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    THE LEADER .

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    I T is impossible , at present , to make anything like a clear story out of the intelligence which has reached us of the early incidents of the "war in Ital y- The telegrams are multitudinous , but they serve only to confuse and to confound one another . One general notion , however , we get with tolerable clearness ; it is that so far the movements of the Austrian army have not directly led to any events of striking importance . It is pretty evident , too , from those movements , that the Commander-in Chief has either entered Piedmont on a mere

    freebooting excursion , or that he has fallen back in obedience to commands from Vienna , where ,: if we may trust report , his plan of the campaign has been rejected—it is even said , " laughed to scorn , ' ' under critical exposure by old General Hess , who would be at the head of the army , in all probability , were he not a Protestant . According to the most recent advices , the Austrians had fallen back upon Vercelli , on the line of the Sesia , and were fortifying themselves with the greatest care , as if determined there to await the * , attack of the allied armies « . <_» UWillb hlHi ULLilUlV UA LUC cUXLV ^ U . VLllJXLVO

    of France and Sardinia . A number of petty movements , hither and thither , are reported by tike writers of telegraphic news ; but , for the most part , these movements are of no consequence if not executed for the purposes of plundering the poor inhabitants . So indignant at these razzias is the King of Sardinia , it is reported , that he has sent to inquire of the Emperor of Austria ^ whether he intends to make war " as a soldier , or as a brigand . " Some of the telegrams report the return into Lombardy of large numbers of wagons filled with Piedmontcse spoils . The Pays , in fact , declares that plunder has been the objeot of all

    the late movements , in order to provide the army with necessities which the bankrupt Austrian treasury is unable to supply . The treatment to which General Gyulai is reported to have subjected the unfortunate inhabitants of Piacenza is so barbarous as to bo soorcoly credible . A proclamation , said to have boon published by him , makes it death for any person in the place to do anything that cant injure or oven incommode an Austrian soldier ; so atrooious is the whole document , that the Prcsso well says that , if it is really genuine , it looks like madness -on the part of General Gyulai to have

    lost by their opponents ; in conveying troops to the field , a horrible accident occurred on one of their railways , by which a' number of their men were killed and maimed ; and , lastly , we hear from Ragusa that one of their war brigs has been blown up , with a loss of some eighty men . The most important topic of the week ' s foreign news , however , is the departure of the Emperor to take the command of his army . He left Paris on Tuesday evening , amid demonstrations of popular enthusiasm' not to be doubted , much iess denied .

    The Empress went with him a short distance on the railway to Lyons , and then parted with him , tearfully , we may suppose , and with a grave sense of the responsibilities that will weigh upon her during the absence of her imperial husband . She has been named Regent , and will exercise the powers pertaining to that rank under advice of ex * King Jerome , who is constituted her guardian , in effect . The Emperor made no pause on reaching Marseilles , on Wednesday at noon , but went straight on board of his vessel , the Heine Hortense , and steamed out of the harbour at two o ' clock . \ ± —^

    ilXXU . Q LCc-UXJLVi * - * vuu ju * av ***** w •** v * v v >* v w vw~—¦ On Thursday afternoon he was at Genoa , where double the number of persons composing the ordinary population were assembled to greet him . Of his welcome there cannot be the shadow of a doubt . Of the grand opportunity which now lies before him , there cannot be a doubt either ; but there is room to doubt whether he will take a noble advantage of it—whether he is the man to do it .

    Meantime his army is rapidly approaching the degree of completeness requisite before venturing upon offensive movements . General Canrobert has addressed to the division under his command a blood-stirring order of the day , and active operations are not likely to be long delayed . At home , events abroad are being watched with a most wholesome and necessary wariness . Meetings , having for their object the presentation of memorials to her Majesty in favour of the maintenance of a policy of non-intervention , are becoming the order of the day . But while the , country is thus manifesting its desire to remain at peace with the x'est of Europe , it is also manifesting an equally reasonable and commendable

    deterworthy proceedings in this direction was the meeting held by the University and town , of Cambridge the other day , at which the Vice-rChancellor ofth % University presided ; at the conclusion of the business it was announced that seven hundred gentlemen had put down their names for enrolment . The Times well says : " The direct result of this call to arms , as we trust , will be the formation of rifle corps , which will- cheerfully ^ submit to instruction and discipline , and the indirect consequence , that every inhabitant of the British Islands , within the necessary and obvious limits of age , will learn the use of fire-arms , if required . ; There will then be a deep and awful meaning in the cry " Riflemen , form !" Very few elections remain to be gone through now , and the question Of loss or gain is practically settled for both sides of the new House of ' Parlia .-ment . The great struggle of the week has been that of the West Riding of Yorkshire , and the result has been a-victory , for the Liberals . Various demonstrations in connexion with the more recent elections have taken place dm-ihg the week , the principal one taking the form of a dinner at Carlisle , Sir James Graham being the chief speaker , ' . _¦ ' -- «• • , l T » i " . ii

    and speaking' without let or hindrance against the present war , and against the despots who , lie says , are fomenting the trouble for their own despotic purposes- lie has not the smallest belief in the o-ood intentions of the Frenph Emperor , and while Be insists on the duty of the Government of this country being to hold a . perfectly neutral policy , he would , evidently ; have them watch events with the most jealous suspicion . Sir James spoke , in fact , as if the world were foredoomed to be for ever under the governance of professional

    diplomacy , Several notable criminal cases are before the public at the present moment . A Dr . Smethurst is charged with having poisoned a lady with whom he had for sometime cohabited , and the details of the case bear a horrible resemblance to the llugeley case . The evidence already given goes to show that the deceased died fronrthe administration of arsenic in small doses , and suspicion falls very heavily on the accused , from the fact that , during her illness , he permitted nobody to approach her if he coula

    prevent them . A clear motive for the commission of the crime has yet to be suggested ; but if a murder has been committed , it has been pen-petrated with terrible sang froid . Another remarkable case is that of a party of men charged with carrying out a regularly organised plan for imposing' pn the London banks , by presenting forged cheques . Tho crime has , been brought to light by tlio voluntary evidence of a man whom tho principals ^ in the soheino had engaged to assist them in passing the cheques . ' «

    miriatipn to place itself most elleotually on tho defensive . Few English people really dread tho invasion of their cpuntry ; but all are alive to the dangers that may . jiriso from the wild excesses of ai'med potentates , carried away by the impulses of anger or of too much success . Some bad verses , published in { ho Times , and believed to have boon -written by tho poetlaureate , call upon tho young men of England , to form rifle-corps , tho burthen of every stanza being " Riflemen , form I" Tho same call has boon made in a more temperate and practical way by tho authorities of the War-ofUoo , who have published a set of rules and instructions for the formation of such corps , and evidence of the popular readiness is rnpidily multiplying . One of the most

    noto-A sad completeness Is given to tho round of tho week ' s news , by tho tho occurrence ol a horrible aooidont yesterday morning in WestmniNtor . An extensive soailblding , greeted on tho works of tlio Westminster Palaoo Hotol , isituata at the corner of Now Viotoria-straofc , suddenly gavo way in part , and four men wore in a .-moment killed , a mlh died some three hours utter tho aocident , wnilo oi"ht others have boon terribl y injured . Of course comment iri , out , of tho question : Wo shall only bo too glad to find that tho catastrophe has boon tho result of simple and blameless acoidwit .

    issued it . issued it . All the opening inoidents of tho campaign , in fqct , have been unfortunate to tho Axtstrians . Tho plan of it has boon found to be worthless ; , in the first encounter with the Piedmontese at Frassinotto they lost , at least , two man for every one

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2294/page/3/