The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-15 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

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TURIN, JULY 11.
Although your correspondent at the Sardinian
headquarters is in a better position than myself for
sending you important particulars respecting the
armistice and the interview between the two sove-
reigns, which last is to take place thievery day, I have
nevertheless considered it rifht to tell you briefly
what people think of the crisis here in Yuen. The
general impression has been one of painful surprise,
and theydraw from the event a melancholy presage.
No one expected it, not even Count Calm, who set
out immediately for the headquarters of the King,
where he still is. It is generally believed that the
interview between the two Emperors would not have
been fixed if some kind of agreement about the
principal conditions of a future peace had not been
previously made. Some, indeed, profess to know
that Napoleon himself only a very few days
ago entertained no idea of a truce or of
pacific negotiations. What I am able to
state positively to you is, that be bad issued most
stringent orders fur the despatch of large reinforce-
ments to Italy, and in fact between the battle of
Solferino and this day, the troops landed at Penova
and those arriving front Suss cannot be leas than
sixty thousand strong, not to speak of the mathiel,
enormous quantities of which arrive almost hourly.
A person who has some dealings at the French Em-
bassy here heard it stated that when Napoleon saw
the imminence of a combined mediation on the part
of Russia, Prussia, and England,he thought it better
to forestall it, and come himself to a direct under-
standing with the Emperor of Austria. It has even
been affirmed, by men of high station, that Count
Cavour is much decried now at the French head-
quarters, where his policy is censured as savouring
too much of ambitious projecte. They add that
events in the Romagna have sorely displeased the
Emperor, in consequence of the false position these
put him in towards the French clerical party, which
is mancrating and intriguing to good effect about
the Empress Eugenie, whose religious zeal borders
rather closely on Spanish fanaticism.
Turin is rife with the rumour that when the
Emperor Napoleon returns to France he will take
this route and visit our city for the first time. All
Italians feel grateful to the liberator of the Peninsula,
but at this moment our minds, oppressed somewhat
with apprehension, would express with difficulty the
I feelings of joy. It is yet hoped that in its essential part
Napoleon's programme will be carried our, and that
Italy will he rid of Austria from the Alps to the
Adriatic. Nevertheless, however modest and re-
served the Emperor Joseph may be in his negotiations
for peace, it is quite impossible for him not to demand
the conversion of Venice into an independent arch-
duchy with an Austrian prince upon the throne, the
restoration of Modena, Ptlfllll4 and Tuscany to their
respective Sovereigns, and the integrity of the Pope's
temporal power.
Before this letter of mine can reach you the tele-
graph will have announced to you whether my con-
clusions are correct or erroneous ; natural lrgic, at
all events, compels me to acquaint you with them ;
it is a mental necessity that compels me to form
them. Napoleon 111. must be influenced by one of
two ideas—either be wishes to make a free Italy
capable of defending herself, in which case he ought
to permit the formation of a strong Subalpine king-
dom, able to bring 200,000 men into the field ; or
else he wishes to keep Italy always down, always in
need of French tutorship and guardianship, in which
case he will make Venice a distinct kingdom, and
reinstate the fallen princes in their several duchies.

(Melt 0171 SPICIAL 0011.111POWDENT:1
PIEDIIONTESE HEADQUARTERS,
MONZAMBANO, JULY 8.
I had just posted my Wednesday's letter when an
officer of the general staff, whom I met at the
duty little cart of this village, told me in a rather
mysterious manner that he had reason to believe so
armistice had been proposed.
Early next day I wade up my mind to ride
towards Valeggio, where I knew I should get more
correct information on the subject. And indeed I
had scarcely cruse,' the Mincio when I met a Pied-
montese general, who confirmed the news of the
preceding evening, and told me that an Austrian
commissioner was on his way to the Imperial
head•quartera of Valeggio, on the mission of
mottling this matter. On me reaching the
principal square of Valeggio, I fell in with
about twenty Austrian Hussars, who were escort-
ing a colonel of the enemy's staff. The personage I
had thus the good fortune to meet was a Boron
Karpen or Carfer—if the hussar of whom I asked SWITZERLAND.
the name was right in pronouncing it. The Am-
trian colonel was riding by the side of General The Federal Council having thought St to address
Fleury, who was likewise escorted by chanTurs of observations to the Sardinian government on the
the Imperial Guard. They rode together to the subject of the appeal to the Canton of Ticino to sepa-
pilaw of Count Gnarieoti from Verona, where the rate from Switzerland and join Piedmont, which
was lately posted on the walls of Milan, that govern-
headquartvrs of the French Emperor have been esta-
blished. lam not, of course, in a position to say meat has repudiated any connexion with the authors
what was decided at that meeting, fur the greatest of the document. The following is the reply sent
secrecy is kept, b ith here and at the French head- by the government of Ticino to the federal council
quarters about the negotiations. It seems, how- on the suect :
To suppose that this anonyms:t, appeal could find any echo
ever, certain that an armistice of forty days has been la
agreed upon by both the belligerent parties in order Theth;
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that diplom icy any be more tree to discuss the ha- Italian language, have numerous interests and points of °ve-
lum question at the Lapis rert of Downing-street or tact w.th tae tare whore 41041 is common to them, sod whom
of Berlin. they would fiin we, afire so many years of elevery and sof-
As you may easily imagine, the news of what teen,. ifT;
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an proud ift Heaven can
people here call the preliminaries of peace has bast show with frankness Lel sisouriti their sport:hies with the
received with great satouishment, boll by the Pied- It-lian p0.,14., thee are also proud of the name of Swiss, sad
minx ese army and by the people of Lombardy. No- as ettrb they ore deeply./arable of the dotiee which bind
body would have thought that Napoleon cowd give them to the in ,ther roinuy. Nor Is the 'tong attachment
of the Ticine. to the Conlederetion of recent date. Must
up the idea of thoroughly humiliatieg •a power which we, gentlemen, remind you tort on the 18th of Feb-
has always shown the greatest contempt for his par- wary, 1798, the population of ',pan, firmly Tau.
venu origin and for his dynasty. Besides this, the lag the blsodiehmrme and meose•s of the envoys of
Italians, who are such adepts in the art of self-tor- the Cisalpthe Republic, erected the tree of liberty
taring, are already busily engaged iu foretelling all Ito the market-p*w and crowned it, not with the
.Plirrnlatioucalb.,abtuttienieththe
sitar, of William Ten Pr
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cotta of ills ; and their readers imaginations tell
them that both the interestsof their chosen King and swmore remain united day.eith nitzetelandp?le ;reed we add
of Italy will be sacrificed by the European courts in that the populaticis beyond Mount Leneri cams to a similar
• congress. If we are to believe our coffee-house resolution f if the attachment to chit Coutedaratitm ea* so
politicians, the Venetian provinces will be handed strove end 'leonine le thaw. early Moue, when the Swiss
over to an Austrian archduke, who will shortly itialano ehaPriagwl'lgthhtet Tininess
tobte`„Z,ll,l7'r. I.ll'
prove to be nothing better than a second ed.tion of put that now—efts the laps, of bell le)cewury of fruliffil
Leopold of Tuscany. Others say the priesthood will liberty—the federal sentiment, i 116.0,1 rat aNalring strength,
govern, an it did before, the Romagna; others, that bee grown weaker? As the auffeinge experienced in
Florence and Modena will be compelled to take slavery tender the yoke of rhspouem more alma, no the
,scritiom atai angering.. onninred libeuty render ft
.dearer
Deck their unworthy printed, with the shame- sort more highly pane& e ors bound to add that hitherto
tel train of oniynons and spies. I do nut sus have ao nnin,ann of any attempt to ',mi., the project
ts-
know how far these rumours may be relied commended in the proclamation.
upon, hat what is certain is, that • compro- The Federal rode match at Zurich—the most im-
miss of such a nature would not answer the object of portant of those popular institutions by which Swit-
the war that Piedmont and France have so nobly zerland, without a regular army, keeps up the war-
and so triumphantly initiated. European diploma- like efficiency of her population—is still going
Bata may think what they like, but in my opinion no, and ()Diluting' to attract large crowds of Swiss
it is impossible to set Italy at rest if the Venetians and foreign visitor.. The subscriptions increased
are not called to partake of the liberties which have lately considerably, and at last amounted to
been already granted to their brethren of Lombardy. 110,W30fr., to be employed in the purchase of
To have an Austrian Prince in Venice, although sur- gold and silver articles, ornamented arms, &c., for
rounded byanational army and advised by a national the must uocsful competitor.. In addition to the
government, would be the same as having Viennese rifle match, a meeting of the Gymnastic Societies of
influence it; full work ; it would be the renewal of all Switzerland is also being held at Zurich, and
the present contest before two or three years can the best wrestlers of the different cantons take part
eloper. With the bed example that, ether 1816, is the centeat.