, 1866-06-26

not a few of the young men called upon will
answer to their names in the Italian instead of
the Austrian ranks. To facilitate the levy,
the Venice Gazette announces the reduction of
the standard of height to 50 Viennese inches.
In the Florence papers We continue daily to
read examples of practical patriotism and self
devotion, gentlemen and n0blemen %enliStino as
private soldiers, mothers bringing their young
sons to serve in the same capacity, gifts to the
State, rewards guaranteed by corporations and
individuals to the soldiers who shall most dis
tinguish themselves, and pensions to the fami-
lies of those who shall fall in the war. Yester-
day was the day fixed for bringing in the horses
and mules for which a requisition had been
made by the municipality. Every person
having three or fewer horses was required to
bring in at least one Ia measure which seemed
rather hard upon those who possessed only
one) those who had from four to six were to
bring two, from seven to nine three, and above
nine four. Street cabs and omnibus6s were
exempted. A committee was appointed to Sc
lect the horses and fix the prices to be paid for
them. The number Of animals taken to the
appointed place was very large. Several per-
sons have sent horses as free gifts others have
sent sums of money instead.
The proceedings Of Austria in Venetia, if we
are rightly informed of them here, are rather
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suppOsition that she intends for the present to
confine herself strictly to the defensive in her
Italian province, and, indeed, that she is not
prepared to defend her territory from violation,
but rather to limit herself to her fortresses and
strong positions. We are told (but all this
information is from Italian %sOurceS) that the
notifications commenced around RovigO have
been discontinued, and that measures are being
taken in the prospect of the possibility that the
Austrian authorities may have to abandon SOL
of the Venetian towns, and shut themselves up
in the QuadrilateraI. The principal public
functionaries, it is said, have been warned
that in such a case they are to follow the
army with their secretaries the chiefs of de-
%partments are to draw up lists of those employees
who are most compromised as Austrian parti
sans, in order that they also may be allowed to
accompany the troops, and it is further declared
that Government servants who shall obey any
but the Austrian will be regarded as guilty of
HIGH treason. A recent letter from Desenxano,
the small Italian town at the southwest corner
of the LagO di Garda, just opposite to Pes
chiera, denies that there is any gathering of
Austrian troops near that fortress or along the
Mincio, and says that the detachments at Pas
trengo and Lazise upon the lake at Valleggio,
to the south of Peschiera and at CastelnuOvo
and Comma Campagna in the direction of We
rono, are numerically unimportant. The great
increase of troops was between Verona, Yicen-
"a, Padua, Venice, and RovigG, that is to say,
on the main line of the railway in the centre
and south of Venetia. The INT letter repeats
the doubts that have reached us from other
quarters as to whether the whole Of the troops
in Venetia amount as yet to nearly the 100000
men at which they have been estimated. Ne
vertheless, it says, there is a good force in the
province, and it gradually increases, but the
attitude is purely defensive the officers say so,
and the position of the army shows it.