The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-18 00:00:00

ITALY.

(ROM OVIII OWN

NAPL Oce. 7.
At hurt, the little castle of Bane haa surrendered to
the troops of Garibaldi, after a resistance which did
great honour to the fidelity of the commander.
There were found is the fort 962 barrels of powder,
and 115,472 cartouches, and other preparations of
powder. The citadels of Messina and Gaeta are
plaosl in a state of blockade. Most of the prisoners
who were taken near Caserta last Monday were sent
off to Genoa : many hare been sent to Sa-
lenio, where they were well treated. It is due
to ti., Piedmontese troops who were engaged on
that OCCailloU to say that they distinguished them-,
ark ci by their courage ; many of the Calabrese,
linvretrr, turned tail and lied, saying that they came
tip n.,t to tight but to see the capital. You will
renunntwr that a number of these gentry crossed
oy,r from Reggio to Messina, when that place was
taken, .as a marauding speculation, and it is not
unli t:y that similar ideas of personal advantage
induced many of those heroes to come up to
Naples.. People who have been daily at Santa
Maria speak to me of the disgraceful panics
which take place there, showing how utterly unfit
the army of Garibaldi is for a campaign against
♦ustria, and how wise is his proclamation which
defer* until March wait any step onward. The old
eleuk,-uts of the army are magnificent, but the re-
cruits from this country are worth nothing, and I
do not couidder that the interests of liberty will be
served by disguising the truth, or by glorifying men
who not deserve it.

Oer. 9.

Sunday Ministers gave in their resignation ;
and I Am informed that, yielding to the pressure of
eirco:n.i.auei., Garibaldi ham been persuaded to
break up the " secretaryship" and send Criapi to
&Oh.

t}e❑cral Tarr has been made Commander of the
Piaz..3 of Naples—a good choice, and one that has
given general satisfaction. Yet it cannot but
awaken a smile to bud an Hungarian with supreme
silitsry power in the South of Italy. Personally
the se!ecti9n is uneaceptionable.

I revet to say that your Special Correspoudeut
Mai mole pri.oner last Monday, and taken, slightly
to Gaeta. Such intelligence am I can wind
you from the seat of war I will communicate.
At the hour I am writing 3,000 Piedinnotese
troop, with artillery, have arrived ; and 900 pri-
soners are embarking for Geom.

Oce.lo.
I am sorry to may that the administration of the
bnopitsls for the sick and wounded in Naples is not
only indifferent, but am bed al it can be. At Santa
Maria :Lail Caserta, where they are inure under the
emir°, of Madame Mario, it is better. Mini Hayes
has been placed in management over the hospital
sif Caserta. As to those of Naples, I will instance
we au the Mereatellu, which a friend
of MOW irt!;2° yesterday. " The Gover-
nor," be said, " asked me to moist his
to restoring something like order. They
are all thieves," be arid, "and I am determined to
turn al out who have anything to do with it
From the regular attendants down to the crowds of
rosters who come under the affectation of sympa-
thy, it is all the same •, every one seeks some profit
for himself, and thiup are stolen right and lett I
nice saw suer confusion aunt dirt in my life," con-
tinued my friend ; "so numerous are the May
venous who come in and out that it is impossible
to do anything fur those who antler." He added
much that I aeporess as to the appearance of some
ad the nemesia who were there ; us fact, this hospital,
and I believe others, it my reporters are correct,
must hare been regarded all a good speculation.
But is it possible, you will ask, that there can
be au] but the most generous and unselfish feelings
eo the part of the whole population towards
thuso who have shed their blood for them 1
I prefer to an.seer the question in the words of
Ganbaidi's iitlivers. Au Hungarian, in the Cal
Heroes, on Sunday evening last, exclaimed, " You
never nice mention our mimes, nail yet we have
NW freely for you. As to relief, I was in Sicily,
and not a person came near me, except an English
lady. You are all ready enough at shouting
' Viva, viva,' but you are never ready to do any-
thing. You are not worthy that we should fight
for you." Another officer, with whom I dined
ratentny, said, " Throughout the North of Italy
we hail the gmatest kindness and attention paid us.
In Bnecia eapecially, families optimal their houses
to us and received the sick ; but here, in the shops
and elsewhere, they make a profit of us, and gene-
rally are utterly deficient in that feeling which has
been mauifested towards us elsewhere." I fear
that thee., assertions are but too true, and that,
inning to the debasiug government of the Bourbons,
the moral natire of the Neapolitans has become
'kited), degraded. One of the best results, there-
fore, that may be expected from annexation
will be that fresh social eleuiente will be introduced
—that all the advantage of a foreign occupation
without its evils, will be obtained—and that ho:
nasty and truth will be hell up as models for
imitation. lam severe, but not a bit too much ao
for l add that the Bourbons, with their barbarities,
their hypocrisies, and their sauctities, have trade
the Neapolitans what they are.
I Lavc just men an officer who has come in from
Banta Maria. He tells me that yestenLiy the
royalists demanded an indieinite armistice. Gari-
baldi refused to grant one for more than twenty-
four houns which was accepted, and expired to-day
at mid-day. This looks something like doubt, and
an approach tea finale. I know that at the last
soused of war, held in Caplet, only one general
woke in favour of another attack. The failure of
the 10th Oct.," said theofficer who has just !ea me,
"was decisive. Francis 11. could not have had fewer
than 40,000 men on the tiehl, his plans were good,
and had they succeeded the royalists would have
been in Naples in 34 boort " Froni what horrors
we have been preserved ! " We could not have had
less than 3,000 wounded on that day," said another
officer ; "many of them slight, it is true, in the
bands and iu the arms." Hitherto there ham been a
want of guns and gunners, but now there are many
• the Piedinuatese to nerve them, and the work
will be dune better, for without carmen it was idle
to dream of taking the place. It is time, however,
to return to Naples, where things look brighter
then they have done for r4OOlO time, in consequenoe
of the salutary changes which have been introduced
by the decrees of Monday night People are much
more satisfied, and much lees apprehensive, for, let
the truth be tohl, we were on the edge of a
preetipins, from which we have been rescued
just in time. The position was this—two
Coureais of Ministers working one against the
other and unfortunately that council—by which I
MOW the Segretaria Generale, whica liad the best
opportunities of intercourse with Garibaldi—was
eamposed that ill-judged poety which desired to
pet off amaexation and to hold et in a state of
use ease until their poetical about the
(buries', and Heaven knows what else, were
midi: d. Having the ear of the Dictator, the newt
noxious decrees were homed, and ninny little pri-
vate jobs were effected, such as the oincesaion to
Adaini, and a contract for the maintenance of the
marine, as it is here called—that is, for the supply
el all small articles. Ho that you will see that even
patriotism cannot abandon its pickings. However,
the u.iiiistelM, who are all NaegZaosNis, who know
well their country, its circa and per-
'male, are HOW brought into immediate contact
with the Dictator without my *Mister intervening
infiuenee, and already we have seen the great go,M
effected. I eimied, however, r mit to give his doe
aced of praise to the Marchese Pallavicini, who
has inaugurated his outrank* on the pro-Dictater-
ship with such admirable decrees- He is just the
man fur Garibaldi 111 IWITO at hie right hood ; for
good, and therefore truly great, as is the Diet.itor,
is too mneh singed w military affairs, and tau
unsuspicious of evil in others to be without ao
judeemis a substituteas PaUnviciai hitherioproved
to be.