The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-24 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

THE WAR IN ITALY.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, duNE 24.

The Moniteur contains a note explaining the
nature of the Dictatorship offered by the whole of
Italy to the King of Sardinia. One concludes
wrongly that Piedmont without consulting the
wishes of the different peoples or the great powers
reckon on uniting the whole of Italy in one single
State. Such conjectures have no foundation. The
different peoples, whether delivered or abandoned,
desire to make common cause against Austria.
With this intention they have placed themselves
under the protection of the King, but the Dictator-
ship is purely a temporary power, which, whi!st
uniting the common forces in the same hands, in
no way presages combination for the future.

TURIN, JUNE 23.

The main body of the Austrian army is on the
left bank of the Mincio. The Piedmontese have
advanced towards Peschiera, and, after a vigorous
encounter, repulsed the outposts of the enemy, who
lost several killed. The entire French force has
passed the Chiese at Montechiaro, pushed a recon-
naissance as far as Goito, and surprised the main
Austrian guard ( Grande Garde Autriehienne), which
lost nine prisoners and some killed.

WEIMAR, JUNE 23.

The Grand Duchess Dowager, mother of the
Princess of Prussia, and aunt of the Emperor
Alexander, died this evening at eight o'clock.

VERONA, JUNE 23 (VIA VIENNA).

The head-quarters of the Emperor of Austria
have been removed to Vallegio. The feeling of the
troops is excellent. At Antivari English as well
as French war steamers are expected.

VIENNA, JUNE 23.

The Austrian Government formally declares that
the cruelties attributed to General d'Urban, in the
message of Count Cavour, are entirely devoid of
foundation.
Details will be published shortly.
Prince Esterhazy's visit to London is unaccom-
panied by any official mission whatever.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 23.

Advices have been received from Constantinople
to the 14th. Said Pasha has been summoned to
send his contingent to Roumelia, but replied that the
indecisive policy of the Porte compromises Egypt,
and that he will therefore send no succours, but
will put his army on a war footing.
Dervisch having again taken Klobuck from the
Montenegrins, the Porte has ordered him to con-
tinue hostilities. It is asserted that the regular
troops have already begun devastation.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.

Prussia has demanded permission to march 31,000
troops through Hanover to the Rhine between the
Ist and the sth of July.
The Nord of the 21st contains the following :
" At a military conference held yesterday morn-
ing it was resolved that the Guards should re
main at Beriin and at Potsdam. The four regiments
of the Landwehr of the Guards, and two regiments
of cavalry, will be cantoned in the province of
Brandenburg. The 4th, 7th, and Bth corps of the
army will take up positions between the lower and
central Rhine; the 3d and sth upon the Upper
Rhine and the Araine ; the sth corps (Posen) will
proceed to its destination by the route of Silesia,
Saxony, and Bavaria. The departure of troops
will take place about the Ist of July."

The Indepettdctnce of Brussels publishes the fol-
lowing :
" If the information we have received is correct—and we
have had many opportunities of ascertaining the accuracy
of intelligence transmitted from the same quarter—the fol-
lowing are the bases of the Prussian propositions presented
at Vienna, and which will soon be forwarded to Paris if they
have not been so already :—‘ A congress shall regulate the
Italian question on the broadest moral bases conceded by
Austria, with revision of the treaties concluded by that
Power with the other States of the Italian peninsula. The
territorial delimitations established by the treaties of 1815
shall be regarded as the unchangeable groundwork of the
arrangement. The annexations made to Sardinia with the
consent of France shall not be sanctioned.' If these pro-
positions are made at Vienna and Paris, we feel certain
that Austria will accept them, probably has done so
already, and that France will reject them. With the
exception of previous disarming, which is now out of the
question, these aro the very propositions put forward by
Lord Cowley, which were not altogether unreasonable be-
fore the war began, but now, after the battles of Monte-
bello, Palestro, Magenta, Malegnan*, the conquest of Lom-
bardy, the revolutions of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena,
the agitation in the Legations, and the alarms felt at
Venice, will most certainly be rejected by France. The
Cabinet of the Tuileries will have abundant reason to justify
such a decision. The first is that the Prussian proposi-
tions came too late, as they ought to have been imposed on
Austria before her armies invaded the Piedmontese terri-
tory ; now that the Cabinet of Vienna is compelled to
stand on the defensive, the bases of the negotiation must
be modified in favour of the national exigencies of Italy."

A Piedmontese squadron, composed of six steam
frigates, left Genoa on the 18th, under the com-
mand of Baron Tolosano. Two large gunboats are
being finished in that port ; two more are building
at Leghorn.
The King of Sardinia has decided that the army
of Lombardy shall be composed of 10 regiments of
infantry and two regiments of cavalry.
Prince Eugene of Savoy has issued a decree,
dated the 15th, regulating the provisional govern-
ment of the Parmese provinces. A governor is ap-
pointed to act in the King's name ; all the authori-
ties aro placed under his control. The Ministerial
departments are suppressed, and special directors
appointed to each; the functionaries previously at-
tached to these departments remain in office under
the directors. The present governorships and pre-
fectures are done away with, and intendants-
general and intendants substituted. All the police
offices are suppressed, the officials belonging to
them remaining at the di4posal of the Governor.
Delegates of public security are instituted. In
every other respect the old organisation is provi-
sionally maintained.
A letter from Florence of the 19th, in the Siecle,
says :—"A squadron of Pontifical Dragoons crossed
the frontier with arms and baggage, and have to-
day entered this city. Men and horses are magni-
ficent, and the general appearance of the squadron
reflects the highest credit on the Cardinal Minister
of War at Rome. Quarters are being prepared for
the remainder of the regiment. The Tuscan
division quitted Florence this morning to rejoin the
sth corps of the French army at Pistola."
The Sardinian Government has sent the Cheva-
lier Olandini, Major of Carbineers, to Florence to
reorganise the Tuscan gendarmerie.
The Independance of Brussels publishes a letter
from Milan, which says :—" The Austrians carried off
everything moveable belonging to the railway; the
only locomotive and carriages that remained were
under repair. These are now used for passengers and
ballast waggons are employed for carrying bread and
provisions to the army. I left Milan in a bread train.
The Milanese had not the presence of mind, which
any Parisian gamin would have had, to take up a
few rails or break down a bridge to prevent the re-
moval of all the rolling stock of the railway."
The Lombardia of Milan announces that the mer-
chants of that city have opened a subscription for
the purpose of giving two florins to each of the
wounded soldiers of the allied armies on their leav-
ing the hospitals, and. that on the 19th the Sub