The Sun. — 1848-04-17 (London, England)

GERMANY AND  THE NORTHERN STATES•  PRUSSIA.  ITALY.  IMPORTANT NEWS.  BATTLE BETWEEN THE AUSTRIANS ANII, PIEDMONTESE. ALLEGED TAIUMPHAN VICTORY OF THE LATTER. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 10th publishes the following bulletin From the head- quarters of the Sing at Castiglione dells Stiviere, April 8, 1848, at eight P.M. Th theeAustr piedtn iantroopuns b days before t esaed bn troops.e ,heir ancient renown for valour and discipline, had ner crossing the lines of the Oglio and Chiese without obstacle. The enemy had already abandoned. the tions of Montechiaro, Lopata, and C.lstiglione been retiring op rfe for several S:ivisre, which had been considered very and tgeous for them. They had dread). retired beyon _ the line of the Mincio, to concentrate" themself Ileetwf-en Pesehieta and Mantua ; out our troops pursued them with prodigious rapidith c this verging towards the passages of the Mincio ; morning the King boldly- e-tatelished his beau quarters in Castiglione delle Sdyiere, and at aboll! nine o'clock the Brigade Regina, the battalion.Reel' Novi, and a part of the corps of tirailleurs reached Goit,°. to attack the Austrians. The war of Italian indepena erce was destined to be opened with an important act's'' which might really deserve the name of a victory, Si'd we shall call it the victory of the Bridge of Goito. Our men, led by General Bias, made a brisk attack upon G oito, where the enemy had fortified himself, barricading the streets, and occupying the windows, fromj whepce he directed an uninterrupted fire upon us; but every obstacle was overcome by the intrepidity of the tirailleurss placed at the head of the column, and supported by sorae pieces of artillery. The enemy was forced to abandon his position' on his retreat over the river he blow up the still bridge that had been mined a short time before. one of the parapets remained nearly entire; the tirailleur,l intrepidly ventured upon it, and by main force too* possession of the artillery that was playing upon incessantly. In a short time the passage of the 1511..„nc,'" was forced over the smoking ruins of the bridge. 1, 1 enemy, pursued without interruption, fled towarw' Mantua, leaving a great number of prisoners and dead' and among these some officers. The fruit of this victory' is our remaining masters of the passage of the Minci..% of which we at present occupy the left bank. On au` part we have to deplore, with other losses, that of tad officers. Colonels La Marmara of the tirailleurs, an,a Macarani of the regiment Real Novi, are among t'e wounded." A postcript to this dispatch, received an hour after, adds the following particulars:—" The battle lasted 'NU hours. The cannon did great execution. We nail. 2,000 prisoners, took four pieces of cannon, and the Pae' tioa is ours. The wound of Colonel La Marmara slight ; that of Colonel Macarani is not very severe.'  General the Prince di Gonzaga di Mantua, ike' accompanied by his wife, arrived on the 3d of Art at Genoa, from his recent sojourn in England. Frenl Genoa the illustrious traveller proceeded onwards to Rome for the purpose of tendering his services to hip Holiness for the vindication of the liberty and i!l'34. pendence of Italy.—Gazzetta di Genova.  THE MURDER in