Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-10 00:00:00

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in order to attain his obiect tree
.ter-in-Chief ordered General 2obel to
ne left at Magenta, which was formed by a
,_mperial Guard supported by a regiment of
Ls column, thinking it had only to deal with-a I
the enemy's corps d'armee, went boldly to
but was soon compelled to bend on the
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Imperial Guard were captured by a company of' th
Yager battalion. This baol

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)old march of our centre, which by
I the men of Prince Lichtenstein, The
IA then followed, and in less than two

was soon stopped by

vance of our r

able to deploy a line of 60,00
enemy. ' The forces of the
Austrians were not much short of 80,000 men, with a
powerful artillery. They were, however, compelled to move
on a most disadvantageous ground, as their left was soon
turned by Canroberts's corps d'armee, supported by Faut's
division, thus obliged to leave Vigano and Rosate, and
fall on their centre at Abbiate Grasso. The Austrian
centre thus swelled by the routed columns of their left
wing was all in disorder. Thousands of the
enemy fell crushed by our artillery. At the time General
M-Mahon had reached the scene -of action, and seeing
that the moment had come to break the already diSordered
centre of the Austrians, went to the charge with an impetuo-
sity never witnessed before. Re was supported by General
Thlrand's division, which stood in reserve, moving slowly

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yen against the columns of th

was terrible ; dead and NS' oundeil
were now falling by thousands. The Austrians were routed;
the victory was won. I shall not dwell on the heartrending

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;le presented. A Crimean officer
assault of the Malakoff is
the telegraph has already
_reformed you that on the first day the enemy had
15,000 men hors de combat, and 5,000 taken pri-
soners. Some say that twenty-seven • Austrian guns
trod, others 40, besides immense materiel. This
saw myself twenty of the enemy's guns brought
here by our troops. Oar losses must have been tremendous,
but the French suffered most. The Zou9ves engaged had
about 700 men- hors de combat. A brigade of Marshal
Canrobert's corps d'armee was almost destroyed in the last
charge. lam assured that during the battle the Emperor
and the King were always in the thick of the fight.
Generals Espillasse and Cler are amongst the dead. Others
are mentioned, but I am unable to test the truth of the
report which came to me. All military men to whom I
spoke this morning are unanimous in stating that the
strategic combinations of the Emperor are worthy of the
first Napoleon. By his able movements he led the Austrian
Commander-in-Chief into the net, and even General Bess
was not able to prevent the disaster. What has happened
to-day I cannot tell. All communications with Magenta,
Abbiate Grasso, and Rosate, are intercepted. Whilst
I am writing, the sharp report of field guns and the
roll of. musketry is distinctly heard far on the right, in
the direction of Binasco. Milan is already freed front
the Austrians, who, some say, have withdrawn without any
fight, threatened, as they were, by a popular movement.
To-:morr9w I hope to be in a position to send you fuller
information, for I must close this letter and confide it to a
French officer who is on the point of starting for Turin.
All communications with Novaro and the capital are inter-
rupted, and we have no post running from here to Turin.
I hope my fiend will surely post this to-morrow, so that
you will be able to receive it on Wednesday next. Now
illow me to correct a misstatement into which I was led in
one of my last letters. The Austrian General Szabo, who

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fell at Palestro, is not a relation of the Hungarian colonel
of this name, as I have stated. Colonel Szabo, whom I left
in Turin with Captain Novelli, is busily engaged in organis-
ing a Hungarian legion. Generals Klapka. and Perczell
will command it. The illustrious defender of Comore is
now at Genoa, where the quadres of the legion are now in a
fair way of formation.
The above is from a late edition of the Daily Hews.
The third edition of the Morning Post contains the

following

I have been able to collect a few details of the action to
send you, but as the Emperor's own despatch to the Empre
which I have just seen, says Detail impossible
do more. It appears that 30,000 Austrians y
ten a.m., surprised a regiment of Zouaves, a
the Austrian line with the bayonet

one- cha;:ge, trol

rday, about

'ter more than
.nd

WlNlahon came up, and the Austrians retreated.
As soon as the Emperor heard, he left Novara for
the field of action, The battle continued up to
nearly eleven last night, and I hear it recom-
menced early this morning ; at four I heard

what lam told was the firing on the field. The action was
ita and Bnffalora, on the road between