The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-17 00:00:00

killed, 1,759 wounded, 2,853 prisoners or missing.

Third army oorps : 2,768 hors de combat--i.e.,
281 killed, 1,135 wounded, 1,352 prisoners or mis-
sing. The second army corps had only ono killed,
and 11 prisoners. The reserve cavalry : one killed,
13 wounded, and 38 prisoners or missing. Grand
total for non-commissioned officers and soldiers,
7,812 hors de combat, of whom 651 killed, 2,909
wounded, and 4,252 prisoners or missing.
The Caffaro or Bagolina attack cost Garibaldi 68
killed, 432 wounded, and no prisoners, as the
Austrians did not dare to come out of their posi-
tions, and abandoned them the next day.
I am happy to [find that General IA Marmon'
has written to Baron John, the Austrian general,
that no information whatever has been obtained,
though diligently and severely sought for, to prove
in any way the alleged hanging of three Austrian
Jager, by Italian soldiers on the 24th of June. As no
proofs have on the other side been brought up yet
by General John, who was no doubt acting in
perfect good faith when repeating the silly state-
ment of some of his officers, the matter may be
considered ended, and not the slightest blame at-
tached to the Italians.
Garibaldi will be well again in a few days, and
he will then actively resume the campaign, and pro-
ceed to occupy the whole of the Trent province,
which, though belonging to the late Germanic Con-
federation, is as much Italian as Venetia, and
ought surely to be included within the limits of the
kingdom. This Garibaldi will take care shall be
done, as 40,000 volunteers under such a man are not
easily moved from where they have once set foot'
To Cialdini and Garibaldi belongs now the initia-
tive of events, and I believe them to be, like
Ricaaoli, fully bent upon claiming for Italy the
honour of a revenge and of a victory first, and
then Venetia.

(not ova owy coaawarowvawr.)

FLORENCE, JULY 13.

We have news of an encounter between a body
of mobilised national guards under Colonel Guic-
ciardi, and the Austrians, on the southern slope of
the Stelvio, at a spot called Le Prese, where the
first refuge house is situated. The Italians were,
after a day's fighting, entirely victorious, drove
back the Austrians, secured themselves in the po-
sition, and took 75 prisoners. This has been a
little bit of comfort to us here, while still con-
demned to wait for more important tidings. But that
which renders this or any other news of actual I
warfare exceedingly welcome and valuable to us is,
that it gives a very unmistakeable answer to the
French Emperor's " order sent to Victor Em- I
manuel to leave off making war on Venice."
General Cialdini is also very decidedly making
war on Venice, having crossed the Po with his 1
entire force, though we know nothing as yet of his
further proceedings.
The longer the populations in the Italian cities
have had to meditate on the proposal that Venice
should be ceded to France, and that France might,
when she should feel disposed to do so, and on such
conditions as it might please her to impose, re-cede
the province to Italy, the more strongly is the nation
confirmed in its first impression that such a pro-
posal is an intolerable insult, and that such a ces-
sion is altogether inadmissible. And great has
been the astonishment at the manifestation of
English opinion to the effect that Italy would
accept the bone thus thrown to her as a matter of
course.
It begins to become clear, however, that the
French and their Emperor have perceived that they
have been counting without their boat, and clap-
ping their wings with hideous joy screechings along
the Boulevards prematurely. We are informed
that although the Kings of Prussia and of Italy
have accepted the mediation of the Emperor " in
principle," yet it had been impossible for an ar-
mistice to be yet arranged, " because it was neces-
eery that the conditions of an armistice and the
conditions of peace should be treated as parte of,
one and the same question." With respect also to
the chorus of delighted and admiring editors, who
have been telling the world of the infinite glorious-
ness of the Emperor, and of his order to subser-
vient
monarchs, of his acceptance of Venetia as
henoeforward French property, and ogthe probabili-
ties of his gracious intentions with respect to it,
we are now informed that it is " intolerable " that
they should pretend to know anything about the
matter, and that if they continue to so pretend, it
will be worse for them.
There is a feeling here that it wsa a very dirty
trick of the Austrian Emperor to attempt to chuck
the stolen watch to an accomplice receiver of stolen

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goods, oath* moment when thepolioeman's hand was
'upon his collar. But the anger and scorn which are
dining the national heart to ita inmost core are
directed not so much against the Austrian, es
against the French Emperor. I think we have
heard the last of that monstrous and extraordi-
nary fiction of his friendship and well-wishing to-
wards Italy.

Of course you knew, before they could reach us,
the terms proposed to Prince Metternich and
Count Gas, a referendum, by the French Em-
peror. The only interest attaching to them seems
to us here to lie in the question, What can be the
motive of the Emperor in proposing them ? He
cannot for a moment imagine that they will be
accepted by Prussia. What is his game' Does he
mean to intimate that he will be ready to support
such a settlement by force of arms ?
We have no post to-day from England or France,
and cannot guess why.