THE WAR IN ITALY.
Since the battle of Solferino was fought only two meagre telegrams have arrived giving information of the movements of the armies. They -show the consequences of that action.
" C'avriano, Tune 28.
" The Emperor to the Empress.
"Our troops are crossing the Mincio without resistance, the enemy having retired. thence."
" Thrill, Thursday, Tune 30.—The Imperial head-quarters are at Volta. The passage of the Kind° by our troops continues. The Emperor has visited the left bank of the river. The position of Vallegio has been occu- pied by the French. His Majesty has also had bridges thrown across the Mincio to replace those destroyed by the Austrians in their retreat." In addition to this we hear that General d'Autemarre has marched five regiments of foot and two regiments of horse down the right bank of the Po beyond Guastalla, and that Prince Napoleon with the 5th Corps is fast nearing the Po about Mantua. Major Medici, with some of Garibaldi's men has, it is said, occupied the passes of Mount Tonale, and General Garibaldi, so the Berne telegrams report, has been ordered to occupy the Upper Valtellirire. The Austrians have retreated to the head of the Stelvio pass, which they have fortified against an enemy --coming from Tirane. The Emperor of Austria has gone or is going to Vienna on "import- ant business," and General Hess commands in chief. Count Pourtales has arrived at Verona. " Laybach has been fixed as the seat of the military and civil Government of Lombardy, and of the employee of the Government. General Gyulai has, in the capacity of Colonel, assumed the command of the regiment which belongs to him and bears his name."
THE BATTLE OF SOLFEEINCL
Details of this great combat come in but slowly. No statements of the loss on either side have yet been published ; and it is thence inferred that both sides suffered severely.
On the 20th June the Emperor of Austria assumed the sole command of his army, having Hess for an adviser, and Schlick and Wimpfen for subordinate chiefs. As soon as the Austrians evacuated Lonato and Cas- tiglione and crossed the Mincio, the allies followed, occupied those posi- tions, and prepared for investing Peschiera and crossing the Mincio. On the 23d the Piedmontese were in Densenzano, Lonato, San Martino, and other places on the left. The French were at Castiglione, Medolo, and Yontechiaro. On the 26th the Piedmontese were to invest Peschiera on the West of the Mineio, the French centre was to be at Solferino, and their right below the road towards Mantua. But the Austrians, hoping to surprise the Allies before they had established themselves crossed the -Mind° on the 23d at night, and extended their line from Guidizzalo to Peschiera. Schlick took the right and Wimpfen the left. It seems to have been intended that the centre seizing Solferino and Cassiano should stand fast while the right drove the Piedmontese from the Lake of Garda and anticipated them at Desenzano, and the left swept round the right rear of the French and got possession of the road from Castiglione. In this they failed, because, for one reason, the left was too far from the centre. The action began in the centre. Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers vainly tried to drive the Austrians out of Solferino and 'Caesium. On the right the Piedmontese were pressed back as far as San Martino. The Emperor of the French sent Niel to Medolo, con- nected him with the centre by M‘Mahon's corps and the cavalry of the .Guard, and thus sustained the fight. He also brought up the Guard from Castiglione and the cavalry from Castenedolo and Monteehiaro. The Austrians were at this period successful on the right and left, but their success was useless to them ; because Napoleon bringing Bluriguay d'Hilliers, M‘Mahon, the Guard, and Niel to bear on the centre, carried Solferiao and Cassiauo after a most obstinate resistance, and cutting the Austrian centre from its left, drove the former back to Volta, and com- pelled the latter to hasten to Goito. The right deprived of the centre, and hard pressed by the Piedmontese, who fought with great stoutness, retired also. A tempest broke over the battlefield, and the rain falling in torrents, hid the combatants in the centre from each other—so says the French despatch. But the Piedmontese say that La Marmora and Durand° carried San Martino and Pozzolango during the tempest, and other accounts describe the Austrians as so firm in their retreat, and so fierce in their attacks to cover the movement, that practically they were not pursued. A body of French cavalry who tried it on, were routed by the Austrian horse. The battle had lasted for fifteen hours. Two Em- perors commanded in person. The Austrians remained on the West of the Mincio until the morning of the 25th. They frankly admit defeat
and unusually heavy kw. On that day the French Emperor issued the following address to his army from Cavriana.
"The enemy, who believed themselves able to repulse us from the Chiese, recrossed the Mimic). You have worthily defended the honour of France. Solferino.surpasses the recollection of Lonato and Castiglione. In twelve hours you have repulsed the efforts of 150,000 men. Your enthusiasm did not rest there. The numerous artillery of the enemy occupied formidable positions over three leagues. Your country thanks you for your courage and your perseverance, and laments the fallen. We have taken three flap, thirty cannon, and 6000 prisoners. The Sardinian army fought with the same valour against superior forces, and worthy is that army to march be- side you. Blood has not been shed in vain for the glory of France and the happiness of the peoples."
Accounts from the Adriatic state that the French fleet now at Antivari, and consisting of five ships of the line, eight frigates, six war steamers, thirteen floating batteries, nine gunboats, nine brigs, and two three- masters, has with it many troops and large supplies of provisions and ammunition ; and that Admiral Bouet is about to open sealed orders.
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