The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-26 00:00:00

EVENING, JUNE 6, 1866.

DEFEAT OF THE AUSTRIANS BY THE

GARIBALDIANS.

BRESCIA, June 25 (Evening).

To-day an engagement took place between the
Italian Volunteers and the Austrians, between the
bridge of Caffary and Londzone.
The Austrians were repulsed, leaving several
killed and wounded.
Tne Volunteers had no losses.

PARIS, June 25.
The Moniteur du Soir publishes the following
summary of military affairs in Germany :
On the frontier of Saxony and Bohemia, the
Prussian troops, strongly massed, who seemed to
await, during the past few days, a movement of
General Benedek into Silesia, have decidedly re-as-
sumed the offensive, and have re-occupied in force
the positions they had just quitted. The Bohemian
territory projects into that of Saxony at two cul-
minating points.

It is upon these two portions of Austrian territory
that the Prussian army is carrying on a simultaneous
attack. Detachments appear to be in movement
via Stolpen Neustadland, Rumbourg, while others
are marching via Zittau and Friedland, in the direc-
tion of Reichenberg. This part of Bohemia ap-
pears to be the least garrisoned with troops, for it is
situated between the position of Bodenbach and
Topaz, where part of the Austrian army has joined
the Saxons, and the positions occupied towards
Upper Silesia by the bulk of Benedek's army.
The Prussia attack will have the effect of pre-
venting the Austrian general from making an irrrup-
tion with all his forces into Prussian Silesia as he
appeared to intend. He will have in fact to provide
before all for the security of his rear, which would
be menaced by the enemy's invasion of Bohemia. An
encounter between the Austrians and the advancing
Prussian troops appears to be inevitable very
shortly. A skirmish took place on the 22d between '
an Austrian cavalry corps and the Prussians be-
tween Breitenfuhrt and Sundhebel. The Prussians
gained the advantage, and were able to continue
their march, which tends to prove that they are
entering Bohemia with a force of some consequence.
The intelligience respecting the fate of the
Hanoverian corps retreating from Gottingen is
still contradictory. From Eisenach this corps pro-
ceeded to the south over the territory of the Duke
of Meiningen, hoping to make a passage by that
route to Bavaria. Some accounts rapreseut this
movement to have succeeded, while other despatches
announce, on the contrary, that the Prussian troops
have surrounded the Hanoverians, that the Duke of
Meiningen has quitted his states and taken refuge
in Bavaria, and that a Hanoverian officer has arrived
at Gotha to negotiate a capitulation.

On the line of the Main the Bavarian army ap-
pears ready to make an advance. Part of the troops
are said to have crossed the Saxon frontier and oc-
cupied Planen and Ilof, where a Prussian force is
reported to have appeared a few days since. The
corps of Prince Alexander of Hesse (Bth Federal
Army Corps, concentrated round Frankfort) is
also said to be about to move with the object of
cutting off the Prussians from their possessions on
the right bank of the Rhine, by advancing towards
the north through Nassau.

OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND
AUSTRALIAN MAILS•

GIBRALTAR, June 25
The Pera, from Southampton on the 20th inst,
arrived here, and left at 10 a.m. to-day for Alex

andria.

Passengers transhipped to coal hulk.
Passengers can disembark from steamers in qua
=tine during the night.
(Signed)

RICHARD AIREY,
Governor of Gibraltar.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

SUEZ, June 25.
The Nemesis arrived at 1 a.m. to-day.
Strong winds caused detention.

CHINA.

(By telegraph from Galle.)
SHANGHAI, May 24.
The rebels have captured Newchang.

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.

PLYMOUTH, June 2G.

The screw steamer West of England was in colli-
sion with the schooner Raphael, of Exeter, off the
Start, on Monday at noon in a dense fog.
The schooner went down with all hands.