Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-18 00:00:00

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THE WAR.
The Times has received the following telegram :
ROME, May 15.—The Duke of Gramont left to-

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it was reported that a popular movement
it't taken place at Casena. Rome is tranquil."

IEsTE, May 15.—A French squadron, consisting
;4 two ships of the line and a frigate, have captured
hs°4l. Austrian merchant vessels. It was the English
igel'eliant steamer, Douro, with the East India mails
Trieste, that was boarded by the boats of a
l'eneh ship of the line.

tini4lSS ARABELLA. GraDDIRD.—The marriage of this dis-
e,,*laished pianiste with Mr. J. W. Davison, one of the most
Ic4,l4ent musical critics this country has ever produced, has
41 recently announced. In artistic circles, where both
4, universally known and esteemed, the fact has been
Ziearaed with the utmost cordiality.
tte'3l.4kLE or " HOUSEHOLD WORDS " The copyright,
fligle?tYpe-plates, and stock of this valuable periodical were
ey auction on Monday at the premises of Mr. Hodgson.
V stock consisted of 620,000 numbers, either parts, num-
)4B) or volumes. The bidding was commenced at £5OO by
atla Maxwell, and was continued by Messrs. Kent, Chapman
Anjlell, and Bradbury and Evans, and the property was
3 knocked duwn to Mr. Arthur Smith's bidding
STEAMER LOST IN TUE ICE IN THE ARCTIC
ik,jB.--The loss of another steamer, the Volunteer, of
ga'?feastle, in the ice in the Arctic Seas, was announced on
tievarday at
Feb
She left the Tyne for Greenland on
ptit 22nd of bruary, and meeting with very bad weather
of Altaack to Shetland. The voyage was resumed on the 10th
iibo,t47ll, and on the 15th the ice was made. On the 19th,
toi "e p m., she was steering a course of N.N.W., and
RN, at the rate of about three miles an hour, when she
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a mass of ice with such force as to cause her to spring
rsevere leak, It was soon found that nothing could
Atm °lle to repair the injury; the ship was rapidly filling,
tOt 11° time was to be lost in lowering. the boats. All hands
Tolwaafely into them, and the ship shortly afterwards
ilet-e-Tred• The crew were picked up by the Arctic, of
ruead. Captain Pert, the late master of the steamer,
• 14,-°rLe that they had hardly time to save their lives. The
yes, I'4l amount to several thousands. She was a fine
484rIee-'4.llPwards of 300 tons. Sh e is stated to hare boon

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

FROM THE " WIRES " CORRESPONDENT.
AUSTRIAN HEAD-QUARTERS, MORTARIA, May 10'
1859.—Your correspondent at Vienna has probably

kept you informed of those movements of this army
which are of sufficient importance to be commum-

cated by telegraph. I will, however, recapitulate
briefly what has been done since the beginning, as

telegraphic despatches are not famous- for either
extreme accuracy or even for consistency one with

The first Austrian troops crossed the Ticino on
the 29th of April, five days after the French had
passed the Western frontier of Sardinia. This
-delay, as you know, was in deference to the wish

of tlie British Cabinet,
A brigade of the sth corps, under General Festi-
tics, had the honour of leading the way. It crossed
at Pavia, and. pushed on the same day through
Garlasco to the Terdoppio river, followed by the
entire 3d corps, under Prince Schwarzenberg, to

Gropello. -
The 7th corps, under Baron Zobel, has come up
from Bergamo and Brescia to Rho, intending to
cross the Ticino further north, had made a demon-
stration at Buffalora, and then turned southward
through Abbiate Grosso towards the bridge at
Vigevano, which, however, it found blown up. It
was, therefore, obliged to cross at Bereguardo on
a pontoon bridge constructed by the engineers.
This it did on the 29th, reaching Gambolo the same

day.
On the following day, the 30th, the sth corps,
under Count Stadion, passed the same bridge, and
the Bth corps, under the renowned General i3enedek,
crossed at Pavia, the 7th pushing on to Mortara, and
the 3rd to Garlasco. .

On the Ist of May the 2nd corps, under Prince
Lichtenstein, crossed at Pavia, so that it took three
days for the whole five corps d'arnkee to cross the

Ticino.
On the night of the Ist of May the line extended
along the Agona river from Vespola on the north
to San Nazzaro, and thence to the eastward along
the Po; the 3rd corps still keeping the centre,
with the sth and 7th on its right, and the
Bth and 2nd on the left. This relative position
having been kept until now, I need not detail
the daily marches, but will briefly say that that the
line was gradually advanced and extended in this
order until the day before yesterday, the Bth, when
the head-quarters of the Commander-in-Chief, Gen.
Gyaali, were at Vercelli, and the whole country
north of the Po, as far as Biella and Craglia, on
the north-west, and the Dora Baltea on the west, was

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occupied by the Austrians almost without opposition.
The Piedmontese dug trenches across and other-
wise injured the roads, and placed batteries to
defend them, but did not do so. At Vercelli they
mined the magnificent railway bridge across the
Sesia, but the Austrians discovered it, and withdrew
the gunpowder. This non-resistance is very remark-
able, for the nature of the country is such that
the advance of an army can be most easily impeded.
The roads are in most cases artificially raised, the
fields on each side being dead fiat and kept under
water, for the cultieation of rice, besides which,
numerous canals at several different levels, cross each

other in everX,concievable way
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The chief opposition occurred at Valenza, where
there were two fine bridges across the Po. The
one the Piedmontese had themselves destroyed, and
the other the Austrians determined to destroy for
them ; so, on the 3rd and 4th they made great
demonstrations as if to cross the river, both there
and opposite Frassinetto, and succeeded in mining
the bridge. On the 4th, also, General Benedek, the
enemy's attention being drawn to the above named
points, succeeded in crossing the Po at Cornale, with
40,000 men, on a bridge constructed by the Engineers,
a corps which in Austria has reached a wonderful
degree of efficiency. He pushed on to Voghera and
reconnoitred Tortona with a powerful detachment.
In retiring he blew up the railway bridge of Ponte-
curone, which must be a serious blow to the allies.
In the night of the 4th to the sth the Po rose 15
feet, and destroyed General Benedek's bridge over
the Po, thus quite isolating him. In 24 hours,
however, another was constructed, over which
1 he retired on the 6th, carrying off vast stores of
bread, tobacco, salt, rice, meal, corn, hay, &c., from
Voghera.
At Valenza the unparalleled rise of the Po filled
the first mines formed, and it was not till the Bth
May that the bridge was finally destroyed. At
Frassinetto the intended deception was completely
succeseful, Quantities of boards, &c., were ordered
with great ostentation at Candia, and some hundreds
of labourers. On the 3rd of May some Lancers led
the way across a ford of the Sesia to an island
between that river and the Po. Four companies of
Grenadiers followed and half a rocket battery, the
whole under Colonel Puchner. The island is thickly
covered with brushwood, so the smallness of their
number was concealed from the enemy, who opened
a heavy fire from the southern bank of the Po.
This was answered by the rocket battery and the
Grenadiers, who extended themselves along the
banks. As the. Piednaontese fancy they did. much
mischief that day, a few accurate figures may be
useful. The Austrians lost on the 3rd, before mid-
night, one man killed and eight wounded; of the
latter, one having since died. At night, Captain
Dwyer, an Irishman, led over another battalion to
the island, and a noise, of hammering was kept up
till morning, as if bridges for the passage of - a
large army were being constructed. During the
entire night the loss of the Austrians was only
three men wounded. Here, too, the rapid rise of
the Sesia; which took place a few hours before that
of the Po, nearly caused a logs, but happily the
whole force was withdrawn in safety, owing to the
voluntary exertions of the Piedmontese labourers,
who saved many drowning men. This circum-
stance clearly proves how untrue arc the state-
ments made about the animosity of the Italians
against the Austrians. I have Myself on this
occasion been only three days in Piedmont, but
I have already ridden 140 miles, and stopped at
nearly every village, and to an Englishman the
natives would not conceal their feelings. I can
assure you that their anger is all against their own
government, not for the war, merely, but for the
whole policy of overloading them with taxes, such
as our exp?oded window-tax and a tax on carriages,
for the purpose of keeping up an army beyond the
wants of the country. I speak of the peasantrz..
The burghers and lawyers think differently.
Yesterday, most of the troops were withdrawn to
the east of the Sesia, and the Head toluarters moved
to Mortara this morning. Not knowing that, I
rode to Vercelli, and had to return. The Pied-
montese reconnoitred Vercelli in the afternoon.
and some skirmishing took place, but to the
west of the town. The timing of the reconnais-
sance proves how well informed the Vercelli people
kept their friends of the Austrian movements. The
head men of Vercelli were equally aware of the
approaching reconnaissance, and threw every
possible difficulty in the way of finding horses and
carts for the transport of baggage, forage, &c., for the
troops, hoping to cause a delay. The Austrians bore
this very patiently. As my baggage horse was
tired and lame, I had to apply for a cart to the
municipality. You will hardly believe me when I
say that they pretended not to have any. Now, no
one can deny that I had as much right to a Pied-
montese conveyance as Victor Emmanuel has to
Lombardy, so I procured one—how, I will never
divulge but I hope no Vercelli burgher lost a brown
caleche and a lage bay horse that day. 'I beg to
say that I paid the driver well, and dispaissed him
and his—or his master's—horse and carriage, at
Robbio, the nearest village. I must postpone till
to-morrow or next day some anecdotes of the cam-
paign. One, however, I must relate now, to prove
to you how little the Piedmontese people like this
war. When the Austrians arrived at a certain town,
which I must not name, the inhabitants reproached
them much for not coming a. fortnight sooner. Ex-
lacting them, they said, they had made every vc,