The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9.

Ti. contradictory accounts of the last few days
respecting the movements of GARLIIALDI are now
explained, and there can be no doubt that that
gallant captain has once more devoted his sword
and his life in a most perilous enterprise for the
freedom of his oppressed countrymen. GARIBALDI,
es our correspondent at Turin yesterday informed
the public, set sail from Genoa on the night of
Friday last, and was expected to reach the Sicilian
oast on Sunday. With him go a chosen few of
those Caociatori dells Alpi whose exploits achieved
this time last year at Como and Varese, against
better soldiers than serve King FRANCES, are
so fresh in memory, and a number of officers who
acquired the General's confidence in his South
American and Italian campaigns. This little band
was to be immediately followed by another, which,

without justifying the description of an "expo-
" ditionary corlw d'ornufe," since applied to it by
the Patric, will doubtless prove strong enough,
supposing it to effect a landing, to enable GARI-
BALDI to give organisation, unity, and a firm basis
to the patriotic movement, and to secure the ultimate
triumph of the nation over the Boum/lows, its
deadliest enemies. The great want of the Sicilians
is fire-arms and leaders accustomed to warfare. The
Neapolitan army, to create which was the work of
the late Kam% life, one for which he has received
considerable credit, has distinguished itself in the
recent conflicts only by barbarity and want of disci
pline. To plunder houses and monasteries, murder
women and children, and fire towns, makes up
the sum of its bravery and skill. The private
and authentic letters of English travellers are full
of contempt for the military character of the royal
soldiery. Still, when large numbers of them well
provided with artillery come into collision with
small bodies of ill-armed insurgents, they gene-
rally, though not always, get the victory.
Expectation will now be strained to learn the
fortune of Goma/Lots expedition, what new
obstacles it encountered at sea, and what reception
on the coast. The telegraph informs us from
Paris that the Sardinian Government has
ordered its vessels off Sicily to oppose
the General's landing. We trust, for the make
of the peace of Europe, that the Sardinian com-
manders may be no unlucky as not to fall in with
the General. The situation of the Piedmont's*
Government would be difficult enough if GARI-
BALDI were to fall in an tumuocessful endeavour to
succour an Italian population struggling with op-
pression, while the Kum was receiving the ho-
mage of Central Italy ; but the active intervention
of that Government to cut off aid from Sicily
would destroy the moral and political influence of
Count CAVOUR, and throw the direction of the
forces of the new Italian kingdom into the hands
of extreme and violent men. Certainly the Sar-
dinian Cabinet has a most difficult duty to per
form. Up to this time it has endeavoured
zealously, in the face of the greatest discourage-
ment, to effect the emancipation and indepen-
dence of Italy by amicable negotiation with
the Neapolitan Government To an Englishman
there is something absurd, almost leading to doubts
of its sincerity, in the proposal to harmonise con•
stitutional liberty with the rule of the %vapors
at Naples. Yet it has been adopted at Turin in
good faith and prosecuted sedulously. The co-ope-
ration of the Two Sicilia; with free Italy is essential
to the full independence of the Peninsula, and as
that independence has been uniformly sought by
Piedmont in preference to all selfish territorial
aggrandisement, only those who have from the first
misunderstood the policy of that kingdom can be
surprised that it should seek to secure the aid of the
southern kingdom by diplomacy ratherthan through
revolution. The chances of success, it must be ad-
mitted, are, and always were, of the smallest, and we
can quite sympathise with those who, lookingmerely
atthe deserts of the Neapolitan Government, betray
the most lively impatience of negotiations with that
despotism. Still the Piedmontese Goveniment
has had duties to perform, and has faithfully en-
deavoured to discharge them. The time seems
now to have come when it will be difficult for it to
maintain even the forms of friendship with a Go-
vernment which is blind to the teachings of his-
tory, and deaf to the suggestions of patriotism.
The tyranny of the Neapolitan Government be-
comes more fanatical and bloodthirsty every
day. At Palermo citizens are executed in
crowds on mere suspicion. Carini, a

place of ten thousand inhabitants, is given
over to the flames after a ruthless slaughter, and
after the young women of the place have been
violated in the churches. To keep friends with
the Government which authorises these atrocities
Count Cavoui has to eiert himself in direst oppo-
sition to the wishes and hopes of the nation. The
muskets, the produce of the GAILINALDI subscrip-
tion fund, were not to be had from the arsenal of
Genoa, where they had been deposited, when they
were wanted, and in a letter from Turin it is said,
although we know not with what truth, that the
balance of that fund lying in the hands of a banker
at Milan has been attached in the name of the
Government. Of course this cannot go on.

Y '4l/APENING, MAY
CONNS cAIIR INNy choose his:gowanzaorking
for Italy, lad he annot work Ten $e
please a More important neighbour tl King
FRANCIS.
The Paris has ostentatiously announced that
by what he has just done "General GARD
" RALDI has committed an action which falls
" within the application of the laws of piracy."
We fail to perceive the purpose of this information,
which is moreover quite superfluous. We did not
require to be reminded of the terms which are
uniformly applied alike to the basest and noblest
enterprises irregularly undertaken by private men
against thole who have by birth, or crime, or &oxi-
dant, become invested withthe supreme authority in
estate. Traitor and pirate are ugly words invented
to describe ugly deeds —the sacrifice of great
interests, • nation's peace, • monarch's rule, to
private ambition and personal aims. They have no
moral meaning, and scarcely • technical meaning,
in the present case. A devout mind might wisely
adore the Divine power in any stroke which should
smite down once for all the blasphemous anarchy
which although crowned at Naples, has by its crimes
placed itself out of the pale of all systems and sanc-
tions of law, which must ever contemplate the peace
and happiness of mankind. GARIBALDI'S movement
may not be pleasing to all Governments, but it is at
any rate Italian. The General is the agent of no
one. He goes—not like General Law-imam; to
defend a pseudo-theocracy, with the consent of an
Eursaos reigning "by the will of the people "
but against the will of his Sovereign, simply in
the interests of freedom and order. No other
nation—English, Austrian, or French—has any-
thing to do with him. The great duty of Europe
towards the Italians just now is to let them alone.