Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-05-27

AUSTRIAN NAvY-Thc Austrian navy is of recent
creation, and the general impression is that she has
navy at all But she has been silently and steadily in
creasng it and the coming struggle has elected extra
ordinary facts relating thereto The following article
which translate from the lI0nHeur dc la F0He of the
22d of April last, will show what gigantic strides the
Emperor of Austria has made OF late il building up
powerful navy
The several nations Of Europe are now organizing
and with the greatest care and increasing their naves
because they have felt that the maritime power of the
nations had in future times to play important and
entirely role. We have several times had occ ason
to mention the perseverng efforts of the Austrian gov
ernment for the extension and improvement of its navy
we will to-day speak on that interesting subject from
artistic and scientific point of view.
Austria has no other maritime outlet than on the
Adriatc-a gulf or Interior sea communicating with
the Medelranean and watering three of her handsom-
est possessions. The first is the LombardO Venetian
kingdom bOrdered at the east by the Adriatic and Ill
rya at the north by the Tyro and the canton of the
GrsOns, at the west by the Kingdom of Sardinia and
Switzerland; at the south by Sardinia, the duchies of
Parma and MOdena. No country is more abundanty
Watered than Lombardo-V Veneta. A powerful river
the Po waters the southern frontier, and into the
Adriatc, which receives also the Adge and numerous
other smaller rivels. The rivers and the lakes which
with the Po and the Adige fertze that large country
are the 1icino, which separates it from Piedmont the
Pave, the Brenta, the Adda the Isonzo, the Taglia
meno and the Lulerza, the Lake of Como of IdrO OF
| LEO, or Mantua, and the Lake MagglOre.
The second is the Kingdom OF Illyria bordered at
the south by the Adrac, which forms two gufs-that
of Trieste and that of Quarneroseparated by the pc
nnsula Of Istria.
! The third is the kingdom of Dalmatia the narrow
and extended of which is cut in two places by
the Ottoman territory. The Adratic waters at the
South, the coast Of DaImata, and numerous channels
separate it from the many islands near the coast.
The imperial navy of Austria has made great pro-
gress during these last few years On the first of JAN
uary, 1848, the number of its vessels follows -
Three frigates of which always stationed at
Venilia, and carried the admrals flag four soops five
brigs, seven schOoners hirtyfve pnnace eleven gun
boats steam dispatch boat, transport steamer
ami four special vessels.
Now at distance Cf eleven years the Austrian navy
comprises one ljne-Ofbatte shp-the Kaser-complet-
ed, and anOther-the Austria-On the stocks at POa.
Three screw frigates-Adria, Dosauand and Radetzsk
and five sailing frigates-Belona, Juno, Novara We
nus ard Schwartzenberg.
Five m-sloops-Comte DanCola, Archduc Fred
eric. Imperatrce Elizabeth, Santa Lucia Vota and six
sailing sIoops-Andriatica, Carolina DIANA Leipzig
Minerva, Iitana.
steam dispatch boats-AchiIes, Amoch, Curtatone
Curtozza, Prince Eugene, Henri, Taurus, Vulcan
brigs, IL schooners so gunboats, among which
thirty propelled by steam and three steam transports
1t appears from these facts that Austria who had NO
line ofbatte ships in 1848, has two at present that
she had but three rigaes, and has eight three
which are screw vessels; she has now eleven sloops
instead of four and leaving aside the brigs and the
schooners to speak of vessel which has now taken
conspicuous place in the modern fleets she possessed