The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-10 00:00:00

THE Su N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 718624

the combatants to cease. There was also a minor
fight, in which a Confederate general is said to have
been completely routed. These accounts, therefore,
leave POPE in quiet possession of Manassas, and
the Confederates making their way to their main
body.
But on these statements follows the latest news
in a despatch from Gen. POPE, according to which
the Confederates must be supposed to have mustered
again near Manassas, on the old field of Bull's Run,
and there have stood on the defensive, while POPE,
by repeated assaults, drove them from it. If the
first statements be correct,the Confederates must have
returned northwards with their whole disposable
force, and seriously threatened to cut off POPE from
his base of operations at Washington, and utterly
ruin him. POPE'S despatch would then recount the
defeat of this second attempt to come between him
and Washington. It is, however, quite as probable
that there is some mis-statement in the former
accounts, and that we shall find that there was but
one main attempt on Manassas and Bull's
Run. As to POPE'S captures and accounts of num-
bers slaughtered, they can only be taken with
the usual discount. The loss of nine guns a .id the
capture of two Federal regiments is confessed by
the North—how much more they lost we may know
in time. Eight thousand is a heavy loss indeed for
POPE to acknowledge, it could hardly be given
merely to enable him to double the number
for the Federals ; determined as the struggle must
have been, at Bull's Run especially, we may well
believe that the carnage was something frightful.
We know too little yet of the state of the arma-
ments on each side to perceive from all these mur-
derous conflicts what effect they will have on the
issue of the war. If they teach anything, it would
seem to be the substantial equality of the two
parties. The Confederates may be exhausting
themselves more rapidly than the Federals, but as
yet there is nothing to show that they aro not as
well provided for the war as they were a year ago,
indeed better. The marvel is whence they get their
supplies. Even the North, with all its commercial
and manufacturing means, is complaining of
want of arms, but they can easily get a
supply from Europe. We should think the South
must be very ill armed as compared with the
North, and their successful fighthig is therefore
proportionately wonderful. They have at last, we
learn, driven the Federals to evacuate Baton Rouge
—we should not be surprised if the evacuation of
New Orleans follow in due time. It costs the
Federals the presence of a very large fleet, for it
is the Mississippi fleet, not General BUTLER, which
really holds the city. In a few mails we may look
for yet more important news—the retreat of the
Confederates to Richmond, or a fierce battle. The
latter, certainly, unless both parties are too much
exhausted with their late efforts.

to spare it." Naturally—for he was in front
of his own fellow-countrymen, of Italians
by whose side he had fought, in whose
cause he was then bearing aloft the standard of—
Rebellion ! "They [who] thirsted for blood "
meaning, as he himself explains, " Not the poor
soldiers who obeyed." Nor yet their commanding
officer, Colonel PALLAVICINO, of whom the hero
says nobly in his despatch (for such perforce we
must call the General's letter giving this narrative)
" Colonel PALLAVICINO, conducted himself as
a valorous and intelligent chief in all his military
movements, and he has not been wanting in respect
or courtesy towards me and my people." The hero
adding—" He showed his grief in having to shed
Italian blood ; but he had received peremptory
orders and had to obey orders." Not that Colonel
of the Bersaglieri, is it whom GARIBALDI charges
with thirsting for blood, not those poor soldiers of
his who had but to the obey orders to which he had
no alternative previously to giving in his obedience.
GARIBALDI defines in one simple but significant
phrase those at whom he points, with scorn and
horror, his still formidable, nay, his more than ever
formidable finger of accusation ! " They thirsted
for blood"—not the Colonel of Besraglieri, not to
the Bersaglieri themselves—" but the men of the
clique who cannot forgive the revolution for being
the revolution !" GARIBALDI then recounts his
efforts, his unhappily wholely ineffectual efforts, to
prevent that effusion of blood among Italians which he
deemed rightly to be horrible and unnatural under
the circumstances, and which, at the same time, he
regarded as altogether unnecessary, and as very
easily avoidable.

The lamentable result has nowhere been related
with such simple, but for that very reason powerul
and impressive emphasis as it has in GARIBALDI'S
narrative. The General, in relating the particulars
of any conflict, is never given to speak of it or
to write of it in the language of exaggeration. Yet
in his account of this miserable and atrocious
fight at Aspromonte, what are some
of his expressions P He says that the royal troops,
when arrived at a :short distance from his own
men (who at his orders remained perfectly pas-
sive) " began a tremendous fire." He speaks of the
Bersaglieri, who were in front of him ; and he
says that they " directing their shots against me,
struck me with two balls." And how does he
speak of the two wounds those balls inflicted P He
describes them as "one in the left thigh, not seri-
ous, the other in the ankle of the right foot, making
a serious wound !" Yes, it is a great crime that
has been perpetrated, and—we repeat it—it is one
that demands and that will obtain expiation.
"My arrangements," GARIBALDI says later
on in his narrative, " were purely defen-
sive, and I had hoped to avoid a conflict, see-
ing the very strong position that I occupied and
entertaining the hope that the regular troops had
received orders less sanguinary. " If" he adds, " I
had not been wounded at the outset, and if my
people had not received the order under all cir-
cumstances to avoid any collision whatsoever with
the regular troops, the contest between men of
the same race would have been terrible. How-
ever," exclaims the Hero, in continuation, " far
better as it is. Whatever may be the result of
•
my wounds, whatever fate the Government prepares
for me, I have the consciousness of having done my
duty ; and the sacrifice of my life is a very little
thing if it has contributed to save that of a
great number of my fellow-countrymen." Can
it possibly have been—the thought here occurs
to us—can it possibly have been that RATTAZZI and
his Colleagues wantonly devoted GARIBALDI to
death, in the hope that out of the turmoil that
must have resulted from the dreadful incident,
had he actually been killed, instead of being (as
he is) painfully wounded, at Aspromente, Italy
might have won the solution of her remaining
difficulties, while they themselves, the KING'S
Ministers, would at the same time have been quit
of a rival reputation that overshadowed them all,
and utterly dwarfed them by comparison.

GARIBALDI'S own account of Aspromonte is now
before the world. The wounded Hero, from his
place of captivity in the Fortress of Varignano, in
the Gulf of Spezzia, has told the plain truth right
out. Those who turn with implicit credulity to
the official narratives just issued to the European
public through the Gazzetta di Torino, under the
hands of Gen. CIALDINI and COl. PALLAVICINO,
will do well to correct their impression as to the
facts therein related by casting a glance also at the
record of those same facts penned by the hand of
Gen. GARIBALDI. Great is the Truth there an-
nounced by the Fallen Chief—and it will prevail !
The statement put forth by one of the General's own
staff is here corroborated, is here placed beyond the
reach of all denial by the General himself. His is
not the guilt of the blood of Italians shed by Italians
upon the heights of Aspromonte. Before the first
lamentable shot was fired the order of GARIBALDI
had gone forth—Not to Fire ! That order was
echoed and re-echoed throughout the whole time of
the deadly fusillade: it was repeated again and again
by GARIBALDI himself, by his officers, by the bugles
of his Volunteers. Upon the head of RATTAZZI and
upon the heads of his Colleagues the guilt of those
cruel shots must sooner or later recoil. As it is
even now, the Cabinet at Turin, slavishly obeying,
as it has done from first to last in this matter, the
behests of the French EMPEROR, possesses a mono-
poly of the infamy attaching to the mere re-
membrance of the unnatural conflict which took
place on that fatal Friday upon Aspromonte.
GARIBALDI was in arms, it is true, in opposition to
the public Orders, but it can hardly be said by any
one—remembering what was the Hero's avowed
object, and what has all along been the KING'S
most cherished ambition—in opposition to the heart-
felt Wishes of the SOVEREIGN. Admitting that—
granting that the RATTAZZI Cabinet had so far vio-
lated the usages of Constitutional Government
as to affix the Monarch's name to that Proclamation
which startled all Europe, while GARIBALDI's right
hand was yet fresh from the grasp of the right
hands of the Royal Princes—allowing that GARI-
BALDI's persistence in his audacious enterprise after
the issue of that Proclamation was mad, and mon-
strous, and altogether unjustifiable—still there was
no need whatever why the blood of one solitary Ita-
lian should have been shed upon the mountain ridge
of Aspromonte. Much less was there any necessity
for the shedding of one drop of that blood that ought
to have been held sacred from the bullets and the
bayonets of Italian soldiers—the blood of that
dauntless Patriot, the Father of his country, the
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A pictorial illustration of the greatness of the -
Hero and Liberator of the Italians !
crime perpetrated upon the heights of Aspromonte 1 cessary consequence will be, that a married couple will be
by the shedding of the blood of GARIBALDI at the
calledhis
lady
allies. Aheady we speak of Captain So and-So and
instead of his wife. It will next be Captain So-
hands of Italian soldiers—has this day appeared in and-So and his ally, and ultimately "Me and my ally"
the pages of the penny rival to our London Chari- instead of "My wife and I," or "I and my husband" will
vari : a picture so truthful, so noble, so pathetic bera,cuistomary form of speech amongst the lower orders.
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both in its idea and in its execution, that it ought "A is
HEAVY BLOW, AND GREAT DISCOURAGE-
at once to make the fortune of Fun, by confirming MENT."—It seems very strange that at the present moment,
its youthful reputation and rendering permanent
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away as fast as he can " to get out of the draft.:'—Punch.
" Wounded—Defeated—Captured !" That is the AN ENGRAVING BY Doo.—A forged bank-
simple heading of this historical cartoon. Italy note.—Punch.
has flung herself upon her knees in an agony of ETHIOPIAN BLOOM.—Under the head of exports
is included a quantity of walnut-ketchup, to St. Domingo.
weeping at the feet of her Darling Hero— This article, for which a great demand exists in Hayti, is
" Wounded—Defeated—Captured " by her own destined to be employed as a cosmetic by the ladies.—
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itw itfohra countenance expressive of the bitterest SUICIDES.—The last number of the Journal de la
anguish into his calm and unreproachful face, '° And
Societe de Statistique of Paris contains an interesting paper
this that I have been com plimented bby M. Hippolyte Blanc on suicides in France, from which
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self this ever since it appears that since 1827, the number of suicides has been
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bloodshed a t A sapt. All
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that fratricidal and parricidal there have not been fewer than 92,662 in France, being on
an average 2,895 per annum. Taking the numbers of each
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the same in year by periods of five, it appears that. suicides have in-
qry hmeurtilbaethedalfa—ndNsAuPffoeLriEnOgNuptohne creased in regular progression. In 1827, the proportion
while enjoying his baths at Biarritz—GARIBALDI
lying at this momentin
was 4 8 for every 100,000 inhabitants ; in 1858 it was 10.8.
Regarding the ago of the individuals, we find that the ten-
prison pallet at Varignano. dency to commit suicide increases until the age of 80; but
his suicide is much rarer among females than among men.
It is a great crime that has been perpetrated. From 1836 to 1858 the number of males that committedhf
Not a shot need have been fired—not one man suimalcide wases was 18595,45862, or,
or 8029,4759 2r per annumLtichiadtesofatro
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need have been wounded either among the Red Shirts
was 80. number
equally distributed with respectP to the periods of the year;
or among the Royalists. Nothing can be plainer the maximum occurs in June and July;
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than this—now that we learn the full and exact The geogra-
particulars of what occurred. General GARIBALDI'S phical distribution of suicides shows that the departments
own authentic .;nd authentative narrative renders
the fact we are here insisting upon quite undenia- to register
the
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of the centre and south-west of France havetThe fewdeerpasurticiedest
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from 1844 to 1858, the num-
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thirsted for blood !" Those, indeed, are the very first ber of suicides for every 100,000
Words with which the Hero's narrative commences. largmeneisotnisn
"They thirsted for blood," he says, " and I wished
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THE QUEEN IN GERMANY.

RHEINHARDTSBRUNN, FRIDAY, SEPT. 5.

The Queen and Royal Family, accompanied by her Se-
rene Highness the Princess Hohenlohe, arrived at the above
residence, which has been placed at her Majesty'e disposal
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha,
soon after nine o'clock this morning.
Her Majesty travelled through the night by special
train from Laeken, stopping an hour and a half at Cologne,
where her Majesty dined in private, and proceeding by
Giessen to Mechterstedt. At this station her Majesty was
met by the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and carriages were here
in readiness to convey the Royal Party to Rheinhardts-
brunn,

Notwithstanding the distress of mind and sorrowful
emotion caused by this journey, her Majesty's health does
not appear to be worse.
Lord Russell accompanied her Majesty as far as Cologne,
where he remained for the night, and was to proceed this
morning on his journey to Gotha, where he will remain
until relieved by the Earl Granville during her Majesty's
residence at Rh einhard tsbrunn.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 9.
The Danish Princesses and the Duchess of Brabant
visited the Royal Theatre yesterday evening.
To-day the Prince of Wales and the Royal family of
Denmark paid a visit to Laeken. A dejeuner and a State
dinner were given at the Palace.
The Royal visitors have taken several drives in the city
and its environs.