The Express. — London, England, 1859-04-28 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, APRIL 28 'We are Jost beginning to learn what it is to live in the aged railroads and electric telegraphs. How many changes have we not withered since Good Friday As we laid down the broad sheet at break fast that morning we wondered how poor Piedmont would employ the three days of grace considerately allowed by her executioner. Teo days, or at least a week, must elapse before she could be succoured from the other side of the Alpe, and before then she would he crushed. The maw:tunes of our friends are quite displeasing, say. ROCIITEMCACI.D. Some of w took tires of Piedmont so philosophically that we could treat their cause from the artistic point of view, and applaud the • cleverness" of Imlerial sad Apostolic burglary. A few days have made a surprising difference. The bearer of Count Scot's polite lava-awn to King VIC7OI Emmanuel. to throw himself upon On mercy of the Austrian Court, has been courteously escorted to the frontier by a Sardi aim officer, with a fitting answer. He will have told a strange story to those who sent him. He will have reported that he saw at Turin the admire guard of the armies of France: that these divisions were already at Sum and Gates which were to have been toiling along military roods and ever Alpine steeps, while Comet Gertst was levying • war contribution at To in. The Austrian Enrsaon meant his message to Sardinia to be a virtual deer- ration of war : he is taken at his word. The lento. lions which the French EMPEROR had accumulated under the Alps have been hastened over, and to the number of 40,000 can be concentrated in Twin by railway is two hoer. Is • coople of days their writhes will have been raised to 80.000, and every day will see their fixes augmented. Yet we certhot be cure that the Allies are in a condition to meet and repel the invader. Until the French can come op in much greater fore,., and with their gnus and material, the Allies mast purses defensive and Fabian tactics. When Austria tutted she bad gained all the ignominy and was in daoger of miming the profit of her intended coup de main—when the French EMPEROR had Owed his army on the scene, and borrowed money for war, and not before—her EMPEROR declared his readiness to accept the English proposal of media tion which Lord DERBY unfolded at the Mansion boom, and to postpone a declaration of war. The Emperor of the Fatncit declined; and no wonder. Lord Ma t xesbUILY had nothing to offer either to France or to Sardinia sea basis of mediation. Lord Cote UT . - four points are indeed mentioned; and, if the object were to inflame the quarrel, nothing could be more suitable. Those proposals, as they are called—for in fact they were only topics—inter preted as they have been by Austria, were points of aggravation, not of agreement. Imagine France and Sardinia suspending their prepara tions to discuss " the means of bringing beck " Sardinia to her international duties." Austria has been till this moment cynically contemptuous of the accusations brought against her, and which are the heart and soul of the Italian question, The single mediation was a conception suited to the narrow measure which Lord MALMESBORT took of the difficulty, but applied to a great European quer tion was a most dangerous experiment for England. Whether even &European Cooper was equal to the task of so adjusting the affairs of Italy as to avert a revolutionary war is doubtful. Bat had England undertaken it with seriousness, we should certainly have found ourselves entangled before long in obligations such as we ought not to incur for any Interest but our own. The pro posal that England should renew in a solemn number the treaties of 1816, and give Austria a guarantee of Lombardy and Venice, was urgently and deliberately recommended to the English public by an influential contemporary, who, it will be re- membered, • week or two afterwards raked • loot alarm because Lord MALMESIWRY, to use his own wordy, "made a proposition to Sardinia, that if she " consented to disarm, England and France would '• protect her against any attack on the part of nor " trio, taking the guarantee of the latter power et '• the same time that she would not make any mob " attack.•' Looking at these facts, we cannot but think that t►e French EYPEIWIt'.4 resolution is fee us rbe means of a moat fortunate escape. TM alliance between Frame and Russia, mid& we asmoe•ced yesterday, is an event which every. body at owe recognises as of the very gravest poli tical importance. The memory of the portentous designsesseeiated with the alliance of an A Le7tAteDlß .and a N. PoLEON excites the irosgisatiou to vision* grand and far=aching enterprisess, of tratiafornm ,inis of the map of Europe, and perhaps of invasion of our own interests. Let es distruit those my ges•.101111. WO shall he safer if ws sae observe this alliance with calmomv, patience, and self-poems @ion. It may be that it is inevely an expedient far white iog ends much men limited than fancy is m eager is 'egret. The Itemise Enraaon has nothing to pia by war ehich be may not man surely ob tain by peace. Ha is engaged in great internal re forme. demanding the friendly cooperation of the mobility, to wbeepease end commerce with Mislead ass essential. Of the Emperor of the Farscu it would be folly to predict anything with confidence ; yet we believe them who know him beat agree that ha is solieitoos to preserve peace with this country. The history of this treaty favours the behaf io the temporary and oc. omiceal character of the alliance. The first pro posals respantsrig' it were mode on the part of Franco towards the tied of last February, at a tine when Germany was snakiest doessootratione en the side of Austria. The Ea t - beret NAPOLZOX 111. was ba finning to perceive that that q"like hod intended to treat or Italian woo likely ts oome European. bignedST wink. weeks since, but the Act was' not eonflrmet until the Court of Vienna had atitionnotertothe repriessa- Wives of the Great Powers that she had threatened Sardinia with instant war. That the alliance between Rorie and France existed at the time of Lord Ctrwtar's mission to Vienna is now ascertained ; bat that the proposal of a Congress, by which Russia set amide that project, was dictated by friendship for France was never doubtful, and need not be now discovered and denounced as a treacherous surprise. It was treated both by the French and English press as • means, and a fair mane, of taking I the settlement of what was truly a European ques- lion out of the hands of • set of men notoriously devoted to Austria, end bringing it fairly before the collective Powers. The only astonishing thing is that our Ministers should have overlooked the ex treme probability of inch a union, and that no later than Friday lut a leading contemporary should. bawl included Russia among the Powers which had " observed an attitude already pueively hostile, and " were tending towards a state of active coercion" against Loris NAPOLION. Never was it more important that the British nation should resolutely express its opinion and will. Appeals will be made to its susceptibilities and to its prejudices, in tarsier to tempt it from that path of strict neutrality which it must approve as long as it remains in possession of a cool judgment. By all means let as vigilantly watch events—let us require of the Government that it shall place the two see. vices in a position to sustain the interests of the country at home end abroad t but let as keep deer of these foreign wars. We shall be told that in consequence of this alliance things have changed, and that the junction of two great Powers at once continental end maritime will make our neutrality unwise. The friend, of Austria will endeavour to penaade us that the maintenance of her despotism in its integrity is essential to the safety of Europe. Our answer should be that Europe must save itself, as ws have done, and as we left the Sicilians to do in 1821, the Hungarians in 1849, and the Pic dmonteee in 1859. by looking strictly to our own affairs, refusing to become the dupes of traditional jealousies, warm eaten theories, and crafty cries, we may preserve a strong position, without enmities and without alliances, and when in time these wars have pro duced their natural effect upon our neighbours, we shall the. be able to exercise our inflators disin terestedly for the permanent good of mankind. To-D►T the battle of the hastisgs 0011111111110111, or rather the series of struggle', •pes whose general issue depends the immediate fats of Ministers, and the prospect of good or evil imasaree for mute rims to c •me. O all hands the courciousnese is but too obviously betrayed of the importance of the result which now bangs in the escalating scales. The partisans of Government are actively and eagerly employed in defending the poste they have hitherto held, and in attempts to sees upon others. Foiled in their designs as the City, they have essayed by oar prise to win a seat in Mary lebone, Lord STMILIT'S name being made vas of in both instances se the only available ono to trade upon. Elsewhere they have been in some respects more judicious is their tactic*. An enterprisieg Tory shipowner has undertaken by slow sap and mine to take the Ill defended borough of Newport. Advantage has bees taken of the schism amongst Liberals regarding the Conspiracy Bill and other questions to bring for ward again the Tory candidate at Bath, who was (01y defeated last time by a majority of three. At Norwich and Yarmouth local influence and ono neaions are sought to be turned to elms tioneering account; while at Kiddermioster the intense unpopularity of the late Whig mem ber has been employed to render the re , turn of the Carlton Clubiat tolerably secure. In the absence of General WINDHAM in India, East Norfolk has been persuaded to comment to a com promise, whereby a seat has been lost to the friends of moderate reform, and some thousand. saved to the ailment purse of Lord Leicesrea ; while the Duke of CzavittAnD hoe summarily cashiered his liberal brother, who for many years has sat for South Durham, in order to gratify his party by the re-intro duties of Mr. Faze= The West Riding and South Lancashire will, it is said, be stoutly con tested, as will Dover, Portsmouth, Weymouth, and other towns on the sea-board of more or leis import ance. And, finally, there are about a score of small boroughs which it is hoped may be carried by sheer weight of subscription money. kali there are some ave-and-thirty seats which the Derbyitos more or less onfidently hope that they may win, although they hardly Teuton to realise to themselves the golden dream. For the most part their emissaries have been warned off the large towns, Birmingham, Leeds, and Nottingham being the only serious ex ceptions in addition to those alluded to above : for we cannot suppose that what is going on at South ampton, Bristol, Northampton, or Derby, can be looked upon as anything more than a part of the policy of creating diversion.. In several places the application of this system has been stoutly resisted, sometimes by the united force of the Liberal., and sometimes by easy-going Tories, who having already part possession were not to be induced to hazard their own safety in a random effort to obtain an exclusive predominance. Such is said to have been the case in Oxfordahire, where Mr. HAJILZT made a decisive stand against the "agly rash" at the entire county contemplated by his friend,. On the other band, the different sections of the Opposition are sot idle. The Whig organisation, Le the purposes of election, Is still under the same radixes sa it wee is 1881 ; sad, la far as it can venture to exercise the power of selection, a prefer- mica is necessarily given to the personal favourites or sappeeed adherents of Cambridge Home. Lord JOHN Huesem. and Mr. COBDEN are this time, how ever, permitted to have a walk over, though Mr. Smut . is, we understand, again to be hammed with an attempt to exclude him from the House of Commons. Oa hie part, the indomitable assailant of Palmentonism seems fully alive to the importance of securing, if possible, the presence in Ms sew Parliament of a great number of men enter taining his views of public policy. At Blackburn Me seat vacated by the persuadable Mr. PILKING TON is likely to be filled by Mr. VAUGHAN, while t►at nested at Wakefield is sought by Mr. LIATRAN I both the new candidates being nearly 11011SWARA With the boo. member for Binliogliam that WM SSA tbot will be. Mr. HARRY ASHWORTH, a will-known and mach-respected member of the Anti-Cora-Law League, contests Salford with Mr. MASICT Whale Mr. GILPIN retains his hold of Northampton, and Mr. Mtursa GIBSON is =dis turbed at Asbtoa-ander•Lyoe. Beyond the spacial sphere of Mr. Bewit;'s ialieenee ue:many siviusised Reformers, about whose return to the am; Howe of Commons there would seem to be bat little doubt. Mr. Roust:at, Mr. EWART, Mr. CLAY, Mr. Fox, Mr. HINRY Biiiii.ay, aid Mr. Duscowar, emu all secure of re-eleotioo. On the whole, the advanced Liberal party is likely to be decidedly stronger in the new Parliament than is the old I and the re appearasoe of Mr. COBDiN after i hi two years of ostracism. will i n it se lf s i gn ifi can tl y sma the change that has taken pioe in public re do not disguise ',DAY that Derby Ism is likely to gain aim few adherents at Bei expense chiefly of the Whigs ; and that, owing to the exclueiveness of the system of manage ment pursued, few if any of the new aristocratic 1 1 Liberals likely to find their way into the Halls of Westminster can be ranked under the distinctive fag of advanced opinion on the subject of Reform. But we believe the cause will be more effectually saved by the compact array at a body of men untrammelled by oligarchic ties, and bent on the promotion of comprehensive mea sures of improvement, than it could ever have been if left in other hands. We greatly fear, from what we learn from all quarters, that a reckless system of expenditure is going on under the direction of the Carlton Club, which It likely to give rise to similar exposures to those which followed the general election of 1862. Details have been furnished to us of wholesale pro jects of corruption that imply a total disregard to all ordinary considerations of prudence, and indicate plainly en intention on the part of Lord Dlitrt and his friends to retain the power they have held during the last twelve months as long as it is possible, cost what it may. When last, however, they tried this game it fared but ill with them ; and if by their proceedings on the pre sent occasion they should establish a Case of prevalent venality against the small boroughs, they will do more to hasten their destruction than all the invec tives written or spoken which have hitherto been launched against them. Cbc Court. WINDSOR, Aran 27. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Prisms. Alice, the Doke of Oporto, and the Duke of Sam Coburg, rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon. In attaadanco were the Hon. Horatio Stopford, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, end Captain du Plat. Her Majetty's dinner party in the evening included the Dachau of Kent, Prince's Alice, the Duke of Oporto, end the Duke of Sue Coburg; Lady Swan Leslie Melville, Lady Katy Hood, the Hon. Lady Hotham, Mi.. Vic'oria Wortley, Lkmtenaat•Ocoeral Vicomte da Camps:the, Captain Sergio, Le Capitaina de Heater, A.D.C., and Colonel F. Seymour, C.B. The band of the 1W We Chards was in ettendsnee, end pasted dining dinner the _ __ .... :::: :::: . ......• worn ....... D■AW. Il lifels•fs privets bar( attemods performed t the drawbridge". The QOM mad Prism Cement, accompanied by Princess Alice eel dr Deka of Baxe Coburg, walked In the Home park Ms waft The Deane el Zest visited bar Majesty. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-of Flom the governors of Ceylon sad Hung Kong. The Earl and Counties Howe are expected at Cana Hoses, early mat wok, from Gocaill Hall, Lei omMenkilm. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury will Lave sews to-morrow, on a visit to the Countess Cowper, et Pear hanger, Herta. The Earl sad Grantees of Biwa are entertaining Ids Entabssey tits Lord Lieutenant of 11111110i1 and the Coon teen of letatoun and a distinguished party at Cashiobary, mar Watford. Field-Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Comber- Me arrived in Saipan-quer* yasteeday, from Comber]: Abbey. \loon nt and Viaeosateas Canon arrived in tows paterday, from Gopaall HaL Loa and Lady Norreys are axpeeted in town in a fay dam from a tour la Italy. Kr. aui Lady Condom Towsloy arm apested oti the 26th but. lArd sad Lady Colchester are passing the set at Tumbril. Walla Lard aid Lady Blantyre have arrived at Stafford New^ tram Seethed. The Right Hon. W. F. and Mrs. Cowper have left tow., on a Nish to the Countess Cowper, at Peatheager, Rate. Sir Francis and Lady Scott have arrived at Omldea Hotel, from Great Barr Hall, ow Birmingham. Mr: and Lady Easily Hesketh and Miss Hesketh Wee arrived at its* residence hi Portland plate, for the seises, tram °wry* Cast* Denbighshire. A telegram was rec e ived at Charlton Park on Memday, announcing the tee arrival of Sir William Hawn 6$ Kamilla& At the dm* the telegram wm desmatalted Sir William was detained is quarentine, bat he fully =rota to be able to arrive in England to-day (Thasedsy). As the BOXllination for Dover billzed for to-nvOrnrew, th•g - Llant allege will no doubt be in time to make him appearance on the bastinp. Baron de Goldemid—more generally known u ale lama Lyonldaenid—ona of ova mot noted floanciert, Mad yesterday morning, after an Maras which bad for some liamremovni him frooiective participation in sfrrs. He wee Greeted a baronet In 1841 by the government of Lord Melbonres, sad received the title of "Heron" from the Qom of Portugal for comae In negotiating the rettlement of the claims of Portugal upon Brazil. Large war ineniancis have been taken out at Lloyd's by forskin shipowners, sad on nearly all kinds of policies increased premiums are demanded. &Misdeal and Austri•in vessels con scarcely be insured on any terms, and even foe English, for protracted periods especially ; In the St. Petersburg trade, a considenble sddition Ls made. Ham burg is certain to remain neutral as long as possible, yet for her ships 'deg for mike to Brasil so much as three guineas per eels ham been required fur extra tisk. It is intimated that a negotiation for the transfer • fibs hulas= of the Assess Beek of London in Hanover ignore to the Loafs sad Osusty Bank ham been satisfac torily arum* eat jest aaly to confirmation by the share holder of the knew cloopeny, and that it will take effect on the bad of May. The 111•1111 et a publication, to be styled the Law deed, in Beet& and Bengali, has bees announced in India. It is to be ea aketraot of the whale of the regula tion. and ear, ems 17011 up to data. ♦ gigeutle under- Mine which, at the rate ef spell otatentplated by the pro jector*, who seem to be native, would, it Is supposed, with difficulty overtake legislation by the end of the century ! We see from the League': Herald, that Luckoow as. already boost of a pablic literary and reading too., and a coffee club, where " the nowapapsre of the day ere received sad tea mid coffee supplied." Aommding to a correspondent of the Bons. hey Oszette, jnaiico is but badly lodged in lionit.y. The Supreme Court is held in ate wont locality in the city; a horrible @ewer" in front of It poisons bench and audience alike, " • volcanic din" is kept op by a dockyard factory adjoining, to such ea extent that the 1,600 men employed in it have to stop wort while the court Is tittle.; while the traffic of the ad. johdag road is 'mated by "a little army of puma," who stop noisy hackeries and jigling hack buggies. . _ The Congregation of the I•dex et Rome bu, by • decree of the lltb, prohibited M. Mioheicre work entitled " L'amoar." A Lyons journal states that the Prince.. of Mot tesegro has moslved from the Emproas of tbe Preach a mainfloant cradle surammated by a calm crown, to the Worms to whom ohs has j ast given birth, and of whom hat UMW, is sandbar. Tan CONFIRMATION AND PRORATE ACT .--An ed Me been pained is mead dm Con/4.14km sad Prolate Act of last year. All panne and corporations wise, In Mimeos Ile say Instrument purportias to be oondassettos gresind odor ass Conttnna•ion snd Probnis Act, 1868; sad I all proomml corporations wbA, la NUMMI u say en lc lasts $, soled under the emeimdly el do an .u&. ibs mad ef th e Primelpsl Coact of Fields Is Berefend, sr of do Coot el Probate in Duda, An, dove ata s ppsspasnt, or asks se penult any payment on snob eodrasekn, probate, r bliss sof adateistratiso, see to be indemmillid sad pro: WSW is is &Me, notwi say do nt or chem. stance whgrarrat almtiary elm of ask condoned's% labels, a Wars "I aitaimielistios. .G, APRA " 186 K • *47 LATEST, INTELLIGE; !PORTED INVASION OF PIEDMONT.' MILITARY MOVEMENTS. The following telegraphic news has been received in Paris, but we feel bound to observe that oar own accounts throw considerable doubt upon the state ments ; in fact, the crossing of the Ticino by the Austrians is disbelieved in well-informed quarters: The Austrian', 100,000 in number, have crossed the Ticino. The French troops, of which two divi_ siona have already crossed Mount Cenis, have received orders not to fight before the artillery arrives. Mount Cenia is covered with snow, Three thousand men are at work , clearing the road, but is not thought that the artillery can come up in less than five or six days. Generals MaeMahon and Bszaine are at Genoa. Marshal Canrobert was taken sick at Grenoble, where he was obliged to go to bed for some hours. He, however, recovered sufficiently to go on after a short rest, and must by this time be at Genoa, where two French regiments, which landed yesterday, met with the most enthusiastic reception. Flowers were thrown upon them from the window., women publicly kissed the French soldiers in the streets, tables were laid out in front of the houses laden with bread, wine, ham, sausagee, &c., of which the troops were invited to partake." It is 'lmpure& that the French Senate will to day preaent an address to the Emperor, beseeching hire not to leave Paris. Apartments, however, are being papered for his Majesty at the Hotel de Ville, at Lyons. The Emperor, daring the last four days, has given at the Tuileries dinners to the chiefs of the corps which are sent from Paris. The Empress had a mass performed yesterday morning in the chapel of the Tuileries, to call down the divine protection on the arms of France. The Nord of to-day has the following paragraphs: " The neutrality of England and Prairie seems to be @enured, the cabinet of the Tuileries having received from those powers the most satisfactory Illitreaces as regards France. " Baron Hubner has not yet left his poet at Paris, but every arrangement is made for his departure at a moment's warning. "The Emperor Napoleon has notified to the English government that he hes felt himself obliged to send a French army of occupation immediately into the Sardinian territory, for the pupas of being in time to protect his ally against the attack of Austria. The cabinet of London has replied that, under the exist ing circumstances, England will offer no objection." The Nord also has the following telegram from Maneiller, dated yesterday : " Hershel Baraguay d'Hilliers arrived here yes terday. The greater part of the army of occupation of Horne has been recalled ; only 2,000 men will re main in the Holy City. " The military movements are extremely active here. The departure of troops and vessels of war ia unceasing." Marshals Berson &Nation and Rand= passed through Lyons on Tuesday without stopping. Generals de Failly, Niel, Vinoy, and de la Motto- Rouge have arrived there. The latter takes the command of the 6th division of the army of the Alps. General Boast's division has left Lyons for Piedmont. The Moniteur of this day (as we learn by one of Mr. Reater's telegrams) contains the following: " The corps d'artnes which has been placed ander the command of Prince Napoleon will shortly be assembled at Toulon. General Regnault Angely retains command of the Imperial Guard." A letter from Chambery mentions that the French troop, in halting at that city, were received with the utmost enthusiasm. Rear Admiral Count Bonet Willaumez takes, it is said, the command.in-chief of two divisions of gun boats. The 20th of the line in garrison at Havre and Rouen having been ordered to Paris, only four companies remain at Have, and national guards perform part of the daty there and at Rouen. Part of the garrison of Orleans also having received orders to leave for the capital, was accompanied to the railway station by loud cries of " Vire Pitalie ! rive l'Empereur The Gaud of Paris at prevent occupies several poste in Paris vacated by the regiments which hare been sent off; and on Tuesday the regiments com posing the division of General Uhrich, which was stationed in the forte, took possession of others. It is said that the National Guard will probably be made to occupy certain posts which were formerly confided to it, bat in which it wee replaced by the regul►r troop,. The following anecdote, connected with the de parture of one of the regiments of light infantry of the guard, is related. As the regiment was peening near the Place des Pyramider, in t►e Rue de Rivoli, a young emstiniers, leading by the hand • little girl, aged about six years, left the rankr, and, en tering the house at the corner of the place, asked if the offioes of the Secretary of the Empreee were not there. She was answered in the affirmative, and she cried " Well, then, I leave you my child ! Take her to the Empress, and tell her Majesty that I know she will take are of her until my return from the war!" And so saying she left the child. The Em press, on being informed of this incident, gave orders that the child should be taken care of until the ra. turn of the mother. The King of Piedmont left yesterday for Alea sear* after having attended a military mass. A telegram from Berne, dated yesterday, says : " The Sardinian troops have abandoned Pallanzs, and retired on Seals. The province of Novara has been also abandoned. The Austnatis have left Varese, leaving 600 men at Lavaro." The Opinieee of Turin states that the garrison of of that city left on Monday for the army, and were loudly cheered by the copulation. The PiedmoN'ese O.•tettc public sittings of the Chamber of Deputise are Neeperided until further order,. that the King Victor nel, in taking the command i Of the Piedmontrasomy, will be accompanied by I Prince Humbert:, hie eldest son, who has just com pleted his fifteenth year. The Sardinian army are at present in the receipt of the allowance and pay given in time of war. A Milan letter says :—" Everything assume the aspect of war. Travellers are exposed to the greatest annoyance', and are compelled to present them , selves to the police every 24 hours. The hotels are empty, the theatres closed with the exception of two, to which scarcely anyone goes. The cafés and the public promenades are deserted, and every face betrays the greatest anxiety." Letters from Rome state that the Austrians have increseed their garrisons in the legations, but that the works which bad been ordered on the fortifica tions of Ancona bad been countermanded. The Berlin journal announce that the 3rd regiment of Prumian infantry has been given to the Archduke Albert of Austria. The King of Bavaria has appointed Prince Charles of Bavaria oommander of the corps d'arinfie which forms the-federal contingent. A letter from Vienna says The Archduke Albert arrived yesterday (Sunday) morning from Berlin, and immediately had an audience of the Emperor. His imperial highness had aubsequently a long interview with Count de Buol. It was Gen. Benedek who conveyed to General Count Gyulai the despatch relative to the ultimatum. He is to remain with the army of Italy, the Bth corps of which he is to command. The Italian regiment Archduke Sigiemond, which demanded to march against the enemy, has left Vienna and will proba bly go to Venice." KING VICTOR EMMANUEL'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY. The following telegrams—the first of which we give with the reserve already indicated—were re ceived early this morning at Mr. Renter's office: BERNE, Aram 27. During bud night the Austrian army, amounting to 120,000 men, under the command-in-chief of General Gyulai, passed the Ticino in three cops d'armle, namely, one corps of 430,000, commanded by General Decode& ; a second of 30,000, com manded by General Gyulai in parson ; and a third, of 30,000, under General Zdbel. The bridge of 1 Ba ilors. has been blown up. BERNE, Arai,. 27. It is fully confirmed that the Austrians pawed the Ticino last night over the bridge of Buffaloes, taking the road towards Novara by Blategreaso, through Vigevano and Mortars. TURIN, Aran. 27. A Royal Proclamation by the King of Sardinia to the Army war published to-day at 5 o'clock p.m. The following is a summery: The King regards the demand to disarm u an outrage on himself and the nation, and has, there fore, repelled the demand with disdain. The king calls to mind Italy's cry of anguish, and says : "I will be your captain ; I have proved your valour ea the field of battle by the side of my illus trious father. This time you will have for your eomrades the gallant French soldiers, your com panions on the Tchernays, whom the Emperor has sent to defend and support our just and civilisieg cause. Forward to victory! Let our banner an nounce to you that oar object, like our war cry, is ' Independence of Italy.'" Up to noon the Austrians had made no offen sive movement. BERLIN, APIIL 27. The New Preussische Zeituag (Kreuz Zeitueg) states that Denmark is said to have concluded during the last few days a treaty, offensive and de fensive, with France. BERNE, Arm 27. The Federal Diet has just received the following tekgram from the General of Division Bontemps, dated Bellinzons, to-day :—" The Austrians crossed the Ticino last night." DRESDEN, Aran. 27. Ths Dresden Journal announce* that Franco has not given her consent to England's last proposal to sot ne mediator. THE MOVEMENT IN ITALY. DECLARATION OF TUSCANY IN FAVOUR OF PIEDMONT AND FRANCE►. we have to-day received important intelligence from Florence. Yesterday morning nearly all the superior officers l i of the;Tuscan troops (16,000 men) presented them- selves to the Grand Duke at Florence, and declared to him that to prevent the revolt of his army there we wily ea. way, via., to mats with Piwdrnont sad to unfurl the tricolour flag of Italian independence. The Grand Duke, by the advice of his Ministers, immediately sent for the Marquis of Lajetico (of the Corsini family, and one of the bast known and wealthiest men of Tuscany), and begged him to form a new administration with a view of giving the reforms that were wanted. The Marquis of Lujation: answered that he could not undertake so important and difficult a task, or save the dynasty except on two conditions. First, the abdication of his Imperial Highness. Second, a declaration of war against Austria, and an alliance with France and Piedmont. Tee Grand Duke refused to subscribe to them eonditions, and declared he would quit Tuscany immediately, and without making any provision for a legal and regular goverament, leaving the Tuscans to do what they pleased. Accounts from Tuscany, received by Mr. Renter, allege that certain superior officers of the Tuscan army had endeavoured to prevail on the Grand Duke Leopold either to conclude an alliance with Pied mont or to abdicate ; but it is further asserted that the Grand Duke had preferred to quit Tuscany. Additional news received at Turin yesterday afternoon, reports that Victor Emanuel has been proclaimed Dictator of Tuscany. Prince Carigan has been appointed Lieutenant-General of Piedmont daring the war. At horenoe, Count Onaltier, having published a letter in favour of Count de Cavan, bad been ordered to quit Tuscany, but be refused to obey, and took refuge at the hones of the Sardinian minister, invoking his quality se chamberlain to the King. 1 THE ALLEGED ALLIANCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND FRANCE. (IT 1111311MAJLIN1 MID ISITIIII TILISIL17111.) (101 i ♦ 00111111PO1ID1017.) PARIS, TRUPADLT MORNING. I have good authority for stating that there is no truth in the statement that an offensive and de fensive treaty of alliance has been contracted be tween Russia and France. All that has passed is limited to a mere convention. The Corsatitutionne/ (we learn by one of Mr. Reuter's telegrams) also states that " the news of a treaty offensive and defensive between France and Russia is without foundation." The Times, how ever, does not admit any doubt upon the subject, and adds: We believe we may state from authority not likely to prove incorrect that the provisions of the treaties just cowhide& between France and Ruseia—for we understand there ere two—en of this import:—By the first treaty Ruda hinds herself, in the event of France being at war with Autarky to sasiat Franca by the co-operation of her fleets in the Baltic and the Mediterranean, and, moreover, to place ea army of observation of not less than 60,000 men on the Austrian frontier. This is the first treaty, and it Is obviously directed irnmeddataly against England. France can bare nothing to fear from the navy of Austria; if she seeks to strengthen herself at sea, I mus be against some tiret-elass naval power; end what other is then than England f This treaty is an agreement between France and Raga to unite the fleets of the two empire,. in order to keep the navy of England in cheek, while one or both of the contracting parties may be engaged in effecting some object hostile to the interests or the aeon- Miss of Great Britain. It is plain that the parties to this compact do not count upon the neutrality of England, and the agleam of this precautionary treaty is in ►tself a proof that the enterprises which are thus to be protected are each as it would be impossible for England to allow to pass unchallenged. The Reagan army of observation is no Is. significant than the unity of the imperial navies. This corps will, of cows., be employed to excite insurrection among the Hungarian and &lave subjects of Austria, and tt requires no great stretch of imagination to foresee how quickly the flames would rise, and how far they would spread. We cannot tell the character nor measure the scope of the secret understanding which has prompted this offeneive alliance. Perhaps the great design may rest upon the Rhine on the one side, and may comprehend the Principalities, or even hen won the Bosphorus on the other. It le hard to believe that so small a matter as an Italian war could have rendered necessary such gigantic precautions against the navy of England, or such manaceng demonstrations against the eastern pcOvinoes of Austria. It may have been foreseen that the intentions of the two allied despots most provoke the resistance of all Germany, and render necessary the blockade of the ports upon the Baltic; and it may have bean considered that, however peaceable may be the intentions of England, the contemplated impediments upon bee Baltic commerce might roadie her absolute neutrality scarcely possible. The second treaty seems to bare * been suggested by some knowledge or suspicion of the intended action of Ausb is, for ft provides that, in ease Austria should invade BardWfa, Russia shall declare war &gaited her within fifteen days of her vio lation of the nameable, sell. No union can be claw than that which these treaties agate. In the event of Austria Invading Sardinia the two fiesta will sail together in the Baltic and in the Mediterranew, and the army of ()Werra lion will occupy Hungary. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (11011 0911 OWN 00Z1ISPONDE1 T 4 SPEECH IN THE LEGISLATIVE CHAMBER BY M. OLLIVIER. PARIS, WEDNESDLY EVENIXO. The interior of the Legislative Chamber presented the same animated appearance this afternoon that it did yesterday. On Count de Morny taking the chair, the order of the day was read for the debate on the bill for augmenting from 100,000 to 140,000 the clue of recruits of 1868. _ _ _ -- M. Emile 01kriu rose and spoke as follows : For the last four months the public mind has been greatly excited, =lonely inquiring whether Fiance is to remain at peace or whether she must engsgs in a wee I regret that during a long period we have had no information on the subject beyond what We could glean from the debates in the English and Sardinian parliaments, and that now that we are at length consulted, we have to discus the question in the Gee of "accomplished facts." It this situation does not entirely relieve us from the duty of expressing an opinion, it at any rate suggests the propriety of our doing so in brief terms. Italy is animated by one unanimous sentiment. Every mountain of the Apt ennines tins with the echo of one universal cry of fury against Austria. Men of violent and men of moderate opinions, emstitutionalista and reptibli ems, wives and daughters, as well es husbands and fathers, shout for the expulsion of the " borberiane," and finding - in their common hatred that unity which has been so often found waling in Italy, they float° the banner of Piedmont end call upon France for aid. This attitude at Italy I s easily explained. Ever since 1815 Austria has act oily broken the promises made in her name to the Menses and Venetian', in 1809, by the Archduke John, and in 1815 by Marshal de Bellegarde, but she has never calmed to ' oppress all Italy. More mud than the bird of prey which she bears on her ensign, she has never seen liberty raise its ' had on any single point without darting upon her, and she only return to her blood-stained eyrie in Lombardy to gloat at leisure over the wanted :mains of her victim'. By Austria, Italy has been rendered what she was in the time of Dante—Di do lore ostcllo —the dwelling-plies of sorrows. In 1848 a ray of hope dawned upon Italy. She herself rejected the hand which the French republic, held out to her during flee suc cessive menthe, tWnking that she could work out her deli venom herself. Her hopes were deceived. In 1649, while Beam was given up to the violence of the /melon, Venice ones more succumbed to the Austen& yoke. Then the nada of this unfortunate country beeaas so poignant as to move the very diplomatists who were the authors of the recent ostesteephee. The Italian question has now again become a subject of Euro. peen meaty. Ever since the ccegrees of 1856 It has Dever ceased to be agitated. The justice dna complaints of Italy bas never beta contested, but the standing argument against listening to them is the treaties of 1816. Very conflicting opinions have been put forth with regard to these diplomatlo acts, which Lord Palmerston describes se the territorial chaster of Europe. Ot those among ourselves who think their maintenance necessary, not a human being vesture" to defend them. It is universally adwieed that they ware sentences pronounced wind Frew e, rather than treaties. But even amongst those who execrate the treaties, the tan gling geed is not uniform. We must detest but observe them, say some; while others say we mast deep them in point of theory, but observe them in point of fact. Foe my own part, I think there is a great die. tined= to be made between those parts of the treaties which were made against France and them which were made against foreign power. of the second clue la lo far as the treaties teach Francs, we anima to them without crrirs paw% because we can do so without remorse. Oar desire I. to ass the WS aence of our country extended, but we cast afford to be quite indifferent to territorial aggrandisement. The mission of France is not to exceed its boundary line, but to disseminate the principles of our revolution. A neigh bouring people restored to tiberty would add more to our power than the re-conquest of the Rhine. It is in order that this intellectual propagandism may not be iniceded that we ropudi de the superannuated policy of conquest. For nations, ea for individuals, true mamma I. oely competible with dinatereetedness. If we suffer that part of the Mafia which affects ourselves, we repudiate that which , touches weaker nationalities, and more especially these sr tenements which, contrary to the long atentEn balance of power smog the peninsular States have subjected all Italy to the will of Austria. It does not lie in the mouth of Austria of all other powers to protest apical three principles, because she by her priests nastier, by her diplomatic or military interference is ith the administration of the small Italian Stater, and by hoc Oleo i diplomatic iyfriends ati m p d alatioes mrsif wh w ic h h ord she lo n r o an w e i l z ahne e. occupation of many of them, has herself torn up those ver which we and our feetvere have never cooed to defied. It entibthest4t p ne ve dt o n f . is, desstore, with a feeling of painful oatoniauwant that we ment have he w :4 " b l :: tti the: t ol to the do lifi hm nist:r e of t4 F thp on le ign i :ti c .i 4 re fra confirmation of Mr. Dirraelis statement in the Home 0 v