The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-11 00:00:00

p9ssed, and that, therefore, it was too late. It was
1 to any one, that the time fixed for coming
quite disgusting to see officers as well as men throw
themselves down on their knees when on the point
of being taken, and beg for their lives. But the
more serious matter was that the idea of gettibg not
Dyer was
quarter roused ferocity, and there is no end to the
complaints of our soldiers that the Neapolitans
killed our wounded. Several of them were found
half-burnt.

Although we are no longer in Sicily, burning and
plundering seem to be still the order of the day of
the Neapolitan soldatesco. Not a farm building re-
mains in the neighbourhood of Capua, and as the
columns on Tuesday came down from the hills to
Caserta they set fire to every village whiCh lay on.
their road. There is scarcely a soldier among the
prisoners who bad not plunder about him, and the
silk factory of Sevica seems to have attracted espe-
cial notice. Their excuse is that they had permission
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further occasion to indulge in this their decided
taste, for the lessons of the Ist inst. will not be for-
gotten. They have become very tame, their out-
posts keep in the immediate neighbourhood of
Capua, and it is only their favourite pastime of
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shelling which continues. No horseman or red
shirt can show anywhere within range of their guns
without being saluted immediately. For instance,
yesterday burial parties were busy in the vicinity
of St. Angelo, and had showers of grape and shelf
upon them, which made the people at Santa Maria
suppose that the fight was beginning again. It
is almost incredible what numerical results these
burials give; but in that rayon where the burying
parties were so much fired upon 190 bodies were
buried, and among them 16 of ours.
But they will probably not long indulge in this
amusement. Yesterday afternoon you could sea
from the heights of St. Angelo large convoys coming
out of Capua, and heavy columns Marching towards
Gaeta. Indeed, after the failure of their desperate
effort tke other day, I do not see how they can think
of remaining much longer in that position and
await the arrival of the Piedmontese columns.

Garibaldi has shown that he is quite a match for

the whole Neapolitan force, and he will not wait
long to improve his success. Not that he will break

his head against Capua's walls, as people eeem to
expect, but there are other means of ousting them
from their position even before the Piedmontese

come up from the north. It was well, for many
reasons, that the Neapolitans did try their best, for
the ill-willed, ignorant, and timid got frightened

;hat we did not take Capna on the 19th ; as if we

had trumpets to blow down the walls of Capua,

and as if there had ever been at intention to attack

Capua!

OCTOBER 6.

Nothing new anywhere along the line for the last

two days except the usual cannon shot at everything
which shows within range of the fortress and the
batteries on the opposite bank. Nor was it a time
to do anything. We have a regular equinoctial
gale, which has lasted almost unabated for the last
forty-eight hours, with heavy showers of rain. It
is hard work for the poor soldiers at the outposts,
and woull be harder had they not almost every-
where found the means of constructing huts with
dry stalks of Indian corn covered with branches or
vine branches, which abound.
While our military position has become so much
mote imposing by the victory of the Ist of October
—our Inkerman—our political position has been

likewise wonderfully cleared up since last week.
The pressure of my military correspondence by last
mail was so great that I had no time to bring in
political matters.
The differences between Garibaldi and the Pied-
montese Government, on which all Europe has been
harping for the last month or three weeks, have been
greatly exaggerated, and not at all understood. It
was the joint work of the enemies and false friends
of Garibaldi, aided considerably by the ignorance
which exists in Europe with respect to the changes
which have taken place here in Italy.

When Garibaldi rallied round Victor Emmanuel
he did it, as he does everything, frankly, loyally, and
without an arricre pensee. He did so because it
was his conviction that it was the only way of
uniting Italy. He never wavered in that convic-
tion, and has been working for this aim. Whoever
knows Garibaldi knows that the day he should begin
to think otherwise he would say so without one
moment's delay. This political attachment to the
name of Victor Emmanuel as the symbol of Italian
unity has become much stronger by personal ac-
quaintance, and has taken, one might say, the
character of a personal attachment to the Re
Galantuomo. That this personal attachment did
not extend to the King's Ministers is quite true, nor
could it be otherwise, for, besides other personal
considerations which all the world knows, there was
in the last case an inherent antagonism in the
position of a patriot chief and warrior and
a statesman at the head of affairs in such criti-
cal circumstances and working chiefly by diplo-
matic negotiations. But to imagine for one
moment from this almost unavoidable antagonism a
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see a confirmation of this conclusion in the fact that
men like Mazzini, Bertani, &e., were here, and that
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some of them had even posts. Garibaldi has been
on friendly terms Wi •
th these people ; he has worked
and has never quarrelled with them. He is neither
the man to
give up his convictions for any one, nor
a man to deny a
personal friend for any political
considerations.

His enemies pointed to the presence of these men
as a proof that he was entering a new road, and
these men, having their own views, did their best
to confirm the world in this belief. In this lay all
the evil. Although the view was entirely false the
impression which it produced abroad was so bad
that it must have ultimately harmed Garibaldi's
position had not circumstances occurred which di-
minished the evil. Garibaldi being with the army
had intrusted, as you know, Bertani with the go-
vernment of Naples, and the latter went so fast his
own way that Garibaldi on hearing of it took the
resolution to send him away, removing thus one of
the great grievances laid at his door. But what
shows better than anything else that Bertani had
just as little influence as any one else on the gene-
ral policy of Garibaldi was, that even before
he
had been dismissed Garibaldi wrote his answer to
the King's last letter, in which, while reiterating
his former statement that he could not work toge-
ther with Cavour, he expressed himself as ready. to
obey any commands the King
him. might have to give
This answer will probably settle the matter and
bring it to a corn,gusiou. Already, as you know,
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That this would
be best promoted by the King's personal arrival
with the army or going direct to Naples there is
no doubt, for an hour of conversation between the
King and Garibaldi would do more to hasten
the solution than anything
imagined.