The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

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-•S 3, NEWS.

►I'HE AN rAR IN ITALY.

TURIN, MAY 28.
OFFICIAL BULLY MN PUBLISHED TODAY.

Garibaldi has occupied a position at St. Fermo,
but many of his officers are killed and wounded.
Our troops eontimue attacking the enemy, and
have penetrated as far as Como.
The town of Como was illuminated, and great
joy prevails among the populace.
The enemy is still at Camerlata.
At Lanigiano, in Perm, the people have risen
and pronounced for the King of Sardinia.
General R ibotti, with Tuscan troops, military
engineers, and Bens d'arnies entered Parma amidst
the plaudits of the people, who declared for the
King of Sardinia and Italian independence.
The Parmesan troops have retired.

TURIN, MAY 27.

Austrian steamers sire cruising about the Lago
Maggiore, threatening' the country on the banks of
the lake. The inhabi!Ants, being in arms, offer
resistance to the menaces of the enemy.
The steamer Radetzki apirared before the town
of Cannobio and fired a few' shots without effect,
but the discharges from the 'small arms of the
National Guard and of the Customs Guards soon
compelled her to bear away again.
A private message received here announces that
General Garibaldi 'occupies a strong position near
Varese.
yesterday evening Count de Salmour departed
for Nagles.

PARIS, MAY 28.
.to-day publishes the following
The Moniteur 01'
telegram :
AZESSANDRIA, May 27.--The situation of affairs
affords nothing new to note.

MADRIV, MAY 27.

According to advices received from I.L'bon, the
Portuguese Government has declared to the Cortes
its intention of remaining neutral during the pre-
sent war.

BERNE, MAY 27.

According to a message from Lugano of to-day,
Garibaldi left Varese this morning for Como.
6,000 Austrians are concentrated at Camerlata.
Railway communication between Camerlata and
Milan is interrupted, and also the telegraphs from
Collico to Jocco and through the Valleline.

TELESTE, MAY 27.
A Turkish steamer has arrived bringing the
overland mail, but the news is unimpo:tant.
Advices have also been received from aorfu) the
23d instant.
Two Austrian steamers have arrived there
out hindrance.

BERNE, MAY 27.
The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office : ,

Yesterday General Garibaldi overcame the Aus-
trians at Varese, took two pieces of cannon,
and pursued the retreating enemy. On both sides
the losses were great. The inhabitants of the sur-
rounding country have revolted and risen in arms.
Garibaldi has issued a proclamation calling on the
Lombards to rise.

war unless Germany moves; shehas pledged her-
self to that policy, and has causd her intentions
to be clearly known at Berlin an elsewhere. The
Cabinet of St. Petersburg thetfore advises the
German States not to employ ay of their diplo-
matists on a mission which weld end in their
complete failure. The respons)ility of making
the war European wilt' fall on tiose who wish to
thwart France in freeing Italy fam Austrian rule.
His Excellency M. de Persigy is expected in
Paris. His visit is occasioned iy purely domestic
necessities, and he will return b London within a
week.

THE STATE OF PIEDMONT.
(From the Correspondent o' the Times.)
7URIN, MAY 25.

Until the French have got ur all they want, and
are in a perfect state of efficiency, there seems little
chance of my having any important event to record.
From one day to another, how?.ver, they may find
themselves complete, and assune the offensive. A
bulletin published yesterday afternoon announces
that the French Emperor was starting for Voghera,
there to establish his head-quarters. He was to be
followed by the whole of the Imperial Guard, of
which a good deal of the cavalry is now arrived.
Voghera, as you will see by the map, is well on
towards the present front of the Franco-Piedmon-
tese, on the high road to Piacenza, and at little more
than three Italian miles from Montebello. If this
army remains inactive for many days longer, it will,
I suspect, be less for want of men, horses, or guns,
than from the necessity of getting up large stores of
provisions before commencing a forward movement.
The Austrians have cleared the frontier provinces,
and should they have to retreat, will probably
not leave a great deal behind them in those of
Lombardy. I hoar that the French have already
consumed a great part of the rations laid in for the,
Sardinian army, and it is certain that at the
Piedmontese head-quarters there is no superabun-
dance of forage for horses, and that some kinds of
it were running rather short a day or two ago. It
is no light matter to victual an army of upwards
of 200,000 men ; the amount of transport required
is prodigious, and in this the French are said to be
deficient. _ . .

TURIN, MAY 27.

I know not how the Turinese will demonstrate
their delight should great successes be achieved by
the Franco-Piedmontese army,'for they seem to be
expending all their enthusiasm and exultation upon
trifles. They magnified the affair of Montebello into
an important victory, and last night they could
think and talk of nothing but of Garibaldi's capture
of 47 men. A squadron of French Lancers arrived
here yesterday, and were the object of intense in-
terest and curiosity. One of this afternoon's papers
annouaces that the Bey of Tunis has sent his Prime
:Minister, Chevalier Raffo, on a mission to the King,
with a generous offer of soldiers for the war of in-
depenci:nce. The envoy arrived at Genoa on board
a Tunisian man-of-war, and left immediately for
head-quarters. Certainly the cause of liberty in
Italy finds strange supporters. First steps foryvard
the despotic Sovereign of France, and now the Bey
of Tunis tenders his aid. Letters from Genoa speak
of the crowded state of the port and of the con-
tinual arrival of French vessels, from which large
quantities of provisions and military stores are
landed. The presence of the Terrible does not
seem pleas:pg to the Piedmontese, although why
they should object to it is hard to say, except that'
in their present temper they would object to any-
thing English, and if a member of the Royal
ccicht Club chose to put into a Sardinian port in
his
,'otter we should soon be told of some deep and
ns on his part.
dangorous deb2.s
Captcin BlacklV:od arrived here yesterday, with
despatchL-e; from the 'oreign-office for Sir James
Hudson, ctn.(' proceeded at ,once to Rome.
The weathef continues extrenwly unsettled. This
week we have had daily thunderstorms, followed
bjr heavy rains. -

A private telegram received here from Naples
announces that the King of Naples has, on his ac-
cession to the Ihrone, published a proclamation, in
which he enumerated the good qualities of his pre-
decessor, but avoids making any engagements for
the future, and abstains from pronouncing his opi-
nion on the events now going forward in the
Italian peninsula.

Garibaldi's corps have had their first serious
affair with the Austrians. On the 26th, an Aus-
trian force, about 6,000 or 7,000 strong, attacked
the Piedmontese at La Malmati, in the direction of
Como. The fighting was highly creditable to the
Italians, who charged with the bayonet as soon as
they could get up to their enemies. After a three
hours' contest, the Austrians retreated towards
Como—Garibaldi's men following them up. The
Italians were 4,000 strong, but had no artillery.
A second despatch says :—" The Chasseurs des
Alpes have fought bravely, charging with the
bayonet. Varese and the surrounding country,
in full insurrection, are under arms. Garibaldi
is in pursuit of the retreating enemy. To-
day the Emperor has visited Vercelli in company
with Marshal Vaillant. He was received by General
La Marmora, the authorities, the clergy, and the
people, who greeted him with enthusiastic cheers.'s
Garibaldi's forces and those of the Prince Napo-
leon are rapidly closing on the Austrians, and by
the end ofthe month an important engagement is
expected to take place. Should the Austrians be
defeated we shall hear of propositions for peace,
England being used by the Cabinet of Vienna as
the medium.

The following proclamation was issued by Gen.
Garibaldi to the inhabitants of Lombardy on his
arrival on their territory :
Lombards,—You are called to a new life, and
you must answer the appeal as your fathers did at
I'onsida and Legnano. The enemy is still the
same—the:same atrocious, pitiless, plundering as-
sassin. Your brothers in other provinces have sworn
to conquer or die with you. It is for you to revenge
the insults, the outrages, the servitude of 20 past
generations. It is for you to leave to your sons a
patrimony freed from the stain of the domination
of the stranger. Victor Emmanuel, whom the
national voice has called to be your chief, sends
me into the midst of you to organise you to
fight for your country. I am deeply impressed
by the holy mission which is confided to me, and
proud of commanding you. To arms ! then let your
slavery cease. Whoever has strength to hold an
arm, and refrains, is a traitor ! Italy, with her
children united and freed from foreign bondage,
will suffice to reconquer the position which Provi-
dence has assigned her amongst nations."

A -ISTRIA.

VIENNA, MAY 25.

Pavia is in a state of siege, and on the 19th
inst. the inhabitants of . the city were ordered
he military authori-
-4.011r hours." The
to deliver up their arms to t
ties within " three times twenty
Pavia correspondent of the OesterreicNshe Zeitung
observes that it would have been better if the
order had been given some time ago, as many
persons have recently been assassinated in the
streets. Among the victims are the correspondent
of a German paper, who ventured to write against
Sardinia, and a young Italian girl who had formed
an intimate connexion with a German. The fortifi-
cations at Pavia are on such a grand scale that it is
evident the Austrians are resolved to make a firm
stand on the left bank of the Ticino, and to retain
possession of Lombardy as long as they possibly
can. Almost all the labourers employed in the
construction of the fortifications at Pavia are Pied-
montese, who are but too happy to receive two
zwanzigers (16d.) a day for their work. More
troops are aboot to leave this city, for notice has
been given to the public that for some days after
the 26th inst. no local trains will run on the
Southern railroad. The two trains which take
passengers and the mails to Trieste leave at 8.40 in
the morning and at the same hour in the evening.
The Sardinians are trying to destroy the bridge
at Vacarrizza by sending trunks of trees down the
Po, but their labour is in vain, as the Austrians did
not make use of pontoons. Such strict discipline
is maintained in the Austrian camp that he who
" loots" is almost sure to make acquaintance with
the "Haslinger" (the hazel stick used by- the cor-
porals in castigation is so called). Some men belong-
ing to the train thought fit to carry off several look-
ing-glasses, in handsome gilt frames, from the
theatre at Mortara, and within two hours after the
theft had been committed the culprits had received
their dose of stick on the stage of the theatre,
and in the presence of some of the municipal
authorities. As you have doubtless heard
from your correspondent at head-quarters, two
soldiers who had " borrowed" some trinkets,
from a figure of the Holy Virgin, which
was in a chapel on the roadside, were tried
by a court-martial, and shot. On the 21st inst., a
brigantine managed to run into the port of Venice,
and her crew related that a part of the French fleet
had made; an attack on the Island of Lissa, which is
the Malta of the Adriatic. The island is strongly
fortified, but it is not probable that it would be able
to hold out very long against a powerful enemy. It
need hardly be said that no official information of
what is passing at Lissa has been received here.

FRANCE.

PARIS, FRIDAY.

BOURSE, May 27.—The opening of the market
was rather buoyant, owing to a telegram announc-
ing that Garibaldi had defeated the Austrians,
but prices afterwards gave way, and business be-
came heavy. Threes, after having been done at
61f. 50c. and 61f. 55c., receded to 61f. 35c. ;
Mobilier varied from 590 f. to 585 f. ; Austrian,
562 f. 50c. to 560 f.; Orleans, 1,177 f. 50c. to
1,175 f. ; Lyons, 777 f. 50c. to 775 f. ; Southern 435 f.
to 442 f. 50c. ; Northern, 880 f. to 877 f. 50c.; Eastern,
600 f. to 597 f. The following were the closing
quotations :

The Piedniontese Gazette publishes the 48th,
49th, and 50th bulletins. The latter has been an-
ticipated by telegraph : the others are as follow :
" No. 48. 24th, 3.30 p.m.—The whole of the Im-
perial Guard is to follow the Emperor to his new
head-quarters at Voghera. This movement, had
been delayed because the cavalry of the guard was
expected ; but it has now begun to arrive.
" No. 49. 24th, evening.—Yesterday the Austrian
steamer Ticino approached Intra, summoning that
place to give up two persons arrested as spies. The
alarm was beat, the bells rung, and the National
Guard assembled in large numbers ; whereupon the
Ticino sheered off, firing against the island of San
Giovanni and against La Castagnola. None of our
men were hurt. Parma is in great apprehension
of the fury.of the soldiery, who are excited by the
reactionary party to cast off all discipline. The
Austrians that had arrived at Reggio are retiring
with the Modenese troops to Brescello, where the
Duke is preparing for defence by c•atting down
trees and laying the country under water."
Intra is on the Piedmontese side of the Lago
Maggiore, north of Pallanza, andabout 10 kilometres
from the Swiss frontier.
A Vienna letter of the 22d says :—" An army of
120,000 men is about to be formed in Bohemia. It is
said that the Archduke Albert is to be appointed
to the command in chief of all the troops of the Em-
pire with the exception of those of Italy and Hun-
gary. The Archduke is not, as at first intended, to
be placed at the head of any army which Austria
might send if necessary to the Rhine."
, Russia has pledged herself not to enter into the

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FtlqE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY i,iVENING, MAY 28, 1859.

INDIA AND CHINA.

THE CALCUTTA MAIL.

The India and China journals brought by the
Overland Calcutta Mail have arrived. The dates
from Calcutta are to the 22d; four days behind the
news which we last received from Bombay.. The
Englishman says :

The condition of the rebels still in arms becomes daily more
desperate and more wretched, as they are hunted and their
resources cut off from them ; but though beaten they are
still numerous enough to be troublesome, and from the mis-
taken course pursued with them many of them are by no
means hopeless of another chance. They fight only when
compelled, but plunder at every opportunity, and oblige us
at great cost to follow their movements, and when at last
any number find themselves hemmed in, they give Ahem-
solves up, with arms in their hands yet hot from their last
exploit, and are received under the terms of the still open
amnesty. Literally such was the case with a party of
about 75 men who loot pd a factory near Buxar, and when
they found themselved cut off from escape, next' day gave
themselves up as we have said. Officers coming down
assert that the Sepoys are often heard to say,—" Yes, we
are beaten ; the Bengal army has lost its chance ' • but you
have got the Madras and the Bombay armies, and the time
will come." We should be glad to have ground for saying
the struggle is at an end. The country is settled ; but
a glance through our columns will show that, though ap-
proaching that consummation,' there is yet work to be done,
and the worst season to do it in.

From Hong Kong intelligence is to the 13th of
April. The Overland China Mail of that date
gives the following in its summary :

Baron Gros, the French plenipotentiary, left this on the
7th instant in the Audacieuse for Singapore, from whence
he returns to Europe. M. de Bourboullen, at present at
Macao, is now the French Minister, and the Legation will
be removed to Shanghai next month. The Bishop of Vic-
toria has also left, on a visit to Australia.

From Cochin China there are more 'particulars of the
taking of Saigon, which does not seem to have cost a single
life to the allied French and Spanish force. The booty is
said to have been immense, both of arms and of copper cash.
From Shanghai there have come rumours which may
possibly have some influence on the course to be pursued
by the British Minister to China. It is said that the Rus-
sians have established their legation at Peking, and that
their Minister has been attended there by a large retinue,
but that he has already had a difference with the Chinese
Government, from his refusing to communicate officially
with wwy one but the Emperor himself. It is also reported
that Tien-tsin (where the treaty was Couuluded) has been
occupied by a large number of Chinese troops, and " diffi-
culties" are apprehended when our Minister advances to
Peking with the ratified treaty.
Business is almost entirely suspended at Canton, and the
rumour that the city is about to be evacuated by the allies
is one great cause of fear. No teas are making their ap-
pearance, and almost no purchases are made of our imports
except of manufactures used in Canton itself and the imme-
diate neighbourhood. It is reported that the rebels who
hold the possession of the passes to the tea districts, have
intercepted the small remaining quantity of this season's
tea which was on its way down, and are interfering with
the cultivation in some districts. It is feared by the
Chinese that immediately after our evacuation of the
city it will be seized by the rebels, and so they are
unwilling to engage in commercial operations which
may only serve to enrich others. Both in the east
and ox the north-west of the province of Kwang-tung,
the rebels have been successful of late, and are pressing
towards Canton. In 1846 they nearly took that city, and
were driven back with some difficulty ; but now there is no
determined Yeh to govern the province, or to intimidate
the rebels by wholesale executions in the event of the foreign
troops being withdrawn.
At all the ports business has been dull during the last
fortnight : but the resumption of the immigration of Chi-
nese to California has slightly increased the demand for
shipping. The continued dryness of the spring has caused
a considerable rise in the demand for rice at all the ports
and at Macao.
There have been lately many and gross instances of kid
napping Chinamen in order to send them as contract coolies
to the Havana. This slave trade has not been carried on at
Hong Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the neigh.
boluthood 'of Canton and Whampoa, and the Chinamen thus
kidnapped are said to have been taken down, chained in
lorchas, to the neighbouring Portuguese settlement of Macao,
where they are placed in barracoons, and shipped off, chiefly
in French vessels, for Cuba.