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

also one of--.! his orderly - officers in the
town of Magenta. Brilliantly,, like him, at
the head of their troops, fell Colonel Drouhet .of
'the 05th of the line, and Colonel ChabrieFel, Islf
'tie 2d foreign regiment., I must not Omit tam_ en-,
tion the services rendered'it by the cavalry in this
battle. They charged the enemy's . horse several
times, when` attempting to' iaetietrate into the in-
tervals between our e oltinak- In particiilar,'My
escort made three chargas, on parties. of Hulans.
None, of the •An4trian cavalry 1014 their
_gnnuild
against ours. 4:
4 According to information furnished, by a pri-
soner, an elderly officer of General Jellachich, the
enemy had opposed to us four corps d'arnzec of the
nominal strength of 30,000 Men each, but not in
reality more than , 25,000 each. These corps were
those of Klam-Gallaz, Lichtenstein, Benedok, and
Zobel, commanded in chief In' Field-Marshal
Giulay.
" I need not, Sire, tell you how much I have to
eulogise the vigour and energy of all the'troo s
whoin I have the h'ononr to command, to whatei r
arm they belong. I include, be it well understee ,
the division of Voltigeurs of the Guard; which was
placed for. a short .time under my command, and
whose co-operation was most, useful. ,

" I feel regret at not being able in this report to
give you the names of the officers and soldiers, in
great numbers, who merit to be placed on the
order of the army. The general officers are all
without exception in this category, and I may say
the same of all the commanding °Seems of 'corps:,
„yesterday sent to Satillfartino three Attatritu2
cannon,
,which were rtairen ;from -the- enemy on
'the atm, Sire, &c., 141401An0x."

The report of the Marshal commanding the 3d
corps is as follows :

" The marshal commanding the 3d corps left
Novara on the 4th ; as soon as he had passed the
bridge over the Ticino (five o'clock in the evening),
and taken the orders of the Emperor, he advanced
rapidly on the scene of action, where the brigade
of Gen. Picard, of the division Renault, having
arrived at four o'clock in the evening, had placed.
itself on the right of the Grenadiers of the Guard,
which had with so much bravery carried positions
truly formidable.

" On the arrival of the marshal, the brigade of
Gen. Picard, aided by some battalions of the divi-
sion Vinoy, had already several times taken and
retaken the village of Ponte di Magenta ; but the
ground which extends between that village and the
jetty of the railway presented a counterfort very
close to that jetty, and commanding it is such a
way as to make it in some measure the key of the
position.

" The marshal caused it to be occupied by seve-
ral companies, which were placed there by General
Courtois d'Hurbal and Capt. de Molencs, one of his
orderly officers. He then prolonged his maroh to-
wards the village of Ponte di Magenta, which, after
having been three times taken and re-taken, had
again to be defended, a fourth time, against the re-
turn of the Austrians. Gen. Picard, Col.Bellecourt,
of the 85th, and several other officers, who gave the
troops the example of impetuosity and tenacity,
caused it to be taken anew.

" The enemy felt the importance of this point,
which, if it had remained in their power, would
have led them to the very flank of our line of com-
munication with the bridge of the Ticino. This
circumstance explains their tenacitylin suecbssive
attacks, and the irresistible impetuosity of ours in
offensive returns to retake the position.
" Jannin's brigade, headed by General Renault,
was at last able to debouch, and to advance rapidly
on the Austrian line, supporting itself on the Ponte
di Magenta, in the part of the village on the left
bank of the canal. Taken and retaken, several

times, this part of the village, isolated by the
enemy having blown up the bridge over the canal,
remained in. the possession of General Renault, who
definitively established himself there. Trochu's
division, which only appeared on the theatre of the
conflict at about eight o'clock in the evening with
its first brigade, established itself in the village of
Ponte di Magenta, and confirmed our success by
strongly occupying the place.

" Great eulogium must be given to the troops,
who, in spite of inferior numbers and of the
fatigue of a long
faonldloweeadchthteimexe
amenpaelnregdoetfidiffihlley.
chiefs of all grades,
cult
and constantly
the enemy
with the bayonet.
" The success has been glorious, but dearly
purchased, as upwards of 1,100 men have been
killed and wounded. Among the officers killed
I have:the pain of naming Colonel de Senneville,
chief an accomplished officer ;
Colonel ICnyhargleienreroafl t 6;
tSil:9oth, who was killed at
the head of his soldiers ; and Captain Baligand of
the staff, an excellent officer, aide-de-camp to
General Jannin. Among the wounded are Inten-
dant Mallarme, Colonel Auzouy, of the 23d of the
line, Colonel de Comely of the staff, my first aide-
de-camp, who received contusions from the fall of
a horse killed under him; Capt. Armand of the
staff, one of my aides-de-camp, who was slightly
wounded by a ball in the chin ; Sub-lieutenant de
Lostanges, who received a slight sabre cut in the
head.

We took from the enemy several) -hundreds of
isoners, who were immediately sent to San Mar-
„in°. Everything leads to the belief that the loss
of the enemy was at least triple.ours.
" Count de Vimercati, a Piedmontese officer
placed at my disposition by the Emperor, was
most useful to me. •
(S'gned) " Marshal CANROBERT,
Commandingin-Chief the 3d Corps."
The report of the Commander-in-Chief of the
4th corps is thus worded :
"Head-quarters, Ponte di Magenta, June 5,
• " Sire,--I JiaTe not yet been able to collect all
; Jr— L_•• • •• .2

"At about seven o'clock t he main body of the
enemy's forces made a movement of retreat towards
Rebecco, Castellano, and Corbel tta. A part of them
went on the road which lea As from Magenta to
Ponte di Magenta. At that moment the French
artillery, with 40 pieces in battery on the rail-
way parallel to the direct; on of the line of re-
treat of the enemy, were able to take in flank
and diagonally the Austrian columns which were
defiling in that direction in the greatest disorder.
These columns must have sustained considerable
losses, received as they were at that moment with
the greatest vigour by one of the divisions of the
4th corps, of which one of the regiments, the 52d
of the line, had co-operated for an instant in the
attack on Magenta. . .„
"The town of Magenta, fallen into our hands at
about half-past seven, was at that moment filled
with numerous ,detachments of the enemy, who
were entrenched and barricaded in all the houses,
and who defended theniselves with great bravery,
but .to whom retreat was impossible. At eight
o'clock the fire ceased on both. sideg, and the
enemy's, detachments were' obliged to lay "down
their arms. The attack of the town by Espinasse's
division, made at the same time as that of the divi-
sion of La Motterouge, does the greatest 'honour to
the regiments of the 2d division.
"The 2d Zimayes and the 2d foreign regiment
particularly distinguished themselves.
"The field of battle, entirely covered with the
enemy's bodies, strewed with arms and effects of
every kind, indicates at once the vigour of our
troops and the great losses of the opposing party.
At the present moment I estimate the number of
prisoners I have sent to San Martino at• between
5,000 and 6,000. There are more than 10,000
muskets left on the field of. battle.' Our losses,
though sensible, , are, - relatively ,small. General
Espinasse, charging in :person at the head of
his battalions, fell mortally wounded, as' did