NAPLES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 601, 7 August 1858, Page 4

NAPLES.

-Accounts from Naples, in the ' Univers,' state that serious preparations are being made for defending the territory against Sardinia. Count d'Arquila, brother of the king, will command the squadron. 2000 troops of the line are engaged in levelling a portion of the height which commands the citadel of Gaeta.

After the Earthquake.—The country is in many parts still gaped in wide fissures of the breadth of two arms, and when they had closed had done so unequally, one side being many feet higher than the other. Some of the incidents which they relate seem more like fables than ¥acts. An infant had been dug out alive, after been, under the ruins. eight days. Its mother fed it too bountifully and it died. A girl oT eight years of age had been disinterred after eleven days' burial, and was still living. The Monks of San Francisco, in Padula, related ~a:story of a girl of seventeen years of age, who had been recovered after twenty-one days' burial—the monks added that the girl spoke of having been visited in her subterraneous tomb i%- a lady dressed in black, who gave her bread and water. She believed it was the Madonna. Mules had been dug out alive after twenty-one days' burial. One of the monks told my informant that on the night of the 16th ultimo, the shock was so violent as to throw him off his bed "through the window into the garden of the monastery. At Veggiano a poor woman had lost her husband and two children beneath the -ruins; two yet survived, but they quickly died •of hunger, and the wretched mother hanged herself.