The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-30 00:00:00

GENERAL GARIBALDI.

It may not be without interest to recal some few
incidents of the life and career of this celebrated
man who is now doing such excellent service to
the cause of Italy in Piedmont and Lombardy :
Born at Nice in 1807, he entered at an early age the
Sardinian navy, and remained up to 1834 in the
employ of the Piedmontese Government. Being,
however, of an ambitious and Glaring nature, and
finding little scope for his talents in the narrow
limits of the then infant navy of Sardinia, he took
service first under the Bey of Tunis, and then was
offered and accepted the command of the fleet
which the Republic of Uraguay, in South America,
was about to send against Buenos Ayres. After the
Anglo-French intervention on this occasion, Gari-
baldi abandoned the sea for terra firma, and be-
coming general instead of admiral, raised an army of
3,000 men, cavalry and infantry, and opposed Rosas
with considerable success until 1848, when the
raising of the standard of national independence in
Italy recalled him to his native land, and he set
about the formation of a legion, with -which in the
south of the Tyrol he took an active part with
Charles Albert against Austria, and after the
unfortunate capitulation of Milan was the last
to lay down his arms. He was returned by
the Opposition to the Piedmontese Chamber
of Deputies, and took a lead in the debates, until
the following year, when we find him again at
the head of his legion sustaining the Italian re-
public at Rome. On the 30th of April he withstood
the attack of the French troops under General
Credinot with great intrepidity; on the 9th of
May he, with 3,000 men, completely routed 5,000
Neapolitans at Palestrina ; on the 19th, at the
battle of Velletri, he carried the honours of
the day ; and during the siege of Rome, in
June of the same year, the courageous and
determined defence of that town , against the
French was entirely due to the military talents of
General Garibaldi. After 30 days of most vigor-
ous resistance he was obliged to abandon the town,
as the Romans would not consent to the extreme
means which he proposed for the ccntinuation of the
struggle ; and after retreating in good order to San
Marino, and disbanding his army, he reached the
Adriatic and embarked for Genoa. Returning to
America, and finding himself without resources, he
resolutely embraced commerce, and established a-
candle manufactory at New York; but the taste for
a seafaring life having returned, he embarked as
captain of a Peruvian vessel bound for China, and
continued in this service till 1852, when he returned.
to Peru, and held for some time a military com-
mand in the Peruvian army. A Genoese commercial
company having offered him one of their steamers,
he returned once more to his native country, and
remained in this very subordinate capacity up to a
few weeks since, when he undertook the command
of the Italian Volunteer Legion, which he is now
leading so gallantly and successfully in Lombardy.

UNDERG.RADUATE EXTRAVAGANCE,

At the County Court for Cambridge held yesterday (Fri-
day) before Mr. John Collyer, George John Watts, an
undergraduate, formerly of Corpus College, and now of
Queen's, came up, on his petition as an insolvent, with a
view to pass his first examination. He had been two years
at the university, and had incurred debts, amounting to
£473 10s. 6d. over and above the ordinary collegiate ex-
penses, and the expenditure of an allowance of £5O a-year
made hiM by his father, who is vicar of Brockworth, Glou-
cestershire.

The insolvent was opposed by Mr. Naylor for 20 credi-
tors, and by several others of the latter in person. The
petition had been oriminally presented in London. and re-
fereed to Cambridge. oriel pally
schedule revealed that the in-
solvent had contracted, during the two years, debts with
tradesmen as under :

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5 Hosiers--- £l6 7 7
7 Wine merchants 53 10 3
8 Tailors
' 4 Shoemakers lB 8 11
2 Jewellers
4 Livery-stable keepers.
with others of a minor character. The allegations against
the insolvent were, that he had contracted all the debts
without reasonable ground of expectation to pay them ;
that he had converted some of the goods as soon as obtained
into money at a ruinous sacrifice, havine- obtained them for
that purpose ; and that he had procured others by false re-
presentations. He had bought a horse and cart for £3O,
and dealt with the same at a loss given acceptances,
and now there was not a penny on the asset side.
Mr. Naylor, addressing the court, said he should be able
to prove that the insolvent had called on Mr. Wells in
Market-street, and procured a gold watch of the value of
_to I
£l4, asking Mr. Wells to allow him to take the same ll's
rooms to show his father, who was about to present him with
one on his passing. his "little go," and promising to return
the same directly if not approved of. Tho insolvent at that
time had not passed his " little go," and his father was not
in Cambridge at the time. Ho (Mr. Naylor) opposed for
others.r. He had
Mr. Flack, shoemaker i Mr. Wells, jeweller .
(4)4eBsrs.
particularAPmal‘lltil
(of whom insolvent bought the doge-cart)
obooksellers;names an d
because
connected with them to which he
fa havefather,
e tr o,
and call
mentionedt lager mat-
ters and C0.,0
t h
pointed
th e
amoouutntth
oa that
the attention of the Court. Mr. Nayloreubshy
it
nh e
two insolventyears Nhvea s allowedhad
econtracted
r£a ,05
tOe i
£473. He also pointed out. the
further that there had been facts as stated above, and
brought by Mr, Wells, in
Market-street,
defence to an action
but for Mr. Wells 's kindness in a case which,
formed the ground for a ss and forbearance, might have
that the insolvent had n criminal charge. Mr. Naylor said
the debts, save l'
capital whin he commenced con-
tractingdeposit, gave a
he now claimed for exceptedworth of wearing apparel, and
articles £lB odd. He bought
one day a horse and .°btstoollhlicis
promissory note for the remainder,and
cart for £3O, borrowed £5 to pay the
never paid it, and made the false representation that the
cart (a Whitechapel dog cart) Was for his father, a clergy_
man,..who u as getting into years, and to whom he was
going to convey the dog- cart. Mr, Naylor proceeded to
pass some severe strictures upon the insolvent, andthen
took some technical objections to the wording of the peti-
tion,,,the insolvent having described himself since as George
Watts only, whereas he had called himself in his petition
George John Watts.
Dr. Leapingwell, for the insolvent, pointed out that the
creditors were to' blame for not making proper inquiries,
and also for their want of forethought. The father of the
insolvent was a clergyman, with a very small living, and ho .
had six other Ohildren besides the insolvent. lie had,
however, eilbred to pay 4s. in the pound. He could see no
purpose that could be served by the dismissal of the
peti-
tion, as the young man stood there without a penny, and
no purpose could be served by sending him to prison.
Mr, Naylor—lt will be a warning to others.
Dr. Leaping-well would like to see the warning tell both
ways, and added that it was only necessary for a man to go
with 4 gown on his back to get any amount of credit with
Cambridge tfadesmen, At the same time, he did not stand
there to justify tha conduct of the young man far from it.
In EgkAwq to his Honour,
Mt. Islitylo?' said there was 304 hope of the creditors Coming

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