The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-28 00:00:00

PIEDMONT

BY

AUSTRIA.

BLOWING UP OF THE BRIDGE
OF BUFFALORA.

BERNE, APRIL 28.

The French troops experience difficulties in
orossing Mont Cenis. 4,000 workmen are engaged
clearing the pass of immense masses of snow.
120,000 Austrians have crossed the Ticino, of
whom 30,000 are under the command of General
Gyulai; 60,000 under General Benedeck, and
30,000 under General Zobel.
The Sardinians have retired from Palanza to the
wsstern bank of the river Sesia.

General Bontemps, the General of Division in the
Canton Tessin, has requested reinforcements.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 11 A.M.

The Austrians have not moved forward, at the
request of the English Government.—Morning
Post (Second Edition).

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

PARIS, APRIL 28.
The Moniteur of this day contains the following :
The corps d'armee which has been placed under
the command of Prince Napoleon, will shortly be
assembled at Toulon.

General Regnault Angely retains command of
the Imperial Guard.
The Constitutionnel says that the news of a treaty
offensive and defensive between France and Russia
is without foundation.

TURIN, APRIL 27.

News from Tuscany allege that certain superior
officers of the Tuscan army had endeavoured to
prevail on the Grand Duke Leopold either to con-
clude an alliance with Piedmont or to abdicate,
but it is further asserted that the Grand Duke had
preferred to quit Tuscany.
Additional Tuscan news, received this afternoon,
report that Victor Emmanuel has been proclaimed
Dictator of Tuscany. Prince Carignan has been
appointed Lieutenant-General of Piedmont during
the war.

French troops have disembarked at Genoa, and
are everywhere received with enthusiasm.

BERNE, April 27.

During last night the Austrian army, amounting
to 120,000 men, under the command-in-chief of
General Gyulai, passed the Ticino in three corps
d'artnee, namely, one corps of 60,000, commanded
by General Beodeck ; a second of 30,000, com-
manded by General Gyulai in person ; and a third,
of 30,000, under General Zobel. The bridge of
Buffalora has been blown up.

BERNE, April 27.

It is fully confirmed that the Austrians passed
the Ticino last night over the bridge of Buffalora,
taking the road towards Novara by Blategresso
through Vigevano and Mortara.

PARIS, April 27.

The Pattie states that according to all proba_
bility the direction of the Austrian army is towards
Turin.
Advices have been received that several di7isions
of the French army have disembarked at Genoa.

TURIN, April 27.

A Royal Proclamation by the King of Sardinia
:o the Army was published to-day at five o'clock

p.m.

The following is a summary :

The King regards the demand to disarm as an
outrage on himself and the nation, and has, there-
fore, repelled the demand with disdain.
The King calls to mind Italy's cry of anguish,
and says :—" I will be your captain ; I have proved
your valour on the field of battle by the side of
my illusttious father."
This time you will have for your comrades the
gallant French soldiers, your companions on the
Tchernaya, whom the Emperor has sent to defend
and support our just and civilising cause.
Forward to victory ! Let our banner announce
to you that our object, like our war-cry, is the
" Independence of Italy."
Up to noon the Austrians had made no offensive
movement.

BERLIN, April 27.

The Neue Preuissische Zeitung (Kreuz Zeitung)
states that Denmark is said to have concluded
during the last few days a treaty, offensive and de-
fensive, with France.

BERNE, April 27.
The Federal Diet has just received the following
telegram from the General of Division Bontemps,
dated Bellinzona, to-day :—" The Austrians crossed
the Ticino last night."

The Sardinian troops yesterday quitted Pallanza
on the Lago Maggiore, and retired to (the ?) Sesia.
The province of Novara has also been abandoned.
The Austrians have taken their departure from
Varese, but have left 600 men at Laveno.

DRESDEN, April 27.

The Dresden Journal announces that France has
not given her consent to England's last proposal to
act as mediator.

TRIESTE, APRIL 28.
Advices have been received from Alexandria to
he 18th inst.
M. de Lessips has had an interview with the

Viceroy, in consequence of which the public func-
tionaries have been instructed to assist in forward-
ing the preliminary works of the Suez Canal.

The Governors of Damietta and Alexandria have
been ordered to admit vessels with materials for the
canal operations free of duty.
The Progresso cl'Egitto has been ordered not to
publish any more articles on the Suez Canal under-
taking.
The agent of France is said to have received in-
structions to declare emphatically the approval of
his Government of the project.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

Up to a late hour to-day Baron Hubner had not
asked for his passports. It is understood that he
is not to do so until France recalls the French
Embassy from Vienna. It appears to be the desire
of the Austrian Cabinet that Napoleon 111. should
first declare war.

A telegraphic despatch reached Paris last night
saying thatAhe. Grand Duke of Tuscany had bolted
to Portaferrajo, in the island of Elba. It appears
some members of the Government and army of
Tuscany let the Grand Duke know their intention
not to permit the Austrians to occupy any Italian
ground over which he rules. A number of persons
assembled in the streets, and cried " Long Live
Piedmont." The military joined them, and it soon
became evident that Florence was for Italy, and
not for Austria. The Grand Duke fled, as well as
the Jesuitical members of his Cabinet.

News from Naples announce that the King is
sinking gradually. Disturbances are mentioned as
having taken place at Palermo, and in consequence
of which several arrests had been deemed necessary.
Letters from Madrid announce that the sympathy
of the Spaniards is entirely in favour of the cause
of Italy. They also mention the recal of the sol-
diers who are en cone.
Volunteers are leaving Greece for Piedmont
according to a despatch from Athens.
The Senate assembled yesterday, M. Troplong in
the chair. Prince Napoleon was present. M. Fould,
Minister of State, was introduced with the usual
ceremonial, and read a statement of the late diplo-
matic negotiations similar to that presented in the
other Chamber. This communication was followed
by repeated cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" The
sitting was then brought to a close.
The following is the statement made on Tuesday
by Count Walewski, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, to the Corps Legislatif. The statement
was drawn up by order of the Emperor :
" The state of Italy, aggravated by the administrative
measures adopted in the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom,
had determined the Austrian Government to make, since
last December, armaments which soon assumed a character
sufficiently threatening to arouse the most serious alarm in
Piedmont.

"The Government of the Emperor did not see those
difficulties arise without showing itself anxiously occu-
pied as regards the consequences they might have for the
peace of Europe. Not being in the case of intervening
directly to propose itself the means to prevent them, it
nevertheless eagerly welcomed the overtures which were
made to it. Full of confidence in the sentiments of the
Government of her Britannic Majesty, as well as in the in-
telligence of her Ambassador at Paris, the Government of
the Emperor sincerely applauded the mission of Lord
Cowley to Vienna as a first attempt of a nature to prepare
a rapprochement, and it was with no less real satisfaction
that it learnt that the ideas exchanged between the Am-
bassador of England and the Austrian Government were of
a nature to provide elements for negotiations.
" The proposition to hold a Congress, presented at the
same moment by Russia, responded most happily to that
situation, by calling the five Powers to participate equally
in the discussion of a question of European interest; the
Government of the Emperor did not hesitate to make
known that it adhered to that proposition.
"In adhering to it likewise, the English Government
deemed it advisable to precise the bases of the eventual de-
liberations of the Congress. Those bases are :

" 1. To determine the means by which peace may be
maitained between Austria and Sardinia.
"2. To establish how the evacuation of the Roman
States by the French and Austrian troops could be best
effected.
" 3. To examine whether it is suitable to introduce re-
forms into the internal administration of those States and
of the other States of Italy, whose administration should
offer defects that should tend evidently to create a perma-
nent and dangerous state of trouble and discontent, and
what such reforms should be.
"4. To substitute for the treaties between Austria and
the Duchies a confederation of the States of Italy between
themselves, for mutual protection, internal as well as ex-
ternal.

" The Government of the Emperor displayed as much
eagerness in acquiescing without reserve in those bases of
the negotiaton as it had shown in accepting the proposition
of a Ceng-ress.

" The Austrian. Government had, on its side, given its
assent to the meeting of a Congress, accompanying it with
some observations, but without making formal and absolute
conditions, and everything seemed to lead to the hope that
the negotiations Might shortly be opened:
" The Cabinet of Vienna had spoken of the previous dis-
armament of Sardinia as of a measure indispensable to
assure.calni in the deliberation, and it made it, later, an
absolute condition of its participation in the Congress. This
demand having given rise to unanimous objections, the
Cabinet of Vienna substituted in its stead the proposition
of a general and immediate disarmament by adding it as a
sth point to the bases of the negotiations.
" Thus, gentlemen, while France had successively ac-
cepted, without hesitation, all the propositions which had
been presented to her, Austria, after having appeared dis-
posed to lend herself to the negotiations, raised unexpected
difficulties.

" The Government of the Emperor did not the less per-
severe in the sentiments of conciliation which it had taken
as a guide to its conduct. The English Cabinet, continuing
to occupy itself with the most honest solicitude with the
means of obviating the delays which the question of the dis-
armament brought to the meeting of the Congress, had
thought that the sth point brought forward by Austria
might be satisfied if the principle of the general disarma-
ment were immediately admitted, agreeing to regulate the
execution at the opening itself of the deliberations of the
Plenipotentiaries.

"The Government of his Majesty consented to accept
that combination. There remainad, however, to be deter-
mined if, in that state of things, it was necessary that Sar-
dinia herself should subscribe previously to the principle of
the general disarmament. It did not appear that such a
condition could be imposed upon the Sardinian Government
if it was excluded from the deliberations of the Congress ;
but this very consideration offered elements of a new comb
bination which, perfectly conformable to the principles of
justice, did not seem likely to give rise to objections. The
Government of the Emperor declared to the English Go-
vernment that it was disposed to induce the Cabinet of
Turin to givs)itself its assent to the principle of the gene-
ral disarmament, provided that all the Italian States should
be invited to take part in the Congress.
" Youare already aware, gentlemen, that, modifying that
svggestion in a manner to conciliate all susceptibilities, the
Government of her Britannic Majesty presented a last
proposition, based upon the principle of the general, simul-
taneous, and immediate disarmament. The execution
thereof was to be regulated by a Commission, in which
Piedmont' should be represented. The Plenipotentiaries
should meet as soon as that Commission should itself have
met, and the Italian States should be invited by the Con-
gress to sit with the representatives of the Five Great
Powers in the same manlier as at the Congress of Laybach
in 1821.

" The Government of the Emperor wished to manifest
again its conciliatory dispositions by adhering to that pro-
position, which was also accepted without delay by the
Courts of Prussia and of Russia, and to which the Pied-
montese Government also declared itself ready to conform.

" Yet, at the very moment when the Goverliment of the
Emperor thought it might nourish the hope of a definitive
entente, we learnt that the Court of Austria refused to ac-
cept the proposition of the Government of her Britannic
Majesty, and addressed a direct summons to the Sardinian
Government. While, on the one side, the Cabinet of Vienna
persists in not consenting to the admission of the Italian
States to the Congress, the meeting of which it thus
renders impossible, on the other hand it demands from
Piedmont to place her army on a peace footing and to dis-
band her volunteers—that is to say, to concede without
delay, and to Austria alone, that which it had already
granted to the Powers, under the sole reserve of coming to
an understanding with them about it.

" I need not tiring into relief the character of this step
nor dwell longer upon it to demonstrate the sentiments of
moderation, which, on the_ Contrary have never ceased to
animate the Government of the Emperor. If the re-
iterated efforts of the four Powers to maintain peace
have met with obstacles, our conduct publicly attests
that those obstacles did not come from France.
Finally, frentlemen, if war is to be the result of the pre-
sent complications, the Government of his Majesty will
have the firm conviction of having done everything which
its dignity allowed it to prevent that extremity, and it is
not upon it that the responsibility can be made to rest. The
protestations which the Governments of Great Britain, of
Russia, and of Prussia have addressed to the Court of
Austria attest that full justice is already rendered to us in
that respect.
ti In presence of this state of things, if Sardinia is
menaced, if, as everything leads it to be presumed, her ter-
ritory is invaded, France cannot hesitate to respond to the
appeal of a nation her ally, to which she is bound by com-
mon interests and traditional sympathies, regenerated by
a recent confraternity in arms and by the union contracted
between the two reigning Houses.

"Thus, Gentlemen, the Government of the Emperor,
strong in the constant moderation and the spirit of concilia-
tion which have never ceased to inspire it, calmly awaits the
course of events, having the confidence that its conduct in
the different phases (peripeties) which have recently suc-
ceeded each other, will meet with, the unanimous approval
of France and of Europe."

NOMINATIONS (THIS DAY).

LAMBETH.

The election of two fit and proper persons to represent
the borough of Lambeth took place this day, at hustings
erected near Kennington Park. The only candidates were
W. Williams, Esq., and W. Roupell, Esq., the lath
members.

The RETURNING OFFICER, having gone through the
usual routine duties, called upon the electors to select their
representatives.

Mr. J. W. STRATTON proposed, and Mr. J. H. LYON
seconded, William Williams, Esq.
Mr. GROVE nominated, and Mr. H. R. HARRINGTON
seconded William Roupell, Esq.
No other candidates being brought forward, the Return-
ing Officer declared both gentlemen duly elected.
Mr. WILLIAMS, in the course of a most able speech,
thanked the assemblage for again sending him to parlia-
ment, and said his past line of conduct, which had secured
to him the good opinion of the electors of the borough of
Lambeth, would be a sufficient guarantee for the future.
Mr. ROUPELL, after thanking the electors for having re-
elected him, said he was, in some degree, sorry that parlia-
ment had been dissolved at the Moment it had been ; but,
on the other hand, he was pleased, because he did not think
that a parliament, elected as the late one had been,
was at all calculated to deal with so important.
a question as Parliamentary Reform. (Cheers.) He felt
certain the ;espouse of the country to the appeal now made
to it would be such that nothing but a large and compre-
hensive measure of reform would satisfy. The aspect of
affairs abroad was such as called for the greatest activity
and caution on our part, but if they kept the navy in an
efficient state they had nothing to fear. It was usual in
time of war to greatly value our brave tars, but when
peace came then they were lookod upon as useless, but
he felt such was not the way to keep the ships
of England efficiently manned, and the. sailor must be as
much cared for in the time of peace as he had hitherto been
in the time of war. The aspect of foreign affairs was at
the present moment alarming, but the true course for
England to pursue was not to interfere, as she was too fre-
quently disposed to do whenever a quarrel arose between
two foreign despots. (Loud cheers.) He did not at pre-
sent pay any attention to the fear of invasion, but if that
day should ever dawn, he for one would be ready to shoulder
a musket, and to repel the first Frenchman that dare set his
hostile foot upon the shores of England. (Loud cheers.)
This was the first time an election for Lambeth had•been
concluded without a contest ; and he thought, in order to
mark the event, his colleague would not refuse to join him
in defraying the expense of erecting a Gurney fountain.
(Loud cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the returning officer terminated the
proceedings.