The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-02 00:00:00

King's troops. It was no longer a combat but a
carnage, poignards being used on both sides. It was
at length necessary to give up the contest, and
every one saved himself as best he could across the
mountains, or by attempting the perilous fords of
the river. Yesterday I visited the most distant ad-
vanced posts towards Capua ; no barricade or work
of defence protects them, and the defenders are not
sufficiently numerous. The artillery has not yet
arrived, and little activity is displayed in placing
cannon on the hills of San Angelo and San Micaele,
which command Capua and protect the passage of
the Volturno on all the line from Santa Maria to
Cajazzo. It is true that the royalists are not in a
better condition, and that is a very lucky thing for
the city of Naples, for if Francis 11. had a handful
of really brave men, he could enter his capital
when he pleased and crush us like flies. Nothing
protects us. In the environs of Capua, too, no re-
doubts, no works of protection against assault have
been prepared; the fortifications are the same as
they were in the time of peace. Yesterday General
Milwitz entered the place under a flag of truce to
be allowed to provide for the wounded Italians;
Gen. Salzano on the previous evening sent to solicit
leeches from Gen. La Masa at Santa Maria. Milwitz
went through the town without any sort of embar-
rassment, accompanied by an officer who was very
polite, and he spoke to General Salzano, who said
to him, ' Sir, be assured that between you and our-
selves there is no difference of opinion or principle,
but we are obliged to defend a flag which we have
honoured all our life, and which our unhappy King
has confided to us. We will protect it to the last
moment.' Milwitz returned no reply. The two
brothers of the King, Don Luigi and Don Alphonso,
who were at Cajazzo during the assault, left yester-
day for Gaeta."
The Turin correspondent of the Opinion Nationale
says :—" I have received letters from Naples giving
some particulars respecting Trecchi's mission and
the King's answer to Garibaldi's letter. Besides
refusing to dismiss Cavour and Farini, the letter is
said to contain these words : ' Since I refuse to go
to Rome, you, General, who fight in my name, are
certainly bound to abstain from all undertakings
against that city.' "

The Constitutionnel announces that the Pope,
yielding to the advice of the most enlightened
members of the Sacred College, has abandoned the
project which he is said to have conceived of leav-
ing Rome. On the other hand, the Paris correspon-
dent of the Independence has the following :—" As
to Rome, everything there appears to be considered
so desperate that preparations are being made almost
openly for departure. The Duke de Cadore must
by this time have arrived there with the negative
reply of the Emperor to the request for military
assistance against Piedmont. It is now known'
positively that the Pope has declared that he will
no longer have a protection which should be purely
personal. If it is to be .restricted to that, he in-
formed the Emperor that the French army might
depart. That is as much as to say that the Pope
would himself leave. It is no longer a mystery
that the majority of the Cardinals are in favour of
his departure. ' Where will your Holiness go to,'
said General de Goyon to the Pope, to which
Pius IX. replied, The world is large enough."