Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-19
ARnUT THE WAR.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times. writing ON the LIST of July, says

at this court, speaks OF Austria anu ner re-
verses in Lombardy in way which clearly
shows which way the wind is blowing at Con-
stantinopie.
Count Colloredo, who is now Austrian en-
bassador at Rome, is to go to st. Petersburg,
and Baron Hubner, who is at Naples, has re-
ceived instructions to act as the representative
of this government at Rome. The foregoing
piece of news leads me TO believe that Cardi-
nal Antonelli and his system are on their last
legs"
Milan paper says that when Victor En-
manuel visited the citadel of Brescia he was
shown the place where forty five citizens, taken
as hostages in l849, were barbarously shot by
order of the ferocious Haynau, and that he
forthwith ordered monument to be erected to
them, the expense to be betrayed out of his
privy purse.
Another paper contains the astounding an
nouncement (headed sc IT, which can only
mean Gdzetta U!ffciale,) that the Hungarian
General Klapka and some other courageous pa
triots have offered the crown of Hungary to
the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia.
CHARGE OF THE FRENCH GUARD.-A yolti-
geur of the French Imperial Guard in Italy,
writes to his mother:
81 hasten to write you to assure you that
nothing has befallen me. My right epaulet
was carried away by a ball, and the right leg
of my pantaloons pierced through the knee.
They seem to have wished nothing against
me but what was right In brief, l am per-
fectly well.
| cannot tell you the name of the battle, for
there were so many villages taken. The Sec
ond Voltigeurs, and portion ofthe Chasseurs
of the Guard, took Solferino; the rest of our
body captured other positions. We were as
usual, held in reserve. About ten or eleven
in the morning, the Emperor rode over to us );
he saw that the division of the line, which
| had been fighting since four o'clock in the
morning, could not carry the position. He
| then said.
"Camou, cannot you carry that point for me
with my Voltgeurs 90
The charge was instantly sounded, and the
Emperor said to us:
Forward, my Voltgeurs Clear that
place for me there with the bayonet I"
We set forward with the shout, we PEm-
pereur!" and the line called, "Fiue la Gardel"
We passed them, and in less than three hours
had overthrow or slaughtered 10000 of the
enemy. This conflict decided the battle"
The RIFLED CANNON AT SoLFERINo-
The Cavriana June 2o) correspondent of the
London Telegraph writes:
The artillery may be said to have done its
work for the first time during the present cam
paign on that occasion. Until then it had now
and then been brought out, but at last it has
ritied cannon is hence forth established. | will
cite but one fact in support of this assertion.
General Deaveraux saw in the distance about
thirty squadrons of cavalry, consisting of Ital-
ians and dragons, forming into masses, and
preparing to thunder down upon Renaud's di-
vision. The danger was imminent aud grave
for the French troops had their TANKS COM
promised, and were in front OF an Austrian
battery, which worried them with grape
General Deaveraux pointed out the danger
to Captain Fist, commander of the eighth bat
terry Of the tenth regiment of artillery, who at
once established "a battery of rihed cannon
upon small eminence in the plain, and fired
four rounds OF shells, containing forty balls, a
distance of more than two thousand yards.
The effect produced seemed like the work of
enchantment. The captain saw in the first
place that wide gaps had been made in the ell
emy's ranks, then all of sudden that this
terrible mass of cavalry was dispensing in
every direction, utterly disordered, and with
out needing orders or rallying at the word of
command. Twenty thousand of the Austrian
cavalry, upon whose aid every reliance had
been placed, were thus rendered useless; and
it was directly after this catastrophe, if am
rightly advised, that the emperor Francis Jo-
seph abandoned the camp, tears of vexation
and despair in his eyes"
STORM BREWING IN HUNGARY-Vienna,
June 29.-My report that things were going
on badly in Hungary was here considered a
malicious calumny;" but the correctness of
the information is now acknowledged. Hun
gary is full of revolutionary proclamations,
some copies of which found their way to this
| city. In one of these documents Kossuth ex-
| presses his conviction that instead of being
divided, as formerly, the Magyars will now
have one heart and one hand but he probably
deceives himself, for the peasants would be
content with the present regime if the taxes
were somewhat less burdensome. The arch
| agitator informs his acknowledges that
| when the proper moment for action comes
there will be no dearth of arms, ammunition,
provisions, &C., but he forgets to tell them who
is his banker. A constitution and an impair
tial visit would probably make most loyal sub.
Jects OF the Hungarians but, unfortunately,
nothing is done in Austria at the fitting
moment.-Co7esponde London Times.
The DIFFERENCE-The London Times
says :-"This battle of Solferino illustrates
upon great scale the character of the two an
tagonists. Why did the Austrians lose this
great battle Why have they lost every bat
tile that has been fought in this ware 1t is
not that they are less brave than the French.
They certainly are not inferior to the French
in discipline. Their us inertie is magnificent,
and they retreat invariably with bold, steady
front to the foe. Why is it, then, that they
who can lose SO valiantly can never win +? Be-
cause, unfortunately for them, present knowl-
| edge is present power, and their knowledge
is not of the present but of the past They
are stagnant responsibility. They are gov
erned and directed by old rules, old men and
old routine. They have an enemy who does
not care centime for antiquity, and is not
above taking the most irregular methods to
win victory. The Emperor of Austria makes
up his mind to do remarkably fine piece of
Louis Quartorze strategy. He executes an
elaborate piece of old fashioned deception,
crossing the Mincio with his whole force, and
then recrossing it with his two hundred thous-
and men, and fixing the completed surprise of
the enemy at nine o'clock in the morning
The Emperor of the French representing
the juvenile irregular school, in the most un-
gentlemanlike manner refuses to be surprised
| Having recourse to a new tangled expedient
which no trustworthy veteran who can count
his seventy years would condescend to use, he
sends man up in balloon and at the ex-
pense of a few yards of silk and few square
feet Of gas is told the exact position of all those
masses which are drawn up SO scientifically
| out OF his sight with the intention of surpris-
| ing him at the comfortable, leisurely hour of
. A. M. The man of his time-the clever, ac-
tive, shrewd, nothing conforming adventurer of
the nineteenth century, by dint OF this small
contrlyance, becomes master of the position.
lie knows what is going to happen and where
his enemy is, and how many he is and while
the heavy, seif-complacent Austrian is chuck
ling ct the formal surprise that is to come off
at y A. M, he attacks at day break, chooses his
own time and point of attack, and remains
master of the field.
DEcEAsE OF CoNGREssMEN ELEor.-Three
OF the members of Congress elected to the