The New York Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1859, Page 1

esa WHOLE NO. 8824. MORNING OM EUROPE, THE NEWS F ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLO-SAXON AT QUEBEC THE BATTLE OF MAGENTA, Napoleon’s Despatches to the Empress, General McMahon the Here of the Day. Three Dundred Thousand Men Engaged in the Conflict. TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER ON THE BATTLE FIELD, Thirty-two Thousand Men Fut Hors de Combat. MILAN DECLARED FOR VICTOR EMANUEL HAT CITY EVACUATED BY THE AUSTRIANS, VICTORY CLAIMED IN VIANNA AND PARIS, Sketches of Some of the Generals in the Battle. DESCRIPTION OF MILAN, The Effect of the News on the Foreign Po- pulation of New York, Important Declaration of Russia Re- Jative to Germany. Interesting Proceedings in the British Parliament. Hoprovement im Consols and Decline in Corn and Cotton, &c., &., &o. Quanac, Sanday, June 19, 1859, ‘The Anglo-Saxcn reached this port this morning from Farther Point, and I am now enabled to send you a fuller and more gatieinctory despatch. The Gattle of Magenta, THE FRENCH AND SARDINIANS CROSSING THE TI- TNO—DESPERATE RESISTANCE OF THB AUSTRIANS AT BUFFALOKA AND TUKBIGU—THS BATTLE AT MAGENTA—TEKRISLE SLAUGHTER ON THe FIrLD— ANSURKKEOTION 47 M)LAN~EVACUATION OP THAT @ITY BY THE AUSTRIANS—ALL TRY CANNON AND FREASURE LEFT BERIND—VICTUR EMANUEL aT MILAN, ETO. he following is tbe first aanowncement of the great bat- tle fougit on the 4th joat., by telegraph trom NAPOLEON TO THE EMPRESS. fovana, June 4—11:80 P.M ‘A creat victory bas been won at the bridge of Megsata, Five thousand prisoners bave been taken. Fifteen ubou- gand of the enemy are killed or wounded, The details Will be deepstched by telegraph. The above was pablished in Paris on Sunday, the 5th, snd on the evening of thet day the cannon at the Hotel des Invalides snnounced tne victory, and the city was drijliantly tliuminated. On the following day (Monday) the Momieur pab- Uehed the following despatches from THE EMPEROR TO THE BMPRESS. Macenta, Jane 5, 1859, ‘Yesterday our army was under orders to march op Milan, across the bridges thromn over the Ticino at Turbigo, ‘The operation was well executed, al- tbovgh the enemy, woo had repasted the Ticino fo great force, offwred a most determined resis. tance. The roadway wes narrow, and during two hours the Imperial Guard sustained unaup- ported the shook of the euemy. In the m untime General McMshon made himeeif master of Magenta After san- guinery copflicts we repulsed the enemy at every point, ‘with & loss on our fide of aboct 2,000 men. the loss of the enemy is estimated at 15,000 ktired and wounded, end 5,000 Austrian prisoners remained in our ban ia, Macesta, Jane 5—Evening. ‘The Austrians taken prisopers are at least 7,000, and the Austrians placed Aors du combut #6 20,000, ibree pieces of capnon and two flaga were captured ‘rom the enemy. To-day our army reats for the purpose of ra Organizing iteelf. Our Joss is about 3,000 killed and ‘Wounded and one cannon taken by the enomy. ‘The following Cespatch, also from the Emperor to the Exppress, was received on the 6th and Dulletined at the ‘Bourse — NAPOLEON TO EUGENIE. Sixapquarters, Monday—8 A. M. Milon is Insurgent. The ausiriaas have evacuated the town and castle, leaving in thei: precipitation the cannon ‘and tresrure of the army bebind them. We are encum. dered with prisoners aod have taken 12,000 Austrian mus- kets, A despatch dated Paris, Monday night, June 6, to the London Post, says the Municipalty of Milan procla’med King Victor Emanuel, and kave presented an address to him ‘tn the presence of the Emperor. To-morrow the King wilt make his entry into Milan, 2 The following aro Austrian ascounts by way of Vienna. Tho information is meagre and unsatisfactery. The oMciai Austrian Correspondence of Sunday, the bth, contained the foliowing authentic communication :—~ ‘Tho details and tho resn'ts of the battle at Magonta are still expected from the Austrian headquarters, Tho Aus- ‘trian ay my had been transferred during the nigh, from ‘the 4th to the Sth instant, to Abbiate Grasso. The aame ‘ews states that tho combat was undecided, and that a farther tigi was expected ou the noxt day. ‘The following offivial bulletin was iasued:— Viexwa, Monday, June 6—-11:30 A. M. A desperate combat rook piace on Saturday betwen the wit end Taird Count Olam. Galles, and Prince Lich- tensiein’s corps armée and the enemy, wh? had passed the Ticino In very considerable force, The result of the corres; was undeciéed. The combat was continued ou Sunday. Our troops threw themeeives upon the enemy's ranke with ardor, and showed a valor and Perseveranc ‘Worthy of the most glorious feats of arma of the Imporial army, Milan is perfeotiy tranquil. The headquarters Jester day wero still at Avbiate Grasso, An Acstrlan despatch from Veroua gives a similar view, ‘ut adds that the authorities and weuk garrison of Mian; ‘with the exception of tno Castle garrison, have withdrawn, at the command of General Gyula. The town ia quiet. ‘The following metuage from Vienna had been publishod by the Frankfort papers, without apy guaranted as to the authenticity of the news:— Vianna, Monday, June 6, Throngh the opportuns serival of tbe vorpe @armee of Field Marshal Clem-Gallos on the battle field the Avs‘riacs were victorious, afters hot Might, and the French wore thrown back ever the Ticino. THE VERY LATEST. Lonpon, Wednesday, June 8, 1859. The London Times this morving publishes a summary of the official news recelved at Vienna up to midnight of Mondey, It is on followe:— There was a fierce baitle at Turbigo ani Buffilora om ‘he 4th. At first enly wo brigades of the First corps were engoged; but they were subsequently reinforced, and in the afternoon of the seme day the Third Austrian corps took part in the action, There was very hard Hghting at Buffalors, sometimes to tho advantage of the French and sometimes to that of the Austrians. The Dattle lasted till late in the night, and on the Sth was con- tinued at Magenta, The Allies made no progress on this day. Two freeh Austrian corps were epgeged, and in th afternoon the Austrians took up a flank pos ton between Abbiate Grasso and Binasco. The Aurtrians baye taken many prisoners, The loss on both +ides was very great. The Austrians bad four generals and five staff officers wounded. One major was ki'!ed, ‘The Times, in its editorial remarks on the subject, says:— Jt now seems probable that this hard fight is even yet unde cided, but that on the whole the French have the bes! of it, ‘The absence of late despatches by way of Paris is not considered indicstive of French successes. ‘The London Advertiser says:—It was rumored last night that the government had received a despatch from the British Minister at Vienna announcing an Austrian victory. The opinion was becoming current in Lendon that the viclory of Magenta wasa victory in which the French were defeated; and their failure to occupy Milan, only twelve miles from Magenta, strensttiened this view. The movement which preceded the battle of Magenta was not clearly stated, but it was previeusly announced that the Allies were aboit to croes the Ticino, to the aumber cf about 100,000 men, and it is presumed the rop'd movement of the Allied army prevented the Aus- trians from completing the retreat which they had com- menced, and compelled them to accept battle on the sanke of the river. The London Post says that General McMahon was raiged on the battle field to the rank of Marshal. The Paris correspondent of the Post telegraphs that General McMahon has algo been created Duke of Magenta. The Paris correspondent of the Londv. Post says the Emperor Napoleon was present et the battle of Magenta, but did not command in person. There is a report that General Canrobert was mortally wounded, and that five French generals or marabals were wounded. The Patric seys that Marshal Baraguay d’Hilliers was removed from his command and replaced by General Forey. ‘Marebal Vaillant is superseded by General Randon, and the Ministry of War is to be confided provisionally to Ge- nera) Horanna. ‘There were rumors in Paris on the 8th that the French logs was from 9,000 to 12,000 men hors de combat. Gene. rails Neil and McMahon were said to be among the wounded. The Paris papers variously estimate the forces en- gaged at 100,000 to 120,00 French, and 130,000 to 380,000 Austrians, MOVEMENTS OF GARIBALDL ral Garribaiéi bad quitted Leoco, and Genera o’Urban had retreated to Monza. It was supposed that Garibaldi was directing bis march against d’Urban, IMPORTANT FROM RUSSIA. Au important circular from Prince Gortechakoff to the Envoys of Ruesia at the scveral courts of Germany, de- clares thet if Germany goes to the aid of Austria, the poli- twal equililrium resulting from the treaties by which the German Confederation is constituted will be destroyed. IMPORTANT FROM GERMANY. A despatch from Darmstadt says, that at the opening of the Chambers there, the Presidents of both branches of the Legislative body declared in favor of war against Louis Napoleon, AUSTRIA- On the 4th a great retigious sclomuity, with proces- sion and public prayere, took piace at Vienna, the object being to implore heaven to bless the Austrian arms with victory. All the membors of the Imperial family and the Mivisters were preacnt, Mass, was read by the Pope's vuncio, MOVEMENTS OF KOSSUTH. WIS INTERVIRW WITH THE FRENCH MINISTER DY LONDON--DEPARTURE FOR ITALY. Kossuth was leaving England for. Italy on the 7th inst. de bed bad an interview with the French Ambassador in London. Some three hundred Hungarians who had re curned from America were to follow him to Italy. Interesting from Great Britain. SPERCH OF THE QUEKN TO PARLIAMENT—STRICT NEUTRALITY OF ENGLAND—THE REFORM BILL— WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN THE MINISTRY, The rea) business of Parliament commeneed on the 7th, shen the Queen in person delivered the following speech:— My Lorps awp GenTLEMEN—I avail myself with satisfac- Hon, 11 tbe present anxious stave of pubiic affairs, of the advice Of my Perliament, which I bave summoned to @ret With the lesst possible delay, I bave directed thai papers sbe)} be laid before you from which you will learn dow earnest and wnoearing have been my endeavors to preserve the peace of Ewope. Those endeavors have un ppily tted, and war bas been deciared between Svence and Saraipia on ove side, and Austria on the ether. Receiving sesurances of friendship from’both the contend- ‘ng parties, J trend to maintain between them astrict and mpartial neutrality, and ) hope with Ged’s assistance to prererve to ty people the blessing of continued peace, Copsidering, however, the present state of Eu- rope, I bave deemed it necessary to the socurity af my comuions and the honor of my crown 0 jberease my naval forces to an amount oxceroing tbat which haa been sanctioned by Parliament. (rety with copfidence on your cordial concurrence in this precavtorary measure of defensive policy. The Kivg of he Two Sicilies, having announced wo me the death of the King, bis father, and hie own accession, [ have thought, m copcert with the Em r of France, to renew my uplomatic intercourse with the Conrt of Naples, which ad been ruspended during the late rego. Ail my otner relations continue on a perfectly satisfactory footing. The reat of the speech is devoted to matters of local in- terest. Attention is directed to the bill to carry ont the recommendation of the Commissioner in regard to the ‘vest mode of manning the navy; and in respect to the Reform question, the Queen simply says that she shall have pleasure in giving ber sanction toany well considered. measure; and that, should matters of more urgency, re, tating to the defence and financial condition of the ooun- try necessitate ® postponement, she hopes that the ques. tion wil! haye attention at the commencement of the next eereion, ‘The speech concludes by expreesing a hope that the de- liberations of Parliament will tend to eecure to the coun- try the continuance of peace abroad and a progressive im- provement at Lome, Inthe Houre of Lords, the address in reply to the Queen’a speech, was moyed by Eari Powis and seconded by Lord Gifford. The cocduct of the government, both in {ts domentic and foreign relations, was denounoed by Lord Granville and others, but after their speecnes in de- ‘ence by the Farl of Malmesbury and tho Earl of Derby, the address was agreed to, In the Commons the addrees to the Crown was moved by Mr. Fgerion and seconded by Sir J. Elphinstone, The Marquis of Dunnington moved an amendment tho cffeos thet the present ministry does not ponress the coa- fder * the Bouse. He reprehended the conduct of tb. government on the Reform qnestion, Mr. |. wury seconded the amendment, Mr. Disraeli defended the course of the government, and stated that tho Reform question would be postponed Ull the next session, and that the foreign policy of the government would be peace. He catied for an im- mediate division. The question was about to be put, but ibe opposition were not prepared to vote, and a‘ter tpecebes Ly Lord Paimesaton and others, Mr. Diaracli con- sented to acjourn the debate till the Lith. Accaference of the liberal party was beid in London on the 6th, iv the street, purruantto a call issued by Lords Palmerston snd John Russeliand otver promtncot men. Upwards of two buudred and fifiy members of Parliament are btated to bave been present, and the proceedings were on the whole harmonious, Tt was announced thet Prince Paul Exterhazy had ar rived tp London on s diplomatic mirsion from Austria, but ‘he Herald etatcs authoritatively that the report is entire- ly without foundation, Sir Arthur Magianis, at present Britieh Minister to Swe Cen, is appointed Frvoy to Naples, thus re-opening diplo- matic relations with that kingdom. Tbe sudden death of Mr. Pierce, a leading member of Christy’s mingtrels, now performing in London, ie an- nounced. Tbe Dublin correspondent of the London Herald men- tiong a rumor that Sir Edward Grogan is to succeed Sir E. Head, a8 Governor-General of Osnada, France. Confidence was somewhat restored in commercial ¢ir- cles, and business was more animated. The Paris flour market was firm and rather dearer. ‘Wheat was also firm, It§was feared that the prevailing wet weather would damage the crops. ‘The Perie Bourse was buoyant and higher. The quota- tion tor Three per centa on the oui was 64f.300,, an ad- vance of more than ous per cent since the Europa sailed. On the %a the closing price was 68f.30c., ex coupon, which is equal to a further advance of one-half, Indla. ‘The Bombay mail of May 12 had reached England. The ews is of little importance. The money market bad cx- perienced a sudden and unprecedented panic. Discount ‘wag nominally ruling at 24 per cent in the Bazaar, but money in any quantity was not obtainable upon any terms. The import market was depressed by the monetary crisis. Cotton had declined from the same cause, and exchanges bad materially advanced; quotations ranged from 2s. 2344. a 28. 234d. Breights about the same. The vessels engaged in laying down the Red Sea tele- graph cable were within three hundred miles of Aden, and the working of the line was most satisfactory. Australia, The Melbourne mail of April 16 hadreached England. The news is of no importance, The gold shipments since the departure of the previous mail reached nearly £1, 000,000, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, LONDON MONEY MARKET, Conaols closed on the 7th at 9354 for money, and 9334 a 98% for account. AMERICAN ERCURITIES. Awerican stocks were slow of sale, but without altera- tion of moment in rates, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. ‘The sales of the three days in the Liverpool cotton mar_ ket were 17,000 bales, including 2,000 on speculation and for export. The market closed with but little inquiry and prices weak, while some authorities say that in many canes ® reduction of 3;d. bad been submitted to, Mosers, Clare & Sons quote middling Orleans at 6 13-16d., aud mid- dling uplands 6 9-164. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER. ‘The advices from Manchester are unfavorable; the mar. ket was dull, the East Indian demand having eubsided. LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. Im the Liverpool breadstuffs market all desoriptions were slightly lower. Mesers. Richardson, Spence & Oo quote American flour yery dull and unsaleable, and quo tations nominal at 11a, #188. 04. Wheat doclined 24. » 8d.; Western 88. # 108., do. white 10s. a 11s, white South ern 108. 64.0198. Corn bad a downward tendency, and holders were pressing on the market eta reduction for European; American sorts were quoted, mixed 6s. 6d. 6a. Sd., yellow 6a. 8d, a G8. 10d, white 8s. ar8s. 6d. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. The Liverpool provision market was dull and prices weak, Beef was heavy, and all quatities elightly lower. Pork dull, and sales unimportant. Bacon quict. Lard dull and slightly lower. Tallow eleadier: Butchers’ Asso- ciation, 568. & 56s. 6d. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, Meesrs. Richardsen, Spence & Co. quote rosin dull, at 4s, 1d. for common. Sugar firm, and 6d. higher. Coffee quiet, Ashes dull and nominal. Spirite turpentine dull, but steady, LONDON MARKETS. Breadstuffs were dull but steady in London. Sugar was firm at an advance of 6d.a1s. Coflee firm ata slight ad- vance, Tea firm. Rice heavy, and previous quotations barely maintained. Tallow firm at 56s. 3d. THE FRENCH GENERALS AT MAGENTA, SKETCHES OF ESPINASSE, CANROBERT, M’MaHON, FOREY, NEIL, RANDON, VALLIANT AND D'HIL- LIERS. ‘The great battle of Magenta, fought on the 4th inst., has caused some important changes among the French general officers, We learn by telegraph that Ezpinasse was killed, Marebal Canrobert mortaliy wounded, Mac- Mahon made Marshal of France and Duke of Magenta on the field, where be distinguished himself, and Forey promoted to the command of the right wing of the army, superseding in that high station Marshal Baraguay D’Hilliere, who appears to havé been degraded. That our readers may be fully posted up in regard to the personals of these officers, we have prepared the following brief sketches of their several careera:— GENERAL ESPINASSE, Gen. Espinasse, who has fallen in the first great battie of the campaign, had given up the post of Minister of the In- terior and of General Safety, which he had heid since February, 1858, to take an active share in the war—am- bitioning, probably, to win for himself a marsbal’s baten oradukedom. He was still in the full vigor of manhood when he left Paris, being only forty-seven years of age. He held the rank of Lieutenant Oolonel in the campsiga of Kabylie, under Gen. St. Arnand. When the coup d’éta of December 2, 1851, was accomplished, Espinasse was in Paris, a8 Colonel of the Forty-second regiment of the line, and was selected ag the officer undor whose leadership the hall of the National Assembly was to be noiselossly surrounded. While that body was deliberating on tho decree by which Lou's Napoleon was to be atripped of his powers ae President of the republic, the door on Univer- sity street was opened, and the Forty-second rogiment of the line, with Col, Espinasso at its head, occupied the courts of the building and in- verrupted all communication from without. In the street Oghts that ocurred in Paris during we two follow- ing days Erpinagse and bis regiment were engaged. He ‘was #00n after promoted to the rank of General of Bri- gade, and was appointed aid-de.camp to the Prosiaent of the republic. In 1852 he was sent on a confidential mis- sion tothe Departments, with M. Quentin Bauchart and General Canrobert, to revieo the labors of the Mixed Commission, and some months afterwards waa gent to Algeria on a mission of clemency, which permitted a cor tain number of exiles to return to France. He afterwards took part in the expedition to the Crimes, ‘When Oraini made the attempt to assassinate Louis Na- Poleon, at the beginning of Inet year, Uspinasse was ap Polnted Minister of the Interior and of General Safety, the Emperor not heing satisfied with the manner in whicn the duties of that position had been discharged. Hoe had every reliance, however, on Espinasse, who has borne the reputation of being a brave, resolute, determined man not much given to leniency or gentleness of d'sposition. ‘He was a native of Brittany. A few yeara ogo he met with an oxtiaordinary accident, which left singular scare upon his face, Hoe was giving @ piece of sugar to bis horee, holding it between his teeth, whoa the animal bit him #0 severely that his jaw was in- jured, and several pieces were obliged to be taken out. Of course this did not improve his appearance, bat gave him an air of ferocity, wiich probably had its effect in Producing the general impression aa to the uvamiaDility of his character, MARSHAL FRANCOIS CERTAIN CANROBERT. ‘This djstinguebed officer, who is reported as bayin EDITION—MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1859. PRICE TWOLCENTS. been mortally woundoll at the battle of Magenta, was in command of the centre corps of the Froneb army. It will be recollected that he sucverded Marshal St. ar aud In command of the allied forces before Sebastopol. Soon after taking command he called @ council of war t> di¢cus the plan of the campeign ‘‘Gentiemen,” eaid he, “there is the fortress of Sebastopol; we most have it, If we cannot get in by the doors, we must got in by the wixdows.” Canrobert had gove to the Crimea in com mond of the Firat divieion of the Army of the East, which, in the unfortunate campa'go of the Dobrutscha, Was to feaifully decimated by the cholera, He after. wards assisted (he expedition of the Crimes with all his jorts, sustaining at the pareage of tho Alma the first ehock of the Ruselane, and, notwithstanding a very hot auc repid tre, he eetabliehed himself on the heights until the arrival of General Forey. He was wounded in the arm by the bursting of # shell, Dut he never rested unti! the end of tho day—the 24th of September, Two daya af- terwards Marshal St. Arnaud, who felt big end approach” ing, resigned to him the command in-cblef, at the same ‘ume giving bim @ confidential letter to the Emperor, dated on the 12th of March previously, The new General immediately marched upon Sebastopol, and constructed a great many batteries and the first parallel, and opened re on the 17th of October; but having recoguized the im porsibility 0” teking the place by # coup de main, he un- dertook, in the nudes of insurmountable obstacles, and at ‘& most severe season, the gigantic labors which resulted in a complete investment. This iret period of the rlege— tho most terrible—was morked by the bloody battle of Ipkermann on the 6th of November, and the battles of Balaklava and Eupatoria, and the continual sorties of the epvemy. He had a horse killed under him and was slightly wounded at Ipkermann, while beading the impe- ‘uous charge of the Zouaves. In consequence of the re- fusal of Lord Raglan w vo operate in a plan of attack pro- posed by M. Canrobert, the latter, in view of the increas. ipg embarrazement of the situation of the Allies, resigned the command-in chief into the hands of General Pelissier on the 16th of May, 1865, and returned to his post at the bead of the first corps. In two months afterwards he quitted the Crimea, and in the following year he received, along with MM. Boequet and Randon, the baton of Marshal of France (18th of March, 1856). By this new dignity he ‘became Senator by right, and Grand Crogs of the Legion of Honor since 1895. Canrobert was in the fiftieth year of bis age, baving been born in 1809, of an honorable family of Bretagne. He joined the army in 1828 aa second Neutenant in the Forty-seventh regiment of the line. He served with great distinction in the various African campaigos,and was par ticularly distinguished for his presence of mind in critica! circumstances. The following anecdote is a good speci. men of his coones. In 1848, being colonel of the Zouaves, he was on his march from Aumale to Zaatcha to take part in the siege. The cholera bad infected and was decimat- ing his column, and they advanced with difllculty, s0 laden were the mules with dying soldiers, At the most trying moment be was informed that the nomadic tribes of the south were preparing to attack him. An engage- ment was, aboyg all things, to be avoided, for they would have no means of transport for the wounded. The colonel immediately made bis arrangements for fighting, and then marched forth alone to meet the nomades with his inter. preter, and addressed them thus: ‘Know, good people» that I carry the plague about me, and if you do not suffer me and mine to pass, I ehall throw it amongst you.”” The Arabs, who had'traced the column for many days by the newly made graves it leit behind it, were seized with ter- ror, did not dare to attack, and let them pass. His order of the day, addressed from his headquarters at Alessandria, to the troops under bis command, reads as follows:— SOLpIErs OF THE Trp Corrs p’ARMER OF THE ARMY OF me ALPS—| ein all haste trom the ditferer t parts of France, toalve your poweriul ald to ® brave sad iriendly, pation, intguitously invaced by austria, you socn assemb! | bere round the chiefs chowen by the { Ahoe chiefs you are wel! acquainted wie. ‘They nave often been your gu! yo learnea to copiide ia them For’ the firet time J cnn. in the campaign which is about to open, adarvat myte-f to you and Bay thal the honor of having the chief comment of 60. Our Vue i oply equalled by my cunfidence in you, and the auccess which awaite us. ‘Soldie: 8! Abe precipitate march which you have just made Acros Ue Alpe baa not allowed the soliethide of thet mperor’e | Soverpment to supply you witn a! of which you stand in need, You wi! soon feveive 1. You mast call t majad. thas tba | warnory, our forefathers ‘who have. preovied us in these tive counle’es, were 1a want of every! at the time thas they | covered tbe ting of France and the country wich immortal glory. ch find iteelt opoosite have nn vi aumen, wbicd you will 900d sais to beet Jowed by oibs#s equally glorious, There is no doubt but that we shall learn, when ful! de- tails of the battle of Magenta reach us, that the gallant Canrobert distinguished himself on this his last field, as he had done throughout bis whole military career. MARSHAL M’MAHON, DUKE OF MAGENTA, It would appear that this distinguished officer, who ‘was in command of the second Corps of the Army of the Alpe, has won the chief honor ia the battle of Magenta, for we find that the Emperor has bestowed upon him io the fleld of fame the baton of a Marsha) of France and the title of Duke of Magenta—just as the Aret Napoleon, sixty five years ago and near the same field, acknowledged the skill and intrepidity of Marsbal Augereau by be- atowing on him the title of Duke of Castiglione. General MacMabon, then Count, was re-called from the command- in-chief of the French troops in Africa, to take part in the Italian campaign, where he has already won his baton and dukedom. As his name implies, be is of Irish extrac- tion, and bas well upheld the character for dash and in- trepidity which soldiers of that raze have won for them- selves in the military service of every country in the world, Since 1841, when he commanded a battalion of chaggeurs, General MacMahon has been almost constantly inthe field, The soldiers love him, believe in him, and ‘will follow him with confidence across the line of the ene wy, through which he will pierce with his sword uplifted, emiling eye, the coolness of a leader and the epirit of a brave soldier, He it was who planted the French colors on the Mamelon on that terrible day when Sebastopol fell. The order of the day which he issued on that occa- sions deserves to be recalled here, now that he has reach. ed the topmost rung in the laddor of his military career. Tt is a8 follows == tHE First Division awn Zovaves or 01 THE GuaRD—You are about at to quit your paral- | Jela and attack the enemy ie) In _ this de- doy the General bas conSded fo, you the moat tm: part—the carrying o! Redan and mMalako Be itey dt kevastopol. soldiers 1 all the army has i eyes on you, and your sta on the ramparts of that citade} must respond given for the seedpon taste murers oy rong, Unereslren ou het ais oF iend you wi ves on e sates, FOO Uuaasoure. soldiete ef the seventh, Ee. Twentieth and Twenty roventh of the line your bravery ant swers for the success which ie to immortalize the numbers of your regiments, in ® few houre the Kinpsror will make known to France what the solciers of mann can do. 1 seall give you the UEmpereur.” Our rallying word wi! DS MMAHON, It appears by the telegraphic despatch from Quebec, that General MacMahon was wounded et the battle of Magents. GENERAL FOREY. The ‘battle of Montebelio, the Orst fight in the Italian camprign, was wou by the troops of the Forey brigade, which formed part of the First division of the army, un- der the command of Marshal Baraguay d’Gilliers. At this battle Forey she wod himself such a bravo and gallant vill cer that the Emperor, when he visi-ed the floid, embraced him and publicly thanked him forthe victory he bad won. He has now, it would seem, cistinguiahed himself as high- ly in the battlo of Magenta; and it is not a master of surpriso that he hes been promoted to the command of the division in which be served. We are told that General Baraguay d’Hilliers bas been super: seded by him in command of the first corps of the army. General Forey, as almost all the general oilicere of the French army, distivgulshed bimsoif ia Africa, where he served for ten years as colonel o/ tho Twenty-sixth rogi- ment. He commaaded a brigade in Pans 04 the ovcntion of the coup d’ifat, and wasas the bead of the ooluma of troops who escorted the members of the Natioua! Assem- bly, at the time of their dissolution, from the piace of meeting to tho barracks of the Quai d/Oraay. After tac formation of the Army of the East he had the command of the Fourth division; he landed at Pyrea, was present at the battle of Alma, and it was he who io the morning of the 6th of November vigorously repulsed the Sugsians, who tried to penetrate into the French trenches while the battle of Inkermann was goiogon, Nwyerthe- leas, Forey was witncrawn from the Crimvan army under circumatences which had ® tendency to cast a shadow op his reputation, in consequence of bis tmaving axceedod bis preecribed duty im certain communications with the enemy, The Emperor on that occasiom put a favorable construction oa his couduet, and he went to the Iia!ian campaign as second in command of the First divisiou. Bis valor was very conspicuous at the battle of Montebello, Where ho was wounded, and hig goss litoraliy ridtled wit bullets, and he had a very narrow cecape of being taken pri- soner, When Gen. Beuret fel} pierced throngh the brain with bullet, Forey rushed to the front ant took Bouret’s Place, One shot shattered his scabbard and struck bis teg, and another tore off part of bis epaulette. His ad. dress to his soldiers is very laconic, Here it is:— Porpirns ov the Finst Division or Tux Finst Conrs—We wba reelve® iO p orrow in tne drat line, aad tt is pr -b- &b.0 that we shall have the bonor of (iret engaging th enemy. hemew ber that your ta’bers have elwaya eneuny, ‘Bn0 you will do the same, General of Livision FO. KY. Gavi, May 6, Forey was born in Paris, and is fifty-five years of age. MARSHAL BARAGUAY D'BILLIERS, lt would appear that Marghal D’Hilliers has been de- Prived of his commsnd of the diret corps of the army, and that post conferred on General Forey. This would imply tbat the furmer hag uot commended bimeelf by his sol. dierly skill or activity to the favorable votice of the im Peror, It is o little remarkable that the firet Napoicon, in his fret Italian campaign, deprived in the same way Marshal Valetto of bis command on tho heights of Cartigione, and in the presence of the troops, 80 a8 to impress upon his officers the necessity of vigor and activity. Probably when the full detaiis of the bate of Magenta reach us we may get a! the cause of Marshal D'Hiliiers’ deprivation of command. We know that in refercnce to the battle of Muntevelio an anecdote is told which may serve as an inkling of the Emperor’s senti ments towards him. It appears that during the might from the 19th to the 20th bis Msjesty the Emperor was knocked up in the middle of the night by an aide de camp from Marshal Baruguay d’Hilliers, telitog him be expected to be attacked at daybreak, or very soon after. “Est ce (a tout ?” retorted the Imperial Commander-in-Chief, ‘‘ce melait vraiment pas la peine de vous diranger.” (Woat! ig that all? It was hardly werth while to trouble you for such « me ) It may be that the Marshal was en- gaged inthe battle of Magenta, and that the Emperor thought he did not show a sufficient amount of dash or impetuosity, or his loss of command may have been at- tributable \o some rther cause, Perhaps be was offended at the notice taken of Forey, and resigned in a pout. ‘He had the repuiation of betng one of the firmest and most energetic of officers, always prompt and decisive, and with a sound and rejiabie judgment, In 1849 he was military Governor of Rome and commander-in-cbief of the French ermy in Italy He commanded a division in the Crimean campaign, and after four days of open trench he entered Bomarsund and inscribed on the French flag the first vietory of that war. The order of the day, addressed from bie headquarters at Genoa to the first corpe of the army of Italy, 8 as follows :— holdiers In 1796 and 1800 the French army, under the or ders of General sonaparie, obtained ip taly giérious rictorize mame cee whom we sre combat. Seve- It is hardly conceivable that such a soldier as D’Hiliers should have rendered himseif liable to such a grave cen- sure as is implied in the destitution of his command. MARSHAL BANDON. Marshal Randon, who has juet superseded Marsha! Vail- jant in his command as Major General of the French army on the battle fleld of Magenta, it is somewhat re- markable superseded the same oflicer as Minister of War immediately previous to the opeving of the campaign tn Italy, poet which he had already filled from the 24th of January to the 26th of October, 1851, when he was ap- pointed Governor General of Algeria. Count Jacques Louis Cesar Alexandre Randon, Marsha! of France, was born at Grenoble on the 25th of March, 1795. He is a nephew of General Marchand, who was ac- cused of having, in 1815, delivered Grenoble to the Em peror, He was early engaged in the military service, and was with the grand army in the campaigas of Russia, Saxe and France, After the aflair of Moscow he was un- der-lieutenant, and was made fuil lieutenant and captain in 1815; he received two gun shot wounds at Lutzen, and tock part in the military events of tho hundred days. The peace which fullowed, and his devotion to the impe rial cause, retarded his career, but the government of July made amends for the forgetfulness of the Restoration. Be was named chief of a squadron of the Thirteenth Chaseeurs in September, 1830, and Colonel of the Chas seurs d'Afrique wp April, 1838; and baving ieft for the colo py of Algeria, the name of M, Pandon during six yous was found mixed up with all the enterprising expeditious egainst the Arsbe. In 1841 be gained the brevet of Ficid Mareba!, and in 1847 that of Lieutenant Generai—nis bravery while under the Prince of Orieans contributiag to his rapid advencement. After having directed the affairs of Algeria under the provisioval government in March, 1848, in the month of Jone be was ptaced at the head of the Third Muitary Di ‘vision (Metz), and frequently inspected tho regiments of cavalry. He was appointed Minister of War on the 24th of January, 1851, 86 retired on the 26th of Ociover ot the same yoar, Some days after the coup d’éat he assum- ed the goverrment general of Algeria, which he held until the reorgan zation of the colony in 1808, It was ho who directed the last expedition of Kabyle, and secured the submission of the country in 1857. The decree of the ‘Sist December, 1852, includes the name of General Ran. don in the list of Senators. He was raised io the diguity of Marehal on the 10th of March, 1866, and has beeo since the 26th of August, 1860, Grand Oifiver of the Le gion of Honor, MARSHAL VAILLANT. Marshal Vaillant, woo, a& we learn by the recent news from Europe, has been superseded in his command ag Major General of the French army in Italy, and replaced by Marshal Randon, was Minieter of War for some time previous to the decla ration of war with Austria, but was then removed, and Randon, the same officer who now superacdes him at th seat of war, was appointed in his place. The double sub stitution ef one General for the other in both positions, is ® curious coincidence. At the time of Vaillant’s removal from the post of War Minister, it 1s rumored that the com- missariat was found to be in so miserable a condition thay Prince Napoleon said that he should be tried by court mar- tial and shot; but the Emperor suggested that as he was a brave and useful officer at tho head of the troops, it Would be better to send him to Italy, and be acoordiogly was appointed Major General of the army in Piedmont, a post from which it sppoars he has now for some reason been removed, Marshal Vaillant wag born at Dijon, om the 6th of December, 1790. At the age of seventeen he entered the Polytechnic School, from whence he was transferred two the military institution at Metz. Ia 1509 he was engaged in active service, and took part in the concluding cam- paigns of the empire, He was licutenant of a battalion of sappers and miners sent to Dantzic, where he was raised to the rank of captain. In the Russian campaign in 1812 he merived, by hia good conduct, the mentiva made of him in the order of the day. in i813 be was made a prisoner of war, was removed from the field of batio, and did not regain his liberty till 1825, when he returned two France, He touk an active part in the battles of Ligay and Waterloo, The peace which succeeded enabled M. Vaillant to employ his leisure ia counection with the science of wer. He publuhed at this time a trauain: tion into French from the Engtish of a work entit’ed “Ap Evesy on the Principles aud Vonstruction of Military Bridges.” Nominatea as chief of battalion in 1826, in thi® capacity be accompanied the expedition to Algerta in 1830 He bad charge of the siege operations at Fort Emperor and was appointed lieutenant ag an acknowledgement o hia services, In 1832 he took part in the siege of Auvera Promoted to the rank of colouel, he returned to Aigeria where his varied knowledge, picked up during his previow vistt, rendered him of great service in directing the Je feusive works then carried on by the French in that Alri can colony. M. Vaillant wag raised to the rank of goueral of brigade in 1838, Two years after—1810—be Wrectod an important section of the fortifications of Pais. Asa recognition of the services he rendered on taat oocazion he was made @ major general. GENFRAL NEIL. General Neil, who is reported to have been wounded in vhe late action at Megenta, is one of tho aides-de camp of the Emperor and a Gener) of the Engineers, and his sus- cee8 hus won bim the eurname of “Poiyorcéte.”” Be has Deon present at all tho regular sieges which Daye won for- {ifled cities to tbe French arms, viz: Antwerp, Coustan- tine, Rome, Bowarsund aud Sebastopol. Gen. Net) took in the preeent campaign the command of a corpe d’armée, THE AUSTRIAN GENERALS AT MAGENTA. FEBICHES OF BAKON HESS, GFNERSL3 GYOLAL AND CLAM-GALLAS. We give above sketches of the Froach Generals known to havo been engaged nt the bactle of Magenta, some of whom bave been killed and wounded, and one superseded in bis command. Woe now present some socount of the Austrian commanders engaged in t \v same action, THE AUSTRIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIRY, Baron Henry de Hees, who commande the Austrian army, has grown old in the service of Lig country, having seen more winters than perhaps any other officer or gol- dier connected with either army. He war born in Vienna in 1788, and {3 consequentiy seventy-two years old. Ha entered the army a8 ap ensiga in 1805, and was for some time on tho general staff, Be was at the battic of Wagram in 1869, when the Austriana were defeated by Napoleon Bonuparte, and which battle wus followed by the treaty of Schonbruup, He served all through the continental war, and received many foreign decorations. He was gazetied to the rank of Colonel in 1829, and next year was placed @t the head of @ division of the staff in Lombardy, having earned for bimself the reputation of being one of the best officers in too Austrian army. He was created Pield Mar. ‘Mal in 1842, and continued attached to the Austman army in Italy. From June, 1849; to July, 1850, he was Secretary of War, and during the years 1865 and 1856, he was empioy~ €d as negotiator at the Court of Ruseia. His migsion re+ Jated to tho Fastern question, which he confused as much ‘as be was able for the benefit of Austria. Hy obtained a@ & reward for this service the command of the fifth corp; Warmee in Italy of the Austrian army, end hag the merit Of being the artisan of bis own military fortune, He ig looked upon az a good strategist. Radetzky, whose prin. cipal adviser he was for a jovg time, held him in ‘the great- est esteem, and he ehared in the greater part of the old Marshal's successes. Be ts represented as having been average to the offensive movement fires made by the Austrians in croseivg the Ticino, GENEBAL GYULAI, General Gyulai was born at Pesth, in 1799. He entered the military service in 1816, and rapidly, notwithstand- ing the peace, obtained promotion. In 1839 be was created Major General, and in 1846 @ Field Marehal, In 1847 he was appointed Governor of the province of Trieste, He is now the actual Governor of the Austro Italian pros vinces and Commander-in-Chief of the troops in Lombardo- Venetia. In 1849 he was merely a general of brigade, He fought under the orders of Radetaky, especially at Cag tozza, on the 25th of July; and unless he bas torgotten tha particulars of that battle he should cherish some respect for the Piedmontese troops. Custoazais the name of ong of ihe villages in the line which was occupied by tne Sar- ¢inian army ; 65,000 Austrians, commanded by Radetaky, ancailed four Piedmontese brigades, the collective atrength of which was 20,000 men, Que of these brigades wag commanded by the Duke of Genoa. The fight lasted from eight o’clock in the morning till four in the after- noon, The Piedmontese performed prodigies of bra- very; they dofenaed, sp by step, all their po- sitions, and retired facing the enemy, whom they never allowed for a single instant to break their ranks, One understands how King Victor Emanuel, in his recent proclamation to the army, recalied with pride ‘this glo rious retreat. General Gyula! commanded on that day one of the Austrian brigades; he knows, consequently what the Sardinian soldiers are worth, In 1848, at the outbreak of the Hungarian wer, the go- verument, baying no coafldence in him on account of hig Bungarian birth; left bim at Trieste, with the rank of military commander of that important place, He placed the city in a state of defence, as also Pola, where the dockyard of the Austrian navy is siusted. He thug saved to Austria that navy, which, however, is not pows erful now, and was far less so at that time. This was hig most remirkable exploit. Since then he has been em- ployed in the public offices and on diplomatic eervice ;in the latter his father, Count Igneu Gyulai, who died in 1831, bad more military experience than him, but did not meet. with great success during his career. In 1809, after hay- ing left the important position of Ban of Croatia for the command of the ninth corps, he had charge of covering the retreat of Prince Churies afver bis defeut at Eratdorf, but did it very unsuccessfully, and hia appointment ea Field Marshal was in consequence thereot delayed till 1813. Goncral Gyulsi commended the Anatriaus in person a6 the Jate baitles of Baffawore, furigo and Magenta, GENERAL CLAM-GaLLAs. General Clam-Gallas, whore presence at the baitle of Magenta ig reported, wasthe conf who commanded tha Ausirian reinforcement of 50,000 men, who effected @ march frem Bohemia through Wacaria, and entered Lou. barcy by the passes of the Cyrulia time to support the Austrians at Magenta. Tue pessege of his troops through the neutral lerritory of Baveria, i; may be remembered, gave rise to much excitemect in Germany, and was tha cause of sume apgry debate recently im the Frankfort Diet, Of the antecedenta of Clam-Gallas we know littie, but the curious fact ie related of bum that he brought with bim, on bis busty march through the Tyrol, a splen- did stud of twenty pure Arabian horses, SKETCH OF MILAN, The evacuation of the city of Bttian before the triumphant arms of the French recalls the history of that venerable and classic city which gave Virgil an education and which still occupies the foremost position of the inland cities of Italy. Milan ts one of those very ancient cities which, thought it has Dot eacaped the devastations aud regages of ali.con- sumpg time, has yet survived them, and preserved to mocern times a vestige of its former glory, It was found- ed by the Gauls 584 years before Cnrist, and gradually roso iolosuch importance as to become the capital of » considerable territery, which bad strength sufficient to keep a Roman army in chock for some time, acd wo re- quire the united efforts of two Roman Consuls to reduce it. lt was called Medioianum by its new masters, aud fou- rished for several ages under the protecting shade of the Mistress of the World. The terribie Atttla visited it in hig tury, and butchered the inhadiunis It next fella prey to the Goths, who delivered it ap to flames and devasta- tion. Itevflered a similar fate from the Lombards, who took and sacked It, Charlemagne restored it in some moneure to its ancient splendor, In 1066 it was tue capi- tal of arepublic. In 1162 it felt the vengeance of the German Emgeror Frederic Barbarossa, who razed it to the ground and sowed it with salt, to avenge ‘an affront its citizene had put upon bie Empress. Milan, however, survived thig emendoucs visitation, and arose like ® phoepix out of its ushea, even by tho assistance of tbat very prince whom it had insulwd, At ihe end of the fourteenth century it was the capital of @ duchy. Milan became celebrated for ite arms, ite arte and manufecturce, and once set the fashions to the rest of Europe, a8 Paris does now, Hence the word milliner. In 1635 it fell into the power of the Emperor Charles V., who fixed the succession to the ducay ta bia son Philip I. of Spain. It remained uader the govern- ment vf the Spaniards til] the death of the last king of Spain of the Avetrian bne, when it became an object of contenticn between France and Austria, and paesed auc. ceesively ucder their dominion. By the treaties of Utrecht aud Baden, in 1723-14, Milan was anvexed to the poseessions of the House of Austria, and remaiced under the Austrian dominion ti} the busls of Lodi, m 1796, when it fell nto the bands of the Frenca, under General Bonaparte, in bis first campaign io Italy. After passing the terrible bridge of Lodi, Bonaparte procecded towards Milan. On the approach of his army the partisans of Austria, and all thoee who wero terrifod at the reputation of he Freucb, who were reported to ba us barbarous us they were brave, bad fled to Brescia and the Tyrol. Tae Austrian Archduke had set out, and bad beon seen to shed tears ou leaving bis beautiful capital, The groat er part of the Milanese, however, had a favorable opinion ofthe French. When they had received the first division, commanded by Massena, and Woat thoee soldiers whom report bad piinted in “ste frightful colors, re spected property and condnoted themselves in an orderly manner, their enthusiasm knew no bounds. The patriots, asgembied from all parts of Italy, awaited there the young conqueror. They despatched Cotittidé Meizi to mect him, and promise submission. A National Gnard was formed, and clothed in the three colora— green, red and white. fhe Duke de Serbelloni was appointed to command is A triumphal arch was erected to welcome the French general. On the ‘16th of May, one month after the campaign commenced: Bonaparte made his triumphal ontry into Milan. The whvie population went orth to meet bim. The National Guard was under arms, The municipality came to nim and delivered the keys of the city. Acclamations accom panied him all the way to the Serbelloui palace, where Accommodations iad been prepared for hin. He bad now won the bearts of the Itailane as well aa of the soldiers, and was as powerfo! by moral force as he'was by phy- higal, This surrender was yery important, pa 1} coabled