The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-17
letters Of Count Cayour and Prince Napoleon to the En-

nj that city An interesting description Is given Of his
reception "a AL toe places no LAS osssr aus
for Hungary. At Acqu he visited the HunsS tn
are being formed into legion TO eight with the ahied ar
mics and his reception by his eouutrymeu was enhu
sastic. No doubt the OF his misgion will cauee
great excitem mi Throughout Hupgry We are assured
by the writer Of the letter aude TO- that the Ausrans
make Of Rossuths 10 enable them 10 raise RS
cruts in Hungary. The eflcess emplo ed fr tna pur.
pose carry portraits OF the celebrated Hungarian with
Them which they chow bis country ssorpg them
that regiment is formed he Is TO take the
command and hsht with them against the French ana
SaYdiniAns Some OF the lower classes allow themselves"
be caught ~ this trick eva. ,.on
despatch announces the departure OF Kossush ron
Piacenza for Parma the 26th ult and says tss ,l
people took the horses from carriage and dragged MIN
~ far as the city gate.
THE SIGNIFICANT PHASES OF THE BATTLE
OF SOLDERING.
fFren the London cmes, July a. 80
not ALWAYS. says h ann wso eats he bread
Francis Joeeph Austria may ponder shs m1 wnen no
reads with what relish NapIeoh M s anu @
Francis Joseph at Soferno This little incident, however,
only type of greater things Francis Joseph has been
throughou this Italian policy only warmer TO his
French Imperial brother. II he had been man OF his
age and tme he would never have allowed Lnu, Napo.
icon to play before the world the audacous part OF oe
raor Of oppressed pationses But he has been fixed ia
fotsil system, and he has petried into part OF the
AS he prepared the way in Piedmont sind at tom
only for coming after him that Nc aud his nad
been there before SO appears likely % tappen tna res
fed, strengthened, stored and armed only 70 be garr
soned by Frepchmen and ultimately, must in court
esy recorded prosee believe TO be occupied by lta
ans. Already 'ftbe whole French army has passed the
MIncio;" already "the Sardnaus have Invested Paeoh
crap already Napoleon aided by his reinforce ment OF
$4,000 men, has approached Verons ami watches Msnsas
already the whole Ausirsu army has for strategic rea
Some day PERHAPS REQUIRE hs Comment Of venns OF
Prsgue-retreu from the banks OF the Mucio al
ready the French have sfuy and cauto sy followed
them unmoIested; ana the Austrian, still obstinate in
ssance although no logger c,sdie Of victory IS prop,
ably uniausht unteaohable again fixing some DEFINITE
hour of definite day whereon he will make sl his
arrangements for Euolber pitched battle
This battle Of Soleruo Illustrates upon great scale the
character of the two antagonist It's phases and ts facts
all recorded It's ndelioe picture is craven upon all
minds. Aided by the experience OF correspondents
either cimpnoEe heralds OF sacred ana peaceful mis-
sinwe have followed the Austrian Emperor to and from
the eight. and the French Emperor throughout his al
We have twice seen the hed from the Spy OF
Italy and have survey ed alternately through French
and Austrian glasses To day the battle OF Soferno takes
its place in history in the shape in which will ne known
for evermore 1t WAS a great aud sanguiaary battle,
hefcey contested by nearly tour hundred oussni men
from sunrise to sunset of a summer day and
defeated, bat not broken, by An enemy inferior
in numbers, but superior in intelligence and
by the details of ths mighty. carnage, aud
is growing familiar with the events Of the battle, Il is
time for to point the moral Of the catastrophe Why
did the Ausrans lose this great batle2 Why have they
lost every battle that has been fought in this WARP II is
not that they less brave than the French In this
very engagement, according TO the Official accounts Of
each army, the Austrians killed and wounded $4,000
kEe1CQmeu, themselves
and wounded There could have been no flight when she
numbers stand thus at the eId OF the day Nor the
French officers, whereof hundred and twenty
shot dead, while the French succeeded in killing aad
woundiDg only two hundred and thirty of the Austrian Off
Gers They certainly inferior French dis
cplne Their rs ney,9 is magnificent and they retreat
invariably with bold steady front to the foe Why is it,
then, that they who lose go valiantly Can never
wins Because, unfortunately for them present know
ledge present and their knowledge Is not Of the
bty They are governed and directed By old rules old
men, and old routine. They have enemy whodoes not
Genuine for antiquity and is not above taxing the
most irregular methods to win victory The Emperor
OF Austria makes up his mind TO do remarkably dne
rate piece Of old fashioned deception crossing the Mnco
with his whole force and then recrossng With his two
hundred thousand men, aud nxiDg the contemplated sur
prise Of the enemy O'Clock In the nornng. The
Emperor OF the French representing the juvenile rregu
lar school, In the most upgentemanke manner refuses
dient which trust worthy who o,un hls
seventy years would condesoend use, he SENDS
t,g yards Of sax and a few square feet Or gas, /;
Ssu The u 1a c pSs o az ne s sa Ss.'e ae
ton Of Surprising him at the comfortable, esurey hour
Of a. NJ The man of his time-the clever, acsive,
shrewd nothing contemnng adventurer OF the nineteenth
century-by dnt Of this email contrivAnce becomes mas
ter Of the position. He knows what Ia gong 70 happen
and where his enemy e and how many he iE; and while
the heavy oomplacent Austrian cnucking at the
formal surprise that il TO come of at he attacks
and remains master OF the field So, again, the Ausan
coming by very respectable mesns IN no respect sulsd
OF pIeCcueDt,
session Of re boy shapahooters deal! tremendous
disaster against French The French opposed artificial
to the Austrian natural bus not 80 as TO equazs
the two armies the rifle There another point how
ever In which the two nations were equal The Austrian
mountaneers do mol use cannon IN their Sunday games
here France went ahead, and Austria marched pas.
The consequences have been obvious enough The battle
Soferno has been by the superiority Of the French
artillery. The shells from the French rifled cannon fell
al distances whence the old guns could moi reply Every
reader can work out the result The eneny's artillery
was slenoed before It could come within effective dis
thouHand but machinery not thus immutabe
Mere "pluck and courage ana standing sun SQUARES
rc1rs tUa miles off which will NOW Gown your lines an
your living enemy. All that is left If cap reac
gentleman Of the old school s to die with dignity an
constancy, scornng il be should please with his
breath the foe that seeks victory BY such pebeian
We follow with an interest much more intimate an,
earnest than could be excited by sympathy for any
mere principle the tactics and the defeats Of these Aus
fact that what they are. Toe solidty, the
bravery the old fashioned routine all of which yield
snkiy before the science and intelligence OF army led
and organized by men in their active vgour Ike our
own soldity, our own bravery, and routine So
Tar ss we are in advance Of this Austrian army, which
ioses town after town and district after district and has
the secret OF suffering the most rreproachabe defeats
due not to our dear old reverend dotng Horse Guards
tenn,
Drs,,o uod res onnss tnaae geldeaae nanis.rst;
gasSuus aadso a eraposis ls sc,
put 10 he house of Commons the press and the peope
How colby would the representatives Of this good cd sys
tenn have laughed down the OF reconnornp by bal
ioons. HOW complete, but short time since, was
their contenp! for the Mimic rife How arduously ware
they driven into an attempt to improve the uinoyesbe
old heid piece, declaring with to everyone VINO
would listen that they went into is o1y h gra
Thy the gaping vulgar, and that weapons as tosc
which were wbsked up 70 the heights Of Solferno and
which pouehed up the in the valleys belo
were the mere toys Of civilians and amateurs and
thy OF the notice Of veteran soldiers Yet upon the very
first collision Of armes victory declared hersef for the
best arms The MIME rife preserves India 70 England
the riiied cannon won Montebeo and Magenta for the
FIenon and 70 the same arm combined with that much
ridcaed balloon reconnaissance, the French owe IL thai
Soferno was French victory and that Napoleon III Is
now before Verona The tson 10 us is all inportant n
zoe hold our position amondfrst rate Pooers d1d w9,ld
d.oeu IN peaceful homes Wy must havy mn a. our Hor1
Guards Who not 800 conceied or too old 10 alsanc(
actth the age in which they tiue
WILL THE ALLIES SEIZE ON THE STATES
OF THE CHURCH.
From the London Advertiser Koss uth's orcau) July
There are 900 900 OF human beings who either never