The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-07 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF SOLFERINO. (From the Times.) The following letter is from the same correspon dent who has described the principal events of this war : POZZOLENGO, JUNE 26. " I regret almost to have written to you yesterday after the first impression of the battle ; it might give a certain local colouring to one's narrative, but it was at tke expense of accuracy. In a small engage ment, where you can yourself overlook every move ment and every phase of the fight, the noting down one's first impressions is, no doubt, the best plan, but in a great battle like that fought on St. John's day you have to collect the details by degrees, and it is only after the knowledge of all the details that the battle assumes its proper shape in your mind, and you are thus enabled to give a true picture of it. It is almost presumptuous in such a case to give an account at the first moment, for even the com mander-in-chief of an army would have some diffi culty in ascertaining the facts of the battle within five hours after it occurred, and would be rather embarrassed in giving an account of it. I find that my first impression was right, and that no battle was expected on our side. It was known that the rear guard of the Austrian army, the Corps of Benedek (the Bth), which hadfought at Malegnano, and protected thence the retreat of the bulk of the army, had repassed the Mincio on the 19th inst. It had first received orders to stop at Castiglione, and prepare to hold that place, but it had scarcely begun to execute this order when a counter -order arrived, which recalled the rear guard behind the Mincio. In consequence of this it passed the Mincio at Monzambano, leaving only a few outpostsbehind it. Up to this time, then, the intention of the Austrians was evidently to content themseives with defending the Mincio line. From the 19th to the 22d a change came over the plans, which may be, perhaps, explained by the circumstance that Gyulai only took leave of the army on that day. He did so in a very laconic order of the day, m erely saying that his Majesty the Emperor had called. him elsewhere, and that he took leave in conse quence. In his stead General Schlick, originally an officer of Hussars, who gained himself a name in the war in Hungary in 1848-49, was named Ma jor-General of the Italian Army, of which the Em peror himself took the command. From all we can make out there seems to have been too many plums in the pudding, for there is a good deal of jealousy among several of the Generals, who all think them selves entitled to the supreme command. For in stance, Gen. Benedek, who is considered — at any r ate, by his own corps—as the fittest to command, is accused by Gyulai of having come too late for the battle of Magenta on purpose, although it is more probable that, being on the other side of the Po, he had not sufficientlime to arrive. " At any rate, it is to put an eird to all these jea jouses, which are greatly deplored by the army, that the Emperor has taken the command in per son. This was on the 22d. On the 23d the army received an order to be ready at seven a.m., and the whole immense force, consisting of the Ist, 2d, 3d, sth, 7th, Bth, and 9th corps, passed the Mincio on that day, and had taken up their respective po sitions before the evening closed in. This mass, to which must be added 12 of the best cavalry regi ments, from whose activity on the plain of the Campo di Medole a great deal was expected, cannot have numbered less than 180,000 or 200,000 men. Besides this a strong park of position guns was also ordered over the river. " On seeing such a mass cross a river in one day and march up to positions some of which were 10 or 12 miles from the bank of it, one may well be asto nished at the activity displayed, and cannot but conclude that the Austrian General did not know to take advantage of it in the beginning of the war. " And this large army came not to defend the positions on the hills so much as to attack the allied armies, and drive them out of Lombardy. The confidence seemed to have been great, for the march to Brescia and Milan had become table-talk among the officers. The Emperor came up the same evening, and early the next morning visited the position of Solferino. " This return of the Austrians had been so sud den that the news of it had not reached the allied armies. For reasons which I cannot mention now, the advance of these latter had been on purpose slow, and they did not seek to penetrate too far, in order not to have to hurry more than it suited their plans. You must haveobserved this from the short marches and long halts which were made since we left Brescia. The allies contemplated no movement on the day of the 24th. The only project for that day was that the Piedmontese, whose line extended from Desenzano on the Lake along the outer ridge of hills down to Esenta, should send out two recon naissances, one in the direction of Peschiera, and the other in that of Pozzolengo, on the road to the bridge of Salionge, while the Ist French corps of Baraguay d'Hilliers, which occupied the continua tion of the ridge from Esenta to Castiglione, was likewise to send out two reconnaissances, one in the direction of Madonna del Monte, on the road from Castiglione to Pozzolengo, and the other on that leading to Solferino. " I was as you remember under the impression that it was the meeting of these reconnaissances which was the beginning of the battle. As far as the Piedmontese are concerned this was correct, but not quite so far as the French were concerned, for before these reconnaissances started their line of outposts was attacked in the plain from Medole to San Cassiano. The plan of the enemy seems to have been to refuse the right wing and strike a decisive blow at their left, so as to endanger if not cut off our line of retreat. Forthis purpose the Bth Corps, Bene dek's, which had come over the Mincio, was posted on the heights about Pozzolengo, while the rest of the army was massed from Solferino to Medole and Cavrian to Ceresale. This movement to turn our right flank was only possible so long as the heights of Solferino were held ; for, these once lost, the army, if it still maintained itself in the plain, was in danger of being cut in two, and of losing one or two of the Mincio passages. " The Emperor, who, as you remember, arrived about an hour after the first shot was fired, saw this danger instantly, as well as the necessity of getting possession of this key of the position. The great point was to hold back the enemy's forces brought against our right, and to push him back in the plain until this could be effected. For this pur pose the Ist Corps received order to go on the roads which skirt the hills looking down into the plain ; the 2d Corp p s took its lace at i right ; agai at its right was placed the 4th Corp ts s, and the thi n rd was kept back en potence on the extreme right, to serve as a reserve to the fourth, if necessary, and to pre vent any flank movement of the enemy, and fall on his flank should he attempt to make one. The in fantry of the Guard was placed as a reserve behind the First and Second Divisions, while the whole cavalry was kept ready to advance as soon as the enemy was driven back towards the open Campo di Medole. The obstinacy with which the Austrians held the position of Solferino was only equalled by the efforts which they made to t hrow back our right wing, an d , i f possible to outflank it. I gave you an idea of the position of Solferino. I assure you it is one of those to which can be fully applied the saying, you like it.' t Th e mo re you look at it t he less impossible to ima gine stronger than this hill fort , anything , with its lifgh precipitous bastions and defiles of road, fl an k e d by smaller spurs just of convenient height and distance for cannon. The Austrians, who, of course knew every inch of their favourite manoeuvring - - ' l nd made the most of these advantages. But it was above all the en trances to the village and the building s vil lage on which they had spent the in the greatestvil care. As the houses are built on the side of the steep hill, they, as well as the gardens, stand, a s it were, on high terraces, and their walls form a kind of enceinte round the village. Every wall had b een loopholed, and behind it were one or two good shots, firing constantly with rifles, which were sup plied to them by those posted behind. In Penetra ting into this village great losses were sustained. The ground before it had been cleared, so as to coin- pletely expose those who wanted to take the place by storm. There being no ladders, and the gate way being too high to scale, the Ist Zouaves— the same who distinguished themselves in the battle of Malcgnano—made a human pyramid, those below exposing themselves to the murderous fire which was kept up against them in order to allow their companions to mount and enter. But the most terrific carnage was, as usual, round the churches — one situate close underneath the high square tower, the Spits d'ltalia,' of which I have so often spoken, the other on one of the spurs the mountain throws out towards the lake, and then the Spia d'ltal:a itself. The square tower and the ruined wall which surrounds it arc, as I told you, built on a high coni cal mountain, which throws out threa spurs, one towards the plain, the second towards Castiglione, and the third towards the lake. The first of these is the least stee p and the broadest. On its summit is a large church, with a curious cupola, and a large yard before it, enclosed by high walls. One of the roads goes down to the plain from this point throilgh a tolerd.bly steep street, but once out of the village the road. goes down in a gentle slope. This road i s flanked on the left.by a high isolated plateau, while on the: right it is commanded by the long platea u-like spur which runs from the tower in the direction oif Castiglione, and which forms a promi nent 1 'eature in the scenery , owing to a score or so of hig, a - -poplars planted in a row. The third spur, lower i ti tan the two others, compensates this advan. shorter their line would become, which was quite true; for Lonato and Castiglione, .the two places where all the Mincio passages lead to, are not more than four or five miles distant from each other, and in pushing back the enemy they might hope to en velope his right wing. This was evidently their calculation, only it was wrong, and therefore failed. If one is certain of victory, then one is justified in choosing an order of battle which will make that victory the most decisive, and the enemy's defeat most complete ; but the events which have occurred hitherto in this campaign scarcely justified the Aus trians in reckoning, even with a superiority in numbers, on a certain victory ; it would have been therefore wiser to be more moderate in their plans. " In attempting . too much they weakened their forces at the decisive point, and while they tried their offensive movement on their left they lost the key of their position at Solferino. One can, indeed, forgive them for thinking this latter impregnable, fortified and garrisoned as it was, but in warfare there exist only greater or lesser probabilities, and no absolute certainties. " After the loss of Solferino nothing remained but to think of retreat. The plain on both sides of the road to Goito became untenable, for it could be taken in flank from the spurs of the hills, and if the resistance was too long continued there was the danger of its being also taken in flank from Medole, and so lose the road to Goito. The centre could not assist it, for if it did move towards the right it exposed its own line of retreat, which was towards Valleggio. " As it was, the line of retreat to Goito could only be kept with the greatest sacrifices, and it is but justice to say that the Austrians somewhat re deemed the mistakes which they made in their ad vance by the masterly way in which they managed their retreat, under very unfavourable circum stances. I have spoken already of the Campo di Medole, but I must go back to it, for it played a prominent part in the retreat of the Austrian left w in " This Campo is an open piece of ground entirely devoid of trees. It forms almost a parallelogram, of which San Cassiano, the foot of the hills of Cavriana, Medole, and Piure form the four angles; it is about two miles in width and 2 miles in length, and is intersected in its width by the roalto Goito, which passes through Guidizzolo ; this, in its turn, is in tersected by the road from Medole to San Cassiano, which runs just at the beginning of the Campo. This open ground is mostly filled with scanty crops of corn and fields of Indian corn as yet not full grown. The borders of it are planted with rows of vines, trained up like low trees, and large numbers of mulberry trees. " When the Austrians had to withdraw from their first line they took up their position on the border beyond this plain, in the front of the village of Gui dizzolo, which lies about one-third of a mile beyond the open Campo. They were a cheval on the road to Goito. Here they had to sustain in the after noon, from two o'clock till nightfall, a most formid able combined attack. The Ist. and 2d Corps and the Guards began just about that time to scale the heights of Cavriana, and advance on the lower spurs of the hills towards the Campo. The 4th Corps (Niel's), which had abstained from the offensive until the position of Solferino was taken, began to debouch from the woods on the Castiglione side of the Campo, and from the cross-road which leads from Piure to Guidizzolo. The cavalry of the Guard and several regiments of Chasseurs d'Afrique were coming out from the main road of Castiglione to Goito. The Austrian position was thus attacked from three sides. The superiority of the French artillery told nowhere more than at this point. Its great range and precision were really marvellous, for while every shell and shrapnel of the rifled can non could be seen striking and bursting in the midst of the infantry lines of the enemy, and among his batteries, the enemy's cannon could do but little harm. This was most striking in the beginning, when the distance between the two lines was still great. You saw the shot and shell fall short ; the shell, fired evidently at a very high elevation, burst in the air before the French lines. In spite of this disadvantage the Austrians brought up gun after gun, and it was interesting to watch how soon most of them were silenced. What seemed to me surprising was, that the Austrians did not try to make up by number what they wanted in range and precision. They never brought up more than three or four guns at a time, and those kept almost always on the road, although the open Campo' was well adapted for evolutions of artillery. I can only think that they were not much inclined to lose them, and had therefore their artillery dispatched towards the Mincio, keeping only the most neces sary part of it with them—rather false economy, it seems to me, for what they saved in cannon they lost in men. The fields on both sides of the road in front of Guidizzolo were strewn with dead and wounded. Another thing which remains to be explained is, that they did not take advantage of the large mass of cavalry-12 regiments—which they had brought over, and which, ably employed, might have been of considerable use in protecting their retreat. Here the reason seems likewise to have been economy, or else that they could not bring up all their cavalry on the road. encumbered by the retreat of the army. At any rate, there seemed to me nothing like 12 regiments of cavalry in the field, every one of which ought to have above a thousand horses in war time. There were but two small charges of a few squadrons of Lancers against the Chasseurs d'Afrique, which looked very warlike, but which did not contribute very much towards the success of either side. It was the Austrian infantry which had all the shock to bear, and their resistance was unquestionably obstinate. "If I have been clear enough in explaining the respective position of the two armies, you must have seen that, leaving aside the Piedmontese en gagement, which had no connexion with the opera tions on this side, our whole attack was made by two large columns, the first, to the left, consisting of the Ist and 2d Corps and of the Infantry of the Guard ; and the other, to the right, of the 4th Corps, with the 3d echelonned to the right of it. Both these columns advanced from the plain, and had for the object of their operations Cavriana, which was the centre of the Austrian position. They were to reach this point by two great flank movements, in order to gain the range of heights to the left, and to break through the Austrian line, separating the centre at Cavriana from the left wing at Guidizzolo and Ceresale. Accordingly, the Ist Corps, which was on the left, and supported by the Guards, advanced, at the base of the hills, as far as the road of Solferino, and then passsed to the left and scaled the position. Having done so, it took again its original direction, and went over the crest of the hills towards Cavriana. The 2d Corps, which was to the right of it, continued to sweep the plain and the hillside as far as San Cassiano, then likewise faced to the left, and went up the heights, which were at the same time attacked by the left column, which had already gained the hills. The 4th corps kept its original direction to the left of the Goito road, until it came in front of Guidiz zolo. It threatened the extreme left of the enemy and the line of retreat of this wing from Medole, and then took likewise the direction towards the hills, so as to throw itself between the centre of the enemy's army and separate it from the left wing. "The taking of Solferino and this movement of our right column, to throw itself between the centre and left wing of the Austrians, are the two great phases of the day. Until 5 o'clock this second phase was still undecided. Just about that time a heavy thunder storm came down, which lasted for more than half an hour, and became the turning point. While the 4th corps continued its attack on Guidizzolo a divi sion of the 3d corps was brought up, and, crossing behind the former, threw itself between the hills of Cavriana and Guidizzolo. At the same time the artillery was working on the flank, from the last spurs of the hills of Cavriana. This was decisive, and the Austrian line was soon broken through. "As for the material results of the day, they were, as you know by the bulletin, 30 guns and several thou sand prisoners ; but they are nothing in comparison with the moral effect of the battle. The strategical gain is the Mincio line. Unfortunately, it was not possible to gain the Mincio passage. The enemy was indeed defeated; but, apprehending danger to his line of retreat, he began to retire early in the day and in tolerably good order. It was nightfall before he was driven out from Guidizzolo and Cavriana. From there to the Mincio is about 10 miles, and the troops had been On foot and fighting without food since sunrise. Even those who had not taken part in the action were exhausted by fatigue, hunger, and thirst. The exertion would have been too much. " The losses are far greater than I at first antici pated. They cannot be less than from 30,000 to 33,000 on both sides. You can only estimate them after passing over the whole length of line in every direction. In spite of the exertions made, it has :lot yet been possible to find and bury all the de a d men ; as f or the horses, they still lie about in scores, infecting the air. " On the French side the proportion of the wounded to the dead is greater than usual, which is explained by the small projectiles of the Austrian rifles. Most of the wounds are in the head, neck, and limbs, which is in consequence of the fight being on the steep hills. The large number of our own wounded and those of the enemy made it im possible to provide for them at first, and it became necessary to call in the efforts of the population. Certainly Brescia may be proud of its population, for nothing could be more striking than the noble a which it behaved. Not a h er small, which has not found m one or more of the wounded, l o i e d u a s u e P s o a t r t o ri family, e t o i c o N ln C h a o ol i e n t and many deprived themselves not only of their c su om ffe f r o i r u t g s, s b o u f t thos ofn e ce e order to relieve the whssoarie fought for them. All those Who had carriages at their disposal went out them- tage by its precipitousness. The church, which is built at the edge of it, forms likewise a prominent feature. Just at the junction of this spur with the mountain itself a very steep road leads down towards Castiglione. The part of the village built about these points is called the upper village. Towards Cavriana the mountain falls off very p r ecipitously, and just at the base of it is built the lower village, to which the road leads up by San Cassiano. " As all the roads are between the different spurs, each forms a sort of defile. The chief attacks were consequently directed upon the heights themselves. Most of these are so steep at their upper part that a person -anencumbered by anything has the greatest difficuly in climbing them, so you may imagine what it was for the French soldiers to get to the top with their packs. The Austrians on the top had left theirs behind them, and waited the attack in this manner. Add to this difficulty a scorching June sun, several hostile batteries sending down grape, and a dense mass of infantry firing down with their rifles. It was noon before the heights were crowned. A brigade of the first division of the Ist corps, and one of the second division, Ist corps, did their best to get possession of the heights, but they had to go back again. It was then that the Emperor, who was on one of the low hills directing the move ments, is reported to have said, " Il faut avoir ce point, c'est la clef de la position. Dites aux Grena diers de la Garde de s'avancer ;' and then, as if re membering that they had had their share at Ma genta, he said Non ; envoyez la premiere brigade des Voltigeurs ;' and the Chasseurs and the Ist bat talions of the Ist and 2d regiments of Voltigeurs came on, and took the heights at a run, with the 12 guns which were placed there. Their dash was so magnificent that the Emperor, and, in imitation of him, the whole Staff, raised their caps, and shouted Bravo les Voltigeurs " I got to the place a short time after it had been taken, and I must confess I never saw such destruc tion of humanity in so small a spece. You saw what the fight cost both sides when you counted the numbers and facings of the different regiments engage d. The wonder to me, however, is how the position could ever be taken. Those of the enemy who were in the keep at the foot of the town were t a ken prisoners. They had orders to defend the place to the last man. " The attack of the 2d corps, which, as you will remember, was placed to the right of the first, and had to clear the plain on the left of the road to Goito, near the slopes of the hills, had no less diffi culties although of another kind. The g round is as level as a table by nature, but has been inter sected with roads, hedges, rows of trees, ditches, and banks. Every one of these artificial obstacles became a new means of resistance to the enemy. This resistance was greatly facilitated by the num ber of detached farmhouses, which abound there, and every one of which became a little blockhouse, which had to be taken. " The 4th corps worked in the same way on the right-hand side of the Goito road. One part of this corps was sent to make a flank movement from Medole, and debouch towards Guidizzolo, about the heights of Cavriana. The fight, above all, in the farmhouses was most obstinate, for the Austrians, who saw themselves in danger of losing the Goito road, and being thrown towards the hills, did every thing to prevent the advance of the 4th corps. In spite of this both the columns dedouched in the afternoon on the Campo di Medole. No doubt, the taking of Solferino relieved this side very much, for from that moment the Austrians fought for their retreat. A person in the house occupied by the Em peror of Austria says that when the latter saw the retreat of his troops from the tower of Cavriana he had tears in his eyes. " While this was going on on our right the Pied montese, as had been agreed, sent forward their re connaissance—one column, a brigade of the sth division, with two guns, towards Peschiera, and the I other, a brigade of the 3d division, with four guns, towards Pozzolengo. This last column had for its support the other brigade of the sth division. 'While the first went across the country towards Peschiera, the second followed the railway line which leads from Desenzano to Peschiera, and then leaving it at the intersection of the road by the railway, rounded towards Pozzolengo. "The country to the south of the Peninsula of Sermione rises gently towards the mountains, form ing a kind of basin towards the lake. Thickly planted with trees, it is not very favourable for observation. The Sardinians, not suspecting the neighbourhood of an enemy, advanced with their reconnaissance as far as San Martino, which is a plateau to the right of the road, rising abruptly from the lower coun try. This plateau is a few thousand feet square, and at the foot of it are ensconced among the trees a number of farmhouses. The officer of the staff who accompanied the expedition thought he saw figures moving towards the opposite side while the Piedmontese passed, but he thought them country people. The column passed on, therefore, sending some skirmishers up to the plateau, who found themselves received with rifle balls from the houses at the bottom. The column faced round, and, having disposed its guns to bear on the thicket, it advanced towards the plateau, and succeeded, though not without severe loss, in gaining the height, and at the same time a messenger was sent to hasten the advance of the next brigade. Before this could arrive, however, the Austrians had brought up fresh troops, and the Piedmontese were driven from the position they had taken up. When the fresh brigade had come up another attempt was made to get possession of the heights, which, however, did not succeed, and the Piedmontese retired, to form again and to await the reinforcement of two fresh brigades. These, the Brigades Aosta and Camou, ar rived at about 4 p.m., and then a new effort was made. All the guns were united into one large bat tery, to throw down the houses at the foot of the plateau, and three columns formed for an attack. Although dead beat by the rapid march, they sealed the heights, and finally not only maintained their position, but followed the enemy close to Pozzolengo. Their loss was very severe, about 4,000 killed and wounded. They had for their adversaries the entire Bth Corps d 'Armee of General Benedek, and were therefore terribly overmatched. No doubt they would have had even greater difficulties had it not been for the success at Solferino and Cavriana, which imperiously compelled a retreat on the right of the Austrian army as well. Two Piedmontese generals are wounded and almost every colonel of the regi mepts engaged. During the fight a message came from the other wine- to send a division towards Solferino, to act on that side. " I must interrupt my letter, for the mail leaves More to-morrow. " CAVRIANA, JUNE 2 " If I remember right, my account of the battle broke off yesterday with the engagement on our left wing, between the Piedmontese and the corps of General Benedek. As far as our side is concerned the engagement at San Martino must be looked at as an entirely separate affair, not entering into the general plan of the battle. It was only towards noon, a short time before the taking of Solferino, that their co-operation, as I said before, was de. manded. Having two divisions and a-half already engaged against a far superior enemy, and having likewise to apprehend an advance of the Austrians from Peschiera towards Desenzano, it was impossi ble to make the movement in the direction of Sol ferino which was wanted. " On the side of the Austrians, on the contrary, the movement all along the line was according to one plan. The great difficulty was, however, to give to the movements the necessary ensemble on a line of from 12 to 15 miles in length. Until the orders from Cavriana could arrive the situation was very often entirely changed, and to choose the op portune moment for a movement is just one of the most important conditions for the success of a battle. As it was, the right wing at Pozzolengo was en tirely isolated from the rest, while the movements of the left wing could likewise be only imperfectly controlled. The length of the line made the em ployment of the reserves equally difficult, and c aused a want of cohesion in the whole, which might have been far more fatal than it really was had the Austrians not thought so early o f th e i r retreat. All thes e great mistakes were up to a cer tain point coun t er balanced by the number of li nes of retreat which the Austrians possessed. But this advantage told only to wards the end, and saved tnem fromwhat otherwise would probably hav e been eb, line with h a complete rout. During the battle it was eu . rioas to wa t c h the effects of the too g reat len g th of r the n e i a t nd its corres po nding weaknese. The F brtehakeiirno.firtbstronil eotru pressing o s it3-invariably the succeeded i n back part of the line which theattacked, and before the reserves cam e up th ey had u sually succeeded in throwing themsel vss i n t o th e flank of the Austrians, w ho still maintained th e ir ground, thus forcin g th e m likewise to retreat. In spite of their nu merical superiority the Austrians found themselves always too few at the d ec i s i ve point and a t the decisive minute. They were thus pressed back step by step. The more they retired the greater became the length of the line and the cor responding disadvantage , for th e roa d t o G o ito, which was the line of retreat for th e i r l e ft wing, and at the same time of vital importance, as one of the chief passages of tbeMincio, runs o ff di agona lly towards the river. This was, of course, a six passag es on t h e disad vantage which they could not help, but th ey oug ht evidently not to have chosen a line of battl e w hi c h exposed them to it. They have Mincio—at Peschiera, Salionge, Monzarabano, Borghetto, Valleggio, and Goito. They wanted to use, and had consequently to protect them all. Like the hen with her numerous chickens, they stretched out their wings so as to embrace them all. They were probably very confide nt in their success, and thought that the more they advanced the THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 7,' 1859. selves to the French and Piedmontese lines to bring back wounded. Others were waiting at the gates of the town for their arrival, and carried off the wounded as if they were a treasure which they had found; others, again, in order to be beforehand in the work of charity and patriotism, went out several miles on the road to meet and invite them to their abodes. "These efforts were suddenly disturbed yesterday afternoon by one of those panics which are com mon the day after a battle, when the excitement has not had time to abate, and all minds are still very sensitive to any outward impression. I hap pened to be on the road from Solferino to Castig lione about 3 p.m. It was covered with a long line of carts and mules bringing in the wounded from the battlefield. When not more than a few hun dred yards from the town I heard an unusual move ment behind, and saw clouds of dust arise. At the same moment a man in the uniform of a Chasseur d'Afrique passed on at full gallop, holding in his hand his drawn sabre. The thing struck me so much the more as on the evening of the battle, when coming back from the Campo di Medole, I also saw a person in the same uniform, and like wise with his sabre drawn, rush through the mules and carts on the road. I tried to stop him, but could not ; he went on, and after him came a rush of mules, carts, and carriages, coursing along as hard as they could, and jolting the wounded in the most frightful manner. I hastened to get into the town, to get out of this senseless rush. Here, too, the confusion had spread; the sick who could still walk tried to get off; the tricoloured flags disap peared in a moment., the shops were shut ; and all this was caused by the notion that a detachment of the enemy's cavalry had somehow or other come to the high road, and cut off a convoy of provisions ! It was highly absurd, but it produced its impres sion, not only at Castiglione, but on the whole road to Brescia and Milan even, growing at each station to larger proportions. In Brescia it took the shape that the Austrians were at the gates of the town. But, again to the honour of the Brescians, it must be said that the impression lasted only a few minutes, and then the National Guard, troops, and all those who could get hold of some weapon, went to the ramparts, determined to resist. " There was not the slightest ground for the panic, so far as I can ascertain, and the impression gains ground more and more that it was a false re port by Austrian spies. At any rate, a number of individuals have been arrested, and I hear my friend the Chasseur d'Afrique in disguise was shot this morning. " The evening of the battle the troops encamped on the ground which had been occupied by the enemy. Yesterday morning the line was extended to Volta and Pozzolengo, and this morning we are close to the Mincio. The head-quarters are still at this most wretched of places, which has been so plundered that the inhabitants live literally by what they can get from the soldiers, having no kind of provisions left for themselves. " DESENZANO, JUNE 28. " Here I am on the shores of the Lake of Garda, looking across the smoothest, bluest, and most transparent sheet of water to those bold Alpine peaks which enclose the lake to the north. There is Monte Baldo and the famous plateau of Rivoli just distinguishable on the other shore, close to the white dusky road which leads up in the valley of the Adige. Right before me runs out from the right the long peninsula of Sermione, with its yellowish white churches reflected in the water. The island marks for the moment the extent of our domain on the lake, and beyond it you see some green and dusky white, rather regular lines, with a tower or two protruding from among them. You take up your glass, and you distinguish the fortress of Peschiera. You can see that the Aus trians have not lost time, and have considerably increased the line of their works. It is too far to distinguish the nature of these works, but from one or two indications, you can make out a scientifically fortified pentagon, with its lunettes before, and to these have been added some more outer works. Some of these are still in course of construction, and as you look at the human ants digging away on the mounds your memory carries you back in voluntarily to the first days of the siege of Sebastopol, when every one ran up to the three nameless hills, so famous afterwards, and looked down eagerly on the Russians, who were heap ing up difficulty after difficulty, and obstacle after obstacle. There, however, the comparison must cease, for there is not much danger of these molehills on the Lake of Garda becoming quite so formidable as those of the great arsenal of the Euzine. It will be rather interesting to watch the changes which the rifled cannon will bring into the system of fortification. If it answers here as well as it does in the field one must begin to think of remodelling the whole system. Peschiera, on this side of the Mincio, is already invested, and, as soon as the Mincio is passed, will be invested on the other side. The sea side is open and accessible to steamers, of which two still remain, the third, as you know, being sunk the other day at Salo, where she had gone to levy contributions. This morning one of the two approached this place, and turned once or twice, as if she was looking for a mooring from which to greet the town with her fire ; but, warned probably by the fate of her companion at Salo, she got up steam again and went off to the opposite shore. "This place, which is quiet, little frequented, and falling off since the railway has been con structed, is now drawn into the turmoil. Being on the road to Brescia and Milan, there is a constant movement going on in it, which contrasts strongly with the grass-grown streets, tumbledown houses, and the utmost poverty of resources. Still, it is a charming change after the camp, for you have only to look in the evening over the lake, illuminated and surrounded with the halo of the sinking sun, to forgat that a few miles from you are two power ful armies, intent on destroying each other as fast and as effectually as possible. 'BIM ENG :AND. " VOLTA, JUNE 29 "It is just two months to-day since the first Aus. trian soldier crossed the Ticino, and to-day the Franco-Sardinian army is deehelonised all along the Mincio, waiting for the signal to cross this Rubicon of the much talked of quadrilatere. The Emperor has to-day transferred his head - quarters to Volta, and to-morrow, or perhaps even to night, we shall be on the other side of the Mincio. At any rate all pre parations have been made, although no resistance is expected from the Austrians, who, according to all accounts, have withdrawn all along the river.line. If we pass the river without a battle, it will be the result of the victory of Solferino. With arrivals so uncertain and plans so changing as in the Austrian army, we may find them in some strong position about Casteggio or Formio Campo, just as we found them, when we least expected, at Solferino. I think from the lesson they received on St. John's day, that they will not again risk a battle in the open field, and will prefer retie ing into their positions before Verona. Should they wish to try their luck and skill again there are plenty of points almost as favourable for them as their battle-ground five days ago. Should they have more confidence in hilly positions, there is a range on the other side of the Mincio, exactly similar to that on this side. Should they prefer a plain they have the whole country between the Mincio, Villafranca, and the plateau of Verona to choose from. All the most sanguinary engagements during the war of 1848 occurred in that neighbourhood ; Formio, Campeggio, Santa Lucia, and Casteggio which decided the campaign. The whole ground which we are about to tread has been for years the study of the Austrian General Staff, so it may be presumed that they will choose what long and deep study has convinced them to be the best. " When our troops arrived at Volta they found numbers of Austrians dead and dying left behind in the place. They were left behind in the retreat, and lying about in considerable numbers, infecting the air. As the Austrians were not pursued to Volta these must have been the wounded who had been carried back from the battle-field of Solferino, and who could not be taken away in the hurry of retreat. "There is a notion pervading the camp, which has been probably imported from the other side, that among their other means of defence the Aus trians have at Peschiera great locks on the Mincio, by means of which they can send down any volume of water, and increase its velocity to a degree which no pontoon bridge ever made can resist. I give you this as I have it, although I must say it seems to me arrant nonsense. " The road of communication to the south by Cremona and Pavia on the one side, and Piacenza on the other, is open, so that now the northerly , road by Milan, which was formerly the only one used, will be relieved of a considerable part of its traffic. The bridge at Casetto over the Olio has been replaced by a pontoon bridge. The Corps of Prince Napo leon, which came that way, is already so close to the Great Army, that it can cooperate with it, and before you have received this letter he will pro bably have taken up the position assigned to him. One of his divisions, D'Autremar, was already at Cassetto several days ago, while the rest, with the Prince himself, was close to it at Tradina." [ADvEnTisliNlENr.]—Holloway's Pills.— There is but one disease, the fountain of all othersbad blood and there is but one infallible remedy Holloway's Pills. The blood is the life of life. There can be nothing in the system permanently or radic all y unsound while that vital fluid is perfectly pure and rig htl y tempered. Firm flesh, a brilliant complexion, a quick and powerful digestion, a n e lasticity of the animal spi rits, and a consciousness of health and strength, area fe w of the innumerable advan tages attendant upon purity of the blood, a blessing which every one can obtnin who will take freely these inestimabl e pills.—Plain directions fo r the guidance of patients in the use of the pills are afthted to each box, .ONOPOLY INT of Liverpool, Professor Gladstone, and Mr. John Campbell, secretary. The Sidon, paddle, Captain Crawford, was placed in No. 2 dock at Portsmouth yesterday. She has crossed her lower and topsail yards, and has battens placed on her rigging in readiness for blacking and rattling down. The Ariel, 9, screw, Commander C. Bromley, will pay off at Portsmouth this day. The Pitt, coal depot, has been towed into Ports mouth harbour from her moorings off Ryde, for the purpose of being fitted up as a coal depot for the use of the fleet at Portland. The gunboat Biter (tender to the Blenheim), from Portland-roads, arrived in Plymouth on Tues day. morning. The crew of the screw steamship Aboukir, 90, Capt. Schomberg, were paid wages at Plymouth on Tuesday. The paddlewheel steam sloop Gladiator, 6, Com mander Hickley, was brought down Hamoaze to the Rubble Bank on Tuesday to expedite her fitting and for convenience of drawing stores. The screw steam frigate Orlando, 50, was placed in Keyham basin on Tuesday for the purpose of being rigged. A division from the steam reserve will perform this duty. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. H. F. Nicholson, to the Trafalgar ; Lieut. Frederick J. Protheroe, to the Wellington ; Lieut. Charles N. Streatfield, to the Clio ; Richard J. Saunders, master, additional, to the Asia ; Frederick Harvey, surgeon, to the Hero; Robert Edwards, assistant-surgeon, confirmed in the Pelorus ; Andrew Mullan, assistant-surgeon, confirmed in the Tribune ; and Joseph H. Manley, assistant-paymaster, to the Simoom. THE ARMY. Movements of troops for India have taken place from Warley Barracks, Essex, during the last few days. On Saturday a party of 200 Artillerymen left, and yesterday a further draught took their departure. They will be followed by others on Saturday, and altogether no less than 700 will be embarked for India. PERPETUAL INVESTMENT, LAND, AND BUILDING SOCIETY. The eighth annual meeting of this society was held yesterday evening, at Radley's Hotel, Black friars—John Gover, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presided. Mr. J. E. TRESIDDER, secretary, read the report, from which we extract the following paragraphs as explanatory of the position of the society . :— " The directors have deemed it conducive to the interests of the members to consolidate the existing business rather thau to extend it, and have there- fore adopted plans having this object in view, which, it is believed, will render the investments made with the society both of a more permanent and of a more profitable nature. " The cash receipts for the year amount to £133,547 ls. 7d., which sum, added to the receipts of the seven previous years, makes an aggregate of £674,324 lls. 7d. " One thousand five hundred and thirty-six new shares have been issued, making the total number issued since the commencement of the society 19,276. "The sum of £33,223 12s. 11d., has been received upon investment shares, and the amount now stand ing in the books to that account is £133,407 9s. 2d. " The sum of £33,242 lls. 11d., with the ordinary interest, has, upon application, been repaid to the shareholders. " The subscription share accounts have been credited with the amount of interest provided for in the tables, and several of those taken for 74,- years having expired, they have been paid off with the accumulation of interest and profits ; the share holders, in many cases, re-investing the amount in the purchase of new shares. " The interest upon realised shares has either been paid, or placed to the credit of the respective accounts. " The altered value of money during the past year rendered it expedient to modify the rate of interest upon realised shares and deposits, which has given general satisfaction. " The directors have, from the profits of the year's business, paid off a tenth portion of the preliminary expenses, leaving only £3BB ls. Id. to be paid by instalments during the next four years. They have also apportioned ten per cent. of the remaining profits to the credit of the reserve fund, which amount has been invested in Three per Cent. Consols ; and they have added to the subscription shares a bonus equal to 11 per cent. on shares upon which twelve months' subscriptions or more have been paid. This bonus, with the interest, has been placed to the credit of the several accounts, a state ment of which can be obtained by any shareholder upon application. " The amount received in the deposit department has been £22,003 14s. 5d., of which sum £11,976 7s. 7d. was in the savings' bank branch. The re ceipts in this department have doubled those of the previous year. " The amount of deposits withdrawn has been £18,467 4s. ; the interest being paid half-yearly, or carried to the credit of the respective accounts, and interest allowed thereon. "The sum of £35,714 ss. ld. has been advanced during the year, upon the mortgage of freehold, copyhold, and leasehold property, making, with former advances, £262,792 6s. ld. " The sum of £1,922 ss. has been advanced to shareholders during the year, upon the deposit of their share certificates with a promissory, note. " From the balance-sheet it appeared that the working expenses of the society during the year amounted to £3,013 7s. ld., and the balance at the bankers £2,394 19s. 7d. The receipts for the year amounted to £133,547 ls. 7d." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, explained, at some length, the operations of the society from its establishment, and congratu lated the shareholders on the satisfactory report of the last year's transactions. He then proceeded to notice the great benefits which the society had con ferred not only on the shareholders, but on the public at large. Its merits were not to be measured so much by the profits it yielded to the shareholders themselves as by the social advantages - which it afforded to the thrifty, persevering, and ofinvesting industrious t ra desmwil There were many ways capital, but none afforded such manifest advantages tabs e t i h r m s o s n o ci ey e tiyn. the F o i ß r a n n k s t o a f n c E e , n g t l h a e n y d m o i r g hi invest v lodge t in the funds ; but the rate of interest in either case would not be so remunerative as that given by the society. He was happy to say that 337 persons had, during the past year, made deposits in the savings bank department, and all these had ac knowledged th e great benefits they had received from the society. There were, also, many persons who could not ha e don o e us s e o s wanitdhoulitttle the pariodpoefrttiehse, society. Moreovevre, such . persons had the benefit of the society's surveyors in valuing the property without expense. How many had done themselves mischief by purchasing property in building socie ties? Thi s was not, however, to be imputed as a blame to building societies, for no institution was without defects. Every institution, however good, had been abused ; but that was no argument against its use. This was one of the many benefit societies which had been found to work well for the middle and lower classes, one which he believed would confer advantages during life and enable the share holder, at the end of life, to leave something to his relatives. The savings bank did much good, but there was a difficulty in getting the money out when it was wanted, the interest was small, and there was not, as many erroneously supposed, any Government security for the money deposited. What he wished particularly to call the attention of the meeting to was, that the directors had come to the resolution to consolidate the existing busi ness rather than to extend it, and have therefore adopted plans having this object in view, which, it is believed, will render the investments made with the society both of a more permanent and of a more profitable nature. The society had a large capital—they required no more deposits—they did not see the wisdom of receiving money at four per cent. and lending it at three, and therefore he thought the resolution of the directors was judi cious. (Hear, hear.) ' The chairman concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. G. MARSHALL seconded the motion. Mr. KNOX approved of the report, but could see no advantage in restricting the operations of the society. He thought that, by extending its business, much gain would be derived, for the same staff might do much more work. The CHAIRMAN said there was no disposition to shut out the public from the advantages of the society, but there was a danger of getting more money than they could profitably invest. At pre sent the society were obliged to put £15,000 in the funds, because they had no better mode of dispos ing of it. After some remarks from Mr. Doxsey and Mr. Pratt, the motion was agreed to. Mr. Francis Cuthbertson, Mr. H. R. Sylvester, and Mr. John Thomson were re-elected directors, and Mr. Thomas Miers as auditor. On the motion of Mr. E. HATCH, seconded by Mr. BENDY, it was then resolved, "That this meeting having regard to the stability of the institution, has heard with considerable satisfaction the various plans proposed dur r i d n a g ti t o h n e o p f a th st e y so ear efet f y o , r s b th u e sin m e a s i s n .; t enance and cons° passed secretary t o the and chair manauli- Votes of o t a h r a d n ken of s a w i r e e r c e t o t r h s, th p e proceedings termi na t e d. tors, a a n n a d the TILE BIBLE ' L ING On Monday next, Mr. Baines, M.P., is to ask the Home Secretary, " Whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Government, on the expiration of the patent of the Queen's printer for England and Wales, on the 21st of January, 1860, to propose the renewal of that patent, so far as it relates to the printing of Bibles and ',Testaments, or any restric tion on the free printing of the Holy Scriptures." In these days of free trade, most people will be surprised to learn that the printing firm of Eyre and Spottiswoode, and 'che Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, are the only persons and bodies who may print Bibles in England. The patent was granted in the reign of George the Fourth, and is very stringent;, for, that nothing what soever may be done " whereby the profits which may accrue " to the patentees may be diminished, it forbids " all and sing ular the subjects of us, our heirs and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever abiding, and all others whatsoever," to print " any Bibles or New Testaments in the English tongue, or any translation, with notes or without notes," or " to import or cause to be imported, sell, or cause to be sold, any books , volumes, or works what soever in the Englisli tongue, or in the English tongue mixed with any other tongue whatsoever — the right of printing which is vested in the patentees —" under the penalties and forfeitures by the laws and statutes of this realm in that behalf made and provided." So that not only any one who may reprint the existing edition, but anyone publishing a new translation, or a commentary, or a polyglot, is at the mercy of the patentees, who may at once drag him into the Court of Chancery for the offence. It is an important fact, that the same restriction formerly existed both in Ireland and Scotland, but that it has now been abolished in those countries. In Ireland, in 1794, the patentee applied to the Irish Court of Chancery to restrain a printer from pub lishing an edition of the Scriptures ; but Lord Chancellor Clare declared that " he could not con ceive that the king had any prerogative to grant a monopoly as to Bibles for the instruction of man kind in revealed relig,ima ;" and from that day the Irish patent became a nullity. In Scotland a lady and gentleman held the patent, but in. 1837 a committee of the House of Commons recommended that the patent should not be renewed, and that " the people of Scotland should have the advantage of the competition which the free intro duction of Bibles and Testaments" from England will afford. The result of the non-renewal of the patent was most decisive—not only in the lowering of the price of Bibles in Scotland, but in England also, so that the prices of Spottiswoode's lists, which in November, 1840, amounted to £2O ls. 6d., had fallen in February, 1841, to £9 14s. 5d., or about one-half ! The impression that the existence of the mono poly secures correctness is erroneous, inasmuch as the patentees are under no obligation to print cor rectly, while they are secured against competition. In fact, some of the " authorised" editions have contained many, and some curious, blunders. One old edition omitted the word " not" in the seventh commandment; another called the parable of the vineyard "the parable of the vinegar," and so was known as the " vinegar edition." It was also stated before the House of Commons committee that 12,000 errors had been found in one edition alone ! It will rest on the patentees to show why they should continue to enjoy so extraordinary and in defensible a monopoly, and all who would advocate any restrictions on Bible printing to prove why the sacred Scriptures should be " protected" as no other volume is, or needs to be. THE NAVY. The Simoom, 8, iron screw steam sloop, Com mander John M. Cooke, is to be paid down on Fri day, and the crew granted leave of absence. The ship will be dismasted, and on the return of the ere - I,v will be fitted out for further service. The screw steam frigate, Curacoa, 31, Capt. T. H. Mason, steamed out of Portland harbour on Tuesday morning for a cruise in the Channel. The Termagant, '25, under canvas, reached that port early that afternoon from the eastward. It was expected that a portion of the fleet would sail to Torbay, and return to Portland in a few days. Some disturbances occurred on Saturday last on board the screw steam frigate Liffey, in Plymouth Sound. She was commissioned on the Ist Novem- ber, 1858, and went first to Portland, where no leave was given, nor was it expected,by the men. For some time past she has been at Liverpool, where liberty was granted in sub-divisions of the watch, varying from five to ten each, by . which arrangement more than a month would expire be fore all could get ashore. The Liffey arrived in the Sound on Friday morning at six o'clock. When applied to, Captain Preedy is stated to have said that he " would not give leave to his own brother." There being no expectation of liberty on Saturday, practical indications of discontent were exhibited in the evening. The men talked of bringing their hammocks from below and stowing them in the nettings, declaring their intention not to turn in for the night. The strands of some of the gun breechings were cut. Heavy shot were rolled about the deck, some of which are said to have struck the captain's cabin door. Three were sent down into the engine -room, and it was feared that personal injury would be inflicted. The insubor dination assumed at length an aspect so formidable that the men were beat to quarters and were mus tered aft. Capt. Preedy inquired the cause of the disturbance, and receiving no answer, sent the crew forward and then asked the petty officers, when the captain of the main hold, James Doran, replied that " leave was wanted to see their families." Captain Preedy said that the men's families could come on board, when Doran answered that " his wife was so fat and heavy that she could not come up the ship's side." On this, all were ordered below. A seaman, armed with a drawn cutlass, w as placed at each gun, and a guard of marines, under Lieutenant Boyd and a serjeant, after search ing the seamen's hammocks, forced them to retire, and stationed themselves at the hatchways of the lower deck with lanterns, and so remained through out the night. On Sunday morning, Captain Preedy went ashore, and it is presumed had an in terview with Port-Admiral Sir Barrin gton Reynolds After he returned the men were paid " compo"—a portion of their wages—and the port watch, 260 men, went on leave for 24 hours. On Monday the starboard watch obtained similar permission. During the first few weeks succeeding the issue of her Majesty's proclamation for the augmentation of the Royal Navy a number of fine growing lads, from the ages of 16 to 18, and rising sft. 44-in. in height, presented themselves on an average of about 200 daily at the Fisgard's office, for enrolment at Woolwich, and were rejected as being too short, the standard having been fixed at sft. 6in, without stating the age. Hundreds of willing aspirants for the service, constitutionally adapted in every other respect except the height for s eamen , were dis missed without examination under a misapprehen sion of the prescribed rules for admission. The examining officers have be e n relieved, and the regulations in accordance with the Admiralty order of the 14th of June, 1853, have been put in force—. namely, all boys under the age of 18 who enter the navy are required to enter into an agreeme n t t o serve her Majesty fo r a period of from 10 years' con tinuous and genera l service the age of 18, in addition to whatever periods may be necessary till they attain that age. If above th e age of 18, they are required to engage fo r 10 years ' cont i nuous and general service from the date of the first entry ; and those who have b een t o sea or accustomed to boats will be preferred. No boy will, under an y circumstances, be entered under the ages of 14 or below the followi ng stan d ard of ages between 14 an d 1 5, not less than 4 feet 8 inches ; between 15 and 16, not less th a n 4 feet 10 inches; 16 and 17 , 5 feet; 17 and 18, 5 feet 2 inches ; and after 18, 5 feet 4 inches. Boys must be well grown and stout, of perfectly , sound and healthy constitution, free from all phy sical malformation, and intelligent, and produce their register of birth or baptism. In the first entry of boys, the consent of their parents and friends must be given in writing, and the boy him self must be willing and desirous to enter under these conditions. As all boys will be strictly sur veyed before being received in the service, those who are not found fit in every respect, in accord ance with the above regulations, will be rejected. All other circumstances being equal, a preference will be given to those boys who can read and write. Under the above regulations the recruiting officers of 'Woolwich are en t er i ng f rom 50 t o 70 efficient men and lads per day, who, after passing medical ' attestation, are posted to her Majesty's receiving ship Fisgard, where they draw their kit and im mediately enter the gunners' class for the necessary course of sword exercise and drill, on parade, about two hours daily, in addition to the allotted exercise in the rigging and other parts of the ship. The Fairy, Royal screw yacht, was uniceked at Portsmouth yesterday, after cleaning her copper,&c The Hornet, 17, screw, Commander Viscount Gilford, steamed into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead at high water on Tuesday. The Vivid steamer, Master-Commander Allen, having on board the members of the Royal Coin mission appointed to inquire into the management and efficiency of the coast and harbour lights of the United Kingdom, left Portsmouth on Tuesday evening in the direction of the Channel Islands, The members of the Commission comprise--Admiral Hamilton, Captain Ryder, R.N., Mr. S, R. Graves, THE GREAT UNIVERSITY AND LONDON ROW ING CLUB EIGHT-OARED RACES. The greatest excitement prevails in aquatic circles upon the subject of the forthcoming struggle at the Henley Re gatta, on Monday and Tuesday next, in which the Oxford and Cambridge Universities and London Rowing Club are entered for the Grand Challenge Cup. The following compose the crews : Oxford.—Messrs. Strong, Baxter, Lane, Warre, Morri son, Arkell, C. S. Lane, Risley (stroke), and Roberts (coxswain). Cambridge.—Messrs. Heathcoate, Chater, Ingham, ' Lloyd, Holly, Collins, Royds, Wall (stroke), and Moreland (coxswain). London.—Messrs. Dunnage, Foster, Potter, W. Dun nage, Farrar, J. Payne, Casamajor, H. Playford (stroke), and J. Ireland (coxswain). The above will doubtless form two great races ; as the Cambridge University crew are the holders. Oxford and London, who are the challengers, will have to row against each other on the first day, and the winning crew contend against Cambridge on the second day. All the parties have long been in active training, and are, we understand, in fine condition. A great influx of visitors is expected at Henley, and to meet their convenience, the Great Western Railway have put on additional trains down from Paddington, and up from Bristol, Birmingham, and Oxford. The down trains from London are 7.15, 10.30, 11.45, and 1; the returns in the evening are equally convenient, and in addition a train will leave Henley at 8 p.m. to meet the down train for the convenience of passengers returning to Reading and Ox ford. Of the above crews, the Cambridge, who were un fortunately swamped in their Easter match upon the Thames, are slightly the favourites. ILEX ROWING CLUB. A four-oared race of this club, which was desperately contested throughout, took place last night, for silver cups, and was umpired by the Captain of the London Rowing Club. Pink 1 • Mr. Brown. Mr. Veasy. Mr. Lewis. I Mr. W. Blockey. Stretton, coxswain. Blue 0 Mr. Spink. I Mr Read. Mr. Norris. Mr. Woodcock. Gath, coxswain. White Mr. Critchell. Mr. Pennington. Mr. White. I Mr. Theakston. Lee, coxswain. They started evenly, Pink took the lead and kept it, but were pressed so desperately hard that they only won by a length. A fine race occurred between the others, Yellow only being beaten by three lengths. COUNTRY MA.RIBT3. HULL-JULY 5. The attendance at our market was very thin. The sup plies of wheat were fair, and prices same as last week. In Spring corn little business was done, but rather more in quiry. DUBLIN--JULY 5. There was no alteration in the prices of wheat at our corn market to-day. Oats in good demand, at rather more money. A good inquiry for Indian corn, at an advance on Friday last. u. d. u. d. 1 Wheat, white 27 0 to 29 0 Do., red 26 6 to 28 0 Do., new Barley Oats • l4 6 to 15 6 Do., black l3 6 to 15 0 s. d. s. d. Do., new ....„ 11 6 to 13 0 Bere ... 10 0 to 12 6 Rapeseed 26 0 to 29 0 Oatmeal l4 6 to 16 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn 28 0 to 30 6 COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. Montague Garesfield 13 3 Hastings Hartley, 15 6 H olywell 15 6 Lambert's West Hart ley 15 3 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Eden Main 15 6 .ET—JULY 6. the clove of the market.) Walls End. Whitworth l6 0 Hetton • l7 6 Kenos l6 6 Braddyll's Hetton 16 0 Russell's Hetton 15 9 South Hetton 17 3 Heugh Hall 15 9 West Hetton l5 6 Nixon's Duffryn 21 6 Powell' s Duffryn Steam 21 0 Walls End. Hartlepool, — South Hartlepool 16 0 Ships at marks 56—Sold, 39. LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL-JULY 6. There was little business doing in this market to-day but the prices closed firm. Leeds. Northern, 44/ 45/ — North British, 55 I—Great Western of Canada, 15/ 1 — Sheffield; 361 i—Caledonians, 801—Lancashire and York shire, 93/ I—London and North-Westerns, 911 1--Dutch Rhenish, 61 dis.—East Lancashire, 921 931—Berwicks, 891—Midlan.ds, 1001 —Chester and Holyheads, 48 49—. Eastern Counties, 111 I—Grand Trunk of Canada, 8i 9 Groat Western, 551 I—Blackburns, 111 I—Dovers, 201 / Birkenheads, 731. BIRMINGHAM-JULY 6. The prices were good this morning, but with little doing►. Birmingham Canals, 94—Bristol and Birmingham Six per Cents., 141—Derbys, 76—Town and District Bank, 12, sellers—Midland Stock, 100. MANCHESTER--JULY 6. There was a quiet business doing, and prices closed ra ther firm. East Lancashire, 92I—Midlands, 1004—East A n glian, 141—Grand Trunks, 9—Birkenheads, 731 — Great Western of Canada, 151,—Dovers, 20 3-16—Black burns, 45. THE LICENSED 'VICTUALLERS' SCHOOLS. The above Society held their 53d annual dinner at Cremorne Gardens yesterday afternoon, Mr. Huggins in the chair. The festival, which was attended by upwards of 2,000 per sons, was remarkable for the perfection of the arrangements to accommodate so large a party, and universal satisfaction was expressed at the result. It appeared from the report that the society consists of upwards of 2,700 members, of whom it relieves 343 at the annual expense of £5,200, be sides affording temporary relief to distressed persons. In addition to this it maintains, educates, and clothes 134 chil dren in the Lice nse d Victuallers' School, at an annual ex pense of more than £3,300. Since its establishment this society has received and educated no less than 1,452 chil dren. After the usual preliminary toasts, the chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening, said that he had lately visited the institution, and had been most highly gratified at the condition in which he had found the children, both morally and intellectually. He concluded an eloquent ap peal to the charity of the meeting by proposing " Health and Prosperity to the Licensed Victuallers' Schools." The secretary subsequently announced the list of subscriptions, which amounted to upwards of £2,000, among which the liberality of Mr. Huggins and his family shone forth con spicuously, as they contributed between £3OO and £4OO. After various other toasts, which were received with great enthusiasm, the company dispersed to enjoy the various diversions of the gardens, which have been greatly increased by the erection of a second platform for those who wish to enjoy the pleasure of dancing. The festivities, which were kept up till a late hour, were terminated by a brilliant dis play of fireworks. • - • -- - PUBLIC ADVERTISING COLUMNS.—At the meet ing of the Commissioners of Sewers, yesterday, notice of motion was given by Mr. Ross, to rescind the resolution of the Court giving permission to erect advertising columns near the Royal Exchange and in Holborn. [AnvERTISEMENT].—The difficulties and dangers of bringing up infants by hand or wet nurses have been entirely overcome by Du Barry's delicious Revalenta Arabica Food, which feeds, strengthens, and removes all the little pains and irregularities infants are so subject to. The following letter speaks volumes :—" Grammar School, Stevenage, 16th Dec., 1850. Gentlemen. —I think it but common justice to you to state that I have used Du Barry's Reva lenta for the last four months, during which time our in fant has never had disordered bowels, from which it had suffered much during the previous six months, whilst being nursed, though every care was taken to prevent it. Had I known of your valuable food sooner, it would have save d m y infant much pain, and me also the heavy expense of a wet nurse.—l am, &c, ROBERT AMBLER." In tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 35.; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co. at Liverpool, Nix o n and Thew ; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Co. ; at South ampton, Randall and Son. BIRTHS. Cnoss.—On the 29th ult., at Redland-park, near Bristol, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel W. Cross, H.M.'s Madras ADl7.—Oy,ofn th as e n. Dosth inst., at Compton-road, Canonbury, Mrs. Dodd, of a son. FORD.-On the 6th inst., at Highgate, the wife of William Ford, Esq., of Gray's-inn, of a son. Hanuisorr.—On the 3d inst., at Elm-lodge, Wandsworth, Mrs. Harrison, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. NORTHAMPTON—VYNER.—On the sth inst., the Marquis of Northampton, to Miss Theedosia Vyner, daughter of Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, of Newby Hall, Ripon. YARBOROUGH —COOKE.—On the sth inst., at Tickhill Church, near Doncaster, Colonel Charles C.Yarborough, C. 8., to Esther Anne, only daughter of the late Rev. A. Cooke, of Laversall. DEATHS. DRUCE.—On the Ist inst., at Southampton-street, Blooms bury, Miss Ann Druce, aged 90. FOSTER.—On the 4th inst., at Littlehampton, Sussex, the wife of Birket Foster, of 12, Carlton-hill east, St. John's wood, aged 33. HOLME.—On the 3d inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Holme, aged 73 4 HunsoN.—On the 4th inst., at Horaerton-row, the wife of the late Charles Hudson, Esq., aged 33. WDEVITT.—On tho 4th inst., at Forest-hill, Mr. Henry M‘Devitt, aged 32. MOSMAN.—On the 3d inst., at Peel •strect, Liverpool, Adam Mosman, Esq. SurriLL.—On the 3d inst., at Pymore, Bridport, Mr. J. Sattill, aged 66, WEAVER. —On the 3d inst., at Twickenham, Mrs. Weaver, aged 78. 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