The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-25 00:00:00

ITALY.

We have received from our Paris correspondent
intelligence dated Alexandria (Piedmont), the 19th
inst. A special courier is said to have reached that
fortrens from Milan, which he had left on the
18th, with news that on that day an insurrec-
tion had broken out against the Austrians. Re-
detski had mined the palaces and the cathedral,
and threatened to blow them up. This did not, how-
ever, prevent the exasperated people from attacking
the military. Several lives were lost, and the whole
city rose in arms. The tocsin was sounding from
every tower, and complete confusion prevailed.
Tie despatches of our Paris correspondent, received
sines the above was in type, contain no con-
firmation of this insurrection.

The Concordia, of Turin, of the 20th contains
a report of the sitting of the Coamber of Depu-
ties of Turin of the 191. The Minister of the In-
terior read a discourse containing the following state-
ment as to the Anglo-French mediation between
Austria and Northern Italy :—lst. The bases of
the propositions made by England and France
are not yet accepted by Austria, and, after
two months of diplomatic discussion, the place
el holding a congress is not yet fixed.-2nd. The
ermisties Is prolonged from eight days to eight
days. 3rd. If the mediation shall not succeed, the go-
vernment is ready to resume hostilities, but it alone
will be the judge of the time and opportunity.
Austria (added the minister) has only temporised
refusing all propositions made to choose a place
far negotiations. Innspruck has been
but Austria has not yet replied. ski
has failed in the conditions of the armistice. The
ministry have made remonstrances, which have
beset enpported by the mediating powers, but no direct
newer imu been received from the cabinet of Vienna.
bound
tiovernment of the king then declared, that,
by ita promise, it had waited the issue of
the mediation but with its hand on the guard
of its sword. The mediating powers had pro-
posed a prorogation of the armistice for 30 days.
Austria had replied that she would not attack if she
were not attacked. Hostilities were not to be re-
SWIM without notice.

&hatpin°, of the 20th, publishes
a letter from Modena of the 15th, which eye greet
emotion existed in that city, which was declared in
a state of siege, owing to an insult offered to an
Austrian.

The Concordia of Turin, of the 20th, contains a
report of the sitting of the deputies on the 19tb, in
which General Daticemida, minister of war, gave an
account of the messures he had taken. He had bought
arms, stzengthenel Genoa andAlessandria,establiehed
a tete-de-pont at Casale, but given up the project of
the defence of Turin. The Piedmontese army is
150,000 men strong, well clothed, instructed,
organised,. and animated with the best spirit.—Brof-
ferio haying proposed that the cabinet should not
wait for the issue of the mediation to recommence
the war, the Minister Pinelli answered that the cabi-
net had taken energetic measures to force Austria to
decide quickly whether she accepts the mediation or
not. Gen. Durando had been named vice-president
of the Chamber by 69 votes out of 134.
We learn from the Piedosontem Gazette of the 20th,
that °slop capitulated on the 13th, on the most ho-
nourable terms. Advice. from Rome announce that
Gen. Zombi has definitively accepted the portfolio of
war. It is said the Austrians have evacuated Ro-
vigo, and that the Italian authorities had been estab-
lid there.

11Conatigiioisak Subalpino, of the 20th, states that
an insamotica had lately broken out at Saint Donata
and La Matta, in the Venetian territory.

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