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Italian Campaign. ENTRY OF KING VICTOR EMMANUEL AND NAPOLEON III. INTO ITALY. OFFICIAL DESPATCH. PARIS, JUNE 8.—The Emperor entered Milan this morning at six o'clock. The reception was magnifi- cent and very enthusiastic. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The official 'Austrian Correspondence says :— After our troops had, according to orders, evacuated Milan, on Sunday last, the public func- tionaries also relinquished their posts; and the charge of providing for the security of the town was trans- ferred to the municipality. The Imperial Austrian functionaries have w thdrawn to Verona; it is possible, however, that they may resume their posts and func- tions in Mantua." EVACUATION OF PAVIA BY THE AUSTRIANS. TURIN, WEDNESDAY. The Sardinian head- quarters were transferred yesterdey to Cainate. The King was to enter Milan to-day. At s'x o'clock yesteiday evening the enemy evacuated Pavia, after having spiked their guns and thrown their ammuni- tion into the water. The corps d'arinee under Gen. Schwarzenberg has left Puvia, and taken the direction of Belgiojoso. A Te Deum' has been sung in the churches of Turin to-day, and the town has been illuminated." DISPERSION OF D'URBAN'S CORPS BY GARIBALDI. TURIN, WEDNESDAY.—"The part of Upper Lom- bardy which has been freed from the Austrians has hastened to proclaim Victor Emmanuel as King. Volunteers are rapidly arriving from all paits to join General Garibaldi's corps, which is pursuing the enemy beyond Monza. General d'Urban's army, after a precipitate retreat from Varese, has become dispersed, and his scattered soldiers have been taken pjisoners and disarmed." AUSTRIAN REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF MAGENTA. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY.—General Gyulai's official report of the battle of Magenta, ddted Head-quarters, Belgiujoso, 6th of June, has been published to-day. The Austrians have lost, in killed and wounded, from 4.000 to 5,000 men. The loss of the enemy is at least half as much again. Every line of the report proves the heroic power of the Austrians to withstand the attacks of the enemy. VERONA, MONDAY EVENING (via Vienna).-The Austrian army has taken up a strong flanking position between Abbiate Grasso and Binasco. State of Tuscany. The Florence correspondent of the 'Times' has some remarks on the state of Tuscany. especially with reference to its political future. He points out the inaction of the Tuscan aim i and the confusion in civil affairs at Florence, and adds;— The key to the mystery, if I am to lay bare what is with great circumspection whispered about in small circles of frondeurs, is this. The Emperor Napoleon, always anxious to rid himself of his beloved Imperial cousin, Prince Napoleon (Jerome), after the failure of all Algerian schemes, had destined for him an Italian throne, and if nothingbetter offered, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, or Kingdom of Etruria, or Kingdom of Central Italy. Henoe the preparation of the corps detaché-hence the endless proclamations disclaiming on the Emperor's part all ambitious views both for himself and his family. There is no question but the Sardinian government, or at least Count Cavour, must have been a party to this arrangement; and, even if they played into the hands of the Emperor, it must be said that they played their garre awkwardly, inasmuch as their refusal of the dictatorship proffered by the Tuscans to King Victor Emmanuel froze the blood in the veins of every Italian patriot, and set the whole world a thinking what this departure from all precon- certed plans, and their contradiction of the conduct pursued by Piedmont in Massa and Carrara, in Parma, and now in Lomb?rdy, might possibly mean. Thinking men, however, understood that all the other provinces were to be united to the North Italian kingdom, and Tuscany was to be doomed to become the appanage of an Imperial French Prince. They understood it, and thinking that both France and Tuscany had irrevocably so sattled it, were compelled, willing or unwilling, to acquiesce in the arrangement." It is stated that Count Cavour now regrets his inde- cision, and wishes to retrieve his error, but possibly too late. The spirit of local self-government has received great development, in consequence of Cavour's own encouragement of it when he advised his King to decline the dictatorship. The Arcadian doctrinaires of the Georgofili Society have tasted the sweets of power, and they will go on legislating till they are actually kicked from their seats. There is, indeed, a national party favourable to Italian unity in Tuscany, and u, 1 vl-'1-- Tiaiority of young men of all bu,1 *hls ^rtv -aisneanenea and snuoDea, and the part/ ,i»„ uabcuuaut is that of the middle-aged men, who wish Tuscany to have a Court and capital, no matter where it may have to go begging for a dynasty of its own. There is, also, a third party, strong and compact, though not very noisy at the pre- sent moment, and these are for old Tuscany under the old Grand Ducal dynasty A great many of the noblest and wealthiest families look forward to a re- storation of their Prince. Scarcely one of the mem- bers of the great Tuscan nobility is to be seen about town. They have taken the sun of their countenance from the movement now going on, and abide their time, hid in their country seats or travelling abroad. The only point of serious importance in all this— the point to which I beg to call your attention, and to which I have, perhaps, been too long coming—is that the Emperor Napoleon and Count Cavour are no longer of one mind, for what, at least, c h erns Tus- cany. Mind, I do not think that Cavour or any man in Piedmont had made up his mind that it was possible, or indeed expedient, that Tuscany should cease to be an independent State, or th t they much cared, if it was not to be united to the rest of Italy, whether a Bo- naparte or any other dynasty was to sit on its throne. All these matters as to the future arrangements of the country are problems of very diffictilt solution, to be left in a great measure to chance and the inexorable march of events. What Cavour and his party bad set their hearts upon was the fulfilment of the promise made to them by the Emperor, that' there should be a kingdom of at least 12,000,000 of people, to be united under the sceptre of the House of Savoy.' For the rest, if, in remuneration of so important a service, France claimed the right of placing imperial princes on the thrones of Central and Southern Italy, the demand seemed not unreasonable, nor did the scheme appear fraught with any very great consequence either for I'aly or for Europe, for the northern kingdom was deemed sufficient security for the independence of the whole peninsula; but what Cavour and his frieuds ob- jected to was-first, the indiscreet hurry with which Prince Napoleon proceeded in the pursuance of his object, laying bare a policy which the head schemers were loudly disavowing and denouncing, and prema- turely arousing the suspicion and jealousy of European States secondly, the recklessness with which, in pur- suance of the said object, he doomed to inaction, and perhaps for ever disabled, the Tuscan soldiers from taking their pat tin the national war. Hitherto, at any rate, Count Cavour and the national party are defeated here. Constantino Nigra has left Tuscany evidently re infecta. Buoncompagni complains of the abrupt. ness and oddity of Prince Napoleon's manners. Gene- ral Ulloa expects to be removed from his command, whether to make room for Colonel Biscarvetti Nava or some other Piedmontese officer, or more likely for some French officer in the Prince's interests, I am not as yet able to say. In the meanwhile I saw yesterday, amid a thousand banners, an Italian tricolour bearing the imperial eagle in the middle. It was a masterpiece of handiwork, and was got up with care, and not with- out design."

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