The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-04 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. AdditionaL) [TWOPENCE.

was trimly anocassful; at *even o'clock the enemy retired
from Maio. Laving two of mar and a good num-
ber of primmer k oat
Winoy's &Arm, which followed Lazy's, marred Irons
Medola in the direction of an isolated house called Casanova,
which Mande in the plain on the road to-Maattil, about two
kilometres from Gurdizzolo. The enemy was in consider-
able force on that side, and a desperate conflict took place,
white Loay's division was marching towards Caesars on the
one hand, and towards Rebeocoon the other.
At this moment, the enemy attempted to turn the left
of Vinoy's (livid= in the interval left between the 2nd and
4th corm they came up to within 200 metre. of the front of
our troops, but were there stopped by the fire of 42 pier** of
artillery, directed by Generel &defile. The enemy's cannon
then came and took part in the struggle, and kept on for •
greet part of the day, although with manifest inferiority.
Failly's division came up in it. Mtn, and Gemmel Niel,
reserving the second brigade of that division, directed the
first between Casanova and Rahecco, towards the hamlet of
Basta, to connect General de Lucy with General Vino y.
General Niel's intention was to march towards Ouldizzolo
r loon as the Duke de Magenta Mould have wham
Cantina, sad be hoped by that mesas to cut off the enemy
from the Toed to Volts and Goito; bat, to roar that plan,
it was newer" foe tha troops of Marshal Canrolort's corps
to replace at Rebecca those of General de Lazy.
The 3rd corps, starting from Merano at two in the loom-
ing, had passed the Cater at Villa°, end arrived about
seven o'clock at Castello Hero, a small town surrounded by
walls, and still occupied by the enemy's cavalry. While
General Jannis was turning ebaposition to the soutb,General
Renault attacked it in front, sent nippers to burst open the
gates, and entered the town, driving the enemy's cavalry
before him.
About she o'clock In the morning, Renault's division,
having wird abreast of Medola, put its left in neurotic, ion
with General de Lazy, on the side of Cif Olin, and on ire
right faced Castelpfiredo, a as to watch the movements of
the detached corps whose departure from Mantua had been
announced.

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That sppiehension paralysed, during the greater part of
the day, the corps d'armee under Marshal Canrobert, who
did not think ft pendent in the filet instance to lend the 4th
corps the support demanded by General Niel. Nevertheless,
about three-o'clock in the afternoon, beteg re-seemed se to
hie right, end having of himself judged General Niers pool-
tkaa, Marshal Canrobert gent Renault's division towards Re-
beam, and ordered General Troche to carry his first brigade
between Casanova and Beets, to the point on which the
most formidable attacks of the enemy were being directed.
This reinforcement of fresh troops permitted General Niel
to Pend in the direction of 0 oidizzolo part of Luzy's and
de Failly's divisions. This column advanced up to the first
houses of the village, but fludiug before it superior forces
established in a good poeition' was obliged to stop.
General Troche then advanced to support Oro attack with
Bataille's brigade of his division. He marched on the enemy
in okse battalion', en ethiquier, the right wing in advance,
with as much order and cam seine field of macceuvres. He
took from the enemy a company of infantry and two pieces
of cannon, and he had arrived half way from Casanova to
Gnidizzolo when the storm broke forth which put as end to
BM terrible oondict—a conflict which the co-operation of the
3rd and 4th corps wee threatening to render so fatal to the
Olt my.
In the midst of the ineldeata of this combat of 12 hours'
duration the cavalry was of powerful assistance to checking
the efforts of the enemy on the side of Cannon. On
several occasions Perionaemes and Desvatta's divisions
charged the Aoetrlen infantry and broke its square.. But
it was our new artillery which produced the moat terrible
effects on the Austrians. Its belle went to dietician which
their guns of the largest calibre could not respond to, sad
strewed the plain with dead.
The 4th corps took from the enemy 1 colour, 1 pieces of
cannon, end 2,000 prisoners.
Oa its par the Piedmontase army, placed on our extreme
left, had asp had a rude and splendid clay's work. It was
advancing in four divisions io the direction of Peachier& from
Pozzolengo and Madonna della &spate, when, at about
seven in the morning, iu advanced guard anemia, red the
enemy's advanoed posts between Ban Merlin° and Pomo-
lenge. The combat commenced, but strong Austrian rein-
forcements hurried up and drove the Piedmontese further
beck than Ban 111rtino, even tiro Meaning to cut off their line
of retreat. A brigade of billiard's division then arrived in
all haste on the scene of combat, and assaulted the heights
on which the enemy had established themselves. Twice is
attained the summit and possessed itself of several pieces of
cannon; but twice also it bad to yield to numbers, and to
abandon its conquest.
The enemy was gaining ground, in spite of some brilliant
charges of the King's cavalry, wheu Cuechlares division,
debonching in the field of battle by the road of Rivoltelia,
came to support General !dullard. Tun Sardinian mope
rushed forward a third time with impetuosity under a mut-
, deems fire; the church and all the works raised on the right
were carried, and eight pieces of common were takes. Bat
the enemy again succeeded in disengaging the cannon and in

retaking ihe-positions. _ -
At this moment, the 2nd brigade of Gemmel Cucchiari,
which bad been formed in columns of attack to the left of
the Lugano road, marched against the church of St. Mar-
tino, regained the lost ground, and carried the heights for
the fourth time, without holding them however, for, over-
whelmed by vollejs of grape, and teeing an enemy who was
constantly rewiring reinforcements and inc seemly return•
lag to the charge, it could not bold out till the arrival of suc-
cour from Omega Mollard's tad brigade, and the Pied-
monster, being quite exhausted, retreated in good order along
the Rivoltella road.
It was then the Aosta brigade of Fanti's division, which
hadiat first gene towards Solferiuo to form a junction with
Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliere, WAS sent by the Kmg to sup-
port Generals Mallard and Cneohieri in the attack on Sas
Martino. That body was checked for a while by the storm ;
but about five in the evening, this brigade and the Pignerol
one, supported by a numerous artidery, marched en the
enemy under a terrible fire and reached the heights.. They
took posesesion of them foot by foot, field by field, and
managed to hold them by very desperate fighting. The
enemy began to give way, and the Piedroontem artillery,
gaining the ridge, coos crowned it with 24 places of cannon,
which the A1111(1'111113 vainly endeavoured to capture. Two
brilliant charge' of the King's cavalry di/meted them ;
volleys of grape threw their ranks into confusion, and the
Ifiardinien troops finally remained master, of the formidable
positions which the enemy had defended fora whole day with
each obstinacy.
Oa the other ride, the Durand° division had been engaged
with the Auetrisns ever Bistro half Twit five in the mornieg.
At that hour, its advanced guard had met the enemy at
Madonna dells Sooperts, and the Sardinian troops had held
their ground till noun against the efforts of an enemy emporior
in number, who at hat compelled them to fall back ; bur,
being then reioforced by the Savoy brigade, they resumed
the offensive, and repulsing the Austrian/lin their turn, made
themselves masters of Madonna delta Scoperta. After this firet
success, General de le Minutes mot the Durand." division
against San Martino, where it did not arrive in time to await
in taking that position, for it encountered on the road an
Austrian column with which it bad to dispute the passage,
and when this obstacle was overcome, the vilLge
of San Martino wee already in Om power of the Piedmon-
t's'. General de la Menaces had directed, on the other
hand, the Piedmont brigade of Fatitt's divisioo upon Pomo-
lenge. This brigade carried the enemy's gmitions in front
of the village with great vigour, and having toads itself mass
ter of Pomolengo, after a warm attack, repulsed the Ans.
trims and pursued them to a certain durance, musing them
IMMO losses.
Those of the Sardinian army were unfortunately very con-
siderable', and do not amount to lees than 49 officers killed
and 167 wounded; 642 sub.officers and privates killed, 9,409
wounded, and 1,258 soldiers missing, mating a total of 6,625
absent at roll-call. Five pieces of cannon "emitted In the
hands of the King's army as trophies of this songuinary
er
v
victory, which
hosest ad gained oan enemy superior in num-
ber, and wforhce appeared to have been not learn than 12
brigades.
The lame of the French army amounted to 12,000 rank
arid file killed or wounded, end 720 officers hors de osarshot, of
mong
colonels and six lieut.-colonels hove Men killed.
Aa to the losses of the Austrian army, they ear net be yet
dweh°mLedlicallrawuerlte, kFilorle4e;, itetl,w°:tin.ddedDostelasyG;dloservagan
calculeted, but they must hare been very conetderable from
the number of killed and wounded which were left on the
field of bands 30
30nopti.lessoftlican.11,mailf.tee in
and 6,000
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four
colours,

prisoners.
The resistance which the enemy opposed to the allied troops
for 16 hours may be explained by the superiority in numbers
which they possessed, and the almost impregnable positions
which they occupied.
For the first time also the Austrian troops fought under
the eyes of their sovereign, sad the presence of two Em-
perors and of the King of riedmon., in rendering the
struggle more desperate, made it also more decisive.
The Emperor Napoleon never for $ moment cen.ed to direct
the operations, visiting every point where his troops had to
make the greatest astir and to triumph over the most serious
difficulties. At different times the projectiles of the enemy
fell la the ranks of the staff and of the escort who attended
his Majesty.
At nine eclock in the evening the noise of the cannon
which precipitated the retreat of the enemy was still bean' in
the distance, and the French troops lighted their bivouac
fins on the field of battle which they bed so &mica/ "la
Theme fruit of this victory is the abandonment by the enemy
of all the positions which they had revved ou the right
bank of the Mario to dispute the sppioathee t that river.
toh-
According to the last aooonnta received, the discoureg:dodoe
Men srmy appears to have even renounced the ides
fending the garage of the river,:and was r, tiring on Venom.
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