New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-07


onr regular London correspondent, which we hasten 70
Law before our readers.
From Our Own CorrsIuDderi.
LONDON, Good Friday. April -, 1852
Yesterday the friends OF peace were in high gles.
an article in the Monitor having announced thst
Frarce. Russia snd Prussia had given their assent
Ia the English propositions for the Congress; aud
i wss even said that Austria had waived her OBJ
iections against the admission of Sardinia to tue
great European Council Still the Exchange
IT manned distrustiul, the moneyed interest,"
being too sharp to put any faith in the results
of those long protracted negotiations. In the aifor-
noon the scene suddenly changed, sill hopes Tor
peace were gone and even The Star which until
now tried TO give apacfc aspect to the most alarm
NO reports had to complain Of bad news, and
sought at least a relief in doubling their
authenticity. To-day, even thus last ray
# hone has vanished. IL can no longer
doubted that Austria, having completed
her last arrsng ements and sent every soldier She
can spare TO Italy, has dispatched an ultimstum I"
Turin ordering Sardinia at once to disband the iree
corps of Italian volunteers and TO reduce the army
Three days are given for Straightforward answer
any evasion or appeal to the European negotiations
still carried on being declared to amount 10
a negative, TO be followed by instantaneous
war The Emperor of Austria mas e'idenuy
become tired of negotiations, and ANXIOUS 10
crush the Sandman army and to extermnate its
revolutionary elements before the ARRIVAL OF the
French: he longs for war. and believes that ne
may vet atone for Marcngo AS to Sardinia, sho
cannot Weld to the Austrian demand without stuiti-
fine herself and losing her honor. We may thcre-
fore SEE Easter Sunday celebrated in quite novel
way BY declaration Of war, the crossing oil the
Ticino, and the unavoidable bloodshed aud plumber
following in the wake of any Austrian army.
The position of Sardinia will certainly not DO
very enyable for the first few days. Should She
enthusiasm of the population and false sense oil
national honor induce the King to oppose tho
Austrians. and to accept battle the defeat would
be almost certain, as the Austrian army Is 10 the
Sandman as two to one Should Victor Emanuel,
on the other hand avoid battle and leave the road
to Turin open, no that the Austrian cavalry may
make dash on it, and sack his palace, and burn and
plumber the town, without any military advantage.
he might under the cannons OF Alexandra, take
such formidable position rs to keep the Austrian
army in check until the French army can arrive oy
the Mont Gems and by sea. The Sandman army.
a creation of Carlo Alberto, is much better than Its
superior officers many of whom dislike war with
Austria 1t was this dislike which led in l5iS-9to
the defeats of Carlo Alberto, and though Bes and
Baya are no longer at the head of the army, their
disciples have still considerable influence Tdey
tku NJ al hat
should be such well-drilled engines as the Austr-
ans or Russians. who do not know the object for
which they fight and die. Count Cavour is well
aware Of this fact and has therefore REINFORCED every
regiment by about two hundred Italian volunteers,
much to the disgust of the mertinet officers, who
accuse him of will!uly destroying the discipline OF
the army by introducing revolutionary elements
into it, Col Quesla is one Of those officers, whom
the Turin papers denounce for openly avowing
such views Garibadi, Cosenz and Medci are, on
the other hand. steadily organizing the free corps
We see here in the ranks the Of the French
Republican Minister Bxio; of the late Papal Minis
ter Count Rossi Ofthe Venetian Dictator, MANN;
sf Count ScbregOnd the Austrian Mayor OF Milan,
Of Prince COrsin the FOrentine patrician, and
others bearing the iustriOus names of Italy. Gen.
Ulloa is still at Paris, though the papers con-
tnue to speak of him drilling volunteers at
Urea. Klspks, who a his return from Bel
grade and Bucharest may be- at Genoa just
when the war breaks out, but he will not take
Sandman service. I.amoricere has likewise re-
fused to serve in foreign army. We have not
yet heard the of either Of the Commandersin-
Chief Gen. Benedek, who has a greater repu-
tatiOn in the Austrian army than his hasty retreat
at the battle Of Raab ought to warrant, has been
summoned b. the Emperor from Galica to Milan,
where Baron Hess has established his headquarters.
This is certainly the most distinguished Of all the
Austrian Generals; still he is under cloud, since
he il Protestant.
At yienna Ministerial crisis is not impossible.
Tue centralizng system Of Baron Bach has broken
down, aud the old Archduke John has openly ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction with the Administrations
still Bach cliDgs TO his place and system, supported
chiefly by the Archduchess Sophia, and the heads
of the clergy, who are devoted to him on account
Of the ConcOrdat. But he could not maintain
himself and his centralizing system should the
Austrian army be defeated and the Emperor DO
forced to appeal to his people for men and money.
He would, in such case have to offer concessions
to Hungary, and to restore the municipal institu-
tons Of Croatia. No such ideas yet broached
at Vienna, aud Baron Bruck hopes to get on for
while by the emission Of one hundred millions Of
l xcheouer bills-in DOlnt of fact with (,oyern-