Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-08-06
WAR AND PEACE IN EUROPE.

The following is a summary of events pre-
ceding the armislce:
A dispatch from Turin, the 7th, stated that the
fortress of Peschiera, invested by the Sandman
army, was cannonaded day and night, and with
the aid of the gunboats that would soon be
launched on the lake of Garda, the resistance
was not expected to be very prolonged. All the
Austrian troops had left Windschm in the Tyrol
and were concentrated at the Stelvio pass. where
conflict was expected on the 9Th The London
Times correspondent with the Austrian army
wrote that bombardment of Verona and Man
tua would not suffice; there must be a good deal
ofhghting at close quarters before anything could
be done. They aud the other strongholds of the
great military quadrangle are very much strong
er than they were ten years ago There are
great field works to be taken before any ap
proach can be made to the main defenses. and
in the meanwhile Austria may have brought to-
gether again an army capable of riskng another
general action. At Verona quantities of grain
are stored in every available place, and 25 900
Hungarian oxen are either there or in the i'm
mediate neighborhood. The management of the
seige of Verona had been committed to Marshal
valiant
The French war steamers had been recoiuo-
tering off Finme, on the Austrian shore of the
Adriatic; 1000 French Soldiers had occupied
Cherzo, but the occupation of Finme by the Aus
trians continued. On the Sd inst. the French
fleet, consisting of 64 sail was at no great distance
from Venice. Another French feet of 10 ves-
sells had been seen off Trieste on the 5th bearing
towards Venice.
On the 4th inst. Count D'Urban, son or neph-
ew of the governor of Verona, arrived at the
headquarters of the emperor of the French, as
the bearer OF a flag of truce. The object of his
mission was supposed to have reference to an
exchange of prisoners.
The Vienna Gazette publishes an amended list
of the Austrian losses at Solferino. As to Off
GERS, the return gives 80 killed, Ala wounded. 13
made prisoners and 10 missing; of rank and file
200j killed and S62l wounded, making grand
total of ,2l3. Nothing is said of the number
of men taken prisoners. The French and Sar-
dinian killed and wounded are stated at 1S, 245
All the Austrian numbers are believed to be
below the truth.
At the setting of the German fedral diet on
the 7th Austria proposed that the whole federal
contingent should be mobized, and that the
Prince Regent of Prussia should be requested to
assume the command-in- chief
The Danish government had replied as fol-
lows to a detailed demand of the society of
merchants "Even if the contingent of Holsten
be obliged to join in the war, the Danish gov
ernment will nevertheless MAINTAIN the neutral
ity Of Denmark and Schleswig, to which resolu-
tlon the great powers have already agreed.
Government aims at obtaining from the great
powers additional sanctions to an uncontested
neutrality"
NAPOLEoN'S BARGAIN WITH kOSsUTH.-T
London Times gives information, through per-
fectly legitimate financial channel, respecting
Napoleon's intentions with regard to Hungary
through the agency Of Kossuth who had an in
terview with Napoleon before he left for Italy,
when the emperor agreed to give Kossuth corps
darmee and arms and ammunition to any extent
required. 1t was settled that Napoleon should
issue the first proclamation to the Hungarian
nation, and that this should be followed by one
from kossuth; that in case of Hungary rising
and freeing herself from Austria, France should
be the first officially TO recognize the independ-
ence of the country, and would then obtain the
same recognition from her allies; that Napoleon
should allow Hungary without interference on
his part to choose her own form of government
and to elect for sovereign the person she NAV
deem most desirable; and Napoleon should place
three millions OF francs at Kossuth's disposal,
the management of which Kossuth having de-
clined to accept, has been placed under the
Hungarian committee now acting at Genoa.
In kossuth's proclamation to the Hungarians
he never speaks of Austria, but of the House
of Hapsburg,' whose expulsion, he says, is the
mission of the Hungarian nation. He asserts
that he will be supported by power which ten
years ago replaced the House of Hapsburg on
the throne. Gen klapka had also issued a short
proclamation, calling upon the Hungarians to
take up arms and display the national colors
and under his command to avenge all the Mag.
vars who were assassnated by the Hapsburgs