New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-08

Like OF Gards 10 e1tple tue Aints a4so 70 nshr
asDk attack 10 that q1s1er. Napoleon Ill h",
however. waited for none OF these thirgs brt has
fought .nd won the fight II ia also evident from
III. eorrespor dence from the sllied c,up Of whico
va elsewhere give all that is important, that TO
fgbt va, the only practicable course. D-iy
would have ctecked the victorious impulse Of t'e
allied troops, and would have gwen the Aus'ris1 5
opportunities to beat them BY superiority Of NUN.
bers in smaller encounters.
In the movements Of tie Austrian army. the
Scblick which had before resulted ia the dcfe st
snd disgrace Of Gyulai They at first prepared for
battle on the line from LoDato TO Castiel elone San
Cassisro, Carrian,, ard Volts. Here a plateau
gradually rises toward the lake and the Mucio,
Offering a succession of excellent positions each
stronger and more concentrated than the preceding
ope, 80 that the conquest Of the edge Of the
plateau would not constitute victory, bot only
the fret act Of battle. Their right wing Sss
covered by the lake; their left was drawn back
considerably leaving ungusrded nesrly ten miles If
the line Of the Mnclo. But this. instead Of being
disadvantage. was in fact the dnest feature OF the
position, from the circumstance that beyond tue
Mincio lay the dan gerous ground iaclosed between
the four fortres.es, into which an enemy could not
venture less be poe sessed great numerical superi
ority. The line Of the MlDcio oeibg commanded 81!
its southern extremity by Mantus, and tie ground
beys I'd the MncO belonging 10 the spheres of action
Of both M,ptus and Verona, every attempt 70 treat
the Austrlans in the position on the plstesu with
contempt By marching past them toward the Min
cio would soon have been brought TO sta1dstill;
the advancing army would have seen its conmu-
uicstions annlhil,ted without being able to endan
ger those of the AustIians. But the most danger.
Gus part of such a move would have been tlat it
must have been done under the eyes of the Aus
trians on the plateau, who would have had nothlrg
to do but to set their whole line in motion and fall
upon the struggling columns Of the enemy, from
Volta upon Jeito, from Carriana upon Guldlzzoo
and Ceresars, from Castiglione upon Caste, Gofre-
90 ard MOntechlaro. Such battle would have
been fought by the Allies under atfemendous dis,d.
vantage, and might have ended III second Au'ter-
li'z with the parts reversed.
Such vas the position which the Austrisns h.d
assumed; and they had III it the further advantage
Of perfectly knowing the whole ground, from the
fact that for years il has been the scene OF their
annual army exercises, carried out upon the laIgest
scale As 9e have said, it was carefully prepared
for the expected conflict; the towns aud villages
were fortified; and then, at the last moment, for
some reason that, in Il military point of view, is
utterly nexplicable, they abandon the ground re-
treat bag and baggage across the Mncio. where, on
the oath, they are attacked aud finally beaten.
Whether this sudden and important change 10 the
plan Of the campaign hsd anything TO do with the ac
ton of Prussia which Po xer said to consider the
quadrangle of the Mincio and Adge as in some
sort part of the defenses of Germany, is ques'
ton on which We may hope for more light here
after One thing however, is pretty certain with re-
gard to Prussia and that is that her attitude must
prevent Leus Napoleon from drawing many uore
troops from France TO Italy. As our readers sre
alrea aw.re, that Power has mobilized SIX out VI
her nine army corps that i she has called into ser
vice the Land,rehr, consistCg Of soldiers belonging
TO those corps which, having completed three years
Of egular service, are discharged on indefinite
furlough. OF these six army corps hve are to
tokea position on the lower and middle Rhine.
Thus some 10 600 Pru-sians must at about the
present date be in line between Coblentz and
Mentz; and no doubt tSo other federal corps, that
of Bavaria and that of Baden, Wurenberg and
Besse Darmstadt viii also take their position in
Baden and the Palatinate making from loo, 600 to
10000 men in addition. Ag,inst such forces Ma
poleon ILL., will require almost every man nov at bis
disposal in France. In this case he may fod 1t ad-
visable TO have recourse to a Hungarian insurrec-
ton, and to the services of Kossuth; though We
may be pretty that he will not call such agen-
cies into reQuisition un I'll he is compelled
Tat Prussia now actually intends to take part
in the war is very doubtful; but it will not be so
easy for her TO avoid it. Her military system. by
making soldiers of the majority of the whole idult
able booied population, puts such strain upon the
nation, fro u the moment the Laod sehr-eyen Of the
first levy ony-is eulled cut that the country c,n-
not afford to stand by with arms grounded for any
lei 9Th Of time At the present moment, all able
bodied males from 20 to - years Of age, are under
arms in SIX provinces out Of eight. The deran ge-
ment caused by this in the whole commercial and
industrial organization of Prussia is enormous;
and the country only stand it on cOndit on that
the men are led before tue enemy without deliJ;
the men themselves could not stand tin couple
of months the whole srmy would he IN stste Of
mutioy. Beside this, national feeling is running so
high in Germany that Prussia, row that she has
gore so far, cannot retreat. The recollections Of
the peace Of Basel aud Of the PROSECUTIONS Of loO5
and 1856, and of the Confederation of the Rhine,
are stil 60 vivid that the Germans are determined