The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

THE AUSTRIAN l'ElisloN OF THE BATTLE
OF MoNTEBELLO.

We have received. rid Vienna, the (ollowing version
of the battle of Montebello, forwarded from a corres-
pondent at headluarters. It is dated Pavia, 22nd
May :
Count Stadion passed the Po on the 20th by the
stiongly fortified bridge at Vaccsrizsa, with 25,000 men,
to iuseertain the position of the French.
He found them in Casteggio, which he stormed. He
then came upon Baraguay d army near Monte-
bello. He attacked it so as to make the enemy display
his idrength.
In the fight Stadion wan wounded, and had 10 officers
killed and 16 wounded. About 500 men were killed or
wounded. The French brought up fresh troops by rail
during the battle.
At night Stadion retired, having effected his pur-
pose.
General Zobel retired from Vercelli on the 19th, and
blew up the bridge over the Sesia.
The Austrian liead•quarters are at Garlasco.

VIINNA, May 26.
The official 'Steiner Zeitung publishes General Gyulei's
report to the Emperor of the details of the affair at Mon-
When° :—Wounded, 7114 killed, 290 ; missing, 253.
The enemy numbered 40,000 men, but abstained from all
pursuit.
The Emperor liu addroised to General Gyulsi an au-
tograph letter, expresaing to him and the troops in
general His Majesty's thanks for their remarkable valour.
The letter also directs a list of all the killed and wounded
to be drawn up, in order that their names may be made
known in their respective
General Gyulai's published report of the affair at
Elontebello has meite a most ilesiratile impression on the
public here. 'The number ,if the enemy be' %
! 40 000, the bravery of our troops is hu much the more
! esteemed.
From a semi-414,Pd corre.poinlence, regularly ad-
! ilrea.ed f Vienna to some f the inure important
t ',mere; we learn the detail+ of the convent
lately concluded between .%ustrie snit the Porte. The
Sultan lies entered into the obligation to collect an army
of 40,000 in Bosnia nll4l Albania, as those are the pro-
Vilicen chiefly menaced by the Servians and Montene-
grins. 20,(100 re are to be posted in the neighbour-
hood of the Wallachian frontier, whilst the corps sta-
tioned in the camps of Sophia end Schmitt& 111114 be
, immediately increased to MAXI. As to Auxtria, the
conditions by which elle has undertaken to ensure Use
i protection of Turkey are left unmentioned.
TRILATE. Friday, limy 27.
It is asserted that about 60 French men-of-war are in
! the Elediterranean, cruising between the Adriatic and
the Levant. There is but one otevowel lying here.

GERMANY.
•
IMEmmu, Wednesday, May 25.
The King opened the Landtag at noun to-day with a
speech announcing the demands for money supplies.
The Royal speech says :—" War threatens to make
those treaties doubtful on which the rights of Eurote
now rest. His Majesty is upheld an well by the con-
sciousness that lie has always raised his voice in behalf
of that which the honour of Germany and the mainte-
nance of just principles demand, as by the conscious-
ness that these hi* sentiments are shared by the whole
Saxon people. Should war ensue for the protection of
the just cause, His Majesty hopes with confidence that
God will be with Saxony and Germany in general.

FRANKroRT-oN:TH.E.MAINE, May 27.

' k,
At the sitting of the ederal Diet yeiderday the minor
German States voted that in certain eventualitioa
tary measures should be taken. •Prussia claimed that in
such cues the initiative should be accorded to her."