NEWS FROM ITALY.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 195, 2 September 1859, Page 3

NEWS FROM ITALY.

—and so much is this likely to be the .case that at the time this letter reaches you what I now tell you will doubtless have taken place. "Already, there are now. remaining here scarcely anything more than the depots of the different divisions of the array and the wounded —large numbers of whom are beginning to come out of the hospitals nearly convalescent. These brave soldiers are here objects of respect from everyone. The women particularly distinguish themselves by the charitable zeal with , which they prepare lint; and bandages to dress! tho wounds of their defenders. Here, as at , Veroelli, and at Novara, T cannot, help being moved at seeing everywhere, in the streets, in ! tlie bow windows of the shops, ladies, young j girls, and old women, and even little children'j gathered, together in groups, engaged in the j preparation of lint. It is at this moment a tnStter of solicitude to the gentler sex, and eveu to our surgeons, who, foreseeing fresh contests are inevitable, < fear to run short in that which is so essentially necessary'for a proper care of the wounded. " If the young men of Lombardy would show as much zeal in taking the musket as their sisters do in the preparation of lint, the soil of Lombardy would soon be freed from the presence of the detested Tedeschi, (Germans). One must suppose that the warriors with ostrich plumes are taking to this mode of tactics, for one sees not within -sight of the cathedral one of those oumbersorae plumes which were so common iv 1849. Those men who are not yet enrolled will at least have been taught the silent lesson set before them here every day by the Spartan simplicity of the soldiers of the Allies. Sardinians as well as French fight like true heroes without a single feather, and more covered with dust and mud than gold lace. Now-a days it is not enough to make a show of a revolution, where there is a brilliant display of bawlers and. Wearers of feathers ; the business in hand is stern warfare, and a great and devoted line of action. The women here seem to comprehend all this better with their hearts than the men do with their heads. I have just been present at the d eparture of a division of the Guards going off to .battle, and cannot express to you with what sincer ty of feeling and heartfelt affection, I saw, on the pathway of the Corso Francesco, Milanese women, of all classes' of the population, bidding adieu to our Grenadiers and Zouaves—wishing them a happy return and even shaking hands with them. Evil-minded persons may misrepresent, or sneer at, these -remarks-of kindness, but suoh evil-minded people are fools for their pains. Most of these women were obviously only showing the tenderness of a sister or a mother towards our soldiers, who were going to shed their blood for their sons and for their brothers. (Signed) "E. Jouve." From Turin the correspondent of the Pays thus writes:—" I quitted Milan on the evening of the 12th June at the very time that King Viotor Emanuel went out of it, with a division of the army to repair to the banks of the Adda and of the Oglio, in pursuit of the enemy, which continues to retreat in the midst of an insurrectionary population. In the course of the day a strong cannonade was heard in the direction of the Comasina Gate; the Imperial Guard and thd Zouaves immediately set out in that direction amid the applause of the people, who accompanied them out of the city. " At the moment of my departure there was no certain news received, and it was moreover impossible to be certain about anything in the midst of all that was said. I shall perhaps hear on the road of a now victory, of which I shall hasten to inform you. The despatches will already have notified to you that the Franco-Italian army is pressing upon the footstops of the enemy, and you will have remarked that, in spite of the time which was of necessity lost in rebuilding the bridges over the Adda, the vanguard of tlie Sardinian army made its entrance into Ciiccaglio, on the Oglio, on the 13th but a short time after the troops under General Urban had therefrom hastily retired. ' " Before I set out I passed along before the I offices which the Government opened that very morning for the enrolment of such volunteers a3 might desire to go and swell the ranks of the chasseurs of the Alps,—and I was astonished to find that the number of those who bad inscribed themselves was already a thousand, and that they demanded to be led forth immediately. I was assured on the day following they would be furnished with arms, and formed into regiments. Their number must be by this time, considerably increased, and I feel certain that Italy, electrified by the proolaruat"; n of the Emperor Napoleon the Third, will in a short time, come, as one man, to the field of battle. Wherever I have passed I have found the population rejoicing over the departure of the Austrians. Everywhere they rise and proclaim the annexation to Peidmont, —shouts are heard for Victor Emanuel and Napoleon the Third, and the people bless France, that generous nation which has broken their 'chains. Very soou, I am certain, with the exception of her four fortresses, Austria, will not have in Itsly more land than her huge armies can stand upon."

[Translatedfrom the Semaphore of the 20th June.] In the correspondence addressed from Milan, by M. Jouve, to the Courrier de Lyon, we read the following :—" "dimness and quiet have, at Milan, succeeded to this joyous effervescence of the first days of liberty. Independence is in itse:f such a good thing, that every Milanese seems already accustomed to it, and remember Austrian tyranny no longer. M >reover, the new Governor, appointed the day before yesterday by the King of Sardinia, has taken a wise precaution for the purpose of re-establishing quiet, and providing against the sowing of dissension among the people. He has, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, forbidden tho publication of any otl.'er news of the war than tli .t contained in the official bulle'ins ; andals>, will not allovv-^-what was beginning to be common—the selling, crying. Or placarding in the streels of any ai tides having reference to tbe war without tlie authorisation of the Government. "According to what is very well said by the Commission of enlistment, to the young men whom it summonses to its banners, 'The Milanese should resign themselves to be;, for the present, mere soldiers, if they desire to become one day the free citizens of a great nation." Unhappily the youth of Lombardy do not appear to respond with proper earnestness to that voice of their chiefs which calls upon them from a thousand placards— - Hasten young men whom the sacred fire of your native land consumes.' Only a salutary law of conscription can, iv a proper degree, stir up that sacred fire which l. now burning hither too low. It is not desirable that the people should become accustomed to the idea that the French will be always fighting for tliem for nothing, aud that independence is to be gained very comfortably by applauding foreign liberators and covering them with flowers. "I am under no apprehension of acting indiscreetly in sending you particulars, for, from, henceforth there can be neither surprse for shame nor any body. Verona and Mantua are so clearly the ultimate object of the presei,t movement, that there cannot be any doubt at all about it; and, in the discorded state into which four successive defeats have thrown the Austrian arms, it is probable that our soldiers will advance straight on, and without any serious opposition, to the bank of the Mincio;

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