Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. [ARTICLE]

HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE.

• The Fighting Commenced, the Austrians Carry the Bridge at Buffalora at the point of the Bayonet, the Sardinians Retreating, the Austrians cut the Telegraph Wires. New York, May 15. i The steamships Heser and Borussia, from Bremen and Southampton, bringinor Liverpool dates to the 3d inst., three days later ; than those furnished by the Adelaid and Persia, arrived here this evening at half-past six I o’clock. The screw steamship New York arrived at j Cowes on the 30th ult. The Canada arrived , out on the 2d. inst. The reported wreck of i the clipper ship Pomona proved to be true. She was wrecked ofF Wexford, Ireland, and 386 lives were lost. Shejiad on board 395 passengers and 52 of the crew of whom 17 o’ the former and 3 of the latter were saved. The ship sunk in nine fathoms of water. The War News. In regard to the war, there can be but little doubt that the war has commenced in all probability. There was a sharp action at the bridge of Buffalora, on Thursday the 28th ult. It is i reported that the Austrians, after a consid- ; erable loss, took it at the point of the bayoI net. ___ji It is also reported that Mortara has been i and thafa*lie Sa'dinans had retreated befStte the Austrians, near the Lake Maggiore. The telegraph lines to Switzerland have ceen cut by the Austrians. Vienna, May 1. The Austrians have occupied Intra, Pall- ■ anza, and Arona, the Sardinians retreating ! { at their approach. ; Turin, April 28. I The steamer which arrived at Genoa on I the 27th. brought a proclamation to the Tus- I can army, inviting it to signal of ' ; war, and advance in a comffSct body of 12,- ; ! 000 men to reinforce Piedmont. A similar proclamation has been addressed to the troops in the Romagha. Turin, Abril 29. I Generals Canrobert and Neill’have arrived { here, and gone to join the King. The Austrians are concentrating in great 1 masses at Piacenza, where a proclamation I has been issued by the Austrian Commiss- I ioner Extraordinary. Fifteen thousand of the French Imperial Guards land to-night at Genoa, making the ! lorce there 40,000 men. The force at iSuza is also increasing fast. Turin, April 30. The official bulletin confirms the passage { of the Ticino by- the Austrians yesterday. The King, accompanied by Generals Canrobert and Neill, Ivisited the line of the river , Dora. The Corps de Armes, which entered ■ Piedmont by Gruvelona, consists of twentv i battalions and eight batteries of cannon. Turin, May 1. : The King has gone to assume the com- i m nd of the army. The Austrians are at i Novara in force, and also at Pavia. The French infantry and artillery continue to arrhe. No decisive movement has yet been made. Berne, April 30. The Austrians have seized several Sardi- ; nian vessels on Lake Maggiore, and com- j menced hostilities last evening. Vienna, April 30. I. Count Buol has forwarded circular notes i to the foreign governments, statrfig the di- • plomal ic arid political reassns for the declaration of war by the Emperor. The Vienna Zetlung publishes decrees, ’ order ng the income tax.ot the third class to be retained by the pay of the officer immediately upon the interest of the public bonds, being paid, and ordering a lorre of £20,000000 sterling, but as at presant, it is impossible to contract it, the National Bank will ad vance two-thirds of the nominal value of the loan in new notes. A third deciee releases the National Bank j from the necessity of meeting its notes w ith { specie, and a fourth, ordering the duties and ' excise dues to be paid in silver, or payable : in coupons of the national loan. In England, a royal proclamation has been : issued, offering a bounty of £lO to seamen, with the, intention of increasing 10,000 ad- I ditional men. The greatest activity prevailing in the English dock-yards, preparing for w a r.. . The Emperor Napoleon was expected to ' join the French army on the 3d inst. Instructions from the British Admirality were received at Woolwich, April 30th, directing all possible haste in the completion of the new class freights now- on the stocks. A telegraphic dispatch was received at ' Sheerness on the 17th ult., to send the Roy- . al George to Davenport, the Colossus to Portsmouth, "and the Edgar, Queen and Trafalgar i are to be got ready for sea immediately. I The Osborn, steam yacht, has been ordered to be got ready for immedi .te service. Its destination is reported to be the Mediterranean, to be placed at the disposal of the Prince of Wales. Tne Prussian Government has resolved to put its army in readines to march.