OBITUARY.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1492, 29 January 1861, Page 5

OBITUARY.

Lieut. -Colonial Robert Macdonald, Sir Charles Napier, Bishop of Worcester, Mr. Butt, Q.C., Dowager Empress

ITALY. The Neapolitan revolution is well nigh consummated. The Bourbon troops have been defeated in several engagements, and many thousands of prisoners taken. Capua was bombarded and surrendered on (.he 2nd. 11,000 soldiers capitulated after a battle on the Garigliaus. IG,OOO Bourbons, being hard pressed by the Sardinians, crossed into tho Papal territory, whon they were disarmed. j Francis [I, who has lost all except 5000 men, will remain iv Gaeta, but his departure is hourly hoped for. 110 has broken a bloodvessel. His royal relatives and the foreign embussadors have left. France has interdicted bombardment by sen.- -an act of interference which has causod much irritation. Victor Fjinrnanuel entered Naples on the 7th, when the result of the national vote was presented to him by the Provincial Government four days later. Garibaldi has retired to Caprera, his island homo. Great indignation is felt at the treatment of the great liberator and his volunteers, who have been snubbed,and shelved. In Garibaldi's farewell address, he said he should require one million of men in the spring to combat Austria A new Government had been appointed at Naples, and Farina as Viceroy. Austria has assumed a defensive attitude in Venotiu The Warsaw conference was a failure. The new charter, invented by Austria, does not give satisfaction. An Italian army is being orgauisod. France is making extraordinary military preparations. A reserve is to be esla-

blished and k s pt in manliness Jor immediate action. A fl Jt»t is to sail by the spring; and a report is curra-it in nr.ilitary circles that a decree will sh >rtly appear ordering the formation of forty battalions in all the line regiments. Ttiri usual precursor of war. The Pope contiuuos at Ro ie, but hi 9 . treasury is impoverished, and Peter's pence are solicited.