The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-02 00:00:00

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MARSEILLES, JUNE 1.
Letters have been received from Constantinople
:o the 25th of May.
The Grand Duke Constantine is expected here

o-morrow.

The Sultan has held a review of 25,000 soldiers.
The reserve will be immediately despatched to
RoumelialThe Porte will send troops and ships to
Albania. 2,000 Servians with artillery have
departed to reinforce the Montenegrins.
Prince Milosch ignores this fact, but the attitude
of the Servians inspires fear. Letters also assert
that the Porte is about to send four ships, four
frigates, and two avisos to the Adriatic, under the
command of Mohamed-Pasha, who in certain
emergencies would exercise his command under
the orders of an English Admiral.
The garrison of the fortress of Belgrade has been
reinforced. Omar Pasha remains at Bagdad, being
detained -there in consequence of the threatening
attitude of Persia.

The following are some details of the successes
obtained by Garibaldi over the Austrians at Varese
and the neighbourhood, briefly mentioned by tele-
graph :—" At four o'clock in the morning of the
26th May he was attacked by the Austrians at
Varese. The first shock was terrible, but the com-
bat did not last long ; as the volunteers of Gari-
baldi made use of the bayonet as so many Zouaves
would have done. At two o'clock, the Austrians,
8,000 in number, returned to the attack; they had
cannon, and the barricades in the streets could not
long resist their fire. Garibaldi, in consequence,
had recourse to the most vigorous measures—he
ordered his volunteers to attack, and after three
hours' combat the Austrians beat a retreat, leaving
three cannon and some prisoners in the hands of
the victors. The next day, at four o'clock in the
afternoon, a loud cannonade was heard in the di-
rection of Como ; and it turned out that Garibaldi
had met the Austrians at Borgo Vico, and that a
sharp combat was taking place there. Whilst it
was raging, the tocsin was rung everywhere, and
the peasants hurried up from all parts. The Aus-
trians, seeing themselves everywhere menaced, fled
precipitately, and only rallied at Camerlata, the
head of the railway to Milan, where a new engage-
ment took place. It was after this combat, which
was a sanguinary one, that Garibaldi entered the
town of Como, which was illuminated in his
honour."

A letter from Vercelli, written before the Em-
peror's head-quarters were established there, says :
" The first thing which I did on alighting at the
Hotel des Trois Rois, where about a fortnight ago
a part of the Austrian staff had taken up their
quarters, was to enter into conversation with the
landlord. He related to me, not in a piteous, but
in an indifferent tone, that the enemy had pillaged
him -without mercy ; had robbed him of money,
horses, mules, and carriages—in a word, had
shorn him like a sheep. Other inhabitants, to
whom I afterwards spoke, gave a similar account,
and fully confirmed all the facts related in the
journals. What astonished me was, the calm and
' indifferent tone in which these poor people re-
lated their lamentable history, as though they
were not the sufferers by what they were talking
of. While I was in my room preparing to go
out, I heard the sound of a sharp fire of musketry.
I rang the bell, and asked the waiter what the ,
firing was. He coolly replied, Oh, sir, it is not
in the street, it is only in the neighbourhood of the
town,' and then withdrew, apparently surprised
that I should have noticed such a trifle. The fact
is that fighting had been going on from an early
hour in the morning at a very short distance
from Vercelli. I went with a friend, provided
like myself with a pass, towards the Sesia. In
going along the outer boulevard we saw a num-
ber of men cutting down some of the fine chestnuts
which ornament that promenade, for the purpose
of constructing a bridge. After proceeding for a
short distance we found ourselves in presence of
two Sardinian sentinels posted at the head of the
bridge over the Cervo, and who interdicted our
crossing. We showed them our passes, but as they
could not understand them they called a corporal.
He knew as little about it as the soldiers, but he
offered to take us to the officer commanding the
post at the other side of the bridge. While crossing
the Cervo we met some mules bearing litters on
which five wounded Piedmontese were lying. One
of them had been hit in the chest by a ball and
was in a dying state. The officer received us with
the greatest politeness, but said he could not allow
us to go towards the Sesia. He added, 'if you
wish to see what is going on, I will take you to the
house you see yonder.' We accepted the proposi-
tion, and were soon installed in an upper room,
where we found a priest, who like ourselves had
come there from curiosity. From the window of
that room we could distinctly see the Austrians
and the Piedmontese, but, to tell the truth, I must
say that we arrived just as the fighting had
finished. The Austrians were retiring by degrees,
and in a very short time not a white uniform
was to be seen. The priest was a canon of Ver-
celli. After giving us some little information
about the residence of the Austrians in the place,
he asked us if we had seen the celebrated manu-
script of Saint Eusebius. I confess to my shame that
I had never heard of it, but not to give.a canon
such a sad idea of my ignorance, I warded off the
question by saying that it was an unpropitious
time to think of books in the midst of fighting.
What signifies the fighting P' insisted the canon,
you could not think of being at Vercelli without
seeing the Gospels of Saint Luke, copied in the
fourth century by Saint Eusebius, who was bishop
of our town.' We -were consequently obliged to
follow him to the cathedral to see this treasure.
The ink was, however, so whitened, not to say
effaced, by age, that any one might have written
on the parchment without discovering that he was
writing over that of the saint. Just as we were
about taking leave of the canon and the librarian,
who was present, the latter told us that he has
been for some time occupied on a work to prove
that the author of the Imitation de Jesus Christ
was neither Gerson, nor Thomas A'Kempis, no
Marillac, but a canon of Vercelli named Gersen.r
In support of his assertion he showed us a
document of 1849, which proved that the
Imitation is anterior to Gerson and Thomas
A'Kempis, who was born, tuheappfoyrmme.ath w
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and the latter in 1380.
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thus able to pursue his studies with
the
tthe gates of the town ! On
leaving
cathe-
dral, I saw two Sardinian sentinels at the gate of
the bishop's residence, and I heard that it is there
that General Cialdini, of course with the consent
of the bishop, has established himself. I had a
letter of introduction to the general, but he was
with his staff on the banks of the Sesia. The epis-
copal palace of Vercelli had also served as the resi-
dence of General Giulay during his stay there.
There are at the present time 12,000 Piedmontese
troops and two companies of French Engineers in
the town. All the churches, with the exception of
the cathedral, are occupied by the soldiers, who at
night sleep on straw spread for that purpose."

The Piedmontese Gazette publishes three decrees
of the 28th and 29th ult., issued by Prince Eugene