The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-02 00:00:00

formances.

While the French EMPEROR is indulging his
whims and fancies down in the little camp in the
vicinity of Vichy, now leisurely smoking a cigar-
ette, now good humouredly taking part in a dance
with a young village girI—GARIBALDI instill raving
against him in words of flame and fury among ex-
cited mobs of Sicilians. The " situation "in respect
to the Italian Question is, upon all sides,
and to
the very last degree, equivocal. Ostensibly the
Government at Turin is, as we know and see by
each successive telegram, directly and flagrantly in
opposition to GARIBALDI. When the Popular Hero
denounces NAPOLEON as a Tyrant and a Traitor'
one after another the Ministers of King VICTOR
EMMANUEL rise immediately after the tidings of
these intemperate words have been received to re-
gret, in the name, and on KING'S
in the very opposite way of the
osEPßeaGkßinasubstantial reasons for acknow-
ledging behalf of the
Government, the lamentable fact of their
a potentate to whom Italy and
French
E
utterance—
eternal debt of gratitude. Nay not satis-
ltehdeglitnagliaanns have
fled with the enunciation of opinions so diame-
trically opposed to those put forth (in the South)
by GARIBALDI, the Ministers of the Crown (in the
North) give instant orders for the dismissal, or for
the acceptance of the proffered resignation, of one
after another of those officials who have compro-
mised their responsible positions as representatives
of the Italian SOVEREIGN, by listening in silence
to the insulting language thus directed, in their
presence and in their hearing, against one of the
most august of that Sovereign's most intimate
allies ! Nor is this all, as indicative of

the opposition, at any rate ostensibly mani

fested, we repeat, to the present proceedings
of GARIBALDI, by King VICTOR EMMANUEL and his
Government. The troops bearing the flag of that
King, and receiving the pay of that Government,
are rapidily hastening in huge masses southwards to
withstand there any warlike attempts that may be
rashly adventured upon by GARIBALDI against the
ally of the de facto Italian Sovereignty! That
Sovereignty which so many renowned patriots have,
during so many years, ambitioned to render a sove-
reignty—one and indivisible. And now—when so
much has been actually accomplished in that direc-
tion—when provinces and principalities and king-
doms even (thanks to NAPOLEON in the
North ! and to GARIBALDI in the South !)
have been massed together under the bold
and vigorous kingship of VICTOR EMMANUEL :
now when all this has been trium-
phantly secured—is disunion again to be carried
into the Italian Camp by an untimely collision be-
tween the Popular Hero and the very Constitutional
Government he himself has been mainly instru-
mental in establishing ? Thousands upon thousands
of the Italian race, both in Italy and in'Exile, are
beginning to ask each other this, to them, really
Momentous Question : with their;whole heart in the

inquiry, and—every day be it said—with increasing
trepidation! When so much as been gained—is every-
thing now to be jeopardised? It seems so incre-
dible that it should be so, that the thought has
naturally suggested itself to many of the more keen-
witted lookers on in surrounding countries—as to
whether all we are now witnessing on the one
hand in Turin, and, on the other hand, in Sicily, is

not a mere pretence?
It is remembered quite well that when
GARIBALDI sailed southwards from Genoa with
his few hundred armed followers the expedition
was as distinctly repudiated by the Govern-
ment of King VICTOR EMMANUEL as the Hero's
present designs are. Ministers at Turin when
asked as to the destination of the petty squadron
of the Great Italian Filibuster protested that they
knew nothing whatever about it—that they were
directly opposed to it—that they repudiated it. The
expedition afterwards being accomplished—as the
whole world knows—triumphantly nevertheless !
GARIBALDI—as CESAR had done before
going, seeing, conquering ! The ulterior con-
sequence of the exploit, moreover, being
that GARIBALDI, at its close, with a sub-
lime disregard for that recent repudiation of him
and his proceedings—handed over the kingdom
of the Two Sicilies to VICTOR EMMANUEL and his
Government ! May not the same wily and specious
game that has been so well played before by the
Italian Ministers at Turin, be played by them once
more as adroitly, and with the like happy issue ?
Alas! the circumstances,as they were then ,and as they
are now, are so entirely different ! Then GARIBALDI
had opposed to him afaineant sovereign, whose hold
upon the last remnants of power was relaxing
under the influence of a sort of political
,paralysis.
Now, he would have immediately confronting him
and his little band of followers—no matter how
daring or how devoted—the representatives and
' the avant garde, so to speak, of the might of the
whole Imperial army of France! Besides this—
when GARIBALDI was meditating his former ex-
ploit, the courts and the families of the KING and
EMPEROR were not so intimately allied as they are
now. Anything on the part of GARIBALDI that might
outrage the dignity of the French ruler, would (" it
needs no ghost to tell us this ! ") seriously compromise
the Italian ruler, under existing circumstances. The
more the actual "situation" comes to be scrutinised
in all its bearings, the more anxiously must all
those who are really interested in watching the
secure and successful advance of the Italian cause—
the more solicitously, we say, must all those feel at
heart now that GARIBALDI is giving full utterance
to his burning words of indignation. And what
adds to the sinister effect of the whole crisis, is the
fact that, again, open allusions are being made,
very day more and more frequently, to the ominous
name of MAZZINI.

Another of Lord BROUGHAM'S contemporaries
has just disappeared from the scene. Professor
THOMAS STEWART TRAILL, born in 1781—and con-
sequently when he died on Wednesday more than
an octogenarian—was the fellow-student of Lord
BROUGHAM and his set towards the end of the last
century at the University of Edinburgh. His
career as a Physician was of itself so successful as
to win him an eminence and a consideration that
he enjoyed increasingly during upwards of half a
century. Taking his degree as M.D. in 1801, and
settling (as such) in Liverpool in 1803, Dr. TRAILL
soon rose to distinction as a practitioner. What is
Principally worthy of note in his regard, how-
ever, so far as his reputation with the public
:t large throughout the United Kingdom is con-
""4, is the circumstance that as recently as
ten year_
ago, and that at a period of life, conse-
quentlyis more
, Which he had already passed the allotted
age of man, prof
• suceess;ssor TRAILL undertook, and what
task of 'Editing utiblY accomplished, the herculean
Eighth Edition (that is, of
weight of duties deev
course, the last
edition
ENCYCLOPADIA BRITA,I,43'A ICA,
at published) of THE
ivFor the discharge of
capacity, the venerable and ing upon him in that
learned professor, but
just now
deceased, was wonderfully
the heavy
- well qualified.
He was qualified thus mainly, of course, by reason
of the variety and depth of his knowledge, more