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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.

Ir is the privilege of all high, heroic natures to
turn evil into good, and to serve the cause of right
by their very errors and excesses of judgment or of
conduct. That G•RIBALDI'S appeal to arms
against the policy of the puny and wavering Ca-
binet of Turin was an illegal, unconstitutional,
and ill-advised proceeding was beyond all doubt or
denial ; that the success of such a movement
could hardly be less critical for Italy than its
failure, and that under a free government the
proper place for arraigning the policy of the King's
Ministers was the Parliament—all this was as
plain as a sum in single addition to a calm looker
on in London, accustomed to test all men and
things by the political thermometers of Pall-mall.
But our own glorious constitution and all its re-
spectable fictions and time-honoured compromises
apart, even the most conservative Briton, content
to dwell in decencies for ever, could not fail to
perceive that the situation of Italy and the Italian
Government, and the individuality of GARIBALDI
were altogether exceptional, to be judged on
their own merits, and without reference to the
polity and procedure of ancient, independent, and
settaed States. When a contemporary, with its
usual lively generosity to the fallen, talks of the
great Italian patriot having attempted a "Second
"of December," we are at a loss whether
to admire 'most the calumny, or the insult
to the reason of the reader, or the pros-
trate baseness of the suggestion. It is pretended
that GARIBALDI, when he levied arms, not against,
but in the name of his Sovereign, in Sicily, and
carried the Cross of Savoy into Calabria, was con.
templating a massacre of citizens in the streets of
Turin, the abolition of the Parliament, and of the
constitutional monarchy, the confiscation of all
law, authority, and liberty, and the assump-
tion of a military Dictatorship, to be
presently merged in an Imperial Crown ! Does
our contemporary, in the blindness of its faith in
human baseness, affect to liken the chivalrous and
penniless soldier who gave away a kingdom in
open day, with the crapulous gang that stole an
Empire in the night t To pursue so monstrous
$ comparison would be an outrage on the common
sense of any public not habitually steeped in
the 'fallacies of corruption. GARIBALDI has sinned
against the laws of his country by levying arms
without his Sovereign's consent ; but can any one
who has glanced at the current history of
the last three months pretend to be ignorant
that it was for his King and country that Gael-
BALD! rose up against what he believed to be
domestic complicity with foreign domination ; and
that his true and guileless heart was tempted,
goaded, betrayed into lawless courses by the
extravagance of patriotic virtue. That he has
erred, nobly but rashly erred, his best friends
admit ; but even in a cautelous and cowardly
age that bows down before the foulest idols, the
lustre of such a man's misfortunes and mistakes
outshines the splendour of Imperial success.

And mark how even in defeat GARIBALDI serves
his Sovereign and saves his country. Let us hasten
to do justice to the King, whose great and gene-
rous heart, clouded for a moment, as we hear,
by artful and ir.terested calumnies, is full of sorrow
now. Views EMMANUEL, we have rea-
eon to believe, had been led to believe
that the true man he called his friend
had foresworn his allegiance and raised a rebel's
flag. GARIBALDI had written twice, assuring his
King of his unshaken fidelity ; but his vows and
promises never reached the King. It was only
when a third letter came into the King's hands,
and that proclamation from Catania, in which
GARIBALDI declared that ho bowed before the
Majesty of the King elect of the nation, that the
King knew how poor a " rebel" was this too
ardent friend and servant ! At this moment we
believe, throughout his broad dominions, there is
not a heart that sorrows more for the prisoner of
Spezzia than the heart of the royal hero of Palestro.
This, at least, is a consolation to all who would
regret to find the Cross of Savoy trailing in the
dust of royal perfidy and ingratitude.

Nor is this the only rsy of light we can discern
in the immense darkness that has fallen upon Italy.
The tone of the independent, and even of the offi-
cial pre. in Paris on the action of Aspromonte isnot
unworthy of the better days of French journalism.
Towards the stricken hero of Italian independence
its deep and saddened respect and sympathy is
nobly and delicately expressed. Even La France,
the Pays, and the Patric speak of him tenderly
and with an accent of suppressed emotion that
has nothing of insolent compassion in it. But it
is the Liberal journals that especially refute the
ignorant imputation that the educated classes
in France are opposed to the independence and
unity of Italy. One and all, our Liberal contem-
poraries in Paris, writing under Heaven and
the Ministry of the Interior only know
what restraints, unequivocally declare that
there now remains not the shadow of an apology