The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-27 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
-a- v Shakapeare's Tragedy of RICHARD 111. Duke of
Gloater, Mr. Hermann Vezin ; supported by Messrs. Charles
Calvert, B. Potter, C. Cooper, Vollaire, J. Neville, Miss Agnes
Kemble, Mrs. Atkins, Mrs. Charles Calvert, Miss Ferguson,
Miss Voices.
After which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT
LETORIERES. Mrs. Hermann Vezin.
ro conclude with OUR RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS
GALLERY, Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.

EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,

oOnsisting of three Juvenile Vitilinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
BIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios evc:
written for the violin, has excited mingled wonder and admi-
ration in Continental Musical Circles, and drawn forth enthu-
siastic tributes of praise from the Public Journals of France
and Belgium.
They _will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
ELEVEN o'clock, in addition. to the usual Entertainments.

THE WEATHER.-Sux OITICE, JUNE 26.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
76—highest since noon yesterday.
72--lowest this morning and during the night.
76—this day at noon.

BARomzTER-29.92.
WIND, S.W. ; fresh, with fine weather. There was a
thunderstorm early this morning.

JUNE 27.
THERMOMETER, TN THE SHADE.
78—highest since noon yesterday.
71—lowest this morning. and during the night.
76—this day at noon.

BARo3IETEn-30.19.
WIND, Southerly ; light, with fine warm weather.

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THE SUN.
MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1859.

During the last forty-five years there has been no
such battle fought in Europe as that which has
resulted in this great victory of the French at
Cavriano and Solferino. Between 300,000 and
400,000 troops were there upon the field. The
line of battle extended over a distance of five
leagues, or from twelve to fourteen miles. The
contest lasted altogether during some sixteen
hours. The defeated Austrians were driven back
from every one of their positions without excep-
tion. The victorious Emperor of the FRENCH
passed the night after the conflict in the very room
occupied during the previous day by his Imperial
brother of Austria. According to some ac-
counts received from the seat of war as
many as 50,000 men upon the side of the van-
quished were placed hors de combat. Even
at the most moderate calculation there were
6,000 prisoners—and, as additional trophies of their
triumph, the Allies retained in their possession,
after the retreat of their discomfited antagonists,
numerous stands of arms, a great many flags, and
from 30 to 50 pieces of ordnance ! The Austrians
themselves, for once, frankly admit they have been
defeated. After making as much as possible of a
momentary repulse of the Piedmontese by their
right wing at Pozzolengo, they honestly subjoin—
" BUT, on the other hand, the order of our centre
could not be restored." Adding—" Losses ex-
traordinarily heavy, a violent thunderstorm, the
development of powerful masses of the enemy
upon our left wing, and the advance of his
main body against Volta, caused our retreat, which
began late in the evening." Yet the whole circum-
stances under which this mighty and sanguinary
engagement took place were of the Austrians' own
selection. They chose the day, they chose the
hour, they chose the battle-ground. They were
perfectly familiar with every inch of the locality
over twelve miles of which they fought and were
conquered. They had collected together the whole
of their available resources. They had concentrated
upon their line of battle troops to the number of
from 150,000 to 200,000. The Allied armies,
though heartened for a decisive engagement by
the preliminary triumphs of the campaign, won
successively at Montebello, at Palestro, at Magenta,
hesitated prudently before crossing the line of the
Mincio into the enemy's territory, in the presence
of a powerful array of some 200,000 disciplined
soldiers. The Allies refrained from making that
bold and adventurous movement, at any rate, until
it could take place simultaneously with the advance
against the foe of some 40,000 in their rear from the
direction of Venice, and of some 40,000 more upon
their flank, from Tuscany, under the command of
the Prince NAPOLEON. Eager, no doubt,
to prevent, if possible, the immense peril
of that united assault upon their position by
the Allies—the Austrians, who had before wisely
enough retreated behind the Mincio, now boldly,
and as it proves rashly, ,determined to retrace their
steps across its protective current—to precipitate
the collision before NAPOLEON 111. could be aided
in his designs by the arrival of 80,000 additional
troops, half of them from Venice, half from Tus-
cany. By an insensate decision of temerity the
whole mass of the Austrian army recrossed the
line of the Mincio at four different points on
Thursday, the 23d of June, 1859—taking up a new
and Powerful position between the Mincio and the
Chiese in a line extending obliquely in a south-
westerly direction. The centre of this new posi-
tion crossing the high road between Goito and
Montechiare, caused the left wing to extend to the
borders of the river Chiese, occupying as its
strongest point of course the Castel Goffrede,
while the right wing extended from Cavri-
ano and Solferino to a point about three
miles below Peschiera, namely, to the position
already mentioned at Pozzolengo. Upon this I
chosen line of about a dozen miles in extent—upon
well-known line, running,
this, to the Austrian's
as we have said, from the Mincio to the Chiese,
from the north•east to the south-west—this tre-
mendOus conflict, of sixteen hours' duration, raged
8 o'clock in the
from 4 o'clock in the morning to