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 daring nature, and
finding little scope for his talents in the narrow
limits of the then inflint 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 lie 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 tiountry, 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.

UNDBRGRADUATE 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 inshvent, 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 originally presented in London. and re-
ferred to Cambridge. The schedule revealed that the in-
solvent had contracted, during the two years, debts with
tradesmen as under :-
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 aall the 'debts
the insolvent were, that he had contracted
to pay them •
without reasonable ground of e
falsethem rfeof
expectation . . 2
as soon as obtained
..
5 tilisan•ainst
that he had converted some of the goods
into money at a ruinoua sacrifice,
that purpose ; and that he had procured
1 t auorse and cart for £3O,
presentations. He had bought ;
had given acceptances,
and dealt with the same at a having
others obtained
b y
pennytlie court, said he should be able
Mr. Naylor, addiessin
and now there was not a on the asset side.
insolventg had called on Mr, Wells in
to prove that the
red a gold watch of the value of
Market-street, and procured
Mr.his avfaetihtse,rt,owahllooNNvv
alst iamhotuott
to
okpe
rtelsieensta nhiiemtowhi
with
passing his "little go," and promising to return
approved"littlegoo4,
anTdh
he
iisufsaott insolvent thatiiot
£l4, askoinshgo
roonoenoisnthis
time, lie 1M
in Cambridge at the ,__..r. Naylor) opposed for
time the samehad
Mr, Wolls,
Mr. Flack, shoemaker ;
not directly
passed i f nothiii
jeweller ; Mr, Balling
2 essrs. hailing
whom insolvent bought the dog, cart) • I\l -
inn and Co., booksellers ; and 15 or 16 others. He had
mentioned those names -because thereWsehreeupladrthicauNtartoea
mat-
ters
connected with them to which he
ll
the attention of the Court. Mr. Naylor pointed out that
itnhetiwnosolytreot wheashaaldloNes
roendtrftetoeda-tTerts to the amount of
by his father, and
£473. }le also pointed out the facts as stated above, and
further that there had been a vexation's defence to an action
brought by Mr. Wells, in Market-street, -s'eet, in a case which,
formed the ground fora criminalaU char
but for Mr. Wells's kindnessforbearance,charge. Mr.
Naylor
that the insolvent had rhsaaide
no capital when he commenced con-
tracting the debts, save £2O worth of wearing apparel, and
he now claimed for excepted articles £lB odd'. .He bought
one day a horse and cart for £3O, borrowed £5 to pay the
deposit,
,gave a promissory note for the remainder, and
never paid it, and made the false representation that the
cart (a Whitechapel (log cart) wits for his father, a clergy-
man, who cas getting into years and to whom he was
going to convey the dog-cart. Air. Naylor proceeded to
pass some severe strictures upon the insolvent, and then
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.
insolent, pointed out that the
Dr. Leapingwell, for the In
creditors were to Liam° for not making proper inquiries,oth
and also far their want of forethought. father The
andf
nee
insolvent was a clergyman, with a very smallliving,
He had,
however, six other children bOaiclOa the insolvent.
d He could see no,
however, offered to
pay 4s'eTeet dismissal of the peti
purpose that could be served _ y
stood there Witttout a penny, and
lion, as the youngbemeain•ved by sending him to prison,
no purpose could s
Mr.
well lid ar4arning to others,
Taylor—lt
* 1 ' all would like to see the warning tell both
Dr. Leapipp•W
a d added that it was only neeessary for a man to go
19r, n on his back to get any amount of credit with
With a gown .
*dme tratini At the same time, he did not stand
Cambri p . ache .
d • tof the anina•
there to lastifycon uc a ~, man fax from it.
In aktiwer to his Honour,
ir, Naylor said there was fA kr of the creditors omit%

to an arrangement. They asked for punishment for thi
young man, and then would be willing to treat with all
respect and forbearance any offer on the part of the father.
Dr. Leapingwell—You will get nothing else if you press
for punishment.
The insolvent was then examined by Mr. Naylor. Ile
said he never told Mr. Wells that his father was at Cam-
bridge, or that he was going to present him with a gold
watch. So far as he could recollect, he said ho wanted ene
for his father : that was true at the time, as he was going, to
take it down to him. He believed he said he was going to
present the watch to his father. He never said one word
H
about having got through an examination. e never saki
one word about the " little-go." He had never been in for
any examination at that time. That (promissory note given
to Railing), and those letters were in his handwriting.
[One of these letters represented his father as so grievously
ill that his life was despaired of, and insolvent was unable
to leave the house for a moment, and contained a promise to
pay Railing.] His father was unwell, but not seriously
it was untrue that he was like to die. He gave the horse
and cart to the Tarrants to sell for him ; ho did not sell It
to them. He then tried to get it back to give to Mr.
Railing, but did not succeed. , The letters, and those (pro-
duced) to Mr. Wells were in two different handwritings'
one is not feigned. lie wrote one hand as often as the
other.
His Honour said it was quite impossible to grant a fliral
order. It would be out of the question that day. n°
could make no more lenient order than that the petition
might remain on the file.
Mr. Naylor pressed for a dismissal on the °f the
judgment creditors, in order that the insolvent might suffer
by being sent to prison.
His Honour said he should not have the slightest scraPl:
in dismissing the petition, but could not shut out the fact
of the offer of the father.
After some vain attempts at accommodation, his Honer°
said he should take upon himself to decide the case. IN
day would be named for the final order, and no protection
would be granted.
The insolvent then left the court, followed by the his
cers bearing warrants against his person on behalf of
judgmattractedent b
y creditorsthe
somewhat and a
novels posse of e
et
tr nee! m einh and The
other
n 7!
wended his way to the railway station, accompanied
solicitor (Mr. Hunt), and was there arrested. insbol yo
ve
hit