The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

/7
/

,
,
e
-c_
/ its
/--t#:
y

h

7'
:,,,,------- j 1,,,,,--<.•
7- :-4.-::;;----- ..'l.4'--,\V-I.:},
1,3.4, -i ~ -....., f -,...fr - '
//mil
-- -€4.- --c G----__.
..',.- ,-, . . e-4.11'14-11"--* °: ty r .
- , . •Z
' ' .1, e 41, 'sr '-,....- Ai:- - , A... 14 , •
_.7
,
,:,......_,i,:t.,,,,c..„:_,..- ~0,..7.:
~.. rk4z:
, ,
~,
4-o."‘litt , .."*l-0•t; )1- - 1e,Z1.: - ' ~..--r- ,•• - .
AN/ •
,A, • 9,- v :I—
,-. , s'
ft." *4
. Ct!lp
S
4.-..,,, -,1-: ,
444 4,,
" \\'" ' A N.l •,..,11 --mot /.. •-.
• ,b,,, _ ~
,
.40/0 \ ' 40. .______ .....
‘,.., .....,
:.
~..:
~
~,i1-
..,,,t, 15
.f.. ctrAg,
4,
~......„ ,
c,
-, -
~.„,
~., ~
_
„„_,,,,,--P1,.7
~5e.:,4; _ . f`74,,____, ---si? ."Nr",•''''Cl"l: 14'.'1r.,, .7,
,„ ":'' ,:-'o',:At '- '-'4"___' lill'-‘ll,*''''4,„,,, cf,-- t':-,,
~..1 1117.1.'.' -Z..1 '''
'''
' ' '7"
Y °,..;) r< '4• ' Afei a(f ---1:-<.-DIRi). ' /141, r. -;1 ~).;ed-.;1 ...... • V ~4, \...-•_,
...Mb •••

~l

.-7

-e-ta
Wino are eoeueletted into the nialmlo
well ?" which in this case was answered in A° afitit
mative, and the steamer sped on her way. Where
deaths have occurred on board a ship from any con-
tagious disease, and the attendant circumstances
justify such a course, she is detained at Gravesend
until the case can be reported to the Commissioners
of Customs. The result usually is an order in Coun-
cil, on the authority of which the vessel is sent to
lie off the Motherbank during the appointed interval
of quarantine; but in this instance the Melita, which
having run the blockade at Charleston, ran also, so
to speak, fiequarani ine blockade at. Gravesend, had
been put upon quarantine in a deck crowded with
shipping, and in the immediate vicinity of a popu-
lous suburb of the metropolis, under the peculiar cir-
cumstances which have been related. It is but right
to state that the vessel, when overhauled by the
Customhouse examiners in the docks, was found to
be remarkably clean, and the captain is said to have
taken every precaution to prevent the spread of in-
fection. The owners, toe, hare shown laudable zeal
to carry out the orders of the Customhouse authori-
ties. Mr. Dixon, medical inspector to the Board of
Customs, had been sent specially to report upon the
case. On Saturday evening, after three days' qua-
rantine, the vessel was declared to be free from dan-
ger, and the passengers and crew were permitted to
leave her. She now lies alongside one of the wharfs
in the dock, but as yet no part of her cargo has been
landed. By a peremptory order of the Commissioners
of Customs every conceivable article of wearing ap-
parel and bedding which had belonged to or been
used by the persons who died was collected together
on the evening of Saturday and burnt in the furnaces
of the vessel, under the superintendence of Mr. Giles,
a Surveyor of Customs. At his discretion, money
and articles of jewelry, some papers of moment to
relatives, including in some cases bills and the like
for considerable sums of money, were exempted from
the order for destruction. The circumstances under
which each individual died had not yet transpired
publicly, but that the whole of them were carried
off by yellow fever it is understood scarcely admits
of question.

PRICF .4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

to send Pinelli with Cialdini to Sicily—that Pinelli
who, by his bloody proclamations and still bloodier
executions, won so sinister a fame in his campaign
against the Bourbonist brigands in Abruzzo —is an
insult to public opinion. All these measures, I re-
peat, are deemed extremely objectionable in them-
selves, and call forth nnfziendly strictures even on
the part of men who were hitherto strongly devoted
to the Rattazzi Ministry, but they are far more
violently attacked on aeccunt of the blank terror
and demoralisation which obviously dictated them,
and 'which are too naturally calculated to shake
public confidence in the Government which did not ,
scruple to plan nor hesitate to execute them.
,4 What," people ask, "could the Ministers do more,
if Garibaldi were already at the gates of Naples, and
if one-half of the Royal army had passed over to him?
Rattazzi and his colleagues are evidently terrorised,
or they would hardly introduce into Sicily a system
which so closely resembles the Reign of Terror."
Hence the dismay which the Government evinces
in fact, at the same time that it professes the most
sanguine security in words, keeping up a general
uneasiness, which opens the public mind to the
most painful impressions. Henceforth it is not the
actual news from Sicily or Calabria which ought
,
most powerfully to interest us ; it is the effect that
such news or the comments upon the news are
likely to have throughout Italy ; it is the series
of strange, ill-considered, more or less pernicious
resolutions to which such news is likely to impel
the Government: By far the WOist'eirils of the
present situation are directly to be traced to the
wilful errors committed by the Ministers since their
accession to power. Now, it is felt, their remedies
are worse than the errors themselves. It was, no
doubt, a mistake, a wilful mistake of the Ministers
to place avowed Garibaldians at the head of the pre-
fectures of Palermo, Catanzaro, and so many places
of importance; but it was even a greater and more
deliberate blunder to substitute Cugia for Pal-
lavicini, to invest him with full powers, only to re-
call him at the end of a few days, and before his
fitness for his task was fairly tested. Rattazzi
must reap as he sowed, not visit on his agents the
consequences of his own rashness and improvidence.
The demon he was rash enough to evoke is to be

laid by no contrivance of his. If Italy is ever to
come out unscathed from its present straits, it must
certainly be through a different agency than the
present Ministry. The first of the public func-
tionaries to be superseded is the Prime Minister
himself.

Of this nature are the discourses which I hear
about me from morning to night. M. Rattazzi is
the only man whom no danger can appal, no disas-
ter can move. He is " cock-sure" of his business.
The people he meets in his way to and from his
office are astonished at the blandness, the smooth-
ness, the flippancy of his manner. He has a smile
for every dark omen, a sarcasm under every fresh
disaster. That smile, that assurance, are indeed
something different from the firm demeanour and
lofty serenity of the late Count Cavour. Cavour
felt his power; he mastered the situation, he shot
his glance far beyond the range of present difficul-
.

ties; strife was his element, he was at home in a
storm. No lulling calm deceived him, no sudden
squall found him unprepared. Rattazzi lives for
the sake of living. Power is to him an end, not a
means. The portfolio was the aim of his ambition;
he had no scruples as to the means which led
him to it ; he is not choice as to the shifts
which may enable him to retain it. He
took office under the auspices of Napoleon and
Garibaldi; he steered between absolutism and re-
volution, perfectly unconcerned as to which of the
two principles would more safely lead him on,
which should be stuck to, which sacrificed. As far
as the Sarnico expedition the party of action had
the upper hand. The Garibaldian De Pretis had a
preponderating vote in the council ; Mellana and
Brofferio were his best champions in the Chamber;
Crispi himself was all but engaged to vote for him.
After Sarnico the Minister would fain have cut the
Garibaldian concern ; Petitti was listened to as the
oracle in the Cabinet; La Marmora was corres-
ponded with ; repression, reaction were the frenzy
of the hour; but the threads of Garibaldi were too
widely stretched ; the fisher was too deep in his
own net. Italy may, probably,—be under a better
master, steered by a steadier helmsman. Thesooner
the present pilot is removed from the wheel, the
safer the chances that the craft may right herself
and the voyage be brought to a happy termination.