The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

GARLBALMAN HOSPITALS IN ROME.

A correspondent of the Standard writes from
Rome, under date the Bth inst., as follows:

Garibaldi has just published the following letter
to the Deputy Barili, which I transcribe according
to his request, and which will show your readers
the lengths the revolutionary party is prepared to
go in its calumnies of the Roman Government :
" My dear Barili,—As I believe any reclamations
addressed to the present Government as to the
treatment of our wounded in Rome will be useless,
i beg you to publish the following brief lines, which
I hope to see reproduced by every journal of the
Peninsula.

" Our wounded at Borne are dying the victims
of the most ignoble treatment, of the inquisitorial
practices of the priests and perhaps . . . (the
blank is left t' be filled up by horrors a discretion).
" Are not such persons capable of any degree of
crime (sceleratizza).
" Whether the wounded enter the hospitals with
grave or slight wounds, they die. Such are the de-
tails which I hold from several respectable persons,
who draw, moreover, the most deplorable picture
of the privations and brutal insults which have been
inflicted on our unhappy brothers in arms in the
capital of the Jesuitic world. —Yours,

" GARIBALDI."

The facts on which this marvellous document is
based are these—that out of 175 wounded prisoners
taken at Mentana and Monte Tarioli, about 50 are
dead in the two hospitals of Sant' Onofrio and
Sant' Agata. The ratio is almost identical with
that of the Zouavia deaths from wounds received in
the same and other engagements, and this, although
the wounds received from the Chassepot were in
general very severe. About three-fourths of the
wounded Garibaldians have been discharged free and
perfedtly cured to their own homes ; among others,
Majors Guglielmi, Stalla, and Ronco, Rosetti, and
Cairoli ; and it is to their testimony I would fear-
lessly appeal against the absurd calumnies of Gari-
baldi—calumnies which I am quite certain neither
of his sons would venture to endorse.

When, on the morning after Mentana, it was re-
ported that Ricciotti Garibaldi was among the
wounded, every effort was made to find him in order
that all care and attention should be given him. At
Nerola' the wounded were attended to by the
Zouave surgeons, and those gravely so were sent to
the Garibaldian ambulance at Scandriglia, among
them Capriano, a Roman emigre officer, as I can
myself bear witness,having crossed the Piazza under
the fire of the Garibaldian fort, to the private house
where he lay to re-assure him, as he was in a foolish
state of alarm, that if the Zouaves stormed the
castle the wounded Garibaldians would be mas-
sacred. The first care of M. de Charette was to
place a sentinel at his:door to prevent any disturb-
ance, which, in his wounded state, might have
been dangerous, and the chaplains of the Zouaves
went up to his house, and those of the other
wounded, to afford all the assistance in their power.
At Mentana our cares were most impartially divided
between the wounded of both parties. During the
night after the battle we devoted ourselves to
gathering the unfortunate men, without respect of
party, from the fields and woods around our head-
quarters, the sisters of charity and volunteers of the
ambulance, among whom I was, never leaving the
field of battle even for the necessary repose, and
doing all our resources enabled us for the relief alike
of friend and enemy. It is too disgraceful on
the part of those for whose adherents we in many
cases risked our lives to spread so baseless a

calumny.
Mgr. Stonor has received numerous letters from
the late prisoners and their families, expressing
their gratitude for the kind treatment they have
received. Among these Giovanni Cairoli and seve-
ral of his friends may be cited, and their testimony,
which has also been publicly given in the press, the
Riforma especially, should outweigh the groundless
reports of the persons interested in calumniating
the Papal Government.
Dr. Wayne, Dr. Small, M.D., Dr. Topham, M.D.,
as well as the Earls of Clarendon, Mount Edg-
cumbe, Hinchinbroke, Lords Hyde, Beaumont, and
the English and American consuls, have all:visited
the hospitals, and have been all witnesses of the
kindness of the authorities. I was at Sant' Onofrio
only three days since. There were only 19 remain-
ing, almost all of whom will be in a condition to
travel in a few weeks, and sonic of whom have since
been discharged. One young boy of 19, named
Gregori, was receiving his dinner when I entered
with a party of English friends. We were not a
little surprised at the bullying and insolent tone he
assumed towards the sisters in charge, complaining
of the food, which was precisely the same as that
given to the Zouaves, and which consisted of roast
chicken and rice soup. This promising young
patriot, while we were there, threw his dish full of

dinner into the middle of the room, with a volley

of abuse which no English hospital authorities
would have tolerated for an instant. The goof and
patient nun in attendance merely said, " Poor boy,
he is very cross to-day. His wound hurts him, and
the Signori must excuse him."
Menotti Garibaldi's guide, a native of Terni, a

subject of the Pope, is one of those still remaining.
Re is nearly well, and will be discharged as soon as
his wound is healed. The amputations have in most
cases failed, it is true, but the same unhappy result
has taken place at St. Spirito, where only one seri-
ous amputation has succeeded. This is attribUtable
solely to the climate, which is most unfavourable to
surgery, and the season, which has been a violent
alternation of sirocco and north wind of the most
bitter kind, and there have been few days since the
4th of October I have not spent in the hospitals,
and I therefore feel qualified to give a direct and
explicit denial to the statements contained in the
above letter.
The Pere Gorlache, the Abbot Casarette, of
Subrara, Mgr. Stonor, Dr. O'Connor of the Ame-
rican College, and the entire English and foreign
medical staff in Rome, whether civil or military, as
well as the innumerable visitors of all countries
who have been invited to inspect the Garibaldian
hospitals, are the best possible guarantees that no
cruelty or insult was practised or thought of. As
an extern of the hospitals, and in constant commu-
nication with their authorities, I venture to add my
own, both in Rome and on the fields of battle of
Nerola and Mentana.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE FROM CRIEFF.--•
Great excitement was caused in Orieff on Sunday morning
by the disappearance of Mr. Brown, the manager of the gag
works. It would appear that he had been`co,nplainingt
and was under medical treatment for some time back, and
hence the anxiety of his friends. It is said that he left his
lodgings somewhere about six o'clock in, the morning by
means of the window, and, considering his state of health,
the alarm was given so soon as the discovery was made.
Scouring parties left in various directions, bu': no trace of
him was fouud, and tho search was renewed on Monday,
but no intelligence was received.
EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN.—Lord Taunton,
as chairman of the committee for arranging for the Oxford
local examination at, the Taunton centre, has forwarded
memorial on behalf of the committee to the Oxford dele-
gacy, setting forth the advantages that would accrue if the
examinations were extended to girls—a concession which
has been already made by the sister university, and with
.atisfactery results.