The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-12 00:00:00

The Austrians have withdraw from llorinio, abandon-
ing their provision-chests and cattle. The Piedwontese
are advancing towards the Stelvio Pass.

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From the secrecy adopted by the authorities at Mar-
seilles relative to the einbarcation of troop. for Italy
the public are becoming seriously alarmed, and probably
magnify the losses at Solferino. The soldiers that are
brought down by railway are shipped principally
between 4 and 6 o'clock in the morning, when there are
necessarily few persons in the streets, and they care-
fully avoid the chief thoroughfares. Of course, this
may be no more than necessary to prevent exposure of
the men to the inconvenience of heat, dust, and temp-
tations; but it also has the disadvantage of creating
alarm, which may prove none the less embarrassiug for
being unfounded. Since the battle of Solferino the
number of men who have been sent away daily has
been as great as during the month of May, when the
necessity of throwing them into Piedmont to protect
Turin from the Austrians was so imperiously made
manifest. The authorities are unable to prevent it
being known that men are shipped, and the mystery to
which they have recourse gives colour to the terrifying
rumours that are circulated. Private letters from
officers present at the battle speak of the French losses
as being unprecedented, and of the carnage being is
great as, if not greater, than in any battle under the
first Empire. In one account it is stated most dis-
tinctly that the French coluuis five times assaulted the
key of the Austrian position, the tower and church of
Solferino, and that five times were these columns swept
away by • terrible and concentrated fire of artillery,
musketry, and rockets, the latter creating the greatest
havoc. The remaining troops were driven down the
ascent to seek shelter at its base. Whole files were
mowed down one after another by an "invisible
enemy e, regiments were thrown into oonfusion, and all
huddled together pell-mell in the last and successful
aseault. In another letter it is stated that the village
of Solferino was taken and retaken four times. If so,
it is evident that the Austrian soldiers fought at least
quite as well as the French, that they were not inferior
in dash, and that so far from being unable to stand
against the Allies in open fight they could successfully
attack the last when under cover. The statement
quoted above, of the Austrians being "invisible" in the
positions round the church and tower, proves that they
could not have suffered much during the five assaults
while blowing away the French columns, and when,
according to the writer, "victory seemed to have
betrayed France and inclined to Austria." Nor does
this horrible slaughter appear to have been confined to
these localities, for the correspondent of one of the
local papers, whose intense patriotism cannot be
doubted, any more than his desire to avoid giving
offence to the Government by exaggeration or speaking
too crudely, says :—" At another village a regiment of
Zouaves was literally destroyed (foadroyi) by grape. A
few men only remained standing, these, compensa-
ting their numerical inferiority their desperate cou-
rage, penetrated at last into the uses. 'when they
came out,' said an eye-witness, 'they were saturated
with blood like a sponge.' The Foreign Legion
exhibited heroic bravery and suffered considerable loss,
the 2nd Regiment of the Legion inure especially, which
lost 34 officers killed and wounded, among whom was
their Colonel, Martinez, a Spaniard, who was buried
the following day. The 17th battalion of Chasseurs de
Vincennes aiso lost • groat number of officers. The
Guides performed miracles of valour, but, alas! they
left the Rower of their regiments on the field of battle.
The Guides were decimated."
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KOMISU Ili AND NAPOLEON.—Thrinigh • perfectly
reliable financial channel information has unexpectedly
been obtained of the intentions of the Emperor Napoleon
with regard to Hungary. They will excite surprise,
but the character of the parties from whom the account
is derived, and the nature of their opportunitks for ob-
taining details upon the point, are suck as to leave no
opening for incredulity. Komuth has by this time had
an interview with the French Monarch at head-quarters,
and the circumstances by which their meeting was
preceded are thus narrated :--Colonel Nicolas Kiss, who
is residing in Paris, and who married a French lady of
fortune, conducted all the preliminary steps. Over-
tures were made to him which he had to communicate
to Kossuth, and be has therefore of late been constantly
to and fro between the two countries. For some time
he found it impossible to bring about an understanding.
Kalamai required guarantees of the good faith of the
Emperor which His Majesty hesitated to give, and it
was at last resolved at Paris to send Kossuth • message
that a determination had been formed to raise Hungary
with or without his aid. Kossuth replied that in that
Case he would issue an addmas to the Hungarian nation
warning them not to believe the Emperor's assurances.
This proved decisive. Kossuth was invited to Paris,
and left London for that city • few days before the
departure of His Majesty for the army. He was
received at the Tuileries by the Emperor, and certain
defined conditions were then agreed to. These were-
1. That the Emperor should give Kossuth a corps
d'ereste and arms and ammunition to any extent
required. 2. That the Emperor should issue the first
proclamation to the Hungarian nation, and that this
should be followed by ooe from Kossuth. 3. That in
ems of Hungary rising and freeing herself from Austria,
Frame should be the first casually to recognise the
independence of the country, and should then obtain
the semi reooguitMu from her Oka. 4. That the
Emperor should allow Hungary, without interference
on ktas pelt, to choose her own form of government, and
to sleet for Sovereign the person she may deem most
desirable. 5. That the formation of an Hungarian
legion Amid commence immediately. And likely,
that, as • token of agreement to the foregoing, the
Emperor Napoleon should place 3,000,000 f. at Korattb'e

disposal, the management of which, Kossuth having
declined to accept it, has liven placed under the
; Committee now acting at Genoa.
onsly with the ailoptMn of the arrangement Kossuth
received instructions to retort to England, mid to
agitate for the maintenance of astrict neutrality—a task
which the public are aware he faithfully fulfilled.
Having delivered several publiospecches in this country,
lie then left for Italy. Thi commitments uf the
Emperor are believed to be clew and unqualified, and it
is not thought likely they wit now be denied in any
essential degree either by Count Walewski or any other
official personage.