The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

ITALY.

Sardinian journals agree that preparations are being
made for transporting the seat of government to Genoa,
a city which is not, like Turin, open to the inroads of
an enemy. The Cabinet of Tunn, however, has sent
to Paris a memoir in which it exposes all the aggres-
sive acts of Austria for some months past. The Duke
of Modena has, it said, addressed reinonstranees to
Count de Cavour against the enrollment of Modena's
subjects in the Sardinian army, declaring that, as they
had quitted their country, they ought to be sent back to
be punished. K. de Cavour replied that he could not
concede this: the Piedmontese Government considered
Italian volunteers as emigrants and not deserters. It
would appear, too, that the English Government lately
addressed remonstrances to the Ssnlinisn Government,
complaining of its enrolment of Austrian deserters: the
reply to which was, firstly, that the English Govern-
ment has no right to ask for explanations on the sub-
ject ' • and again, that Sardinia could not avoid enrolling
the deserters, because it can neither send them back,
nor, without danger to public tranquility, leave them
unoccupied. Volunteers still continue to pour into
Piedmont. General Ulloa, who defended Venice, is to
take service in tlw Piedmontese artillery. It is COW-
monly reported the Generalissimo of King Victor
Emmanuel's armies is to be General M'3lalion.
The King of Naples is suffering severely; the opera-
tion he recently underwent has proved ineffectual.
Public prayers are to be offered for his recovery.
A letter from Parma announces an unpleasant fact.
The Government having heard that some soldiers were
about to desert to Piedmont, determined to make a
severe example. Orders were given to strictly guard
the frontiers, and three deserters were captured. They
were tried by court-martial, and sentenced to be shot.
The sentence was executed in presence of the troops
assembled for the purpose, and ocuntnaniled by the
general. During the execution some shots were fired at
the general, which fortunately did not strike hun. A
young man, who was crossing the Ticino to enlist in the
Piedmontese army, was shut by some Austrian *el.
diers.
The Pope has ordered prayers to he offered up through-
out the whole of the Pontifical States that the scourge
of war an I revolution inay he averted from Italy. Ac-
cording to advises from Rome to the 17th inst., General
Cinnamont has again received • note from Cardinal
Antonelli, relocating the immediate evacuation of the
States of the Church by the French troops.

A New PC.aCit CoNGRDO4. A Congress, constituted
of plenipotentiariea (rum France, Anotria, England,
Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and the Italian States, is
shortly to meet in meow neutral city, to diacuaa the
Italian question. To title gratifying announcement is
added that the Emperor of Austria, nutwithatanding the
violence of dm semi-official journals of Vienna' whose
tone would lead to quite a contrary conclusion, hasgiven
the moat pacific asaurance to Lord Cowley. It is even
said that he has distinctly promised not to cross the
Ticino, or attack Piedmont, however irritating may be
the proceedings of the thivernment at Turin. Finally,
with the view of rendering this Kumla() effectual, and of
preventing any chance collision between tier forces of
the two countries, he use even given orders that the
Austrian outposts are nut to he advanced within six
leagues of the Piedmonteso frontier.
The merit of arranging, or of proposing this congress,
is given to Russia. At first the exclusion of Sardinia
and Italy generally WM contemplated. Count Cavour
protested. and the French ilovernment conceded the
right of Italian delegates to be present.