The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

(111011 Orli OW

OINOA, Aram le.
I have been moving along with the tide which
bears to Piedmont the champions of Italian alumni-
_ ...

patinas. I saw at Bpesia, on Saturday last, fifteen of
the Duke of Modena'e ehaasenn, who had mooed the
frontier at Santo Stefano, with their amen and ae-

coutrements, and were promenading the quays and
streets of that little gay sea-bathing town. Thane
are some of the heroes by the aid of which the Duke

of Modena hopes to arrest the starch of the Pied-
montese along the Val di Mara, at his own narrow

par of Mlle. Their akyblae uniform, the colours
of the Home of Este, contrasted rather oddly with
the deep blue tunics of the Sardinian bersagliari,
with whom the new mews were fraterniaing and

lovingly walking arm-in•arm. At Bate sad Chia-
van I fell in with volunteers from Parma, Mantua,
sad even from Brescia, who had waned the whet
duchy of Parma from the Po to the Apennines, and
crossing the pam: of Centocroei, had come to the sea-
shore, and were now travelling by a variety of con-
veyances along the Riviera. At Gems I found the
Malenchini battalion, 670 men strong, which
after forming and drilling at Leghorn, had at last
come over in a steamer, and proceeded to Turin. To•
wards evening, yesterday, two more steamers, also
from Leghorn, came to land, laden with several hun-
dreds more. At four o'clock this morning, I was
awakened by the war songs of another party which
had just entered the harbour with the very earliest
break of day. The Genoese have caught enthesimm

from so many adventarers going through their tows.
One hundred riflemen, armed with Swiss wahines,
at their expense, and numbering the most famous
shots of the tower tiro, or rifle gallery, have already
been received triumphantly at Turin, on their
way to swell the ranks of Oaribaldi's Caecialori
dell. Atisi at Como. This body of sharp-shooters
already exceed 4,000 emabstanta, and another corps
of the same &mug& is sow forming at Acqui,
which will bear the Mae Of Coetratori dogli
dpennini, and will be eamsaded by Osaand UIbL

All these matters I Iwo been able to soesetain
with niy own eyes ; but rumour is rife hero that the
andante both of Pisa and Sienna are expected daily;
and also that two battistiens of a Neapolitan regi-
ment, with their military band at their bead, hare
marched seem the Raw frontier, and through the
mediation of the Frank general in senunand at
Rome haesobtaineda free peerage, and are to et

bark at Olin' Veenitia. Buda of.volunteen have
also left Faensos sad other teems of Romagna;
they bed bicolored banners waving before them,
and were accompanied by loud plaudits of all their
town's people, in defiance of the Papal authorities,
unable any longer to control this universal levee dee
botulism
Ton will see by this that little leas than a ems-

bind effort of all Europe is required to balk the
Italians of their present object, and to provost as
outbreak of hostilities. AU this moving wall pea
sods with admirable order and method, and is
easily amenable to discipline under its chiefs, so long
as it is coaddent that those chiefs Sr. in earnest,
sad will insist ea having the national Italian gam
dos =UM by peaceful mesas if possible, and other-
wise by as appeal to arms. Of a pacific solution,
however, the Italians have laid aside all hope—ar, I
should say, Isar. The great bugbear of a onagers
has lest its hews ; people hers are quits aortal*
either that no eosins' shall take place, or that its
deliberations will have an ether remelts than to pet
off the draggle, is as to allhed them time the bitter
to prepare he it, and is the sum mama wear eat
the mesas and the reeoarass of Austria. They think
Airdrie an kr lose afford to wait than Pianist
and Italy.

1b Sardinian government, however, is not free
from miens apprehensions, and has directed the
provisoes of Avoca, Novara, and Lorne Sim, which
border on the Ticino, to disarm their national

gm*, and pat aside all thoughts of resistance in
the event of an Aaetriaa hivaaion. The AIMAW

hart, therefore, their way open to Novara, sad it
they are enterprising enough, even to Vercelli sad
Turin. The Sardinian plan cdcampaign is to abaa
don all the left beak of the Po, and, taking their
position at Cassie sad Almoner* to defend the line
of the dpessise round dessa, which would, in that
event, become the mat of government. Bhaald the
Austria' as be rash enough to venture into the ground
laid open before them, they would in all probability
meet a French army on the fassia or the Does, are

they are two weeks older. Bat if, on the contrary,
they keep their present position at Pavia, and it ►e-
comes necessary for the Sardinians to attack, them
latter will march on Piacenza, carrying the war into
die Parmesan territory by Veghou and Stradella
whilst at the same time a drew army,* divides of
their army, ar of their Frendi auiiarisr, would
land at Spezia, either hem NOSS ea Tosilese, make
their way up the via al Mager to the Apennine pert
of La Om, and occupy the main Parmesan territory
on the south. Madam of Parma, the French and
Sardinians would equally threaten Piaoenza, Masten,
and Ferrara ; and the Auetrian a could not follow
their adversaria to the right bank of the Po, with-
out to a great extent losing the advantage of their
redoubted tetragon of Lombard fortresses, Mantua,
Patchiers, Verona, and Legnago.
There are political considerations, no lees than
stratertic views, to advise this course of operations.
Neither France nor Sardinia have u yet broadly
expressed their intentions of driving the Austrians
out of their Lombardo-Venetian dominions. They
are thus far only contending for the full omen.
cipation of the Italian States, according to the
treaty of 1815 ; were they by a rapid and 'iguana
manaavro able to wrest from the Austrians and
demolish the fortresses of Piacenza, in the Duchy of
Parma, and Ferrara, in the States of the Church,
they could then come to terms with their easy,
before the war had lima to acquire vast European
dicausiont (hey would make the Po the real
frontier, an insurmountable barrier spine Austrian

ambition, and settle the minor matters albs Duchies
of Parma and Modena, the Legations, and other
Italian States, in a manner to give at Wet a tempo.
vary satisfaction to the moderate national party. By
a southern, rather than a western attack upon the
Austrians, the Sardinians and the French would at
once cut off the smaller Italian States from their
overbearing Austrian protector, and give their 'object,
full scope to settle their old scores with their worthless
governments. The very first cutbreak of hostilities
would break up the establishments of the Duchess of
Parma, of him of Modena, and of the Grand Duke of
Tuscany ; and the volunteers no leas than the regular
armies of three States would at once add from 30,000
to 40,000 combatants to the forces of the national
party. At Home, after the withdrawal of the Aus-
trians from the Legation; a movement unavoidable
on the very first declaration of war, the Pope would
be utterly at the mercy of the French, and if the

King of Naples, who is dying daily and dying by
inches, would so far oblige his subjects as to remover
from his pekoe to the royal vaults of the church of
St. Francis, just smear the square, there Is little
doubt bat the whole army would follow the example
of the two battalions who have, am lam amared,