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.7 HE MED.I7IE.TIRAMEAN FLEET„

•
He would often say to the crowd : The head of Italy is
in the Alps, but her feet are in Sicily, and Sicily
ust
march in the van.' About 700 volunteers, nearly all be-
longing to Sicily, are concentrated in the woods of Ficuzzi,
most of them without arms; as for Garibaldi, he is at Cor-
• leone, and not at their head; so that as yet there is no po-
sitive insurrection against the Government. On my way
from Palermo to Girgenti I passed through Corleone and
Ficuzzi. The wood at this latter place is not properly a
wood, but an extensive jungle, containing a great number
of fig trees, diversified with marshes and green glades,form-
ing in reality an almost impregnable retreat. Yesterday
autograph letters from Garibaldi were handed about in
Turin, in which he dissuaded his friends from joining him
in Sicily. I therefore think that this movement is merely
a meeting of young enthusiasts, all Sicilians, who, after a
few days of useless agitation, will return to their homes.
The altogether local and purely Sicilian character
of this assemblage of volunteers, is proved by this passage
in the proclamation of Palermo Let those who have
been drawn into this movement, return promptly to their
families.' The intelligence from Sicily, being quite unex-
pected, caused extreme surprise at Turin, and I know for
certain that Garibaldi's best friends were absolutely
astounded. When the order of the day was proposed, de-
claring that the Chamber adhered to the noble language of
the royal proclamation, M. Ratazzi stated that he accepted
it solely as approving of the Ministerial policy, at least so
far as concerned present circumstances. It was voted by
an immense majority, the extreme Left alone opposing it. I
observed that M. Petruccelli della Gattina voted with the
Right. I must not omit mentioning that the royal procla-
mation produced an excellent effect. Being a really wise
and courageous act, it seems destined to arrest Garibaldi's
advance in the fatal course on which he has entered. As
to the phantom of civil war evoked by M. Ferrari, it
frightens no one. Who has not heard speak of Garibaldi's
horror for fratricidal struggles ? Garibaldi has before
yielded, and will again on this occasion, for he has a reli-
gious horror of Italian blood shed by Italians."

VALETTA, At-G. 3.
Most of the available ships of her Majesty's Mediterra-
nean fleet have lately been ordered to Corfu, for the pur •
pose, it is understood, of enabling the Commander-in-Chief
to put them together through the steam exercises which he
has had for some time past in contemplation. Although
this may be, and no doubt is, one of the reasons for assem-
bling a squadron just now in the Adriatic instead of the
Bay of Naples, as intended, still, considering the present
aspect of affairs, it cannot but be looked upon as having
some political significance. The ships now there are the
Marlborough, 131 (flagship), the Algiers, 89, the Abophion,
36, the Doris, 32, and a gun-vessel or two ; and this force is
immediately to be increased by the Queen, 86, and probably
the Scylla, 22, both from Malta. The Scylla arrived here
on the Ist inst. from Gibraltar, bound for the Piraeus of
Athens, having been relieved by the Malacca, 17, but it is
s refitting, been a
n d occasioned
filling
up by
with d
thought likely she may receive telegraphic orders instruct-
ing her to join Admiral Martin. The melancholy news was
received by her of the very sudden and unexpected death,
at Gibraltar, of Lieut. W.arren, of the Malacca, supposed
to have
iseassteoroefsthane
dheparrot.visTihoensQ,uaenedn,
it is expected, will be ready to leave for Corfu about the 7th
inst. The Magicienne, 16, which left Malta on July 24 to
convey Mr. Scarlett from Corfu to Athens, will probably
remain at the Piraeus for some time, to take the place
of the Exmouth, 86, ordered to Smyrna and thence to
Malta. The ships on the coast of Smyrna, by the last
accounts, were the Mars, 80, Icarus, 11, Firebrand, 6, and
surveying vessel Firefly; but, the Mars having been
ordered home to be paid off, the two gun-vessels have been
despatched to replace her. These vessels—the 'Wanderer,
4, and the Surprise, 4—left Mahe, on the 26th ult. for
Beyrout, the latter having orders to call at Suda Bay
(Candia). The vacancy caused in the Mediterranean fleet
by the Mars going home will be filled up by the Edgar,
Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, lately commissioned at Ports-
mout, as flagship of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8.,
second in command of the fleet in the Mediterranean. The
Pelican, 17, was still at Alexandria, awaiting the arrival
of the captain, officers, and crew of her Majesty's sloop,
Pantaloon, from Bombay, who are to be submitted to court-
martial for allowing their vessel to get ashore in the
Mozambique Channel. They were expected at Suez about
the 30th of July, or the week following. The Garnet, 11,
was at Constantinople, and the Weser, 6, and Cockatrice,
3, were at their stations in the Danube. The Medina, sur •
veying ship, Capt. T. A. B. Spratt, C. 8., left Malta for
Smyrna on the 31st nit. Capt, Spratt has obtainel four
months' leave of absence to recruit his health, which has
been for some time past failing him. After according his
valuable advice as to the proper positions for certain light-
houses about to be built in Turkish waters in the Levant, he
will give up temporarily the command of the Medina to
Lieut. Wilkinson. The Medina-has recently afforded valuable
assistance to the local Government in examining the sea
bottom round a considerable extent of these islands,
with reference to the late discovery of coral near Gozo.
From her explorations it appears that coral rocks exist
in from 30 to 60 fathoms in many localities round the coast,
and a closer survey will doubtless disclose many others not
yet discovered. The local Government has not yet decided
on the steps to be taken for regulating the coral fishing,
which promises to be a lucrative source of industry for the
hardworking population of these islands. The Trident, 3.
paddlewheel sloop, went out on the Ist inst. to try her en-
gines, which have been repaired in this dockyard, and on
the following day took her departure for Naples with super-
numeraries and stores for the London, 86, and Neptune,
86, stationed there. The Trident was the first vessel to
enter the new dry dock just completed under the direction
of the engineer and architect, Mr. Churchward, upon whom
its construction reflects much credit.

The only ships of war in port at presentare the Hibernia,
receiving-ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Codring-
ton, C.B. ; the Queen, 86; the Scylla, 22; and the Boxer
and Growler, tenders.

The English screw steamer Una, hired transport, 0. E.
Smith, master, left Malta on the 30th ult. for London, with
41 invalids from the different regiments, and the following
military passengers :—Dr. Scott, Staff; Quartermaster R.
Malcolm, 25th Regiment; one sergeant and two privates.

GARIBALDI AND 7.HIE FRENCH PRESS.

Several of the Paris journals remark on the agitation ex-
cited by Garibaldi in Italy and on the proclamation of King
Victor Emmanuel. The Debate, after analysing the lan •
guage of the ex-dictator and of the King, comes to the con-
clusion that " the conflict between the Italian Ministry and
Garibaldi may be looked on as near to commence, if it has
not already begun ;" the _Prose confines itself to simply
registering the facts ; the lemps approves of the royal pro-
clamation, but adds, that "it beholds with regret a consti-
tutional sovereign intervening in the differences of parties."
The Opinion Nationale expatiates at some length on the
division which has manifested itself all at once so violently
in Italy, but does not come to any positive conclusion, fur-
ther than to recommend Garibaldi to bear in mind that
"there are other populations oppressed in Europe besides
those of Rome and Venice," and indicating to him " the
redemption of the Christians of the East, as worthy of his
serious attention." The Siecle declares that it will not attempt
to conceal its feeling of sadness at the contemplation of the
incidents passing in the Italian kingdom, and suggests that
the best mode of putting an end to the present agitation is
for France to allow the Piedmontese to take possession of
Rome :

" France," it says, " on whom would fall the greatest
share of responsibility in the deplorable events which may
be apprehended at the present moment, and Prussia with
Russia who have just recognised the kingdom of Italy,
could not have considered such recognition as a mere
comedy. Those Powers certainly have never intended, in
the midst of actual dangers, to subject Italian unity to any
new trials after having gone through so many, and that to
which she might be submitted at present would be nothing
else than the most deplorable, the most fatal of civil wars."
The moderate journals, however, agree in this one point
that Garibaldi, although impetuous and impulsive,
loves his country too well to undertake any enter-
prise that would comprise what has been already achieved
or lead to a sanguinary collision between Italians of diffe-
rent parties. The Paris journals which are opposed to the
new order of things in Italy represent a civil,war in that
country as an inevitable event, the only point admitting of
doubt being, they declare, the period at which it should
take place, a little sooner or a little later. The Gazette de
France expresses itself in these terms :

" Either the proclamation of Victor Emmanuel is se-
rious, really expressing the royal ideas, or it is only the
repetition of those denegations of former times of which
Count Cavour was so lavish, and which afterwards the
King translated by those words which have remained cele-
brated—' They were Italians, and I could not restrain them'
In the former hypothesis it can only be the prelude to the
accession of M. Mazzini, In the latter, it is a simple ora-
torical precaution, having solely for object to deceive
Europe, and it conceals a concurrence under the appearance
of a dissent. With regard to the first hypothesis, the Cabi-
net of Turin or Europe must not labour under an illusion.
In the Southern provinces, if not throughout the whole of
Italy, a struggle has been formally established between the
Court of Turin and Garibaldi, and there can be no possible
doubt as to the success which would attend it. The revo-
lutionists there, alone, adore the hero of Marsala, but every
one is agreed in their abhorrence of the Piedmontese name,
and the famous vespers of which Garibaldi constantly spoke
in his late addresses, would, in the event of a struggle, im-
mediately sound there, not against France, but against
Piedmont and the Piedmontese. On that day, parties now
the most opposed to each other would act as one man, for-
getting in their common hatred their partial dissensions.
That is the serious side of the situation I The Southern pro-
vinces of Italy, and perhaps Italy entire, are in a situation
precisely similar to that in which France was placed on
the eve of 1848. The official world, the world of upstarts
or of those who have attained their object, are in complete
dissent even in the camp of the revolution with the
non-
official world, with the men who have not yet succeeded in
M.
their object, but who wish to do so. At the Chamber
Ratazzi was applauded even by the Deputies of the Southern
provinces, when he spoke of Garibaldi.
the Chamber and not the country, even the wereaysO however,
revolutionary
country, that applauded."
The language of the Union is even
more unequivocal in
I
the same sense. It says For our
part we persist more
.
than over in repeating that the crisis,
however formidable
0 . stop it.
it may be, was necessitated by the stateothi will no.of things, that
nothing could prevent it, and that n
1
mend also wishes for Rome and Venice, on y he awaits
Garibaldi calls for Rome and Venice or death. Victor Em-
them from diplomacy, from time, and from circumstances,
Agreed as to the object, they only differ as to the means.
Evidentl3, according to the new law, logic is on the side of
Garibaldi. How is it possible to convince him that an ex-
pedition against the domain of t. Peter or against Venetia
is more culpable than the one against Sicily or against
ples ? Has not Venice as much deserved emancipation?
Na
roes not Italy want her Capital ? To reproach with im-
patience, with imprudence, and with madness, those
impatient, those imprudent, and even if
Qais tukrit halfy e, those
o 1k
senseless men who have given theof tb e Italian
Peninsula to the cabinet of Turin, is to
renewis
ethse
dtonequer entes ? It is that which constitutes
incon-
sistency of the Gracchi :
.ahcec to e
inconceivableet
weakness of the Sardinian Mini
of this, and they are therefore hesitatingstr well
as we see them.
.Itst friends are
It is a first chastisement,
A Twin correspondent and it will not be the only one."
espondent of the Presse writes as follows
under date of 3d inst :—" Two years ago I was at Palermo,
and frequently met Garibaldi, then dictator,
and I remem-
ber that one of his favourite notions was that Sic ily ought
to he the bads of operations for the rovolutiona ry party

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