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STRICTURE of the URETHRA : its Rational
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( From the Times of this day. )
An hon. member asked the other day what was
to become of the Italian soldiers in our Foreign
Brigade on the cessation of the war. Were they
to descend the Alps in force, and sweep the penin-
sula, or were they to be sown over it, like another
cast of dragons' teeth, to produce another crop of
revolution and war ? The question was founded on
Au instinctive feeling that an actual soldier, the man
who had served a campaign or two and crossed
bayonets with a veritable foe, was a rather for-
midable reality, not likely to vanish or be forgotten
like a theatrical pageant or an idle rumour ; not
likely, either, to hide his light under a bushel, or
to be quickly swamped and assimilated to a rotten
system. Certainly the presence of a number of
veterans in Italy, retaining the manly port and
generous tone of the soldier, and able to speak of
deadly collisions, of hairbreadth 'schpes, of mutual
succour in moments of peril, of desperate enter-
prise, and sturdy endurance, could not but tell.
It would be as salt on the otherwise corrupt ele
inenis of civil. society. Many a State ere this has
risen to arms and vindicated its independence en-
tirely through the presence of old soldiers. Switz-
erland maintained her liberties through centuries
of surrounding war and aggressive ambition,
chiefly by the aid of the so-called mercenaries, who,•
after serving in foreign armies, gave their unbought
services in defence of their own homes. The
question as to the future destination of a supposed
Italian Brigade was a significant one ; but it is
still more significant in its reference, not to our
Italian Brigade, but to our Italian ally. The as-
sistance of a Sardinian army in the great battle of
European independence is one of its most remark-
able incidents. That the King of Sardinia should
I send 15,000 Piedmontese and Genoese to encounter
the greatest military Power of the age, when Aus-
tria is content to filch a prey, if it can, by the oc-
cupation of the Princitalities, and Prussia still
stretches her lubber length from the Niemen to
the Moselle—telluris inutile pondus —is a living
reply to ten thousand complaints of decaying hero-
ism and extinct romance. There is not a State in
Europe, however small, however remote from the
present scene of the conflict, that is not interested
in the result ; but Sardinia alone of the lesser
States has the soul, the prescience, and the loyalty
to step forward, and stand side by side with Eng-
land and France against the common foe.
That chivalry has now been proved and re-
warded. A Russian army, computed at 60,000
strong, has descended from the heights, and at-
tempted to surprise the French and Sardinians
oosted on the Tchernaya, with the same result as
when the enemy suddenly presented themselves
lirough the fog on the morning of November 5.
They have been beaten, and elriven back with great
daughter, and Russia has been taught that there
ire-other antagonists ready to spring up and fit to
cope with her besides those whom she first defied,
and who she possibly- had good reason to believe
would always stand alone. The battle of the
Tchernaya now tells her what she has to expect
ven from those smaller States, as one by one -they
rouse themselves and throw themselves into the
struggle. Sardinia ,has won the first laurels, and
bow does she now stand ? Though less in number'
and in power, she now becomes equal in fame to
ter great allies. They are bound to support her as
their comrade in arms. In those changes which
invariably follow a lengthened conflict; doubtless
the State that took her share in, the cost, and shed
her blood for the cause, will have due regard. But
that is a distant and uncertain consideration.
What immediately tells is, that the character of
the Sardinian army is now established by the'
strongest test, and upon the noblest arena. Even
if it has no more to do, and were to return home with
this single, achieVemeiit, it will henceforth be no
mere show of uniforms; no mere armed police such
as the armies of the other smaller States very gene-
rally are, but a body of proved soldiers: Every
Sardinian from the Crimea will be pointed at
throughout all Italy as the man who has not only
seen battles, as he may have done, unhappily, on
his own soil, but in a distant region, in conflict
with Europe's most terrible foe. He will be a man
to be honoured, to be known, to be relied upOn, to
be taken into counsel, and, should the occasion
ever arise, to be associated in. plan and in deed.
When other States promise and deceive, vacillate
and palter, betray the present and take- refuge in
the future, and try by every artifice to retain
honour without its cost, every Italian will see in
Sardinia a State which stakes everything when it
pledges its word, and that does not assert more in
the council that it is prepared to maintain in the
field.
No donbt the Sardinian element will henceforth
be formidable in Italy. No oubt there are Powers
in that country to whom a rues oldier of the Ita-
lian language and blood will present a grave con-
trast to bravos, inquisitors, gaolers, executioners,
and even to those troops who are unable to prevent
the fairest regions of Italy from being infested by
banditti up to the city gates and the castle walls.
Should experienced officers be wanted to organise
any State, for any enterprise,
odoubt the Sardinian will be em-
aronrd
any train
cause, forces
n for
ploa ed. In the new pages of Italian history and
glory that may soon be unfolded many a Sardinian
name will be prominent, It has been = observed