The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-26 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

TrRIN, April 22.
The Chamber, have been convoked for to-morrow for
comniunication et great urgency. All the Military
measures are taken.

Itt N, Saturday, April 2.'4.
The Deputies assembled for a public •iitting this day
at :4 o'clock pan. The ybamber, without diacussion,
adopted a project of law investing the Government with
full executive and leguilative power. by 110 votei
aping 24. This vote was greeted with the animated
dicers and acclamations of the Deputies cud the public.

TURIN, Sunday, April 24.
The opiaiose announces that the ithiniation of
Austria was presented Yegter.laY (Saturday) evening to
the Piedniontese Govenunent. he ultinarawni demands
the disarmament of Pied t and the disbanding of the
volunteers within • period of three days. Baron Kel-
lerberg remains in Turin until that time shall have
expired. The movements of the Austrians towards the
Piedenentese frontiers have ceased, and the usual traffic
on the railway from Milan to the Ticino has recom-
menced. 'fl ie Archduke Maximilian has departed for
Venice to inspect the Austrian fleet.
It is currently reismted that the Austrians are on
their march to enter Modena. General Ferrari, com-
mander of the troops of Tuscany. has tendered his
resignation.
VERONA, April 21.
All trains on the Lombardo-Venetian Railway have
I been stopped for some days.

GERMANY.
VIENNA, Sat!inlay, April It

The official IVrister dedaso of to-day Nays that .411 a.
tria insists upon the previous disarmament of Piedmont,
and desires that the Congress be composed only of the
great Powers.

VIENNA. Sunday, April 24.
The official Vita'fa Gazelle publishes a communica.
Hon. dated the 19th of April, addressed by the Austrian
Government to Count Cavour. This co 11111 l tmication
calls upon Piedmont to reduce her army to • peace
footing, to disband her volunteers, and within three
days to give a categorical answer to these demands. In
conclusion it emphatically threatens a resort to arms if
Piedmont should unfortunately not secede to the demands
of Austria.
VIENNA. Sunday Evening, 10 o'clock.
Within the last few hours the order to place all the
Austrian armies on • war footing has been issued.
The following telegrams were received at Mr. Heater's
office April 24 :
FRANIEFORT-OX-1111.-11Alni, April 23.
An official report of the proceedings in to-day's sit-
ting of the Federal Diet has been published.

It announces that the sitting agreed to the peopoul of
• Prossii to keep the principal contingents in readiness la
march (marehberritehaft), and also that a resolution
was adopted to take all necessary measures for sinning
the Federal fortresses. The report adds that the
Federal Military Comniittee liu been ordered to place
itself in communication with the different military coat.
missions appointed to execute the resolutions of the
Diet. It is also authentic that a e9-ps (ramie of 12,000
men will shortly be posted in aud around Frankfort for
the protection of the Diet.
FRANKFOST-ON-THE-MAINZ, Sunday.
It is asserted by well-informed persons that in cue of
war a considerible corps of observation, composed of
troops of the Germanic Confederation, will be sent to
the Rhine, to which Austria on her part will furnish a
contingent of 230,000 men, under the command of the
, Emperor in person.
The following telegrams were received at Mr. Reuters
office April 23:

BERLIN,
,Apvil 23.

The semi-official Prussian Gazette (P;Tassische
Zeining) publishes a leading article, of which the fellow.
lug lea summary :
The resolutions of the Governments for placing the
Federal forces on a footing corresponding with the aur-
eola++ of neighbouring States were prepared before the
isst mediatorial proposal of the Powers had been made,
and were accidentally taken st a moment when Prussia
way using pressing language at Vienna in favour of the
above proposal. It was also accidental that their pub-
lication smincided with the unit news respecting the
all haulers of Austria to Piedmont. The Prussian reso-
lutions were determined on quite independently of the
events of the last few days. Neither the presence
of German Princes nor any pretended conventions said
to have been concerted during their may are in any way
connected with these resolutions.
As regards the last measure towards Piedmont, the
news was all the more surprising to the Government,
became during the days winch immediately preceded it
nothing had been neglected by Primal& to Impress on
the attentMu of the Austrian Government the incalcu-
lable consequences and the heavy responsibility which
would result from any separate act of Austria.
According to the new Petunia a Gazelle (Ere=
Ze lie my) the lluinian Government has taken the reso-
lution to place the corm trarede of General Luders an a
war tooting (krieystereaschup. The Cabinet of Et.
Petersburg liu declared its intention not to &drawn
troops no long as Germany also refrains from so doing;
otherwise, however, a corps of observation would be
placed on the Anstrian frontiers ; Russia would niter
assume the same attitude of watchfulness as Austria tlid-
during the war in the East.
BERNE. Sunday. 'April 24.
Captain E. A. J. Harris, the English Minister to the
I Swim Confederation, lois left this ctey for Milan, to
deliver to General Gyulai the protest of the English
Government against the sifinicanas whitish Austria has
addressed to Piedmont. it is asserted that 160,000
French soldiers are on their march towards Savoy.
Two divisions of the army of Switzerland have been
placed on a war footing.

INDIA AND CHINA.
The following telegram has been received :
ALLIANDIII. April 19.
The Calcutta and China mails leave to-day.
The advioes from Calcutta are to the 22nd of March;.
Madras, the 29111 ; Hongkong, the 12th.
The Begun' and the Nana have come down to the.
Nepaul frontier with 8,000 men.
Brigadier Kelly was watching them.
Rau Sahib, with 1,000 cavalry, has appeared in Chun.
deree. Tantia Top ee and Ferose Shah are believed to
have joined him.
Another attempt to produce mutiny among Sikh troops
has been discovered at Lahore.
The Bombay Chamber of Commerce is preparing a
petition against an increase of Customs' duties, and, to
memorialize for a Parliamentary commission to investi-
gate and report upon Indian finances.
The Calcutta import market was active, and prices
higher, owing to an increase of the import duties.
Money was easy. Government securities continue
depressed.
Exchange, 2s. Id. for bank bills.
The Furious, with Lord Elgin, re roger for England
risl Bombay, had arrived at Galle.
Sir Michael Seymour was to leave Hongkong on the
20th of March for England.
Exchange on I longkong, es. Bd.
Import market dull.

SHANGHAI, Marchs.
The import market very active, with enhanced p.ives.
Silk was dearer; settleinents, 2,01:k/ Was,
Tea very firm.
A portion of the Red Sea Telegraph cable has arrived
at Suez.
INDIA-OFFICE, April 24.
The following telegram has been received rid
Trieste:—
To James Comm Melvin Esq., India-office, London,
from R. Simpson, EN Secretary to the Government of
India, dated Calcutta, March •.a.