BRITISH GARIBALDIANS.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 333, 28 December 1860, Page 4

BRITISH GARIBALDIANS.

Letters from the Naples correspondents of tb< Daily News and the Debats, which appear tin, morning (October 26), contain some interesting allusions to the British Garibaldians. The cor respondent of the Debats writes on the 19tb:— ' The English legion is at Santa Maria, 80( strong, commanded by Colonel Peard. This legion is immediately attached to Garibaldi as c kind of guard. It is nofc united with any pthei corps, nor has it any fixed position. It will be wherever danger shall summon Garibaldi—th( fearful post of honor. Garibaldi reviewed the men. In the name of Italy he thanked England in the persons of her volunteers for the greai sacrifices t sbe made in men; arms, and money, to uphold the cause of national independence, and concluded by saying, "it was the proudest moment of bis life that he had under his command, and for his support, a legion of ttib free children of England." The English rare well contented with the reception which they have received from the Italians, and they only complain that they have not received a single ration oi meat since Sunday -— the day of their arrival in Naples.' > ; The Daily News correspondent writes from Naples on the 20th:— v - 'For the last three} or four days few of oik red-coats have.been in Naples. All have been at Santa Maria, with the exception of a few vagabonds who have deserted or shirked their work, and yesterday morning they fleshed their maiden swords. I believe the royalists came out in strong force, and that the English were opposed to them, and did what we might have expected—drove them before them,within the walls of Capua. Two, I believe, were shot; one through the head, a manwhom I recognised in the triumphal march of last Monday, and whom I shook by the hand. It is to be hoped that a brush or two and some of the stern business of war will sober my countrymen down, and introduce more subordination and better discipline.' • ; The subordination and discipline of these English volunteers does indeed seem very capable of being improved, if we may judge from the accounts of certain unheroic feats which reach us this morning. The Naples correspondent of the Post says:— ■ *At the Caf6 di Europa the other night, a batch oi. the Englishmen made a tremendous havoc of the cafe, smashing everything right and left, kicking over tables and chairs, drinking their full of champagne, rum, and brandy, and finally declining to pay a single farthing for their entertainment. The son of the owner of the cafti, Signor Donzelli, having had the audacity to ask payment for his liquors, narrowly escaped being twice stabbed, so that he and all his waiters thought that the best thing to be done was to leave the enemy in possession of the field and beat a: retreat. Next day the cafe was shut up. The exploits at two restaurants in the Via Toledo and at the Cafe Testa d'Oro were of pretty much the same character. In none of these places would they consent to pay a farthing for all they had taken. The Neapolitan eating and coffee-house keepers are, as might be expected, in great wrath at this conduct. ' Acciden^'tothe Peince Consobt.—As the prince was driving in his carriage one day on the*road from the old castle at Gotha to Coburg, his horses ran away. The horses were driven four-in-hand. The coachman, assisted by the pritice did everything in his power to arrest the progress of the frightened animals but without effect. At about the distance of a mile from Coburg the road from Callenberg crosses the railway at a level, and upon approaching this spot, the prince observed that the bar,which is lowered to prevent carriages crossing the line ■when a train is expected was closed, preparatory to the arrival of the train due at Coburg at 5 o'clock. A waggon, which had been stopped by , the bar, was also standing upon the road. A ; . -violent concussion being then inevitable, the prince jumped- from the carriage and fell to the ground; His royal highness, though receiving some superficial cuts and hruises in his face, was not at all stunned or seriously hurt, and shortly proceeded to assist the coachman. The carriage had in the meantime, came into collision with the bar of .the railway aud was upset, the coachman being dashed to: the ground and considerably hurt. His royal highness immediately devoted his attention to this man, who was conveyed to the, lodge of the railway servant who has charge of the bar. The prince has not suffered from the accident. The coachman is recovering. Lola. Montes.—Poor Lola Montes, says a letter from New, York, is rapidly failing. She has found a friend: near the city who gives her an asylum during the closing days of her career. The poor woman.had a paralytic stroke some days since, which shattered her intellect beyond the hope of recovery, and now she is fast lapsing into idiocy. Her cheeks are ;hollow, her eyes sunken, her complexion cadaverous, and a racking cough is hastening her to the grave. Storms and Wrecks.—The Wreck Register of the year has just been published, and its statistics fulfil the gloomy anticipations which the wild winter and spring excited. It is, in fact, by far the most destructive year on record. The average number of annual wrecks is about 1000, but last year the list was swelled to very near 1500. : The proportionate loss of life has been still heavier. Indeed, within the first six months the number of lives lost was equal to the usual average: for a ysar. Altogether nearly 2COO persons were drowned in the wrecks of the last twelve months. This excess is of course due to the iatal storms of the autumn and the spring. In the first of these, the gale on the 25th and 26tb of last ■ October, there were 133 total wrecks, accompanied with the loss of just 800 lives. A week after there was another gale of almost equal force, though of shorter duration, in which 38 vessels were wrecked and 29 lives lost. During the winter and the early spring there were several violent and destructive storms which increased the growing sum of hws. But next to the autumn tempest in which the Koyal Charter went down, the hurricane of Whit Monday was by far the most fatal and terrific. In that one day there were 143 wrecks on our shores. At the end of the' week ,came another gale, in which 51 vessels were wrecked, .18 of which were totally lost: The loss of life was happily comparatively small, not more than 50 persona.phaving perished in the registered wrecks of the Whitsuntide gales. But this does not includethe' terrible destruction of fishing boats belonging to Yarmouth, in which nearly 200 poor fishermen lost their lives. The destruction of fishing-boats and their hard-working crews all along the east and north coast has indeed been so great, and in its results to the survivors so disastrous, that it/constitutes after all perhaps, the most lamentffile feature in the losses of this fatal year. #