King Humbert visited the scene of misery on Wednesday, distributing
relief to the utmost of his ability, and showing his sympathy freely and cordially, in spite of the fears of his Ministers, who had some reason to dread that some of the many tottering walls not yet level with the ground might fall on him. On Wednesday and Thursday, a dozen people who had been buried alive by the earthquake were disinterred, still living, though they had been four or five days under the ruins, a man of eighty amongst them. An Englishman living in Ischia, Mr. Nesbit, seems to have thrown himself into the work of assisting his poor neighbours with true devotion, and to have received the personal thanks of King Humbert for his exertions. The misery remaining amidst the pestilential ruins is even more heartrending than the harvest of death itself. And the trouble due to positive want is very pressing. Mr. C. E. Mudie, of Mnswell Hill, London, N., the Chairman of the well-known Library Company, tells us that he shall be very glad to receive and acknowledge English subscriptions for the sufferers.
