The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-23
EUROPEAN NEWS
BY THE KANGAROO.


Monza was, till lately, deposited the famous relic
which is now placed for safe keeping in the citadel
of Mantua.
Monza is a fortified village twelve miles north
OF Milan, and is to Milan what Versailles is to Par.
is If General dUfban retreats from there, land
retreat he must if Milan has fallen he will either
have to carry it off with him. or it falls into the
hands OF the Allies. 1t would be Garibaldi's proud
est achievement to capture it, and it is Victor
EmmanuePs chief ambition to wear it-Albonu
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THE AUsTRIANs WHIPPING PRIMA DONNA ra.H
Max kron, correspondent Of the NeD Yorker
DemoErat does not seem to be an enthusiastic ad-
mirer OF the blessings conferred upon Italy by the
Austrian military authorities in the glorious days
of the great Radetzsky. Among other barbarities
which he witnessed during tour through Lom-
bardy, in 1852, he relates the following:
Gone morning, while taking a walk from the
Pizza d. Armi to the Foro d. CasteVo gathering of
civilians on the latter place attracted my attention
and excited my curiosity, civilians were strictly
prohibited from assembling anywhere in numbers
exceeding ten or twelve. Upon approaching the
spot, heard German voice deliberately counting,
each utterance of his being accompanied by pierre
ing cry OF agony from female. | forced myself
through the crowd, and behed within square of
Croat soldiers, lady lying upon chair, with her
face down, while Croat officer, with blows from
cane upon her person, responded to the sone'
two three &C., of his adjutant 1t was the
cantatrice Maria Grassi, who on the previous even
ing had been guilty of political allusion on the
boards of La Scala.
al must confess, at this moment l cursed nv
light hair that betrayed my German origin to the
bystanders l shook the dust from my feet, and
Journeyed westward into freer regions and purer
atmosphere"
LATER FROM GARIBALDTs CAMP.
private letter, dated Como, Nav 80, saws:
"Dear Friend: You wrote me that great things
are expected from the Cacciatori degl Alpi, and
hope you lind already you are not deceived in your
expectations. Our battles at Varese, S. Fermo and
Como must be considered as some of the best fats
d'arnaee of the campaign of 1859.
"We were attacked at Varese on the 26th when
we not only repulsed the Austrians but pursued
them On the 9th, Garibaldi ordered us to march
on Como, and we met the enemy strongly fortified
at >. Fermo. The impetuositv of our Caccatori
forced in half an hour their entrenchments, and the
Austrians abandoned all their positions in great
haste and disorder The Cacciatori pursued them
very hoty, and in less than five hours all the Costa
dl ). Fermo was entirely ours. 1t is naturally one
OF the strongest positions that can be imagined.
we were not quite 5000; and the enemy 10, ,000
with 200 horsemen and eight pieces of artillery.
'General Garibaldi was invariably in the places
OF greatest danger, always within musket-shot with
our brave soldiers fighting and crying Viva Carl
baldi F.! He thought constantly of their safety and
never of his own.
"Colonel Medici, and all the other colonies, were
examples to the brave. All the etat major highly
distinguished themselves. Considering the diff
culties, numbers and circumstances the taking of
Como, must be, in the history of our war of indie
pendence one OF the most brilliant and boldest
tions.
can elderly English gentleman was with us, and
fought like lion. He is in the companies of Ber-
saglieri formed at lvrea, and composed for the
greatest part of Genoese.
"On the other hand wealthy English family
living at Como, in the house of Marchese Brvio of
Milan. was constantly employed in giving all the
information they could to General d'Urban. On
the 9th, it has been proved two gentlemen of that
family supplied the Austrian general with notices
Iptn
all the advantages we should have derived from it.
but for such an espionage. The indignation of the
people was such that the two gentlemen were ar
rested, and their being shot was universally deman-
ded. Count ViscOnti, the Piedmontese commits
sioner, saved their lives, and they were expelled
If they live it is due not to forgiveness for their
CRIME, but to the desire of the government to be
generous and friendly to the British.
"This Austrian Marechal d'Urban is a ferocious
soldier of the school of the famous Havnau He
shot, with his own hand and a revolver poor pea
SAINT, Felice Romano, of Robbie near Como, TIVE
ty four years old, without any provocation, and
only because he was told the unhappy man was a
friend to the Italian cause. Antonio Gafetti anoth-
er peasant, forty-four years old, was wounded by
coup d. sabre, and by the same Durham, while he
was at the door of bis house with a child eight
months old in his arms. There would be no end #
were to tell all the enormties committed by this
monster durham"
RUSSIAN CIRCULAR ON THE WAR.
The Independence, of Brussels, publishes an analy-
sis of an important circular which Prince Gortscha-
kott, Foreign Minister of Russia, has addressed to
the diplomatic representatives of the Emperor at
the several Courts of Germany. The Prince strong
ly recommends policy of nonntervention as to
this Italian war; and in very explicit terms denies
the right of the Germanic Confederation to inter-
fere In the war which Austria has commenced re-
specting one of her non-Germanic possessions He
appeals to the treaties by which the Confedera-
tion is constituted, and declares that if Germany
goes to the aid of Austria in this war the political
equilibrium resulting from these treaties will be de-
stroyed The circular is described as of considera-
BILE length, firm in its tone, and remarkably clear,
as Russian circulars are wont to be.
THE BATTLE OF MAGENTA.
Fr0Da the London Times of June 7
The news OF the great battle of Magenta came
upon US like one of those heavy thunder storms
that dazzle and deuge us before we have time to
mark the coming cloud. 1t is impossible at ali un-
moment to measure with calm and criti-
cal acumen the abrupt intelligence that Is 900 men
lie dead and wounded, and that 900 are in captivi-
ty. The Imagination, rushes Immediately to the
conclusion that, where such havoc is discipline and
order must have ceased that the furious horsemen
are still pursuing fugitive wretches over the open
plains that the artillery, the stores, and the camp
equipage of that lately proud Austrian host must
all be the prey of the victor We coniure up in
our minds the details of that scene of carnage
whose whole is presented to in such terrible sim
plicity. We see the crowding multitudes contest
ing the passage of that stone bridge that spans the
Po near BuiialOra and of the military bridge thrown
hastily little higher up the river we see the
heavng masses that on either side support their fore
most brethren; the pungng shot and rattling grape
that tear wide chasms in the living mass; to
here the shouts, to strain eyes through the
smoke of the battle, to watch the agonizing COM
bantants while the event yet hangs undecided, to
catch the first sound of panic, and to follow the
frantic fight and the fierce pursuit We can con-
ceive that we stand on the field while the
noise of the battle rolls away, and look upon the Ii
vid ground while the shrek and the flash are vet
heard and seen far away upon the horizon. All
this is the common mood of every reader who mu-
ses for a moment over the story that seized upon
every mans mind on the morning of Yesterday
But We cannot first tutor ourselves to the possi-
biliy that such great battle have been fought
and won, and that anything afterwards remain
in suspense. After such harvest of death we can
not believe that anything can remain for the sickle
While the bourgeoise of Paris lighting up their
houses and putting out their flags, and congratu-
ating each other upon the utter destruction of the
Austrian army,-whie the hospitals are full and
the graves are yawning,-it is difficult to believe
that there is still great and imposing force in
compact order and in formidable dicipline, which
is collecting the fragments of the broken army, and
which presents formidable front to the victor.
That the French gained a great victory on Sat-
urday is, we take it, indisputabe, and we think we
can see enough to believe that their tactics were
admirable. Tney seem to have greatly deceived
the Austrians into belief that the attack would
IL.
would be directed upon the Piacenza road Our
correspondent from the Austrian headquarters in
the letter we publish to-day, divned the truth
when he said that in his opinion the movement to-
wards PiacenZa was but feiDt, and that the attack
would be made from the northwest. less slow
wltted enemy might perhaps have seen some imme-
date danger when the French refused to receive
another Austrian flag of truce the bearers of which
according to the high military authority of Major
Dalgetty, should be third Ambassador and two
thirds spy; but the Austrians were undoubtedly
lued into security at the point where the French
forces were rapidly concentrated and so rapidly
flung upon the two beaten Divisions. We are not
as we have already intmated, inclined to put much
reliance upon the telegram which comes by way of
Frankfort, and which processes to give as the re-
suit of the fight on Sunday that the French were
driven back across the Tcino; but the non arrival
of the French at Milan, and the ambiguous date of
the French Emperor's last message do not encour-
age altogether to discredit it. 1t is an element
only in the general confusion of discordant reports
and cen only be admitted to lend its slight author
ity to the abundant evidence before us that this
great victory of Magenta is not so decisive as the
French accounts at first assured us; and to make
hesitate, in the absence of authoritative state
tie, which lasted all day Sunday, to say whether
this great battle is yet terminated and if it
be, whether it will be known to history as French
an Austrian victory. .- .. ..... =
From the London Neacs1
1t must be confessed that the vigorous way in
which the allied troops have passed br Dad river
the Ticino, in the face of the Austrans confers
the utmost honor upon the united army If the
Austrian soldiers had possessed ANYTHING like the
military spirit for which the world has given them
credit, if their generals had acted with ything
like the energy which the circumstances demand
ed, the result must have been different They GER
tainly had the most ample notice of the intentions
of the French Emperor. Their commanders had