The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-18 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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ITALY.

TUILDT, AUGUST 17:

The Emancipation Society has been dissolved by
the government. There is nothing new from Sicily.
The island continues quiet.

NAPLES, AUGUST 17.

The report contained in some papers that Gari-
baldi had passed the Straits of Meeaina and arrived
in Calabria is without foundation.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

(now °us 4:0118 CONNISPONDINT.)
PARIS, SUNDAY EVIENDID.

As regards Garibaldi and his movements we
have not a little difficulty iu coming at the truth,
by reason of the haze of governmental mystification
hanging between us and Sicily. It is not only in
Washington and New York that intelligence is
cooked up with an eye to foreign export. The
most trustworthy accounts, however, represent the
state of affairs as one at once of suspense and sus-
pension, neither the government nor Garibaldi ap-
pearing disposed to push matters to extremity.
The government orders to the troops are to avoid a
conflict ; the tactics of Garibaldi tend to the same
object. As to the number of the " rebels,"
as M. de la Guerronnibre calls them, we
must take a medium between the exaggerations
of the /talianissimi and the pooh-poohing of
Ratazzi ; they may, according to a trustworthy
authority, be set down at about 5,000. It is
doubtful whether Garibaldi is anxious, under ex-
isting circumstances, to increase this force, even
were not any accession rendered almost impos-
sible (so long, at least, as the royal army remains
faithful) by the military cordon which it is sought
to draw round the " rebels," by the combined
operations of Generals Cogia and Ricotti. In
point of fact, whereas for a national manifestation
50,000 men would not suffice, 5,000 are enough to
answer the object to which for the moment Gari-
baldi will probably limit his endeavours, that,
namely, of keeping a permanent thorn in
the side of the Ratazzi ministry, accused by him of
treachery, feebleness, and slavish obedience to
" our great ally." This "great ally" can hardly
himself view the present movement in any other
light than that of a serious monition as to the
things to come. The pause allowed by the cessa-
tion of parliamentary debates in Italy will pro-
bably be utilised by him. Of this we have various
indications. The recent advance and subsequent
withdrawal of insolent pretensions by the new
clerico-imperial paper, La France, is among the
foremost of these. The admissions made by the
viscount-journalist as to the existence of semi-
official journals are noted for future comment ;
but the severe snubbing administered by those
old hands the Constitutionnel and the Patric is

gladly seized upon by the liberal journals,
and the public in general, as evidence '
of coming events in high quarters. We
have been so often and so sorely disap-
pointed as to the intentions of Napoleon ILL
towards Italy that we receive with extreme doubt
assurances of anything good meditated in that
direction. It is plain, however, that opinion is ,
gradually growing more hopeful. Clerical audacity
at home comes in aid of Garibaldi's movement in
Sicily. The Indipendetnee speaks with a confidence
on this subject, to which I would willingly subscribe,
but dare not. That journal declares that Napo-
leon's fixed intention is not to remain indefinitely
at Rome. He cannot hesitate, it is said, between
the two opposite manifestations now being made.
He cannot consign Italy to the dangers of revolu-
tion ; neither can he contemplate a reaction
in a clerical direction. He must choose. The
choice means a solution—more or less near, more
or less radical—of the Roman question. Intelli-
gence received this day from a good source, the
Presae, is not calculated to encourage a policy of
hesitation and delay. The Turin correspondent of
that journal gives some extracts from a letter ad-
dressed to him by a follower of Garibaldi, described
as "a man of a certain age, who has not thrown
himself amid these adventurers through mere folly,
and who is about Garibaldi's person rather as a
philosopher and an observer of events than as a
soldier." This person, after remarking that the
followers of Garibaldi neither ask nor care whither
he is leading them, says:
The general, in elite of the apparent zig•nga of our march,
seems to have his route traced ont ; hennas to me to have
fixed his eyes upon a certain point, from which he never
departs. I observe that whenever he talks of Rome he
associates the army of Italy with has expedition, and
marches, as it were, by the aide of the King. You know
I am frequently with the general, and am of an age to ob-
serve men and things. The orders given, and the remarks
made by Garibaldi, together with our movements, lead me
to believe that something like the following is his plan :
First, he will raise Sicily, and establish himself perhaps at
Castro• Giovanni. He will then cross the Straits in disguise
andfalone, and make his appearance in Calabria, which is
prepared to receive him. You may be sure the move-
ment will extend itself to the Abruzzi, and
thence to the very gates of Rome. Probably the
more important towns will not join the movement. Such
is the intention of Garibaldi, who could, had he so chosen,
have raised Palermo ten times by a single word. But Geri_
baldi desires that the regular government should not cease
to exist anywhere. When the kingdom of the Two Skill's,
which Garibaldi gave to Italy, shall be raised from the
Abruzzi to Etna, what will the government of Turin do'•
Garibaldi is firmly convinced that it will change its policy,
and, instead of hunting down the volunteers, will unite the
royal army with this hastilyraised force. In presence of
such unanimity of the nation, and, at the same time, of a
Roman insurrection, the walls of the eternal city will fall as
it were miraculously and without effort. Once more, rest
assured, such are the plans of Garibaldi, and look to see
him within a few days at the head of two camps—one in
Sicily, the other in Calabria.
The Debuts thinks the state of things in Sicily
such as to resider inevitable a decision, and cer-
tainly not one in a reactionary sense, with-
out delay on the part of the French government.
The Patrie announces that it has received by private
telegram, from Turin, 'the intelligence that " the
cabinet of the Tuileries, appreciating the energies
displayed by the Italian government in the midst of
the agitations of the peninsula, has desired the
Couut de Maasignac, chargd d'affaires of France
in the absence of M. Benedetti, to become
the interpreter to General Durando, minis-
ter of foreign affairs, of its felicitations."
The cabinet of the Tuileries, then, appreciates the
energy of M. Ratazzi's administration ; let us hope
it will do something more than felicitate that ad-
, ministration. Fine words and "felicitations" are
; all very well, but they won't go far to get the
• Italian government out of the tremendous diffi-
entries arising to it from the "agitations of the
peninsula." And if the Italian government, in
spite of its " energy," should fall before these
tremendous difficulties, if the King should be under
• the necessity of calling to himself other consti-
tutional advisers, if an administration headed by
the inflexibly honest, the sternly unyielding
Ricasoli should come to occupy the high places at

Turin, what then ? Has the chief of this stain turned
that matter in his mind 1 Let us hope he has ;
for if he has, we may be sure ho will have seen the