GREAT BATTLE NEAR VERONA.

West Coast Times, Issue 288, 25 August 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)

GREAT BATTLE NEAR VERONA.

Verona, June 24, 2 p.m. A great battle has been in progresa since the morning between the Italians and Austrians. Both wings of the Italian army have already been repulsed. The battle still continues.

Florence, June 24, Evening. Baron Ricasoli received this morning deputations of citizens of Trieste and Istria, who presented addresses expressing the wish of those populations to be united with Italy. Signor Visconti Venosta haa arrived at Messina from Constantinople, and will set out to-morrow for Florence. According to intelligence published by the Florence papers this evening, fresh measures of rigor had been adopted by the Austrian authorities in Venetia. They have ordered a large number of citizens to leave Trieste and Istria within twenty -four hours.

C4.RLSRUHE, 25th June, Evening. The Grand Due of Baden has recalled from Berlin the Baron of Turkheim, his envoy extraordinary and Minister plenipotentiary at the Court of Prussia. Bayonne, 25th June.

Letters from Madrid state that courtmartials take place every day, aud also military executions. Everybody feels most discouraged,

Milan, June 26.

The first corps has suffered severely in the engagement of the 24th. On the 25th, another battle was fought, which lasted for thirteen hours. There are seven hundred Italian prisoners in Peschiera. The Italians are at Gioto, Volta, and Solferino. General Cialdini maintains his position on the river Po.

Ancona, June 27. The Austrian ironclads arrived off Ancona, this morning at 9 o'clock. There were seventeen vessels, and they attacked the Italian ironcrad fleet which lay at anchor off the port. A brief engagement ensued, after which the Austrians retired to Pola, and the Italians into port. Corfu, June 27, 7 p.m. Official intelligence just received here is to the effect that everything is progressing most satisfactorily for the Italians. Copenhagen, June 26. The hereditary Grand Duke of Russia has been affianced to the Princess Dagmar. Florence, June 26. The following details have been received of the battle of the 24th :— The Austrian forces amounted to sixty thousand men. They brought into the field an enormous force of artillery. All the cavalry regiments of the Italians maintained their position until they were compelled to retire before the large reinforcements brought against them by the enemy. The retreat was made in good order. The third corps took a thousand Austrian prisoners. The losses on the part of the Italians are serious, but it is believed that the losses of the Austrians are much greater.

Generals Durando, Cereal, and Gezzali were wounded during the action while charging at the head of theiv corps. The spirit of the army is excellent. Florence, June 27. The King sent a despatch to bay that the battle of the 24th was neither won nor lost. " I have ordered," he says, " the concentration of all the troops, so as to resume the campaign. The losses of the enemy are immense. The army is in excellent spirits, and asks to be led to the field of battle. Vienna, June 27. Yesterday evening an engagement took place not tar from Muenchengratz, which lasted nearly all night without any result. To-day, between Xachot and Newstadt, a very sharp fight took place. The Prussians have been repulsed upon Skalik; the struggle was continued in the vicinity of Newstadt, where the Prussian cavalry fought for the first time. June 27, 6 o'clock, evening. The defeated Prussians are in full retreat, leaving their dead and wounded on the battle field. j Berlin, June 26, evening. A Prussian army corps is to start tomorrow for Hof, in Bavaria.

The results of the primary elections, so far as they are at present known, show a great majority in favor of the liberal and progressive party. According to official despatches received from Reichenberg and Neisse, dated the 26th, the armies of Silesia and of the Elbe are advancing without impediment and without meeting the enemy. June 2G. Yesterday the Prussians destroyed the railway, between Verden and Goersuitz. The inhabitants of Altenburg have revolted against the Prussians. The King of Saxony has left Prague. Berlin, June 27. Last night, the army of the Elbe met the enemy near Turnpn, and an engagement ensued, in which they were victorious. The Prussians took seven offic«r and 500 Austrian soldiers prisoners. Weisbaden, 27th June. In the Chamber of Deputies the subsidies for the mobilisation of the army, were refused by 24 votes to 14. Vienna, June 26, Evening. The Prussians have occupied the railways to the north of Standing and Schenbrum, and destroyed the bridge on the Oder. Pahis, June 27. The " Patrie " says that it is not true that France intends to send a squadron for observation to the North Sea and the Adriatic. The same paper states that the Conference of the Princinalities is indefinitely adjourned. June 27. In the Legislative Assembly, after passing several bills of local interest, only the whole of the ordinary estimates were adopted by 138 votes to 14. Gothe, June 25. The Hanoverian army has held a parley with the Prussians for the last two days, concerning the terms of a capitulation. The array request* to be allowed to rttire

southward, and promibe to remain neutral for a twelvemonth. The King of Prussia offers to let the King of Hanover and his officers be free to retire, and offers to send the soldiers to their homes. These negotiations have not yet produced any result.

Berlin, June 25.

The King of Hanover requested, this morning, that he might be allowed twen-ty-four hours to consider the conditions of the capitulation. Although the hope of being assisted by the Bavarian army was the principal motive for this request, it was granted by Prussia. However, the latter powers considers that it is very unlikely that the Bavarian army will assist the Hanoverians.

June 27.

It is officially stated that Prussia has again offered to the King of Hanover an alliance, and a guarantee based npon the Federal reform, as well as a capitulation with the honors of war. It is hoped that this capitulation will take place to-day.