THE INVASION OP NAPLES.

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1471, 13 November 1860, Page 5

THE INVASION OP NAPLES.

The circumstance to which the course of. events • in Southern Itajy has of late tended has at length arrived. Garibaldi .has left his island. .'. quarters and made a descent on the main land > — he is vow fairly committed to a struggle with, the King's troops. We learn by a telegram r from Turin that an. insurrection has broken Out in Calabria, — that 8000 of his troops were disembarked at Melito, — that he has taken Reg-' ! gio— and that the ;- Neapolitan forces. are con- , centrated at Montfcleone. The Daily News, speculating on these events, says — " If we bave , recourse to figures, and compare the numerical j- strength of the opposed forces, nothing seems . more ridiculous than this invasion. The King j disposes of au army which, according to official P statistics, should number 70,000 infantry of the t Guard and line, 6000 cavalry, and 6000 artil. - lery, even when a fair deduction is made for . losses in Sicily ; and td cut off Garibaldi's com- -]\ , munication by sea has a fleet of 121 vessels, carrying 820 guns, not reckoning the little ' Veloce. But in this war sucb calculations r w ..mid be out of place. Garibaldi is in Calaj bria to place himself at the head of a nation which expects him as a deliverer, and whioh j will find diversified occupation for the Bourboa _ army, while it will swell bis ranks and recruit f him with all kinds of succour.. This, whioh is . the only justification of his armed appearance t in the Neapolitan territory, is the groupd of his expectations of Success, ' Already we' hear of \ the formation of. a. Provisional Governmental Potenza, a fortified towu in the. very heart of I j the kipgdom, capable of becoming the nucleus" _, of an important movement to" divide the Royal ' fyrces, and similar risings are expected at other 7. c points. But no military assistance which „ Garibaldi can expect to receive will be of a j character to detract frora tbe boldness of his > enterprise, wbich must be measured by .s&_% ■ risks he immediately runs,"' ■:^