The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-25 00:00:00

'EST ,INTELLIGFRPE.,
'AMNIA AND PIEDMONT.' -•
TURIN, B►tviDAti

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To-day the Chambers met in spatial esesion, ant
invested the King with the power of a Dictator.
He will have the assistanoe of a Council poseessing
the confidence of the Chambers.

The following telegrams were received at Mr'
Renter's office yesterday

TURIN, &Maki.

The Opinions announces that the ultimatum of
Austria was presented yesterday (Saturday) evening
to the Pirulmontese Government. The ultimatum
demands the disarmament of Piedmont and the dis-
banding of the veluuteers within a period of three
days. Baron Kellerberg remains in Turin until that
time shall have expired. The movements of the
Austrians towards the Piedmontooe frontiers have
ceased, and the usual traffic on the railway from
Milan to the Ticino hue recommenced. The Ards-
duke Maximilian has departed for Venice to inspect
the Austrian fleet.
It is currently reported that the Austrians are on
their march to enter Modena. General Ferrari,
commander of the troops of Tuscany, has tendered
his resignation.

TURIN, APRIL 23.

The deputies &rambled for a public sitting this
day, at three o'clock p.m. The Chamber, without
discussion, adopted a project of law investing
Government with all executive and legislative
powers by 110 votes against 24. This vote was
greeted by the animated cheers and acclamations of
the deputies and the public.

FRANKFORT-ON-TIIE•MAINY, Asa= 23.

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An official report of the proceedings in to-day's
sitting of the Federal Diet has been published. It
announces that the Diet agreed to the proposals
of Prussia to keep the principal contingents in readi-
ness to march

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resolution was adopted to take all necessary mea-
sures for arming federal fortresses. The report
adds, that the Federal Military Committee has
been ordered to place itself in connexion with the
different military commissions appointed to execute
the resolutions of the Diet. It is also authentic that
• corps d'armee of 12,000 men will shortly be posted
P and around Frankfort, for the protection of the
Diet.

VIENNA, APRIL 24.

The official Vienna Gazette publishes a communi-
cation, dated the 19th April, addressed by the
Austrian government to Count Carour. Tale com-
munication calls upon Piedmont to reduce her army
to a peace footing, to disband her volunteers, and
within three days to give a positive answer to these

requirements. In concluuon, it emphatically
threatens a resort to arms in the unfortunate event
of Piedmont's not &coding to Austria's demands.

PARIS, APRIL 24.
The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol.
lowing :
"Prussia, like England and Russia, has protested
against the conduct of Austria."
A telegraphic message from Toulon announces
that troops have arrived there, intended to commence
the formation of a camp, to consist of 40,000 men.
The report current in Paris that King Leopold had
quitted Belgium is untrue.

DRESDEN, Aran. 23.

The Dresden Journal contains a royal decree,
dated April 16, concerning the levy of horses for

BERNE, SCIIDAY.

Captain E. A. J. Harris, the English ambauador
for Switzerland, has left this city for Milan, to
deliver to General Gyulai the protest of the English
government against the ultimatum which Austria
has admired to Piedmont. It is asserted that
180,000 French soldiers aro on their march towards
Savoy.
Two divisions of the army of Switzerland have
been placed on a war footing.

BERLIN, Aran 23.

The semi-official Prussian Gazette (Preussisclie
Zeiltaty) publishes a leading article, of which the
following is a summary :
" The resolutions of the government for planing
the federal means of defence on a footing owe-
spending to the armaments of neighbouring states
were prepared before the last mediatorial proposal
of the Powers had been made, and were acciden-
tally taken at a moment when Prussia was using
pressing language at Vienna in favour of the above
proposal. It was also accidental that their publi-
cation coincided with the first news respecting the
ultimatum of Austria to Piedmont. The Prussian
resolutions were determined on quite independently
of the events of the last few days. Neither the
presence of German princes nor any pretended con-
ventions said to have been concerted during their
May are in any way connected with these reso-
lutions.

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" As regards the last mestere towards Piedmont,
the news was all the more surprising for the g°'
vernment, because daring the days which immedi-
ately preceded it, nothing had been neglected by
Prussia to impress on the attention of the Austrian
government the incalculable consequences and the
heavy responsibility which would result from every
separate act of Austria."
According to the New Prussian Gazette (Kress-
zeitung) the Russian government has taken the re-
-1 solution to place the corps d'armee of General
Laden on a war footing. The cabinet of St. Peters-
burg has declared its intention not to advance troops
so long a. Germany also refrains from so doing
otherwise, however, a corps of observation would
be placed on the Austrlau frontiers. Russia would
thus assume the same attitude of watchfulness es
Austria did daring the war in the East.

0, APRIL 25, 1805:),'-'

FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, 81:NIMY EVININO.
I am not able to mention any fact offering the
slightest reasonable hope that the calamity of war
Will be averted. Although the printing-officer' of
the French journals are usually closed on Euter
Sunday, the Patti* and the Pram have appeared
this evening, in consequence of the impatience of the
public to learn even the slightest scrap of news
relating to the alarming situation. I extract from
the Patric the following items of intelligence, many
of which I was enabled to anticipate in substance
yesterday :
It is stated that the Prince Napoleon will commend the
Imperial Guard, under the immediate orders of the
Emperor.
The Emperor will probably augment the number of his
aides-de-camp by six new appointments.
It is 'amused that Gram& Esplause, de Peaty, and
de lAdisirault will each have the command of a division.
A telegram this instant received from Turin states that the
Austrian ultimatum was officially communicated to the Pled-
montees government yesterday (Saturday). This ultima-
tum is signed by Count Boot, end therefore all the ru-
mours that the Emperor of Austria bai taken ve
toxtreme
step without the concurrence of his minister, the
ground.
It Wig intended to bring forward a bill to modify the
numbers of the contingent of the class of 1868, the operations
of the councils of revision, which were to commence on the
27th of this month, are postponed for some days.
Two journals announce that Baron de Hubner, the Aus•
trim smbas.ador, left Paris yesterday morning with all the
persessisa of his embassy. We are enabled to state that this
new is untrue.
A detachment of the gendarmerie of the Seine, which is to
Item part of the force publique of the army of Lyons, will
leave Paris to-morrow.
It Is new certain that the Austrian envoy bearing the
ultimatum only arrived at 1 o'clock yesterday. The source
of the premsture announcenstmt of the ultimatum la that it
IMO 111161 public beforehand, and thus brought to the bow-
WO el the great powers. But, insomuch salt was only
yeedeedur brought to Turin, what becomes of the Desertion
of emfeis English journals that the Emperor of Austria did
not lbw, of the last English propositions at the time when
he sent his summons to Piedmont? Not only did the
Midden Emperor well know of these conciliatory
pregmels, but he even knew of the protests which
the reclaims news of the ultimatum having been
sent provoked oa the part of the great powers,
He made a mock alike of their wishes and their reprobation,
and listened only to the counsels of his own partook His
coudect is therefore unjestillable in every point of view, and
hie responsibility is undivided. Nothing can either excuse
the one tx attenuate the other in the eyes of Europe.
The Presse tells the following anecdote, which is
probably not true :
In diplomatic circles ft is said that Lord Malmesbury,
when he heard of the recent conduct of Austria, said to
Count d'Appony, the Austrian ambamador in Loudon,
Count, you know English ; look oat fa the diotioasry the
strongest word of disappr.bation you on. dad, end that will
experts oar sentiments with regard to the last step of your
gownormat."
The same journal sap:
It is alleged that the text of the Austrian ultimatum has
reached Paris, and that it is coached In the most haughty
terms. The delay fixed by it for the disarmament of Pied-
mont begins to run from Saturday evening, at 6 o'clock, and
will end on Tuesday evening at the IMO hoar. It is thought
that the Austrian officer (Baron Kellerbers) will deliver the
declaration of war the moment the bin-Sable refuel of Sar-
dinia is given.
The Journal du Loiret says that the Lyons rail-
way company being unable to carry troops to the
south fast enough, the government has had recourse
to the aid of the Orleans line. On this day, Sunday,
and on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday next,
special trains will transport batteries of artillery as

far es Guttin.
It appears that Prince Napoleon did not take
his seat in the Council of Ministers the other day
as was announced by the Patrie, which has gene-
rally of late been well informed. The origin of the
incorrect report is explained in this way by the
Indipeaelance:—The prince received a letter from
the Emperor asking him to attend the council, but
in consequence of his differences with certain mem-
bers of the ministry he did not choose to accept the
Emperor's invitation. He, however, went to the
Tuileries and stayed in the Emperor's private room
during the whole time that the council was sitting.
The story of Count de Morey being thrown out
of a gig, which originally appeared in the Droit,
and has gone the round of all the French papers, is
stated by the Moniteur to be untrue. It would
appear that the accident in question happened, but
that the Droit printed the name of Count de Morny
by mistake for that of M. Mocquard, the Emperor's
private secretary. The Patric now says that the
Emperor paid a visit to M. Mocquard after the acci-
dent, and that the latter will be able to resume his
duties in a few days.

PARIS, SLTURDAI EVINING.
Some faint hopes of peace have been cherished to-
day on the strength of reports from London that
when Austria sent the ultimatum to Piedmont she
did not know that the latter power had acceded to
the proposal for a general disarmament. The effect
of this news is however completely obliterated by a
despatch from Turin, which, I am assured, retched
Paris late this afternoon, stating th►t the ultimatum
in question was only presented at two o'clock to-
day, and that consequently the three days allowed
for Piedmont's answer will not expire till Tuesday
evening. If this be so, it is plain that Austria
has been acting deliberately, with a full
knowledge not only of the state of .the
negotiations up to the time when the English pro-
posals were published by the Moaitesr, but also of
the protest against her conduct made by England
and Russia—sod, If I may trust the news of this
evening, by Prussia also. It remains to be seen what
the exertions of diplomacy may be able to do to avert
a declaration of war on Wednesday next. We hear
from Berne that Lord Malesesbury's brother has been
sent to Milan. A despatch meats that King Leo-
pold has started for Vienna. This news, however, is
much doubted by the French papers, and I believe it
is at all events certain that the King had not
left Brussels down to four o'clock this afternoon.
Another statement made in the course of the day is,
that Prince Albert was coming on a conciliatory
mission to Paris. This seems to me most unlikely.
Sir lames Hodson arrived in Paris this morning
from London, and set out in the evening for Turin,
charged, it is rumoured, with a great variety of con-
solatory suggestions for Count Cavonr.
Marshal Canrobert left Paris at 11 this morning
to assume the command of the 3rd corps of the
army of the Alps. The Doke of Malakoff is ex-
pected at Paris on Monday. The Imperial Guard
has been put on a war footing; the officers have re-
ceived warning to hold themselves in readiness to
march. It is understood that the "separate corps"
alluded to by the Morriteur, as about to be confided
to Prince Napoleon, is to consist of the Gaud. The
Slick ventures to state the notorious fact that the
Emperor means to command the army of Italy in
person. The Independence goes so far as to say that
his Majesty leaves Paris for Lyons on Monday, and
that his field baggage has been already sent on.
Victor Emmanuel, it is positively said, will com-
mand the Sardinian army, with General La Mar-
morn immediately under him.
It is an important fact to be noticed that the
Muniteur announces a pablio sitting of the Corps
Legislatif on Monday next, when there will be a
' communication from government." The general