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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 366, 26 April 1861, Page 3

According to the Augsburg Gazette the Austrian forces in Venetia consist of 183,000 infantry, 52 batteries of .field artillery, 10,000 of the corps of engineers, and 5000 cavalry. These, figures do uot include the garrisons in the forts, and the men iv ..the navy.. A.s reserve, there are 35,000 soldiers in the neighborhood of Trieste, and along the coasts of Istria and Dalmatia, their head-quarters being Trieste; and 35,000 men in Styria, Illyiia, and Carintha ; headquarters, Gratz. Westminster Palace Hotel is now completed. It is a fine building, occupying an extensive frontage in Victoria-street, and overlooking the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. Tha extent of the.str'uctuie may be inferred from the fact that there are 700 rooms in all. Of these, 140 are occupied by tha India Council. ■ Tha cooking department, which already supplies tl;e Indra office, is on a scale commensurate with the other departments. Owing to the gieat height of the building and the conseque.it tedious, accent that would have to be raavle to get upstairs,,an ingenious .contrivance in the ; shape of a hydraulic .lift has been designed, by means of which, seated on a.sofa with their luggage, visitors may ascend or. descend from; on_ (0 ftnv of Mlfi RIT sfnrips at nlnncnvp