The Express. — London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

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Ivsi• V•wrisk TIM WIlaTlll 110111.‘,../bs. .11.4 , 006.6.1 weal.s.-WILLIA V ?HAT II A 111114= 1. 11 1 : I Low -Awl 1011,1 X 1.4 alumpai'm am.. J. 1•~6.W MAW& 11.111.11‘nagmle. CIVI; I. Ohoebsd. SIGH waii& AT LOlllOOll woos. Trio DAV—WArsier, •• Se. Ts wiesore—Noviss. IL. a—....—../Aserwe. LONDON. MONDAY. MAY 29. AT hag& the French and An.trians have met Geer MOM IS the banks of the Po. Fatty-nine years ago Marshal LA NES earned his title bt the victory of Montebello, and on Friday last, at the same place, a Frer.clr General gained the first advantage in the opening campaign. Funding the Allies in considerable force between Alessandria and Genoa—for they had occupied Tartans, and pushed forward to Voghert —the Austrians determined to retire towards Stradella. They dads°, and on Wednesday last it is said that the streets of Casteggio were barricaded so as to prevent the return of the enemy. Placed between the mountains to the south, and the Po about sin miles to the north—at a dietance of some thirty miles east of Alessandria, on the great road to Fascinate, the town of Caateggio has always been wasadered from the time of HANINIIAL an importaut military position. Accordingly, the Preach hearing that the Austrians in tended to re-occupy it, despatched two gruel columns of infantry under General FORT, and some Sardinian cavalry under General Botetesz, to meet the enemy. Nevertheless, the Austrians adraoced to the attack, and after an obstinate struggle, in which the Sardinian cavalry fought, the bulletin says, with extraordinary energy. the Austrians were repulsed with a lose of 2,000 killed and wounded asd 200 prisoners, whilst the French admit a loss of 600 killed and wounded. l At the other extremity of the line of the Allies General CIALDINI has made a forward movement, crossing the Sesia in two columns. Before they could ettehut their junction. one of them was attacked by the Austrians near Villats, but, after a fierce oon- H•ct, routed the enemy. The other, which crossed near Cappeiciai Veechi, was the assailant, surprising two companies of the enemy. Though thew were affairs of advanced pogo, the loss of the Austrians is by no means trilling. The first success is a campaign has considerable moral effect on an army; and thew who sympathise with the cause of Italy will hail with satisfaction the glad news. Hu•, after all, this is but the beginning of the great drama. The question which still absorb. public attention is how it 14,11 be developed. It would be idle to pretend to anticipate the counsels of the cummander on the slot; but perhaps it may be interesting to con►ider the probable plans which may be discussed, if cot practically carried into street, by the allied army. Although in the affair of Casteggio the Austrians seem to have taken the initiative, then is no reason to suppose that they will now undertake any gnat offensive operation. If they were unable to do so some weeks ago, it is difficult to understand how they should find them selves able to do se new. It may be assumed, therefore, that the Allies wall be compelled to assume the initiative in otder to drive the Austrians from Bardiaian territory, and to obtain possession of Lombardy. Now, there are three sways in which it seems pee. sible to attempt this. The allied army may be divided into two portions—the one may remain in • Sardinia to guard the line of dos fence from the Dora Baltes to Chow, whilst another having been trans ported to Spi via or Tuscany, may by advancing northward endeavour to cross the Po, and thus by tlirsateoing the retreat of the Austrians compel them to retire into the fortresiies. It may very wellbo that fur political reasons and in order to rain Tummy, Modena, Parma, and the Homan States, a French division may be landed at Spezia, or Leghorn. Stich a body of troops might encourage the spirit of resistance to Austria, and induce the people to join the national army. But to make any serious at tempt against the Anstriaas in Lombardy with so small a knee would be futile ; whilst the trans port of a largo force to Spezia or Leghorn, and the establishment of a new basestl operations, would occupy considerable time, which in war is everything, would leave the Sardinians still at the mercy of Austrian marauder,, and would compel the Allies to cross the Po at the broadest and most difficult part of its count. To which must be added the fact that the nearer the Allies get to Mantua the nearer the Austrians are to Stair reserves. For these reasons it seems highly improbable that the Allies should entertain aay such designs. - - The sewed plea is this. The Allies may advent, along the south bank of the Po, and cross that river either between Pavia and Namara, or somewhere be tween Piacenza and Marty& Now, it should be ob served that both Pavia and Piacenzisre very strongly fortified ; that in the space between Pavia which lies on the left beak of the Ticino, just before it joins the Po. and the entreoehed camp of Piaceoze, on the right bank or thee rfver--a space measuring directly 28 miles--there is the very straw petition of Litre delis, to which it is probable the Austrians have new retreated. At dtradella the hills approach within two miles of the ricer bank; and. if Pro perly areapied by us array, the position et Stru del% le extremely formidable. Nevertheless this polities most be carried before the allied array cam ventage to creme se get a river as the Po. Bet erne suppose the paddies 'terries!, there is still a broad Ayer is treat. ')few there is so operation in war whin\ moires wee delicacy than the crossing of riven. Where the amen see mall an adroit sir may messed is eluding his adversary. as N%- POISON did wham he messed at Paeans,. Bat to the /me of large modes the cue is different. It Is shawl heremibiate mimed is • earprier ; and these who havens/ mama history samet have foram that the rest KAPOLtOX failed is his attempt te creme the Dual* is the face of the Arab/s% Csaitt.es, though he afterwards succeeded "se If by THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1859. " a miracle." NAPOLEON himself, however, consi dered it a most hazardous enterprise, and never at tempted to do on the banks of the Po what he had done on the banks of the Danube. Again, the difficulty of creasing this great ricer increases as you go eastward; besides which, an army marching along the road between the mountains and the river banks would necessarily expose itself to be attacked in flank and driven into the mountains behind. ..... It seems probable, therefore, that the line of advance of the Allies will be on the northern bank of the I'3; and this is the third plan. The truth is that if the Allies mean to conquer Lom bardy, it is clear that they must cross the Ticino or the Po, or both, and the difficulties of crossing the latter river are so great that we shall MUM that they will attempt the former. It may, indeed, be that a great battle will be fought on the Buis instead of the Ticino. The ground may be better for the operations of the Austtian army. At all events, it seems that the Austrians have erected certain defensive works along its banks; though according to the last recounts they have abandoned Vercelli, blown up the bridge, and retired to the left bank. Bat the probabilities are that the Austrians will only occupy the line of the Buis for the purpose of compelling the enemy to display his whole force, in order to make certain that the great body of the army is before them. Having arcertained this, the Austrians will probably retire to the other side of the Ticino, first de stroying all the bridges and all the boats and rafts which might enable the Allies to effect a passage. No doubt, however, in the meantime the Austrians 1 , have not been idle. They must have constructed earthworks armed with guns on the banks of the Tirane, especially where they present facilities for a peerage. Bat besides this they have probably anti cipated the possibility of a surprise or of a defeat ,and have reconnoitred and prepared a position in which to fight a general action : unless , indeed, they have determined at once to retire into their fortresses. The Archduke CUARLIS, when he found NAPOLION on the left bank of the Danube, withdrew at axe to those heights by Wsgram which had loeg before been fixed upon u the field of battle. The example ought nut to be lost upon the Arehduke's successors in arms. Bat to render the matter more definite, let us Ile wend to particulars. The distance between Pavia sad the foot of the Lago Maggiore is about 42 maw. The Austrian army may be Lammed to con sist of six corps of infantry, each numbering 26,000 men, and two corps of ceralty, each numbering 15,000 men, together with 400 pieces of artillery. This implies that the Austrian army amounts to 180,000 men. Let it be assumed, moreover, that, besides the fortress of Pavia, the Austrians have an entrenched camp where the Ticino imues from the Lego Maggiore, and that field works have been constructed at the loops of the rivers and at other places where a passage is most to be apprehended. Now, as there are six corps of infantry and two of cavalry, whilst 42 miles are to be covered, it is obvious that one wipe, or 25,000 men, can be posted at evety seven mike, whilst one corps of cavalry, or 16,000, can be posted at • 21 miles. The result appears to be that no hostile force will be able to pass at any point of the Ticino be tween l'aria and the Lago Maggiore without being liable to be attacked in one hour by 26,000 infantry, and in two hours by 16,000 cavalry. These considerations show plainly the difficulty of passing, in the face of an army of 180,000 men, a river such as the Ticino, which, near Buffaloea, is crossed by a bridge of eleven archer, measuring 997 feet. We assume that the Austrian General will act with energy and resolution, for, if be means to prevent the active and Intelligent soldiers of Sardinia and France from effecting • passage, he must attack them as they are crowing with the greatest fury and determination. In short, the Austrians, like their ancestors a' Keeling, must march headlong upon the allied army, so as to drive them back before the passage can be completed. . Oct the other hand, the French and Sardinian s know what they are about. Their arum of precision give them a decided advantage over the enemy, which the difficulties we have described sill develop, while if the new artillery of the French only half fulfils the expectations formed of it, it will" greatly facilitate the paasage of rivers. In one night NAPOLEON paned over 180,000 men, and defeated one of the best generals of his time, posted in a very strong position. It is for the Allied Army to emulate this great example. There is nothing impossible in passing during the Eight pith 30,000 or 40,000 men,who can establish themselves until the rest of the army join theta. If the Allies succeed in this nothing will remain for the Austrians but retreat or a general battle, which, Is tte Doke of WELLINGTON said of Waterloo, sill bo indeed a battle of &ate. At an influential meeting, held at Reading on astneday, it wee reeilved that, m an acknowledgment of the Met eatiniation le which Mr. Palmer, M.P. (who for th,riy leer yawn has represented Berkshire in the ctneerva•he in terest), is held by ell parties , without any reference t) poli t.cal opinions, be be regitested to permit hie portrait to be tam by mum eminent artist, awl that it be bang up in Nona at lag altnation la the nee maize cour.-howe at ALLEGRO OPPRESSION IT YORSIIIIIIR COAL aortae.—When the gnat labour dietom between the Yorkshire C 0401100,111 sad orabstnare was messed, by amass: memo on the ird of December, l&W, it was dktiactly tiedersteed that bygones Mimsld le bypass; that the ono oat on strike shpald re tard peaceably to week et • re luctios of 7; per teat.; that so invidious or crawl diitaivtioe shield le made by the employers, hot that the lteders is the etrike, es well is the mink esd ihould be ford:lariat aluttuad to lull employment is the twee speedlid. We we inioruted thee tkie erreagemest has sot bevn of oat, bet th a t ell the bodes ha the strike ham bora oat el week ever sauce Ibis regatta of the lees late th• pus, sod that nose of Meer are Mee to grocer* amplonmat is the Yorkahhe desks. Oott palatal ease has called public stirmiim to this creel °ppm*. des by the soalowurs. Jobe Hoboyd, of &matey, ass, wa ir ip,ki, as. one of the leaders io the late strike. tie had Isis Immo all his life as • good and steely sowlitson, nod wee diellsguebed above hie fellows by hoe clear judgment, the p hlloeophi,ld best of hie :Mad, sod We plain but tervous address. wWbee the err M termisated, liolroyd toned @gala into hie pit, at Stadlery, hist messes dseharged for some little irregularity. these hat Clitistmaa be tr.. usable to peeve result? work; sea so the little work" he ate messily obtained see Yes came smistsla be wile an runs cluldreo, be lost Wan sod drowsed bit.- Mies the miming of Frady week, after banes is ram asked tor regally employ meat at Ms old pit. Woes be win mars eat of the Celdvr, ley Deltas host, mme verses. ex hibiting Ws stele of mind, were lewd by las 'sabot. They was thee, sad ohms lee awe Aim be was 'begged writing Owe, es Mt, us dm Isiah of thither: • This IA to rat bath bees woo, Fur gat. I've nod duo non b My fro I bath "Miura Owed; But an. tat at.ge of We le gee. Aid when shall I unmet bog, No Ilrlog sou al keimeo; Hump. I to the grave shell And tot to het I've beinreise,-. That 1.. toy parent earth. Bet NM olive ay weal shall be, Dwelling In hone et wskosry,— I huge the toms bee*. Bet though the Law be mg deem. And I trete pleat le plow awl name I th ßeere si tginsoe to aid; en be no wore. than ow, for Irbil, I dwell os sloth Mow. Is.peeps oe Joy I dad. We en inanned Met tan I. not a sonny, awe, bat that Om was tam arrat, m du , W,.t Ram& R." 114 1 ." win he.. been asuilut:y tteuttql by Oat attociatel glows, thread)* their etwodited spate or eteworde.—ltta eiliMer Onewline. CU Court. The Prince and Prince,. George of Saxony and the Doke of Oporto took kora of the Ocean on Saturday morning, and departed fur Germany. The Qat= and the Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace for Osborne, Ws of Wight, at ten °pinatas before 10 o'clock on Setardey morning, accompanied by the Primes Arthur and Leopold, and the Princesses Alice, Helena Louise, and Bidden. The royal suite consisted of the Duchem of Athol*, the Hoe. Beatrice Byng, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Lord Mirka Fitzroy, Lieutenant-Colonel Poetonby, Colonel Biddalph, Bit James Clerk, and Major Blphinstocts. The Queen and Prince Convict were condoeted to their eyeing by the Marquis of Blew, Earl De la Warr, the Duke of Bersofiet, the Menials of Aberoorn, Viscount New port, Lord Crofton, Lord Begot, the Hon. Mortimer Sack villo West, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C.B. A detachment of Light Dragoons escorhd her Mejeety to the private station at Vauxhall, and a special train conveyed the eclat party on the South Western Railway to Gosport. The Princess Augustus of Seat-Coburg left Buckingham Palace on Saturday morning end returned to Claremont. OSBORNE, MAY 22. Her Majoaty, the Prince Contort, end the Royal Family crossed over from Gosport in the Fairy yesterday, and wen joined on the pimp to Osborne by the Primmer Frederick William, who arrived in the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which bad proceeded to Antwerp to fetch kw Royal High_ new rod molt.. The PAWNS came on board the Fairy immediately, aommpaniad her Majesty to Osborne, whom the royal party arrived at taro o'clock. Princess Frederik William will remain abut a week or ten days on a visit to bee Majesty. Prince Frederick Wa kens is unavoidably detained in Prussia by 64 dative under proven , einem+ tances. Count end Countess Penman are in attendance on the Primes'. - This tarsals( the Quin, tbs Prises Consort, Princess Fredeekk William the Prince.. AiloP, liektu, and L'Atioa tt. laded Divine seiwice at Whippingham Chunk where the Rev. O. Rabies oeciated. --- iite — at;;;Oeme Whienera and hire. Charles Webster Wei • preeent at the Qu a 's Drwwing•room held on Thuredny het an as. Jails?. Mum 84, Thomas Fremantle, Chairmen of the Customs, hod an interview with the ChenorSof of the Richegoar on Saturday at his Oficial residence in Doering-street. Dr. Alexander Wood, President of the Royal College of Physiiiens of Rdhshorgh, had an interview with the Right Hon. the Earl of March, on Saturday, at the °Sloe of the l'on Lew Bond, Whitehall. • Heeling* of the Cambridge University Commisaiocers were hild et 6, AdelphEteirsce, on Tuesday, the 17th Wednesday, the 18th; end Fridity, tbo 20th ',Want. The commissioners present ware the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chwter, the Right Hon. tho Lord Justice Turner, the Right ticn. M. T. Elaine., the Right Hon. Sir Laurence Peel, Fire Cosiortitoe Sir W. Page Wood, tho Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and Mr. Horatio Waddington. Dispatches were received at the Colonial Office on Saturday born the lead High Cornmiseoter of the lonisn leiroods and the Ouvtrnive cf litligoland, the Auatralian Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Mauritioe. ARRIVAL OF THE COL'RT AT OSBORNE. PORTSMOUTH, Mat 21. The Queen and the Nines Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice, Prises fttlar, Prince Leopold, Prin cess Helena, Prioress Loulan, and Princess BINLITiCe r , and attend., by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, urivod st the Royal Clennos-yard, Guernt, at half.pset 12 o'clock Ibis afternoon. Her Majesty was received by the Cum- sander-la-Chief et the pore . , Admiral Willies jowls, CB., Risar-Admiral the Hon. Osage Grey, superintendent of the dockyard ; Rear-Admiral George R. Mundy, appointed sand in corninaad of Hie Mediterrsnesa fleet; Major- General Sir •1•1211•1 Yorke licerket, commanding the smith western district, with their respective staffs ; Captain George Fowler Hastings, C. 8., eaperintendent of the Clause Yard and Hasler, and a geoid of boaour of militia artillery. Her Majesty embarked as bard the royal screw yacht Fairy, Commander the Frisco Leiningeo, under royal salutes from the Victoly, flag ship. and Es cellrnt, the ship. In harbour bong gaily decorated with parti coli met buoting. On leaving the harbour the royal standard was Wired from the King's Bastion. and Sae by the Han nibal and Doris at Spithead, as the vessel approached is that direction. Her Majery landed ea moat at Cowie, and arrived at Oribirne at &bast 10 minutes past 1 o'clock. ARRIVAL OP Till PRINCIAS PRIDARICA WILLIAM OP PIItISII.4. Bearcety bed the Fairy passed through Spitted when bar Wejesty's yer.hr, the Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Demaan, hove in sight, having on board the Priors* Frederick William of Prue,ie, whom she embark f at Antwerp, and his conve)rd hither on a visit to the ()men. Owing to tke h►zy abate of the weather, the roy►l yacht wee abreast of the ahips lying at Spiihesd before the wee observed from the shore, Ws Vivid steam vowel being in attendance. Her Rays! Rightism brings n, large rrtnso of me want. wit% bar, bat is attended, we endorse and, only by the Coast sad Coates• de Per poacher. Her infant cl'ld teasing at Berlin. The Prises Frederick Willie., 1011, we heir, arrive in the mune of eight or nine days, being at present on his summer drill. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby arrival In tows os Friday meriting from Munich and Pursuer, after a Isssehesed rwidenee in the latter capital. Wo are griddled to leers thot the noble marquis is is pares non of most eacislirst health. The Duke of Neweestle and Lady Susan Pelham Clinton arrive in Portommoquare on Seturdry, from Clam ber-pain, Nottinghan•Mire. Tka iarl and Lady Constants° Grosvenor arrived L. Oronveaor-oquare a Fridey, from Calverley-/ark, COmitiro. Hie Exoelleney the Prussian Minister and the Collator Somata IT entertained at dinner an Friday arising, at Pruseitt Rouse, the Duke of Rutland, the Saxon Mialeter, the Baroness Bratutow, the Marcbiomes of Ailesbury, the Countess of Desert, Viscount sad Viscountess Combermrre, Viscount Csatsebury, Count Choisk, K. de Tolimy, M. d'Oliveira, end Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald. A select party were afterwards present. Mdlle. Meyer, from Berlin, who achieved a great soften at her Majesty's coscest, sang mu ral song. daring the evening. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury enter tained at dinner on Saturday evening, at their mansion in Arliagtna•strest, his Excellency the Minister LT the NetherLinde, the M•rchiooer of Lothian end Lady Coul Kerr, the Berl and Countess of Shiewebary and Talbot and Lady Outrodo Talbot, the Esrl sod Coan•eea D. laware sad Lady Arabella Sackville West,Viscaunt and Vicountess Canberra's*, Lord Wait, Lady Cowley, Lord Bmaley, Lord llamas. Cecil, Lord Frederick Peeler, the Chancellor of the Exchequer end Mrs. Disraeli, Colonel the Hon. W. I'. Talbot, Mr. Lygon, Re. . . . Hie Excellency the Earl of Eglintoon and Winton bee boss pleased to make the folloWing appoiatmeLte in his staff :—Captaht Andrew Cockerel', Royal North Gloucester Reshernt, to be paid eida-de-cemp, •ice Colonel F. P. Dame, 11. T., resigned; Viewount Dual°, Galway Regi ment, to be paid aide-de-camp, vim Colotel Udney, half-pay, 6 Regiment; Cap•aln Herb Hamilton, Roy el Aynebiro &Dm, to be as mire aide. do camp, Ties Capone Aglow Cockerel,. The Bishop of London his appointed the Rey. F. Ce11,8.D., of Christ's College, Cambridge, awl one of her Majesty's yeeschers et Whitehall, to be his lordship's domes tic ch.iplaie, ia the room of the Rey. 1. Parry, M.A., who has been prefoned to the rectory of Acton. , - Within the lest week or se basinses has began t o revive la the Lewitt Ertetre Court. On Friday another portion of the Tipperary end Waterferd avatar of the late Beal of Mansell va, put up for tale In Wriere luta, which realiredthe prole •tun of 71,0001. Mdlls. Pioeolomini has taken passages for her self sad sate in t►e Vanderbilt .tamer, which M to ke■rs New York for Southasspos end Have on the 4th of Jane. CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS naLL.—This annual jilt, always out of the trading events of the Loudon same. end shirt for trey years yea lee drawn topther the aris tocracy of Sartland, has bees dedaiirely flied to take place on Monday, the 27th of Juno—se nand, at wall;. &nun's. Already owe than forty Wks has sobseribed than. hauler as pampas.. of the 1.11; sad the indef.t4.l.l. treasurer, Sir Cesrlss Forbes, prorates that the arrangements I r the 'rarest year's Moira] shall souks. .11 that hat,: gone be fore it. ALM aCloll.—The second of t►e series of these halls will late plant et Willies Roam es Therelay text, whea t from the eirevaietssee of the Wks yetroeieseee having promised to be pelmet with taw pastries of their friends, • very beg i•ot reorders is aettelpeettl. The first ben of the PCIIIOII, though Dot solosweenly attested, is said to hive bees use of the [ll , ot agreeable =wasp that has Lime plow for sway years per. THE WAR IN ITALY. DEFEATS OF THE AUSTRIANS FRENCH ACCOUNTS. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow log despatch: "ALESSANDRIA, MAT 21, 1159. " The Austrians have attacked with 15,000 men the advanced posts of Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers they were repulsed by the division of General Forey, which behaved admirably, and carried the village of Montebello, already famous, after a desperate combat of four hours. The Piedmontees cavalry, commanded by General de Bonner, acted with rare energy. We have taken 200 prisoners, among them a colonel. We have had on our side from 600 to 600 men killed or wounded. "Major-0.-nerd Beuret, of the infantry, and Com mandtr Duchet, were killcd. The Colonels Ouyot de Lespart, de Bellefonds, Conseil Dumeanil, and Commanders Laerettlle and de Female were wounded. " This affair reflects great honour on General Forty, who has displayed equal intelligence and bravery. The Austrians have born in full retreat since yesterday evening. - - "Tie lose of enemy amounts to more than 2,000 med. " The Emperor left to-day for VogherJ, and has visited the hospitals where the wounded Austrians have been received with the French, and are tended in the same manner." The Moßiteur of to-day (wo learn from Mr. Reuter) contains the following: "ALESSANDRIA, MAT 22. "The weather continues to improve. The Em peror is in good health." . The Nord of to-day alleges that General Forey's division numbered 8,000 men, exclusive of the regi ment of Sardinian cavalry. The Debats of to-day ., says that General Forty's division was composed of four regiments of the line —the 520 d, 73rd, 85tb, and 86th—and the Bth bat talion of Horse Chassenrs. SARDINIAN ACCOUNTS. The following official bulletins were published at Turin on Saturday: . Yesterday 15,000 Austrians assailed Casteggio and occupied Montebello. The Sardinian cavalry and the corps d'armee of Mardis! }Uruguay d'Hil litre advanced, followed by General Forey's division, and after a fight of six hours repulsed the Austrians. Tee allied forces then retook possession of Montc hello. Two hundred Austrians and an Austrian colonel have been made prisoners. The enemy is in fall retreat. t.Forey's division sad the Sardinian cavalry, under General Saunas, behaved admirably. The loss of the allies wu 600 killed and wounded. The law of the enemy was very great. Yesterday the Emperor visited the camp at Marengo. "To-day the extreme left of our army, under General Cialdini, forced a passage over the Sesia, near Vercelli, in an admirable manner. The enemy was put to flight, leaving officers and privates as prisoner., together with arms, waggons, and horses in our hands." AUSTRIAN ACCOUNTS. The official Austrian Correspondence of Satur day evening contains the following communication respecting the battle at Montebello. "On the 20th instant General Stadion sent ont areconnoitering party to learn the strength and position of the enemy's right wing. The Austrians advanced towards Teglio and Montebello, where they met the enemy in supe rior force. After • very severe conflict General Stadion drew back hie troops in perfect order to the left bank of the Po, after having, however, forced the enemy to employ his whole strength." " OFFICIAL BULLETIN. " On the 20th instant General Stadion pushed for ward a reconnaissance by a forced march towards Teglio and Montebello, but after a hot light with a French force of superior strength retreated behind the Po." A telegram from Vienna says :—" The Austrian force which reconnoitered ontite2ota mit.consisted of three brigades. On arriving in the neighbotu• hood of Casteggio and Montebello, on the road to Piacenza, it met the French in great force, under Baraguay d'llilliers. The Austrians made grod their retreat to the bridge at Vecanizza on the Po. The number of killed and wounded is not yet posi tively known, but the loss is probably about the same ae that of the French. The blockade of Venice and of the adjoining coast was announced ,to the Austrian commander yesterday." SECOND ENGAGEMENT. PASSAGE *:,,OF THE SESIA LV THE PIEDMONTESE. The following official bulletin was:published yes terday at Turin: " General Cialdini, wishing to take possession of the end of the bridge of Vercelli, which adjoined the left bank of the river, in order by that means to pro tect the construction of another bridge over the Serie, moved forward two columne, - ;whieb, after having passed the river, joined at the same point, The column which crossed sear Sesta, on the side next Albano, was attacked by the Austrians in great force, and sustained a tierce conflict at a place called Villata. The enemy was, however, routed, and our troops established themselves in Borgo Vercelli. The other column crossed the Scala near Cappucini Veeehi, and, after having sdrprised two companies of the enemy, remained at that place. Our loss is insignificant, but that of the Austrian. is con. siderable. The filodenese, after having spiked their cannon, evacuated Aulla last night, and retired to Froirsano." NEUTRAL STATES. The Munigeur of to-day says:—" A note of the French government hrs been sent on the 3rd of May to the foreign governments, announcing that orders had been given to respect the territories and the commerce of neutral states, and to observe the principles consecrated by the Paris Congress." MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. " The general commend of the two armies," says the .11 ord," is admirably organised. General orders, clear and precise, evidently supervised by the Em peror Napoleon, keep the chiefs of the corps d'armee informed of all that puns, and of the move ments that are to be executed. King Victor Emmanuel bu placed himself and his army under the Emperor's orders, as a simple commander of • corps d'artnee. The orders from the head-quarters bear this formula, full of military simplicity, and showing the intimacy of the relations between the two sovereigns, the two armies, and the two nations: —" The King and the corps trarrate will conform to the following regulations.' ~. The Tuscan Moniterst believes that the Austrian general, Benedek, who was wounded at Casale on May 8, has since died at Piacenza, after an amputa tion. A Turin letter in the Debuts, from M. Amedee Achard, states that the wife of a well•koown Pied moatese deputy, a young woman who was in the fourth month of her pregnancy, fell a victim to the brutality of a band of Uhlans, and has died from the consequences of the outrage. . . . . . A letter from Toulon states the following to be the strength of the Freuch fleet in the harbour : "jn commission—the Bretagne, 140 guns; the Ville de Paris, 120 guns; the Algesims, 100 guna; the Redoubtable, 100 guns; the Napoleon, 90 guns the Fontenay, 90 guns ; the Donawerth, 80 guns; and the Saffron, gunnery ship. The re serve is composed of the Montebello, 120 gnus; the Friedland, 120 guns; the Souvrain, 120 guns; the Fleuru•, 100 guns; the Navarin, 100 guns; the Prince Jerome, 100 guns; the Jena, 90 guns; the Charlemagne, 90 guns; and the Da perre, 82. I use the term ' reserve,' although the authorities declare the ships to be laid up in or dinary; for they are moored stem on to the quay on which are their guns, arranged in order and ticketed ready for shipment. The stores are all stowed away ,ready at band, and the crews are in Toulon ready to be marched on board. The Napoleon and Eylsu, accompanied by two steam frigates, have sailed for the Adriatic, under Admiral Jurien de Lagravidre." In consequence of the news received from the seat of war, the S wise Federal Council, in an extraordinary sitting, has decreed the sending of one battalion and two companies of carabineers from Geneva to the Canton Tessin, under the command of the Staff- Major of the Seventh Division. A telegram from Vienna lays : " Garibaldi arrived on the 21st at Mona with 4,000 men. The Swiss Federal Council has despatched two companies of sharpshooters, one company of Chasse urs, and a battalion of infantry to the Canton Tessin. The general staff of the ith corps d'armee from Geneva will follow. Novara is still ocoapied by the Austrians. Garibaldi is to operate from Mona against Laveno. The Austrians have retired in per fect order to Pavia and Piacenza." SARDINIA. (FROM 001 OWN OCCIMIA.NO, ON THE ROAD PROM CANALS TO ALESSANDNIA (PIZIOIONTEIi Hi&D• QUANTUM), MAT 19. The first rewards have been distributed. King Victor Emmanuel, who since Tuesday last has had his head-quarters in this place, has hoed an order of the day in which he gnats the silver medal of military valour to 14 officers and soldiers, and the honourable mention (meisione onorecole) to 30 others. These brave men have distinguished them selves in the actions and reconnaissances of Frusinetto, Valerzr , Vercelli, Casale, Casein Stria, aid San Germano. The prodigious activity of the King and General I.a Marmora can easily be inn glued when I tell you that before daybreak they are both oa horseback inspecting our lines and giving orders as circumstances require. His Majesty (who yesterday received a visit from the Emperor Napoleon in this place) is deeply affected by the reports of Austrian cruelties which every day reach us from the invaded country. The positions of the allied armies have scarcely changed since my last letter. There is, of coarse, a constant marching of French and Piedmonteee divi sions towards the centre of the Austrian lines, but the movements are so rapid, and are kept so secret, that it is almost impossible to follow them even on the map. Since the day before yesterday, Marshal Ban gutty d'Hilliers' head-quarters have been removed to Tortoni. His excellency has taken up his quarters in the palace of Marquis del Garofolo,who was fortunate enough to present the old warrior with the very map on which the first Napoleon traced the movements of his army before the battle of Marengo. You have not forgotten that on that memorable day the headquarters of the First Consul were esta blished at Torre del Garofolo, a sort of country house, which belonged and still belongs to that noble family. In the joy of the victory the histo rical map had been forgotten, and, as may be easily conceived, it became a treasure with the family. The arm-chair on which Des nix expired is equally preserved by the Garofolos. The outposts of the marshal's corps d'armee are now placed at Centime. and Cuteggio. This is to be regarded as the extreme position of oar right wing. Our centre is still formed by the dif ferent corps which strongly occupy those positions, which from Tortona lengthen them selves towards Alessandria, Valenzr , Occimiamo, Mortars, down to Casale. The extreme left of the allied armies reaches as far as Biella, where Gari baldi is posted with his daring Caociatori dells Alpi. The well-known General Cialdini is still at Casale, bat his division is inspecting the country around, and is always to be found where there is dauger. A powerful corps d'armBe will pass through Turin either to-day or to-morrow. It comes from Suss, and will be directed either on the Po or on Vercelli. The allies are thza swelling their number every day. The enlistment of Italian volunteers is not discontinued, and I have been told that Colonel Antossi, a Swim' officer, and General Zsmbecari, a Bolognese nobleman, have been entrusted by Count Cavour with the organisation of two new regiments, which will be called the Cacciatori Italiaai. A Piedmontese officer of the general staff told me this morning that the number lof volunteers is already 30,000. Money is collected for dressing and equipping them. The :Marchioness Pallvicjno Trivolgio is at the head of a committee of ladies who collect funds for the purpose. Mar chioness Teresa Doria does the same work at Genoa. Count Ala Ponzoae, a rich nobleman from Cremona, has sent from Paris a battery of eight guns, three horses, and 8,000 francs, to be given es a patriotic present to the corps of Gari baldi. This brave general is still the idol of Italians and the terror of Croats. He has a good number of French, Swiss, and even English volun teers amongst the men under his command. He leads his battalions to the attack and is always to be found in the thick of the fire. Your readers will remember the accounts of him when he was at Rome. He was then clad in a most picturesque though eccentric costume— half Spanish and half Italian of the middle ages. The mantis has been got rid of, and the Garibaldi of the present day has assumed the elegant uniform of a Piedmontese general. His men are dressed with • green tunic with white trimming over the shoulder., the officers' of silver. The corps of Guides wear a grey jacket with black trimming , on the hussar fashion, large trouserl of the same colour, • sabre, and a Coles revolver. They are always ahead on their good chargers, and are much feared by Austrian sharpshooters and Croat marauders. The spirit of our army could not bs better—it is panting for the day of action. P.S.—As I am closing my letter I hear that the Austrians have left Vercelli after destroying the fete de pent they had erected. They have also retired from Straddle, carrying with them as hostages the two Counts Pisan!, and ten other &sting rushed citizens of that town. DEATH OF THE KING OF NAPLES. Off SUBNIAILINZ AND 1117111 TILE 0111111.) (0101 001 OWN C01101TOND1NT.) ROME, SCNDAY EVENING. The Vng of Naples died at half-past one o'clock this afternoon. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. mos ova 011111 ooaaisroirmarr.) THE BATTLE OF MONTEBELLO. PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. - -- --- There appears to be now scarcely a doubt that the Battle of Montebello was really a brilliant victory gained by the French. When the Austrians admit that they retreated after a desperate combat against "superior numbers" they souks. to a defeat. The question of the numerical strength of the forces engaged on either side must be reserved for future elucidation. As far as oar present information goes it hardly seems possible that the Austrian allegation can be true. The French despatches merely speak of General Forey's division and some Piedmontese cavalry as having taken part in the combat. It is possible, however, that the entire corps d'armee under Marshal Baragnay d'Hilliers may have been opposed to the attacking force of the Austrians (esti timated by the Monaco at 15,000), and that the number of Austrians who actually fought may have been inferior to those of the French commanded by General Forey. At this moment I am aware of two laconic Austrian despatches, both of which treat General Stadion's movement as a " forced reconnoissance," and one of them says that it resulted in "compelling the enemy to de velop his force." Whether this result is an advan tage to the Austrians after their "orderly retreat" is a question which I must leave to military men. This evening's Pays says: The that bulletin of the army of It4y brings us the news of a viceory. After en interval of fifty-nine years the village of Montekele for the second time gives Its name to • glorious feat of arms. General Ferry's suoceoe agalast the troops of Ocean.' Stadion his led to ;be entire retreat of the Austrian line, the extreme left of which haanow re-crossed the Po by the bridge of Stella. While we were beating the enemy at Montebello, General Cialdini, with • Piedmontme corps cremes, succeeded in forcing the passage of the before Vercelli, after a desperate combat which also terneMated in a defeat of the Austrians. This ask must entail similar consequences for the Austrian right wing ss that of Montebello did for the left. They will now, in ell probability, ev_icuate Lowellina by way of Buffalors, unless they should be disposed to risk a second battle of Novara, under eircumqencee very different indeed from those of the first. The probable consequence of duos two combats, so glorious for Fronm and her heave allies, will be the hams- Mate cremation of Piedmont by the Austrian army, It was mid tbet Garibaldi is to attack the enemy et Arena on Lego Maggiore—that is to say, on the extremity of his line ; but we now learn that the Austrian have abet:doped the neighbourhood of the lake. After seek erects as there, which have filled every heart in Paris with joy, it la curious to reed the comments of a professional journal, the Military Gowned Vienna. This journal re presented the Austrian army es being firmly established at Vercelli with the firm Intention of holding that well•relected position, and "resisting to the lest extremity." It was only on May 18 that this bold resell:aim was published is Vienna, and now, on May 22, we know that the Austriaea have evacuate' Vaecalli and failed to prevent the passage of the Serie by the Piedmcmtese army. This signal dispens atory of tto Military (lintel( conveys a lemon by which the journals of belligerent countries would do well to profit— namely, that it to dangerous to mike prophecies about military operations. The Nene is not so cautious as the Pays, for it evidently assumes a defeat of the French to be im possible. It exclaims, " This is the first victory, because it is the first bsttle." It treats the asser tion of the Austrian despatches that the French were superior in numbers as "evidently faint but adds " such subterfuges have in all times been resorted to by the vanquished." General Beuret, whose death at Montebello is recorded by the Moniteur, commanded the first bri gade of General Forey's division, composed of the 74th (not 73rd) and 84th line regiments. He fought with distinction in the Crimea, where he wan colonel of the 39th regiment, and he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general on January 10, 1855. He afterwards commanded a brigade in the army of Paris. The bloody nature of the combat at Montebello may be inferred from the fact that, be►ides the loss of one brigadier-general out of two, no lees than three out of the foar colonels in General Forey's brigade were wounded. A note in the Patric states that the Sardinian minister in Paris has agreed with the cabinet of the Tuileries upon measures for the protection of Tuscan commerce. The French government takes the maritime flag of Tuscany under its protection, and, it we are well informed, the French navy has already found an opportunity of executing Admiral Ilemelin'e orders on this subject. The Anti de la Religion, which, in its number of the 21st, had stated that a rupture was imminent between France and Bavaria, publisher, in a supple ment, the following " cormitunicated note" from the Minister of the Interior: The .dasi do la Religion annoutom that the Bavarian minister bad received orders from his government to hold himself in readiness to aloft Paris, sod that be had demanded hie pas-p - ate. This j Atraal adds that a rupture between Franca and the court of Munich appears to be imminent. Th,ee amertions are totally devoid of foundatiun. MONTENEGRO. The Times publishes the following telegram: VIENNA, SCNDkY. Noos. " The Nlontenegtins are destroying the Austrian telegraphs in the Sutorina, thereby cutting off coup munication between Uttar° and Ragusa." THE AUSTRIANS AT ANCONA. The following is an extract from a letter to a com mercial house in London, from their correspondent at Ancona: • ANCONA, MAT 12. Matters have reached such a point that we must all retire into the interior. In a few weeks the Aus trians have constructed fortifications to appalone s and continue their works, notwithstanding the neu trality of the Papal States. Fatal sign ! Poor An conians : we now only want a bombardment to com plete our miseries. In the teeth of the remonstrances• of the consuls, the lighting of the lighthouse cond. noes to be forbidden by the Austrian general. The NI tocheater papers publish a letter regarding the position of the port of Trieste, fr mn Mr. E. Hammonds Under Secretary for Foreign Afftirt, in reply to a question addressed to him by Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P. Our government s it it est I, have ree sired no assaranoss fr. the French govern ment that the free p,rt of Triers will be Cu neidered ingirg to the Germanic oonfeder.iiiith, or that, cor. 'fluently, chips under the English flee and not cants, owatthbani of wee, will tis allowed to enter that poet num:death!. Nu in.ireation, it is sada, has been ter wised of the blockade of TriesM. TRIESTE, MAY 16.—The steamer 1)oora, which &frivol here gastenley from Alexandria. reporie that the Frenda squadron, entishig off the Island of Steeeo, had lying sear them antral own heel TONA . 'I , , and it was thought that the Erteinta P. (Austria' bar.tot% from Hansellke, bound to this plsee in ballast, and the to (Austrian brig). from Taiping to Solution, with salt, were reooguniel amongst them.