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Howard li. Marraro
ing an attack on the temporal authority of thè Pope. Nevcrtheless, as mcn-tioned in my last dispatch, the legations of Bologna and Ancona havc risen in revolt, cast out the legates, and sent delcgates to the sovcreigns in the camp and to the Government in Turin. The pricstly party pretcnd that these people received a rude reception and xebuke from Louis Napoleon, For that I cannot answer. But it is certain that the movemcnt was encouraged by Cavour and the politicai people at Turin. Jlence even Perugia, a city on the Roman plain itaelf, has followed the example of Bologna and by so doing has brought ab out an unexpected catastrophe. Two regiments of the Pope*s Swiss guarda arrived there under the command of Gol. Schmid, and, entering the town by aid of a convent of Dominican friars who opened for bini a gate near theìr convent, beat the patriota and slaughtered a considerablc number of the people. That the Pope should so maintain bis authority has caused an outcry ali over Italy, and the event places the AHies in a disagrecable position. If they side with the Pope, they place themselves in opposition to the Italian movement; if they sup-port the Perugians, they attack the Pope. It is said nere today that the real cause of Cavour's sudden cali to the Mincio was rather this dilemma in which. his Jfxiends have placed the Emperor than any proposai of Prussia.
Latest Intelligence
Tuesday evening. A bulletin bas been published which gives no new details of the battle except that the Piedmontcse account for their ce difficulty by a violent storni of hail in their faces. The Austrian bulletin gives the same reason for their defeat by the French.
The Allies have not yet passed the Mincio. But they bave possession of the bighlands of Volta which dominate the Venetian bank. By placing cannon there, they can clear the opposite shore and pass when they please. No autho­rity for an estimate of the ldlled and wounded yet.
The Empcror of Austria returns to his capital, giving the command finally into the hands of Hess, who will now put in praetice the defensive pian which he has advocated from tlie first*
John M. Daniel a Lewis Cass
Turin, June 30th, 1859. No. 114.
Sir: [Invia la relazione ufficiale del Ministero della Guerra sulla battaglia di Solferino]. In a letter from the American officcr, for whom it will be remem-bered I procured permission to resi de in tue Sardinian army, and who was on the field of battle the whole day, written to me the day after, these lines occur: In the morning of the 25th, after a cup of coffee, which the polite officers of Fanti's division offered me, I crossed the plain to Solferino and rode up it along the part where the Battle was hottest. Everywherc the dead and sometimes the wounded strewed the ground. I could not computo the numbers; but my impression is that the French Iosa greatly execeded that of the Austrians. Indeed from the strength of the position it must have been so. The French were torn by artiìlery which they could not reply to.T I wont down the plain on the east, but not so far as the place of the cavalry fight, and found dead and wounded ali along the