Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1859

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DAY'S

NEWS

We are still without any details of the battle of
Salferino, and imagination is at its stretch to find out
how many have fallen, how many prisoners taken, and
the other trophies left in the hands of the French in the
gielat event of the 24th of June. The inference from
the official telegram is that the French army suffered
so severely that two ,days after the battle it was still
unable to resume the offensive. Large accumulations
of coal are being made at Cherbourg and Rochefort.
The Austrians have sunk five small vessels, a large
frigate, and three Lloyd's steamers in the port of
Manoloeo, to prevent the passage of a French

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Austrian corn-
inferior
military
should

The generalship of the
maulers seems to have been of a very
order. The first rule which the
student has • to learn is, that h(

never engage with a deep stream in his rear.
Nevertheless,- the-Austrians crossed the Mincio at
four points, and attacked the camp of the-French.
Tlieir right wing'Preised forvia.id to Pozzolengo,
Solferino, and Cavriana. The former of these towns
is a little to the south-west of Peschiera, and the last
lies two miles or so east of the high road from
Mantua to Castiglione. The left wing of the Austrian
army, passing by Guidizplo, pushed on as far as
Castel goffrede, which is only a'short 'distance from
the river Chiese, driving the enemy before them.
But this. success was of small avail. Before ten
o'clock Louis Napoleon had advanced the French
troops from Montechiaro, Carpenedolo, and Visano,
which encountered the Austrians with their irresis-
tible elan,-and pressing hard upon their centre, espe-
cially around Solferino, which was heroically de-
fended, forced them back towards the river.
It must have been, throughout, a fearful struggle,
for when evening came each of the belligerents stood-
exhausted on the field. The Austrians, however,
withdrew, as the Imperial telegram describes it, to
the left bank- of tlieMincio during the night, whilst
the French did not attempt to-.follow oi.• molest them.
This in itself is a significant-circuinstance, and speaks
volumes for the courage and military discipline of
the soldiers of Francis Joseph. If they cannot
obtain a victory, they do not allow their adversary
to win his laurels cheaply. If they are compelled
to abandon their -fortified positions, they so cripple
their enemy_ as to render pursnit *possible, or at
least imprudent. The Milan Gazette states, that the
number of political prisoners whom the Austrians
carried away with them amounted to 107, who are
now in the fortress of Verona.

The principal members of the two Chambers of
Massam have iSsued'a sort of appeal to the German
nation, declaring that, though they are disposed to
combat for Germany, they will not do so for the
maintenance of the treaties of 1315.
The Cabinet of Saxony has replied to. Prince
Gortsenakoff's recent despatch ; and a case is
quoted against him
.which occurred during the
Russian war. At that period, the Germanic Con-
federation resoled that any attacks on the Austrian
troops in the Danubian Provinces should be con-
sidered as an aggresSion against the Confederation,
though that armed force was not only out of the
Fedral, but
even out of the Austrian, territory.
yeti if • that attitude had been contrary to
treaties, Russia would certainly have complained.
The Thscan Moniteur says the Neapolitan Consul-
General; having announced his intention of recoo.::
raising the authenticity of the acts cipanatinc, from
the Tuscan Government, has been reinstated in his
functions. Prince Eugene of Savoy has issued a decree
extending the forced currency of the National Bank
notes to landlords, and providing that a branch of
the Piedmontese Bank shall be established at Milan,
with a proportionable increase of capital to be raised
by shares---Lombard capitalists to have the prefer.

• nee.
The ship-Result- has arrived from Melbourne,
with gold valued at 135,000/., and 200 passengers.
The Directors of the South Australian Banking

Company, at their meeting yesterni ay, declared a divi-
dend at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum.
At a special meeting of the Roykil Mail Company
yesterday, it was resolved to tender for the Govern-
ment Postal Service between Panama and Sydney.
At a meeting of the creditors of .Messrs. Felix,
Calvert, and Co., the brewers, on Mondx7, the position
of the estate and the proposal submitted by the
inspectors to form a joint-stock association were
very actively canvassed, and although - a large
majority were favourable to the recommendation,
the number of dissentients will probably be found
to place embarrassments in the way of the develop-
ment of the scheme. The resolution brought for-
ward passed, but through the opposition raised it is
not thought it can he rendered practically operative.
The valuable freehold estates in Honduras,.of the
late firm of Hyde, Hodge, and Co., extending over
upwards of one million acres, with warehouses,
stores, merchandise, cattle, shipping, advances, to
Logwood and Mahogany cutters to the extent of
23,6001.' and other commercial assets, were yesterday
sold by Messrs. Fuller and Horsey, at the Mart, for
the sum of 51,000/. The biddings commenced at
20,0001:, and were finally closed, after a spirited
competition, at the above sum. The purchasers were
Messrs. Desborough, Young, and Desborough,
acting on behalf of the British Honduras Company
(Limited). _

Advice's from Genoa announce that, through the
activity of mercantile speculation, ever eager to
occupy a new and promising channel, the market is
glutted with supplies of various commodities in-
cluding more especially Coffee and Cereals of all
kinds. The natural result has been a great fall in
prices • and it would really appear that the wants of
the allied armies will soon be supplied, more cheaply
at Genoa than at Marseilles. As facilitating mate-

population which has-been so suddenly transported

info Italy, this circumstance has great importance.
Yesterday Sir C. Wood was elected for Halifa

without opposition, and at the close of the poll for
the University of Oxford yesterday there was a
majority for Mr. Gladstone. The poll will close on
Friday. Mr. Headlam was. elected member for New-
castle by more than two votes to one over his
opponent. It is said the opposition wished to pro-
pose Mr. Walpole as chairman of committees, in
hopes of defeatinr, Mr. Massey, the Government can-
didate. Lieut.-Col. Kingscole, M.P. for Gloucester-
shire, has been appointed -Groom-in-Waiting to Her
Majesty. . . . .

hie domestic news is not of any great importance
The Court of Queen's Bench were
occupied on Monday and yesterday in trying the
indictments against Marshall, Mortimer, and Eicke,
at the instance of the Duke of Cambridge, for the

this morning,

alleged sale of commissions in the army. Eicke and
Mortimer pleaded guilty, and the jury yesterday
returned a verdict of guilty against Marshall.
was deferred. Lord Chief Justice Cock-
burn, in summing up, said there was not the slightest
imputation against the authorities at the Horse
Guards. Recent proceedings at one of the London
Police Courts, discloses a state of things in a part of
Whitechapel that calls for prompt and vigorous
remedial measures. Two ladies complain of being
robbed at mid-day, and that by no mean, skulking
thief, but by men who came before them face
to face, and in a straightforward, konea kind
of manner, take from them what they want.
In a colony of thieves the cry of " stop thief," of
course, does not excite much sympathy ; and only
the poor satisfaction remains of . being significantly
informed by the police that the depredators belong
.to "the gang." - -

Sentence

Moore, who murdered his wife in. I,Valworth by
stabbing her with a knife, has been committed for
trial on the capital charge.

The Submarine Telegraph Company have success-
fully laid a new cable of six wires between Folkestone

and Boulogne. It contains six conducting wires,
and is the largest and strongest ever made—th©
weight being ten tons per mile. The connecting
link of land wires will be completed in about a fort-
nioht. when the means of Continental communication
•
will be greatly accelerated.