The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-14 00:00:00

T H

WAR.

TURIN, FRIDAY.

The following bulletin is official :
" 600 Austrians on their way to Piacenza have ooca-
pied itivergaro on the river Trebbia. The head-
quarters are at Bobbio. The wounded have been
conveyed to Occimiano.

(svzxtzco).

The enemy are increasing their forces near Castel
St. Giovanni, on the road from Piacenza to Stradella.
They have constricted bridges near Vigevano and
Motta-Visconti to protect their retreat of to-day.
Oar soldiers have pushed forward a strong recon-
noitering party as far as Cascina-di-Stra 01, near
Vercelli ; and our artillery began cannonading the
enemy—which, however, was not replied to by
them.

Our troops have re-taken their former position.

The Piedmontese Gazette publishes three official
alletins—the 22nd, which hes been given by tele-

graph, and the following :
No. 23.—MAT 10, ZVI/MM.—TM enemy have evacuated
Livorno, Transom, Beath* Camels, and Salaried' in
such haste that is some places they have left behind the
provisions they had stated. ♦ telegraphic despatch from
the Intendant of Cassie sanctums that Vercelli has been
erecueted by the Amadeu. They began to retreat
yesterdsy at noon. Their pomp saris the Enda
eutinnied until half-past three. This morning the
enemy's troops stationed at Comm and Stropplans
withdrew in all haste. Yesterday thee was • strong
column there, commanded by four generals. Great conster-
nation was remarked awns the officers. Yesterday, another
Austrian spy woe orrested near Creeceatiao. Hs committed
suicide last night.
No. 24.—Matt 11, Monautra.—From intelligence just re-
ceived, It appease that the Almaden rase was still ►t Vercelli
yesteeday evening."
General Forey has addressed the following order
of the day to his division (advance-guard), dated
Oavi, 6th :
Soldiers of the First Division of the First Corps,—We
shall to-rocerow be In the first lee., end It is probable that
we shall have the honour of the Best engagement with
theesemy. Bereambre that your fathers have always beaten
that snotty, and you will do the same. Foley.
The Milan Gazette states that in the affair at
Fraarineto the Austrians consisted only of the
3rd battalion of grenadiers of the Regiment
Archduke Charles, under the ceders of
Colonel Baron Pachner, besides half a battery
of artillery and half a squadron of cavalry. It adds
that the troops fought with ardour, and had one
killed, two severely wounded and eight slightly ; and
thinks the Piedmontese must have experienced more
considerable losses, sinus during the night they
disappeared without leaving a trace behind. An
order of the day praises the conduct of Baron
Puchner and Lieutenant-Colonel Spielberg on the
occasion, who commanded the troops on horseback
during the fire.
The Augsburg Omits, in the course of some re-
marks on the operations of the Austrian troops in
Italy, observes:
Marshal Ginisy Is the more sure of meows by
waiting for as attack. He can, moreover, do so,
became he is muter of a part of the enemy's territory =SH-
ONA to supply his army with all the provisions It requires ;
because the enemy cannot by densenstrations compel him
to retreat ; and bemuse his army la the principal object
of the offensive 'siltations of the allies, who well be
forced to attack it. The Austrian army occupies a plain 30
league long by 10 wide between the Tkino, the foot
el the Alpe, the fleets end the Po. It is the most futile part
at Piedmont. This plea is traversed by • woke of streams
of water, ■nd le damp and cultivate] as rim pounds. Tea
Anetrians are, therefore, masters of • large epee* of the ter-
ritory of Piedmont, Dot containing any large towns, but in-
habited by a rural population of about 300,000 souls. They
have abundanee of corn and cattle, and the previous can
readily feed for three weeks as army of 150,000
mu. This supply of provisions is facilitated by the ma-
noeuvres of the Austrians, who moss the Bests and the Po,
occupy the bridges and passages, and ravage the *pantry.
Those movements have so other object than to levy contri-
bution' and to baron the enemy.

AUSTRIA.

EXPRESS FROM PARIti.

(710 N 001 owl

PARIS, FRIDAY EVESI:vo.
The Pairia observe. on the Emperor'. order of
the day that it "revives the best traditions of

military eloquence."
M. Granter de Ceasagnac says in the Pays that if
General Gynlai will only do the French army the
honour to wait for its attack between the Pled-
montese frontier and Milan, peace will very soon be
restored. He is persuaded that the enemy's
army must be u determined u that of
the French to bring the matter to a short end,
and therefore he reckons upon a very speedy detioi-
meat. The campaigns of Marengo and Ulm only
lasted a month each ; and if the French can only get
at the Austrians, he is persuaded that the present

one will not be longer.
The Patric and Pays ate both authorised to give
the most positive contradiction to a rumour circulated
at the Bourse to-day of ministerial changes at Berlin,
"in a sense hostile to the policy of France." They
add that the authors of this false news will
be prosecuted. Paragraphs of this kind ge-
nerally state that the propagators of false
reports will be punished "if discovered."
The present one is worded differently, for the rea-
son, as I am told, that some arrests have actually
been made of persons suspected of having originated

the rumour in question.
The Bourse was much affected by the false rumour
above alluded to, and sales predominated all day.
The Rents fell 750. for cult and 80e. for account,
closing at 611 r. eto. and 60fr. 800., being the lowest
prices of the day. Mobilier fell 22 fr. 500. The railways
lost almost all the ground that they had gained within
the last three days. Orleans fell 27fr. 500. ; Northern
25fr. ; Eutern,22fr. 50e. ; Lyons, 20fr. ; Southern and
Western, 12fr. 50e., each. Just as the bell rang for
the close of business the following notice was pla-
carded :
The Minister of the Interior to the Commissary of the
Bowie.
Contradict immediately the Mae rumour announcing a
change of ministry at Berlin in a sense hostile to France.
The effect of this was to produce a recovery of
about 160. in the =lime. Some surprise was ex-
pressed at the contradiction not having been given
sooner, and it was remarked that the wording of
the ministerial communication implies that there
may have been "a change" of sonic kind in the
Berlin government.
It is stated in a quarter exempt from liability to
prosecution for false news, that there is a rumour of
M. Pietri, the ex-prefect of police, being about to be
sent to Italy on a particular service during the war-
It is said that the effective blockade which Ad-
mind de la Graviere has gone to establish in the
Adriatic will only extend for the present to the
ooast of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom.
I mentioned last Tuesday when announcing by
anticipation the resuscitation of the eliding male of
corn duties, that M. Rouher, the Minister of Com-
merce, was personally an anti-protectionist. His now
unfortunately unavailing opinion is expressed
pretty strongly in a letter, dated May 11, to
the President of the " Society for the Defence of
National Labour," in which—speaking of the pro-
jected removal of absolute prohibitions—he says
that the Emperor's government was of opinion that
the time had arrived for inaugurating a " rhstime
adopted by all our neighbours, and more fitting for
manufactures, now become adult, than a system
of prohibition." In a spirit of conciliation
the government was prepared to sanction an
inquiry as to what precise amount of protecting
duties certain products might still require. This in-
qairy was to have commenced in October next, and
in 1861 a bill would have been presented for
the abolition of prohibitions. The govern-
ment, however, m►kes no difficulty in ad-
mitting that the recent complications of foreign
affairs render " the examination of the projected
customs reform inopportune." The inquiry
will not be proceeded with ; and, conse-
quently, the data of 1861 is no longer fixed for
the removal of the word prohibition from the tariff.
The Constitittiomsel rejoices exceedingly at the
happy deliverance of commerce from the dreaded
date of 1661, and expresses a hope that the mum-
&maven, "out of gratitude to the government,"
will make every effort to keep their looms in fall
work. There is a moral in this recognised incom-
patibility of war with reforms which will not be
lost in England.