The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

THE iBILF4IESIEL. FRIDAY 1011110t0, OCTOBER 27, 1848.

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We fear Sir Huai hi/ too soon abandoned the
policy which the iniprunies of this scene induced him
to esatswiate if not. Wood, to adopt. It was int-
pootble that either the peevincial or napeeial govern-
meat amid resegnise the imispendosee of these people;
bat, on the ether bawl, tbs. was nothing to be gained
by sztarezgtios, ea immediate express decla-
ration of They might have been allowed
—they were, indeed, led to believe that they would
be allowed—to remain on their settlements without
any such declaration being exacted from them, and
without any immediate active interference cm
the part of the British government. But •
annunseioner was seat among them to regulate land
teams, and magistrates for the district nominated by
the governor before three months had elapsed ; ands.
'detests force wassent to supporttheseofficials. When
the ban were they interfered with none of the
eekslets, and if left to themselves they, or at the
SAWA their children, as settlement extended round
dna. would have applied of themselves to be incorpo-
mid into the colony. The prospect of any such
aggrozimafion on their part is now removed to an in.
=distance, and the chance of their being
by the strong hand is extremely slender.

Tr men looked torealitits, and not to appearances, the
visit of the Parisian national guards to the Mansion-
hones would be regarded as an event of greater im-
portance, and a much more sterling evidence of the
existence of an extents cordials, than the celebrated
entertainment some years ago given by the City to the
then King of the French. The civilities that pass be-
tween sovereign and sovereign, and the homage
offered by great municipalities to visitors of royal
rank, are, after all, but precarious signs of Interna-
tional harmony : they are sometimes even ominous, as
resulting from the efforts of supereubtle diplo_matists
to get up the semblance of a cordiality which they I
are painfully conscious can have no real basis. Not
so the spontaneous courtesies—the testimonies of
sympathy and regard offered by a people to visitors of
their own rank in life, gratifying their neighbourly
curiosity without bustle or parade ; and yet repre-
senting in their garb and demeanour the national in-
terests of which they are the constitutional protectors.
We were highly gratified with the proceedings at
the Mansion-house on Wednesday. Our only regret
was to find no mention of any refreshments having
been offered to the LORD MAYOR'S guests. Perhaps, in-
deed ,there was not time to make the neoessuy arrrange-
ments,though the'resoaross of the establishment are so
vast, that a very brief notice ought to have sufficed.
A matter of graver import, and a much more
serious impeachment of our character as a people—a
circumstance likewise certain to make an unfavour-
able impression on our French visitors—is the at-
tempt made by two of the Grenadier Guards, one of
our showiest and most dashing regiments, to rob the
strangers, to whom they were supposed to be render-
ing the courtesies du from one army to the other,
and whose interests they had specially undertaken to
protect. That our visitors could not be one hour in
the City, or pass up the river in a steamer, without
being victimised by the swell mob, is bad enough in
limit. Paris pickpockets in such a case would per.
haps have bad a feeling for the national honour,
and turned elsewhere for victims. But the shabby
dastardly filching of the change of half-a-sovereign
from guests of their own profession, and whose igno-
rance of our language and usages left them at their
mercy—and that by privates of one of our crack
corps—alas ! it is difficult for UP, habituated as we
are to the lax morals and mean ideas of our soldiery,
to form any conception of the unfavourable impression
which this little incident, widely repeated as it will
be, will make on oar continental neighbours. Diffi-
cult as they find it on most occasions to enter into our
insular peculiarities, the peculiar constitution of our
army, and the degraded habits of • large pro of
our troops, are the lest thing which they. dbe ex-
pected to excuse or amount for, by referring to analo-
gous evils among themselves. In no country in
Europe, except our own, are the armed defenders of
the country recruited from the idle, the profligate, and
the destitute, to the extent which unfortunately pre-
vails in England. A large sprinkling of reckless and
desperate characters there will be in all armies. Bat
the great body of the soldiery in other coun-
tries have coonexions, education, associations and
hopes, which if it does not prevent them from
falling into occasional excesses of violence and
debauchery, is at least sufficient to place them
above the commission of such mean and
degrading thefts as that to which we have alluded.
Even where the origin of the recruits is equivocal,
and their previous habits corrupt, yet from the feeling
of honour and self-respect which attaches to the uni-
form—which the constant presence ofa large proportion
et upright and intelligent members has every where
punted in the ranks—an esprit de corps prevails
whisk sobers the effervescence and restrains the cupi-
dity of the lust conscientious recruit. Look at the
en
reeing 41 Paris, the most alert and ingenious rogues
Wm once
s, and see how,enrolled as Garde
Malik they are exalted into heroes and gentlemen
with a sew of duty and responsibility, of
would
as well ea national self respect, which forbid
the most reckless of them to repeat, at least on a guest
and a foreigner, any of the tricks in which, before his
enlistment, he was possibly a dexterous proficient.
For in France, and in most other parts of the
continent, the army is not, as with us, a mere de-
partment of the public service, but it is an integral
portion of the nationality and the public opinions of
the emintry ;intimately connected with,and constantly
interchanging members with all classes of society ;
is treated accordingly with respect, and looked upon
with pride and affection by the whole people. Any
extraordinarily mean act on the put of any indivi-
dual of • body so trained to pride and self-respect, is
considered to reflect disgrace, not only on the service,
but on the whole nation to which the offender be-
longs. Such • crime is recorded and commented on as
awillbadbe trait
tofmpreanationalon
which
; this
theft and such
our grenadier guard will make in the Parisian air-
clee in which it will be repeated, as not the least un-
accountable of the marvels of this great metropolis,
which the progress of locomotion has brought within
fourteen hones' journey of its rival on the Seine.
Far be it from us to misrepresent or exaggerate
the backsliding, or delinquencies of the privates of
our army. But this theft on the national ik
we are sorry to say, nuns: an isolated ind guard iums
the prevalence, at least in certain corps, of a herfel
amount of profligacy and crime. Robberies com-
mitted by soldier, are very frequently recorded is
our columns. And the circumstances that transpired
at the trial of Asians MEYERS were indicative if
the existence in the ranks of a clue of wretches, ecsa.
pared with whom the mere thief is a respectable
character. It is high time for public opinion to take
these things seriously to heart, and demand a search-
ing inquiry into the circumstances which make the
British moldier so reckless of his personal and profes-
sional character. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT and Mr.
Fox MAIILE deserve the greatest credit for the re-
forms they have introduced. The means of ethics-
tion and recreation placed within the soldier's reach ;
the shortening of the term of enlistment ; and last,
though not least, the prohibition of the sale of spirits
at the canteens, are very
.valuable reforms; so far as
they go. But much remains to be done; and the good
intentions of the SECRETARY-AT-WAR will not be the
less likely to be realised, by the expression of a whole-
some and enlightened public opinion. Not only must
the health and comfort of the soldier be cared for,
and his intelligence developed, but the old aristocra-
tic obstacles to the reward of good conduct, bravery,
and intelligence, must be swept away. The insolence
and prejudice which aristocratic privileges and luxu-
rious habits have generated in the great mess of our
officers must be got rid of. According as the respect-
ability and intelligence of the private increase—and
under the new system they are certain rapidly to in
crease—the chances of promotion must be thrown
open to him; and genius and ambition given that
opportunity to rise in the army, which it is the pride
of Eneland, and the guarantee fre the stability of our
institutions, that they are denied in no other pursuit.
Nor is it in promotion alone that we must abandon
the present system which crushes the private down,
and makes him reckless of himself and of the future.
We must learn to be just in all our dealings with the

If be belong to a cooqueing may we mast
Sim his fair shore of prise mew a sot pamper-
' unalesse esereanden with oar
et every helgaSlies of booty that the eoklier's
se well so the seamen Mil has aided in win-
; bit ealeklidainaventeprbeelple efpmdismarkish
it nod= a fak Gamma tar tie enpeder ell-
positka sad claims, shall divide the aratrity
and set the Minority of the booty woo, between the
subalterns sea-commissiooed officer., and privates,
*hoes peenniery need is greatest, and whose compen-
sations either in promotion or in renown are scanty
and precarious.
Let a reform of this kind be carried out. Let fair
wwith
be shown the soldier in all the nation's dealings
ith him. Let him be enlisted on a fair understand-
ing, and not by trickery and cajolery ; let him have
fair play, to rise and be rewarded, so long as he is in
the army I and a fair opportunity of leaving it, alter
a reuinable period of service. Let all degrading
punishments be abandoned; treat the soldier as a
rational, responsible, and respectable being, and not
u a slave and a knave, and he will develop his cha-
racter and shape his demeanour accordingly. Give
him what the French soldier has, the privileges and
the rights of a gentleman, and it need not be doubted
but he will grow as sensitive of his own and of the
national honour u the Fowl soldier proverbially is.
Let this be done, and we shall no longer have to blush
for such savage and inhospitable larcen7 as that which
the other day dimmed the Grenadier Guards, stained
oar national character, and insulted guests whom it
was the national wish and the universal impulse to
treat with attention and respect.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WM:ME:MAY, 6.30 P.M.
A decree was passed by the assembly yesterday,
the effect of which will he to restore to the Orleans
family, including Louis Philippe, their private pro-
perty, subject, of course, to the claims of their private
credtors.
Another scene of tumult and disorder was exhi-
bited in the Assembly to-day. M. Dufaare, Minister
of the Interior, in answering the questions put by M.
Orandio, in relation to the banquet of Sunday last,
alluded to the letter lately addressed to him by Prince
Louis on the subject of the expected etneute, and in-
timated that there were no grounds for any appro-
bation& This called up M. Pierre Napoleon, who was
sommeded by M. Clement Thomas, and a scene of con-
fusion and uproar ensued. Several members of the
Amiably now express their misgivings about the
policy of maintaining the Assembly so long a time as
wid be indispensable to pus the organic laws. It
is therefore probable that a proposition will be made
to dissolve the Assembly as soon as the law of elec•
dons and the judiciary system shall have been passed,
leaving the rest of the organic laws to be decided by
the regularly oonstituted legislators of the republic.
We read in the Bien Futile:
Several members of the National Assembly have bad the
idea of attempting a fssioa of the different shades of the
moderato party sincerely devoted to the republic, of the
shades disseminated at the present moment in the different
clubs of representatives, and embracing, likewise, a con-
siderable group of distinguished men who hitherto have not
formed put of any club. They commenced by convoking
a representative for each department. A first meeting took
place on Monday, ant was composed of about 50 members
of all the democratic fractions of the aesembly. A committee
of twelve members was named to definitively organise the
association, which, without sul stitutiog itself for the clubs
now existing, should have for object to draw together on
important occasions the moderate republicans of every shade.
The first question submitted to the deliberation of the new
meeting was that of the prorogation of the National Assembly.
It was decided that every sort of prorogation should be
opposed : let, because there might be danger for the public
tranquillity if the Assembly, which solely personified the
national sovereignty, separated a this moment; 2ndly, be-
cause, it the representatives proceeded to the departments, it
would be evidently to support one of the candidates for the
office of President of the Republic, and if the majority
agreed to support the same candidate, and the choice should
prove unsuccessful, the result would be to bring discredit on
the Assembly in the eyes of the people, and to place it in a
false position with respect to the Presidenti so elected con-
trary to the influence of the representatives; 3rdly, because
it was difficult to compose the permanent committee which
was to supply the place of the Assembly. Ii the committee
was chosen by tot, the selection might be dangerous • and, if
elected by majeiity, the minority would run the (tinned' of
not being represented. For these reasons the new club de-
cided against all prorogation.
THURSDAY, 11.30 A.M.
A meeting was held last night at the Rae de
Poitiers, which was numerously attended, and at
which a most unexpected resolution was taken,
amounting to nothing less than a reversal of the former
decision of the party in favour of the immediate elec-
tion of the President of the Republic. M. Mole
contended that the attributes given to the president
by the constitution were utterly incompatible with
those conferred on the assembly by the people, that
the co-existence of two such powers must lead to fatal
and disastrous conflicts. In fine, M. Mole insisted
that the present provisional arrangements should
be continued until the organic laws are passed
M. Thiers expressed his adhesion to the opinions of
M. Mole. M. Leon Faucher opposed this. He ad-
mitted the illogical nature of the position to be created
by the cooxistenos of two such powers as the Presi-
dent of the Republic and the constituent assembly,
but insisted on the election of the President never-
theless, as a matter of absolute political necessity.
The present provisional arrangements could not be
sustained. General Cavaignac had already formally
and positively declared his intention of resigning un-
less the election of the President should take place
immediately. The meeting finally divided on the
question, about two-thirds of the members present
voting in favour of the proposition of M. Mole.
I have learned from good authority that General
Cavaignac firmly adheres to his determination to re-
sign unless the President be immediately elected.
This question will come on to-day in the Assembly,
and a very animated and important debate is ex-
pected.
In conmequenoe of the division which prevails
among the ultra-democratic party in the assembly,
and the weakness consequent upon it, an attempt is
being made to produce more accordance in parlia-
mentary action, by uniting the parties of the Insti-
tute, Palais Royal, and the Rue Taitboat ; in other
words, by a coalition between the extremes of the
rtjusailM " Republicaine de la veille." A meeting
has been called to-day at 11 o'clock
in the old Chamber of Deputies.
The appointment of M. Trouve-Chauvel to the
Ministry of Finances apror in the Moniteur of this
morning, but the appointment of M. Recurt to the
Ministry of Public Works does not.
Last evening M. Matthien (de la Drome) gave
notice of a motion to issue notes of the Republic for
400 millions of francs, in amounts from 60 to 100
francs, these notes to be receivable in the payment of
taxes, and to be guaranteed by national property of
double their value, and to be declared a legal tender.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,
SITTING OP WEDNESDAY, OCT. 25.
M. OWIDIN ascended the tribune to put questions to the
ministry on the subject of the banquet which took place on
Sunday at the Barriers du Houle. He said that to drink a
toast to the lateistairs of Hlbeut, who were now in prison
waiting judgment, as M. Bac had done, was to pot% It out to
popular vengeance those who had repressed disorder for the
benefit of society. He spoke of the incendiary speeches
made in the dabs, of the agitation produced by the banquet,
made allusion to the plots which are brooding in the secret
societies, and demanded what the Minister of the Interior
proposed to do with regard to theme manifestations
M. Bao.—The banquets are not yet placed under regula-
tions like the clubs; the right of meeting in them is there-
fore undoubted. lie protested that his desire, and that of
his rty, was to propagate republican_ principles by pacific
means, in open day, in banquets of 2,000 guests. As to the
toast compbrined of, be did not deny it, but Franco had
always made a boast cl pitying victims, and lie could not un-
&intend why, under the republic, when a friend of a politi-
cal prisoner presided at a meeting, it could be criminal to
ei sy
em mpathy for him. The right of meeting belonged
will, of whatever shade of opinion, and their adversaries
Wahl an it if they would.
After a few words from M. Consort,
M. DIJTAIIIII, Minister of the Interior, delivered a speech
which was almost universally applauded. He stated that
exaggerated fears on the banquets, the clubs, the secret
publicwere entertained, which had the effect of alarming the
. of retarding the revival of confidence, as much as the
most disorderly demonstrations. He had prohibited all public
functionaries from attending the banquets, and he took all
measures to prevent any excitement being produeed by them
beyond the limits in which they were held. As to secret
societies the government did not fear them, and would sup-
press them if they dared to form them. It would not deal
less severely with certain other aeseciations, if they should
be transformed into secret societies Besides, the nquets
do not produce any active measures. The people understand
their inutility. M. Bee had made an empty boast when he
spoke of a banquet of 2,000 guests, for 6,000 tickets had been
distributed, which were sold at half price, and at last only
produced 1,100 guests. As to the note addressed to M. Ma-
rdian Louis Buonaparte, to which allusion had been made,
M. Dame stated that M. Buonaparte had shown him the
note, but he regretted that the latter had not thought fit
to add in his letter respecting it to the journals that the

•
Minister of the laterite had completely re-assured hue as to
the pretended conspiracy indicated in that note.
m. NAPOLEON BUONAVARTN mounted the tribune, bug
amidst cries from all parts of the Assembly of " The other, the
other," indicating that the Amenably wished to hear
Louis Napoleon himself, and not the son of King Jerome,
(the latter. however, kept his put. and after some thee he
succeeded In obtaining a partial hearing)—he said, " care
hue remised a mum of letters which prove that we were
assumed with an actuation of conspiring against the PS.
pahlkt."
in the emu of an address which appeared to produce by
no means a good effect on the Assembly. he so frequently
made me of the expreesion " we," as if he had been as*orieed,
to speak he the whole family, that an explosion broke from am
Mass, " Break ia your name ; what do you mean by saying
we —what authority have you to speak for others t"—des
estrum tumult took place. All eyes were directed to the
seat of M. Louis Napoleon Buonaparte. They who were
near it made a sign that he was absent.
M. CLEMENT THOWAP: A membrr of the Assembly hoe
boas called upon for an explanation, and another
son
has coma forward foe him. I can speak for rarer
and
neither the cabinet nor any of our colleagues us involved
in my remarks, the responsibility of which I entirely assume.
It is not the first tine that on the eve of important gue .
tions coming oa Citizen Louis Napoleon has absented bins.
self. There are in this hail persons who are about to ap-
pear before the country as candidates for very high functions.
M. NAPOLEON BUONAPARTZ.—How does that concern
you ? (Interruption.)
The PRIMIDENT.—I beg to call M. Napoleon Bonaparte
to order, and invite him to silenee. (Cries of " Very good.")
A violent tumult here ensued M. Clement Thomas **Q
in vein to obtain a hearing. MM. Pierre. Napoleon Batas.
parts, and Pietri are seen addressing him with violent gee.
_ _ _

M. Crammer THOMAS (in the midst of tke noise).—lt i
not by being absent at the moment of significant vets that
the esteem and confidence of the country can be gained. (In.
terruption.)
M. NAPOLEON BUONAPAISTE (with affectation).—Vely
goTTno PRESIDENT.—M. Napoleon Buonaparte, I call yea to
order. Your remarks are improper. (Numerous voice
" Bravo.")
M. CLesszwr THomes.—Since M. Napoleon Baonapute
is so well disposed to answer for his cousin—(lnterruption,)
M. NAPOLEON NUONAPARTIL—Everywhore and at any
time. _ _ _

M. CLEMENT THONIAII.—I would ask him whether it is
not true that his agents are going through Franco proclaim-
ing the candidateship of his mein ? I will ask him whither
this is not a fact, or whether he does not address himself for
that purpose to the least enlightened part of the population ?
If this be true, his candidateship is a most singular cee.
(Noise.) I would ask M. Napoleon Buonaporte with what
right he can present himself as candidate for the presidency
of the republic) (Renewed tumult.) I consider him m a
good citizen, but I say that in order to pretend to so elevated
a position real services must have been rendered. (Removed
and noisy interruption.)
M. Pizzas BITONAPARTI is seen togesticulate in themidst
of the group gathered round the foot of the tribune. He ad-
dresses the orator. Cries of " Order" are heard from all
sides. The tumult is at its height All the representatives
leave their benches and gain the group at the foot of the
tribune. Questions are pot front all sides in the midst of
the: noise. MM. Pierre and Napoleon Buonaparte retire
from the chamber. Cries from all sides for the order of
the day.
The Yanstrozarr—l suggest to the orator to COZlfillr him-
self to the question. (Cries of " Bravo," " The order of
the day.")
M.Cutintwr THOMAS—I think! have performed me duty,
and I hope the country will approve of it. (" The order of
the day.")
After a few words from M. GIXANDIN in the midst of the
noise, the order of the day was resumed, and after some
business the chamber adjourned.

Menem, OCT. 41.—Three par Cents, 18 3-16 1 paper ; after Bolus,
181 cash. Five per Cents, 91 paper; after Balm, 91 cash. Farms,
31 paper; after Bobs, 81 owls. Cour:ins, 51 paper. Bank of Bt.
Ferdinand, 44 peer. Essinnes on I s., 90 days, 49 63 cab.

ITALY.

Letters have been received from Turin, which an-
nounce that on the 21st the Chamber of Deputies
came to a resolution, by a large majority, in favour of
the prolongation of the armistice.
The Milan journals of the 20th have arrived, but
bring no confirmation of the reported insurrection.
The Sardinian ministry is reported by the Pied-
montese Gazette of the 21st to have replied, in
answer to the interpellations put to it in the sitting
of the 19th, that they had already said all they could
on the subject, and if it were wished to know
the intention of the cabinet as to the future, it was
this: either we will compel Austria to accept the
mediation on the basis accepted by us, or Austria
would reject the conditions and would attack as
Resuming the hostilities in our own defence, we
should have the aid of France, and which in such
an event is assured to ne, or if we should not have it,
we will pursue the war to the last extremity.
The following letter from our correspondent at
Turin, gives a picture of the state of things in that city
on the 21st :
TURIN, Oct. 21.—The parliament here opened on Mon-
day last, but the first three days were occupied in the swear-
ing in of new members, among which were the ministers
lately appointed ; and who were subjected to re-election and
other preliminary processes of internal regulation.
The election of the president, for the session, of the Cham-
ber of Deputies was the first feature of importance.
Dr. Vineentio (*inherit, the eminent philosopher and
I (sander of the Italian Confederatin, which continues gra-
eitr. and steadily to progress, wu elected to the
I • ntial chair by an oilmen unanimous vote, having ob-
mid 91 votes, none of kis competitors having had 10—in
a Amber compoeed of 140 members—showing that except-
limax•ae private and personal predilections, he had the
of the whole chamber, u he has, indeed, those of
the country in general.
The next feature of the new session was the interpellation
to be addressed to the ministers urn the motives of their
taking office, why they did not convoke the chamber
earlier, and what use or abuse they have made of the dicta-
torial power obtained on the occasion of the first reverses
eastained by the King. Several members were inclined
to call ministers to this account ; but the young deputy
Buffs has hitherto carried off the palm of eloquence, and
bids fair to have given the coup-degrace to the present
ministry, already in jeopardy by the virtual defeat they he/
sustained the day before in the election of the vice-prescient,
which their candidate only gained by a majority of eight.
As to the election of the President Gioberti, that was
considered only a matter of course, seeing the high
eethem'in which he is held by all parties ; yet that
also was a blow dealt to the ministry, when it is nub
bated that the ministers are the successors of this same
Oiobeni and his colleagues, all of whom have been in
position ever since. The Minister of War, Count da BormE
had in vain come forward with a statement of what
been done to put the army in a proper state to face the
enemy. The Minister of Finance bad in vain given an ac-
count of the measures taken in his department. The evident
tendency of the ministry to delay energetic measures
gave an immense advantage to the young deputy
whose name I have mentioned, and he accor-
dingly began his speech by at once waiving all secondary,
personal, and, as be termed them, ministerial considerations,
and jumping at once to conclusions, placed the real question
at issue, the only alternative which can be come to without
disgrace and ruin—war or peace—no intermediate measure.
Ministers had stated that they had only accepted the SG
justly reviled armistice, Salami (of the 9th of Aninst), as •
military fact, and not binding on their policy further than
as web. The young orator knew that this truce has
weighed upon the c• entry since its date, and that
be& hostilities could, according to its tenor,
foomed at a week's notice, there was little
asses of its not being maintained for months
longer with the present system and present ministers. He
then went into the subject of the present condition of the
country, and, in adverting to the only means of obtaining •
ofitionou of the Italian question without war, the eagle-
Teal* Eradiation or • French armed intervention, he said,
alluding to the former, that whatever hopes the Italians
might build upon some expressions dropped by Lords
Palmerston and Hassell, public opinion in England was far
from being favourable to the cause of Italy, and that the go-
vernment had been drawn into the mediation by France,
or rather to prevent that power settling alone the
question, and not from any deem to be favourable to Italy.
Nothing good, he conceives, is to be expected from
the Anglo-French mediation. Of the French interven-
tion he expects no result until the Italian army, under
Charles Albert, and the volunteers, shall have passed the
Ticino and taken the offensive, when France will feel
obliged to come to the succour of Italy, for honour's sake,
and to prevent a similar calamity to that which occurred
in August. He therefore concludes for war —bums-
dine war, and doubts not that if suoceuful Italy
will not need the assistance of France; if unsuc-
cessful, France will perforce come to its aid. The chamber
is now sitting, and if a vote is come to I will inform rzu of
its purport by this day's post ; if not, I will write again to-
morrow. Everything promises that it will be in favour of
war, and that vote will overthrow the peace ministry, and
place Gioberti at the head of the administration
P.S. I come from the Chamber of Deputies. The com-
mittees only are sitting, and the vote upon the question of
4ce or war will not take place till this evening. The poet
Cur is at hand—else I had much more news to give you. A
rumour has been in circulation since yesterday evening that
Milan was in insurrection against the Austrians. It is cer-
tain that a movement has broken out at Piacenza,
whereas at Milan and in other towns the Hunga-
rians have openly sympathised with the Italians.
They and the Croats are daily at loggerheads.
On the other hand, Austria, pursuing its insidious policy,
whilst it exacted the ecrupalous fulfilment of the fatal capi-
tulation signed by Charles Albert at Milan, on the sth of
August, and the yet more shameful truce ag equation
Sasso* on the 9th, demanded and obtained the
of Brescia, Peschiers, &c., and the withdrawal of the Pied-
montese troops and navy from Venice, have constantly de-
ferred restoring the cannon left by the Piedmontese at
Peachiera, and which was, by agreement, to be restored to
them. Though enjoined by the ministers of France and
England to abstain from ell attacks on the Piedmonteee or
Italian lines or towns, they have recently taken possession
of Otops, not it
after having failed in an attempt tort
possession of it by treachery. It capitulated on the 11th.