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and administration ; in all, 7,151 officers, 127,815
soldiers ready for active service, 35,660 in
garrison, or at the various military depots, and.
26,183 horses. To the above number we must add
5,949 Royal Carabineers, with 172 officers and
3,657 men, spread in different corps and military
institutions, so that the entire force of the Sar-
dinian army would be 183,081 men, 7,589 officers,
and 28,136 horses. The Sardinian navy is com-
posed of 21 vessels of from 6 to 54 guns ; 3 frigates,
2 corvettes, and 4 gunboats are now in course of
construction. The Neapolitan army is not less
than 119,700 infantry, 9,350 cavalry, 15,900
artillery, and 2,800 sappers and miners—making
a total of 147,750, which, if united to that of
Sardinia, would give her an army of 338,420
men. The Neapolitan navy is at least double
that of Sardinia, and if united would number not
less than 70 or 80 vessels of from 6 to 80 guns,
which forces would be too formidable for all the
troops and vessels of war that Austria could bring
against Sardinia.

The Piedmontese Minister of War has just
issued a circular, ordering the mobilisation of 24
battalions of the National Guard. Each battalion
will consist of 600 men, which will give the
Government a force of 8,400 men for garrison
duty.

The telegram that we have this moment received
is one of the happiest illustrations of the world
that I have read for some time. I give you the
translation word for word :—"Naples, 25.—Baron
Brenier demands compensation for the injuries
received by himself, and the loss sustained by the
French subjects, at Palermo.* The Marquis di
Villaniarina has demanded compensation for the
injuries sustained by the Sardinian bersaglieri,
the other day, at Naples, being attacked and
wounded by the Neapolitan sharpshooters." Now
that he's down, give it him ! hit him ! kick him
he's got no friends.

1-4 nur city has a hope of shaking off the

J%L mo.,
frightful monotony which generally characterises
Milan from the month of June to the middle of
Sepieniter. Mir Scald opens its deists for the
autumnal operatic season on the sth of next
month till the 30th Of November, and our races
(Italian races !) take place on the 10th of the
same incitth, The programme of the Scala con-
tains the following *fat fer tepreitation
L'Assedio di Fireuze, Bottesini ; G7uglielnio Tell;
Rossini; Vittore Pisani, Achille Peri ; Leone isei6;
Emilio Cianchi. Two ballets, Marco Visconti—
the other is to be named. The principal singers
are Signore Isabella Galletti, Gianoli, Rosina,
Laborde, Claudine Fiorentini, Guiseppina Flori,
Teresina Mistrali and Linda Fiori, Signori Gui-
seppe Villani, Giovanni Valentini, Christiani
Antonio Cotogni, Ferd Bellini, Cesare della-Costa.
All these names are new to Milan except the
baritone Cesare della-Costa, Who is a very good
artist, therefore it is iMpossible to say what kind
of a season it will be. I shall give your musical
readers (and I know there are many iu Liverpool)
a faithful account of each representation.
It is more than probable before you receive this
Francis 11. will have abandoned Naples.
MILAN, August 31.
Judging from the contents of private letters
received this morning, from Naples, there can no
longer be any doubt of the King's flight, seeing
the little support he is likely to receive from the
troops, and having before his eyes the letter of
his uncle, the Count Syracuse, which was written
and sent to his Bourbon Majesty on the 24th
instant, urging him, in the strongest terms, to
abandon :Naples, and not subject the city to the
same horrors es Palermo, or his name to the uni-
versal malediction of every Italian. In the even-
ing of the same day that the Count's letter Wes
delivered it is reported that seven Neapolitan
generals, among whom I find the names or Viglid
and Pianelli, drew up, signed, and presented titi
address to the King, in almost the same terms,
and pointing out the impossibility of sustaining
war against the forces of Garibaldi, backed up
as he is by a large number of the male popoula-
tion of every province, city, and village he passed
through, the Neapolitan army being entirely dis-
couraged, and no longer imbued with either that
courage and discipline which were formerly the
principal characteristics of the Neapolitan soldier.
The chief officers of the navy have signed a
similar address, so that we may expect the next
telegram to bring us news of the departure of
the King, thus ending, for the present, this
national war for the extermination of the Bour-
bon of Naples. It is said that the King, before
he abandons Naples, will invest Count di Siracuse,
or General Cutrofiano, with unlimited powers,
which, of course, will only last until Garibaldi
arrives at the gates of Naples. We are also told
that one of the most powerful reasons which
induced the King to give up his determination of
holding out to the last, and even to bombard the
city, should the people attempt to assist the revo-
lutionists, was owing to the earnest supplications
of the Cardinal of Naples to spare the town this
terrible infliction, there being only one hundred
and eighty nunneries within the walls of the city.
Of course we must presume that the Cardinal's
earnest prayers were not influenced for the sole
protection of the monasteries and churches, but
also for the lives and habitations of the citizens.
The shouts of delirious joy, Viva 1' ! Viva
Vittorio Emanuela ! Viva Garibaldi ! which now
fill the air at every onward step of the great hero
of Italy, would induce the uninitiated to believe
that Garibaldi's triumph is complete the moment
he has planted (as I have before stated) his vic-
torious colours upon the towers of Sant' Elmo,
and the liberty of all Italy placed beyond the re-
motest shadow of a doubt. Indeed, so enthusi-
astically blind are many persons, that it would be
a very difficult task to persuade them that the
battle is not yet entirely won, or the liberty of
the Peninsula out of peril. Many cry oat, " Who
will now dare to wrest from us the fruits of our
victories and liberty, bought with the most pre-
cious blood of Italy ? " " Where is the enemy
that will dare to tear from our victorious brows
the laurels of our national war against the foes of
liberty ? " Alas ! this apparent harmony, this
wild joy for the liberation of their country is not
altogether unlike a bottle of sparkling champagne,
all effervescent for a short time, but which, little
by little, loses its force, and then becomes flat and
insipid. Garibaldi's experience of Sicily has con-
vinced him of this fact; therefore, I believe, as
soon as the enthusiasm of the Neapolitans is fairly
uncorked, and before the froth and bubbles vanish,
it is not improbable he will, by a dictatorial act,
declare the annexation of the Two Sicilies, with-
out the formality of a vote by universal suffrage,
and in all probability the occupation of the same
by the Piedmontese troops, thereby placing Pied-
mont in a better position to make her own arrange-
ments with the Neapolitans and Sicilians. But,
should Garibaldi still cling to the original pro-
gramme of pushing on his operations to Rome
and Venice, and delay the formal. annexation of
Naples and Sicily until the former States are free
from the dominion of the Pope and Francis Joseph,
hen it is possible Piedmont will hesitate before
takingt upon herself the responsibility of the pos-
session of either Naples or Sicily. What will be
the result ? This, that lam certain Garibaldi
will have a more formidable enemy to fight
against than either the King of Rome or the
Emperor of Austria,—that enemy is the internal
dissensions among the Italians themselves, which
will, I believe, be found most obstinate in the
Neapolitan capital. It cannot be denied that at

present there is a powerful party in favour of the

Prince Murat, which will do their utmost to
instal him as King of the Two Sicilies ; and we

know that, although the Prince throws out a

suggestion in his late letter for the adjustment of

the question by an Italian confederation, as pro-
posed by his cousin the Emperor Napoleon, still
he has no " objection to take upon myself the
responsibility of such a position, should it be the
wish of the Italians." Next comes the party
which advocate an alliance between Naples and

Piedmont, which party numbers an immense

force. of the most influential adherents of Naples ;
then we have the party for the annexation of the

Neapolitan kingdom to Piedmont; but I can

assure you most truly, that if vote by universal
suffrage was taken to-morrow of the entire king-
dom of Naples, this party would find themselves
with but very few followers, and this, notwith-

standing that the Garibaldian and Republican
emissaries have been for the last four months

industriously planting the seeds of their political
principles in every province, city, town, commune,

* Why, in the name of heavens, did Baron Brenier
defer till the last moment his claim for compensation ?
The same question is applicable to the Marquis di Vil-
lamarina. Was it in order to render the fall of the
King and his Ministry the more bitter ? I question
very much if in any other part of Italy, and under the
same trying circumstances, more devotion and fortitude
could, be found than that evineed by the Neapolitan
Minister, labaTio Romano,