marriage law, after the first husband's death, this illicit connection became marriage by repute, and the offspring is to have all the privi- leges of legitimacy. THE celebrated case of the Banda and Kirwee prize money came to an end last week, and the octogenarian judge, Dr. Lushington, gave a most elaborate judgment, which occupied three hours in the delivery, and will stand as a wonderful proof of an old man's genius. The result is that he declares Lord Clyde and his staff, personal as well as general, entitled to share in the booty captured at Banda and Kirwee; and, subject to this right, he awards the whole of the booty to General Whitlock and his forces, including amongst the latter the troops under Colonel Keat- ing, and other troops left by General Whitlock on his march, but who at the time of the capture formed a portion of his division, and were still under his command, disallowing all other claims. MR. GOODEVE, a curate at Bristol, has become Earl of Mar without a penny or foot of land con- nected with the title. The estates go to the heir male; the title to heirs whomsoever; and the late earl has bequeathed all his personal property, not to the inheritor of the title, but to the inheritor of the estates. THE Great Eastern has left her moorings on the Medway, and has arrived at Valentia, from whence she will shortly start on her mission of laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Everthing has been very carefully prepared, and we trust that no mishaps will prevent the present effort being a success. THE revenue returns for the year and quarter ending June 30 are highly favourable. The re- venue for the year has been .£67,726,436, or a net decrease of < £ 1,862,320. The greater proportion of this arises from the reduction in the income-tax, the decrease under that head being .£1,922,000. Customs also, owing to reductions in taxation, have yielded less by S-935,000 than in the previous year. On the other hand, the revenue from excise has increased by £ 508,000; stamps, 472,000; taxes, £ 154,000; post-office, £ 240,000; Crown lands, £ 10,000; and miscellaneous, £ 10,680. On. the quarter the net decrease is only .£85,836, the total revenue being £ 17,463,644.

THE BAND A AND KIRWEE BOOTY. Judgment was on Saturday delivered in this long- 'pending case by the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington. The jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty to decide on the distribution of booty captured by land forces exclusively was conferred upon it by the 3rd and 4th Vic., c. 65, which enacts that the court shall have jurisdiction "to decide all matters and questions con- cerning booty of war which may be referred to it by the Privy Council, and that its judgment shall be binding upon all parties. The circumstances under whioh the claim arose were these:—The land forces, consisting of her Majesty's troops, and of troops of the East India Company, were, for the suppression of the mutiny, organised in three columns, termed re- spectively the Central India Field Force, the Saugor and Nerbudda Field Force, and the Rajpootana Field Force, under the respective commands of Sir Hugh Rose, Major-General Whitlock, and Sir Henry Roberts, since deceased. In the course of the operations which followed, certain property was captured at Jhansi, Calpee, and Gwalior, by Sir Hugh Rose's force, of the estimated value of 4,90,000 rupees; at Banda and Kirwee, by Sir G. Whitlock's force, of the estimated value of 70,00,000 rupees; and at Ahwah, Kotah, and at Buenos, by Sir H. Robert's force, of the estimated value of 1,82,000 rupees. For the distribution of this property, it had been pro- posed that the whole proceeds should be thrown into a common fund, and be distributed equally among the forces under the command of Sir H. Rose, Sir G. Whit- look, and Sir H. Roberts. The prize agents of Sir G. Whitlock's force had preferred a claim that the pro- perty captured at Banda and Kirwee should be granted exclusively to that force. Claims to partici- pate were preferred by the late Lord Clyde, as Com- mander-in-chief, on behalf of himself and his personal staff; by Sir Hugh Rose, on the ground of his force having co-operated in the actions or movement of the troops which led to the capture; also by Major-Gene- ral Smith, General Roberts, Colonel Middleton, Major Osborne, Colonel Hinde, Colonel Keating, and others. The great principle which is recognised as the basis of the prize-law is, that all prize taken in war belongs absolutely to the Crown, but for more than a century and a half the Crown has granted the prize to the captors. The learned judge at great length laid down the peculiarities of the particular war in which this booty was captured. It was no ordinary war, he said; its ob- ject: was to suppress a mutiny, and a rebellion into which that mutiny had developed; a whole country had to be pacified. This called for military operations ramifying in different directions, yet brought to bear on a com-1 mon end. The learned judge gave a most luminous review of the principal instances of booty taken on land, in order to discover what, if any, had been the accustomed mode of its appropriation by the authority of the Crown, drawing his information, where practi- cable, from original documents, furnished to him by the Treasury and the public offices. The cases referred to were Egypt, 1801; Waterloo, 1815; Deccan war, 1817-18; Burmah, 1824-28; Bhurtpore, 1825.6; Khelat, 1839; Soinde, 1843; Mooltan, 18489; Delhi, 1857; Lucknow, 1857-8; Dhar, 1857. Having examined these oases, the learned judge laid down. as the rule to be adopted that of actual capture, but this, if carried to an extreme, would, he said, produce the very results, to prevent which is the primary object of having a rule at all. To confine the enjoyment of booty to those who have actually laid hands upon the property would be simply to give legal sanction to lawless plundering. On the other hand, to distribute it indiscriminately would be to discourage personal efforts, and in many oases to dissipate the booty till it became insignificant. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and should not be drawn arbitrarily. He had come to the conclusion that (the course most analogous to the rale of the naval service, most in conformity to military usage, and most likely to work satisfactorily, in the case of an army consisting of several divisions, was to draw the line between division and division. An Admirably drawn detailed history of the operations of the three divisions of Sir Hugh Roae, General Whitlock, and Sir Henry Roberts was given. In respect to the claim of Sir Hugh Rose, that officer had to contend against the broad facts, that throughout the campaign the two forces were separated from each other, on an average by about 150 miles; that no junction between the two was ever effected; that at the time of the capture of Banda Sir Hugh Roso was encamped 160 miles off, at Jhansi, preparing to march on Kalpee; and at the time of the capture of Kirwee he was about 120 miles off, at Calpee, just setting off with the utmost speed in the opposite direction, the direc- tion of Gwalior. The claims wero yut forward oubhe ground of constructive captor of the booty taken in both places, and on the two grounds of association and co- operation. The learned judge decided that there was no co-operation nor association on the part of Sir Hugh Rose which led ta the oapture of the booty, and he accordingly pronounced against it altogether. The claims of General Roberts, General Smith, and others who claimed as officers under Sir Hugh Rose, were of course disposed under this decision. Major Osborne was political agent of the Government, and had the entire command of the Maharajah's forces, and most successfully raised troops in various parts of the country. His achievements were of the most gallant description. He displayed great ability and rendered very valuable services; but his services were not, in the opinion of the judge, such as to entitle him to share in the Banda and Kirwee booty, inasmuch as the places captured by him had not conduced to the cap- ture of these places. The same remark applied to Colonel Hinde, of Nagode. With respect to Colonel Keating, he was the Colonel of the 50th Regiment Madras Infantry, which, daring the whole of the operations, formed part of General Whitlock's forces, and was under hia orders though not present at the capture of Banda or Kirwee, but the claim, of Col. Keating and his regiment was admitted as part of the general's force. The claims of General Wheeler, in command of the Saugor District and Garrison; of General Carthew, and the Futtehpore movable column engaged in the lower part of the Doab; of General Maxwell, also in commasd of a movable column in the Doab, were disallowed, on the ground of their not having given that degree of co-operation which he con- sidered necessary to entitle the forces to a share in the capture. With respect to the claim made on behalf of the late Lord Clyde, his lordship was appointed Com- mander-in-Chief of all her Majesty's land forces serv- ing in the territorial possessions of the East, and his absence from the scene of capture was immaterial. The court, therefore, overruled the claim put for- ward on the part of General Whitlock to the whole of the booty on the ground that his forces were .not a portion of the army commanded by Lord Clyde. The same decision was given with respect to General Mansfield and such members of the personal and general staff as were in the field with Lord Clyde. At its close the learned judge said the result of this judgment then is, that I declare Lord Clyde and his staff, personal as well as general, entitled to share in the booty captured at Bauda and Kirwee; and, sub- ject to this, right, I award tie whole of the booty to Gen. Whitlock and his forces, including amongst the latter the troops under Colonel Keating and any other troops left by General Whiftook en his march, but who at the time of the captuie formed a portion of his division, and were still undlr his command. I dis- allow all other claims. The judgment occupied moie than three hours in its delivery, and was attentively listened to throughout by an unusually large attendance of barristers, and a number of ladies, some of wh)m occupied seats on the benoh, and others in the galleries of the court.

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. I THE EUROPEAN WAR. BERLIN, JULY 3. Authentio intelligence from Bohemia states that Field-Marshal Benedek has found himself compelled, in consequence of the dissolution of the corps of General von Gablenz, and the retreat of the Austrian and Saxon troops, to abandon the operations that he had commenced near Gitschin, and to concentrate his army in a more distant position. GITSCHIN, July 2. It is estimated that in consequence of all the com- bats and battles since the 26th of last month between 30,000 and 40,000 Austrians are put hors de combat. About 15,000 prisoners have been made at the battles of Gitschin, Skalitcz, Naohod, and in the engagements at Hiinerwasser, Miinchengratz, and Turnau. The number of killed and wounded is more than 20,000. Several battalions have been completely annihilated. The Saxon corps the Kalik brigade, the Clam-Gallas corps, and the Gablenz corps are completely broken up, and for the present not in condition to fight. The Austrian army has retired to a strong position between Josepbstadt and Koniggraetz on the other side of the Elbe, and according to the statement of some captured officers the soldiers are discouraged and the army partly in a state of dissolution. VIENNA, JUNE 28. The official reports fully confirm the victory of the 6th Austrian Army Corps over the army of the Crown Prince of Prussia at Skalicz. The following details have been received of the brilliant encounter which took place yesterday at Oawiencin. The Austrian forces, composed of one battalion and a half of infantry, two squadrons of Uhlans, and half a field battery, drove baok the enemy with heavy losses across the Vistula, after a struggle whioh lasted ten hours. The Prussian forces consisted of three companies of Fusiliers, three battalions of Landwehr, one entire regiment of Uhlans, and half a field battery. BERLIN, JUNE 28. It is officially stated that 6,000 Prussians, under General Flies, yesterday attacked the Hanoverian army near Langensalza, in order to out off its retreat southward. The Hanoverian forces were 20,000 strong, and superior to the Prussians both in artillery and cavalry. The Prussians fought with valour. The losses are considerable. General Flies, having attained his strategical object, resumed his former position south of Langensalza. The Hanoverians appear to have marched northward from Langensalza through Miil- hausen, in the direction of Sonderhauaen. VIENNA, JUNE 28. It is officially announced that in the battle near Skalitz yesterday the Prussians lost many prisoners and 18 guns. After the battle a Prussian major pro- oeeded to the quarters of Marshal Benedek, under protection of a flag of truce, to solicit an armistice. The demand was refused. CRACOW, JUNE 27 (EVENING). This morning the Prussians made a fresh attack upon Oswiencin, but were repulsed with heavy loss. REPULSE OF THE AUSTRIANS IN BOHEMIA. VIENNA, JUNE 29. The following official despatch relates to the battles of the 28th inBt. "PARDUBITZ, JUNE 29. The Prussians were yesterday completely defeated by the Austrian forces, under General von Gablenz Leaving behind 1,000 killed and wounded, they with drew to Prussian territory towards Glatz. "After occupying Jicin yesterday, the Prussians were attacked by the cavalry division of General von Edelsheim, they were driven out of Jicin, and repulsed towards Tiernau. In consequence of this defeat, the Prussians last night evaouated Melnik, Druba, and Leipa, and withdrew in great haste to Niemes. The Prussian losses by General von Edelsheim's attack were enormous. The strategie operation of the Austrian army was completely successful. The junction of Prince Frederick Charles with the army of Silesia was pre- vented. The Austrian loss in the battles of the last three days is estimated at nearly 2,000 killed and wounded. The Prussian loss is at least equal." VIENNA, Jnr.v l Ttie first Austrian army corps ana the baxon corps were repulse yo.tonwy by the Prussians. In conse- quence of this repulse the Austrian army fell back in the direction of Konigsgratz. The following official telegram, dated Prague, June 30, has been published here to-day:—" Engage- ments took place yesterday at Kost, near Tur- nau, and at Chwalkowitz, between Kalitz and Konigshof, in the district of Jungbunzlau, which resulted favourably to the Austrians. Bohmnisk and Kamnitz have been evacuated by the Prussians. The latter were also defeated, while flying from Flicin, by the combined Austrian and Saxon forces. They left their dead and wounded on the field," EEICHENBERG, JULY 1. The Prussian army in Bohemia is making victorious progress. The fifth and third divisions took Gitschin by storm on the 29th ult. The Prussian loss was not inconsiderable, the enemy's position being very strong. The loss sustained by the Austrians is estimated at about 4,000 men. LA.UBAN, JULY 1. It is announced that the total loss of the Austrians up to the present is 20,000 men. DEPARTURE OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA FOR THE ARMY. BERLIN, JUNE 30. The King left here to-day, and win arrive to-morrow morning at Rsiohonberg. His Majesty was most enthusiastically cheered by the crowds assembled in the streets from the palaee to the railway station. DEFEAT OF THE PRUSSIANS IN BOHEMIA. PARDUBITZ, JUNE 27. Since ten this morning a continual fire of artillery has been kept up by the Austrian and Prussian forces between Neustadt and Nachod, in Bohemia. The Prussians were repulsed near Skalitz, where cavalry took part in the action. At six this evening the Prussians were beaten, and in full retreat, leaving their dead and wounded on the field. BERLIN, JUNE 27. Last night the army of the Elbe had a successful engagement near Turnau, taking seven Austrian officers and 50Q men prisoners. The engagement was of a very spirited character, and lasted until midnight. The troops engaged were the Prussian division under General von Horn and the Austrian brigade under General Potschappel. The Prussians lost a colonel, a lieutenant, and a captain. THE HANOVERIAN ARMY. BERLIN, JUNE 26. It is again positively announced that the Hanoverian army is completely surrounded, and that the attempts made by some detachments to escape have been re- pulsed. It is added that the King of Hanover has demanded twenty-four hours for deliberation on the conditions upon which his army has been called upon to capitulate. This demand has been granted, although it is believed to have been made in the expectation of receiving assistance from the Bavarian army. It is considered improbable here that this expectation will be realised. SPAIN. MADRID (via BAYONNE), JUNE 26. Yesterday 21 sergeants implicated in the recent revolt were shot. Several more will be shot to-day. The insurgents who succeeded in leaving Madrid surrendered to the Royal troops to-day. The printing offices of the Progressist and Demo- cratic newspapers have been closed by the Govern- ment. AMERICA. NEW YORK, JUNE 19. The House of Rapresontatives has adopted a resolu- tion requesting the President to furnish information relative to the alleged arrest of peaceable citizens of the United States by the British authorities in Ire- land. t The Fenian president Roberts has had interviews at Washington with Senators Wilson, Wade, Nye, Grin- nell, Colfax, and others. Roberts was introduced yes- terday on the floor of the. Senate by Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts. In the evening Speaker Colfax in- troduced him to the soldiers' fair* James Stephens has declined offers o* similar intro- ductions. NEW YORK, JUNE 21. The report of the minority of the reconstruction committee in Congress declares the Southern States to be in the Union, and that they have never been out of it. The Canadian authorities are reported to have de< manded of the Federal Government the extradition oi the Fenian leaders. James Stephens has returned to New York from Washington. Advices received from Mexico report that on the 18th ult. the Liberals captured a railway train of am- munition and merchandise on its way from Matamoros into the interior. The Imperial convoy of 2,000 men were, it ia stated, defeated, and 800 captured.

THE BATTLE OF CUSTOZZA. The Florence journals of the 26th of June publish the following details of the battle fought on the 24th instant:— The Austrian forces numbered 60,000 men, with a considerable quantity of artillery. The Italian cavalry regiments did not abandon their position, nor were they overcome, until after the enemy had received heavy reinforcements. Towards nightfall, both the Italians and Austrians retired from their respective positions. The division under Prince Humbert waa, attacked a little distance from Villafranca by two regi- ments of Hussars. He ordered a battalion of infantry to form square, remaining themselves in their midst, and repulsed the charge of the Hussars. Prince Amadeus received a wound in the chest while leading a brigade of Grenadiers. The Piannelli division took prisoners an entire battalion of Austrian chasseurs. The Govone division took the position of Custozza and part of Monte Torre by assault, and held them till night, notwith- standing the onslaughts made by the enemy with greatly superior forces. Cuzia's division took posses- sion of another part of Monte Torre and Monte Crooe, and held them till evening. The Sirtori divi- sion took Santa Lucia, and also remained in posses- sion until the evening; the first army corps reserve"on the heights to the left of Valeggio held in check an overwhelming number of Austrians before which General Cerale had been forced to retire; Bixio's divi- sion and the cavalry of the line protected the retreat- of the army, which was effected in good order. "The Italian cavalry had several engagements with the Austrians, who suffered heavy losses, and the 3rd army corps made about 1,000 prisoners. The Italian losses are great, but those of the enemy are believed' to be still more considerable. » General Villarez was killed, and Generals Durando3, Cerale, and Gozzani were wounded while charging at the head of their men. The troops are in excellent spirits, and anxious to renew the contest."

THE BATTLES IN BOHEMIA. The following dispatch has just been received at Berlin from his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia:— "I have most respectfully to report to your Majesty as follows upon the events of to- day: On the afternoon of the 26th General Von Stein- metz had pushed forward his vanguard under Major- General von Lowenfeldt towards Naohod. After a short engagement the latter got possession of the pass, which was abandoned by the Austrians with a loss of 18 killed. The vanguard threw out skirmishers in the direction of Skalitz. "At half-past nine this morning the vanguard was sharply attacked by two brigades of the 6th Austrian Corps, well provided with artillery, and followed by a third brigade as support. The Prince Holstein's heavy cavalry division at the same time appeared upon the field. By the efforts of the vanguard, which withdrew, slowly skirmishing, time was gained for the main body of the corps to emerge from the pass and reach the heights immediately in front. At this moment I came up in good time from Branuau. As the troops arrived they were immediately thrown forward to hold the nearest heights, the Kirchbach division to the right and the Lowenfeldt division to the left. The entire artillery, 90 guns was brought up into the line of battle, to meet which the enemy was reinforced by the last brigade of the 6th Carps and its reserve artillery. The advanoe of the enemy was soon checked, and as soon as our corps-strengthened by an infantry regiment and re- serve-had taken up its position, we were enabled energetically to assume the offensive. The hostile Prince John's Cuirassier Brigade was defeated by a ormianu onarge or Tne Uti u Alans and 8th Dragoons, under General von Wnuok, after a moat aeoporato hand-to-hand oombat. Each regiment captured a hostile standard. General von Wnuok, Colonel von Treskow, and Lieutenant-Colonel von Wiohmann, the commanders of both regiments, reoeived honourable wounds. "The infantry, whose fire had been of admirable effect, attacked at various points with the bayonet, and took possession of the advanced woodland and surrounding ground. In these operations the flag of the 3rd Deutschmeister Battalion fell into our hands. Towards three p.m. all the enemy's troops were in retreat, followed up by the fire of our artillery. One- detachment of the 1st Uhlans suoceeded in capturing two guns; three others were abandoned in the hasty retreat. The cavalry, supported by some of the in- fantry, engaged in temporary pursuit, while the bri- gade of the 6th Corps, that came up towards evening, undertook the vanguard. I returned to Nachod about six o'clock, after I had seen almost all the troops that had been engaged upon the field, and had thanked them in your Majesty's name. The battle of to-day is an honour to General von Steinmetz and the 5th Army Corps. I cannot suffi- ciently praise the extraordinary coolness of the young troops. All arms have vied most gloriously in the dis- charge of their duty. The needle-gun effected con- siderable slaughter, and caused the failure of all the enemy's attacks, which were undertaken with great intrepidity. The artillery displayed rare powers of endurance in face of the hostile nre, at first greatly superior, and the cavalry showed itself more than a match for the much-vaunted Austrian horse. Upon the Austrian side 28 battalions were under fire, from all of which prisoners have fallen into our hands. The 5th Corps, on the other hand, had only twenty.two battalions to oppose to this force, and of these the troops kept in reserve only came under the fire of grenades. The brilliant success of the day has been purchased with comparatively slight loss. From all I have seen I estimate it at from 500 to 600 men, among whom are a very considerable number of our brave officers. In addition to those already mentioned among the superior grades, I have to report Major von Natzmer, of the 8th Dragoons, killed, Major- General von Ollech and Colonel von Walther, com- mander of the 46th regiment, wounded. The enemy's loss is, on the other hand, very large. Over 2,000' prisoners are in our hands. His dead lay in many places in heaps, so that I estimate his total loss at over 4,000 men. The trophies taken were the above-mentioned five guns, one flag, and two standards. I shall not fail to forward to your Majesty, as soon as possible, further details and a special list of losses, together with the names of those who had the opportunity of especially distinguishing themselves. "FBEDERICK WILLIAM, Crown Prince, General of Infantry, and Commander-in-Chief of the Second Army." The following official dispatoh refers briefly to the events of the ensuing day =- "Breslau, Tuno 29. I have to announce to your Majesty a second vic- tory upon the 28th, more hotJy oonte5ted and more sangainary than upon the 27th. Great loss 1D offioers rs>»?h?hs of'° £ lV/ dr»„ rr,; Some trophies have again been taken, but the numbed ia still uncertain. Numerous prisoners have been made. Skalitz is in my fav^the shows that I was opposed to-day by the Archduke Leonold with the 6th and 8th Corps.. After two battles my troops are full of courage and enthusiasm, breaking out into loud cheers. STEINMETZ." King William delivered the following speeeh to the people, who brought him an address yesterday evening:— *• I know your patriotism comes from the heart, and it is, therefore, grateful to mine. God has given eur valiant armies the viotory, but this is only the begin- nisg- A difficult task remains still to be accomplished. As victory has always attended our banners, with God's help the future will be ours also. With this hope I go to the army to-morrow. Up, then, with God for King and Fatherland!" His Majesty uttered the last sentenoe in a loud voice, standing with bared head and holding his helmet in his uplifted right hand.

The Prince de Conde, son of the Dllc d'Aum&Je, was taken ill of typhus fever, and died at Sydney.