English Extracts.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 4, Issue 165, 17 November 1860, Page 4

English Extracts.

f\ ,

REVOLUTION IN SICILY AND NAPLES,

BATTLE OF MELAZZO. , On the 20th was fought the battle of Melazzo, referred to in our last, which ended in the surrender of Bosco, and which resulted immediately afterwards in the Capitulation of the garrison of Messina.. The Neapolitans fought at a great advantage ; they had covor, and they had a concentric position. The attacking force numbered only 5000 men, while the troops to which ,fchey were opposed numbered at least 8000. The fighting lasted 14 hour*. Graribaldi was engaged in a hand-to-hand contest, and conducted himself as much like a paladin of old as a general of the nineteenth century. Here is a stirring picture of one of the adventures of the day : —

Garibaldi was with the centre, which was making its way slowly over and through all obstacles, when the news arrived that the left (young Sicilian troops,) unable to resist the superior forces of the. enemy, was giving way, and thus exposing the whole line to be turned on that side. Taking the only reserve remaining, a battalion composed of North Italians and Pelermitaus, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Dunne and several other English officers, he went to the left to stem the advance of the Neapolitans. His presence and the exertions of the officers of the battalion succeeded in steadying these young troops, who not only resisted further, attacks, but pushed forward towards the guns with which the enemy was sweeping the road. One advance bolder than the rest brought them to the guns ; an English sailor, lately enlisted at Patti, was the first across the wall, behind which one of the guns was posted, and the next moment the gun was carried off in triumph. Just at the moment when it was disappearing behind the curve in the road the cry arose of '* Cavalry, Cavalry !" and excited confusion. Vain were the attempts of Garibaldi and of the officers to. overcome this bugbear of young troops; they pressed against the garden wall on. one side, and jumped a ditch en the other, they opened a road to about a dozen bold horsemen of the Chasseurs a Cheval, who, with their captain at their head, rushed through this break in our line to recapture the gun. Garibnldi had only time to step aside, when the horsemen passed sabreing right and left. But they did not go far, for after the first panic the infantry recovered and soon emptied the greater part of their saddles. The captain, a sergeant, and a private tried to make their escape, ! and would have succeeded but for Garibaldi's personal bravery. He went into the I middle of the road, and having left his revolvers in the holsters when he dismounted, he drew his sword and placed himself in a | position to stop the captain. The only person ■with him at the time was Captain Missori, of the Guides, who. was likewise on foot, but armed "with a revolver. His first shot wounded the horse of the Neapolitan captain,- and brought it on its haunches ; Garibaldi seized hold of the bridle, intendi ing to secure the captain as his prisoner. i But the captain answered to the demand to surrender by a blow with his sword at Garibaldi, who parried and retaliated, cutting the Neapolitan captain with one stroke down the face and neck, and prostrating "him dead at his feet. -.While Garibaldi was thus engaged in this single- handed combat, Captain Missori shot down, the sergeant who came to assist his officer This one despatched, he seized hold of- the private whose .horse had been shot, and when he resisted, shot him also with another barrel from, his revolver.