The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-09 00:00:00

THE BATTLE OF THE VoLTUBNo:

Tho totOkVitig ri4ni Cakrta, dated 0ct0.,.
.,.
bet `Midiy one of the combatants, gives art inte-
estitig account of this sanguinary fight :
Yesterday, at break of day, the Royalists, under the
command of Francis 11. in person, issued from Capua in
three columns ; one of them attacked San Maria, another
San Angelo, and the third cut off the communication
between these two points. The advanced posts of San
Maria, composed of Sicilians, were sarprised; and foited to
fall bark. The attack tiu SAn were.
Conducted with
great Airy, arid tte fi.sailants penetrated into the first
(ibises; in order to dislodge them from which no less
than eight charges with the bayonet were necessary.
San Angelo was heroically defended by the Brigade of the
Medici division, who maintained their position with obsti-
nacy, notwithstanding that all the efforts of the Royalists
were concentrated against it. The first brigade suffered
severely, and three of the staff were put hors de combat,
one of them was killed, and the other two severely
wounded. The Royalists passed the river ,at -00jaito
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afterkß wherelixh'oi °aa. having the
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along the whole line, commenced an attack upon our
positions, but at the moment our reserves came np, which
brought our strength to 12 000 men.
Towards two o'clock we had resumed the offensive;
at six o'clock, the Royalists, pressed on all sides, were
chased towards the Volturno, from whence they retired
in disorder to Capita.
The Iting-cpmmantled 3n pciloit_, and was habited as
a prWate gehtleman. He was observed to be several
times under fire. Garibaldi, in his usual garb, was
everywhere, and. especially in those parts of the field
where danger was greatest. We have had 1,280 men
put hors de combat, and the Royalists about 3,000. The
battle lasted front half-past threp in the rlaning till
seven o'clock in the eyenihg. It is evident that this
formidable attack Was the last effort of Francis 11., who
interle'd, had he been victorious, to march upon the
Capital.
The Royalists set fire to several houses, and there
were several wounded men burnt alive ; but these
cruelties were committed by the Bavarians, and not by
the Neapolitans. Upon the heights of Caserata, 2,000
Royalists were made prisoners, together with their arms
and baggage.
Another account contain§ the to owing addi-
tional
11.6Yalists wished to try a decisive coup. They
Were surrounded; they knew that Cialdini was in
their rear, and was always coming nearer to them, that
General Lamoriciere had been completely defeated,
and that Naples was defenceless. At six a.m. there
issued from the posterns of Ca.pua 15,000 glen,, of Whdm
5,000 were horse, commanded ny Getieral Palmieri; and
five batteries, commended by General Nigri. General
Ritucci coliiiiitinded the whole force. Generals Afan de
Riviera, Barbalongo, and Von Michel were under his
orders.
I had these details from Captain Peirelli. of the 7th
Chasseurs, who has been made prisoner. At the same
time a body of 5,000 was marching upon Maddeloni,
in order to take the Garibaldians in the rear, and cut off
their retreat. The soldiers of Francis IL separated into
two corps—one, advancing along the railway; Was to
attack the position of the Garibaldians on the arches of
St. Maria, atid attract their attention to that point; the
other, by the parallel consular road, was to dr(As tb the
right through the fields, seconded by the teactionary
peasantry of San Frisco and the neighbouring villages,
and•to fall upon Santa Maria on the rear of the G'ari-
baldians. Another body of a thousand men, starting
from the Piana, was to pass the Volturno. below Cajazzo,
and to debouch through San Lucio.
All this had been provided against by Garibaldi ; and
it is astonishing that, in such a reactionary district, the
Royalists were not better informed as to the operations
of the Garibaldians, for the latter had prepared redoabts,
dug trenches, and raised barricades, precisely upon those
fields which the Royalists imagined they would be able
to cross' without obstacles, so As either to attack the right
of the Garibaldijes, or throw themselVes into Santa
Maria.

At half7past six a very lively fire of musketry com-
menced, which was soon afterwards followed by a furi-
ous cannonade. The population was mach excited, and
everyone ran to take a part in the defence. I ran to
tlie front, and arrived just at the moment when the
Royalists were passing over the fifteen arches of the
railway, chasing the Garibaldians before them. The
former, at eight o'clock,. were already at Santa Maria,
near the walls of the Catupan amphitheatre.
Whilst General Ritucci was carrying out this move-
ment, Garibaldi; who had arrived on the field, ordered
an analogous one to it to be made. He ordered the
Regiment Malenceni to leave Santa Maria on its left,
directed it to pass outside, and throw itself into the fields
which the Royalists were to traverse. The latter thus
found themselves caught between two columns of Gari-
baldians, hemmed in between the railway and the road,
and surrounded at all points. The ith Chasseurs were
annihilated, with the exception of thirty-five men, a
brigade-major, and Captain Pierrelli, who were made pri-
soners. If I were to describe the animosity and the
obstinacy of the combat, the calm and genuine courage
of the combatants, it would be impossible.
I made the last campaign in Lombardy, I was at
Magenta, and at Solferitio, and I thought yesterday I
was there again. Thrice the positions of the Garibal-
dians were taken and re-taken with the bayonet; the
grape mowed down the men frightfully, and little
quarter was given. I saw with my own eves several of
the wounded finish with the pistol, or with the dagger,
a combat commenced by the rifle.
With the exception of the Sicilians and the Neapoli-
tans of the city of Naples, everybody did his duty enthu-
siastically. It was a strange and savage thing, con-
'sidering the Italian character, to observe the combatants
fighting, without uttering a single cry, almost in silence.
The roar of cannon resounded, the sky was magnificent,
the sun in all its splendour, the ground which was
trodden under foot teeming with produce.
At mid-day the victory began to declare itself for the
Garibaldians, fresh battalions, with new pieces of artil-
lery, -arrived from Caserta and from Naples, and took
part in the action. The Garibaldiaus, at the outset,
consisted of nearly 10,000, but now these numbers were
augmented to 15,000. Garibaldi was everywhere; he
watched carefully all the phases of the combat, havina•
2,000 men in reserve on his left, to be thrown into
Capua had the vicissitudes of the action' presented a
favourable occasion for doing So. He was very much
excited, red,• and bathed in perspiration, and his voice
was much altered. .
At the attack. on Bixio's positions a great many
officers were killed or wounded. The Sicilians made a
great noise, but did very little work.
Throughout the engagement ammunition often failed
the Garibaldians, and bread and wine was quite ex-
hausted. They fought from six o'clock to one without
', a drop of water or a morsel of bread, under a burning
sun, and nobody ventured to complain. Colonels Dunn
.and Careo were wounded in the morning. The Anglo-
Sicilian battalion, commanded by the former, was nearly
destroyed, but all the officers remained at their posts,
killed or wounded. The battery of San Angelo is very
much injured. The fields were covered with the killed
and wounded, whom we had not the means of carrying off.
Thus ended a fierce and glorious day for the two armies.

REVISION OF BURGESSES.—The revision of burgesses
was commenced yesterday morning, in St. George's
Hall, before his Worship the Mayor, T. D. Anderson,
Esq. The revision is to be continued to-day.
publish the result to-morrow. We will
WAVERTREE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.—The usual
monthly meeting of the Wavertree Local Board of
Health was held last evening at the Public-otfices,
Wavertree, Mr. J, A. Picton presiding: The other
members present were Messrs. Gore, Pinnington, Swin-
don Anderton and O'Connor. The minutes of the last
meeting, and the proceedings of the various committees,
were read and confirmed. Mr. George Francis Train
applied for permission to lay down a street-railway along
Wavertree-road. He enumerated tb.e conditions on
which he was ready to construct and maintain the rail-
way. These are already well known to our readers, and
need not, therefore, be repeated: a plan and a pamphlet
accompanied the application. Mr. Pinnington suggested
that Mr. Train should be required to keep the space be-
tween the rails in repair ; there were, he said, serious
objections to the details of the system. The Law-clerk
explained that the board had no power to grant hint the
exclusive privilege of running along the line of road.
The question was adjourned for a month, Mr. Train
being invited to attend at the next meeting to explain
his system. After some formal business had been
transacted, the board adjourned 7

LATEST NEWS.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISH )MAGNETIC TELEGRAr If.)

ITALY.

MILAN, Oct. 1.

The Perseveranza announces that Garibaldi
solicits the King to go to Naples, and requests
that 14,000 men be sent as soon as possible.

. THE BATTLE ON THE VOLTURNO.
Details have been receited of this battle, The
conflict appears to leave teen of the Most murder-
ous kind: The trOons engaged on both sides did
not fdrni a total of niore than 4(000 Hied, and not
less ,tlian.Odd CorpSes,*ere left on the field of
battle: The king of Naples Col-Mended in Ter-
Son, and. the fighting lasted even longer than the
first accounts received had stated.

According to the Corriere Mercantile, a brigade
of two batteries of the Piedmontese army took
part in the conflict.

The correspondent of the Debats, who was an
eye-witness, says that the fighting put him in
mind of Magenta and Solferino. Three times
Were the Gariliq.ldiads cirii;en front ,their positions
at the bayonet's point, and as often won them
back. The results of the victory are not likely
to be quite so brilliant as was at first supposed ;
neither, as far as can be made out from the con-
flicting accounts received, was the victory so
decisive as the telegram first reported. It comes
to this : the Neapolitans attacked the positions of
Garibaldi, and after fifteen hours' fighting were
driven bast. Meanwhile they stand behind the
Volturno as firmly entrenched,
to the Pdtrieig 144 tievifp they had
erected nunicroiis with artillery at all
the principal fords. Capua itself is a very strong
place, and can stand a regular siege. Victor
Emmanuel will probably have the power of tak-
ing part in the final struggle.
The Mercantile Corriere, of Genoa, states that
the Garibaldians have 1,280 men hors de combat.
The loss of the Royalists is about 3,000. The.
King of Naples was continually under fire. The
total of the Royalist forces engaged was 20,000 ;
the Garibaldians were above 12,000 strong. Eight
charges were made with the bayonet before the
Royalists ddifid lie di irdn oiit tediti the hottsgs in
Santa, Maria:., Mad the king Been tidtbrkitis he
would at once have entered Naples.