The Press.
London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Ducati.
For a husband who has beaten his wife, and
thereby brought about premature labour 5
And it' the child die
For procuring abortion by improper means 8
For infanticide
For burglary L
For a rich man who has possessed himself of an
inheritance by false documents and forgery
For the absolution of a persta. dying in excom-
munication of the Church, and Mr drawing his
soul from the lowest pit of hell ....1 ducat 9 carlini
Roma: 11. MAons, Geneve, Imprinierie Vauen,
Rue de la Croix d'Or, 4 1-1H32.
Now, a Government, boasting of spiritual immuta-
bility, that of old could allow, " con licenza dei
superiori," the circulation of a prospectus offering
immunity from punishment, here and hereafter, for
a monetary consideration to the priest, in auricular
confession, cannot warrant for its ministers the terse
encomium of M. de Itayneval—" Its sont a l'abri de
la critique."
In Bologna, during the month of May, 1856, there
were twenty-six days on which robberies by bandits
with violence, more or less, isnd in two cases attended
with death, were perpetrated in open day without
the interference of the police. An Executive, under
which these crimes daily occur, without repression,
ought not to be deemed a fitting subject for unex-
ceptional eulogy by one hulling a situation of diplo-
matic eminence.

C. A. 11.

lortign nab 6olonial 3ntelligcntr.

AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.

The immediate retirement of the Marquis de
Cantono, the Sardinian Envoy from Vienna, is
denied. His Excellency, although, for the time
being, having ceased his official relations with the
Government at Vienna, will yet, it is reported, remain
in that city until the close of the spring.
A letter from Vienna of the 4th, in the Hamburg
News, says :
The Count de Pair had a private audience of the Ern•
peror yesterday. The information given by the Count is
said not to be of a nature to calm down the irritation felt
against Sardinia.

The Ost-Deutsche Post publishes the following
despatch, dated Turin, April

The Gazette Mililaire, the organ of General de la \l1:r•
morn, announces the formation of a camp of 21),00 men at
Alessandria, observing that this measure ought to give no
provocation, as it is required every year fur the purpose of
military evolutions.

The Ost-Deutsche Post observes on the fore-
going :

It is our duty to take cognisance of this new feature of
Piedmontese politics. At the moment in which Austria
complained of certain appearances of hostility, it was
thought opportune at Turin to enter upon a discussion
relative to the fortifications of Alessandria, protesting that
no demonstration was intended. When Count I'aar
declared to the Piedmontese Mini stry that the Marquis de
Canton.) was free to remain at his post, the latter was
recalled. Rut there was nu desire for a rupture—it was a
pure ipiestion of dignity. And now, at a moment when
the diplomatic relations are broken, Piedmont establishes
a camp of twenty thousand men, and says to its, "This is
not a demonstration, but simply a military exercise which
takes place every year." We do not know sufficient of the
usages of the Piedmontese army to say whether such a
concentration has been hell every year, and it it has taken
place at precisely this period of the year, and in these pro-
portions ; this we know, however, that a moderate and pru-
dent Government, whose tendencies were opposed to any
provocation, and which was averse to causing alarm, would
have preferred in a situation so delicate to have post-
poned fur sonic months the " annual evolutions," in order
that their simultaneity with a recent diplomatic conflict
blight not give them a signification which most assuredly
cannot favour a solution of the difference.

There is a rumour in Italy that Austria has pro-
posed a league, offensive and defensive, with Modena
and Parma, which if confirmed would be of the most
serious importance, for it would amount to the per-
petual occupation of those States by Austrian gar-
risons.

Vogs's Gazette of Berlin gives the following as the
principal passages of a circular despatch, in which
the Austrian Government expresses its views on the
present position of the dispute between the Cabinets
of Vienna and Turin. The despatch denies that
Austria has any ill-feeling towards Piedmont on
account of her liberal institutions:—

Austria:approves of the principle of a progress which
goes on prudently, and she combats r.--):ution. At
Turin, on the contrary, projects are baso: on revolution,
and the tiovernment approves and supports movements
which are directed against the existing possessions of the
powers, which do not permit reArms to be made because
they maintain in people's m'n Is the hope of a violent
revolution. The representations made against this manner
of acting having been without result, the Imperial Lega-
tion at Tin in has been recalled, not, boo ever, without
manifesting an intention of leaving the door open for a
subsequent understanding. That door, however, Count
de Cavour had closed by recalling the Margins de Cantotio,
and thus proved anew that he was not at all anxious to
come to an arrangement with Austria. The question has

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been asked, what signification Austria attaches to the
rupture of diplomatic relations? It is easy for everyone
to understand that there is in that act a serious warning
to Piedmont. The foreign Cabinets, particularly those of
the two Western powers, have not witnessed this step with
an indifferent eye, and they endeavour to anticipate
ulterior consequences by friendly mediation. At Vienna
they will meet with the very best dispositions. lathing
is demanded of Piedmont but the observance of inter-
national rules, and if the mediating powers can obtain
what was refused to Austria au arrangement will be easy.
Should, on the contrary, Count de Cavour intrench him-
self behind a line of argument which merely plays on
words without altering the facts, Austria will have to
examine what she ought to do nest fur the preservation of
her dignity and of her safety.
In Piedmont public feeling is calm, but con-
siderable discontent is reported to exi-t in Lombardy.
Orders have been transmitted from Vienna to Count
Giulyai to reinforce his garrisons.
The Vienna State balance-sheet for 1856 has not
yet been published, hut it is credibly stated that the
deficit is about 125,000,000t1.