4 MAY 1867, Page 1

The reports of armaments are fewer .s week, but the

Moniteur sikatei that the French Army has been raised to its full strength, that the fortresses have been replenished, and that sufficient horses have been purchased to fill up vacancies. It steins to be admitted also in Prussia that Mayence and Rasta& have been place,s1 in a position of defence, that the Army is once more complete, that the Southern contingent—only 60,000 men—is organized, and that the Constitution is being forced through all the Chambers, in order that there may berno legal difficulties as , to the Prussian right of military command. Count von Moltke has been at Mayenee, which he examined " as a watchmaker does a watch ;" and in the trans-Rhenan provinces journalists are forbidden to mention military movements.