The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-14 00:00:00

AUSTRIA AND VENETIA.

It is said that another battery has been posted i
along the Venetian shores. This battery s said,
Jibe that constructed for the defence of the port of
Malamooco, to be armed with 32 80-pounders, and
manned by 300 soldi2rs. The Bund of the 15th
inst., in the following passage, revives the rumours
of the abdication of the Emperor of Austria :

It is confidently affirmed that FrancieJoseph,diagusted at
the turn affaiss are taking at Vienna, has decided to send
hie two children for safety to their mother, in Madeira.
This act is regarded as preliminary to an abdication of the
throne. It is said that Francis Joseph now seep the neces-
sity of giving up Venetia, but finding this cession incom-
patible with his honour, sees no other way out of his diffi-
culties but abdicating, and leaving it to his successor to
make the painful sacrifice.

The Emperor Napoleon arrived at the lake in
the Bois de Boulogne about 3 p.m. on Friday in a plain
chariot drawn by two horse*, and unattended by any escort.
He alighted from his carriage and crowed the lake on his
skates. He was loon recognised by some men wearing
blouses, who raised a cry of "Hen is the Emperor ;
Vise TEmpereur !" The cry attracted universal atten-
tion, and everybody ran and everybody cheered. The
Emperor continued to skate, apparently delighted with the
enthusiastic reception he met with. The Emperor seeing
a child in a sledge, pushed forward by a nursery maid, took
the place of the servant and drove the sledge. Having
amused himself for about half an hour, more like a school-
boy enjoying a bolydsy than an Emperor, he left as quietly
as be came. There were several fashionably dressed Eng-
lish ladies among the skaters.

The present advice from Shanghai mention
that the Yaog•tse is infested by pirates, and that another
gunboat had been despatched for their destruction. The
lugger Chance had just been brought into port, haring been
fallto in with by her Majesty's ship Pioneer, after the
whole of her curio had been plundered and half her
crew killed.

ITALY.

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NAPLES, 441, 7.

I was surprised a day or two sineemby a visiifiOm
Colonel Dowling on his return from Caprera, and
the following report of his visit may creels:me
interest. Dowling, as
_you know, • ' • hed
himself at St. Angelo. He left Caprera . 21,
after a visit of four days to Garibaldi, whom be
left in excellent health, together with all the
family, which comprises Basso, Fruacianti, Gas-
maroli, Stagnetti, and Colonel Deideri and wife,
as visitors. The general was as usual hard at work,
spade and pick in hand, living 17 the " sweet of
his brow," and received Dowling in his usual kind
and affectionate manner, inquiring for Colonel
Peard, Captain de Rohan, Colonel Dunne, and
others, and desiring Dowling to remember
him to them all affectionately. The general
has got quite stout, but nevertheless retains his old
habits of hard work, frugal living, and early rising,
keeping all hands strictly to their work, though one
or two of them would much rather be excused
from the Cincinnatua-like work of their chief, as is
often evidenced by their grimaces, and the pur-
posely awkward manner in which they grub away
at mother earth for their food—a scene mightily
enjoyed by the general. Colonel Dowling describes
Caprera and the neighbourhood with enthusiastic
admiration for its bold and purely natural beauties.
The general seemed in the beet health and spirits, ,1
and, while carefully avoiding politics, spoke exult-
ingly ,1
of the hopes and prospects of Italy, alluding
often to his countrymen never to himself. On
taking his leave, Colonel Dowling received from the
general the following few lines, written on the mo-
ment :

I nee with regret, leaving fr2le
ve tand, my friend and corn-
panicle arroa,
.Colone! of Dowling, hot
o
help in completing in 'e
lennrgedrmpition of nearo„Teried
countrymen.

The General seems to be rather pestered with
quantities of letters, and books, and most extraor-
dinary things of all descriptions, that are sent to
him from all parts, not one tenth of which it is pos-
sible for him to read or even look at ; and I think
it would be doing him a kindness, the greatest of
all, to leave him to the quiet enjoyment of what he
loves—solitude and reflection. Caprera is very
difficult of access, and even when oue has arrived
there, there is no spare accommodation, and only
provision sufficient for the general's own family.
The remainder of the British Legion leaves to-
night for Genoa, in the Sardinian man-of-war the
Ettore Fiera Mosca, and is to be forwarded home
over Mont Cenis.

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TURIN, JAN. 9.

General Turr has left Turin for Genoa. On ar-
riving there he found a steamer ready to convey
him to Caprera, where he intends informing Gari-
baldi minutely and exactly of the true state of
things in Italy, for the hermit of Caprera only sees
them through a glass manufactured by Bertani and
Mazzini, so that be really sees colours that do not
exist in reality. General Turr would fain persuade
Garibaldi, as the hero's other superior officers fain
would also, that his opposition to Count Cavour is
fatal to the Italian cause, for to this minister it is
due that Europese diplomacy tolerated the Sicilian
expedition. Turr will show Garibaldi the various
support he has received without his knowing it (for
the sect that placed itself between him and the go-
vernment did not allow the facts to reach him)
from Count Cavour this minister being thegreateet
and most powerful representative of Italian unity
under the constitutional flag of Victor Emmanuel.
Garibaldi has loyally adopted a programme, against
which he would be unconsciously operating, were
be to persevere in a fatal personal hosti-
lity that is fomented in various ways by
the disguised enemies of the constitutional
throne. I believe the King and his cabinet have
spontaneously approved this most honourable
attempt of General Turr. The King begins to be
weary of these dissensions, which have rendered
so much more arduous the task auspiciously com-
menced in the south. They have made us lose
valuable time, and they have compelled us to spend
two hundred millions of lire more than would have
else been necessary.
If Garibaldi can be convinced of all this, and if
Gaeta should fall before the end of the month, the
political elections will turn out still more favourable
for the government, and so the parliament will
afford great aid towards the prompt re-organisation
of the state. The factions will then be reduced to
impotence, and people will return at last to the
normal way, so that we shall be able confidently
to prepare ourselves for the future. The anoma-
lous condition of Southern Italy has destroyed the
basis of many a calculation made for the ensuing
spring. Our intentions remain the same, but if
our means are changed and the necessity for change
arises, why our designs must also be changed. We
thought we should obtain from Southern Italy more
than a hundred thousand soldiers, but it is clear now
we shall not get twenty-five thousand, if so many. If
wretched advisers had not persuaded Garibaldi to
postpone the annexation—for on the day he entered
Naples he might have done what he did idlest, two
months afterwards--this anarchical interregnum

would never have ensued. To the government of the
Bourbon that of Victor Emmanuel ought to have
immediately suoceeded. Then Garibaldi aprestigewas
at its meridian, and factions, diplomacy,and the reac-
tionary party would not have had time to organise
themselves, and scatter the elements of dissolution
abroad.

Signor Ratter, organ, the Monarchic Naziona/r,
declares to-day that, should an extra-parliamentary
wty make its appeairoe, it would join Count
amour to give battle to it, in order to save the
constitution, and defend the throne of Victor Em-
manueL Such a declaration is by no means a
superfluous one.