The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-06 00:00:00

whatsoever. The tidings of the KING having yester-

day signed the decree will be perused, we cannot
but think, in Italy with a very general indifference.
As O'CONNELL used to say of yore with his derisive
brogue—" Thank you for Nothing, says the Galli-
pot !" There is the Amnesty at last, it is true. But
it is an amnesty awarded too late to have even a
show of grace about it. And it makes, after all, this
wretched exception we have particularised—the
exception from it of all " deserters" from the Royal
army. Deserters ? Who, we should like to
know, are the real deserters—the Bersaglieri,
who, under the orders of PALLAVICINI, shot down
General GARIBALDI and his son MENOTTI, and so
many of his banded comrades at Aspromonte—or
the latter, that is, GARIBALDI and his Garibaldians ?
Why the hero and his followers were then taken in
arms, it is true, but they were taken in arms crying
out to the last, "Italy and King VICTOR EM-
MANUEL 1" They were not against the KING ; they
were for him. They were there to maintain at the
point of their swords the very cause the monarch has
himself all along championed, or affected to cham-
pion—namely, the Unification of Italy. As if to
demonstrate that they more than the KING himself
are consistent throughout, the Foreign Minister in
the KING'S Government celebrates the victory (?)
of Aspromonte by:issuing a diplomatic circular, soon
afterwards, endorsing the claim put forth by the
man who had, sword in hand, led on soldiers and
civilians together (in the KING'S name all of them)
to Aspromonte! Again we ask, who are the real
Deserters—RATTAZZl and DURANDO P or GIUSEPPE
and MENOTTI GARIBALDI P Deserters ! Are they
the Bersaglieri or the Garibaldians ? It is a most
invidious distinction, it is a most paltry exemption
—this flaw in the Amnesty : now that it is granted
—reluctantly and grudgingly granted. And if the
exception be really designed all the while with a
view to the maintenance of better discipline in
future in the royal army, the blunder is absolutely
egregious of its kind. Have we not a very vivid
recollection of the attitude assumed by General
CIALDINI and General DELLA MARMORA upon the
first mention of any amnesty at all after the affair
of Aspromonte ? Why, those two conspicuous offi-
cers, standing at the very head of their profession
as the leading captains in the royal array—CIAL-
DINI and DELLA MARMORA being to the army of
Italy what NAPOLEON'S Marshals are to the
army of France—why, these two principal
generals at the head of the army of VICTOR
EMMANUEL intimated as bluntly and apparently as
resolutely as their loyalty at once as soldiers and as
II citizens would allow, that there could be no Amnesty
whatever. That they would not—almost they went
as far as that—permit it. There was a threat, as it
might have been called under the circumstances,
that they would be constrained to resign their com-
mand if the Amnesty were conceded by the
Sovereign. Discipline could not be main-
tained, they said, in the army—assassination could
not be put down effectually in the Southern
Provinces. Yet here, at length, after the
lapse of many weeks, the Amnesty is granted,
and "no bones broken"—except GARIBALDI'S !
And that had been done previously. The amnesty
cannot repair ghat evil! It can throw open the
prison doors of Varigna.no—but it cannot obliterate
the remembrance of Aspromonte. It cannot heal
the painful wound of the Hero's ankle—it cannot
Booth one tortured nerve—it cannot render fair
and consistent the double dealing and flagrant in-
consistency characterising the whole policy from
first to last of the RATTAZZI Administration. At
this moment, when the Royal signature has scarcely
dried upon the decree of amnesty, we believe that
among the majority of Italians Signor RATTAZZI is
as much detested as General GARIBALDI is admired
—that GARIBALDI is still as popular as RATTAZZI
is the reverse.

The Respite granted on Friday last by the Right
Hon. Home Secretary—staying the Execution of
JESSIE NPLACHLIN for the murder of JESSIE
NPFHERSON, of which crime the said JESSIE
M'LACHLIN was found Guilty, and for which crime
she was sentenced to Death at the last Glasgo cv Cir-
cuit Court—appears to have been as judiciously as
it has been cautiously conceded. The prisoner's
statement, while it does not in any way exonerate
herself from guilt, or in any way fix the deed of
blood upon that old man nearer the age of a nono-
genarian than of an octogenarian, Mr. FLEMING,
the father of the master of the deceased victim—is,
nevertheless, a document so extraordinary and
startling in every respect, that it would have been
rash, it would have been something frightful, to have
allowed JESSIE NPLACHLIN to have been executed
at the appointed time,without first of all subjecting
that remarkable statement of hers to the most rigid
and searching investigation. Sir GEORGE GREY
has so decided it. The wretched woman now under
sentence of death at Glasgow is formally respited
by the right hon. baronet until the Ist of the ensu-
ing month of,November. Before which date, ample
leisure will have been given to the law officers in
Scotland, headed by the Lord Advocate himself, to
place every particle of the Statement under
the miscroscopic lens of a severe supple-
mentary examination. The search after the
truth through all the mazes of this singular state-
ment is now being carried on with unwearied
assiduity. The rest may be left—now that Sir
GEORGE GREY has opportunely interfered to grant
the time that was absolutely requisite for it—the
rest may be left (we are satisfied of this) quite con-
fidently, to the constituted authorities, under the
guidance of the skilled and vigilant Lord Advocate.

A letter from Dresden, of the 29th ult., states
that on the previous day the Prince of Wales attended
divine service in the Protestant church in that city, and
after having visited, in company with the King, the Here-
ditary Prince, and Prince George, the fortress of Koenig-
stein, dined with the royal family at Pilnitz. On the fol-
lowing day there was to be a grand hunt and a state dinner
at Moritzburg.

The Court Journal says :—" Her Majesty is ex-
pected to arrive in England on the 15th inst. The Queen
on her return, will take up her residence at Osborne, where
her Majesty will remain until after the 9th of November.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will join her Ma-
jesty at Osborne, and will spend his birthday with her Ma-
jesty at Osborne in comparative seclusion.

Mr. W. P. Frith (says the Atheneum) is prepar-
ing another magnificent illustration of modern life, for
which he is to receive from Mr. Ernest Gambart £lO,OOO.
Unlike "The Derby Day" and " The Railway Station,"
this new work is to be in three parts, or pictures; each
picture representing London life under a particular aspect.
"Morning" " Noon," and "Night" are the themes for
illustration, and the scenes will probably be laid in Regent-
street, Hyde Park, and the Haymarket.

CONFESSION OF THE KIRKHAM MURDERER.—
Patrick Cain, in custody on the charge of murdering Mr.
Henry Rawcliffe, at Kirkham, has confessed his crime.
On Friday night he called Police-constable Fletcher to him
and said he must tell the truth—he threw the poker at the
deceased, but he did not intend to kill him. He expressed
regret for the occurrence, and added, " If they only spare
my life, and don't hang me, I shan't care." He said he
got the poker out of Jemmy Cain's house—that he had
been it there three years,