The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN DEMAND UPON PIRDNIONT.

COUNT BUOL'S LITTER TO COUNT CAVOUR.
The following is the text of the Austrian ultima-
tum, being a letter from Count Boot to Count
Cavour, dated Vienna, the 19th :
" The imperial government, your Excellency is
aware, hastened to accede to the proposition of the
cabinet of St. Petersburg to assemble a congress of
the live powers, in order to seek a way of removing
the complications which have arisen in Italy. Con-
vinced, however, of the impossibility of entering
with any chance of nooses upon pacific delibera-
tions, in presence of the clash of arms and warlike
preparations carried on in • bordering country,
we demanded the placing of the Sardinian
army upon a peace footing, and the disbanding of
the free corps or Italian volunteers, preparatory to
the assembling of the congress. The government
et her Britannic Majesty found this condition
so jut and so conformable to the exigencies of the
situation, that it did not hesitate to adopt it, declar-
ing itself ready to insist, conjointly with France,
upon the immedinte disarmament of Sardinia, and
to offer it in return a collective guarantee against
all attack on oar part, and to this it was well under-
stood Austria would have paid due honour.
"The cabinet of Turin appears only to have re-
plied by a categorical refusal to the invitation to put
its army upon a peace footing, and to accept the col-
lective guarantee which wee offered to it. This
refusal causes us the deeper regret, because, if the
government of Sardinia had consented to testify the
pacific sentiments which were demanded of it, we
should have accepted it as a first symptom of its in-
tention to concur on its part ix the amelioration of
the unfortunate relations which haveexieted between
the two countries for some years past. In this case
it would have been open to us to furnish, by the re-
moval of the imperial troops stationed in the Lom-
bardo-Venetian kingdom, one proof more that they
had not been assembled with any aggressive intent
sg•inet Sardinia.
"Our hopes having been hitherto disappointed,
the Emperor, my august muter, has deigned to
order me to make • direct and last effort to induce
the government of hie Sardinian Majesty to alter
the resolution which it appears to have taken.
" Such, M. Is Count, is the object of this letter.
I have the honour to beg that your Excellency will
give its contents the most serious consideration, and
let me know date royal government consents—yes
of no—to put without delay its army upon a pesos
footing, and to disband the Italian volunteers.
The bearer of this, to whom you will be good
enough M. le Co•mt, to band your reply, has
orders to hold himself at your disposal for three
days. If, at the expiration of that period, he
receives no 'newer, or one which is not completely
satisfactory, the responsibility of the grave cons,-
Deviations which this refusal will entail will fall en-
tirely upon the government of his Sardinian Ma-
jesty. After having vainly exhausted all conciliatory
ms•se of procuring for his subjects a guarantee of
pews upon which the Emperor has a right to insist,
Ids Majesty will be obliged, to his great regret, to
have recourse to force of arms to obtain it.
"In the hope that the reply which I solicit from
year Excellency wilt be conformable to our wishes,
which tend t 3 the maintenance of peace, I take this
opportunity," &c., &c.
W

Mr. Reuter has received the following :

TURIN:Aram 26.

At half-pest b this• evening Count Cavort,
delivered to Baton Kellervberg the answer of
Piedmont to the ultimatum of Austria. Baron
Kellmberg took hie departure at a quarter past air,
p.m., accompanied to the frontier by a Sardinian
officer.

A religions ceremony is to be solemnised In the
sathedral to-morrow, which will be attended by the
King and the deputies of the &embers. Agee the
ceremony the King and his staff will leave for Ales-
eandria.

The Austrians are making preparation, for the
pump of ths Tido°.

BERNS, Arum 26.

Five Sardinian stsarwers on the Lago
which bad takes refs.* in Switzerland, haws bus
disarmed. Many MOM burs of noble families from
Man have arrived at Lugano, and numerous arrests
bay. been made Own the aristoeraoy.