three in the morning
The king will have sought the advice of his ministers , besides which that of Prussia will have been asked and probably given . The matter may be decided one way or the other in a very short time , or may linger on for days to give time for public anxiety and fears to be allayed and to calm down . In the meantime , it looks as if the king and his generals had made up their mind not to accept the gift . An attack on the Borgoforte tete-de-pont on the right side of the Po , began on 5th at half-past three in the morning , under the immediate direction of General Cialdini . The attacking corps was the Duke of Mignano 's . All the day yesterday the gun was heard at Torre Malamberti , as it was also this morning between ten and eleven o'clock . Borgoforte is a fortress on the left side of the Po , throwing a bridge across this river , the right end of which is headed by a strong tete-de-pont , the object of the present attack .