The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-26 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1863.

The Royal Speech delivered yesterday at Turin
to Messieurs the Senators and Messieurs the Depu-
ties of the Italian Parliament by VICTOR EMMANUEL
IL may be described at once as, above all things, a
speech of generalities. Yet the generalities were
so judiciously chosen that it must be regarded alto-
gether as a :telling speech in its way. It seems
strange that it should be so, yet it actually does
happen to be so nevertheless, that only now, after
so long an interval of silence in hie regard, does the
KING, standing in front of his throne, offer to the
assembled Legislators of the Peninsula a tardy
expression of his opinion in regard to the dead
Statesman through the agency of whose wily policy
his Majesty, above all men living, has so
largely profitted. " You first commenced
your Parliamentary labours at the time
when Providence," says VICTOR EMMANUEL (not,
we may be certain, without a qualm), " had taken
from us the illustrious man who so powerfully as-
sisted me in the difficult enterprise of our rege-
neration." After all this lapse of time, during
which the old, long-vexed question of Unification
seems to have sullenly fallen into the background,
its noisiest champions, as it were, dropping off
one after another into a doze of very exhaustion
—it cannot possibly but occur to us at length, re-
garding the whole state of things yonder in Italy
from a distance, and, as much as we possibly can
contrive to do so, dispassionately—it cannot possibly,
we say, but occur to us that out of the whole turmoil
one man, and one man alone, can be described as
having in anyway materially profitted, in a worldly
sense, out of the whole of it. CAVOUR was in a
manner killed by it—worn out prematurely by the
harassment of his secret anxieties, toils, and labours
in the development of his Macchivellian enterprise.
GARIBALDI has unquestionably come to grief
through it. His prestige—at one time, and for a
long time too, paramount and unrivalled—has long
since been cast down into the very dust.
The Invincible was overthrown by a mere
Colonel of Bersaglieri, in an insignificant tussle
in a little hole-in-a-corner among the heights of
Aspromonte. The redoubtable conqueror of the
Two Sicilies, the most daring of modern Con-
dottieri, literally put his foot in it at last—into
the Italian Boot that is—when he was shot down,
with a torturing bullet left in his ankle, as
though he had been some ordinary deserter,
trapped and driven to bay, by one of the petty
officers in the army of King VICTOR EMMANUEL.
The King himself is really and truly the one man,
who in a worldly sense can be in any way described
as having benefitted by the revolutionary move-
ment in Italy. Yet, while it is so, who will
hesitate, who can possibly hesitate, to assert—what
common sense certainly compels us to assert—that
a man like GARIBALDI, who has individually pro-
fited nothing by the Revolution, has been through.
out it, is still to this present moment, far more con-
sistent in his course of proceeding in reference to it,
than the Royal voluptuary who has profited every-
thing by it ? That pre-eminently bold, yet at the
same time also, it should be said, that pre-eminen tly
discreet Swashbuckler, who was dubbed long ago by
GARIBALDI himselqin a moment of loyal effusion the
—Jte Galantuomo. Remembering how it has come to
pass that GARIBALDI, il one may really express it,
sioglehanded, with the audacity of one of theold B uc
can eers, seized the Kingdom ttheSicilies and made
a present of his booty to King VICTOR
EMMANUEL
—one certainly cannot but wonder over the moral
left by tho exploit—when thinking that that same
Soldier of Fortune was eventually shot down like a
dog by the soldiers of the KING he had served so
effectually ! That he has been for months past
slowly recovering from his wound in his little rocky
home at Caprera, while the Monarch who has so
largely benefitted, in a material way, that is, by the
largeness of his acquisitions in the shape of con-
qnered cities and absorbed territory, can point
to the result of it all, as (so far) quite successfully un
09 Victor Emmqnue: did,
fa it eecompli—referring,
with not unnatural complacency, }ester
day, in his
royal speech, to the rcassemblee. Senators and De-
puties at Turin, to tt,e recognition of his new king.
dom by many cf the Foreign Powers ! To his
continued success in arranging dynastic alliance
after dynastic alliance—the marriage of hie daugh-
ter, the Princess CLOTILDA, to EIJI. the Prince
NAPOLEON, being followed but a few years after by
'the taking to wife of his other daughter, the
Princess MARIA PIA, by the youthful King
'of Portugal ! The King referring also yesterday,
• exultantly, to the conclusion of treaties of
Commerce successively, by his administrators, with
Frame, Belgium, Sweden, and Turkey—other