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Adyces from Vienna to the 2gd of May, say
Austria is as infex ible in its negotiations with
Sardinia as it proved in the case Of Switzerland,
There is no hope of speedy suspension OF tn"
sequestration which has been imposed upon the
properties of the Lombard emigration
from Berne, 2Sth, we learn that the Federal
Council had resolved to issue orders TO the vari-
Gus cantons, instructing them TO raise their mil
iary contingents al once, and to be prepared
TO take the field at first call
The Council of State of Neufehatel has been
dissolved by resolution of the Grand Council,
taken on the 23d Of May.
The suspens on bridge at Penney, near Geneva,
fell on the 27th seven lives were lost.
From the London Times, May 80.
The Austrian Government. not warned or de
tered by the state of affairs in the East and IN
other parts of Europe, has thought properto add
t. this imJroglio by Withdrawing the Minister
from Switzerland, and procaming diplomatic
rupture with the Helvetic Confederation. The
negotiations and remonstrances which have at
last been brought to this abrupt and unsatlsiac-
T. ry termination had been pending ever since
the occurrence of the outbreak at Milan, IN
February last. when Austria thought proper to
visit on her neighbors, the Swiss and the Pied
montese, the consequence of her own inability
to restore tranquility and contentment to the
province of Lombardy. 1t will be remembered
that she vented her resentment on the Swiss by
the expulsion Of several thousand fine dressers
and cowherds, natives of the canton of Tlcino,
who had for many years found an honest livell-
hood By their own industry in the Austrian do
minions. No charge was ever preferred, either
individually or collectively, against these untor
tunate persons, and it was never alleged that
they had been concerned in the slightest degree
in MazZini's Instruction. But they were made
the scapegoat of the irritation of Austria against
the Swiss Government; and, by strange IN
vention of the usages of civilized nations, these
private persons were slcritlced aud prosecuted
for the qualification of political vengeance.
The paramount and obvious inter st of Aus
tria was to remain on good terms with the small
and neutral States, which lie interposed between
her own Italian dominons and the frontiers of
France. Switzerland and Piedmont are the ma
tural guardian Of the passes of the Alps, and
the natural barrier against an invasion Of Italy.
With signal folly, Austria has picked quarrel
with both of them The Piedmon,ese Minister
has left Vienna on leave OF absence; the Duke
of Genoa is the first legitimate Prince who has
been entertained by the Court of the Tuilleres,
where he is now on visit and the Austrian
Minister is recalled from Berne. In other
words, Austrla mas thrown INTO tue HaHus VI
France an undivided diplomatic influence over
the first elements of success in an Italian expe
dition and these blunders of the Vienna states
men have given Louis Napoleon as much adj
vantage as he would have derived from the sue
cessful opening of campaign. Switzerland
and Piedmont, properly used, were the outworks
of Lombardy but Austria has changed their
disposition toward her into keen irritation, and
turned the important position they occupy on
the map of Europe against the security and
tranquility of her own territories