The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8.

THE imprudence of GARIBALDI appears some-
times to serve his country better than the craft
and caution of wiser men. The blunder and mis-
chance of Aspromonte drove the French from
Rome more certainly than the bayonets of the
volunteers could have done. The enterprise
baffled at Sinalunga is renewed at half-a-dozen
places within the heart of the Pspal territory. It
is a small gain to have the hero himself under lock
and key in Alesaandria or fastened to his rock in
the ocean by the watchful vigilance of Italian
cruisers. His captivity fights for the cause for
which he is held in bonds. Magical as the
sway of GARIBALDI'S personal presence seems
to be, his influence is now independent
of his presence. Like the English TALBOT, as
SHAKESPEARE has drawn him, he himself is but
" shadow of himself." His " substance, sinews,
" arms, and strength," lie in the devoted adherents
whom his call summons around him or sends on
the mission which he assigns to them. It is pos-
sible that GARIBALDI understood the real posture
of affairs in Italy better than some of his critics.
We do not suppose that he has been acting in
complicity with Ravassi, that the movement to
Sinalunga was a feint, or that the arrest and deten- '
tion of the hero took place with his own con-
trivance. But GARIBALDI knew probably
that in the course which he adopted he
was forcing the hands both of NAPOLEON
and of RATAZZI ; that he was setting in
motion causes which they must obey ; and caring
little for the fate which might befall himself, he
would doubtless have welcomed a bullet sent with
truer and more deadly aim than that which maimed I
him at Aspromonte, provided only that his death
brought the work of his life nearer to its accomp-
lishment. Italy is not now suppliant and de-
pendent. She holds the balance between Prussia
and France, and both these States court her
alliance. The return of the French Legion to
Rome would have led to a permanent breach be-
tween the cabinets of Paris and Florence. It
would have thrown Italy into the arms of Prussia.
Such a consequence as this NAPOLEON 111. would
have been reckless to madness if he challenged ;
and GARIBALDI, we may well believe, felt this,
and acted upon his conviction.

This interpretation of his conduct seems to us,
at least, far more probable than the view of those
who see in the affair of Sinalungs a simple piece of
fool-hardiness, an enterprise in which impulse
played a large part, and reason and the compute.
tion of results no part at all. GARIBALDI may be
very little either of a diplomatist or of a states-
man ; but he understands well enough the great
moving forces of European politics, and can act
upon them. What may be the issue of the insurrec-
tionary movement in the Papal States ; how far
the Pontifical troops may be able to make head
against it ; what scope will be allowed, and
what limit set, to the success of the revolt, if it
should succeed, by the parties to the September
Convention ; and what will be the terms of the
final compromise, and the next step towards the
inevitable solution—all these things are as yet
matters of conjecture. Simultaneous move-
ments appear to have been organized through,
the Papal territory—the building was to be
fired in several parts at once. It ought not to
take long for the flames to meet. The area
of the Papal States falls far short of that of our
greatest English county. At Viterbo, in the
extreme north, at Frosinone, in the extreme south,
at Valentano, in the west, and in the Sabina, east-
ward, we hear of risings. At Acquapendente
the Pontifical gendarmes capitulated to the
insurgents ; in the Sabina, we are told,
the revolutionists have been dispersed. The
Papal troops driven out from Bagnorea, and forced
to retire upon Montefiascono, nearer to Rome, are
officially reported to have returned and expelled
the Garibaldians after two hours' fighting. In the
meantime, the ranks of the insurgents receive
reinforcements in the delegation of Viterbo. At
present the fortune of the insurrection is still
undetermined. The inhabitants of the Papal
States wait possibly to be certain that France will
remain inactive, and that Italy will confine herself
to watching the frontier. Until they can be
sure of this, neither their own feeling nor the fide-
lity of the ecclesiastical troops can be fairly tested.
The statement of a German newspaper, that the
movement, if its inherent force lead it so far, will be
required to arrest itself at the gates of Rome ; that
the POPE will be guaranteed a life tenancy of the
Eternal City, with reversion to the King of
ITALY ; and that the successor of Pres IX. must
consent to be an honoured guest in the capital in
which his predecessors have been sovereigns for
more than a thousand years, is as good a guess as
another. If, probably, it has little authority, it
has some reason.

At present all is uncertain but the inevitable
end. The means by which it will accomplish it-
self, and the time of its realization, depend on the
chapter of accidents. One thing is to be deplored
—that sinister diplomacy should have left it to
revolution to achieve what should have been
the work of open treaty. " Rome to
" the Romans and the Romans to Italy " was the