The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND FRANCE.

THE CRISIS.
The Nord of this morning contains the following
kservations:

" Our readers know, by our letters from Paris,
that the opportunity has been given to the Cabinet
of Vienna to revoke the order which had been sent
to the troops to enter Beryla at the first call from
the Pasha at Belgrade. That call has not been
made, nor probably will it be, but the question
of principle remaining as long as Austria shall
not have implicitly satilfied the 29th Article of
the Treaty of Paris, by the formal revocation of
that order, we have yet to learn if the Cabinet of
Vienna will yield to the reiterated remonstrances of

the other Powers, or if, badly inspired, it will seek,
as usual, to avoid the difficulty by gaining time.
At the data of the last news the answer of the Cabinet
of Vienna had not arrived in Paris. We do not
mean to say that that answer is the only diplomatic
information for which the Cabinet of the Tuileries is
waiting to clear up the situation; but we do not
believe we shall be far from the truth in saying
that that answer is the pivot upon which everything
will turn. If it be satisfactory, it is not at all
impfobable that the Powers may meet again in
a new Congress to resolve all the difficulties which
were first noticed at Paris as being an unceasing
menace to Europe, and from which war might
at any moment arise. If, on the contrary,
the answer should be unfavourable, the
chauees would be for the other eventuality.
The dencalment of the crisis depends then, as we
have seen, upon a fact u yet unknown to the cabi-
nets themselves, and which has provoked so much
talk and negotiations. The foregoing will explain
the duration of the crisis, and the reserve which we
feel bound still to maintain."

The Constitutionnsl of this morning contains an
article on the present state of affairs under the sig-
nature of the political director M. Renee. The article
refers to the difficulties between France and
Austria concerning the Danube and Berrie. The
writer farther observes :—" The speech of the King
of Sardinia could not be more moderate. The mar
riage of the Prince Napoleon with a princess of
Savoy will cement the alliance between the two
nations. Italy is agitated, but war is only possible
in the event of the violation of the treaties taking
place or being threatened."
The Monileur of this morning announces that
Prince Napoleon left yesterday evening for Turin,
and adds that his absent* will be of short duration.

ITALY.

BkRDINIA.

(F/ON OV OWN OORSZOPONDENT.)
TURIN, JAN. 10.

I need not tell you that the opening of our
Chambers has been au occasion of great popular
excitement The sun shone most brilliantly, and the
martial array of the National Guard, the battalions
of which were numerically stronger than perhaps
on any other occasion, was inspiring. The King
was received with loud acclamations along his en-
tire route, and upon his entrance into the hall of
the Madams Palace, and when he came out again,
the applause was so loud and frequent that it seemed
as if it never would cease. Ilia two sons, equipped
in the uniform of the National Guard, accom-
panied him. The King read the speech
with a calm voice until he came to the
passage where the turbid state of the political
horizon is mentioned ; from this phrase to the end
his voice thrilled, his accents were more emphatic
and his whole face lit up. Interrupted at the end of
nearly every sentence with bursts of cheers, he
waited till they had subsided, and then resumed the
reading of his address with evident emotion.
In the gallery of the foreign ministers, those of
Naples and Tuscany were unable to conceal their
air of discontent. The most vehement applause of
all was bestowed on those words :—" Piedmont
observes the treaties, hut is not insensible to the cry
of grief which she hears from all parts of Italy."
These words, as I mentioned to you in a former
note, were not to have been introduced into the
speech, although from the first the question of in-
serting them had been considered. They were
finally adopted, however, and actually employed, in
consequence of fresh despatches received from Paris
only three days before the opening of the Chambers.
The Austrian government having officially an-
nounced the despatch of fresh troops to Italy, the
Sardinian government will carry on their defensive
armaments with less reserve, and in such a manner as
to be able in case of need to convert them into offen-
sive preparations. Their first step will be to send
to the frontier two regiments, one of which is now
stationed in Nice and the other at Anecy in Savoy.
The Piedmonts's Gazette contained the day before
yesterday a well-digested and lucid article on the
wrong committed by Austria in contravening the
resolutions of the Congress of Paris respecting the
navigation of the Danube. This exposition in
the Gazette was merely an extract from the
note sent to Vienna by three of the powers
that signed the treaty. I em able to inform
you that another diplomatic note was sent to
Vienna a very few days ago, in which there
was a declaration, that any armed intervention in
Servile by Austria would be considered by France as
a cams belli. It stated also, that the sending of a
strong force to Semlin and other points of the
Austrian frontier would be regarded with heavy
displeasure. The fact is on record, that Austria
yielded immediately, renounced her original inten-
tion of upholding Prince Alexander at all costs, and
impended the march of the greater portion of the
troops she had sent to the Servian frontiers. French
diplomacy has thu remonstrated against Austrian
proceedings in the Principalities, and I have no
doubt Austria will be tractable enough, for we hear
from Vienna that she would submit to any humilia-
tion rather than provoke war.
In Lombardy there is no longer any doubt felt''
respecting the departure of the Archduke Maximi-
lian. The man in whom Austria now places confi-
dence is General Giulay, Rueletrki's successor in the
military government of the Lombardo-Venetian
Kingdom. His ambition is very great, and he has
a lofty conception of his own c►pacity ; he is one of
the most active member* of the so-called military
party, and he has always declared in the Aulic
Council that the Italians can only be kept down by
force. He has quitted Verona and ►hifted his
quarters to Milan, where he had no sooner arrived
than, seeing himself surrounded by the officers of
the garrison, he exclaimed with pride and irony,
" I am the man to settle the Italian question paci-
fically."
TURIN, THURSDAY, Jar. 13.

The official l'iedmontese Gazette publishes the
following note :—" The official Gazette of Vienna
having announced the despatch of reinforcements to
Italy, the Piedinontese Government has thought it
its duty to bring the distant garrisons nearer to the
frontiers of Lombardy, without however calling out
the Contingents."