The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-25 00:00:00

CALNE.

The writ for the new election consequent upon
the appointment of Mr. Lowe to the Vice-Presi-
dency of the Committee of Privy Council, was re-
ceived on Thursday, and Monday next is appointed
for the election. Mr. Lowe has issued an address
to the electors, in which he says :--" I have ac-
cepted the office of Vice-President of the Committee
of Privy Council on Education in the Government
which has just been formed. The great and honour.
able interest which the borough of Calne takes in
the instruction of its inhabitants leads me to hope
respectfully
that you will afford me your support towards the
heavy trust which I have undertaken. The accept-
anceof
and I
this office compels
therefore to
es vacate
lly my
solicit
m eseat in
Parliament, at
your hands the honour of re-election."

RDs
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Sir G. C. Lewis
the electors :—ln " the month of April last, when I
suffrages, solicited your rarres and you honoured mo by
electing me as address to
your representative, Lord Derby had
made an appeal to the country for an expression
of confidence in the administration of which he
was the chief. That appeal was answered by the
return of
,the House of Commons whose first act
was to declare that they placed no confidence in
Lord Derby and his colleagues. A new adminis-
tration has been formed, from the different sec-
tions of the Liberal party, under the auspices of
Lord Palmerston, in which I have accepted the
office of her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Home Department. The trust which I re-
ceived from you is, therefore, again restored to
your hands, and in offering myself for the fifth
time as a candidate for the honour of representing
you in Parliament, I may be permitted to express
a confident hope that the step which I have thus
taken, in complete accordance with my political
opinions, will meet with your approbation. The
present Administration consists of persons who
will sincerely attempt to pursue in office the prin-
ciples of social improvement and progressive reform
which they entertain upon conscientious convic-
tion, and which they held when -they were not
members of any Government." The return of the
right hon. gentleman will not be opposed.

BATTLE OF MAGENTA.—A letter, dated Milan,
says :—" The French losses cannot but, have been very,
heavy-, considering the nature and duration of the action,
and the obstinate manner in which some of the positions
were defended and even retaken when captured.
There was no pursuit ; partly perhaps because night
closed as the fight onded, but also because the An.
trians were not routed, but withdrew in order ; and if
the French had pushed on they would still have found
resistance, and the battle would have been prolonged
The French Guards, as is known, suffered severely in
their heroic efforts to maintain their position; judging from
the look of the hospitals here, a great many regiments of
the line had heavy losses. The Turcos lost not a few, and
a regiment of the Foreign Legion was terribly immished. It
were bootless to discuss what it is impossible to ascer-
tain—that is to say, the proportion of loss on either
side. The known facts are that the Austrians fought
bravely, were badly commanded, and got the
worst of the conflict. I will mention, however,
a statement that has reached me from a source that ought
to be accurate, and that I have certainly no grounds for
suspecting of wilful deceit. It is that the reports of the
municiparanthorities of Magenta, Corbetto,
&c., were to
the effect flail upwards of 13,000 corpses were buried. An
enormous total, whichever way we may divide it, be-
tween French and Austrians. If we take the usual pro-
portion, as it has been the custom to estimate it in former
wars, of wounded, we shall have a number of casualties far
greater thart the largest that has yet been published.
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