(From the Times, May 4.)
New Zealander, Rōrahi 4, Putanga 241, 20 Mahuru 1848, Page 3
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(From the Times, May 4.)
We have no further certain intelligence from the Austrian General Nugent. It is said that his people entered Udine, the capital of the Friuie, but that they were driven out by the inhabitants, who rose en masse. General Durando, at the head of the Roman and Tui can contingents, was marching against Nugent. It is unknown whether Nugent proposes to move upon Venice, or attempt to effect a junction with Radetsky. The Journal dcs Debals, iv speaking of the capture of Udine, says— " The report! are unfortunately confirmed. The Aurtrinns entered it by capitulation on the 23rd ult., after a rather vigorous resistance on the part of the place, into which the Austrians threw a quantity of •hells and incendiary rockets. The Bishop of Udine and a Colonel Rossi are accused of treachery ; but everybody knows that, in civil wars, it is customary to attribute all defeats to treachery. It was, however, evident that the moment General Nugent would cross the Isonzo he would not n>eet, as far as Treviso, a sufficient respectable force to arrest his march. The misfortune which befalls Udine ought to be a lesson for Venice and the Venetian provinces, which have not displayed the necessary activity in levying and organizing troops, having confined themselves to form a few battalions of volunteeis, whilst Lombardy decreed a general conscription for the formation of a regular nriny. Venice is at last adopting more energetic measures. All the disposable troopi marched from Treviso, on the 22d, for Conegliano, on the Udine and Tagliamento road, usder the orders of General Lamar mora, a Piedmontese officer, placed by the King of Sardinia at the disposal of the Provisional Government of Venice. The Roman Colonel Ferrari, with four battalions of well organized volunteers, were to proc edin the same direction. Two battaliuns of Pontifical troops of the line, a Swiss battalion, and the Free Corps of Zambecori arrived about the same period at Padua, behind Treviso. General Durando, Commander-tn-Chief of the Roman troops, was alio to send to Padua two other battalions, with artillery and cavalry. The Pontifical battalions aie perfectly organized, and will form a nucleus round which will rally the Venetian volunteer!, who are beginning to become innured to war, and to feel that, without obedience to one general, and w.thout discipline, they must necessarily be defeated Those meamres induce a hope that the Italians will be able to retard the piogress of the Austrian Geneial Nugent, and even prevent his junction with Marshal R*dttsky, by the road of Treviso to Vincenza and Verona, before the K-ng of Sardinia shall have attacked anil forced the Austr an lines on tha Adige, as it is generally said to be his intrntion." The Bretlau Gazette publishes a letter from Vienna, which itates that the British Consul at Venice had quitted that city |in consequence of the mob having torn down the Briiish arms from his hotel, under pretence that the Consul had refused to acknowledge the Republic. Letters from Cons'antinople, of the 17th ult., itate that the Russian Minister had had of late frequent and secret interviews with the Ottoman Ministry. It was believed that he had applied to the Sultan for leave to march into the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia a corps of 30,100 Russian tioopi, and that he was actually negotiating a private treaty of alliance between Russia and Turkey. The absence of an English Ambassador at this moment was much
