The Piedmontese are raising a subscription for the purchase of
large guns to form part of the armament of the new defensive fortifications on the Po. Each gun is to be named after an Italian town. The Turin correspondent of the Daily Hews suggests that England may take part in this subscription.
"What quantities of unsold artillery must now be on the hands of our cannon-founders, owing:to the sudden peace. Cannot they join in this Piedmontese cannon subscription, and make presents to these gallant men threatened by despotic Austria? These guns are for defence, not attack. They can easily be sent to Genoa, and be in Alessandria in four hours by railway. Many have in England subscribed for the sufferers by the inundations of the rivers in France ; let them subscribe cannon to prevent the inundation of the Austrians into Piedmont."
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