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London, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY SI.

Otct of the most affecting situations in all
human experience is that of helpless sufferers
looking out afar for aid, in alternating hope and
fear. The crew of a boat adrift at sea, wearing
their eyes out in search of a sail—the Lucknow
garrison venturing out by twos and threes on the
roof to gaze in the direction of the Alumbagh—
seamen left behind among savages or on a desert
island, for ever dreaming that they see their
country's Hag flying from the mast of some
♦isionary ship—the St. Helena prisoner on his
highest terrace of rock, sweeping the wide circle of
ocean with his glass, and always iu the hope of
seeing setae other sail than that of the hated
guardship—the party of travellers who have lost
their way in the desert, and who climb the scorch-
ing rocks, and fix their aching sight on miles of
blinding sands, in hope of perceiving some moving
thing on the horizon, or some trail of smoke within
the circuit of vision—the victim awaiting death
in an enemy's camp, and listening for the tramp
of comrades on the way to rescue him ;—these and
all other caeca of alternating hope and despair
command sympathy at all times and under all
circumstances. Never perhaps has such a watch
been more pathetic, or of more vital interest
than of late among the revolted subjects of the
King of Ns rms. The English strangers who were
looking about them at Marsala observed that some
of the townspeople, and especially several women,
were ps.ising quietly to the hills above the shore,
where others were stationed, gazing out to sea. In
the a thl interior of that part of the island, among
the pa-oves and upon the gloomy crags of the moun-
tains which the Neapolitan troops did not dare to
approach, groups of country people and townsmen,
who could not return to their homes, were waiting
for aid from some friendly quarter. Their scouts
and their messengers were out ; and while expect-
ing their return, their comrades waited in cold,
in doubt, and anxious expectation. For week,
they had been in conflict with the Krito's forces;
how loug could they keep it np if no aid arrived
from abroad/ In the little bays the fishing boats
were incessantly flitting out and in, with or
without fish, which were not the chief concern.
In the valleys, where the peasants seemed to be
busy with their spring operations in the field, there
was, perhaps, no less vigilance. Every man probably
knew where certain cannon were buried in 1849,
and was on the look out for signals to produce the
arms and ammunition which were stowed away in
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safe places. From hoeing their ridges, or driving
their slow oxen in the team, they looked up per-
petually to the crests of the hills for the aignsh
which were to tell when reinforcements should
arrive. At the other extremity of the island the
vigilance must have been even more mama—
more vivid in its fears and its hopes. The seat of
government was nearer there, the cruelty of the
Bocerioss and their police impended more closely;
and, on the other hand, if the people on the oppo-
site shore would rise, the worst of the doubt and
danger would be over.
NO doubt there was watching on that shore,
too. The inhabitants of Calabria have no lees
reason than those of the Sicilian provinces to take
their lot into their own hands, and then look for
allies among the lovers of liberty ; and there may
be many who, on the first appearance of help
within reach, would eagerly rise against their
tyrants. Rut the Neapolitans have not the tradi-
tions and the experience of the Sicilians, and they
have not now their spontaneous energy and reso-
lution. The Sicilians have always contrived to
obtain smne means of consultation—to keep up
some sort of concert, though the police swarmed
in the towns, and spies hung round every hamlet
in the valleys ; but the Neapolitans have lost the
art, for the time. Each suffers alone, while
aware that all are suffering except the tools of the
Court. No limn knows which way to turn, or
how to move, or what to hope for ; while the
Sicilians seem to have a general notion how to
achieve a junction with like-minded persons, and
where to seek them, and every man knows what
to demand in a country so habituated to the aspi-
ration after representative government. They
do not give up when they are disarmed
they do not suppose all lost when their best
leaders are shot in long rows. They could
tell the hungry and shivering country people of
the kingdom of Naples that, if arms and ammuni-
tion are seised and swept away before the people
have had the spirit to bury them, anything will do
for arms in a popular cause. Scythes, hatchets,
pitchforks, have done good service many a time.
As to leaders, there it, always a hope that some
indigenous patriot, a ex maunder by natural quali-
fication, s ill appear, as has so often happened
when the iipprnssion sneered was hard enough and
its extent general; and if not, there is a tolerable
certainty that free Italians will help struggling