The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-05 00:00:00

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, JULY 4.

In to-day's extraordinary sitting of the Federal
Diet Prussia brought in new and further proposals
respecting the establishment, extension, and com-
mand•in-chief of the corps of observation on the
Rhine, which has already been resolved upon.
M. d'Usedom left immediately afterwards for
Berlin.

The Monitear of yesterday (the 4th) publishes
the reports of the commanders of the several
corps d'arnzee engaged in the battle of Solferino.
They are all addressed to the Emperor, and
give in minute detail the movements of each
corps during the day ; they do not add any
fact of importance to the official report of the whole
battle, published by the French Government on the
previous day. Marshal Regnaud de St. Jean d'An-
gely, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard,
especially notices the effective service done by the
artillery of his corps ; he says, " The Artillery of
the, Guard 'distinguished itself by the precision of
its fire and the successive 'choice of its positions.
Whenever it had to encounter the enemies bat-
teries, it very soon silenced them." The losses sus-
tained by the Guard are not stated in the report.
Marshal Baraguay D'Hilliers, Commander of the
Ist Corps, after describing its successes, adds that
"they were not obtained without serious loss."
Two Generals, Ladmirault and Dieu, were wounded
"dangerously," and General Forey slightly; four
Colonel—Taxis, Brincourt, Pinard, and Barry, are
wounded ; also four Lieutenant-Colonels—Valet,
Moire, Hemar, and Sevier. A Lieutenant-Colonel,
Ducoin, and four chefs de bataillon—Kleber, Saint-
Paer, Angenin, and Guillaume, are killed. Ten
chefs de bataillon are wounded. The total number
of officers killed and wounded in the Ist Corps is
234 ; of privates about 4,000. Marshal M'Mahon
describes the loss of the 2d Corps as "unfortunately
very heavy ; it could not be otherwise." Gemeral
Auger, Commander of the Artillery of the Corps, had
his arm torn off at the beginning of the engageiraent
by a cannon ball three Colonels, Douay, Laure, and
Herment, are killed; the total of officers killed is 19 ;
wounded, 95; privates killed, 192; wounded, 1,266
missing 300. The 3d corps had 3 officers killed
and 12 wounded; privates killed and wounded,
250. The 4th corps, under Marshal Niel, lost 46
officers and 586 'privates killed ; 207 officers and
3,417 privates wounded ; 7 officers and 541 men
are returned as missing. The report of the Sar.
dinian army states that all the four divisions of
which it is composed were engaged, and that its
loss is 49 officers killed and 167 wounded, 642
privates killed and 3,405 wounded, 1,258 missing.
In one division three colonels were killed, and some
of the regiments lost one-fourth of their whole
number.

A letter from Marseilles of July 2, says :—" It
is with extreme regret that I have to call your at-
tention to the misconduct of the authorities in
Marseilles and in Paris towards certain Austrian
officers, prisoners of war. Nineteen Austrian offi-
cers, taken prisoners at the battle of Magenta, gen-
tlemen •by education, feelings, and position, and
whose bravery on the field of battle won the un-
admiration of their opponents, were
grudging
brought here nearly a fortnight ago, in the mer-
chant steamer Ville de Lyons. Three of their num-
ber were allowed to leave for some town in the in-
terior a few days back, but the remaining 16 are still
kept close prisonurs on board the steamers under
the most- stringent regulations and offensive
conditions imaginable. The Ville de Lyons is
moored in the basin of the Joliette, the waters of
which are so charged with putrescible substances as
to be the colour of port wine, and thicker than the
sewage of the Thames in its foulest state. The
stench which arises from the surface of the basin
is the vilest that ever offended the nostrils of
man, proceeding from the admixture of city drain-
age with sea water, and which chemists call,
I believe, " sulphuretted hydrogen." The Medi-
terranean being a tideless sea, the filth stag-
nates and intensifies in the basin, from which
there is no proper outlet, until it fills, the air with
the seeds of nausea arid disease. Yet in the midst
of this polluted atmosphere the Austrian prisoners
are kept waiting until it may please the French
Minister—whether of War or of the Interior I know
not—to name the town where they are to reside.
Surely so simple a matter does net require a fort-
night to settle. The Austrian officers have not
yet been allowed their parole, and, seeing the delay
taken by the Minister in giving the permission,
they applied to the General in command atMarseilles
for leave to walk on shore two hours a day at any
period he might appoint, in order that they
might breathe a purer air, and take the exercise
necessary for the preservation of their health. But
the General has not yet condescended to favour
them with a reply—an unmannered act which will
excite as much indignation in France as in the rest

of Europe. Nor is this all; the piisoners are pro-
hibited from holding intercourse with the inhabi-
tants of the town, none of whom are allowed to go
on board the prison-ship. None, I am sure, will
feel more annoyed and humiliated when they learn
the ill-treatment of the Austrian officers than their
valiant opponents on the field of battle—the officers
and soldiers of the French army, and when the news
reaches the ears of Napoleon 111. we may expect a
signal vindication of the honour of France and of
her character for humanity.
The number of prisoners brought here by the
Eldorado was 135, 121 of them wounded Austrians,
with 40 wounded Frenchmen. The French Gene-
ral, Wimpfen, who was wounded at Magenta, has
arrived at Toulon. 400 conscripts arrived yester-
day for regiments in Algeria. In the second or
inner basin of the Joliette are two large steam
transports, one of which is the Pomone, loading
railway waggons and locomotives for Genoa.
Within the last few days a considerable number of
troops have embarked for the seat of war, but they
are brought down early and late, to avoid obser-
vation.

The Vienna Gazette, the official journal of Aus-
tria, publishes two letters on the battle of Solferino,
one dated from Verona, the other from Villafranca.
The latter, which from the position assigned to it,
appears to be considered important, declares that
the Austrian army fought at Solferino from ten
o'clock in the morning to eight in the evening
against forces three times more numerous. It says
that the battle was one of the greatest ever
fought, and that at midday on the 24th the Aus-
trtan army had the advantage. " But," it continues,
"an attack made by the enemy en masse on our
centre, a manoeuvre almost always employed by
the late Napoleon, decided the success of the day,
and caused our army to beat a retreat. The
gain of the enemy only consists in the' differ-
ence between his losses and ours." It concludes as
follows :—" The aggressive system of the French
who thus far have always advanced, may have
attained its culminating point. The Austrians re-
crossed the Minci3 solely because the position
between the enemy and the river was no longer
tenable."

FRANCE.
PARIS, MONDAY.

PARIS BOURSE, July 4.—The market has been
buoyant, but with a limited amount of business
doing. Confidence in the restoration of peace ap-
pears to be gaining ground in the minds of specu-
lators. Threes opened at 63f. 40c., and after im-
proving to 63f. 90c., are now at 63f. 75c. A rise
ofi per cent. on the English Consols contributed
to the steadiness of the French market. Mobilier
varied from 665 f. to 680 f. ; Austrian, 445 f. to 447 f.
50c. ; °deans, 1,242 f. 50c. to 1,262 f. 50c. ; Lyons,
835 f. to 840 f.; Northern, 942 f. 50c. to 950 f. The
following were the last quotations :

41 per Cents. .... 93 90 Crklit Fonder 635
Do. end month .. 93 80 Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents 63 80 Piedmontese (5) .. 82
Do. end month 63 80 Roman B2
Bank Shares 2720 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 672 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 675 Home Debt —