Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-13 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS,

On Saturday we published the result of the " want
of confidence" debate, and announced the defeat of the
Government by a majority in a house "of 623. To-day
we publish the division list, and it presents one or

two singular peculiarities. Of the 310 metnbers
constituting the minority, 293 may be considered as
heretofore belonging to the regular Ministerial party.
The'remaining.seventeen were made up of six Irish
Roman Catholic members, who support theni on all
Messrs.. Blake, Bowyer,

we have always said,. that every class and every
section of the party has a right to be represented in.
the Executive Government adequately and fully ;
and as between. conflicting pretensions we can only
reiterate what we• have so often said, let tried
worth and ability prevail over all other considera-
tions, and in allotting the work of the State let the
tools begiven to him who can best handle them."
The efficial account of the battle of Magenta has
been published in the Paris llfoni6ur. It displays;
the masterly Combination whereby the Emperor of

the French plaCed the bulk of his army in contact
with the inferior forces of his adversary. To a great
extent we, haVe anticipated the reasoning on Which
his scheme -was based, and have shown, from other
sources; that the demonstration on the Piacenza road
was intended to deceive the Austrians, and lead theni
Napoleon I

to concentrate on the wrong point

has remarked that the commonest means often
succeed best in war, and here is an instance. General
,
Gyulai went quite readily into the trap. Nothing
undeceiVed him ; neither the fiery march of Gari-
who, unless supported, had almost committed
.nself beyond recall, nor the decided advance across
the Sesia, which was‘ undertaken, hot as a' diversion,
or from a love of fighting, but to cover and
Protect the' Rank march from right to
The Austrians were out-manceuvered and out-
matched. Their Hungarian and Italian regi-
ments, we are told, allowed themselves to be
captured. General Augur-

initing forty guns fluor

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the railway embankment, a measure which recall,

the famous battery of Drouet. at Wagram, destroyed
the Austrian columns by a flanking. and an oblique
fire. Thus overwhelmed by guns and numbers thO
Austrians were driven from the field with the loss of

7,000 -prisonerS, four, not forty guns, and many
thousand killed and wounded. But they were drawri
off in good order ; there was no rout ; the Austrians
proved: themselves good soldiers. The Allies,

chiefly French, showed those great military qualitie4
for which they are famous, and emulated the troops_
of the first empire, whose successors they are in the
battle-fields of• Europe- Some slight details of the:
battle of Malegnano have been received. It appears:
to have been as sanguinary • a contest as any one ofi,
the -li-receding engagements.. The strength on either!
side amounted to about 35,000 men: The, loss.of,the

Austrians is stated by the French to consist in 1,500
killed and wounded, and 1,200 prisoners. The
Hungarians and Croats suffered the severest loss on
the Austrian side. Pavia, is now really evacuated,

and the Austrian !lead-quarters ''are already
near Cremona. The Second Army Corps was on
Thursday at Cologno, that is master of the road to
Pizzighetone ; Benedek, beaten at Melegnano, pro-
bably crossed. the bridge of Lodi ; and Urban,
anxious to rejoin the main body, retired over the
river. at Cassano. It will depend upon the, Allies
how soon the Oglio shelter's the retiring foe ; and
every day it becomes more certain that the Mincio
will be the scene of the final stand of the Austrians.
Another success, of the Allies,. most threatening of
all to the Austrians, is to be recorded. Garibaldi has
succeeded already in crossing the Adda, and has
occupied. Bergamo. The Condottiere is -sure to meet
there with ample support in money and volunteers.
After this we must be prepared to hear of an early
further retreat. of the Austrians behind. the, Mincio,
on the Venetian territory. , Afeantime, menacino.

symptoms Are on the political horizon fitrthdr north.
A camp. is.to be formed at:Chalons, facing the Upper
Rhine, and PrusSian negotiators have been at Dresden

to arrange about the passage or Prussian troops, and
are to go afterwards to 'Munich. The withdrawal

A* the Prussian Minister of Foreign

Affairs

Schleiuitz, is talked of, and the Prussian Ambassa doi

at the Court of St. James's, Count Bernstorff; has
been to'Berlin. Ou the other hand w. have a dis-
tinct denial in the Prussizn Ga:iette, the• Ministerial

aewspaper, tint the F'rassiaa army-,

as has been

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rumoured, is immediately to be mobilised, and that

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3russia is about to take part in the existing conflict.
.'he official journal confesses, however,' that Prussia
3 engaged in the further development of her military

but pretends, at the same time, that it is
only to make the position she haS hitherto held of

power,

shed, under a hypocritical religious cloak. We trust
the prompt .measures taken;lwill be the mans of
calling official attention to the subject, and that
equally effective measure ::will be generally adopted,
to put a period to such disgraceful scenes in future,
for such are a nuisance to our town and locality.