The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-01 00:00:00

THE WAR IN ITALY.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

TURIN, JULY 1.
The Sardinian army has invested Pe,sehiera from
the Lago di Garda to the Mincio.

BERNE, JUNE 30.

The Federal Council, in concert with the belli-
gerent Powers, has decided that any corps d'armee
or soldiers taking refuge on Swiss territory should
be sent back to the side to which they may belong,
the different Governments undertaking not to em-
ploy them again in the present war. Arms and
ammunition are to be given up at the end of the
war, and the cost of keeping them to be repaid
to the Swiss Government. In consequence of this
convention the garrison of Laveno and the soldiers
of General Garibaldi's corps d'arnzee will be returned.
The steamers on the Lago Maggiore, which had
been captured, are to be given up for mercantile
service, upon condition that they are not to
be used again for the war. The Austrians
occupy the Stelvio pass on the side next the
Tyrol, with a force of 13 companies of infantry
and two companies of carbineers. The positions
they hold on the pass lie between Glurno and
Trafel, and a battery has been planted on a spot
which commands the Stelvio route. Barricades
have also been erected, and great fear is entertained
of a descent of Garibaldi's men. The last news
from the seat of war has been confirmed. Forty
Austrian medical officers dismissed from the Milan
hospitals have arrived at Lugano, and will be sent
be sent back to their country.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 30.
Advices have been received From Constanstinople
,o the 22d. inst.

The news of the battle of Magenta has produced
a lively impression. The Divan has simply
acquiesced in the Paris protocol concerning the
Principalities, and granted also the berats of inves-
titure.

TURIN, JUNE 30.

The Imperial head-quarters are at Volta. The
passage of the Mincio by our troops continues. The
Emperor visited the left bank of the river. The
position of Valkgion has been occupied by the
French. His Majesty has also had bridges thrown
across the Mincio to replace those destroyed by the
Austrians in their retreat.

BERNE, JUNE 30,

Messages from Turin confirm the intelligence
that General Garibaldi has received orders to
occupy the Upper Valteline. Garibaldi is expected
at Tirano with 3,000 men, where 500 Piedmontcse
regular infantry have already arrived. Skirmishes
have taken place near Bormio between the franc
corps of the Valteline, and the Austrians who are
guarding the Stelvio pass.

The Moratetcr says :—" Two detachmennts sent
from the depots of their regiments having arrived
at the army of Italy without the necessary effects
and utensils for encamping, the Minister of War
has punished with a fortnight's arrest the superior
officers who organised their departure, and he has
blamed the generals who did not duly see to the
execution of his repeated orders." . . .

Several journals have stated that the Austrians
had sunk at Venice a vessel of the line, three fri-
gates, and three of Lloyd's steamers at the entrance
of the Malamocco passage. This statement is but
partially true, as recent letters from that city assert
that only the Lloyd's steamers have been sunk, while
the war vessels, lightened of their guns, have been
towed further in, where they will be less exposed
to a fire from the enemy, but can be of no use in
case- of an attack. Rear-Admiral Bouet-Willau-
mez, with his steam frigates and floating batteries,
arrived at Antivari on the 23d, on the Montenegro
coast, a few miles south of Cattaro, where it is
supposed he will await the arrival of Vice-Admiral
Romain Desfosses, before he advances farther into
the Adriatic.

The Paris correspondent of the Independance of
Brussels states that the new English Ministry has
addressed counsels of moderation to the German
States, cautioning them, in language alike serious
and firm, against the dangers of encouraging a
policy which might lend to a general war.
A letter has been lately published at Florence,
addressed to Lord Cowley by an Italian writer,
M. Matteucci, in which he appeals to England
to throw the whole weight of her authority
into the European councils when the future consti-
tution of Italy shall be brought under consideration.
In the opinion of the writer the wishes of the
Italians and the interests of Europe would be best
satisfied by the formation of a great State, composed
of the whole of Northern and a great part of Central
Italy; but he adds that the United Kingdom of
Italy must not do away with provincial individuali-
ties, which, in his opinion, it would be important
to respect.
A letter from Solferino of the 25th says :
" Solferino is a village like any other Lombard or
Piedmontese one, like Montebello, or Buffalora, for
Magenta, or Malegnano. In a military point of
view, however, it is something more than a lot of
houses placed in an agreeable plain covered with
trees and crops ; the enemy made of it an important
strategical position, and the corps of Marshal
BaragnaY d'Hilliers was charged to attack it at
dawn of day. Before five o'clock, the two divisions
of that corp rushed on the village, and on the little
hills which surround it ; and then commenced a
conflict so fierce that no one who figured in it could

give me an account of what took place. Mix up
blood, smoke, dust, the firing of muskets, the clatter-
ing of arms, the cries of soldiers, the beating of drums
—make a ragout of all that, and you have the taking
of Solferino I' said a soldier to me. After that
operation, -which lasted two hours, the Ist corps, I
instead of reposing, was ordered to take the direc-
tion of Pozzolengo, to carry all the positions on its
way, and to join the Sardinian army, which was
fighting against forces double its own. The
march was rapidly and brilliantly effected. All
the positions were carried, and the enemy was
dislodged without being able to make head for q.
moment. Whilst the corps of Baraguay d'Hilliers
was thus executing the orders of the Emperor, to
whom belongs the honour of having directed the
attack extending over from four to five leagues,
the corps of Marshal de MaeMalion was in the
plain to the right, in sight of San Cassiano. This
also is a village which was unknown yesterday,
and is now celebrated. The order to the 2d corps
was to extend to the right no as to unite with the
4th corps, that of Gen. Niel which was marching
with giant steps towards Medola. -Whilst these
movements were being effected, the Guard—in-
fantry, artillery, and cavalry—entered in line.
There were two solutions of continuity in our
front, which it was necessary to fill up—one near
San Cassiano, between the Ist and 2d corps, the
other to the right of the 2d corps whilst waiting
for the arrival of the corps of *General Niel. The
first void was filled up by all the infantry of the
Guard—grenadiers, light infantry, riflemen, and
Zouaves, supported by several batteries of artillery
of the Guard, of which the Emperor intended per-