The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

SARDINIAN ACCOUNT.

TURIN, WEDNESDAY.
The Piedmostase Gazette publishes the report of
the battle of Solferino,oritten on the same evening:
During the night from the 19th to the 20th inst.,
the Austrians evacuated the right bank of the
Mind& On the 24:h the Emperor ordered the army
of the King of Sardinia to occupy Pozzolengo, and
to invest Peachier., whilst the French army occupied
Solferino and Carriana. The King ordered the Ist
and 6th divisions to despatch detachments
to the places mentioned, and the 3rd division also
Ito send a detachment towards Peachier& The Aus-
trians, during the night, from the 23rd to the 24th,
advanced towards the right bank of the Mincio.
Reports of deserters are unanimous in stating that
40,000 men were collected at Pozzolengo. Marshal
Baraguay d'Hilliere met with unexpected difficulties
at Solferino, and thePiedmontese reconnaissances also
encountered great forces of the enemy. 'Whilst
Baraguay d'Hilliers performed prodigies of valour
at Solferino, the manes of the enemy continued to
advance. At Castiglione the Emperor perceiving
that he was now contending with the entire
army of the enemy, deployed the corps
of Generals Niel and M`Mahon in the
plain, and ordered Canrobert to rejoin with
the Imperial Guard the reserve on the heights.
The King had been requested to direct all the
forces possible against Solferino, and he accord.
ingly ordered Generals Fanti and Durando to
convey succours to the French. General Fanti
bad already commanded the movement to be
made when news arrived that the recon-
naissances of the 3rd and 6th divisions
were in danger of being cat off at Disenzano
by a superior force of the enemy. The King re-
called Fanti, and ordered the brigade Aosta to re•
turn promptly to San Martino. However, Baraguay
d'Hilliers won Solferino, end marched against Car-
riana. The King having been informed that, not-
withstanding the 3rd and 6th divisions were
engaged, it was difficult to carry the heights
of San Martino, ordered a general at-
tack of those divisions, with the brigade
Aosta, the let division under General della
Marmon, and the brigade de Piemont.
In spite of a violent tempest, General della
Marmora directed his course by Pozzolengo, and
descended upon San Martino, but was attacked
from the side of Pozzolengo. The 4th regiment
moving to the lett repulsed the enemy, curling
great lases with our artillery. In spite
of General Derando's delay, occasioned by
the tempest, and by the ignorance of the guides, the
3rd and 6th divisions and the brigade Aosta dis-
lodged the enemy from his formidable positions, and
a brilliant victory ended a contest of fifteen hours,
sustained with heroic constancy. The order
et the army was admirable. Here follow de-
tails as to the loss of the Piedmontese, accord-
ing to which 1,000 were killed, and about
the same number wounded. The heights having
beers occupied, the French forced the enemy to retire
to Goito—thus beaten along their whole line: Ac-
cording to positive information it results that 26,000
Sardinians held their ground against 60,000 Aus-
trians who were united and engaged with all the
advantage of position.

THE SWISS BARBARIfIES AT PERUGIA.

The Tama and Piedmontese papers teem with
accounts of the shocking scenes enacted at Perugia
by the Swiss troops. A letter of the 21st from
Arezzo, in the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, an-
nounces the arrival in that town of many persons
who had fled from Perugia, but in such • state of
terror and alarm that they were able to give but a
very imperfect account of the barbarous proceedings
of the papal soldier, who occupied the town. The
latter adds:

TM amber of killed and wounded during the struggle
appear. to have been small, but after all resistance had
ceased the troop, began to wsoeacea the citizens indiscrimi-
nately, sparing neither age nor am. The municipality
attempted to stop Usk carnage, and left the town hall with a
white flag for the purpose, but they were fired upon by the
esidiery, and Secretary Porta, who ....wiled the flag, fell
reertolly wounded. Them mints of bloodshed atilt coati-
Reed ea the 21st, in spite of all the Mate of the municipal
wham iik
The Opinions of Turin says:

Treachery Introduced the Swiss into rerugls. n. circuit
of the town is very require; though the present population
le only 20.000, it has been as Wen as 80,000. Only part of
the old gates of the town are used, the rest being always
kept shut. One of there lout teed, into lbs garden of •
Dominican cn•vent, and the fri►rs opened it to the Swiss,
while the inhabitants were endeavouring ti drive them beck
in another quarter. Though the townsmen had few arras,
the straggle war protracted for three boun after the Swiss
got inside.

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A Florence letter, in the Corriere Mercantile, adds
that Cortona is full of refugees from Perugia, in-
cluding the Princess Bonaparte, whose house was
violated. She arrived at Torentole, in Tuscany, on
the 20th, and was expected at Florence. The same
letter, after stating that the capuchin friars of the
Monte convect tired upon the fugitives, and that
the troops did not even respect the ambulance',
distinguishable by a black flag, who were engaged
In taking up the wounded, gives a long li►t of the
persons murdered by the soldiery after all fighting
was over. Among these we find three married
couples, five elderly women, three unmarried
female', the daughter of a Captain Polidori, five
years old, Ac. An infant was taken from its
mother's breast and thrown into the Tiber; even
an old beggar was shot in the streets, and many
men wantonly murdered or wounded. All the names
of the sufferers are given in full in the list alluded
to, where various act' of pillage are also mentioned.