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SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1859,

THE DAY'S NEWS,

Mr. Milner Gibson resumed the debate on the
" want of con fidence "motion, in the House of Commons,
last night. In referring to the late election, he
admitted that electoral corruption could be charged
against both Liberals and Tories, but the Govern-
ment had
used their exclusive priviliges in a manner
unusually improper. The late measure of Reform
was not generally approved of by the Tories, and
the promise that a comprehensive new Reform bill
would be introduced by the Derby Government
could not be believed in by the Liberals. He pro-
ceeded to stigmatise the present ministry with their
proceedings respecting the Roman Catholics. They
had, heretofore, always opposed them, but as soon as
they gill into office, to gain a few votes, they promised
them
uesvorts of immunities. The foreign policy
of the ment came in for much censure, and
Lord Derby'se
Or r,insinuating that Louis Napoleon
had designs ngland, was
.combated with much
eloquence and earnestness.. Mr. Lindsay followed. He
felt bound to vote
out, that
the amendment to the
address, pointing
Conservative govern-
ment need not fail in ;at a.
0 passing a reform measure.
During their term of
Jewish Emancipation,
periods,
Catholic Emancipation,
the Corn Laws, had been carried out, so there was
come, be found
no reason. to suppose that they
wanting when the proper time
foreign policy of Lord Derby, he had much,
As to the
at least, to preserve peace as Lord Palmerston,°las
Sydney Herbert accused the ministry of abandoningl*
their principles. " Carrying on business as general
dealers—keeping a shop for the supply of any article
demanded," and, therefore, he could not give a v,
of confidence to them. Mr. Digby Seymour would
vote for the amendment, but Captain.Vepon was :,,,
favour of the ministry. Mr. G. C. Lewis said that,
the amendment- to the address had been forced upon
the Opposition by the conduct of the Government.
Sir John Packington, at some length, vindicated the
government, and said that,•no case had been made

out against them. A number of the members having
spoken, a Division was taken when there appeared :

FOR THE AMENDMENT
AGAINST IT

MAJORITY AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT 13
The House then adjourned.

The War news this morning is meagre in the ex-
treme. Despatches continue to be received describ-
ing the unabated successes of the allies, but we
cannot place implicit reliance in all that we receive
via Paris. A body of Austrians left Levano on
Wednesday night, leaving their provisions behind
them, and spiking their guns. They entered the
Swiss territory on Thursday. The Paris correspon-
dent of the Times says, another advantage was
gained on Wednesday, by the French. The Emperor
having learned that the Austrians were entrenching
themselves at Marigan, about ten miles from Milan,
ordered Marshal Boraguey de Hilliers to disperse
I them, which he did. The affair was brief, but
brilliant 1,200 Austrians were taken prisoners.
The French loss was small. The Emperor, it is said,
avoids all state at Milan. He is not lodged in
the Palice, but at a private villa outside the city.
Marshal Canrobert was not wounded at all at
Magenta. A Turin letter says, that a Hungarian
legion to revolutionise Hungary is organising. The
Emperor of Austria has issued a proclamation to
the Tyrolese, summoning them to arms, to show
to posterity their fidelity, their bravery, their
piety and religious enthusiasm ; calling upon them
to defend the most righteous cause for which sword
was ever drawn ; to form themselves into volunteer
corps riflemen, and telling them it is to them he con-
fides the task of defending the frontiers of his dear
country of the Tyrol against the enemy. A de-
spatch from Vienna, dated Monday evening, says that
General Gyulai has been dismissed and Field-Marshal
Hess appointed Commander-in-Chief. The defeat of
the Austrians at Magenta is said to have produced
an. immense sensation in Germany. The King of
Sardinia had addressed a letter to the Colonel of
the 3rd Zouaves, complimenting him upon the man-
ner in which they captured the batteries at Palestro.
The Moniteur publishes the following details of
the bulletin of the passage of the Ticino : —" The
concentration of our troops on the Po, deceived the
enemy into the belief that we intended to cross that
river. On the morning of the 4th, 125,000 of the
enemy's troops. were in position opposite the Em-
peror, and the grenadier division of the Imperial
Guard was obliged to fight this disproportionate
force. All our generals displayed great energy.
The French General Winpfen was wounded in the
head. The commanders of the grenadiers of the Guards,
Desme and Maudhuit were killed. The Zouaves lost
200, and the Grenadiers the same number. The
bulletin then proceeds to describe the operations of
Marshal M'Mahon, who had to sustain a fierce
conflict, in which he lost 1,500 men, but put 10,000
Austrians hors de combat, and made 5,000 of them
prisoners. The Austrians had on their side four
corps d'armee." The bulletin concludes with the
following- summary:—" Five days after our departure
from Alessandria our army has been engaged in
three combats, gained one battle, and freed Piedmont
from the Austrians, who, since the conflict of Monte-
bello, have lost 25,000 killed and wounded, 10,000
prisoners, and seventeen pieces of cannon; besides
which we have picked up on the battle field 30,000
Austrian knapsacks." The French papers and.
people all speak of the great abilities of Napoleon
as a tactician, but the following remark on his great
doings at Magenta, made by aLondon paper, in the
cause of the Italians, contained something very
truthful, if not complimentary, to the " Second of
December," as the Austrians call Napoleon. the
Third : —" This Italian war, we must repeat, has begun
badly for the Austrians, but not well for the French,
who can afford to win few such victories as that of
Magenta. In generalship, and in military attributes,
they have proved their superiority ; but they lose
man for man in actual fighting, and have, twice or
thrice since the campaign began, exposed an entire
column to the chance of irretrievable overthrow.
This, of course, suggests a comparison between
the battles of the First and Second Empires.
Napoleon the Great, as we know, could boast of
-only an accidental triumph at Austerlitz, where
his troops exhibited far less splendour of
courage than their foes. At Marengo, notwith-
standing a clap-trap saying attributed to Napoleon,
its glory belonged virtually to the Austrians, al-
though, unlike Marengo, that field was won by the
Imperial Commander himself rather than by a
subordinate such as Dessaix, whose genius and
gallantry turned. the fortune of a most critical
hour. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the
battle the French regarded their cause as lost.
Dessaix had not come up, and the question was,
would he arrive in time? On this circum-
stance,' writes M. Thiers, depended the issue of
the battle.' Napoleon's aide-de-camp had. been
galloping all day in search of the absent General.
Dessaix, however, warned by the sound of cannon,
was in full march for Marengo. He reached it ;
he rode up to the First Consul ; he declared,
Yes, one battle is lost, but there is time enough to
gain another.' It was he, and he alone, who won
that incomparable day. General M'Mahon is our
contemporary Dessaix. He saved the French army
at Magenta. Had he not arrived in time Louis
Napoleon must have been a fugitive, and might have
been a prisoner, if, indeed—which is doubtful—he
exposed himself to any dangers at all. Massena and
Kellerman, with Dessaix's aid, won Marengo ;
M'Mahon triumphed at Magenta, though the fight
seemed to incline for hours towards a total defeat
of the allied armies."

The Bank Returns as published in last night's
Gazette show an increase of 51,8901 in Active Circula-
tion, 193,2911 in Bullion, 5,308 in Rest and 129,1:55
in the Reserve of Notes.