Des Arc citizen., 1859-06-08
AND ANECDOTES OF
 THE WAR IN EUROPE.


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 INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES OF
 THE WAR IN EUROPE.
 CouNT GYuLAI, the Austrian Genera lissimo, is Hungarian by birth, and sees active service in I.aly for the first time. In fact, he has never been in the field al all His father, who died in 1881, did once cover the retreat of Archduke Charles in 1909, and did it badly; as to the son born in 1865, (says correspondents his on.y chance of smelling powder was Tn the Hungarian war of lS4S, when, being a native of Peslh, he was not entrusted with any command, and merely watched over the naval arsenal at Poa. 'TIs true he has been War Minister some years, bu he never marsbaled battalion under fire.
 A ZoUAvE, on stepping on board of a vessel at MarseiIles, bound for the seat O war, was stopped by the Colonel of the regiment, who recognized in the soldiers dress young girl, who had assumed the uniform in order not 10 be separated from her lover.
 TIE probable movements of His Holi. ness, the Pope, in the event of Rome be. coming too hot for pleasant residence form the subject otmuch speculation, The Espana, of Madrid, publishes a telegram received from the Spanish ambassador a Rome, intlmatlng the wish oi Po Nono t( take refuge or permanent residence Tn the Isle of Minorca, and inviting the Spanist government to send body guard ol ten thousand men to Port Mahon. The Pope has been there once before, when becamed on his voyage from Genoa to Valparaiso and took fancy then to this BalearIc Is land; which, all things considered, would be very central and highly independenl authority, his flock being mostly on the shores of the Mediterranean. La Patrle however, conradicts the ambassadors dis patch.
 A PARIS letter has the following "Napoleon III. will insist on the delivery from the Kaiserlich vault at Vienna oi the coffin that holds the Due de Relchstadt, and, in case of refusal that French troops will go and fetch It. To-day's Figaro which is known to be an unrecognlzed channel of what the authorities wish to convey. actually says that the young Aus. trian Emperor is the offspring of the Duo de Reichstadt an assertion which, Tn time of peace, Baron Hubner could not tolerate for the honor of the Archduchess Sophie. Fielding ascrlbes to still less suspected parsonage the maternity of Tom Jones :
 THE ferry over the Tcino, at the pom called Abbiate Grasso, where the cenlra division of the invaders crossed, is spo memorable for the death, at the rivers bank there, in 1524. of that pink of Gal lie chivalry, Bayard.
 A PARIS letter-writer says of MT. Rus sell. tbe Times correspondents: '1 mari the Illustrated .NewS speaks of the recal from India of William Russell, with { view of acting in Lombardy as war cor respondent From what has taken place in Turin concerning the Press, ard iron the now known determination of th' French staff, neither Mir. Russell nor an. other Polybus or Xenophon will be tele graphed on this side of the Pc, and unles Austria is sure of getting her own versIol of the war into the Times Ca point l avoi' touching on, ) there is no chance of Gen Gyulai po,ronlslng reporter In Crimea was too far off for much damag 10 result from minute details of slrategeti movements or projects being made publi ploperty; but in these telegraphic times and so near Vienna, London publicity strongly deprecated. Evena Toulon an Marseilles the particulars of the embark ing process, and the specification of tn expediionary force is not allowed 10 figur in the local journals, and much reserve perceptible in the Paris papers.
 As some Zouaves were returning to thei barracks the other day they fell in wit some German mechanics, who were shou ing zealously a German drinking song They ceased their vociferations on seeln Ithe Zonaves take up war-lille posuo and send forward spokesman. "Ale' sieurs, you are Germans; you caut den 1t. Every one can't enjoy the honor
 being a Frenchman.' Well, supposin we are," rejoinrd one of them. "Wel you admit il. Now, perhaps, you will l us know if there is an Austrian among you" A German came forward, "Yes, am an Austrian now what have you 2 Ito say?" "Gol to say' said the belllco' Zouave, Il should like to know wheih you have ever been al Milan 2 "Yts,
 was in garrison there" Then" said Il
 Zouave. politely, "perhaps you will good enough to give us the address oi son