The New York herald., 1866-07-10

| The loss 10 very heavy.
Three hundred Mormons mostly Scotch passed through
Toronto Canada, the 9th instant for Utah Territory
General Sherman Visited Philadelphia yesterday and
In company with General Meade visited tho Navy Yard
and received with the honors due his rank. He ad
dressed crowd in front Of the Union League
Hotel 10 tho evening.
King Victor Eman"ers Repulse from
the Austrian Quadriiatcral.
1t Is not matter Of surprise that the Italian
nrmy, under King Victor Emanuel, has been
signally defeated in venturing to beard the
Austrian in his famous Quadrilateral The
King himself cannot be astonished ut the result
of bis rash adventure But 1t is difficult from
facts or conjectures to make up a plausible
th ory in Justification of the movement
The Quadrilateral embraces an area of some
twenty miles square, between the Mincio and
the Adge rivers. This little plot Of ground is
defended at its angles, on the two rivers, by
four fortresses, or rather by four strongly for
tiled cities or towns-Peschiera, Mantua,
Legnago and Verona-commnnicati with
each other by railway. Within this inclosure,
which is no hing less than vast entrenched
emp, the Austrians including their Carrisons,
had gathered several weeks before the late Bat
tie military force estimated at two hundred
and fifty thousand men. The Italians knew this !;
they had learned what this Quadrilateral was
in l848, and thoy knew that the Austrians
had been enlargng and strengthening its de-
fences ever sinoo King Victor Emanuel had
participated in the splcndidly successful French
and Italian campaign of 1859, and he could not
have forgotten the other day the reasons which
induced Louis Napoleon to halt at the Minc;o
and mako with Austria the peace Of Villa
Franca. After the decisive victories Of Monte.
bella, Palestro, Magenta and Solferino, and
with the victorious allied army Of French and
Italians around him, exceeding two hundred
thousand men, Napoleon stopped his pursuit
Of the badly cut up and retreating Austrians
o. the Mncio, because, in entering the QAadri-
lateral he saw that the war would assume
,argcr proportions than he was then prepared
10 meet And yet with this instructive lesson OF
caution to guide him, the fighting King OF
| ally, with some eighty or ninety thousand
men, rashly crosses the Mincio and gives battle
to an Austrian army Of two or three times his
strength and within hollow square in which
the Austrian Is supported ny four Of the
strongest fortified camps In Europe. 1t is diff
cult, then, to answer the question, what was
the object Of the King of Italy In this bold AMI
dangerous experiment. It may have been in
tended as diversion to enable Cialdini, with
his sixty or seventy thousand men, to cross the
river Po below Mantua. and thus flank
tho Quadrila eral on the south sidc and got to
Venice in that direction, with the support Of
the Kings powerful Aoet in the Adriatic. This
Is the only solution approaching o reasonable
strategic purpose that we can give. 1t appears,
too, from Austrian official reports that Cialdlni
had succeeded In crossing the Po, on the 23d
at Polcsclla. This might have proved an i'm.
por nm. achievement had the King succeeded
only In reaching and destroying the railroad
between Verona and Mantua, but with his do
cisve repulse all the combinations depending
upon him suffered. Thus, as the King could
not very well go round, after his defeat to tho
| support Of Ciallini, there would be no othel
alternative left to Caldini than to recros:
the river and join the King against possible
| pursuit or faux movement by the Austrians.
In his attempt to carry the Quadrilaieral the
| fighting Kirg of Italy recalls the rash expert
mcnt Of General Burnside against the stone
walls on the heights Of Fredericksburg anl
reminds us also of the unfortunate tactics o
"ngh'ing Joe Hooker" at Charlottesville. Ir
tiis comparison, however, we are sorry to say
there Is largo balance in favor Of tho Italian
for while "nghting Joe Hooker" fought fol
three days without being able to bring more
than onc-,hird Of his army into action, the
fighting King Of Italy was thus embarrassed
only for one day, when he safely got back ovsI
the river. We should Judge that after bis hard
days fight, in losing only some two thousand
In as prisoners, he got OF very wcll-nol
worse for wear and tear than General Lee from
the b title OF Antietam.
The Austrians Of the Quadrilatcral viii mos
probably remain on the defensive; for fear that
In pursuing the Italians into their own terri
tories, Napoleon may IND on excuse for armed
Intervention, TO the end that he may resume hi.
work OF Italian unity at the point where II
was suspended In 1850. The London Times
strcnuously pleads for the Intervention oil
diplomacy whereby Italy my be given the
beautiful province Of venetia, and peace may
be secured In that quarter, so that Austria may
be enabled to throw her whole strength against
Prussia and speedily bring her 10 reasonable
terms. But Napoleon, we suspect, will not act
upon any such suggestion. He and bismarck
have an understanding between themselves, for