Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-06-25
TIE WAR IN EUROPE.

The traditional relation between French and
Austrian armies is likely from present indica-
tons to be fully maintained in the present con-
fict In nearly if not quite every battle be-
tween the armies of these two powers since the
days days of Francis |, the French have proved
themselves more than match both in strategy
and in actual conflict for their hereditary oppo-
nents. The Austrian army is well disciplined
and well appointed. The common soldiers are
possessed of stolid courage, cool indider-
ence which will keep them steady under de-
structive fire or q more destructive charge, but
the only movement that they seem capable of
executing are their mastery retreats The
French on the other hand, move with celerl-
ty and fight with a wild enthusiasm that makes
war seem to them more like a pleasant pas
time than grim reality.
The force of these observations is not at all
weakened by the details of the bloody conflict that
may be found in another column. The French
have outwitted their opponents in strategy, beat
them in pitched battle, and drove them out Of
Sardinia across the Ticino into Lombardy and
out of Lombardy across the AIDA, since the
battle of Magenta. They have killed, wound
ed. and taken prisoners more than 10000 of
the enemy, but have captured but few cannon
and fewer standards, the usual tokens of a de-
cided victory. The Austrians have retreated in
tolerable good order through a country difficult
for the rapid movement of large army, and
will probably soon be in condition for another
fight But the result is victory for the allies.
They are in possession of Lombardy, occupying
its capital.
The following from the New York Times
gives satisfactory summary of the campaign
for the first week in June -
"On the Sd of June the Imperial Guard
forced the bridge over the Ticino, near Turbigo.
They were victorious here, and advanced-the
Austrans frequently contesting the ground-to
Bufalora. Just below this point they were
met bv the countermarched masses of the Aus
trian main body, thrown forward to contest the
passage of the bridge of Magenta on the right,
and to oeeup, the cows. of MaeAnta tho lef.
of the allied advance. Here it was that the
Emperor Of the French, in person, maintained
the battle with the Guard, against immensely
superior numbers. until the arrival of the divi
sions Of Neil and Mcmahon enabled the French
TO take the po,te di Magenta, new bridge of
Arcola. and to win, by one great victory, the
complete command Of Lombardy. The Aus
trians retreating from the field retired, it would
appear, by Binaseo, in the direction Of Maleg-
nano, to the southeast Of Milan, upon the corps
of Gen. Benedeck, with the intention of pass
ing the AIDA They were pursued by the
French, under paraguay d'IIilliers, and on the
9th, the day after the triumphant entry of the
allied sovereigns into Milan, were by him en-
gagged and were again defeated. The force at
Pavia would seem to have already reached
Maegnano in time to share this defeat. Should
this not prove to be the case, however, we may
perhaps expect another action at Lodi, and, in
the event of another allied victory at or near
this line of the AIDA, the surrender of both
Pavia and piacenza to the allied arms.
Thus much, at least, may be taken to be
already assured, that within thirty days of his
departure from Paris the Emperor Napoleon
has utterly defeated one of the finest of Aus
trials boosted armies, commanded by her ablest
general and that the fruits of his victory are
the Liberation of the whole of Lombardy, and
the moral conquest of the Peninsula"