The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-04 00:00:00

ME ILILLOO2i JIBCORMAIS&LYCZ.

" Why is it," says the Times, " that the Austrians,
who can lose so valiantly, can never win? Deceive, unfor-
tunately for them, presmt Imola:edge is pretreat poser, and
their knowledge is not of the present, but of the past. They
are a stegestiog respectability. They sea governed and
directed by old rules, old nen, sad old routine. They have
an ocean? who does not are a centime for antiquity, and
is not above tilting the most irregular methods to win
victory. The Emperor of Austria makes op hia mind to
do • remarkably fits piece of Louis Quaterze stra-
tegy. He executes en elaborate pinto rot old-faahloned
deorption, crosateg the Mind* with his whole force, and
than recrossing it with his two Minded thousand men, and
fixing the contempleted enrprlae of the enemy at 9 o'clock ist
the morning. The emperor of the Pranch, representing the
jay's& irregular school, to the moat imgentlentanlike
manner refuses to be surprised. Having immures to a new-
healed expedient which no tmetworty veteran who can
c,uot his seventy years would condescend to use,
be sends • man up M • balloon ; and, at the
expense of a few yard, of silk and • few square
feet of gm., Is told the exact position of ell those manses which
are drown up so scientifically out of hie siabt with the in-
tention of surprisieg hies at the comfortable, leisurely hour
of 9 a.m. The man of his time—the c'ever, active, shrewd,
nothing-contemning adventurer of the nineteenth century,
by dint of this small contrivance, Menem, master of the
position. lie knows what is going to happen and where bin
enemy 1,, and how many he 1e; sad while the heavy, sea&
complacent Austrian is chuckling at the formal tupelos that
is to come off at 9 a.m., be otter at daybreak, chasms hie
own time and polat of attack, end remains master 01 the
I war'

The correspondent of the semi journal, who moon=
the Atm ran army, writs:—. How was it that the
were reedy at 6 eclock to nooks a combined attack solid
the Allltti4ll., who, en their pert, hod but just taken up
positions co the previone evening ° Au easy answer can he
given to that queatlon. No sooner wee the first Anatolia
battalion out of Volleggio on the 23rd, than • balloon was
observed to the in the air trt m the vicinity ti Monsuabanct
—a /fool, nu doubt, for the French in Coettglione. I have
• full toinviction that the Empuor of the French knew ce
the ev.uing of the 23rd the exact pr shit* of every Austria"
corps; that he msds hie preperatione.errralltsgly ; and that

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on the ottuv hoed, the 'AZ-parer al Austria wasnitody—
usable to ascartain what woo tha number or distribution at
the forces of the Aiwa. This it may be said is the tank
which must be anticipated in ovary military mosemast sY
Italian sod."

Tbe above intelligence Wogs bir. Colwell into the field
again. t' We gather from recent newt," writes that mown-
ful aeronaut, "theta French at ronaut made a successful
ascent at Caeteleedulo to obeerve the Austrians, and that
forty women are busily engaged at Paris in making • new
hello= fur the French lenity. Ever since the Russian
w■r, and indeed daring that calamity, 1 have laboured
single-handed in endeavouring to provoke the attention
of our government, our scienotio men, and the
English pew to the importance of aerial observatories.
An the idea jest begins to engage public notice et the pee-
sent moment, it may not be unintereatieg to simply correct
one or two erroneous n0tt.,114 en hi the modes epereadi with
war balloons. In the del ostetic Megaziee for this year I
do vote a chapter to ' Balloons for Reconnoitring; but as ex-
tracts may be too lengthy I sill briefly &wove that balloon•
may be noted with It ne wire ropes attached (kite fashion)
without being let go, which might to hanger their falling in
au enemy's camp. 2. There is no real 'wonky that the
ball on shou'd be within close range of large or small oho.,
as an angle if elevation propane ned to the distance would
land the required information. 3. Hydrogen gas, gee
aer►ted by the deonsepoeition cf water, would enable
balloons to to Witted in whatever locality desirable.
Balloons may also be made the vehicles of laying • tem.
wery &levity wire or thread in any di action required. A
largo 'evolving drum beneath the car might contain many
miles of thin wire, and pay it out as disked. Certain India,
time would be required to mark its 0011fOO, but this could be
eerily DI malted. In this way a network of electrical eqme
tounioation might be eatrobliebed. Like spiders, the ballot*
could spin away in various direction., and if one part of the
web gave way the main lints might he depended upon to
convey intelligence."

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