Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-08 00:00:00

THE WAR FEELING IN GERMANY

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MSTADT, June 5.--At the opening of the
Cllaanbers, the Presidents of both branches of the
Legislature declared in favour of war against Louis
Napoleon.

PARIS June 6.—Whatever doubts may have been enter-
tained of the strategic capacity of the Emperor of the French
are now triumphantly answered. The Austrians have been
fairly met, completely out-manoeuvred, and utterly routed
by the combined armies of France and Piedmont, and the
whole of Lombardy, from the Ticino to the Mincio, is now
in the power of the victorious army. We have no details
as yet of the battle of Magenta, but its results speak far
more eloquently than any details. The Austrians have
precipitately fled from Milan, Giulay's army is utterly routed
—20,000 Austrian corpses are heaped along the banks of the
Ticino and the Grand Canal. The victors are encumbered
with prisoners, and they have taken the military chest, heavy
with the proceeds of the plunder in Piedmont. The Emperor
of the French has now two courses open to him to win a
reputation that no conqueror has yet achieved, by fulfilling
his promise, or to rival the fame of his uncle by becoming
another Attila. To speculate upon future events, when they
depend upon the will'of a single man, is mere waste of time ;
time alone can show whether the victory of the 4th of June
is to be but the first step towards the realisation of the long-
cherished project of avenging Waterloo, convertiug Italy into
a French dependency, and the Mediterranean into a French
lake. As it is, Austria can offer but a. feeble resistance unless
the whole of Germany rushes to the rescue, and Napoleon 111.
has the destinies of southern Europe in.his hands. This is the
great fact of the day, and any attempt of the European
Governments to delude themselves with false hopes on the
subject will only prepare for them a surprise as sudden and
as terrible as that which has just befallen the House of
Hapsburg. The consequences of this victory were not
known last night. Only the brief bulletin telegraphed by
the Emperor had been' published, and that very late. In-
deed, it may be said that the " glorious news," as all
Frenchmen must consider it, was only made known to the
bulk of the population at half-past seven, by the salute of
twenty-one guns fired at the Invalides. Later in the even-
ing, as the news spread, the enthusiasm was general. The
public buildings were illuminated, as a matter of course ;
but, what is far more important, private houses in the most
retired streets were decked in coloured lamps, and the boule-
vards were a blaze of light. The streets were crowded, and
all the world was talking of nothing but the defeat of les
Autrichiens. The Empress came from St. Cloud about
THE WAR IN ITALY. half-past eight, and from nine to ten drove up and down the
boulevards in an open carriage. I will not speak of what I
Timm, June 4.—The paperi to-day only publish accounts did not see, and therefore cannot say how her Majesty was
",t the battle of Palestro, which all disagree from each other. received at other points, but on the Boulevard
sanythng I ever beheld. The
carriage was surrounded, and
The official account published by the Pieclatontese Gazette Pthoeisseonnthieursei,ashmeretaejedsett
eonelse, and very clear as far as it goes, but it purposely
cries of " Vive l'Empereur," " Vive l'lmperatrice," were
"A many of the incidents in the fighting which I was incessant, and so close did the crowd press around the
Stilel4 to send you in my narrative of these brilliant engage- carriage, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs, that
for five minutes the carriage could not move. lam bound
lilts. The official account does not materially differ from
to say that enthusiasm was not at all diminished by the fact
14111 e. It will, I have no doubt, interest your readers to see
that the Empress showed herself deeply affected by it ; she
ati account of this truly Italian Inkerman by an Italian pen. sobbed audibly, and as .she raised her head to bow to the
4"-Opinione of to-day piiblishes an account of the battle crowd, one could easily see the tears streaming down her
rn
( O°Z: an officer who was engaged with the "white division ~ cheeks. Princess Clutilde, who accompanied her Imperial
t4Edini's) at Palestro itself, which is remarkable for its relative remained perfectly impassive. To-day many houses
detabashes of bombast, as well as for the clearness of the are deco
with flags, and at the Theatre Francais a
poem by Mery, is to be recited during the night. The
ivails he %upplies, with which, you will observe, my losses of the French army are set down at 3,000 killed and
wounded in the published despatches. lam told, however,
°rraation tallies pretty accurately. The letter is as
zo that it is four times greater. Two generals are killed -
ilows
L'Espinasse, who commanded the disastrous expedition to
`J (lab anap before palestro, June I.—Within the last few the Dobrudscha, and General Le Clercq. General Niel and
h;LB we
have met the enemy three times, and have defeated Marshal Canrobert are said to be wounded. A ciphered
ian each occasion. The first combat was a reCan- dispatch has been received at the War Office, and it is said
hTee, ordered by General Cialdini, on the other side of that the amount of killed and wounded on the side of the
`tith 'esia—first with a single brigade, and subsequently French is 9,009. It is stated that the Emperor led the
10,. the whole of his division ; its result was that we were JuTerial Gurd in person to the attack, and that his
t 9 establish ourselves at Borgo-Vercelli, after driving Majesty asst oae time under fire and in considerable

ojhe Post says that General M'Mahon was raised
the battle field to the rank of a. Marshal of
ranee.
h The Post shows that the position of the Austrians
ltnow become doubly critical. They will doubtless
leempt to reach Lodi, on their way to. Verona and
011tua, on which it is absolutely- certain they must
411, back. But the French, already masters of
reitea, will probably endeavour to intercept their
In Urn. Another more eventful, and, if possible, even
e decisive combat may, therefore, take place in
r,neighbouhood of Lodi.
re -Lae Moniter
ur also publishes General M'Mahon's
thPort of the passage of the Ticino at Turbigo by
the allies on the 3rd June, and of the surprise of the
1,;`!..41.Y at Robechetto, by which considerable loss
e:6 Inflicted on the Austrians. We have lost one
a2tain and seven privates killed, and four officers,
,7,°ng whom is one colonel, and thirty-eight privates
ended. The Emperor has ordered the names of
see killed and wounded, officers and privates, to be
h,n.t, by the Minister of War, to those persons who
-`4,.3' be interested in their fate.
12RIESTE, June 6.—Near Biancho, yesterday, the
Austrian war steamer Eugen captured the French
three-masted
Raoul, of Nantes, bound from Cuba for
Trieste, with a cargo of coffee.
f. There is nothing to confirm the news from Frank-
°ll, which alleged that in a second gat battle the
'reach had been driven across the Ticino.
PARIS, Tuesday.—The Moniteur of to-day contains
thet following :—" Marquis Antonino has delivered
„.L0 the Empress the notification of the death of
-king Ferdinand, and of the accession to the throne
°f King Francesco 11. The Marquis also presented
Letters accrediting him as Envoy Extraordinary.
The Empress will go into mourning for 21 days.