The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-27
THE ALLIES IN MILAN.
THEIR CEPTION-IMPORTANT PROCLAMA-
TON OF NAPOLEON.

TON OF NAPOLEON.
You jumped out of the carriage, and few steps
brought You into another world: from the sight of
misery to that Of happiness, from pale faces to
radent Ones from shrieks of misery to cries of Joy
and eXutation, from few wretched, suffering men,
to people mad with Joy, from railway train full
of mangled specimens of humanity to large town
in its best holiday attire, the windows decorated
with carpets and tricoors, French and Italian, the
balconies filed with the fair, greeting every new
uniform it passed, and throwing flowers upon all
soldiers without distinction; the streets crowded
with people hurrahng and clapping their hands at
every soldier or officer, all decorated with the
Italian tricolor and the French blue in the back
ground. Among the mass you could see the French
troopers every one accompanied by several towns
people, and carried about in triumph-carriages
iu Of the new guests and their entertainers; civil
ians with the tricolor in the buttonhole a musket
on the shoulder, and paper stuck in the hat, on
which was printed "OTdine G Sicurezzd" These
were the new Municipal or National Guard of vol
unteers, who were armed with the muskets found
in the citadel, and kept by the police since.
in one word, Milan was rejoicing at the retreat
Of the Austrans and the entry Of the French,
which had taken place that morning. Tn, corps Of
the DUO de Magenta, the victors Of the battle of
Magenta, had entered Milan.
Unlike The revolution of ls4s, when the fight
lasted five days this time the Austrians evacuated
the place III the silence Of night. With the expe-
rience of ls4s before them and the Allies behind
them the Austriars well knew that Milan was I'M
tenable. and several days ago heard one of the
genta say that revolution at Milan was expected
even before they had left. The victory of the Al
lies made this superiuous, and the Austrians took
the wise step Of abandoning the disafected town.
Even before the of the defeat of the Austrians
penetrated through other sources the aspect of the
Austrians coming back from the front showed some
thing was wrong. They had considerably changed
their attitude of masters. and from the
great movement among them it could be seen
that they were preparing for their retreat.
They, indeed, still promenaded the seven Zouaves
whom they had taken during the fight but they
came in at one gate, and, passing through the
citadel, went out at the other. The podesta of the
town went with them; he was too unpopular q
person TO remain. Ia the morning, when it be-
came clear that the Austrians had left, the NUM-
cipal Council assumed the direction of affairs and
took measures to prevent disorder, which other
wise might have arisen. Three thousand muskets
were distributed among the more respectable
part of the youth who guarded all the public
buildings, and patroled the town, TO prevent dis
order. These measures were sufficient TO maintain
tranquility and good humor; not the slightest ex-
cess has occurred. In the beginning the mob,
thinking OF 1913, began to tear up the pavement in
places TO make barbados. This was stopped
Immediately, and nothing be more orderly
than the behavior Of the people. 1t is counter
part Of what happened in Tuscany, and proves that
the people, fett alone, are quite capable of taking
care of themselves.
With the institution of the provisional govern
ment, il we can call ii so, all the trammels Of the
police, censorship, &C., the well known engines of
repression. have ceased TO eXist-free movement
in body and mind. and yet no haranguing, speech
flying, forming of clubs, or anything of that kind.
The Council has posted up proclamation to re.
organize the old National Guard; another pro-
clamation requests the citizens to receive the
army well: and third announces the arrival
of the two allied sovereigns, and it is the
joy at the long sighed for delivery, and the re-
ception of their deliverers, which throws every
thing else into the background. town ntoxicat-
ed with oy-this is the aspect Of Milan at present.
Ever since the entrance of the French yesterday
morning the frenzy has continued. Twas not here
when this happened, but from all one now it is
easy to imagine what the first sight of the French
troops must have caused-thosc showers Of flowers,
that capping of hands, those shouts and hurralis,
in which the Milancse seem far better up than any
Italians ] have ever heard. The carnival lasted till
late in the night, and illumination was impro-
vised by placing on the balconies all the lights
which were inside the apartments.
The effect was striking, for it was the iunlina-
ton of the whole town at the same noment-so
Spontaneous and sudden that il showed better than
any thing else how united the Milanesc are in feel
ing, at any rate at this moment.
ENTRANCE OF LUIS NAPOLEON AsD VICTOR
EMANUEL.
But II was this morning that the excitement and
frenzy attained their eliminating point At eight
o'clock the Emperor and the King made their
try into the town. 1t would have been pariona