The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-10-16 00:00:00

THE King of Sardinia and his Government have
assumed the responsibility of the Neapolitan
revolution, and Garibaldi has invited his Majesty
to go to Naples and send him reinforcements.
The King has taken the command-in-chief of the
army of Italy, and is now on his way to Naples,
in accordance with the invitation of Garibaldi
and with the resolutions presented to him by
deputations from every province of the kingdom.
The Sardinian troops in the Papal States crossed
the frontier on Tuesday at three different points,
and the Sardinian fleet had previously left
Genoa with the King's brigade and 3,000 other
troops to reinforce the army of Garibaldi. In
taking this final resolution the King has issued a
manifesto to the people of Southern Italy ex-
plaining the policy he halt adopted in conse-
quence of the late events, and has also sent a
Commissary-General to Sicily, charged with the
administration of that island. The great victory
gallica by Garibaldi over the Royal army in the
neighbourhood of Caserta, and which will be
kuown in history as the Battle of Volturno, was
fought on the Ist and 2nd inst., having lasted
for two entire days. On the first day it com-
menced at half-past 3 in the morning and lasted
till 7in the evening. The Royal army, which is
said to have been commanded by the King of
Naples in person, amounted to 20,000 men,
while the total number which Garibaldi
could bring into the field was only 12,000.
Notwithstanding this disparity of numbers,
Garibaldi, at the close of the day, had com-
pletely routed the King's army and driven them
back to Capua with the loss of about 3,000 men
and 2,000 prisoners, his own bass being estimated
at upwards of 4,000. During the night the
Royalists took possession of the heights above
Caserta, with the intention of descending into
the plain and renewing the battle on the follow-
ing morning. Garibaldi, however, had inform-
ation of the movement, and made his arrange-
ments with such skill, that when the Royal
troops descended the mountains at an early hour
on the morning of the 2nd, he itnmediately gave
them battle, and at last completely routed them,
cutting off two entire battalions, and making
them prisoners almost to a man. Garibaldi has
since made a reconnaissance of Capua, but it is
supposed that no regular attack will be made
upon that fortress until the arrival of the
Sardinians. Tito latest news states that
Garibaldi is about to convoke the electoral
colleges of the Two Sicilies for the 21st inst. to
vote by universal suffrage on the question of
annexation, and that the Marquis de Pallavincio,
in his quality of pro-Dictator, having requested
Marzini to leave Naples, the latter had taken his
departure from the city.
Desrettches from Turin inform us that the
great debate on the law of annexation was
brought to a close on Wednesday after an im-
portant speech from Count Cavour, when the
order of the day proposed by the committee
rendering homage to Garibaldi and unanimously
expressing their approval of the proposed law,
wits agreed to on a ballot by 290 votes to 6.
The Cabinet of Madrid has addressed a note to
the French Government demanding a Congress
of tile Catholic Powers, similar to that held at
theta in 1849, with the object of gmranteeing
the integrity of the Papal States. The French
Cabintt, in reply. while admitting the expe-
diency of a Congress, has stated that the terri-
toriLd changes calmed by the late events in Italy
would render it necessary to refer the Roman
quest to a Congress of the Great Powers.
Accounts from China to the cotnmencement of
July have been received through St. Petersburg,
stating that the insurrection was gaining ground,
enpoeially in the eastern maritime provinces;
and that in consequence of reports that the
English who disembarked at Petcheli had not
ill-treated the natives, the inhabitants of Pekin
were favourably disposed towards the English,
and desired their presence at Pekin. A corps
of 6,000 men had been despatched from that
capital against the allies, and a corps of 10,000
had been sent in another direction.

Tux battle of Volturno has no doubt decided
the fate of the tyrant linni of NArmas and
virtu4lly accomplished the object of the Nea-
politan revolution. The march of liberty up to
this great and decisive struggle has been most
revaarkable throughout the whole of its pro-
grebe. Such was the odium and rottenness into
which the kingly power in central aud Southern
, Italy had sunk, that the name and indomitable
I valour of one man have been sufficient to
annihilate it, and place the great cause of
freodom and • constitutional government as a
glorious triumph before the face of the world.
Thu moral effect of the brilliant successes of
I OAHARALIn will be felt all over Italy and over
Europe, and should he scarcely less profitable to
tho despots of the earth, than the deeds of
heroism and the most exalted patriotism are

admirable in the eyes of all who love those
manly and noble virtues. NVell has it been
said, "Justice with courage is a thousand men
and well has this axiom of our immortal Bard
been illustrated in the recent great events in
Italy. The King fought in a bad way a despic-
able cause; and, 'though out-numbering the
patriots by two to one, he fought in vain. The
twenty-one thousand men who accompanied or
followed their sovereign to Gaeta were the elite
of an army of four times that number, or, at any
rate, comprehended the best troops in the Nea-
politan service in point of discipline, and the most
determined to adhere to the ancient cause. With
less than half this number GARIBALDI occupied a
position that only a daring commander would
have ventured to take with so small a force.
That position was resolutely assailed with a force
very superior in numbers, and was more than
once occupied by the enemy. But the brave
Garibahlians returned to the charge, and, ani-
mated by the extraordinary courage and daring
of their chief, not only succeeded in hokling their
own, but at length, at the close of one of th°
bloodiest and most memorable battles on record,
repulsed the enemy at all points, when, as the
famous despatch of GAR[BALDI says, "there MBA
"victory along the whole line." The KIND of
SARDINIA has by this time probably entered
Naples, and taken possession of a kingdom which
(laitie.tt)i has won for him, and which all true
lovers of liberty will rejoice to see securely put
under the enlightened rule of V icron EMMANUEL
this point liberty has indeed made great and
, rapid strides; and if these glorious events must
halt here—if the noble work of regeneration and