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A letter from g following as strength of the French fleet in the harbour : — " In commission—the Bretagne , 140 ; the "Ville de Paris , 120 guns ; the Algesiras , 100 guns ; the Redoubtable , 100 ; the Napoleon , 90 guns ; theFontenay , 9 » guns ; the Donawerth 80 guns ; and the Saffron , gunnery ship . I may state that the reserve is composed of the Mpntebello , 120 guns ; the Friedland , 120 guns ; the Souvrain , 120 guns ; the Fleurus , 100 guns ; the Navarin , 100 guns ; the Prince Jerome , 100 guns ; the Jena , 90 guns ; the Charlemagne , 90 guns ; and the Duperr 6 , 82 . The term ' " reserve , " is used although the authorities declare the ships to be laid up in ordinary ; for they are moored stem onto the quay , on which are their guns , arranged in order and ticketed ready for shipment . The stores are all stowed away ready at hand , and the crews are in Toulon ready to be marched onboard . The Empress has addressed a letter of condolence to Madame Bueref , widow of General Beuret , killed at Montebello . An Austrian brig , laden .. with timber , was captured by a French cruiser and brought into the port of Marseilles on Sunday . Most of the crew-were JFrench . The Empress purposes moving to St . Cloud about the end of the week , and taking up her residence there for the summer . .
Toulon ives tke the FRANCE . , THE FRENCH FLEET . — -A 3 DDRESS OF THE EICPRESS . The Italian committee in Paris has received instructions to send no more volunteers to Turin . The reason alleged is the inconvenience arising from arrivals of volunteers while regular troops remain concentrated in such large numbers in the positions they now occupy .. , , , The health of the Emperor , although reported by telegraph to be good , has been affected by a slight attack of rheumatism , which has settled in "Ms left foot , which is much swollen . It is worthy of notice that the journals have been allowed to discuss the probability of an empire of Italy and a coronation of Napoleon at Rome by the Pope . ' ¦
At one o ' clock on Thursday , the Empress received the members of the great bodies of the state and addressed a discourse tp the Presidents of each body . Her Majesty said to Count Mbrny , President . of the Corps Legislatif , that she depended on the' enlightened patriotism of the deputies to maintain in their several departments that confidence which we all must feel in the energy of the army , and , when the day of victory shall have come , in the moderation of the Emperor . Her Majesty further said that she reckons upon the'loyal support of the entire nation , which , during the absence of the chief it has chosen , will never be found wanting to a woman and a child .
The church in the Rue d'Aguesseau , Paris , which has been recently obtained from Her Majesty ' s Government by the Colonial Church School Society , is to be opened for divine worship on Sunday next , the 2 . 9 th insfc ., and that two sermons will be preached by the Rev . Prebendary Burgess , who is commissioned by the Bishoxi of London to officiate on the occasion . —
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PRUSSIA . A decree of the Prince Regent authorises ther Finance Minister to impose new taxes , in case ffc becomes -necessary to mobilise the army . A secoid decree empowers the Ministers of War and the * Marine to incur and defray the . extraordinary ex * - penses occasioned by the placing of the army-in readiness to take the field . Another rumour is , that both Prussia and England have protested against the -French occupation of Tuscany . Both Lord Cpwley and the Prussian Charge d'Affaires have made " observations " on the subject , which havf e not been very well received .
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AUSTRIA . The official Wiener Zeitimg publishes a letter of the Emperor to tho Archduke Charles Lewis , Governor of the Tyrol , directing him to prepare tho customary measures for the defence of the Tyrol , which has been almost denuded of troop ? . It is now to be occupied by a corps of 40 , 000 men . 'These trdops will advance from Bohemia under Lieutenant-Field-Marshal Clam-Giilias . It will be easy for these troops , if necessary , to advance from tho Tyrol and the Vorni'lberg into Italy , to reinforce tho Austrian
army actually engaged . The Austrian army , at present , consists of twelve corps d ' armec , Tjut an order to raise four new corps is likely to be issued . In a fe > v days an Imporial ordinauco for a " conscription " of 100 , 000 inen will bo published . The late . Marshal Marmont usod to say that Austria could " stamp armies out of tho earth , ' hut how Austria is to maintain such a vast host is a problem which wise men are unable to solve . The electric telegraph is finished through tho head-quarters of tho different corps d ' armce , and by two route * to Vienna .
tains the following : — " The speech of Kossuth is a manifesto destined to justify a step which he has resolved upon , and which he will carry out shortly , viz . y- ^ fo go over publicly to the Emperor Napoleon , and to influence from Turin the Hungarian troops in the Austrian army . Klapka , who has recently paid a flying visit from Constantinople to Milosch , will operate from the other side in a similar . manner . . The Suabian Mercury states that the Austrian port of Pola is completely deserted . It is considered the best military Port in Austria . It appears that Pola was abandoned because the fortifications were constructed by a French engineer , and it was feared that the French Government might possess accurate information as to all the defences of the port . The only other news of importance is the establishment of a blockade along the Venetian coast . What the design of the French in this quarter may be does not distinctly . appear , but it seems likely that the light craft belonging to the fleet will make some demonstration against Venice , and prove whether the place be as strong as the Austrians assert . Only the Italian coast is as yet blockaded , and this conciliation of the warlike spirit of Germany , by leaving Trieste open , is a singular feature of the Avar . ¦—
The news of the battle of Montobello was received with rojoicingB at Vienna , and tho oity was illuminated in honour of the victory over the French . It ia announced that tho Emperor of Austria has Already reached Pavia with Marshal JIcss . . The Berlin National Zeitttnd , of May 24 th , con-
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French , if anything , being the less numerous , though the Austrians say the French force was 40 , 000 men opposed to their own' , 000 . The Austrians acknowledge a loss of 1 , 300 in killed and wounded , and General Forey admits more than a thousand Frenchmen 7 iors de combat . Among the . French officers killed are General Beuret and the Commandant Duchet ; three Colonels , M . Delespart , de Belfond , and : Dumenil , The Commandants M . Lacretelle and Ferusac are wounded .
order that their names may be made known m the * respective homes . . General Cialdini has " cleared the country abau * ~ Vercelli , and even the left bank of the Sesia fcjr a : brilliant flank attack . Sardinian territory * therefoTew is to a great extent relieved from the enemy . Garibaldi having crossed at the foot of the Tj&& * Maggiore stands in Lombardy with his corps ot 4 , 000 men , and has arrived at Varese near Connor The Austrians have attempted to cut off his retreats A party of them lias approached Sisto-Calende © a _ the lake where Garibaldi entered Lombardy . Bi ^ it seems that they were repelled by a bodjr o £ Sardinian Chasseurs , who appear to be entrusted with etreat himself
the task of protecting Garibaldi ' s r . He is still at Varese , midway between the frontier an « - ComOi His force is now represented as 10 , OQ » strong , but without the support of any artillery or cavalry . He has imprisoned all the Austrian . functionaries whom he caught in the town . Of the fight which he had with the neighbouring Austrian forces , we now hear , by telegram from Lugano . the Canton Tessin , that it came to a stop on Wednesday morning , the morning on which it commenced . In a Berne teiegram , we read that the Austrians have left Corao and Milan , and have concentrated themselves on the river Adda . Thesamer despatch prepares us for a conflict in that quarter , by saying that the French and Sardinians are
advancing . The Corriere Mercantile di Genoa affirms that the Bey of Tunis has offered two auxiliary regiments , to Piedmont . King Victor Emmanuel has placed himself and hisr army under the Emperor ' s orders , as a simple commander of a corps d ' armee . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has left Turin ; on hi * way home . His lordship has had a long interviewr with Count Cavour at the Foreign Office . He waa accompanied by our minister at this Court .
SARDINIA . BATTLE OF MOKTEBE 1 LO .- —GARIBALDI IN XO 3 IBA . RDY . Ok the 20 th inst ., the Austrians , under Count Stadion , attacked the French position at Montebello , and after a sanguinary encounter were repulsed , with great loss on both sides . The accounts are so highly coloured on both sides that it is difficult to get at the real statement of the facts . It would appear that the numbers were pretty equal , the
The attack was commenced by a surprise , executed by a band of Tyrolese sharp-shooters , who suddenly appeared in the very middle of the French encampr inent . These men , crawled on hands and knees amongst the underwood of a grove of olive trees , which " served as shelter to the French camp , and found themselves in the heart of the French lines . This will account for the immediate loss of so many officers on the side of the French . The advanced posts of the Allied army , occupied a position near Montebello , five miles eastward of Vpghera . The division of General Forey , forming part of Baraguay d'Hilliers' Corps d'Armee , lay a short distance behind . About eleven o ' clock on Friday
morning , an Austrian division pf 15 , 000 men was seen advancing inechelon from the eastward , led by Count Stadion . At first the French General , thinking it was a mere reconnaissance ; advanced with only 500 men , but finding that there were 15 , 000 , with cavalry and artillery , he pushed on his first brigade , and directed the other two to followleaving his second brignde , with some of the National Guard , in reserve . It ) the meantime a desperate struggle had ensued . For an hour , it is said , the young Piedmonteso Colonel de Sonnaz , with his brilliant cavalry , sustained the shock of the enemy . But even after the arrival of the French reinforcemonts the battle did not slacken .
Tho Austrian centre at length fell buck , so that the Allies re-occupied their ground . But in the moantime General Foroy had arrivod . With his Zouaves , his Chasseurs d'Orleans , ami two battalions of the line , the General dashed against tho enemy . The attack was irresistible ; and so the Austrians , about five o ' clock in tho afternoon , after six hou / s ' fighting , began to rotiro . They divided themselves into two bodies—the one retiring eastward on Stra della , the other northward on Casatiema .
General Forey ' s report gives some colour to the conjecture that there was a surprise , that the advanced posts of tho French wore left weak and unsupported , and that the repulse was effected after groat slaughter , and tho most daring gallantry on the part of tho French officers . Ib is rumoured that tho Emperor is "furious" against Marshal Barnguay d'Hilliors , tho chief of tho corps d ' armee of which General Foroy ' a division formed a part , for nob supporting tho latter , and securing a more decided success .
The Emperor of Austria has addressed to General Gyulai an autograph letter , expressing to Win , and tho troops in general , his Majesty ' s thanks for their remarkable valour . The letter also directs a list of all the' killed and wounded to bo drawn up , " In
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GERMANY . On Thursday the German Federal Diet was to decide on the proposition made by Hanover , that a corps of observation , composed of Federal troops , should be collected on the Upper Rhine . This proposition was at first objected to by Prussia , whiclt threatened even to withdraw from the Diet if it was put to the vote , Prussia evidently counts on & majox'ity in favour of its rejection . Should this expectation bo fulfilled , it must not be believed that with this the Diet and Prussia give up Austria altogether to tho French attack . The opposition offered by Prussia to the Hanoverian proposition means nothing more than that she will not be deprived of her right to make peace and war whenever she likes . The King of Saxony opened tho Landtag on Wednesday with a speech , announcing the demands for money supplies . He says ;—War throatons to make those treaties doubtful on which tho rights of Europe now rest . His Majesty is upheld as well by the consciousness that ho has always ruisod his voice in behalf of that which the honour of Germany , and tl ) $ maintenance of just principles demand , a » by the consciousness that those sentiments are shared by tho whole Saxon people . Should war ensue for tho protection of the just cause , his Majesty hopes with confidence that God will bo with Saxony and Germany in general . "
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SWITZERLAND . . . Twat the Swiss moan to adhere to tho principle of neutrality is shown by tholr determination to remove tho Lombard refugees lroui the Canton of Tossin , and tho stop they havo put to tho secret exportation of arms from that canton to Italy , ahoy are at tho same time providing for their own safety , Ono battalion and two compunios have booadi * - patohod , by order of tho Federal Council , fxpn * Geneva to Tessin , and a Borne telegram acquaint * us wilh tho preparation of hoavy ordnance lor > t | ift fortifications of JBollinzona , Sk Maurice , and Lucionstoig . Another Swiss telegram from Coiro stateir hat the Austrians are about to form a corps , ol
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Leader (1850-1860), May 28, 1859, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2296/page/7/
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