The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

the village in spite of the heavy fire of the enemy, but was
repulsed with the loss of 750 men. The brigade Szabo had
commenced its march under the protection of a battery of
12-pounders, when it was suddenly attacked on the flank
and rear by three battalions of Zouaves near Rivoltella.
The 7th battalion of Chasseurs, which led the way, lost 500
men. The battalions of infantry quickly retired, but the
battery, which got into a cross road, was all lost with the
exception of one gun. After the retreat of the brigade Dorn-
dorf, the general breught up that of Kudelka, which, as
above mentioned, was kept in reserve. Kudelka reached
the village, but was in his turn repulsed by superior forces.
The combat had now lasted four hours, and the losses were
very great particularly in officers, when the first news
reached the head-quarters at one o'clock in the afternoon.'

Nothing can be more clear than this statement :
On the 30th, Palestro was taken by the Piedmon-
tese, who repulsed a battalion of the Regiment
Leopold (7th corps); then two companies with two
pieces of artillery which they took, and next a third
battalion sent against them. On the 31st, the
divisions Jellachich and Lilia attacked Palestro,
and their brigades were successively repulsed, and
the 3d Regiment of Zouaves took five pieces of
artillery from the brigade Szabo. The Austrians
effected their retreat at one o'clock in the after-
noon, after having suffered a loss of 1,250 men. Let
us now see how the Austrian journals report the
affair. The Austrian Gazette says :

" The Piedmontese attacked Palestro, but were repulsed.'
The Augsburg Gazette says ;—' To drive out the Pied-
montese who had possession of Palestro on the 30th by
surprise, during a violent storm, General Baronzobel re-
solved to attack the Village on the 31st on two sides at the
same time. The brigade of General Weigl, who was
slightly wounded in the affair, had been recalled from Rob-
bio and made itself master of the groups of houses on the
south-west of the village. It would certainly have made
further progress, if the brigade Szabo, sent for from Rom-
eo, had not met at Rivoltella a French brigade which
opposed a vigorous, resistance. The impetuosity of the
Zouaves could not, however, stand against the energetic
resolution of the Austrian Chasseurs of the 7th battalion,
who overcame every obstacle. On this occaSion, as in
every other, the Austrians had to contend against superior
numbers. Their loss, without counting General Weigl,
who was slightly wounded, was 8 officers and 500 men
wounded and 300 men killed.'

On comparing the above reports, it will be seen,

Ist, that the Austrian Gazette affirms quite the
contrary to what really took place; and 2dly, that
the Augsburg Gazette diminishes by one-half the
Austrian forces beaten at Palestro, and reduces their
loss from 1,250 to 808."
The following is the extract of a letter from an
English gentleman at Venice :

"We are in a comfortable state here, truly ; a French
fleet outside—proclamations inside stating that at the
smallest symptom of insurrection the city will be sub-
jected to fire and sword—and that anybody ringing church
bells, waving a flag or making a signal of any kind, will be
immediately shot, without the formality of a trial. The
excitement I find to be a most excellent thing for a slug-
gish liver—it beats calomel hollow. . . . The Vigilant, a
fine vessel of four guns, is here opposite the Piazzetta and
my residence. They have dances on board at times, and
it is strange to hear and see English hornpipes danced by
the light of the ship lanterns, with the old glorious Palace
of St. Mark in the distance. All the hotels are empty, and
there is no table d'hote."

The Parma Gazette publishes the following
account of the taking of Brescello by four- gen-

darmes :

" Captain Lafouge, aide-de-camp of General d'Aute-
marre, with four Parmesan gendarmes on horseback,
and a lieutenant of that corps, went in the morning
of the 14th from Parma to reconnoitre Brescello, which was
known to be occupied by 100 men of the Este troops. From
the tower of Lentigione, Capt. Lafouge was not able to dis-
tinguish any movement of troops, and he accordingly ad-
♦anced to the fortifications. There two of the gendarmes
begged to be allowed to explore Brescello alone, and
although'tixe captain wished to dissuade them, they gal-
loped with their swords drawn towards the palissades.
They were soon followed lay the two other gendarmes and
the two officers. The four gendarmes not meeting with
any resistance at the first barrier, though it was guarded by
15 soldiers, went on to the principal square, and there a de-
-1 tachment of the guard, learning that a French officer ac-
companied the gendarmes, hastened to surrender. The
inhabitants then taking the national cockade from beneath
their clothes cried out Long live the gendarmes I Long
live the French 1' The gendarmes subsequently returned
to Parma, where the French consul, informed by the cap-
tain of what had taken place, congratulated the commander
of the gendarmerie on the conduct of his four men.
A Dresden letter says :

40The principal German bankore are hard' beiet itt the
present moment by . the different Governments, anxious to

obtain loans to meet, the eipenies of their armaments, Ba•

varia, Hanover, Wurtemburg, Electoral Hesse, Grand-
Ducal Hesse, and many third class States, are making the

most seductive offers. There seems, however, little dispo—

siiion to take advantage of them, and since Prussia has de:
cided on mobilising a great part of her army, &ion Capi-
talists, instead of making advances, are endeavouring to
realise their securities. The consequence is, that the new
Prussian loan, which has been at a premium of 4 per cent.,
is now at a discount of 2 or 3 per cent., and for long dates
sellers might be found even at a lower figure. In Hanover,
the financial embarrassments have reached such a point,
that the Minister of Finance proposed, a few days since, to
employ the capital of the sinking-fund of the public debt
for the expenses of the State. But the Council of the Trea-
sury, the members of which are independent of the Minis-
try from being named by the Chambers, refused their con-
sent to such a measure, on the ground that the engage-
ments of the State towards its creditors, must be respected,
even in time of war."

A very curious article is published in the Gazette
de France, which affirms that in 1830, when the
Restoration fell, Charles X. was:taking measures
for the complete revision of the treaties of 1815,
and that overtures on the subject had been made
by the French Government to Russia, through its
Ambassador, M. de Mortemart :--
"In the:month of September, 1829," it says, "a memo-
randum was read in a Council of Ministers, presided over
by the King and approved of by him, containing the whole
plan to be carried out either by means of a Congress or by
a separate understanding with Russia and Prussia, and by
the sword of the French soldiers. We shall simply give
here The substance of the paper, which was based on the
enfranchisement of the Greco-Slavonian soil, and on the

thrusting back of the Turks on their Asiatic provinces.
Russia was to receive, in Europe, Xoldavia and Wallachia.
Austria was add to her possessions, Bosnia, Turkish
Crotia, the Herzgovina, and f3l7fia,'` Servia and Bosnia
better defended by nature and art4han Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, were to serve as a counterpoise for what Russia
gained on the Danube. Prussia was to be extended and
strengthened towards Austria by the annexation of the
kibgdom of Saxony ; she was thus to become a maritime
power, by the acquisition of Holland, and anti-English.
But she was to yield up to France Sarrebruch and Sarre-
louis ; to Bavaria, a portion of her Rhenish provinces,
which enabled the latter state, by means of exchanges, to
join two detached fragments of her territory, and to cede
Landau to France; lastly, 1,400,000 Catholic subjects of
Prussia would recover their Rhenish nationality, with a
capital at Aix-la-Chapelle and a sovereign of their own
religion, the King of Saxony. By this combination
Prussia would no longer touch the French frontiers ;
a state incapable of injuring France was placed be-
tween her and Prussia ; the bonds of religisus
unity would connect France with the intermediate
State, and France' also acquired three fortified places
which Increased her security on the northern frontier.
The King of Holland, it is true, lost his possessions, but he
was to place upon his head the crown of the Constantines,
and was to reign at Constantinople over an empire of ten
millions of souls. , France was to enter into possession of
the Belgian provinces to the Rhine and the Meuse. This
plan, as a whole, cen.ciliated all the interests of the conti-
nent, and was susceptible of every modification of a nature
to satisfy them."
As to England, which evidently would object,
.
she was to be coerced, the intention being to carry
out the plan " without suffering any opposition or
control from Great Britain." The Gazette declares
that the Emperor Nicholas fully approved of the
scheme, and that measures would certainly have
been taken for its immediate execution, had not the
revolution of July upset the whole design. What
the intention of our contemporary can be in making
this strange piece of secret history known to the
world at this particular moment, it is not easy
to divine, unless indeed the key to the mystery be
found in the concluding phrase of the article :
" We are not going to examine here the prospect
held out to us by the present war ; but it is to be
hoped that the success of our arms will have the
result of leading to an advantageous modification
of the European system."
The Milan Gazette publishes a letter from Venice,
in which it is related that on the 6th the autho-
rities of that city ordered a grand illumination for
the victory of Magenta. The Venetians, it is added,
were thrown into consternation at this news, but
were soon consoled on seeing at a distance the
French fleet illuminating also !
At Vienna, on the 18th, official returns were pub-
lished, fixing the losses of the Austrian army at
Magenta to be—killed, 63 officers and 1,302 sol-
diers; wounded, 218 officers and 4,130 soldiers;
missing, 4,000 men,

The Moniteut of the da.y before yesterday pub
lished a list of the officers, sub-officers, and soldiers