The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

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PARIS, WIDNISDiT EVINING.

It was stated the other day in the Moniteur that
Lieutenant-Colonel Schmitz h►d been sent to Paris
to present to the Empress a flag taken from the 9th
Regiment of Austrian Infantry. This officer, now on
the Emperor's personal staff, is the son of Gen. Baron
Schmitz of the first empire, and the brother of a
captain of engineers who was killed at Sebastopol.
He performed the journey from Milan to Paris in
forty hours. Immediately on his arrival at St.
Cloud, the Empress ordered all the officers of her
household to assemble in the grand drawing-room
in uniform. On Colonel Schmitz being introduced
he presented the flag to her Majesty, and assured
her " that the entire army was delighted to see that
trophy in her Majesty's hands, and hoped she would
consider it as a new pledge of their love for her and
for the imperial dynasty." The Empress made a
gracious reply, looked intently on the flag for several
momentr, and then made the little Imperial Prince
touch it. The flag is a very old and handsome one.
It belonged to the Kartman-Kleistern Regiment of
Genial& ; it is pierced by bullets and grape-shot in
several places.
Notwithstanding the very serious aspect of the
news from Berlin, M. Grimier de Cassagnao, in the
Pays, declares his firm conviction that after the fall
of Lord Derby and the Russian circular " there is
no fear whatever of the peace of Europe being
disturbed by any interference of the Germanic Con-
federation with the affairs of Italy."
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The entire evacuation of the Stated of the Church
by the Austrian troops has to a certain extent
answered the purpose which Austria proposed to
herself in taking the meuure—it has considerably
embarrassed the French government. General
Goyon has quite enough to do to keep down demon-
strations of Italian patriotism in Roost, and there is
no French force imisecliately ready to prevent
Bologna, Ancona, Ike., from pronouncing for
Victor Emmanuel and thereby compromising the
desired neutrality of the Papal dominions. The
Pays yesterday gave it to be understood that the
sort of saturnalia now going on ander the impulse
of the joy caused by the exodus of the Austrians
must necessarily be tolerated for a time. This even-
ing the same journal says:

We have reason to know that /Ling Victor Emmanuel bas
loyally dons everything in his power to prevent the ext.'-
Dion of popular sentiment in the Papal States. Acnoeg other
proofs of this we maylmention that Lieut.-Col. Luigi Ctccha-
rini, commanding the Ist regiment, has bees deprived of his
command and placed under arrest, for having, " coutzary to
discipline and obvious policy," addressed a proclamstios so
the inhabitants of Romagna.

the Bourse was very seriously affected at the
opening of the news that Prussia had determined to
put six corps d'armee on a war footing. The Renter
fell nearly a franc in the morning. Subsequently a
vague rumour of an armistice, and the belief that
one of the first acts of the new English ministry
would be to cement the French alliance, went a long
way towards restoring confidence. The dousing
prices were 62fr. 80c., and 62fr. 45c., being a fall of
30fr. and 35c. Mobilier closed at yesterday's prices.
Rvilways were not much lower.

ITALY.

LOMBARDY.

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MALEONANO, June 12.
The Austrian army is still keeping up its retreat.
Lodi and Pavia are already in our possession, and
Piacenza, the fortifie,ations of which had been blown
up, was abandoned, together with Panne, by the
enemy the day before yesterday. It is to be occu-
pied to-morrow by the Cacciatori degli Alpeanini,
which corps, under the command of Colonel lioldoni,
has been ordered to leave Alessandria for the
purpose of garrisoning the abandoned duchy.
The ro) al lady had scarcely left her capital
when the people of Puma proclaimed the annexa-
tion with Piedmont ; and a deputation, headed by
Count Cantelli, has already been despatched to
Victor Emmanuel's head-quarters, with the object
of entrusting him with the dictatorship of
the Dukedom. Parma's diminutive army
has been relieved by the Duchess from the oath of
allegiance; and, if reports circulatinglbere arcknorreet,
it already marching towards Brescello, to swell
the garrison 3,000 men, who, under the orders of the
Duke of Modena, are guarding that fortress. This
is not a very great loos to the allied armies, for the
soldiers of Parma were not to be trusted ; and,
besides, they never fought except against unarmed
people. The retreat of the Austrians from Piacenza
and Parma was soon f..llowed by the evacuation of
Bologna. General Degenfeld had taken up his
position on the other aide of the Reno, but since
yesterday orders have been sent to him to join
Wimpfen's division at Modena. Yon see that the
consequences of the battle of Magenta and the sub-
sequent action of Malegnano are already evident.
It is not to be doubted that, while I am
writing, Cremona and Brescia have also fallen into
our hands, with the whole of their mountain pro-
vinces. Since General Hese has been appointed
commander-in-chief of the Austrian army, it was to
be expected he would fall back on the lines of the
Mind° and the Adige, with the object of re-orgenis-
leg bin demoralised army. It is curious to see howthe
Austrian bulletins are still trying to persuade Europe
that the battle of Magenta was not lost by Count
Glai'. army. To speak still of a flank position
taken up by him between Abbiate Grasso and Biome°
is really too much, when the army is already fall-
ing back on the line. of the Adda and of the Oglio.
It Magenta was won by them, how is it that they
have retired from Lodi, Creme, Piacenza, Parma,
Bologna, Bergamo, and by this time perhaps from
Cremona and Brescia? The braggadocio of Austrian
general. is indeed Homeric. You must not
forget that Garibaldi's Cacciatori dalk Alpi had
occupied Bergamo since Wednesday last, and that
they were already marching by Sedate and Gorlago
towards Erbusoo and Sala, in the direction of Brescia.
The famous leader, who with his dazing movements
has astonished Europe, has already been rewarded
by our gallant King. An order of the day, dated
Milan, the Bth, bas conferred upon Garibaldi the golden
medal of military valour. A life pension of 600
francs is always granted to those who are deemed
worthy of such an honour. Lieutenant-Colonel
Medici, once •weem adherent of Mezzini, has been
also honoured with the knighthood of Savoy. Major
&odd was made a knight of the same order. A
silver medal was likewise granted to poor Captain
Decristoforis, who fell in the action of San Fermo,
near Como. According to Piedmonteee military
laws the medal and pension (100 franca a year) will
be sent to his family. Captains Ceni and Poggi, and
Lieutenants Rebustini, Pedrotti, and Vigevano, all
belonging to Garibaldi's troops, were also decorated.
The names of Lieutenant-Colonel Cosenz, Captains
Ferrari, Gorini, Segni, Landi, and Brouzettt and
Lieutenants Griziotd, Migliavacca, Pellegrini,ljaneo,
Grazioli, Frequistiz, Bproeieri, and Stallo were ho-
nourably mentioned in that general order of the day,
together with those of the private volunteers Rianchi,
Larii, Magri, Mariani, Narici, Count Porro, Usberti,
Land, and Marquis Giustiniani. The honours thus
conferred on Garibaldi's heroic band have given
great satisfaction to the Lombard people, for they
show that Victor Emmanuel does not underrate
the great services it has rendered to the regular
I army. Oneof themost touchingepisodes of Garibaldi's
campaign has just come to my knowledge. On the
day in which the brilliant action of Ban Fermo was
fought the company so gallantly led by Captain de
Deoristoforis was ordered to assault the Any rian
position of Camerlats. The daring band soon fleshed
op the sloping ground, and when at the top a tre-
mendous hand-to-band fight began. A little to the
left of Deerietoforis'i company a gallant Cacciatori