The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

NEWS OF THE DAY.

There is another crisis in the civil government of
Naples. The Marquis Pallavicini, who recently accepted
the office of pro-Dictator of the kingdom, paid a visit to
Garibaldi at the camp at Caserta on Thursday, by the
'latter's desire, and, after a conference, at which the
friends of Mazzini, SS., Crispi and Cattaneo assisted,
the Marquis and his secretary, by whom he was accom-
panied, tendered their resignations. It will be recollected
that this nobleman declined to undertake the office until he
had put the Dictator in possession of the instructions
which he had received from the Government of M. de
Cavour in regard to its performance, and obtained his
assent to them. One of the first acts of the MarqUis,
after entering upon his duties was to give not a very
gentle hint to the arch-agitator, Joseph Mazzini, to
retire from Naples, and make way for better and safer
men. Instead of taking this hint, Mazzini has replied
to it by a direct refusal, which is backed by the follow-
ing reasons amongst others :—" Because I do not feel
myself guilty, nor cause danger for the country, nor con-
ceive projects which may be disastrous to it, and I should
appear to avow such to be the case by yielding;
because, as an Italian, in an Italian land that hasieco-
vered its liberty, I think I ought to represent and sup-
port the right of every Italian to live in his own country
when he does.not attack its laws, and the duty of not
yielding to an unmerited ostracism ; because it would
appear to me that, by voluntarily exiling myse,lf,
I should be guilty of insult to my country, which
cannot, without dishonouring itself in the eyes of
Europe, render itself guilty of tyranny; to the Ring
who cannot fear an individual without admittiigg him-
self weak, and not secure of the affection of his subjects.
and to the men of your party who cannot be excited at
the presence of a man declared by them to be alone and
abandoned, without contradicting themselves ; because
the desire comes, not as you think from the country
which labours'and combats under the flag of Garibaldi,
but from the Turin Ministry, towards whom I have no
debt, and whom I think fatal to the unity of the
country. Lastly, because on arriving I received a de-
claration from the Dictator of this, country that I was
free in the land of the free." Mazzini adds.that, as he
has already, for the sake of unity and concord, declared
that he abandoned republicanism and adopted fnonarchy
as his future creed, he considers he has thus made sacrifices
sufficient, without being called upon to make the addi-
tional one now demanded of him. Garibaldi would
appear also to be of this opinion ; and as we are informed
by another telegram that hi's friend Crispi has succeeded
in making himself as unpopular with the whole of that
moderate party in that city, as he was with the Sici-
lians, by writing letters to the Neapolitan provincial
governors, commanding them to " exercise the greatest
severity towards persons signing addresses to the Bing
of Piedmont, or endeavouring to promote annexation,".
there seems every reason to apprehend a renewal of that
antagonism between Garibaldi arid his advisers and the
Sardinian Government, which all the real, friends of the
Italian movement viewed with so much regret and
anxiety whilst it lasted.

According to some accounts, an armistice for five days
had been declared at Capua, tiut th,is is doubtful. The
last despatches from Naples, according to a French
journal, state.that the Piedmontese troops continue to
arrive in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Two divi-
sions of the corps of Cialdini are now crossing the
Abruzzis. A body of 8,000 had arrived at• Naples by
sea on the, 9th and following day. Ralf of them were
immediately marched on Capua, where hostilities have
commenced. The Russian minister at Gaeta has received
orders to proceed to Warsaw, as well as M. de Stackel-
berg, the Russian minister at Turin. The ' same
authority mentions that " despatches from Rome inform
us'that the movement of the French troops continues in
the delegations of Civita Vecchia, Viterbo, Orvieto,
Velletri, Frosinone, and in all the Comarque of Rome.
It will thus be strategically guaranteed on the side of
the Romagna, on that of the Tuscan frontier, and on the
side of the sea and the Neapolitan frontier."
. The Pro4lietator of Palermo, Mordini, has published
extensively, and caused to be posted up in all parts of
Italy, a proclamation, couched in precisely similar terms
to the manifesto recently circulated in Naples by the
Mazzini party in that capital, calling upon the Sicilian
people not to consent to annexation to. Piedmont until
Piedmont shall have itself become Italian. "We do
not wish," says the Pro-dictator on behalf of his party,
"that Italy
should be Piedmontese." Setting aside any
question as to the good taste of this document, there can
be no doubt that the point here touched on, is a very
delicate one. Will the people of the Two Sicilies con-
sent that Turin shall be their capital as well as the
capital of Northern Italy ? and if not, how shall the
question of precedence be determined ? There seems
to be only one way of getting rid of the difficulty, and
that is, by realising, as soon as possible, the idea enun-
ciated by one of the speakers in the late debate in the
Sardinian chambers, who said he hoped soon to see the
successor of St. Peter sitting in Rome by the side of the
King of Italy.
A statement is at present going the round of the
French press, which is said, to emanate from a German
source, to the effect that negotiations have been going
onfor some time pait bet Ween 'the Cabinets of Vienna
and St. James, for the'cession by Austria of two or
three small islands in the Adriatic, and especially of the
Island of Lossini, which is said to possess an excellent
anchorage ground. It is even insinuated, that the
recent circular 'note addressed by Lord John Russell
to Sir James Hud.son, having for its object to dissuade
Piedmont from all thoughts of attacking Austria', had its
source in this transaction; but the whole story is so
improbable, that it is hardly necessary to discuss it.
We may merely add, that the Patrie concludes an article
in reference to the rumour as follows :--" Will Europe
permit that. England, already mistress of the mouth of
the Adriatic, by means of her protectorate of the lonian
Islands, shall raise in the very bosom of this sea any
new fortresses? Let England, which is so jealous of all
extension of territory, when other nations are concerned,