The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1860,

LORD BROUGHAM AT _HUDDERSFIELD

On Saturday evening the annual soiree and distribution
of prizes in connection with the Mechanics' Institution—
an institution of great local value, and well and efficiently
managed—was held in the Philosophical Hall, Huddersfield.
The event was one of general importance, in consequence of
the presence of several distinguished guests on the occasion.
The prizes were distributed by the Right H on. Lord Broug •
ham, who delivered the opening address. His lordship was
received with quite an ovation of applause, and the whole
of the audience on his appearance joining in singing "Auld
Lang Syne," the venerable nobleman being thereby affected
to tears. On the platform, amidst a number of local gentry,
were the Right. Hon. Sir J. W. Ramsden, M.P., Frank
Crossley, Esq., M.P,, James Stansfeld, Esq., M.P., E. A.
Leathern, Esq., M.P., the Hon. F. Stuart Wortley, and
other gentlemen. The spacious hall was crowded to excess,
and numbers were unable to obtain admittance.
His Lonnsmr, who on rising was received with renewed
outbursts of applause, spoke as follows :—I do assure you,
my old constituents, that I am very deeply affected by the
kind reception I have met with at your hands. (His lord-
ship was here visibly overcome.) Looking back to our
former connection, which I have always deemed the greatest
honour of my whole life—that of having been member for
this great county of York before its division into three—
looking back to that connection, though it may be with
satisfaction in one sense, it gives me pain, great pain, in
another. When I reflect upon the blank—the gap never to
be filled up—which has been made during these 30 years;
when I reflect upon the many men who then stood beside
me, of all classes—the foremost of all classes, from the
humblest to the highest—and that so many of these I now
can see no more, not only those of my own standing and
age, but men far younger than myself, and who I might
well have hoped, in the natural course of things, should have
survived me—l will only mention one—my dear friend,
Milton, afterwards Lord Fitzwilham—(hear, and cheers)—
one of the very best men I ever knew in this world—a man
conscientiously attached, devotedly attached, to his princi-
ples, to his own opinions upon every subject in Church and
State, never deviating by one hair's breadth from the most
perfect candour towards those who differed however widely
from him—aye, and even those who differed very slightly
from him ; for it is the unfortunate calamity of a feeble na-
ture that in matters religious, as well as in matters civil,
they can more easily forgive one who differs widely from
them, than one who differs from them only by a shade—
(cheers)—insomuch is this the case that I have oftentimes
been led to say that the rule which regulates men's charil y
and tolerance— (I am speaking of religious opinions)—to-
wards their neighbours is the reverse of the principle of
gravitation, unless you substitute repulsion for attraction,
for that it is inversely, as the distance that the strength of
religious animosity, and even hatred prevailed—the greater
the distance the less the animosity, the smaller the dis-
tance the less the attraction, the greater the repulsion—(a
laugh)—Lord Fitzwilliam upon all subjects, at all distances
and in all differences of opinion, was perfectly and abso-
lutely not only charitable but kindly towards those with
whom he differed, however much or however little. (Ap-
plause.) I cannot avoid saying so. This is the first time
that I have seen you since the calamity which deprived us
of the blessing of his friendship and support upon all occa-
sions, and I could not avoid just stepping aside for one mo-
ment to give a faint utterance to my feelings in reference to
that irreparable loss. (Cheers.) Now, as I say, the loss
of one's contemporaries of the same standing is not per-
haps more easily sustained, but more natural and easily
to be expected than that those who are one's juniors in age
should pass away before him, and it really would seem as
if old age had that which has been represented by the
great orators of antiquity as the worst feature, the worst
calamity of war—that while in peace the young bury
the old, in war it is the old who bury the young.
(Hear, hear.) But now, to turn away from these pain-
ful subjects to a more cheering one, let me greatly con-
gratulate you upon the success of this institution of Hud-
dersfield. It has some incidents in its history which are
peculiar to itself. One is its finances being in such perfect
order; the next is, part of its revenue to a considerable
amount (of one-half) resulting from the weekly payments of
its members. (Hear, hear.) That is a prodigious thing ;
for it not only is a cause, but it is an indication of the
healthful state of the Working Man's ,Society—that they
are saving money, and spending the money which they
save in the most profitable, really profitable manner in which
they can bestow it. (Applause.) Another is this, and a
most important one, that it is a real mechanics' institution ;
that the members—those who benefit by it—are the working
classes themselves. Now, we always have complained, in
many cases almost from the beginning—from the year 1825,
when mechanics' institutions were first established—that
that which began as a mechanics' institution for the work-
ing classes, and was intended for their improvement and fir
their benefit, soon got into other hands and came to be
reading rooms, conversation rooms, and news rooms—an in-
stitution in fact for classes above the working classes—for
classes who needed it much less, and for whom originally it
was not intended. Many great complaints having been made,
the question was, how a remedy was to be applied ? I recol-
lect once at Manchester 20 years ago—it was the strongest
instance I ever knew—that a mechanics' institution which
had been formed, and was well provided with a library, and
exceedingly well off in point of funds, turned out upon my
examining into those who attended it to be composed chiefly
of merchants' and manufacturers' clerks—persons of the
middle classes—persons of very considerable yearly income,
among whom was hardly a sprinkling of those mechanics for
whom it was originally founded. (1 may remark, however,
that it is much better now in the case of that institution.)
Now that having been very much considered, various
suggestions were made, and means propounded for
endeavouring to get these institutions into the hands
of the working people, and then to keep them in those
hands. A plan was originally laid down which I had
suggested myself as long ago as the year 1825 or 1826, in
a letter addressed to the working men, and dedicated to my
excellent friend Dr. Birkbeck, who was the real founder of
mechanics' institutions throughout the country. In that
letter I suggested that a certain proportion of the working
committee of each institution should be of working men. I
suggested two-thirds or three fourths, but ray friends in
Carlisle two or two and a half years ago took a much more
effectual course. Instead of two-thirds and three-fourths
they said three-thirds or four-fourths—(laughter)--and they
laid it down as a peremptory rule that no person should be
admitted as a manager or a committee man who did not
earn his living by weekly wages. The effect of this was
instantaneous—it was magical. Instantly that this rule
was well established the class-rooms filled, the reading-
rooms filled, and there was no want whatever for members,
no shoving out of the working classes by the, superior and
middle. or upper classes, though these were very well re-
ceived, their company and contributions were very accept-
able, and their advice most respectfully and kindly taken;
but the government of the body being in the hands of work-
ing men exclusively, the working men came to be the sup-
porters of the institution, and it has ever since that been
filled with them, as their institution alone. (Cheers.) This,
which I call the Carlisle rule, having succeeded in Carlisle,
was very soon adopted elsewhere. It came into a small
neighbouring town, then into Kendal, then to Whitehaven,
then to different towns in the counties of Cumberland and
Westmoreland, then it crossed over into Lancashire and got
to be the rule of several institutions there, and in every case
it has been attended with complete success. It afterwards
travelled into Northumberland, and in Northumberland
they have had precisely the same rule, and as often as it
has been established it has been attended with the most
perfect success. I thought I would just mention this as I
passed. The Carlisle rule does not appear to be wanting in,
Huddersfield, for without it the institution is kept to its ori-
ginal purpose, and it is a real bona fide mechanics' institu-
tion. I was, by the way, a little surprised, and somewhat
amused, to see lately in some part of the London press that
some wiseacre (or wiseacres I ought to say, as they write in
the plural "we")—(a laugh)—have taken it into their heads
though mechanics' institutions are exceedingly good and
useful as long as they continue mechanics' institutions, yet
that it almost always happens that after a year or two the
Mechanics' institution, which began as such, becomes a
ball-room, and is used for dancers. I was rather astonished
that I did not see it also stated that it was used as a gin-
shop or an ale-house. It might be just as well one as the
other. (Laughter.) I believe very few people have had
greater intercourse with the managers of mechanics' insti-
tutions, or know more of these institutions, than I myself
have done for the last 20 or 30 years, and I don't think I
ever yet knew one single instance out of the many hundreds
of these institutions that have been established in all parts
of the country of their being converted, perverted, from me-
chanics' institutions into a dancing-school, dancing •room,
or ball-room. I won't say that now and then it may not
have happened in any institution that, having a good, large,
and convenient room, they may have lent it far an evening
now and then to be used for dancing—that is perfectly pos-
sible ; but not only is it not the same thing, it is the very
reverse of having changed mechanics' institutions into a
dancing-room or ball-room. However, if only such charges
as these are brought against our institutions we may very
well please to treat them with indifference, and rather be
amused with them than offended. It gives me very great
satisfaction to find that in other parts of the country as
well as Huddersfield there has been of late a very consider-
able improvement in mechanics' institutions. Now I know
toofwnno town
in they were enreeigmhobroendrienfegctoiovnne than
Ninevtehre-
theless Warrington has made a very great start in this re-
spect during the last two or three years, of which I have
the most undoubted evidence in the statement that during
the last half-year, in six weeks there was an acquisition of
nine hundred members to the mechanics' institution of that
town. (Applause.) That shows a degree of progress of
which I hardly know any example. That statement was
accompanied with a note, stating a similar fact with respect

to the books used in the libraries. in two years the num-
ber of books borrowed from the libraries had increased from
2,000, as they stood two years ag,,, to 25,000. That is a
degree of progress, if my inforauttion is correct, most satis-
factory—in some respects unexampled, and which does the
greatest credit to that great manufacturing town. I have
lately had occasion to attend in Liverpool the opening of a
very great institution, which has been liberally provided
and generously bestowed upon that great city, and upon
the working classes pal ticularly, by my excellent friend,
Mr. -William Brown—(loud and prolonged cheering)—
formerly member for the county of Lancaster. (Renewed
cheering.) It was most gratifying to see the feeling enter-
tained by all classes—from the humblest to the highest—in
that vast city, the feeling of gratitude entertained by all
for that munificent proceeding of Mr. Brown. (Hear, hear.)
But it was still more gratifying to see the positive certainty
that is held out of his munificence having become real
beneficence, without which I have Often had occasion to
say benevolence is of little or no practical value. (Hear,
hear.) Benevolence, not accompanied by beneficence, or.a
willingness to do geod and doing it—that is to say, your
generosity, be it great or be it small, not being attended
by wise discretion in the use of it—is of no real benefit.
That, no doubt, cannot, in the base of Mr. Brown, be said,
because his great library and museum, which that magni-
ficent building created by him, of which he made a present
to his fellow-citizens in Liverpool the day before yesterday,
contains, must be of the greatest possible benefit to that
community. The great library, already extended to many
thousands of volumes, on every science and every art of the
roost useful as well as of the most interesting description—
the reading-room, where they meet together to discuss the
subjects they have read about, or any other subjects that
they please to discuss, innocently, and calmly, and peace-
ably—all that, I say, must do infinite service, for it is
not only enabling men to obtain instruction and pro-
viding them With the means of obtaining it, but exciting
them—inciting them to use those means for the purpose of
Obtaining it. There is also attached to it a museum, and to
that museum my friend Lord Derby has been a very con-
siderable contributor. He has given them a vast and very
valuable collection of natural history, which has already
been extended, and will be the foundation of a much more
extended collection. I had occasion to look through it and
examine it, and I was very much gratified with it. There
I saw specimens of all sorts—various and most interesting
specimens. I don't know whether there is any of the speci-
mens such as my friend Lord Normanby could have fur-
nished of the lost animals which he had at Mulgrave—the
plethyosaurus, or the ichthyosaurus ; nor did I observe any
" protectionists" among them. (Laughter and applause.)
My noble friend had probably searched and could not find
them at any price. I believe it would be attended with
great advantage if a specimen could be found—(laughter)
—but I believe it could not be found at any price, and if it
were found it would be one of the most extraordinary of all
those extinct animals. I believe it would be more extraor-
dinary than any of the old ani'uals thousands of years old.
(Renewed laughter.) But I think that no, attempt was
made to find it, and I believe that no price could obtain it.
However, the collection is an exceedingly valuable one and
contains very much to promote the study of natural history.
It was collected by my late friend, the late Lord Derby,
who spared no expense in making it altogether a very valu-
able possession, and this has been given most handsomely
by the noble lord, the present Lord Derby, and there it has
suitable accommodation in that noble building of Mr.
Brown's, which is provided in every way with the most
perfect lighting that I ever yet saw in any museum. It has
every sort of accommodation for discussion, and there are
also places for the purpose of studying the specimens exhi-
bited. I have no doubt whatever it will be the founda-

tion of perhaps the greatest in point of extent, and the
most valuable in point of price and variety, of any na-
tural history collection in this country. These are most
pleasant affairs to have to reflect upon. They
are the true progress of our species. (Hear, hear.)
They are the best monuments to leave behind us; they are
the only true pillars upon which a valuable reputation can
be founded, and those who, like Mr. Brown, have founded
such institutions are the real, and I may say the most illus-
trious benefactors of mankind. (Loud applause.) I hope we
shall see no shortcomings in after years any more than in
the years that have passed in the attendance at this institu-
tion, nor in. payments out of weekly wages by those who
benefit by it; nor in the keeping of itself—not exclusively,
but almost entirely—to the benefit of the working classes,
to the extent to which their demands amount. The advan-
tage of not only paying as they go for the benefit they re-
ceive, but of spending their time in reading, and in con-
versing upon what they have read, is incalculable, not only
in the improvement of the mind, in the improvement of the
moral and religious character, but it is in the first instance
most practically beneficial in preventing other pursuits and
other indulgences—(hear)—not only of a less beneficial,
but of a positively hurtful nature, detrimental both to the
body and to the mind, and to the soul—l mean intemperate
indulgences. (Hear, hear.) And just in proportion as work-
ing men attend these institutions and take the benefits which
they afford them, just in proportion a s they withdraw the
pence they can afford to give for them from other indul-
gences in other places of a less beneficial, of a less innocent,
nay, of a most hurtful kind, exactly in that proportion will
they benefit by these institutions, and do good to themselves
and to the community of which they are members. I really
had several other subjects on which I could have wished to
address you—(cries of "Go on") —but we are all agreed
upon them. It is not as in cases where there is controversy,
where matters require to be urged on unwilling hearers; we
are all decidedly of the same opinion and the same feelings,
and therefore it gives me the greatest satisfaction again to
tell you how infinitely I rejoice in being once more among
the great body of my much-lovel old constituents. (Loud
applause.) It was said at the commencement of the meeting
that I had engaged duly to come here about a year ago,
because at that time this Huddersfield, unfortunately, and
from an accident, was the only town in the West Riding that
I had not bad an opportunity of visiting ; therefore I said
that if it pleased God to spare me for another year, I should
come to Huddersfield. His lordship then resumed his seat
amid loud and long-continued applause.
The next speaker was Sir JOHN W. RAMSDEN, Bart.,
M.P. for the West Riding, whose present relationship to
his tenantry,in Huddersfield is of an extremely unsatisfac-
tory nature. On rising )le was received with hooting and
other expressions of disapprobation, mingled with cheers.
The commotion continued for some time, and the noble
chairman rose from his seat, and shouted with stentorian
voice, " I tell you what, if you are not silent I shall be
obliged to raise my voice, and it is not the lowest in the
room." (Groans and cheers.) Silence was then restored,
and the hon. baronet proceeded with his speech.
The meeting was then addressed by the Rev. Gervase
Smith, Frank Crossley. Esq., M.P. for the West Riding;
George Augustus Sala, Esq. ; Francis Stuart Wortley,
Esq.; James Stansfield, jun.; Esq., M.P. for Halifax; and
E. A. Leatham, Esq., M.P. for Huddersfield.
The noble CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging a vote of thanks
accorded to him at the close, said—lt is needless for me to
say how much gratified I am by your great kindness ; less
than I should have been if it had not been so often ex-
pressed that the receiving it has become a habit to me.
But it is always good to turn every occasion to some useful
purpose, and that has been one of my maxims through life.
(Hear, hear.) And I will now say, first in reference to
Mr. Sala's most useful observations upon the progress made
in this mechanics' institution during the last twenty-five
years—and still more during the last thirty years—as
illustrated by drawing being now taught, as it was not
formerly, and that part of the fine arts, as well as the culti-
vation of the fine arts generally, has a most excellent—
because a humanising and improving—effect on man ;
in addition to that, I wish he had added how much that
humanising effect is also produced by another of the fine
arts—a taste for music. (Hear, hear.) I consider it is of
the greatest importance that the working classes, as well as
the other classes of the community, should culti-
vate the taste for music, whether vocal or instru-
mental. Music, as it has a humanising effect in itself
—a civilising effect—so it has the other effect to which I
formerly referred—that of keeping people out of worse
habits, and worse tastes, and worse dissipations, and worse
amusements. (Hear, hear.) The other remark which I
have to make is also of a very practical nature, and it ad-
dresses itself to the parents of children, such as those we
have had before us. I lately had occasion to refer, when at
the great congress at Glasgow, to a saying of mine, pro-
nounced some 40 years or upwards ago, and which has very
much passed into a common saying in consequence of its
including or implying a truth, and that troth being an im-
portant one—l mean that I then declared " the school-
master was abroad." (Hear, hear.) I repeated that declara-
tion at Glasgow, with this addition—that there was another
master abroad as well as the schoolmaster—the workmaster;
and the testimony not only of the workmaster, but of the
parents over the workmastcr, that he came in competition
with the schoolmaster. Not, God forbid, that I should ac-
cuse the workmastcr of not being a friend of education, as
some foolish people have supposed ; it was the very reverse.
There are no better friends of education to my certain
knowledge and experience than the working masters of the
country. (Hear, hear.) But it was that the parents pre-
ferred the earnings of their children to their learning, and
therefore they were apt to be slow to send them to school,
slower still to keep them there while they could turn a
penny, thereby neglecting the work of the schoolmaster—
the benefit of the schoolmaster—in order to gain the earn-
publishedb ew
best, soon
earn-
ings of their children from the workmaster. Now, I know
it is a very difficult problem to solve, and has raised much
inquiry and discussion at that great congress at Glasgow—
( I
and
without communi-
cated
press-
ing on the resources of those poor parents, we can best wean
t e theirtbthis
country
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ntrywill
atbne length)—how 1
them from the habit of neglect in the education of their
children for the sake of their earnings. (Cheers.) I thought
it requisite to nieilti9l4 these two subjects; and §h all Ow
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return you my most heartfelt thanks for the very kind re-
ception I have met now, as on former occasions, and say
how delighted I shall be to hear of your continued prospe-
rity, and of your continued good and virtuous conduct.
(Loud and prolonged applause).

THE CAMPAIGN IN U7IIIIIIT 4.

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I General Fanti has drawn up an official narrative
of the campaign in Umbria and the Marches. We
give the most interesting and important passages
only, the entire document being of very great
length :-
1
A REPORT OF THE CAMPAIGN IN UMBRIA AND
THE MARCHES IN SEPTEMBER, 1860.
Sire,—ln obedience to the orders of your Majesty,
on Sept. 10 I concentrated the three divisions of
the 4th corps, under the command of Gen. Cialdini,
on the frontiers of the Marches, on the line of the
Tavullo, and another division, together with a
mixed brigade of the sth corps, which was after-
wards called the reserved division, under the orders
of Gen. Della Rocca, on the frontiers of Umbria, in
Arezzo and Borgo San Sepolero.
On Sept. 5, I had already caused a small park of
siege artillery of 24 pieces to embark at Genoa, and
this, conveyed by the royal squadron, commanded
by Rear-Admiral Persano, was to go to Ancona.
The forces of the enemy we had to combat amounted
to about 25,000 men, who were stationed at An-
cona, Perugia, Pesaro, Urbino, Spoleto, and San
Leo. Your Majesty's forces were about one-third
stronger.
On Sept. 11, agreeably to your Majesty's orders,
at 12 at noon, the troops crossed the boundary.
The 4th corps, issuing forth in three columns,
Marched towards Pesaro, Fano, and Urbino. The
4th division, on that very evening, by main force,
took possession of the city of Pesaro, investing the
fortress, which, being strongly cannonaded by our
people, surrendered at discretion in the morning.
The results of this first deed of arms were-1,200
prisoners, five cannon, some horses, provisions, and
munitions of war.

On the same day the brigade of grenadiers of
Sardinia penetrated into Citta di Castello, taking
70 gendarmes. On the 12th the 7th division took
Fano by main force, and the garrison of 300 men
fell into our hands as prisoners. The 13th divi-
sion in this same time arrived at Urbino, which
was in the hands of the insurgents, and proceeded
to Fossombrone. The right column marched on
towards Fratta. On the 13th the vanguard of this
column boldly advanced upon Perugia, and after
an earnest and brilliant fight from street to
street, under an obstinate fire of the enemy,
gained possession of the city, driving the enemy
into the citadel. As General Della Rocca came
up with the brigade of grenadiers of Lombardy
an investment of the fortress was achieved. After
a few cannon shots from our batteries the garri-
son of the fortress surrendered as prisoners of war,
to the number of 1,700 men, with two field and four
siege pieces.

As I knew that Spoleto was in the enemy's hands,
I ordered General Della Rocca to send there on the
morning of the 16th a moveable column, commanded
by Major-General Brignone, and made up of the 3d
Regiment Grenadiers, 9th battalion of Bersaglieri,
6th battery of the Bth Regiment, and two squadrons
of Nice Cavalry. On the morrow these troops
attacked with a matchless daring the entrance of
the fortress, and stormed it regardless of the enemy's
musket fire and grapeshot. In the night the gar-
rison capitulated. This new victory gave us 800
prisoners of war, three cannon, arms, clothes, and
other booty.
Meanwhile the central column, or 13th division,
had, by very weary marches along the Apennine
crest, reached Gualdo Tadino, where it received
orders to recross the Apennines, and regain Alba-
cina on the evening of the 18th; it descended the
day after into Val di Potenza at San Severino, while
the column of the sth corps, coming down Val
di Chienti, was to reach Tolentino. The rapid
movement of General Cialdini, and the occupation
of the important position between Osimo and Castel-
fiardo, were destined to lead to a great result for
the success of the campaign. The enemy's general,
hemmed in on all sides, had only one course left,
and that was to open his way across the two divi-
sions of the 4th corps to throw himself into Ancona.
This was, indeed, the resolution General Lamori-
ciere came to, leading to the brilliant combat of
which I subjoin the particulars.
General Lamoriciere had concentrated his forces
in Loretto. General Cialdini foresaw that by a
combination with a sally of the Ancona garrison the
enemy would endeavour to open passage throughLe
Crocette and Camerano, or along the sea through
Umana and Girolo. On the morning of the 18th a
strong column, led by General Pimodan, furiously
attacked our advanced positions towards the con-
fluent of the Musone with the Aspio, coming into
collision with the 26th battalion of Bersaglieri, who
guarded that post. General Cialdini led the main
force he had at hand from the Crocette forward
towards the Musone, strongly occupying the
bridge which crossed the Aspio from the same
Crocette to Umana. He was, meanwhile, aware that
Brigadier Cugia, commanding the Como Brigade,
had very seasonably occupied Camerano with one
of his regiments, and that the enemy's column,
which had sallied forth from Ancona by Girolo and
Umana, moving close along endeavouredephsssceettotahhafse,aclnlorps
occupied to
Loretto,
join
hands with General de Lamoriciere, thus revealing
e
on the part of the latter a determination to throw
himself with his infantry into Ancona, crossing the
Lower Musone, even if that movement was to cost
him the loss of all his artillery, provisions, and
baggage.
The 10th Regiment, led by the brave Colonel
Bossoli, received orders to advance to the support
of the 26th battalion of Bersaglieri, who were fight-
ing with valour, in spite of their small numbers.
The columns of General Pimodan were driven back
by a vigorous charge with the -bayonet; the new
and repeated attacks of that general, anxious to
regain the west, which commanded the position,
were foiled by the steadiness of our people, and
when other columns led by Lamoriciere himself
advanced deep and strong upon the disputed point
between Upper Santa Casa and Lower Santa Casa,
they again met with a resistance equal to the onset;
in the meanwhile General Cialdini, always on his
guard, bringing forth fresh troops, disheartened and
drove back the enemy in every direction. These
fought desperately, and defended themselves with
dogged obstinacy in the farmhouses ; but pressed
upon beyond the right bank of the Musone, and
eagerly pursued by our people, who took 400 pri-
soners, they were compelled to retire in disorder
upon Loretto, leaving on the battle-field their artil-
lery, their ammunition carts, arms, and knapsacks
without end, which had been thrown away by their
soldiers in their flight, as well as all their
dead and wounded, among the latter General
Pimodan, in a dying state.
The General-in-Chief, Lamoriciere, seeing the
defeat of his people, abandoned the battle-field, and
with about 30 horsemen succeeded, by a rapid run
along shore, in reaching Ancona.
At the same time General Cialdini sent orders to
the troops at Camerano to advance rapidly on Mas-
signano, to cut off the retreat from the enemy's
column which had sallied forth from Ancona, and
ordered also the 9th regiment to debouch from the
bridge on the Aspio and advance towords Umana ;
but the enemy aware of the ill success of the battle,
already fell back precipitately upon the place, and
Brigadier Avenait, who commanded the 9th, OD 1y
succeeded in attacking the rear of the column, from
whom he took 270 prisoners, among them 17 officers.
The troops which occupied the portions of Castel-
fidardo and Le Crocette on this day did not attain
militarymt
v 2ablteh
the number of 8,000 men, with three batteries ;
those who took an active part in the fray were only
2,525 men, and two batteries. The glorious issue
of the combat induced General Cialdini to reap the
benefits of his victory. He calculated upon the
weariness and demoralisation in which the enemy's
forces which had retired upon Loretto must be ;
and, taking advantage of the darkness of the night,
thus
occupiedus
cutting
every
possiblec aloetfia andretreat
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laid
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of this b
country, enaxagmcg waggons,
exchanged horses,
hands
their
almost the whole of them
ton down the Val di
joined the 13th Division, which
corps, which I had sent
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peosderisaoes,
were
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ro forthere
ti
ho
had come down the Val di Potenza. On the same
and the 13th Division came straight to Osimo. On
from Macerata in eprveeorttyeln'edzair:aetcet.
g thethe
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g
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dayagain
the
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