31 MARCH 1849, Page 2

As we apprehended, Charles Albert has dashed himself to pieces

against the power of Austria. Inverting the Napoleonic strategy, he advanced to encounter Radetzky as Hindu hunters advance to catch an elephant, in a vastly extended line : Radetzky breaks the line, defeats the King in two battles, rushes upon his capital, Turin, and is master of Piedmont. Charles Albert has abdicated in favour of his eldest son. If Austria stand to her professions, the defeat and abdication of this luckless King may remove much difficulty from the reorganization of the Empire and the settlement of the European question : France stands ready to interpose ; and it is understood that Austria does mean to abide by her recent de- clarations—means to conquer Italy in the only way that can establish peace.