The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-06 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AND THE WOUNDED AT

CANRRTA.

The following extracts from a private letter to
the Editor of the Medical 2'isses and Utszette, written by a
friend who has recently visited Naples, will be read with
interest. The letter is dated Naples, dept-od.v 27, and
was received this week :

7ifewdays ago Teas one of a party which went down
to Caserta to visit the military hospital, where the wounded
were brought after the unfertueate athur of Gapes. We first
walked in the pintails of the palace, where we wore so fortu-
nate as to come, accidently. ou a buds of officers practiming
rifle-shouting. Among them was no leo a personage than
Garibaldi himself. As soon at he perceived us be mine
frankly forward to Mrs. W—, who had with her • large
hamper of lemons and oranges for the Wounded. On her
requesting him togiveordere thel.Me unglatheadeinted to the
hospital, he immediately offered to moon her thither him.
self. A few minutes afterwards the people were • little
astonished to see Garibaldi drive off with an English lady
and her two daughters, without any of his staff, to visit the
hospital. I was perched on the box. After a ten minutes'
drive we arrived at the hospital, a foie modern building to
look on from without, but the wilds are too small, and the
ventilation is bad. As to orenuisetien there is none. When
the crowd outside knew that the general was there they
flocked into the wards in such numbers that he could hardly
move about. It was a most affecting sight to see the ten.
demo, with which the weather-beaten warrior approached
the sick bed. Everyone was visited in turn, and he bail
• few worth of consolation for each individual.
He laid his rough hand so kindly on the
fevered brows of the most suffering that the
tears started from their eyes. It was • hot, sultry day, and
the air was very carefully excluded. The reason given to
me, on my asking why the windows were not open, was
that air too freely admitted was apt to cause fever among
wounded men. Of course there was no answering such •
profound observation, but after • few minutes Garibaldi
ordered the windows to be thrown open, Mrs. W—
hiving owned to him the propriety of doing so. Before
leaving the wards, where there were about 'aixty wounded,
the most of them having been sent into Naples,
Garibaldi made his secretary, who had followed him, give
each patient a dollar to get any little thing he might
fancy. On seeing one pour tallow very uncomfortable
with a dry dressing, the usual Neapolitan one, he caused
him to be properly dressed, and made some observations
shoed using water for dressin7, by which the surgeons
here might profit. He Raked pertioulatly if they used
chloroform during operations, and was answered in the
affirmative. This is a step in advance. On the visit to the
common soldiers being finished, Garibaldi went to see the
officers, of whom there were about • damn. He kissed
some of them affectionately, and shook hands warmly with
all, requesting everyone to make known to him any wants,
he. Not one of teem oomplained to him but on being
questioned by Mrs. W , it was evident that there
were many things required for their comfort ; above all,
night attendance. The place is full of quacks and pretend-
s= of all kinds, both nie&al and military. One ' gentle.
man,' calling himself an inspector.general of Garibaldi's
hospitals, was offering quinine for sale the other day in
Naples. Quinn), where did it come from I lam• am
where the hannorrhage bad been stopped by Dr. Simpeon's
plan. I cannot enter into details, as it is just poet time,
and I write in baste. One of the surgeons was present
when I was showing the modes operandi in the hospital
here. He had tried in vain to secure the artery, a small
one, and the man was getting feint from loos of blood. He
then thought of the needle, and succeeded in arresting the
bleeding instantly. So you see they may begin to use it
by

The number of persons who have coffered punish-
ment in Damascus up to the but date is 70 hanged, 115
shot, 147 untamed to hard labour for life, 248 banished,
186 sentenced to hard labour for a term, making a total of
766, bead& 83 condemned to death by default, liable to
be killed without farther trial, and those who are in pesos.

Foazzon OFFicz, OCT. s.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Spencer Dickson as Causal-
Genera id Lcudoo for the Argentine Confederation.—
Gazette.

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Bogen or TRAY); WHITEHALL, Oar. 6.—The
Bight lion. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Conseil
for Trade ►nd Plantations have reccivod,through the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her
Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, stating that the port of Tan-
giers is considered by the Board of Health suspected of
cholera morbus, sod that the other porta of Toro co conti-
nue to be infected; that from the lath of September the
port of Malaga is considered to be suspected with the cholera
sosboa.—Garette.'

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6 ei
THE BOMBAY MAIL,
the overland mail we have received Adrian
and journals from likesbay to the 11th of ft-
teteber. There is little news from India. We
takeihe following from the Bombay Garotte :
"India is perfectly quiet. Whatever misfortune
may be looming in the distance--and there are
rteapTreamongst us only too ready to predict for the
o the worst calamities —the the preparations
already made for levying the income tax have, as
yet, produced not even popular excitement, much
less discontent. The firm attitude taken by the
government has, in troth, completely silenced
opposition. Their resolution announced in
the Legislative Council by Sir Bartle
Frere, who has throughout been the ablest
and most cordial of Mr. Wilson's sup-
carry on all the measures of the late
oe Minister destroyed the last hope of the
disaffected. Even the consolation which the oppo-
nents of the income tax found in the Lucknow libel
case has now been taken away from them. The
Arms Act still excites a good deal of attention in
the Mofusail, but the attempt to provoke an agita-
tion in the presidency towns has failed "
The Bombay Times and Standard, which is
strongly opposed to the income tax, says :—" If
we are not misinformed, the last mail carried to
England a despatch from the local government
to the Secretary of State, representing in very
urgent terms the danger of persisting in the
attempt to levy this income tax, and the necessity
of abandoning it at whatever cost."