The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-21 00:00:00

LETTER FROM A PRIVATE SOLDIER.

The following letter vividly describes a phase of
the battle of Male/nano as it 'pinata& to a pinto moldier
who was ht it:

Palezzl, June 12.

I have sot been able to tell you sooner what happened
to us on the Bth, for we have been marching ever since, end
one cannot write at night. On Wednesday morning we left
Megtiffta for mft.a, where we were received as liberators.
As we went through the "trate flowers and cigars were
thrown to us continually, and young girls came into oar rank.
N kiss us. At length we reached our bivouac, outside the
walls of Milan. We bed scarcely got our kettles on the fire
when sn officer gallopped up In breathless haste to ray that
the Auetriens were bat two league,. from us. The trumpets
at once sounded to arms ; we strapped on our knapsacks, and
were off without dinner, leaving behind nit, to our very great
regret, the pretty Milanese girbi, who had secompanied no to
our bivoule. We marched etreight on for nearly three
hour., wi.horit seeing anything, when suddenly we
heard firing in some brushweod two or three hundred
yard/ off, and bulk te cave whistling over our heads. A
couple of our cannons returned the lire, and then all of us,
Zonaver, Chasecurs, and infantry of the line, rushed forward
and carried the position at the Feint of the bayonet. We
pursue I the Austrians as far as the village of San Juliano,
where it new c.tudat took place. This village coat us a good
wavy men, but we took It at last. The 6lat end my regi-
ment then received orders to wheel to the left to surround the
enemy, and prevent him from croesiog a bridge between flat
Jul ano and Id siege's°, but we arrived too late. We had
to fight again to take Malegnano, which we did, but with
very heavy 1.. as, for as we entered the streets the Aueiriens
fired upon us trim the house. and killed very many. Bat
once touter of the village—l wish you coal 1 hove men how
wo bayonetted them—it was really delightful to see [detail
rote]. At hat, at eight in the evening, our work
was dote; but then a thunderstorot, which bad been hanging
over our heads Cr a long time, burst all at over. Th. light.
nieg seemed to 1.11.1 in our ranks but it did not hue' any of
tie. I never saw such rain in al my life. It was eo Berk
that we were often obliged to wail for a flesh of lightning to
sea where to step without treading upon a dead or a dying
men. At It o'clock we got to the village which we bid
takes la the morning. We took poeseraion of the hoe*.
which the iuhabitents had left, but an Auetrian troops were
tines to be concealed in some of them, we entered eau-
tiou.ly taith oar barmen fixed. The first thing we did was
to fight fires to dry oar clothes; then we wont .11 over our
new bouees—for oars they were for the night—we got up
wine from ' our' °Awe, and shout one in the morning got
to supper. It was high time, for hi end a !may cup of
coffee, nothing had pared our lips since tire is the mornteg
of the day betas, and we had bad our knapsacks oe all day.
Yesterday we were to have attacked L di, but It memo that
the plan was changed, fee we left Lodi behind us and are
sow marching toward. Bergamo to join Garibaldi, and cut
off the eeetny'e supplies from Austria."

Oa the 14th hist there were two disturbances ►t
Venice, bat order was sem reetnad. Two men were killed
ead three ',roundel.

The Currier de Lyon aut.:Amon the marriage
of an ex .Chaseenr of Africa, so• Anneal in a mannfartory
in that city, with a 'wog Arab 0,1 of the Yleni-Oaragh,
whom he himself (Out,' on the told of battle it; 1845, end
afterwards bent to Francs, whore she was baptise.''; rul
brought up 2 Claim's& by 1...4 mother.