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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS

The House of Commons held a short sitting last
'night; and *Mr. James gave notice that on Monday
he should ask the Government whether it was their
intention to bring in .a Reform Bill during the present
session. Sir C. Napier postponed his motion for a
committee of inquiry into the state of the navy to this
day fortnight, and in doing so expressed his hope that
there would be no undue curtailment of preparations
for defence. Mr: Brand stated that the new writs
would be moved for this day

A large number of
election petitions were presented, and the House ad-
journed. It is stated, on very good authority, that the
re-election of Mr. W. E. Gladstone will be contested
by the Marquis of Chandos. Mr. Bernal Osborne
has declined to come forward for Marylebone. Lord
John Russell has issued his address to the electors of
the city of London. He promises strict neutrality in
the pending war, and a further amendment of the
law regulating the representation of the people in
parliament. Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P. for Wick,
will probably .be the new financial secretary of the
treasury. Mr. Cowan has declined the Irieh lordship
or the treasury., The Globe states that the esti-
mates and financial measures will be brought forward
soon after the re-assembling of the House of Com-
mons, when the members of the government will

be in their places
Her Alajc

and. the Court returned. from Windsor
Castle to Buckingham Placeyesterday afternoon.

The news froth the Contineut is now again watched
with great interest. Every holt,: iinpartant news is ex-
pected. Le Nord ofto-day says the two armies arenow
face to face. All the corps of the Austrian army are
and the last

concentrated on the fac

columns are arriving by for

:I marches

The Aus-
trian army occupies a line on the other side of the
£hiese. The allied armies follow the enemy step by
step. The ground chosen by the Austrians for
d habitually for the grand
The Independence states
that the Prussian Envoy at the Court of Vienna had

accepting Da.tt

ina•
tio3uvresi of the autumt

at
proceeded to the Austrian Imperial hea,cl-quarters
Verona. He was accompanied by Count Richberg,
the representative of 'Austria at the Germanic Diet.
Kossuth has embarked for Genoa. ICtlers froth
Rome of the 18th, state that 20,000 Papal troops
hav,bee4 sent to Perugia to: restore order.
collission has already taken. place between a
detachment. . of Papal troops: and. the inhabi-
tants at Cernia. The letters from Paris say,,
"News:_ of a great battle on the Minch:, is daily
expected there. Should the Austrians be defeated;
it is thought, or hoped, that the neutral Powers may
attempt to mediate. Some suppose that Austria may

be irkieFd :to 4ba n''lombardy, 711Idh
annexe to Tietimon , a*d that, Venice will %e,

grepempitroppersvpiruspielissonsoespowareasider.a,bl e
portion of territory, as far as the limits of Lombardy."
The Paris Univers thinks that Peschiere will
speedily fall into the hands of the French, who will
thus possess one ,of the keys or the famous Square
and the command of the Mincio. The Allies Mav,
therefore, fight an extraordinarily decisive battle
in the very centre of the great quadrangle. A
naval expedition, possessing immense means of
'destruction, is on the way to Venice. One hundred
and two flat-bottomed boats, sheeted with iron and
armed with rifled cannon, are, it is said, to ascend
the Adige and the Po. If Venice falls, the fleet may
land a corps d'armee to march on the Adige, and take

the Austrians in the rear, while the grand army
attacks them in front. There are also at present
in Tuscany French troops which will, at an ap-
pointed day, appear on almost any given point.
At Vienna, according to the correspondent of the
Times, official persons profess to think that Prussia
is about to place herself at the head of the German

Confederation, and to make a demonstration on the

Rhine. Accounts from St. Petersburgh state that
the Ist and 2nd corps of the Russian army are to, be
mobilised in the neighbourhood of Kalisch, and the

3rd and 4th corps ou the Gallician frontier. Another
corps is to be assembled in Besarabia on the 14th.
There were disturbances at Venice, but order was
soon restored. Two men were killed, and three
wounded.