The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-07 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Wednesday Evening.
The Emperor and Empress have returned to St.
Cloud from Compiegne.
The Emperor of Austria and the Archdukes
left Compiegne on Monday night and reached
Strasbourg yesterday morning. The station and
the approaches to it were decorated with flags.
Tiliey were waved very enthusiastically. After
breakfast and a visit to the celebrated cathedral
they left for Vienna.
The despatches from Florence announce that the

Pontifical troops made an attack on Sunday upon
the bands commanded by Garibaldi, near Tivoli,
and after an obstinate combat the Garibaldians fled

disorder, leaving upon the field of battle three

thousand killed, wounded, or prisoners. Garibaldi
succeeded in escaping to Terni, where the Italian
authorities arrested him and his two sons, and con-
veyed them to Florence. General Ricotti, com.
mander-in-chief of the Italian army, arrested and
disarmed upon the frontier 4,000 Garibaldians who
attempted to take refuge upon the Italian territory.
It is believed that there is some exaggeration in
the above account. I select from various sources
for the particulars of this engagement, which, at
all events, seems to have been of a very serious
character. Garibaldi, after having been able to
occupy Monte Rotondo and repulse some attacks
made upon him, fortified himself there. The Italian
Government sent him a message urging him to re-
tire with his troops. Some of his oldest and best
friends gave him the same advice, and he therefore

left his strong position and marched towards Tivoli,
the first station on his way to the frontier. In the
meantime the Papal troops, having no longer any
position to guard, left Rome to the number of
12,000. They marched towards the point where
the Garibaldian volunteers were assembled, and
taking them in flank killed a great number.
The French troops (according to some writers)
were not engaged in the fight at Tivoli, but the
Pontifical soldiers being armed with the Chassepot
gun, and otherwise perfectly equipped, made great

havoc with the Garibaldians, who were very badly
armed, and were for the most part undisciplined.
The combat is thus described by another writer :

" The Pontifical troops divided into two corps, the
former supported by two French battalions of the
29th of the Line and the latter by two French
battalions of the 39th of the Line, took up a position
at Monte Rotondo, where the Garibaldians were
concentrated and fortified. The two corps marched
at distant intervals from each other. But at Tivoli,
a short distance from Rome, the first corps came
into collision with the Garibaldians, to the number
of 7,000 or 8,000, who had left Monte Rotondo with
the idea of carrying Tivoli, and then to attack
Rome itself. In spite of the disproportion in num-
bers (the French and the Pontifical troops did not
to the utmost exceed the number of 3,500) the
attack took place. It was desperate and irresist-
ible. During the combat the second corps reached
the spot, and soon afterwards the Garibaldians took
flight, leaving half their number dead upon the
field." Here is another version of the affair :

" The attack of Monte Rotondo took place a day
earlier than was expected under these circumstances.
It was on Monday tbat the combined French and
Pontifical troops were to carry that position. On
the previous evening the troops were in movement,
and a Pontifical corps had been posted at Tivoli,
with the idea of taking Monte Rotondo the next
day. It was supported by some companies of the
39th of the Line. Nevertheless, Garibaldi, either
because he had information of the proposed attack,
or because the idea entered into his plans, sent a
corps of his volunteers to hold Tivoli, where he
thought no troops were assembled. The assailants
suddenly came upon the Pontifical troops, and the
latter at first gave way, as they were very warmly
received. Garibaldi, in his turn, sent reinforce-
ments. At five o'clock the general action took
place. All the Pontifical troops who had bees
concentrated at Monte Rotondo to join in
the attack which was to take place next day,
were urged in advance. Monte Rotondo, attacked
on all sides, became the theatre of a most desperate
struggle, which terminated in the course of a few
hours by the almost total destruction of the volun-
teers. The carnage was horrible. Three hundred
carriages, which were requested from the railway
company at the Italian frontiers, were barely suffi-
cient to contain the wounded. The account then
proceeds to discuss the question whether the French
troops were or were not engaged in the battle of
Monte Rotondo, a fact which, as will be seen above,
is positively averred in some of the accounts."
From the latest probable information it appears
that the French troops continue their movement in
advance upon the whole of their line. Being
ordered to march upon Viterbo, it is supposed that
they now occupy that important position, which
commands the whole of the province, of which it is
the chief town. The Italian army is encamped to
the north of Viterbo, at Acquapendente, as well as
at Orte, on the frontier. It does not appear dis-
posed to adventure more in advance upon the Pon-
tifical territory. To the south of Rome the French
army now probably occupies Velletri. The Italians
are opposite to Florence, which is rather more to-
wards the south. Upon the eastern portion of the
States of the Holy See the Pontificals, followed by
the French troops, are nearly at the edge of the
frontier line.

The Garibaldian volunteers are in a pitiable con-
dition. Exhausted by fatigue and privation, they
have returned home. They are not half clothed,
and most of them are without shoes or stockings.
There are but a few red shirts, and scarcely any
caps. This is the army with which Garibaldi has
hoped to destroy the " monster," as he designates
the Papal authority.
Several more cases of garotte robbery have taken
place in Paris within the last few days. I have often
had occasion to call attention to the strange perversity
of French juries in regard to " extenuating circum-
stances." The trial for the murder of M. Demandre
and his servant woman, to which I alluded in my
letter yesterday, affords another striking illustra-
tion of sympathy—at all eyents leniency—towards ,

crime. The murderer attacked the old gentleman
in his sleep, and with a hatchet inflicted mortal and
terrible wounds on his head, face, and neck. The
surgeons gave their opinion that the first blow was
so violent and terrific as to deprive him of life. The
pillow-cases and sheets were covered with blood.
As to the poor woman, she slept in a room over that
of her master, and it is supposed that hearing the
noise she came out, for her body was found on the
landing place of the stairs. Her body was covered
with wounds, and there was a stream of blood on
the stairs. The report of the trial states that "it
was a real scene of carnage. The unfortunate
woman expired after having lost all her blood,
and this blood, after inundating the landing-
place, fell in drops upon the ground floor."
The assassin, Joseph Legros, is supposed to have
found 10,000 fr. in the old gentleman's room. This
is a case which, according to the jury of the Court
of Assize of the department of Doubs, presents
" extenuating circumstances."
The news inventors are at it again with re-
doubled vigour. The Etendard has the audacity to
say—" Alarming reports were yesterday in exten-
sive circulation in Paris. A Republican manifesta-
tion was announced." Your readers at least may
know what value is to be attached to extracts like
these which they may see translated from the Paris
journals. Paris was never more tranquil, in spite
of the complications of the Italian question.
The :mother of the celebrated actress Madame
Ugaldi died in Paris on Sunday in her 80th year.
The Garibaldian overthrow, although called the
Battle of Monte Rotondo, took place between
Monte Rotondo and Tivoli, upon the heights to
the north of the route from Rome to Subiaco.
These heights are bounded on one side by the route
of Subiaco, and on the other by the direct route
from Rome to Terni.

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