The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-16 00:00:00

WAR MOVEMENTS.

It is known (says the Paris Press.) that the
Aistrian military operations are planned at Vienna
by the Anlio Council, and that the generals execute
them, nth as they are, with scrupulous exactitude.
The orders and counter-orders are often inopportune
in their arrival and doubtful in their meaning, as was
the case so frequently daring the Italian wars at the
close of the last and the beginning of the present
century. In 1849 it was only the obstinate deter-
mination of Iladetaki to remain abut up in Verona,
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notwithstanding the repeated orders from Vienna
enjoining him to fall back upon the Tyrol, which
saved the situation of Austria in Italy.
The Indipendente of Turin states that a female
spy has been discovered in that capital by two of
Garibakli's soldiers.
At Tortona (we read in the Turin correspondence
of Le Nord) the pillage by the I.llllane has been in
every way worthy the soldiers of Attila. The
shops have been broken into and rifled, and
the Croats have carried off all the cattle
they could find. At Ines, in the evening, these
Vandals marched howling through the streets,
and fired off their muskets at the doors and windows.
The Bishop has had a ransom of 15,000 franca im-
posed on him ; some say of 35,000 francs. The offi-
cers regard all the actions of their men with the
utmost indifference. At Castelnovo, Salvia, Vises-
solo, and Pontecurone the same exactions and the
same acts of vandalism have been perpetrated.
Doubtless it is to chronicle these honourable successes
that the Austrian Gazette publishes the following:
" Our troops are highly satisfied with the recep-
tion they have met with from the Piedmonteee people.
At the same time how admirable and exemplary 1.1
the discipline of our army."
A letter in the Priem bean oat the statements
above quoted, and adds:
The following Is a recital of what took place in one day at
Tomas. At half-past eight in the moraleg the Austrians
eotwed the town, and Installed themselves is the castle. Tee
officers went to the authorities of the commune to demand
60,000 rations and provisions and forage. Be far things went'
ea with a certain degree of order, but soon 'Der a squadron
of hussars lamed from the cottle, and proceeded in different
direct ors, pistols in hand, and caurieg alarm among the
people. Every me ran to his house or shop in order to
close it, but in the twinkling of au eye tends of soldiers ap-
peared on all aides, and prevented them from so doing, while
the sub-officers, wan blows end threats, commenced the
work of pillage. Tee public bakshooss wan rifled, and hun-
dreds of nets of deur and own, end all the money that
could be found, were carried off, and stables sod oowhousee
erstieding sof
way to I:tellrain.lnmeveztetereen to.m.ighetts seen
orse. ynro,tigs.
evening they went through tea tows in a slate of into:toe-
tion, discharging their pistols against the doors and winter's,
and uttering imprecations against the inhabitants.
A letter from Genoa of the 10th, in the &eels,
Gaye :
On returuing from Turin I stopped at Aleasaadris, where
I saw about 60 Austrian soldiers who had been made psi-
wows in engagements of wivanoed poste. These unform-
nate fellows were in a pitiable state, scarcely clothed, and
some of them without shoes. They preiewed a melancholy
e. If all the army of Francis Joseph is like this ape-
-1:"1
..we can undwMand the requisitiout mobs:Mos, rob-
beries, and pillage of the Mode of Gyulai.'
The Pays attributes the retirement of Count Buol
to the growing influence of the war party in Vienna
represented by Feld-Zeugmeister Baron de Her and
Count de Grunne, the Emperor'. Grand Rouyn. It
is believed that Count de Buol was opposed to the
sending of the ultimatum which was the proximate
cause of the present war; and it is asserted that the
Emperor now imputes to hint the delay which pre-
vented the Auitnan army from marching upon Turin
before the French arrived.
The new minister, Count de Rechberg.Rothen-
lceven, who quits the presidency of the Frankfort
Diet to take the office, was ad lotus to Marshal
Redeteki in 1848 as civil governor of Lombardy, a
post analogous to that now held under General
Gyulai by Baron de Bulberg. There is a rumour
that General Gyulai has already been superseded in
his command by General de Hess, but possibly there
is no authority for the report beyond a Vienna letter
in the National Gazette of Berlin, which spoke of
the nomination as being hourly expected.

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

Glow OUR ITECIAL
TURIN, MAY 11.
Since my last letter no great changes have cc-
c•rred either in the French or Piedmontese posi-
tions. The head-quarters of King Victor Emmanuel
are still at San Salvatore. Generals La Marmon and
Niel, who command the 4th French corps d'anntie,
are with him. The 3rd °ups d'ertnee, under Mar-
shal Canrobert, is still at Alemandris, but whilst I
am writing it may have received orders to move in
the direction of Norms, where the Austrians are eon-
sentrating themselves since their main body retired
from Vercelli yesterday at coon, after having left
companies of riflemen in guard of the tete-de-pont
they have erected. General Mac Mahon, at the
head of the 2nd corps d'armee, moved on Saturday
towards Ivrea, a town on the Dora Belles, in the
extreme left of our line, which wee menaced by an
Austrian body of 4,000 men, marching by the road of
Seers. This body belongs to the 3rd corps d'armes,
which forms the right of their powerful army. The
people of the town were ready to defend themselves,
animated u they were by thespirited proclamation of
Sig. Pecchio, a distinguished Vicentine lawyer, who
has been appointed CommissarioStraordinario in that
province. The march of the Austrians in that
quarter had greatly &termed the good people
of Turin, when they were told by the official bul-
letin, which is printed twice a day, that the avant-
garde of the enemy bad !reached as far as Cigliano,
a small town twenty-four English miles from their
capital. This tear has now, however, altogether
vanished, since the news received this morning
leaves no doubt that the Austrians are tally retiring
from their former positions, shortening their too-
extended lino by concentrating on the Po, which, as
you know, seems likely to be the base of operations
of the forthcoming Austrian movement.. The
growing strength of the French and the determined
attitude of the Piednionteee have no doubt warned
General Gyulai to change his mind; and I have rea-
son to believe that he has received orders from Vienna
which instruct him to act strictly on the defensive.
On Sunday morning, before leaving Aleaeandria,
I went to visit • Piedmontese officer who belongs to
the Cialdini division. I arrived just in time to follow
en amateur this gallant general officer on a rather
dangerous errand. He had been instructed to make
a sortie from Casale and bring back some news from
the Austrian lines. About 4 o'clock we started, but
for three mils* not an enemy was to be seen. As
we moved slowly on, with • green field on our right,
four horsemen rose suddenly above an elevated
ground, which from the left ran towards the river we
had crossed. One of these men appeared to be an
officer of the staff. The others were Kaiser Halm
Dragoons. After a while two of them retired
flourishing their lancer, pointing them at the bersa-
glieri, who were advancing on their left. The
officer retained his position, and was soon
the cynosure of neighbouring eyes. He was
about half • mile from us, and through a good
telescope which I bought before leaving London,
I could watch his every action. He rode slowly
along the bank of a narrow stream taking notes
with great calmness in • memorandum-book. He
wore • dark green tunic with golden stars on its
collar, a cocked hat surmounted with feathers of the
same colour, sod a pair of gray trousers. As General
Cialdini was advancing with the main body of his
men the two Helene come back with some others, and
spoke to the officers, who speedily left the spot. At
the same time we could see before us on oar right a
dense cloud of dust, and bear distinctly the report of
rifles continued without interruption. We hastened
our march, and in half an hoar the Piedmontese
column met an Austrian convoy of 64 oxen, 283
cows, 103 calves, 2 sheep, and 10 horses, all which
had been taken by the Austrians from various
farms of the Lomellina. The booty was
osrried triumphantly into Casale amongst the
acclamations of the people. Another bold exploit
was accomplished by Garibaldi on the night of
Friday last. General Cialdini had been informed by
his spies that at daybreak General 03 ulai intended

to make a reconnoissance in person on Casale. He
ordered Garibaldi to be on his guard, and the feet
proved that the informatioa was fully correct. At
3 o'clock on the morning the Cacciatori dell' Alpi
met the advanced guard of Gyulai, 1,000 strong.
The courageous volunteers fired their rifled, and
boldly rushed on the Austrians with the bayonet.
The Croats could not resist ; nor, indeed, did they
attempt to do so. They turned at once, and speedily
took to their heels. After this gallant exploit
nothing occurred in that quarter worthy of notice.
Firing of attaist-postes is going on every day.
It is quite clear the two armies are preparing for a
great battle ; there are plenty of soldiers for the pur-
pose. If lam rightly informed, the allied army can
already master not far short of 300,000 men ; the Aus-
trians 200,000. If you were to believe all the rumours
which are afloat in Genoa and Turin, you would at
once admit that the Austrians are carrying on a war
of plunder and extermination. There are facts which
are enough to disgrace the Austrian army for ever.
The barbarous behaviour which, according to Pied-
montese newspapers, the Croats have shown daring
the occupation of Tortona, is inch that I think it my
duty to visit, If possible, that town before assuming
the painful duty of bringing them before the English
public. I shall do so in my next letter. Austrian
spies are passing in the allied camp at every moment.
The day before yesterday two were caught near
Valeuza, and two at Bobbio. These last are a
Doctor Panda Verdi and a Marquis Riva, from
Mantua. They are going to be tried by a court-
martial in Alessandria, and it guilty the fate of Dos-
ser awaits them.

(I,lolt A

GENOA, NAT 11.

--
Her Majesty's man-of-war Orient left Genoa the
day before yesterday, and the Terrible has taken her
place. The Terrible, which came from Malts, is
commanded by Captain Frederick Glue, a very in-
telligent offloer, who, I hope, will fully understand
how the policy of your ministers has rendered the
name of England very unpopular in this country, and
act accordingly. It is the duty of our naval officers
to soothe, by their conduct, the wound that Lord
Derby has opened in every Italian heart. This
shameless policy, which, in my opinion, is the die.
grace of free and noble England, is carried
on with an impudence which seems almost incredible.
You may judge it by this fact. Two days ago her
Majesty's ship Conqueror, 101, arrived in the port
of Leghorn without saluting the national flag. Com-
plaints were made by the local authority, when the
captain's answer was that he acted according to the
. instructions he had received from his government.
A telegraph was sent to Marquis d'Azegflo, to ask
explanations, when the answer of Lord Malinesbury
was "that the new Florentine governinemt did not
appear to him strong and established enough to be
recognised by England." After these facts, what
' wonder if the English name is not very highly
spoken of, and if our influence is quite gone in the
peninsula.? May the new parliament put things to
rights.

AILEPfAL Or THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.—Hie
Excellency Count de Persigny, the successor of Marshal the
Duke de Malakoff as atobanador of Force at the Court of
St. haws's, arrived in London shortly after eleven a.m. on
Saturday from Parts, accompanied by the Countess de Per-
sissy. Owing to some necessary repairs at Albert-gab
Howes. which will °envy probably three weeks, his ex-
cellency and the Countess Peraissy intend, in the meantime,
to tell= at Wallace's Hotel, St. George's-place, Knights-
bridge.
A Paris correspondent of the Nord says :—" The
Emperor Napoleon, a few days before he left Paris, &debtorl
a letter to Queen Victoria announcing his approaching de-
parture, and repeating his promise to take no step daring the
war that might compromise the interests of England or the
general security of Eurciie. Priem Albert, In replying to
this letter, in the name of her Majesty, declared that the
English government continued to rely on the spirit of mode-
ratios of which the Emperor has already given so many
proofs."
The Colombo Examiner notices the success of the
pearl fishery at Aripo. The oysters were selling at 61. to
W. 10e. per 1,000, sad money was abundant. Bates, the
chief of the European divert, was under water for three
hours. The operations of the European divers ace expected
to produce very beneficial results, both fn the discovery of
new banks, and in determining the age of the oysters.
Mr. Henry Drummond Woolf, private secretary
to Sir Edward Lytton, is named so Government secretary at
Corfu, in succession to Sir Thomas Bowen, who is appointed
governor of the new colony of Queenaland (Moreton Bey),
la Australia.
TES REPORT OF SUBCOMMISSION OF THE PRUS-
SIAN CHAMBER or DEPVTIIII.—Tbe /MIMI of this import-
ant document given In Tburiday's Bs t, from the
National Garotte of Berlin, had been partially saticipated by
Ls Nord, respecting whose version the Paris journal La
Prim says that it le, noteithstanding its length, incom-
plete. In giving the tree text from the official Berlin paper,
La Awn observes We find in the new version en ex-
plicit and loyal condemnation of Austrian policy, the mane as
in the former abstract; and the opinion, moreover, in strongly
expressed that Preen and Germany are not in any way con-
cern= in the este, the MIMS, and the successes of Austria
in Italy; but vs find also Insinuations which ought not to be
pelmet over. If it wire possible to abolish facts by rp-
their publkity we should restrict ourselves to the
Cpe"elrZ vend= of this document given by Le Nord; but
we marl such tactics as vain end puerile. The people of
this day may justly demi= to know what is paring around
them."
ME. C. GATAIf Durry.—We understand that
his Exceltency the Governor bee accepted Mr. Duffy 'a
resignation of his odic, of Commissioner of Lends and
Survey, and that that gentlemen hal consequently cased to
be a member of the administration. The circumstances
which have I. d to Mr. Duffy' s realigned= are of a resonal
said cot of a political character. They appear to be of the
=tore usually described by the prate squeal:lrd-
betty of temper." As far as we have been able to leant,
there has been no single specific tulles of disagreement,
bat rather a emir of nnplessantnerse, each in itself trifling,
but sufficient in the aggregate to Warier with the harmo-
nious action of the executive. Mr. Hoene ken undertakes
the duties of the Land Office until a successor to Mr. Duffy
has been appointed, and we have Sot yet heard the name of
any gentleman as likely to fill the vacant place. As Mr.
Daffy's secession has not been cared by any political differ-
ence, and as be is, In common with his late colleagues,
distinctly pledged to the mininerial lend policy, we proms
that he will continue to give to the present ministry his per-
liamentary sapport.—Afelbourne Arra, March 18.
A SHIP ON FIRE.—A fire broke out yesterday out
board the Thames, Captain Callender, lying in Brunswick
Dock. This vessel had attired the pre us day from
Savannah, Wee with about 1,800 bales of cotton and 230
piece. of pitch pine. She was partially discharged,
when, about five o'clock In the morning of day named,
smoke was seen to is.us from the after-hrch. Information
befog given to the authorities, Mr. Hewitt was soon on
the spot, with his engine and fire-brigade, followed by
Mr. Barrett, with the West of England, and a number of
trendies of hose were coon laid down, commusicating with
the vessel. Some difficulty, however, was expertencaxl in
reaching the fire, and put of the deck was therefore cut
away. She wee then hauled out of the dock into the rein,
to prevent the fire spreading among the other shipping, and
for greater facility in conducting operations. A copious
stream of water was poured in; the leading officials connected
with the police fermi sad Bra brigade being present daring
the greater part of the day, and the fire was subdued with
the almost possible despatch. About five o'clock in the
Almon all danger had passed, the c trgo being than coveted
with water, end the engines acooringly Wt. The only
gunpowder on board coneisted of a small resister full, which
was speedily removed on the alarm having bees raised. The
ship was consigned to Messrs. Contwor* Boyd, and Co.,
of this town.—Liter pool
SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER. —On Saturday
afternoon Inspector Dann, of the P Divlaloa sooompsnied
by another officer, proceeded to the hoses of Mr. Bergin, a
twine of languages, residing at No. Hi, Camden-greet, Cam-
imereere,_Centberwell, and requested to me his daughter.
L. teeth Berle, aged 33. Upon gaining admission they
at sacs taxed the latter with baring been delivered of •
child is the year 1857, and icformed her of their suspicion
lel its b-log belied is the back yard. The officers prooeedtd
loth the yard, and after removing some mould outside the
hark door they came to a thick layer of lime, undenmeth
which they discovered the remains of a male child, the lime
having
u=sithesre der portion of the fl. eh. The remain*
were sp and conveyed to the dead house, and the
woes= was at owe arrested on the charge of willul murder.
It appesm that in the montit of October, 1867, ohs was de-
livered eta Ilse male child. Dr. Denny, who attended her,
dterwarele car at the house, and wee lafeemei that the
infant was trivia( excellently, bat be arse not allowed to
see it. He sabsequently west to vaccinate the treat, but
was then told that ash was illegitimate, to prevent disgrace
falling upon the family it had beam sent to wet-nurse
into the country. Nothing more mem known tithe child,
Bra sere care a salpiction seasethat it had been inu
sad bladed in the germ, and the matter was placed is the
hands of the pollee, sad the above has been the rendte
Whr the body was token out it was bound that the lime had
been pro= rent two het below it, and it was covered care-
fatly with a cores cloth, asd a quantity of lime. The pi-
sonar admits being the mother of the infant. An inquest
will be held on the body this day.