The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-19 00:00:00

ITALY,

SARDINIA.—The intelligent, wbich we published
several days ago, and which was stigmatised in one of
'he Louden riper, as groondleas and absurd, is offi-
cially an& mcd to-day in ihe Moniterr. The armis-
tice was denounced at noon, on th - 12th, at Milan,
and nearly at the same lime at Turin. Hostilities
were expected to be recommenced on Wednesday
next, the 21st. _ _

OD the 13th the Miuist• r of Foreign Affairs noti-
fied the denty.eiation of the armistice to the ministers
of France and England in a detailed note, explaining
the motives by which the cabinet of Turin had been
determined, or deemed itse'f obliged, to adopt this
course. After baring set out the military and politi-
cal realms which induced the resolution, M. Fen ari
concluded by s tying, that the mediation f France and
England woulobe more efficacious in future; wizen new
hostilities would have taught Austria the necessity of
treating on the basis of an bonsurable peace.
A letter from Turin informs us that the Disbuds
have been placed in the advanced ranks of the army;
at their particular &elm
A letter from Turin to the Pain'e of the 14th says,
"The King, yesterday, received the visit of Lord
Abercrombie, the British minister, who endea-
voured to arrest the King in the coarse he was
taking. The King answered him warmly, sod
newly in these terms: 'To please you, M.
Ambassador, I igned, last year, the armis-
tice at Salaam, which was a diegtace to me.
I stopped at the Adije, and submitted to a
mediation, which is charged as to me into a treason.
Since the 7th May our situation is intolerable. The
sacrifices which we bear are more onerous than war ;
aid 1 have still closed my esre to the sufferings of
the Lombards and the Venetian,. What have you
done for me? Nothing! for you would not even
interpose whin Anstalt violated the armistice. You
have, by your silence, approved these vi-lations of the
right of nations. Now that we are plunged in an abyss,
ought we to resign ourselves to remain in it?
" No! M. Ambassador no! I prefer teeing my crown
shivered by cannon bails to being hooted in the sir, ets.
At all evens, if I must succumb, my fall shall be
honourably for myself and my people.'
The same letter annotate:es, that M. Bois le Comte
Navin; presented himself to the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, received for reply, "It is too late. Major
Cadorma is gone to Milan to denounce the armistice."
We Dave letters this morning from Turin to the
14th. They add, however, nothirg of importance
to what is already known. The departure of
the King for the army took place at mid-
night on the 13th. He has no command in
the army himself, and appears in the uniform of
a Savoyard colonel. " The King (say these letters)
will be only present to give confidence and to
stimulate the courage of the army. The departure of
all the troops io garrison at Turin took place on the
morning of the 14th, and their poste were occupied by ,
the National Guard.

The city was in a state of great fermentation.
The streets exhibited a constant movement of troops
to and fro.

In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 13th inst., the
Minister Tocchio requested the president to convoke
the deputies for the following day, to hear e " very
important communication " for the two chambers.
MM. Mialey and Serra have left Turin for England,
to treat fur the loan.

The coram'elariat for the approachieg war is arid
to be thoroughly organised, so that there will be to
want of supplies. The Queen Maria Christina, widow
of Charles Felix, died on the 11th inst., at Savona.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, MARCR 17.
The debate upon the address in the first chamber
closed yesterday. A few verbal alb rations were pro-
posed in the sitting of to-day, togive the last touches ;
and the final motion to introduce a comma after cer-
tain words, characteristic of the punctilious precision I
of German senators, sifter calling forth a burst of
Homeric mirth, wss rejected.
The president announced that to his communication
of the wish of the Assembly to present the address,
the president of the council bad replied, in writing,
thet his majesty would receive the deputation to-
morrow, at noon. The address was then read. There
are two points only which deserve attention. The
constitution of December 6 is recognised as the fest
fundamental law of the realm, in terms slightly dif-
ferent from those used in the address-project of the
Second Chamber. The paragraph concerning the
German union is a decided expression of opinion on a
subject of such paramount importance that I give it
in full :
"The wishes cherished by his majesty for the inti-
mate union of all German states to a federal state,
live with equal strength in the hearts of the people. I
The contentment of the longing after a united Ger-
many is an inner necessity, sprung out of the deep-
bawd conviction that, before all spiritual and matei.al
questions which stir our fatherland, ones solved is
this union, the urgent needs of the German nation in
her administrative, industrial, and commercial life
will be in a way to be satisfied. This union will ele-
vate the German people to that greatness and glory
for which, by its situation in the heart of Europe, it is
especially flmmed and celled. The more the moment
urges to the realisation of this thought, the stronger is
the call on Prussia to give the most decided activity
to that willingness which she has evinced to co-operate
to that mid. Should the result fail, under present cir-
cumstances, to produce a union of all German states.
it will be impossible to refuse to Prussia the acknow-
ledgement that this unexpected issue has neither bees
brought about, nee avertible, by her. We shall, is
the formation of a narrow union within the federation,
recognise with 'satisfaction the commencement of a
progress in the sight direction towards the great goal;
and we will stand with all our might by the side of
your majesty's government in its efforts to overcome
all the opposing difficulties sad obstacles."
The tine of energy which characterises this pars-
-s better than any other sign the
strangth.—r— 7e opinion which prevails on this question in
the most important assembly in Germany, for the
Smog Chamber has adopted the same la I
told you that a jperagraph would be in aced into
the address-Ford of the Second Chamber, engaging
the Prussian king to accept the imperial crown if
offered. It is clear the formation of a narrow union
within the larger one in possibility, admits of no other
interpretation.
There can, therefore, remain no shadow of doubt m
to the strong desire of the Prussian parliament that
the problem of German unity should be immediately
solved by the King of Prussia becoming the head of
a Germany which does not include Austria. There is
**little doubt that in this desire the parliament are
backed by a vest majority of the nation. I speak net
as to numbers (for republican and socialist dreams
prevail, alas! widely), but as to position and influence.
Meanwhile, what is the king's will? If I may tract
what I hoar, he shrinks, with a feeling approaching
to terror, from an office which seems the completion
of a high political destiny. The king has been
brought up to look on Austria as the elder brother of
the German family. In his father's reign he was ae-
customed to see all diplomatic questions referred to
Metternich for eolnt'on, and the oracles of the Vienna
chancellor received at Berlin with reverential ne-
quiescence. Thus both the sentimental feudalism and
the educational prejudices of Frederick William IV.
incline him to bow the knee to Austria. On the
other hand, he resents the tone of dictation from BIL
Petersburg with es much pride as he oe-
°opts counsels from Mout: with humility.
But it requires little foresight to perceive that if he
would continue to be King of Prussia, be must dare
to be Emperor of Germany. There an be little
doubt that the King of Prussia has helped Austria to
create many of those impediments which have been