Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

THE AUSTRIAN ARMY,

lrizzsmk, June 21.—1 t is said, in an official despatch,
iieh left Verona this morning, that his Majesty had
:41°Yed his head-quarters from Verona to Villafranca, a
'mall toxin on the Mincio, and midway between Peschiera
Rd Mantua. As the picquets of the two armies are within
::It of each other, not a day passes without some slight
rnishes, but there has been no serious collision since the
e
lagement at Melagnano, a detailed account of which
Peared in our columns full a week ago. In the Weiner
Nejeung, of yesterday, it was stated that the Emperor, who
en horseback, inspected the 7th and sith corps (General
Zobel and General Benedek) at Lonato, but there is
reason to believe that the troops in question were on the
left hank of the
'alesty went to see them. The official organ says the
4aarch was received with loud acclamations, and the state-
ment is probably perfectly correct, as the troops,who, on the
preeedine• day, had learned that Gyulai had been dismissed,
er; in high spirits. A courier arrived at Mantua yes-
aY, bringing the welcome news that the garrison
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Ancona was very near the Po, and would cross the river
to the 21st inst. (to-day.) General Baron Paumgartten,
rp eftmander of the garrison, kept on the road which
4141/8 along the coast until he reached Rimini, whence he
histehed by way of Cesena to Ravenna. It was originally
14tention to proceed directly from Rimini, by way ofFOr )
and Fa3nza, to Bologna, but on reaching Cesena he
tel:ried that Bologna was in a state of insurrection, and
Ilret, he would have to force his way through the city. At
a " the inhabitants of Forli resolved to make a hostile
.1),„
t ''colstration against the garrison of Ancona ; but they re-
°43idered
,the matter, and allowed the Austrians to continue
the
It nlareh from Cesena to Ravenna without molestation.
the garrison of Bologna has already crossed the frontier
the e will not to-morrow be a single • Austrian soldier on
tiut right bank of the Po. It is confidently expected
tit t a great battle will very soon be fought on the right
11 ilk of the Mincio, and probably in the neighbourhood of
outechiare 'and Castiglione, as it is evident that an
""vx will be made on Peschiera before anything is
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‘auipted against Mantua. The fact of the allies having
'tliaeir headquarters at Brescia induces many people to suspect
they intend to force their way through the Southern
Air 1, and by so doing to turn the right flank of the
the 'lan armies now concentrated between the Mincio and
; but every inch of ground to the north of the
t-470 di Garda is federal territory, and cannot at this
thelaent be violated with impunity. Since the opening of
telt campaign the Austrian army has lost about 30,000 men,
404,48 reinforcements in the same proportion have been
to Italy, the Emperor must have 280,000 men under
e'oramand. There are ten complete corps in the
thethardo-Venetian kingdom, and the strength of each of
ob.; may safely be computed at 28,000 combatants. One
artnie—l believe it is the 4th—is in the Southern
itt-s and it will (according to circumstances) ant on the
Silslr9 or menace the left tank of the Allies. If Glicribala

still thinks he shall be able to get into the Northern Tyrol
by way of Bonnio he deceives himself, for the mountaineers,
are said to have destroyed the " Teufels-Briicke "
(Devil's-bridge), which connected the Valtellina
with the Tyrol. On the 14th inst., the Emperor went to
the great military hospital at Verona, and closely examined
the different wards and the kitchen. The visit must have
been totally unexpected, for neither the director of the
establishment nor the surgeons had time to make themselves
"fit to be seen." The former had on a jacket of brown
ticking, like that worn by the common soldiers in summer,
and the aprons of some of the surgeons showed but too
plainly what their occupations had been when the Emperor
entered the house. His Majesty, who addressed several
of their.ioldiers in their native language, tasted the soup,
meat, and vegetables which had been prepared for the
Patients. At one o'clock on the same day he rode out to
the 'camp, and it was remarked that he had an upper
garment of grey ticking on instead of his uniform coat.

The Emperor is not too proud to learn from his doughty
adversary, for he has issued an order that the men are no
longer to carry their knapsacks when on a march. The
soldiers were delighted to learn that they had been relieved
of a burden, which under an Italian sun is terribly oppres-
sive, and told their officers that the French would speedily
remark the difference between the bayonet thrust of an
unencumbered man and that of ", a poor devil," with a
20 lbs. on his shoulders. Colonel von
knapsack weighing
Kuhn, the chief of the staff of the second army, is recovering
from a serious indisposition with which he was attacked
two days before the battle of Magenta.

THE POPE'S SWISS GUARD AND THE
PEOPLE.

A. letter from Paris, dated Thursday evening, says

The bloody conflict at Perugia between the Pope's Swiss
guards and the people is considered in government circles
as a deplorable event. It no doubt tends greatly to increase
the difficulty of the task which the French Emperor has
undertaken of preserving the temporal dominions of the
Pope while emancipating Italy from the Austrian yoke.
The papal forces are confessedly inadequate to repress the
national movement which has broken out in many large
towns of the States of the Church. The policy of selecting;
a little mountainous village like Perugia, where the popula-
tion is too •small to offer effectual resistance, for shedding
blood .in the name of the papal authority, may well be
doubted. The event is likely to double the intensity of the
revolutionary movement in Bologna, and to excite insurrec-
tion in all the' disaffected parts .of the Papal. States that have
hitherto remained tranquil. The Romans, rightly or wrongly,
consider themselves included in the Emperor Napoleon's
Milan proclamation, addressed to the " Italian people," and
claim the benefit of his promise that the French army shall
not interfere with the manifestation of their " legitimate
wishes." -Unless, however, the Swiss hirelings, now masters
of Perugia, shall be supported by French troops, nothing is
more likely than that they will speedily be driven out by
an overwhelming national force.

THE DICTATORSHIP IN ROMAN CITIES.
The Pays in answer to "various correspondence," which
persists in affirming that King. Victor Emmanuel is disposed
to accept the dictatorship which has been offered him by
certain towns in the Roman States, asserts that all these
rumours are completely false, and that the King has refused
any sort of dictatorship, whether "provisional" or other-
wise. The fact that Prussia.is making a serious diplomatic
effort to put an end to the war seems to be every day re-
garded as more and more certain. But great astonishment
is felt at the positive assertion of the Independanee that the
territorial limits established .by the treaties of 1815 are to
be proposed as the bases of the announcement., The im-
possibility that Prussia can for a moment seriously. suppose
that France will listen,to any such proposition, gives some
countenance to the all-but incredible assertions of certain
German journals that a war with France is really intended
by Germany.