The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

the last importance to Europe that he should not
have fated causes in which he believee. H the Em-
peror's restraining hand were taken away, the
Prince would almost certainly have a commanding
influence over the ordering of affairs in France,
and would let loose elements of strife which are
now hushed in repose. His words have, therefore,
a significance the exact extent of which it is almost
impossible to estimate, and naf urally the utterances
of a man who has this exceptional standing are
often taken for Much more than they Mean. Inen,
for example, he says that he quite Agrees with a
rev& ationary committee that the case of Venice is
orrfent, and that the time has now arrived when
Italy should be set free frot the Alps to the
Adriatic, no one can exactly say whether this is all
nonsense, or whether he is shadowing forth a move-
ment to ethieh his imperial position may help him
to give life and reality. And if his position is
curious in France, so also is it in Italy, The
Italian Ministry has just made a declaration of the
impression produted on it by the reception of
Garibaldi in England. No Ministry 'could have
taken a more sensible course. So far as the recep-
tion of Garibaldi was a compliment to Italy, and a
testimony to the personal merits of a great
Italian, the Ministry is rejoiced at it. Italy
wishes to stick closely to both the great
Western Powers, and as England is the
harder of the two to persuade to practical action in
her favour, she cannot slight altogether such a means
of influencing England as Garibaldi has discovered.
But, as to Garibaldi himself and the party of action,
the Ministry permits itself to hope that the hero of
Caprera has taken one lesson to heart since he went
there. In England he saw the spectacle of trium-
phant law and order, and a people contented, happy,
and prosperous, because it left the conduct of affairs
to the Government it had chosen. If Garibaldi has
learnt the advantages of this, his excursion will
have done him and his country some good. It will
inspire him with a wish to see Italy acting in the
same way, and to allow the King and his responsi-
ble advisers to decide what is to be done, and when,
and how. The Ministry entirely declined to own
itself at the beck and call of the party of action, as
it is called, and hoped that Garibaldi would see only
the necessity of this, for the King's advisers to have
only a half-power when they had all the responsi-
bility, and they called on the Chamber to choose
between them and the party of action if they wished
Garibaldi to be supreme. And yet, at this very
instant, Prince Napoleon thinks it opportune to
come forward and announce that the liberation of
Venice cannot be delayed much longer. The King's
Ministers tell the country to wait patiently, and
the King's son-in-law tells them that waiting is
now nearly over, and that the great call to arms
will soon be heard. Probably the Prince spoke as
he pleased and as he thought, without much caring
what would be the consequences to the Italian
Ministry. And yet, although he seems to be run-
ning directly contrary to the responsible counsellors
of his fatlier•in-law, and to be urging in the very
direction from pursuing which they are most
anxious to save her, they will probable feel little
objection to what he has said, and may even see
that an advantage is to be derived from the very
strength of the language he has used. For, in the
first place, his words tend to keep alive the impres•
sion in Italy that the Royal Family, with the King
at its head, longs to fall with the current
of the:popular wish, and is only withheld by over-
powering reasons of State policy from gratifying its
desires. The hopes of Italy are thus associated with
its monarch ; and, in a country where everything is
so new and so uncertain, and where all that is most
energetic has been so long associated with the
thought of revolution, it may have a powerful effect
towards consolidating the existing order of things
that the nation should look on the royal family as
among the chief of its own partisans. Then, again,
Prince Napoleon reminds the excited politicians of
the Italian towns that all talk about freeing Italy
from the Alps to the Adriatic is mere moonshine
unless France is associated with the movement. But
he represents France not as the calculating ally help-
ing Italy from selfish motives, bat as the exponent
in Europe of those ideas which demand the expul-
sion of the Austrians from Venice as the first step
towards bt.ilding up a new and better framework
of European society. He desires to warn Italy that
France must be by her side if she is to win in her
great contest, but he presents France in the colours
which most attract Italians.

Naval and Military Intelligences

IHE NAVY.

Orders were received at Devonport on Saturday to put in
commission the screw steam gun vessel Assurance, 4, of 681
tons, with engines of 200 horse power, Mr Frederick A.
Johnston (borne on the Indus) is her master, She is to
heve a complement of 90 officers and seamen.
The foliowing appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. li. eland, to the Galataa —Lieut.
It, B, Lambert, to the Rattlesnake—Lieut A. J.Errington
and Lieut the Hon M. F. Murray,to the Wolverene—Lieut
J. S. Eaton and H. C, Wallis, to the Enterprise—W. J.
Cunningham, master, to the Assurance—A. De G. Sutton,
master to the Wolverene—H.Augilar, master, to the Enter-
prise—F. M. Rayner, staff surgeon, to the Eagle—Geo. D.
Maclaren, staff surgeon, to the St. Vincent—R. Deveson,
paymaster, to the Wolverene—M. M. Magrath and J. M.
Hollingsworth, assistant surgeons,additional to the Earya-
lus—W. VV, Murly,assis'ant paymaster, to the Wolverene
—H, C. Jones, engineer, to the Enterprise—J. M'Laran,
first class assistant engineer, to the Salamis—NV,
Wallace, first class assistant engineer, to the En-
terprise—J. A. Cawley, second class assistant
engineer, to the Enterprise—Thomas E. Semmens, clerk, to
the Wolverene —and Charles Topping, assistant clerk, to
the Wolverene.