The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-04 00:00:00

The indignation of General GARIBALDI at the
official proceedings which have recently taken place
in Brescia and in other parts of Northern Italy,
with a view to the " putting down" of the Volun-
teer movement against Austria, is all the more
magnanimous on his part, it appears, from the fact
that not only had GARIBALDI taken no part what-
ever in forwarding that movement, but that he had
actually discountenanced it! And he discounte-
nanced it, we learn without much surprise, for
these two simple reasons : firstly, because under the
circumstances it must for a dead certainty have

proved a failure if it bad been adventured upon ;

and secondly, because from first to last the self-
sacrificing Champion of Italy and the Italians has a
peculiar repugnance so to act as in any way (unne-
cessarily) to embarrass the Government. As to
the validity oftbese two certainly impressive and
(we would venture to assert yet ntoigall-sufficient
reasons—who can have the temerity, the absolute
frivolity to deny it ? With the Government at
Turin against the movement, with the Ministry of
RATAZZI its foes from the very commencement,
with the army of VICTOR EMMANUEL in no
way prepared even partially, even feebly, and inter-
mittently to support the hostile movement of the
Volunteers against the forces of the Kaisar, who
possibly can have the folly to believe otherwise than

that the latter must, within a very brief interval,
indeed, have swept the daring marauders to destruc-
tion ? More especially if they could not even have
inscribed upon their banners that name which is in
itself a tower of strength—the heroic and world-
famous name of GARIBALDI. Again, as to the second
reason—have not all the' acts and words of GARI-
BALDI since his liberation of the Two Sicilies, and his
voluntary retirement to his island home of Caprera,
demonstrated with a distinctness and an emphasis
that nobody can fail to recognise and to appreciate
(as it, indeed, deserves to be appreciated!) the self-
abnegation with which, from first to last, GARI.
BALDI has striven to avoid every conceivable chance
of embarrassing the Government of King VICTOR
EMMANUEL ? They call him—some even of his
most earnest and devoted admirers call him
—meaning General GARIBALDI—weak and
too impressionable. The incidents of his
career, particularly of late—above all ever
since the completion of his great Southern en-
terprise—contradicts this imputation altogether.
Weak and toe impressionable ! Why, it is only
necessary—to know at once absolutely to the
contrary—it is really only necessary to recall to
bands,"
mind how completely GARIBALDI has foheld his
even the" appearance the phrase is, from anything bearing
the KING'S of a hostile movement against
Ministers at Turin ! No matter to him
whether the Cabinet there was presided over by
Count Cavotra.—by
Baron RICA SOLl—or by M.
RATAZZI. With not one of these leading states-
men can the dauntless soldier
of Italy be said to
have bad any profound or intimate sympathy ?
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counter occasionally to his lofty, rapid, and direct
ambition ! Is it asked how, or why ? The n
in truth, is simple enough : because one after an
other they have been too conciliatory and subser-
vient to the Liberator of Lombardy—to his Impe.
rial Majesty NAPOLEON
If any very vivid reminder of this be re-
quired, it is surely enough to bear in recol-
lection for a moment the tone in which
Signora MARI° WHITE, during her Italian lee
tures, here in London, only very recently spoke of
CAVOUR and spoke of GARIBALDI. Here, in ali
fair lecturer was an intimate personal friend of the
General's—one who knows his views and senti-
ments perfectly well—and who yet could find it in
her heart to pronounce upon CAVOUR anything but
a Panegyric ! Insomuch that those portions of her