Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, May 15.—General Count Gyulai is not
likely to make any movement of importance until
the Emperor and Baron Hess, the Quartermaster-
General en chef, reach the camp. The position
occupied by the Austrian army has undergone
little or no change during the last four or
five days. When the Austrian commander found
that the enemy was not in force on the Dora
Baltea, he fell back on Vercelli, and on the
10th inst. removed his head-quarters from that
town to Mortara, where they still are. The high
military authorities display extreme reserve when-
ever it is the question of the positions occupied-by
the troops, but you will hardly be mistaken if you
suppose that the Bros of the right wing rests on
Novara, and that of the left wing on the Po, at
some point not far fiom Sannazzaro. The line of
the Sesia, between Robbio in the north, and Valenza
in the south, is strongly occupied, and a corps
of observation is probably on the right bank
of the Po, between that river and Voghera.
The French a few days ago reconnoitred in
the neighbourhood of Bobbio, on the Trebbia,
but they soon retired, as they did not deem it
advisable to remain long in the neighbourhood of
the fortress of Piacenza, which has a very powerful
garrison. As it is possible that chamber tacticians
may blame Count Gyulai for not crossing the
defenceless Dora Baltea, and making a bold dash
at Turin, it may be as well to remark that his
line of retreat would probably have been cut off
had he clone so. The last letters from the seat
of war are of the 9th instant, and they were
written at Vercelli, where Count Gyulai then had
his head-quarters. The Archbishop of Vercelli,
who gave such a polite reception to the Austrian
Commander, was the person who a couple of months
ago performed the ceremony which made Prince
Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde, of Sardinia, man
and wife. As General von Benedek passed through
Novara with his corps he visited the field of battle
on which he, on the 21st of March, 1849, so much
distinguished himself. On the 7th inst, the Sar-
dinian troops which occupy the tete du pont at Casale
made a military promenade in the direction of Ver-
celli, and on their arrival at Stroppiana they laid
violent hands on and carried off the cattle and pro=
visions of the inhabitants of the place. On the sth
instant the Austrians sent flying corps into the
neighbourhood of Alesandria, and satisfied them-
selves that the enemy was in great force in the
entrenched camp which forms part of the fortress.
The massive railway bridge across the Po at
Valenza was undermined in the presence of the
enemy. The Sardinians intended to have blown
up the bridge which crosses the Seisa at Vercelli,
but the Austrians, who advanced with great
rapidity, discovered the mines, and removed the
charges. The camp correspondents speak of a re-
connaissance which was made by the Austrians in
the neighbourhood of Cassale, but they probably
allude to that advance from Vercelli to Trino, of
which mention was made in my letter of the 9th
instant. The Gazetta di Venezza states, that the
garrison of Cassale carried off no fewer than 1,500
head of horned cattle from Stroppiana, on the 7th
instant. Austrian troops are already in Reggio,
bit they will hardly venture to cross the Appen-
nines, in order to obtain possession of Massa and
Carrara. We learn from Tuscany that Austrian
troops are expected there ; but it is not likely that
the Emperor will at present attempt to re-establish