New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-15

nearly four times a. many men on tue nriu as tue
Aus,riau,. Thus. if the French claim the victory.
because they finally held Monticello and the Aus
trians retreated s6er the engagement tue Austrans
NAV clam it on the ground that they drove the
French from Cast. cgo add had the last success Of
the day. and especially that they completely fulfilled
the object they had in view; for the engagement
Was commenced with the purpose OF coming uti.
matey upon superior forces, and of course re-
treating before them.
Since Montebello, the center and rght wing OF
the Austrian army have seen some fighting. Ac-
cordlne TO the dispatches which We received BY
the Fulton, and published yesterday, the Sardinisns
crossed the Sesis near Vercelli on the Both ult
and attacked and carried some Austrian intrench-
ments at Palestro, Gasoline and inzsgho. Victor
Emanuel himself commanded; and the work was
accomplished by the bsyonet. The loss Of the
Austrians is described by the SardlDians as very
heavy. BY the Europa at Halifax we now learn
that the Austrians have twice endeavored to reake
Palestro, and once were on the point Of succeed
ing, when body of ZouaSes came to the rescue
and repufed them. Here the Sardinans say they
took Thousand prisoners but to this affair i is
impossible to form judgment, owiug TO the alb
sence of all precise details Such obstinate fighting
at the outposts on the Sesia is not what we eX-
pected from the Austrians who are said to be in
full retreat across the Ticlno. On their extreme
right, however, they have not shown so much
pluck and tenacity' On the 25th Of May,
Garbaldi, Who With his Chasseurs of the Alps aud
some other troops, in all perhaps 5000 men, had
passed round the extreme right Of the Austrians,
crossed the TiciDO and marched upon Varese, be-
tween Lake Maggore and the Lake Of Como, and
took possession Of that town. On the 26th he
defeated an Austrian detachment which attacked
him, follow ed up his victory with great vigor, and
again on the 9th, defeated the same detachment
(reibfcrced by the garrison of Como) and entered
that town the same night. The flying corps OF
Gen. Urban marched against him, and actually
drove HIM into the mountains; but our latest dis
patches, received last night by the Europa report
that he had come back aud surprised the Austrians
and retaken Varese. His success produced
an insurrection in the towns on the Lake Of Como
and in the Valtelline or Upper Valley of the AIDA,
q mountain district, which in lS4S showed more
insurrectionary energy than the towns Of the Lom-
bard plain The steamers on the Lake OF Como
are in the hands of the insurgents, and 800 men
from the Vateipe had joined Garibadi. 1t is
said that notwithstanding his temporary reverse,
the insurrection in that part Of Lombardy was
spreading.
In this movement Of Garibsldi the Allies have
a. nd tha
made great mistake. There was no harm to
the latter in allowing him to take Varese; but
Como ought to have been held by strong
column, which he would not have dared to NEEDLE
with Another detachment sent toward Sesto
Calende would have cut of Gsrbaldi's 70.
treat, and thus, hemmed in in the small dis
trict between the lakes, vigorous attack must
have compelled him either to lay down his
arms or to pass into the neutral Swiss territory,
where he would have been disarmed. But the
AustTians, undertaking this man, whom they call
briesnd chief, and whom, if they had taken tho
trouble to study the siege of Rome and his march
thence to San Marine, they might have known to
be man of uncommon military talent, OF great
intrepidi.y and full of resources treated his incur
sion as lightly as the irruptions OF Allemandrs
Lombard volunteers in IS48. They quite over
looked the fact that Garibsdl is strict discipline
rap, and that he has had most of his men uuder
his hands for four moDths-quite enough tn break
them to the msneuverlng aud movements OF petty
warfare. Garibaldi may have been sent into Lom-
hardy by Louis Napoleon and Victor Emanuel in
order to destroy him and his volunteers-elements
rather too revolutionary for this dynastlc wsr-a
hypothesis strkingly confirmed by the fact that his
movement was made without the indispensable
support; but it is not to be forgotten that in 1919
be took the same route and managed to escape.
At all events he gained possession of the bridge at
LeccO, and of the steamers on the lake, aud this
insured to him the liberty of moving to the east
ward of the lake of Como. Here there is a large
mountainous tract, extending north to the Splugen
and Stelvo passes, east to the lake of Garda,
south to Berg amo and Brescia-a country especially
adapted to partisan warfare, and where it will
be very difficult TO catch him, ss Urban has just
discovered. If 5000 to 5000 men would
have been sufficient to ruin him in the Vsrese
country, il may now require more than 10000, so
that his one brigade will henceforth fully occupy
three Of the Austrians. Still, with the forces
accommodating in the Tyrol "a full army corps has
been passed from Bohemia through Saxony and
Bavaria by rail TO Tyro) and with the troops hold
ing Lombardy, We do not see how he can hold his
own, notwithstanding his last success at Varese,
unless the Allies gain very speedy and very
decisive victory over the Austrians. This will bea
difficult matter. Another Austrian army corps
the sth, has joined the active army making it con-
sist of six corps, or at least 100000 men IN all;
and other corps are on the march. Stll. from the