The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

GAR' BA LDI'S WAR IN SOUTH ITALY.

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ADVANCLD MIMS or BANTA MARIA,
18, Nooi.

(hie .alvAnee.ll..nta ecru pushed on ben• on the
=.Ol the 1:411 %About "pp. witiOU, the three hat-
' of infantry and handful of cavalry which
this position falling back rapidly on the
own lk sly at Capon. : and Our ad eaneol Skir-
mishers 1144J4 line the left bank of the Volturno,
whlcu pauka to the .4 that town, an
immediate attack on slut+ as precluded from our
want of heavy artillery. Two or three batteries
are, huaeeer, preparing in sepias ; and ere long,
unless the troops ..f the Bourbon should surrender
.d the annihilation .4 Lanioricii.re
awl his useroonarios, we shall no doubt be able to

give • gum! sex oust 11 them. So greats their
dread a our emu that nearly the whole night they
keep up a .panuedie tire of artillery, evidently the
result .4 numerous fable alarms of our advance ;
and mie might almost imagine that we were in the
vicinity .4 a Chinese instead of an European army
Our men are in capital condition, and number
between 17,000 and 18,000, more than enough
for the wee* before them, as in Capita there
are only 15,000; but the enemy are supped...l
by a very heavy and formidable artillery ;
tbe remainder a their force' 15,000, are in
the vicinity or form a part of the garreon of
Gaeta. Of the 40,000 Calebrians brought up by
Stucco, 20,000 are in awl about Naples, and about
to he added to our different divienere which, in-
cluding the half of Melices division left at Mexeina,
will bring the number of Garibaldi's regulars up to
but little short of 50,000 men ; the remaining
20,000 &m at Salerno, Ming organized in battalion.
by Colonel Corte. So that within a few week*
Garibaldi will he at the head of 5..1110 70,000 regu-
lar.. 0. lay nothing of the Nespelitatts who are
flocking in, and who are to form a separate corp...
These lone. are not one whit too many to en-
coneter the vast difficulties which are encircling
Italy at the present moment—menaced, as she un-
doul.telly is, by anarchy within, and by her old
mucus, Austria, from without. Now, from these
daie.:er. there appears but one deliverance, namely,
immediate and universal anuexation, and leaving
the French in the pus...onion of Rome and Civita
Vecchia, that the entire country may rally
n.uu.l Victor Emmanuel in a death struggle for
eximence. Whether the rumour which has reached
in of the Austrians having already advanced into
Centnil Italy be true or not, a struggle with that
empire cannot long be delayed ; and with the en-
tire population at his back, and supported by Gari-
baldi advance from the South, and by the recent
additi, es. to his nary, Victor Emmanuel might find
himself able to cope with the over-rated power of
Austria. She would soon be menaced in the rear,
in Venetia and on the shores of Dalmatia, and the
advance of her legions considerably imperilled.
Hungary also is nut likely to remain tranquil,
and Europe can hardly afford to let Germany come
to the support of the far-famed Quadrilateral.
The ceases which have driven. Cavour thus Nod-
e* to brave the active hostility of Austria and to
throw off the intolerable fetters which French di-
plomacy wax fast rivetting upon Italy may be thus
briefly stated. That consummate statesman found
that Garibaldi's ever increasing power was fast
becoming uncontrollable, and that however
loyal that paladin of Italy might be, red-
republicanism, headed by Mauini, was threat-
ening to get the mastery of the revolution,
and thus bring the national struggle into disrepute,
sod perhaps even subvert his own government, and
pave the way for the renewal of such amnia as
these which in 1848 agitated every capital in
Enrols,. Two courses were therefore open to the
Piedinontese cabinet—either at once to grapple
with existing difficulties whilst they could yet hope
to master the position, or wait until they should
be overtaken by events, when they would
be alike impotent to lead or to control the course
which the revolution might seek to pursue.
It was far cis. r therefore to brave every danger,
and by at once heading the national movement
resume a power which was rapidly slipping
from their grasp. By stifling anarchy in its
birth, by accepting every inch of ground
open for annexation, and by boldly sharing
in the emmuou perils of the country, the King
would assert he right to lead the councils of Italy,
and reap his reward in the gratitude of
26,000,000 of his countrymen for, what-
ever may be the result of this bold
decision, Victor Enameled will have more than
ever smarted his right to rule] over a consti-
tutioual Italy, and Cavour, of late the beet abused
man in Italy, may oessolidate the fabric upon
which his consummate skill awl craft have formed
the bass, whilst the surrender of Savoy and Nice,
if not forgiven, may be genereuely forgotten.
The return of Garibaldi this slay from Palermo,
where deplorable differences between the Cavourian
and republican parties had led to the resignation
of Depretis, after having restored order and left
Monlini as pro-dictator, eventually to be succeeded
by. Aurelio Smith, is also a guarantee that events
here will not be 111116 1101111 a the• etiergctic move-
meets of Faun and Cialdini in the Marches and
Umbria : and that bigoted mercenary Larnoriciere
awl lux levies being destroyed, a further °demon of
blued may be spared in this portion of Italy. The
terms of the capitulation of the force before us are
already a matter of discrusion, and I have every
reason to believe will be completed ou the arrival
of Garibaldi, when it is to be hoped the (anion,.
young mouarch will take his departure, and enable
the general to consolidate the government of the
matey, and prepare for the spring, or, if needful,
at once to attempt a diversion ou the shores of the
Adriatic.