Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-28 00:00:00

1111 E WAR IN ITALY.

PARIS, Sunday Evening.—The battle of the Mincio has
Illaihilated the Austrian army. No one here believes that
iti4_nwBtand in the open field can be again made in Italy.
"ort states the capture of 80 guns, 15,000 prisoners,
Suite as many bayoneted, and an equal number drowned in
the flood, their corpses being floated down to beleaguer the
ditches and lake round Mantua, as a prelude to the storming
itd"anee of the French. The railroad between that City
4.114 Verona has been broken up by this time, and, in point of
!tact, the great quadrangle, or quadrilateral ground, is now
firc)teed and won. The Empress Eugenie who is by blood a
ZirkPatrick, the motto of which house is "I make sikke"
tlee the supplemental dirk lodged in the body of the
itl)er Comyn), has ordered off ye•terday 15,000 men from
2/°rls, to be followed by another division this morning.
"ItY three regiments of Voltigeurs and the remaining
"ayes of the Guard left Paris for the Alps. The landing
°t the 40' 000 troops from the Adriatic fleet is hourly looked
ier
and their junction (previous to the relief of Venice) from
'e Padua and Vicenza side of the quadrangle, will show
that this famous war problem is not so insoluble as the
Illadrature of the circle. It would be robbing the penny-a-
-I.ler to talk of last night's illuminations and the enthusiasm
°I the French metropolis.—Correspondent of the Globe.
I never saw anything like the enthusiasm in Paris last
night. I do not allude particularly to the scene on the
'eulevards, where the numerous cafes, which are under the
control of the police, get up illuminations to order whenever
required. But on this occasion I saw more private houses
Talninated in all quarters of the town than I ever remem-
-7 to have seen before. In the Quarter Latin and the
vatlbeurgs there was a complete saturnalia. Bands of
°ling men roamed about the streets, arm-in-arm, shouting
1116inging In many places—a thing unprecedented and
•
ttt°t Much to be commended—squibs and crackers were
elf
about in ()Teat abundance, and the half pleased but
terrified liegesb rushed to the dolrs and windows to see
the
ezPlosion. I heard one steady-looking Paterfamilias
41riring somewhat angrily in a group why the police did
4 Interfere, and the answer, which seemed to give general
At!i°sfaction, was, "Tout est permis aujourd'hui 1" The
nit
des eur having announced this morning, in a second
patch, from the Emperor to the Empress, that it is still
it;l:essible to send any details of the battle, the government
141.rlals seem to have received orders not to publish any
urrnatiou which they may have heard. The Pays says :
'l'
411 Sorts of rumours have circulated in Paris to-day on

the subject of the great victory of June 24. Various details
of the battle, and of its probable results, have been bruited.
We think it sight to abstain from giving currency to any of
those versions which have no authentic character."
The Patri4 also alludes to private news as having arrived,
which it declines to re-produce in the absence of " certain
information." The Patric was quite mistaken in announcing
yesterday that the French army had already crossed the
Mincio in pursuit of the enemy. Not only the silence of the
Honiteur on the subject, but positive news from the army,
shows that it is yet on the right bank. The Austrian
despatch sufficiently admits a defeat, with very great loss ;
but there is every reason to suppose that the Austrians
retired in good order, and yet occupy formidable positions
on the left bank of the river. The Pays takes upon itself
to contradict two important statements of its fellow-govern-
ment journal, the Patric, one that 40,000 men had been
ordered from Africa to the Adriatic, and the other that
General Fririon's division of the army of Paris is going to
Italy. All that has yet been done (says the Pays) is to
complete the effective force of the different regiments now
in Italy by sending out men who were absent on renewable
leave, and recruits whose drill is finished. The Moniteur
l'Artnee gives the following topographical particulars of the j
locus in quo of the late battle :
" Cavriana is situated about eight kilometres from the
river Mincio, on the right bank, eleven kilometres from Lake
G trda, and twenty-five kilometres from Mantua The action
must have taken place in the large plain, about thirty kilo-
metres in length, whicn extends from the one to the other
of these fortresses. The principal points of this plain are
Bor,ghetto. Volta, Curdizzolo, Melino Pozzolo, Mezinbona,
Gat°. and Camignano. The Austrian head-quarters were
at Valleggio, one kilometre and a half from the Mincio on
the left bank, and six kilometres from Cavriana, otherwise
spelt Gavriana. This splendid victory assures us the passage
of the Mincio, which must be the inevitable consequence of
it. Operations will now become decisive, and the definite
success of our arms is certain."
General Niel, the new marshal of France, is not more
than fifty-seven years old, and looks much younger. He
was a student of the Polytechnic School, which he quitted
to study engineering at Metz. His early promotion was not

extremely rapid. We find him a lieutenant of engineers in
1827, he became a captain in 1835, and gained his epaulette
on the field of battle of Coast intine (1837). He was made
a colonel in 1846, and with that rank he took part in the
expedition to Rome in 1849 as head of the engineers' staff.
While at Rome he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-
general, and shortly afterwards was charged with the mission
of carrying the keys of the city to the Pope at Gaeta. On
his return to France he became a member of the superior
committees of engineering and fortifications, and was
appointed director of the engineering department in the
ministry of war, and councillor of state on extraordinary
service. As a general of division he commanded the
engineers in the Baltic, and took part in the siege of
Bomarsund. Subsequently he commanded the engineers in
the Crimea. His reputatien as a scientific officer has always
stood remarkably high He is a tall, handsome man, and
very distingue in his appearance and manners. It will be
remembered that he was selected in January last to go to
Turin to make the official demand of the Princess Clothilde's
hand for Prince Napoleon.—Correspondent of the Express.
The following is from the Cirrespndence of the Times,
(second edition) :
The Patrie of last night was in error when it announced
that the French army had crossed the Mincio in pursuit of
the Austrians. This may soon be the case, bat it was not
when the Patrie announced it. The despatches published
to-day add but few facts to those of yesterday. The Sardi-
nian Minister in Paris has received a telegram from Turin.
dated at half-past 10 last night, to this effect :
" The results of the victory of Solferino are considerable.
Several standards, 30 2.',Ur13, and 6,000 prisoners have been
taken from the Austrians. The enemy has been driven
across the Mincio. The Emperor Francis Joseph com-
manded the Austrian Army in person."
The Moniteur's despatch also says that the enemy retired
during the night; that the Emperor Napoleon passed the
night in the chamber which had been occupied the same
morning by the Emperor of Austria; and that General Neil
is named Field-Marshal. This dr spatch is dated Cavriana,
25th June, 1.30 p.m. Nothing is said of the loss in killed
and wounded on either side ; but when we consider that,
according to the Emperor's first acc)unt, the whole Austrian
army was on the field, that the battle lasted sixteen hours—
from four in the morning till eight in the'evening, and that
the two Emperors were present, we may he certain that it
was very great. Something is said of 10,000 or 12,000
killed and wounded on the side of the French, and
still .more on that of the Austrians, but I believe
this is only conjecture. The fact seems to be that
the Austrians had strongly fortified all the passes of
the Mincio against the French, and the guns that were
taken were taken from these positions. Had
the French crossed it is not impr )bable they would have

had to fight a pitched battle, and we have not details enengh
to enable us to judge whether the object of. the Austrians
was not to compel them to accept it on *their side of the
Minein: Reinforcement 3 have left from the-army of Lyons
for Italy, and the vacancy has been filled up by troopS from

here. It is expected that another battle will have to be
fought before the siege operations come on. Our informa-