The Sun. — 1860-10-11 (London, England)

THE SUN.  LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 1860.  Most great battles furnish numerous incidents of much interest, to garnish, as it were, the great result ; and we are sure to hear of many in connectiun with the battle of the Volturno. We have noticed the part taken by the gunners and sailors of the Renown, " absent on leave"—doubtless with the leave of officers as willing as the men themselves to share in the fight for liberty against tyranny. English sailors, too, do not forget their countrymen PARKE and WATT when they look at those horrid Neapolitan prisons, and at every discharge of the guns they helped to work, it was—" Here goes a retaliating shot for PARKE and WATT ;" or, "Here's another for GARIBALDI and liberty ;" or another, with three cheers, for—" Down with the BOURBONS and tyranny." It will be noticed to-day, too, in the correspondence, that English officers were invaluable. The Sicilians whom they led appear to have depended almost entirely on them ; this, of course, is to be partly accounted for by their being but raw levies of volunteers, who would naturally form their judgment of what they could do, by the leading of able officers. Part of a small force opposed to three times their number, was, we observed, neutralized, because their English Colonel DUNN was wounded early in the day. We read also that one part of his men, under the command of " brave Colonel WYNDHAM, stood to their work," while the remainder, under Sicilian officers, got into confusion. We may rest assured that, in future years, if France be the necesnrY ally of Italy, England will always be the more beloved ally of all her best men. It will long live in their memory, that subscriptions, hospital necessaries, volunteers, able officers, men-ofwar's men, all attested the profound interest of this country in the noble struggle of 1860; and while Italy is a free kingdom, England will never want a cordial friend in the Mediterranean. Admiral MUNDY himself, though fettered, perhaps, too much by instructions from his Government, shows in every possibly wav his earty sympathy with GARIBALDI and the Italian h cause. It is, however, pleasing to notice, that all Frenchmen are not LAMoßlclEßES—mereenaries for Popery and Tyranny. A PAUL DEFLOTTE has already died a volunteer martyr to the cause of Italian liberty. He fell, it may be remembered, amongst the first who set foot on the shores of Calabria. But his spirit survives, and fought nobly at the Battle of the Volturno. His French company recals an English memory of Waterloo, for they defended a farm-house during the whole day with great bravery against all attacks; but happily their ammunition did not fail, and they live to enjoy the honours due to their valour, and to rejoice in its contribution to the common cause. Some curious disclosures were made by the prisoners. It seems all kinds of gross falsehoods were resorted to to keep the men together, and to make them believe fighting to be better than desertion. They were told that no quarter was given—the sad consequence of which was that they killed many of the wounded under grossly false impressions. It was " disgusting," the writer of the letter says, to see not only men, but officers, falling . on their knees mild piteously begging for life when they were taken. prisoners. To the last, FRANCIS IL and his agents corui d attempt to maintain their cause only by prompting their men to violate the few humanities of civi'dsed warfare. Let soldiers murder the wounded, ar id provoke to reprisals, if