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London, England, 1862-05-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 3.

Tin prospect& of Italian unity have brightened
a little within the last few days. General DE
Govoir, it is now announced with authority, is at
length actually recalled, and the visible chagrin
with which the Ultramontane journals record this
unwelcome conclusion of a lingering dispute, amply
justifies all that has been said or suspected of that
gallant and devout officer's " proclivities."
The Imperial Government may search the
muster-roll of the French army through without
discoveriug a General so well adapted as M. DE
G,IVON to the peculiar military duties which de-
volve on the Commander-in-Chief of the Army
of Occupation in Rome. With the exception of an
occasional "moral slap" from the Papal Milner=
• or Anus, General DE GOYON returns to Paris with
undiminished reputation as a soldier ; and we see
no reason why he should not be received with equal
favour at the Tuileriea and in the Faubourg St.
Germain. That martial figure will be missed by
the Roman citizens on the Corso ; those Royalist
sympathies will be wanting to the royal circle at
the Farnese Palace, and those genuflexions will be
remembered with regret at the Vatican. But the
General will probably find his reward in a
seat in the Senate, whether as a devoted
servant of the EMPEROR, an ardent protector of
the Holy See, or the generous patron of a
Bouneow fathily in distress. So far so good. It
is to be hoped that his successor in command
will be more strictly military in his qualities,
and be content to know himself a per-
functory personage. Doubtless the French troops
are heartily sick of performing the work of a con-
'tabular), force among a rabble of priests who
grudge them so much as an honest blessing.
But it was only when General DI GOYON
was desired to lend a hand to the suppression of
brigandage on the Neapolitan frontier, and no
longer permitted to wink hard at the conveyance of
arms and ammunition from the Papal arsenals to
the enemies of the King of ITALY, that he felt his
occupation gone. M. DI LavaLarra was nut the
man to accept the position of a dupe ; and as soon
as he found that the representative of France was
expected to be nothing more than one of two
puppets, of whom the other was the privileged re-
presentative of a certain inner circle in the Impe-
rial Court, the high spirit and acute perception of
that eminent diplomatist demanded the recall of one
or of the other. So, after the usual series of con-
' tradictory rumours and official mystification,
M. DE LAVALITTE holds his OWD, and General DE
Govow comes back to France.
The report that Marshal Mix is to go to Rome
as military and diplomatic representative of France
is revived. To replace a Commander-in-Chief
who never saw a shot fired on a field of battle, by
one of the ablest and most renowned Marshals of
France, whose name is written on the ruins of Se-
bastopol and Bomarsund, is an act which cannot
fail to be regarded as significant in a military
sense, and the Italians may remember with
satisfaction that it was Marshal nut. that was com-
missioned to survey the frontier fortresses of
Piedmont at the outset of the war of indepen-
dence. It can scarcely be imagined, however,
that this distinguished General of Engineers is to
be entrusted with a mission to the Holy See for
the professional purpose of surveying the recon-
at:noted fortifications of Civita Vecchia, to which
it is rug ;ested the French occupying force would
retire to " concentrate itself." A foreign army
at Civita Vecchia would intensify the dis-
trust and jealousy of the European Powers,
without retaining the colourable excuse of " pro-
" tecting the person of the HOLY Farman."
Even the " Catholic world " (which somehow or
other appears to exclude the people of Rome) will
not pretend that a foreign force at Civita Vecchia
is indispensable to the safety of the HOLY FATHER
when an Italian army holds the gates of Rome,
and keeps guard in the Quirinal and at the Vati-
can. We are far from suggesting that the conti-
nuance for a while of a French garrison at Civita
Vecchia should be regarded as hostile to the rights
of Italy ; but that, if prolonged, it must become an
object of suspicion to Europe without gaining any
credit from the " Catholic world," is too obvious
• to require explanation. A mixed garrison at
Rome is another " middle term " that has been
more than once proposed ; but in what manner or
degree such an intermediate arrangement would
satisfy the susceptibilities of the Papal Court, or
why an infusion of French soldiers should be pre-
feasible to an unmixed Italian garrison, we are
unable to conceive. Italian soldiers are probably
at least as good Catholics as their French allies.
The rumour that sends Marshal NIEL to the
Court of Rome in a double capacity, as Commander
in-Chief and Envoy Extraordinary, describes the
object of his mission as "to conciliate, if possible,
" the protection which France owes to the Holy
" See with the rights of the Italian nation." This
formula has not the recommendation of novelty,
though it represents precisely the policy which,
according to the bewildered organs of the Tory
party, Lord Mauessanar and Mr. DISRAELI ate
p:epared to pursue if they return to office before