Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-07-23
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Official Report of the Battle Of Salferinc
INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS


Official Report of the Battle Of Salferino.
INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS 4.
New YoRt July lS!
The steamship Etna, from Liverpool on
the I'd inst, arrived at this port this NOR
ing. Her advices are the same as tllose
brought by the Canada to Halifax.. ., ..-
The BATTLE OF SALFERINo.--At Paris, i
is believed in some quarters, that the French
lost from 6 to 5000, as, follows, GepeFal
Nei's, coros 6 to 1000; DHillisr's nea ,iy
5000; 'McMahon's' 2, 5000; Canrober3s
900, besides casualties in the artillery and
special corps. The French people are said
to be dissatisfied with, the scantiness of the
details as yet published in the Moniteur -
The f'atrie says Napoleon had an epauette
shot away. Gen. Dean is reported eanopg
the dead. 2, r. =, $1,000. -.....
The Vienna correspondent of the Lorton
Times, writing on the 28th, says that the
Italian regiments in the Austrian army have
become very difficult to manage The men
desert by scores and fifties. In the neigbbor-
ho of Trieste, whole battalion had raised
the cry in favor of Victor Emanuel.
A vessel on the coast under the American
flag, had been detected in the act of receiving
the deserters. 81 II +. .,ea.,. Z. ,-rr-
The people Of Milan have made threatenng
manifestations towards the Jesuits, WHOM
it is ruinored that they are keeping secret
correspondence with Austria -arTG
Enormous masses Of French soldiers we've
marching into Piedmont
Napoleon was in perfect health and his
troops are in good condition.
1t is reported that at Salferino nearly every
officer and man of the artillery attached 10 he
Imperial Guard, was put hors du comb
The Austrian accounts of the battle admit
their loss to be 10000 killed, wounded and
missing - .a .. ,9a e .1a ~
1t is stated that not a single Hungarian
regiment was allowed to take part in, the BAT
tie, and that the Italian regiments had al been
previously sent to Tyrol.
Twenty thousand corpses are said to have
been buried, and many were yet lying in the
bitches and clrnfelds., grv ,srG
The Berlin and Vienna letters confidently
speak of negotiations having been opened by
Prussia with England and Russia, f., the
purpose of establishing, if possible, ba sis for
combined mediation.
The military commission of the Fran fort
Diet, is said to have approved of the demand
to move an army of observation to the Rhine
| The French are making immense naval pre-
| parations in the Adriatic. .
Two of the London papers state thai rGere
| has been meeting at Paris, of the diplomats
agents Of France in the Levant, and that they
have been despatched to their posts by orders
from the Emperor. '
1t is presumed that they have order, % aid
in the getting up of an insurrection in uIEey,
in the interest of Russia.
Gen. Garibaldi has received orders tJ occH-
py the Upper Valletino, and was expected az
fOrano with 5000 men, and where 5OU Pied
montese had already arrived.
ENGLAND.-In the House of Lords, on Fri
day, Lord Brougham called attention to Inc
war in Italy, and asked if there W. any
truth in the report that the governrrrnt IN
tended to reduce the navy estimate IT,
Duke of Somerset denied the truth of tie II.
port.
Earl Hardwicke eulogized the late govern
ment for their efforts to strengthen thu navy
Earl Ellenborough fully recognized The ne
cessityf placing the navy in proper ~Crai
ton, but trusted that some attention woHi2
also be devoted to the army.
| In the House of Commons on Thursday
Lord Palmerston announced the intention o
the new Ministry to pursue policy c. stric
neutrality with reference to foreign aff.JrS; ht
also announced that reform bill would 10;
introduced Immediately after the me tiuy oi
the next session of Parliament.
GERMANY.-The independence Belge say:
that the new English Ministry had addresseG
counsels of moderation of the German S.atcs
cautoning them against the dangers OF en-
couraeing policy which might lead t. gen
eral war.
SwIrzERLAND.-At telegram from BeIne saw
that the Federal Council had made anirua DYER
SONS to the Sandman Government on tn.
subject of ill treatment suffered by the SWISS
| at Milan. ...0
The Council had also instructed tn Swis.
diplomatic agents in England to enligh:cu tbG
public opinion as to the nationality Of the for
eign regiments in the service of the Pope art
King of Naples.
A telegram from the seat of war says tnat
an American, named E. II. Perkins, e Ros
ton, together with his wife and three ladies
narrowly escaped being massacred at Ierugia
A letter from Jeddah says that vessel
from Jafla to Mecca, with 200 MusseIncr
pilgrims, foundered near Jeddah, and all OF
board drowned.
PARIS, July 2.-The Non,teur also con
tains the following official bulletin:
The force of the enemy, at the battlo of Sal
ferino, amounted to from l5O, 900 to 70, 900
The new artillery produced terrible effect
Its discharges reached the enemy at distanc
whence their heaviest guns could moi reply
and covered the plain with their dead Tn
loss of the French was 72O officers place,
, hors du combat, including 100 killed aud l2,
600 privates killed and wounded. Among tn
wounded are generals.
: VIENNA, July 1.-The Amsterdam CORES
pondent says that the loss at the battle Of IT,
1 oath, as far as has yet been ascertained, IS 5
c 600 killed and wounded. Further Informs
e ton will be published
! VERONA, July 1.-Since the Oath of Jun
J, here have been merely uni nportant skirmisi
S cs between the outposts.