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be unable to lend any aid in the hour of
supreme need. The Army Of the North,
however, whether or not it be at the
present moment assembled before Vienna,
is by no means the only hope of the
Austrians. Fifty thousand volunteers,
hastily summoned from Hungary, are
said to be hasteuiog from the East
while from the South a large force will
be supplied by the recall Of the Army of
Dalmatia, and of as many divisions of the
Army Of Vcnetia as can be spared from
garrison duty and can arrive in time. At
the time in which Austria relied on the
results of that great stroke of policy
which by a cessiOn of Venetia TO France
was to relieve her from all hostilities on
the Mincio, the Pc, and the Adriatic, she
no doubt expected that all her enormous
forces south of the Alps would be at once
disposabIt. The steamers from the DIAL
NATHAN coasts and the railways from We
roma and Mantua would concentrate
100000 men upon Trieste, and these
might be carried to Vienna by the rail.
way over the S0mmerlng i'll a few days,
But the delay occasioncd by the negotl-
atoms for an armistice and a peace, and
their final breakdown, have necessarily
thrown perpIexiIy and bewllderment into
the Austrian councils, 50 that it is now
difficult to know how many Of the South
ern Army have reached, or will reach,
the capital in time.
Resolved upon the prosecution OF the
war with might and main, the Italians
have set aside In Marmora, who, not
withstanding the immense claims he has
and will always have on his couotry'S
gratitude, has been since Custozza look
ed upon as the author Of that national
disaster, and, following the impulse Of
the more enterprising Claldinl, they
crossed the Pc on Sunday, the 8th inst,
and, after gaining easy possession of
Rovigo, traversed the marshy lands,
which the Austrians had neglected or
been unable TO inundate, and before the
end Of last week had effected their tri-
umphant, though apparently easy and
bIoodless, entrance into Padua and Vlcen-
"a. BY gaining possession at these
points of the railway line from Verona 10
Venice, and probably, also, by pushing
their two divisions owe the hills TO
Trent, they mvst by this time have COM
pletely isolated the Quodrilateral, cutting
off all communication between its garrl-
sons and Vienna. Forty thousand Aus
TRANS were said 10 have been posted at
Padua a very few days ago. From the
Pc to Rovigo, from Rovigo to the Adige,
and from this to Monselice and Padau,
the Austrians have been falling back
before the enemy, and, in all probability,
leaving only a sufficient force at Venice,
have proceeded from Mestre to Trieste.
1t is not unlikely that Cialdini and his
100000 men may press closely on the
retreating Imperial columns; but the
possession of. the railways will, in all
probability, enable them to battle pursuit
and traverse the Alps in safety. Cialdini
may be tempted to follow on their foot
steps, either across the same pass of the
S6mmering, or across the Ponleba, from
Udine 10 Villach. The distance from
Venice to Vienna along this road, which
was the one followed by B%onaparte in
more than one campaign, is 4O6 miles.
and no diligence on the part of Cialdini
would enable him to reach the Danube
till long after the destinies of the Empire
have been decided under the walls of its
conital r. ia oyfrpfnplv likely that the