The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-06

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In regard to the movement on the Sesia, near
Verce, it is Insignificant by itself, and viii not
probably serve but TO cover another operation.
The Piedmontese division, commanded by General
Ciadini, forced the passage of the river and re-
pulsed the enemy, who will have to abandon some
prisoners provisions, and munitions.
AkTFUL AUSTRIAN RETREAT.
What is most clear of all is that the Austrian army
executed retreat prescribed by all the rules Of
art. We shall proceed in our next bulletin to de-
scribe that movement and if we have room, to fol-.
| low the Allies in their offensive march. 1t cannot
henceiorth go backwards The French army Is
east upon the route of Rlvol and we shall see II it
| will not swerve little from the route pointed
| out in the Emperor's order of the day.
THE FUTURE OPEN FOB NAPOLEON.
In all cases, the ordinary comedians of his Majesty
have not yet left Paris. It may, perhaps, be dis
| covered that as far from Aiessandria to Milan as
from the Theatre Francois to the Theatre Of La
| Scala, and that the time is not yet come when
famous iron crown OF the Lombard kings, shall be
| able to repeat with Charlemagne, Charles the
| Fifth and Napoleon the First, the words which
tradition attributes to Agilulfus-" God has given
| it to me woe be to him that touches it!'
SAFETY OF THE IRON CROWN
We add to reassure the shades of the Lombard
kings, that the iron crown is locked mp in the
fortress of Mantua, and it is there whittier he must
| 60 to take it.
OPERATIONS IN THE NORTH OF LoMBARDy.
/
Victor Hugo, Don Carlos wrote from the recesses of
| Aragon to the Queen Of all the spains:-
Madame, il fat grand vent, ct i'a tue six loups."
l"Madam, there is strong breeze, and have
killed six wOlves.")
! But that time is far from us. Nowadays one
| speaks in prose and is more explicit. The day
after the battle of Monticello, for instance, when
restless Europe strained its attentive to the
echoes of the Alps to learn decidedly if the first feat
| of arms accomplished on the theatre Of war was
victory or defeat for the allies, the MOaiteur U-
| hrnu ol%
from Alessandria by the telegraph
at is fine weather, and the Emperor is we'
| EUROPE NOT CONTENT.
As explicit as was that important news, it did not
suffice in the least to reassure Europe. But thank
God, the private correspondence arrived after,
| and the dangers which had followed the Emperor
were not long in being known. His Majesty had
left Alessandria the same morning, and while the
division Forey engaged in the combat on the north
of that village, the Emperor in his grey redngote
and with arms crossed in the historical attitude OF
the Little Corporal visited the battle field Of
Marengo to the south of the fortress. Half an hour
after the return of his Majesty, says the Steele
| who will be very much astonsbed to learn that
he has SO much spirt-.it was known at Alessandria
furious struggle, but that they had to depore cruel
| losses.
! REPORT OF GENERAL FoREY.
| At last the simple and concise report of Gene
| raj Forey has arrived, under the signature OF
| which one must believe had been added, as com
pliment, the following eminently French proscrip-
|
| from all sides, the enemy's forces could not have
| been uuder is 600 to $1,000 men and if / am to
believe the reports of prisoners, they greatly exceed
| that figure"
THE AUSTRIAN MOVEMENT FoREsEEN.
The fact is that, as we have foreseen in our pre-
vious bulletins the Communicating Chief Of the Aus
tran army, having believed it to be necessary to
| execute general movement OF retreat, to draw
| the enemy upon the TicinO, had given orders
| to General Stadion to advance from Stra-
della towards Casteggio and Montebello,
1 vanced posts Of the French and to engage in a
| combat on those points while the headquarters
would fall back upon Garlasco which forms in front
of the Ticni the summit of an obtuse angle, sup
| ported by Pavia and Wig svano.
l GENERAL SHADOWS TACTICS.
! General Stadion, who could not doubt that the
advanced posts of the Allies would be far enough
| from Paraguay d'Hllier's division, so as not
/ the attack-General Stadion we say, then de.
ployed in front of Stadella division composed Of
nine to ten thousand men, and sent the heads of his
! columns first to occupy Casteggio, then Monte
| bello.
POSITIONS OF THE coMBArANrs.
There were not at this moment in the French ad-
vanced posts more than two battaions Of the 84th,
/ quartered before Voghera, and they guarded It,,
waiting for reinforcements to march upon Monte
bello The Austrians then took two hours to esta-
| blish themselves at Montebelo and at Casteggio,
sion Forey arrived with the Sandman
cavalry of General Lomaz, strength of about
40, 0o0 men, according to the estimation of General
| Gyuai, which is evidently an exaggerated figure,
as much that of the French valuation of the force
| of the enemy. That which might be true is that
| the corps ddrmee of Marshal paraguay d'Hilliers
was about 600 strong but the half of that corps,
at least had been held in reserve, while the other
half engaged in combat The last number of 20 900
men on the side of the Allies appears to us to pre-
sent more nearly exactly the force OF one engaged
seeing that the official report admits that the divi-
sion FOrey had been engaged.
THE SLAUGHTER THE CHUHCHYARD.
1t is generally known by the report of this brave
General what were the dispositions Of battle which
| were taken to possess Montebello, and how he re-
pulsed the Austrians even in the cemetery of Cas-
teggio beyond the street barricades of that village
as If their occupation were worth the sacrifice OF
one hundred men. Nevertheless, the combat on
this point has been so terribly furious that the
side of the Austrians alone 294 dead were left on
the field Of battle without counting 7lS wounded
among whom were one General, one Major, and
twentysx other officers. II is Just to add that these
figures again of French origin, and the cores
pondent of the journal the best informed in the
| world-the London 7tmcs-reduces it to 500 killed
and wounded.
DESPERATE BRAVERY OF THE AusTRrANs
I In regard to the 200 Austrian prisoners brought
back to Voghera, it was not for grasping their wea
pons lightly in fighting in retreat, but, entrenched
with their arms in their hands in the houses, be-
hind the barrcades and in the cemetery of Casteg-
gio, they defended the soil foot by foot, body to
body like heroic soldiers to protect the retreat Of
their comrades in perfect order.
PBRPLExiTY OF NAPOLEON.
Thus we understand in what q perpleXty the
Emperor Napoleon must have found himself the
next day in presence Of the results of the struggle
at which time he was puzzled to make known to
France by the medium of the Moniteur whether
the affair of iMentebello victory or q defeat
Madame, "a nne weather, and have killed ak
wolves,
he said, to draw off attention from the affair,
THE AUSTRIAN HEADQUARTERS FALL BACK.
We have shown that during the magnificent COM
bat sustained with so much ecG by Generals Shdon
and Benedek, tie central body of the AUSTRIAN line
Of operation fell back in good order upon Gariasco,
taking with them their cannon, provisions, NUM-