The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1859.

'novtever, talking any attempt to prove tits

ueertion—that the Government had never in word
or act manifested Austrian sympathies. In making
such a statement he must have excluded from the

• words" of the Government the official speeches
of the responsible Ministers of the Crown, u both
Lord DERBY and Mr. Distsnu have more than

once spoken in favour of Austria and against Sar-
dinia from their places in Parliament. Why,
only last Tuesday Lard DERBY intimated
that Sardinia had berm the present war
"on false pretences." Now, the grounds of
hostility are Austria's tyrannical and aggressive
policy in Italy. Is this a false pretence?
And if Lad DERBY thinks so, is the open
and official assertion of his opinion altogether
free from Austrian bias ? For the rest, Mr.
FITZGERALD gave up the defence of the Government,
and endeavoured during the remainder of his speech
to show that if a Liberal Government was formed it
would have French sympathies, as injurious to the
cause of neutrality as the alleged Austrian partiality
1 of the present Ministry.
Mr. BRIGHT'S manly, sensible, and straightforward
speech was a triumphant reply to this specious but
fallacious line of argument. Having correctly
summed up Mr. FITZGERALD'S speech us an attempt
to prove that Lord Paneetteros was almost
as bad one way as his own colleagues
were in another, he proceeded to show how
far leas dangerous to the cause of peace the
French sympathies of a Liberal Government
would be than the Austrian sympathies of a Tory
one. There is no danger, scarcely even a possibility,
indeed, of a war between this country and Austria.
Austria cannot invade us, nor can we invade Aus-
tria. Oa the contrary, an invasion on the part of
France is not only possible, but there exists a kind
of chronic superstitious fear in this country that it
will one day take place. The French alliance
did much towards diminishing this irrational
fear, and it is of course the policy of every wise
Government to promote as far as possible • frank,
intimate, and cordial relation between the two noun-
tries.
What had the present Government done?
At the moment when war broke out they did their
very best to keep up, if they did not actually create,
an invasion panic. All this at such a moment
is naturally construed into a threat against France,
and it has been so interpreted not only in this country
but on the Continent, and especially by the French
Government and people. The cordial feeling towards
England on the other side of the water has naturally
cooled, and we heartily agree with Mr. BRIGHT that
a Liberal Government is imperatively required to re-
establish a better understanding between the two
countries. Their advent to power at this moment
would be of immense service not only to England
but to Europe.
As Englishmen, of course we have our sympathies,
and those sympathies are with France and Italy ; but
as a European Power we have resolved to maintain •
policy of strict neutrality. That neutrality the known
sympathies of the present Government endanger,
while the sympathies of a Liberal Government would
help to preserve it intact. Mr. BRIGHT has dons a
public service by pointing this out in each a clear,
emphatic, and convincing manner. His full discus
pion of the important question of Reform was equally
conclusive against the claim of the present Govern-
ment to the confidence of Parliament and the
country.

Tim Victory of Magenta is not to be nibbled
away. It was a great victory, as was plain from
the first—as great, now that it is reluctantly ac-
knowledged to be French, as it was confessed to be
while there was a faint hope that it might be
successfully claimed for the Austrian.. It is so far
from being indistinct that our Austrian friends here
at home take infinite trouble, morning by morning,
to weave a threefold veil which may mitigate its
painful lustre. The facts speak for themselves,
and do not stand in need of any patronising recog-
nition, as some seem fantastically to suppose.
Possession of the field and of the capital of the
invaded country show sufficiently the advantage
gained between last Saturday and Wednesday morn-
ings. We are told that the present position of
the Austrians does not imply defeat. It is not
worth while to quarrel about words ; and if they
will only continue to change their head-quarters as
frequently as they have lately done, always in u
eastward direction, until they get out of Italy, the
defeat may perhaps be dispensed with.
While this war lase we shall be to a great extent
dependent for information—at least for those first
announcements which produce the strongest and
most lasting impressions—upon statements made
by or on behalf of the belligerents. It is
desirable, therefore, that we should ascertain
as e►rly as possible to what extent their
balletine may be relied ou. An influential
contemporary yesterday gave the world to under-
stand that France and England were befouled last
Saturday by the French EXP6IOII. " When France
" and England were told on Saturday last that this
" victory was so decisive that the Austrians were
" everywhere in flight, we all naturally expected
" that the next French official telegram would be

" sent from Milan." Will it be believed that not
cue of the telegrams reported the flight of the
Aistriane, that not one so much as hinted
that their flight might be expected? The
despatches from the head-quarters of the Alike
pabliihed here and in Paris on Saturday, Sunday,
and Monday were very simple ; they contained no
reflections upon the enemy, no presumptuous pro-
' phecy, no vain bout. But on Monday the British
public wet.* told that the great invading army of
Austria had become "a flying multitude, more or
" Use kept together by the habits of discipline."
This extraordinary statement, which nothing in the
telegnuns warranted, was not made by no, carried
away by the fervour of our professed sympathy with I
the cause of independence, but by the very contem-
porary who now arraigns the Allied commanders
for the fiction he himself invented. We now ess
why that treacherous statement was put forth.
We lure the confirmation or refutation of the
bulletins from either camp to the detailed accounts
which must soon arrive, and a foretaste of which is
furnished by our correspondent in another column.
Bat, in the meantime, what are we to think of
Count GTICLAI'II despatch, dated Monday, June 6?
According to the Austrian General, he killed and
wounded twice as many of the enemy's soldiers as
the enemy killed and wounded of his; he lost no
u prisoners, although he took a great many ; and yet
he tolerates the presence of the Allies, yet he aban-
dons the capital of Lombardy, yet his head-quarters
II are at Belgiojoso ! Certainly it is not by despatches
like his that the victory of Magenta will be snuffed
out. We have no doubt that there exists somewhere
• key by which the General's statements may at a

convenient time be reconciled with the facts. Just as
little do we doubt that the French and Sardinians
know a great deal better the numbers of their own
killed and wounded than they know how many of
their adversaries are in the same category. But the
prisoner, they have taken can be easily numbered;
they have to be fed now and they will have to be
accounted for hereafter, and as a matter of prudence
it would have been as well if the Austrian Com-
mander•in•Chief had mentioned them in his despatch.

t* Court.

Her Majesty the Queen invested Captain the Hon.
Augustus Anson, 7th Hussars, with the Victoria Cross, pre-
vious to the slate ball at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday
everting,.

The Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Lord Steward of the
Queen's Household, had an audience of her Majesty yester-
day afternoon at Buckingham Palace, and presented the
whines from the Home of Lords in answer loiter Majesty's
moat gnniousspeeoh from the throne.

Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the Prinmes
Alice, and attended by the on. Beatrice flys( and Lord
Colville, paid a Tilt to the Duchess of Kent at Clarence
House, St. James's. The Princesses Helena and Ladle also
visited her Royal Highness.
The Prinz Consort presided at a meeting of the Pittance
Committee of her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibi-
tion of 1831, held yesterday morning at Buckingham Palace.
The other members present lure Earl Granville, Lord
()versions, the Right Hon. H. Labounhere, M.P., the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., the Right Hon. C. B. Ad-
derley, M.P., Mr A. Spearman, Bart., Sir WilliamCubitt,
Mr. Thomas Bating, M.P., Mr. Coulson, Q.C., and Mr.
Glitece.

Edgar Bowring, Secretary to the Royal Commission,
was in attendance. The meeting broke up at 2 o'clock.
The Qaern, accompanied by the Prancers Alice and Prince
Leopold, and attended by the Hon. Beatrice Byng, took a
drive In an open carnage and four in the afternoon. Lord
Colville end Lord Charles Fitzroy attended on horseback.
The Prince Consort rode on horseback, attended by Captain
the Hon. D. de Roe.

---The Duchess of Kent left town about 4 o'olock yesterday
afternoon for her residence, Frain:lmre. Her Roßiebness
was attended by Lady Susan Leslie Melville, Fanny
Howard, and Sir Osage Cooper. The Duke de amours
called at Clarence-house, St. Jeans* in tits morning to in-
quire after the health of the Royal Duchess.

A deputatien relative to the coastyy police in Sootland, had
a interview with Mr. Secretary Botheron Recant, yeeter-
day, at the Home-offlee. The deputation consisted of Vis-
count Melville, Lord Pentnure, Lord Duncan, M.P., the
Deb of Buceleuch, Sir H. W. Campbell, Mr. Nesbit Remit-
toe, the Earl of Dslkeith, M.P., Sir George Slate, Bart.,
Mr. Hops Johnstone, M.P., Str Graham Montgomery, M.P.,
Mt. Brodie of Brodie, Sir J. H. Maxwell, Sir Archibald
Rope, Bert., Colonel Hugh Bwllle, Mr. Stirling, M.P., Mr.
Campbell, Blythswood, Mr. Blackburn, M.P., Kr. Cumming
Bruce, M.P., and Mr. A. B. Lockhart, M.P.
Despatch.. wera received at the Colonial-010e yester-
day, from the °overarms of Newfoundland, Hong Kong,
Ceylon, and Malta.

The Countess de Persigny's ball is Bred for Mon-
day, the 20th Inst., at Albert• gate Haase.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale have
laft Claridge' Hotel, after a stay of nearly three months,
for Yeater, N.B.
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile have arrived
at Mt ides's Hotel from Doneraile, Ireland.

Lsdy Bloomfield ha/ arrived in town from Berlin,
to pay a short visit to her family In this country.
Lord and Lady Hobart have left London for the
°attends Park Hotel, Walton-on-Thames.

Sir Archibald and Lady Alison and Colonel and
Mrs. Alison have arrival at Rawling's Priv►te Rotel, Jar-
raya-straek from Paean House, Lanarkshire.

We (Plymouth Journal) understand that the
Right Rev. the Bishop of Moray and Roes (brother of GNI.
Eden, commanding the western district) has undertaken to
twin= and compli to the bur of confirmation& and eons,-
nations in this county, lately commenced by the Bishop of
Raster, and which his lwdebip's recent illness obliged him
to suspend.

The Metropolitan Schools Choral Society will
give a choral festival tomorrow at the Crystal Palace, under
the tUrection of Mr. 0. W. Martin. Tim number of singers
will be nearly 6,000, being the largest choir ever brought
together in this or any other country. The programme will
consist of choruses and part songs. Part songs for four
trebles will be wog by upwerla of 1,000 treble voices to •
part. The object of the society is to improve the musical
education is the sobools of the metropolis.

The half-yearly Loudon sale of Cashmere shawls
was concluded on Wednesday. It oceaplol three days, and
had gone on well until the false reports of a French defeat
caused the buyers from Faris to suspend operations. The
amount of these sales generally ranges from 100,0001. to
160,0001., and, u they depend upon the progress of wealth
and hmary, they are always regarded with interoit,eapccially
daring times of European excitement. Until the last few
Jean the buyers were almost exclueively from France, but
latterly there has usually been en attendance of Amerlane,
which seems likely to Mclean.

THE REPRESENTATION OP PORTSMOPTIL—The
literal electors of the borough of Portemontb ate anticipating
• vacancy in the representation within • few days of the pre-
seat time, and have so far prepared themeless for the event
by teeming a pledge from Lord blench, who be. been in
the locality some little time, feeling his way for the atru ogle.
It is expected the eoneervatives—Sir James Elphinatone
having reigned—will again bring forward the lion. T.
Bruce, but et the present time their movements are enve-
loped in deep impiety, and whether the expense of the late
struggle will be a barrier to their cause is unknown; but
to satisfy the public mind on this score they must soon
speak out, for murmurings are numerous. and delay will jai-
parcli.e their came, however strong their bold may pre-
viously have been. The friends of Lord Monck—and many
et his old and best ones are among them—are vets eon-
' pine of stmts., and should his mum be well championed
a reverse to the picture will probably be the result of the
straggle—corm when it may. Since writing the above we
have been informed that the Hon. T. Bruce hes arrived at
the George Hotel, Portsmouth, a circumstance which much
stresgthcos the belief that en election is at hand.—Weal
Boers 01=116. _

PROGRESS IN TERKILY. • •—At the present
comsat the life, fortune, character of every Ottoman sub-
ject, Christian and Turk, is not only secured by law, but
safe in practice. And the statesman who retiree froru office
has a ribbon instead of • cord, a passim instead of poison.
(Applause) Thirty years ago, touch less than thirty. yeas,
a Christian could not give svidshcs In a court of potion
There are at this instant Christian magistrates who sit In
judgment upon Talks. Thiay years ago, a raysh could not
ride safely on horseback. Who has now the handsomest
horses? Your Greet, your Armenian mob. Thirty years
ago, • rays& could not have a house of • particular
colour and of • squalid and miserable •ppsanece. Imok at
Nen of the mats yells now on the osphorus. Look at
their splendid pollees now building in Pers. Centret a
mluisier of the Porte ouch ae be was thirty years ago with
what he is Dow. When I was her. secretary of seabany, I
knew a celebrated minister; I used to go and me him fre-
quently, and he usually oa those ocomeioas had up his cook,
to show me that, though a very short man, this culinary
functionary was two 'aches shorter. A minister at that tiros
was a man of the grossest lennrauce; one wee almost ashamed
in his company. In the Turkish cabinet at the prevent
meat there are mend vsat information; men of the most go-
complished intelligence; men whoa: every person might be
proud to cal his acquaintance and friend; men who might
take their seats in say osbieet in Esrope, with a COURCiOUPOSINI
that they were not inferior to any of its merobere. When
such changes as those I have been describing have taken
place throughout an empire tot only la government and
taws, but in habits sad education, is it fair, is it passiole
to say that empire has not undergoes great, an almost mar-
odious Improvement? Much that I have been describing
any so doubt he atiribuied to foreign diplomacy, amongst
the must ancient member. of which was my noble predecemor.
Mach more, homey, r, is doe to those Turkish stnte,w,a who
have bad to struggle as in the coarse which they had chalked
out for themselves, now assailed by their countrymen foe
&dog too much; now attacked by their counsellors
for dotes too little. But he to whom most raise
Is due is he who is most highly placed, the Sovereign
who is capable of understandieg that beetles being
the chief of a powerful race, he bag to become
the ruler of a groat and contested people. It Is no small
thing to be able to say of a mooarch what we can say of
Sultan Abdul btedjid. lie has never been f and wonting
when he has born required to extend the rights of his sub-
jects, to uphold the dignity of his crown, or defend the
honour of his salon. (Vociferous cheering.)—Speech of
hi. Froelloney Sir H. Bulavr, at Conotnatinopte, on the
24th wit.

VICTORIA BRIDGE, PIMLICO. -- The foundation-
moos of this impottnot work, the first railway bridge over
the river Thames wi•hin the metropolis, was rote/day laid
by the eldest son of Mr. Fowler, the engineer of the work,
is the premien of a few !Amide, including the Re►. Mr.
Jennisgs, rector of St. John's, Westuties.er, Mr. Kell,the
contractor, end Mr. Wilms, the assiotont-migineer. The
weeks of the Victoria Station end Pimlico Railway, of
which this bridge forms en important para,have boss carecd
cm with greet energy since the not of parliament received
the royal ascent last year. and it is confidently expicted that
the whole undertaking wi 1 bo completed daring the summer
of 1860, when the Brighton, Eerie Kent, Great 'Western, not
London and North Wootern Railway Completes will be in a
position to give their pam eager' &mem to a new and meet con-
venient wst•sad stove. Tee badge over tbo Theme' will
twesent some inbreeticg Feculiarites of construction by
which great lights. so of appearance will he combined with
unusual strength and rigidly. The superotructure, which
will ae•iot of fonr &mime, each of 175 feet spar, will be
formed entirely of wrought iron of superior quality. The
piers and abetment. ore founded os the London clay, at • ,
sufficient depth to be aide against the pesotbility of any
injury silting from the future deepening of the bed of the
river, by occur or otherwise, which bee b•en so destructive
to Weatiniueter and Black6iars britl‘eo •, they will be con-
',reeled of market ashlar watt, for whir h the greeter part
of the clone a wrought and on the ground ready to be
placed is the work. The total cost of the bridge will be
under 100,0001., mid it will be completed in less than two
years from its commencement.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

THE LATE OPERATIONS.

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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE
"MONITEUR."

The Monifeur of to-day publishes the following
detailed bulletin of the passage of the Ticino:
"The concentration of our troops on the Po de-
oeived the enemy into the belief that we intended to
cross that river. On the morning of the 4th 125,000
of the enemy's troops were in position opposite the
Emperor, and the grenadier division of the Imperial
Guard was obliged to fight this disproportionate
form All oar generals displayed great energy. The
French General Wimpffen was wounded in the head.
The commanders of the grenadiers of the Guard,
Demme and Maudhuit, were killed. The Zonavee
lost 200, and the grenadiers the same number."
The bulletin then proceeds to describe the opera-
tions of Marshal 51acMahon, who had to sustain
a fierce conflict, in which he lost 1,500 men, but
put 10,000 Austrians hors de combat, and
made 5,000 of them prisoner.. The Austrians
had on their side four corps d'armde. The
bulletin concludes with the following summary :
"Five days after our departure from Alesaandlia,
our army has been engaged in three combats, gained
one battle, and freed Piedmont from the Austrians,
who, since the conflict ofMontebello, have lost 25,000
killed and wounded, 10,000 prisoners, and 17 pieces
of cannon; besides which we have picked up on the
battle field 30,000 Austrian knapsacks."

DEMONSTRATION AT MILAN.
The Moniteur of this morning oontains the follow-
ing telegram:

"MILAN, JEER, 8, EVENING.
" An important popular demonstration hu taken
place to-day. A great number of the principal citi-
zens assembled to cheer the Emperor in the court-
yard of the palace."

THE AUSTRIAN RETREAT FROM LAVENO.

A telegram from Turin, dated last evening, says :
" The retreat of the Austrians continues. The enemy
has evacuated Laveno, abandoning their materiel of
war, and taking shelter on board of vessels in Swiss
wears."

From Berne we have the following :
"Lut night 630 Austrians quitted Laveno, leav-
ing their provisions behind them, and spiking their
gnat. This morning they arrived in Swiss terri-
tory and were carried off to Magadito, where
Colonel Bontempe has ordered a list of the men and
their arms to be made, and this evening they will be
sent into the interior to Belliozona."

ANOTHER VICTORY OF THE ALLIES.

MILAN, WIWIIISDAS,

Bodies of Austrian troops being entrenched is
Mareignano, Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers was sent
by the Emperor to dislodge them, and took the
village with but little loss on our side.

TURIN, THURSDAY.
The followicg official bulletin was pnbliahed to-
day:
" Yesterday the Allies won a fresh victory, driving
the enemy from Marcignano, where they had been
entrenched. Further details are wanting. It is
reported that the Austrians have withdrawn from
Belgiojoso to Pavia.
"Count Cavour has left this evening for Milan."

The following official message has been published
at Paris:

"MILAN, THURSDAY MORNINCL—The Emperor
to the Empreas.—We have not yet received any de-
tails of the brilliant affair at Mareigaano. We only
know that the Austrian corps d'arnik under General
Benedeck has been repulsed, and that we have taken
1,200 prisoners."

INCREASE OF THE SWISS FORTIFI-
CATIONS.

BEENg, iIiI:II3DAT FranC9.

The Federal Council has ordered the immediate
fortifying of Luzieneteig, and also of the frontiers of
the Orisons bordering on Austria. Orders have
likewise been issued by the Council to hasten the
completion of the fortifications of St. Maurice, in the
canton Valais.

BERNE, THURSDAY, 4.30 ex. (rl4 Frame).

Three Austrian armed transports, having vessels
in tow, were observed entering Swiss waters by the
outposts of the Swiss troops under Major Latour.
The transports were immediately stopped, and sur-
rendered, and at five o'clock in the morning the
Swiss commander of the Itadetzky brought them
into Mogadino, where they will be kept by our
troops alongside of five Sardinian steamers.

TRIESTE, MONDAY

At a general meeting of the Commercial Bank of
this town the suspension of further payment of divi-
dends was resolved upon.
The captain of a vessel belonging to the States of
the Church, who wu prevented by the French Ad-
miral from entering the Porto Canaria°, states that
the blockade comprises the mouths of all rivers on
the Venetian coast.

Up to the present 40 Austrian vessels have been
taken by the French.

GREECE.

Advicea have been received by Mr. Renter from
Athens. According to a report of the sitting of the
Greek Chambers of Deputies published by the
Erperanee, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reply
to a question put to him by the deputy for Sparta,
mule the following statement :—" England and

Russia have in the same terms recommended

us to observe strict neutrality, and to main-
tain public order. France, more explicit, lies not
hesitated to signify that if the least disturbance
should break ant, she would be obliged, considering
the present state of sffiirs, to intervene in concert
with England to suppress any movement."

A Turin letter of the 6th, in the Presse, says:—
"Several wouodtd superim officers have already arrived in
Tartu. Sad prepare* WI are meting on all sides to receive
the victims of the late ha't'er. The University is turned
Into an hospital for °Morro, and all the morning long I have
seen mattresses being carried past my window to those very
cavalry b oracka which bat a short month ago were alive
with gay sad joyous rotifers, who literally trod uron
dowers when they arrived here, amidst the shouts of the
populace."

The nomination of the King of Sardinia to the
dignity of corporal of the 3rd Line'ss by the soldiers of that
regiment, recalls the fact that a similar honour was conferred
on his klajtsty'a father. King Charles Albert. In 1823 the
latter joined u a volunteer the French espedition to Spain,
and displayed each bravery that the soldiers of the grenadier
regiment swarth d him the title of "French grenadier," end
presented him with a uniform of their regiment. This uni-
form the King carefully kept, and even when surrounded
with all the eplowlour of royalty he need to take plea-
sure In showing to bla visitots W gratedisr's worsted
epeulettea.