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      -V THE long delay -which was beginning to try the patience of not a few even of the peace-loving of our country raen , appears to be rapidly drawing to a close , judging by the most recent intelligence from the seat of war . The many changes and shjftings of the Austrian position and line of defence , if it can be said to have had either , up to within a few days past , would seem not to have been without object . If , as a late telegram from

      Pavia informs us , a collision between the Austrian and Tranco-Sardinian armies was expected on Thursday , or , at the latest , on Friday , the conclusion is pretty clear that the battle would have to be fought somewhere in the neighbourhood of that city , and with no small advantage on tho side of the Austrian Cormnander-in-Chief as to position ; that is what he has gained by the seemingly confused and purposeless tactics which he has been employing almost froin the day he first crossed the Ticino . .

      In other respects , General Gyulai , if we may put any trust in " official " information , may count his gaius by waggon-loads , for the report is , that ho has almost entirely exhausted the track of country over which his hungry regiments have passed . The correspondent of the Times , who follows the steps of the Croat general , tells preposterous stories of the delight with which the Austrians are everywhere received by tho Piedmontese , who , he says , look upon them

      as their natural deliverers from the despotism under which they groan as the subjects of King Victor Emmanuel . The man is , of course , either gulled by the people ho talks with in tho Austrian camp , or he is attempting to gull the readers of tho Times . In either case , the question that first suggests itself is the same : what is tho Times about , to pennit such monstrous lies to appear in its pages ? ' A tclogram from Borne ( not tho best authority , it must be admitted ) states that , so far from tho Piedmontosc talcing delight in tho presence of the Austrian hordes , General Gyulai is nearly at his last shift to get frgna them supplies for his ravenous soldiors . The telegram adds , that it will not bo possible for tho Austrian Oominander-m-Ohief to hold his position in Piedniont fox * more than fifteen

      of fiuy-six ; tho general result being that , practically , they are not hi any better position than they were before IJord Derby dissolved the late House . Still we hear of " understandings " between the Premier and Lord Palmcrston as the basis upon which the present Ministry will manoeuvre to keep Lord John Russell from power . For the sake of tho Liberal party , we heartily wish that Lord Palmerston would go over to the Treasitry benches ; unfortunately there is no chance of his doing so ; but there is too much likelihood that he will soon be doing something on his own account , the effects of which will be felt in a renewal of the disunion which has so long paralysed the action of the Liberal party . Relieved from the trouble and excitement of the elections , the country is devoting itself with growing earnestness to the duty of providing for its own defence in tho face of the assured possibility of foreign invasion . All the great towns are arranging , for ths organisation of rifle corps , and the daily newsi ^ apers teem with letters of advice and inquiry as to the most effectual mode of . arming and

      dressing the volunteers who are hastening to enrol themselves . The movement , which is in every wa ^ a salutary one , appears to express a truly national feelimr . . . Another feeling , equally genuine , is also finding expression in all the leading cities and towns of the kingdom ; that is , the desire ' of the-people that this country should be kept out pf the present Continental imbroglio . Several of the large towns have resolved to address her Majesty , praying her to carry out the desire of her people in tliis respect , and other towns arc likely to follow the same course .

      are in a desperate state of collapse , and a new loan is to be screwed out of unhappy Lombardy . The sum demanded this time is seventy-five millions of florins . The circumstances connected with the publication of tho French loan are like the incidents of a romance of money . Five hundred millions of francs were asked for the purpose of making war in Italy ; and , lo ! about five times the sum is

      eagerly pressed upon the Imperial Government ; Precisely stated , the capital subscribed was , at the dose of the subscription list , on the 15 th instant , 2 , 307 , 000 , 000 fr ., advanced by 525 * 000 persons , 244 , 129 in Paris , and 281 , 000 in the departments ; ' of ' these , 375 , 000 . were subscribers for lOfr . of rente , whilo 150 , 000 were subscribers for larger sums ; results that show , says the Mbjiiteur , " the . intimate union of France and the Emperor , -and the entire confidence of the nation in the strength and wisdom of the sovereign who presides over its destinies . " Beloved or hated , trusted or feared , it is certain that Napoleon HI . has a wonderful opportunity for retrieving the past . Will he take advantage of it ? Otherwise , lot him lose a great battle with the Austrians , and woe to him and to his dynasty . Events aro gathering ; and the game which for tho moment seems to show favourably for him , may be taken out of his hands . The position of Prussia is becoming more and more a grave

      matter for the rest of Europe . In closing the Diet on Saturday last , the Prince Regent made a speech , which was certainly anything but pacific in spirit . " The attitude of the army and the spirit which animates it , " he said , " fill mo with confidence , whatever may be the events which the future has in storo for us . I know that when tho country shall require its services , thearniy will not remain behind the deeds of arms and military prowess of our fathers . " In tho meantime , Prussia is

      Meantime , her Majesty has published a Royal Pi * oclamation , announcing hqr intention to preserve a strict neutrality , and warning her subjects of the pains and penalties to which they will subject themselves by doing anything against tho laws wlu ch govern , the intercourse of neutral states . The shipowners of England are made very anxious by this proclamation , for they cannot precisely determine what they may or may not do in tho way of their calling , without making themselves liable to the law of contraband . Tho Foreign Office is not able to determine the point ; and the only way out of the difficulty appears to be that which has been suggested by tho Shipping Qaselte , nnmcJy , for our Government to call upon tho beJhgeronfc Powers to name tho articles which thoy determine to consider as contraband of war . At present thoro is a doubt whether even coals may not come within tho circle of prohibition . Perhaps tho most notable itom of tho week s home news is tho account of Tnntia Topco ' s summary trial and e xecution , which haa readied ue by tho Bombay mail . Opinion will bo divided in thia country as to whether hia crime was of a nature to call for such a punishmont ; it will , however , be time to dlaoues tho question when tho fuller details of his trial and doath roaoh us . Meanwhile , it is interesting to know that , while admitting that ho was associated with tho Nana Sahib , at the time of tho Cawnporo massacre , ] x < j deifies that either be or tho Nana had anything to do with that atrocity .

      opposing the right of her influence to prevent tho acceptance by tho Federal Diet of the proposition mado by Hanover to form a federal corps d ' armee of observation on tho Rhino . That which gives the gravest importance to tho movements of Prussia is the fact that Russia has just placed five corps cParmle on a war footing , calling in . all rosovvos , and making other arrangements for being in a state of readiness to inarch within threo months . Tho destination of theso troops will determine the course of Prussia ..

      Tho week at homo has been very full of event , although nothing of momentous importance has occurred . Nearly all tho oleotions aro ovor , and Liberals and Conservatives have "the results in blaqk and white before them . The Conservative party tdkos into tho House , some seventeen additional members , but they start in an ugly minority

      days-longer—a statement that must be accepted with a very large grain of salt . Within tho time named , in all probability , other oauses will have made it advisable for General Gyulw to place his troops within roaoh of the well-stored magazines of Lombardy . Sevoral of the moro recent telegrams state that he has made good provision for retreat . Meantime , tho finances of the Austrian treasury

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      REVIEW OF THE WEEK- General Summary 039 HOME INTELLIGENCE . PAGE ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEThe Elections ... '¦ < 53 G France ...... ' . 0 * 0 Guthertn ^ ffom L ^ fnd Police ° ° INDIA AND INDIAN PROGRESS- . Courts • G 3 ° Indian Army Organisation ...... 641 Criminal Record .... 036 Indian News ttti Accidents . i JS 2 ' ' Naval and Military . 037 Facts and Scraps 642 Volunteer Rifles " 37 -PnatsiriDt < H 4 General Home News .. 037 m , ° . ^? 1 « V , RSL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . PUBLIC AFFAIRS _ Continental Notes C 3 S The Politics of the War .......... 045

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2295/page/3/