The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account:
Orleans
Neithern 930 925
New ditto BOO .. 805
Lyons and MediteiTanean B3O 30 .. 827 50
New ditto —
Geneva 545 .. 535

Midi — ..
Southern
Western 597 50 .. 585
Eastern . 6BO .. 675
Grand Central - — • •
Sardinian 4lO • , 403 75
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Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 12c. 9 • money,
251. 10c.; three months, paper, 241. 97e.; money, 25f. 95c.

SARDINIA.

TURIN, FED. 5.

In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies
Signor Lanza, Minister of Finance, presented a
project of law authorizing the Government to con-
tract a loan of 50,000,000 f., and read the following
statement in support of the measure •
" The extraordinary armaments of Austria in
the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, and particularly
along the frontier of the Po and Ticino, are known.
Some days before the opening of our Parliament
the official Gazette of Vienna announced the expe-
dition into Italy of a corps darmee, which, joined
to the other troops already stationed there, forms
an army much more powerful than is required in
time of peace for the guardianship of public order
and of internal security.
" But what renders the situation more serious is
the distribution and the concentration of those
forces, which, collected principally bet Ween the
Adda and the Ticino, are quartered in strong masses
at Cremona, Piacenza, and Pavia, and therefore
assume the aggressive aspect of a corps of opera-
tions against a neighbouring Power.
Other indications of no tranquillising nature

are to be found in the military occupation by detached
corps of the villages along the Ticino and the Po;
in the frequent movement of troops on our frontiers ;
in the orders given to hold military stores and quar-
ters in readiness in many places. These facts cer-
tainly reveal in the Austrian Government dispositions
of no pacific nature. Add to this that it has recently
issued a decree prohibiting the exportation of horses
into Piedmont, and that it has contracted a loan of
150,000,000 f. In presence of such hostile manifes-
tations and warlike preparations, evidently directed
against our country, public opinion was agitated,
and it became the duty of the King's Government
to take those more urgent precautions to which it
was counselled by the gravity of the circumstances
and the duty of guarding the security and honour
of the country.
"It is precisely to continue the preparations of
defence that have been commenced, in order to be
-ready for any events, that the King's Government
now applies to Parliament for permission to con-
tract a loan of 50,000,000 lire.

" We feel, gentlemen, as much as any one the
necessity of avoiding new burdens on the country
and an increased weight upon the finances of the
State, and we are grieved to be compelled to pro-
pose them. But in the life of nations there arise,
as you know, supreme moments, in which sacrifices
are a sacred duty, an inevitable necessity- (Bravo !)
The Government, trusting to your known patriotism,
does not doubt that you will be united and decided
in conceding to it the means necessary for the
defence of the country, and, with it, of the national
honour, liberty, and independence. (Rene! Bravo!)
Therefore it proposes to you the following project
of law, and begs you to declare it urgent." (Bravo !
and marks of adhesion.)