The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1862.

Our hopes have already been realized. Pro-
fessor PARTRIDGE, of King's College, a surgeon of
eminence from an eminent school of surgery, has
taken his departure for Variginano. So that the il-
lustrious sufferer at Spezzia will not be left alto-
gether to the mercies of the Italian San Grados—
who hardly less than those referred to by the Ge-
neral himself in the opening words of his account
of the fight at Aspromonte—may be described quite
literally as perpetually thirsting for blood." The
telegram we give to-day makes revelations that
GARIBALDI is suffering from " slight fever." It is
observable, of course, that the fever is described as
slight : still, however "slight," there is "fever."
Suppuration has, at any rate, fairly set in, and that
freely : the wound in the ankle becoming at the same
time comparatively painless. So far the condition of
the patient is, perhaps, as satisfactory as could have
been hoped under the circumstances. Yet it is not
without a question of doubt that we hear mention
made after all of the assertion about there
being no bullet requiring extraction having
been all along purely conjectural ! The wound,
it appears, has been of such a character from
the first moment of its examination that it has
been impossible to probe it. Examining it as care-
fully as might be otherwise, it has been decided
(quite in the dark) that there has been no bullet at all
there left for extraction. The tibial maleolus is there
shattered at one side, the ankle is much torn, there
has been great pain until very recently, and now
supervening, as the not unnatural result of all this,
there is fever in the patient, though as yet the fever
is but slight. It is quite consolatory to think at last
that an English surgeon, as eminent as Professor
PARTRIDGE, of King's College, is speeding at the
present moment as fast as may be to the aid of Gen.
GARIBALDI. A little while longer and whatever
aid science can afford him will be his. A little
while longer and that aid having been lavished
upon him we shall know, for about the first time,
the exact truth of his condition.

And in the meantime the probabilities are ripen-
ing into all but a visible certainty that the King
of ITALY will, so far at least, simplify all this by is-
suing an Amnesty. It is about the very least that
can be done. And the Itaiian Government will
have taken long enough in doing it. However
speedily this Amnesty may appear, it will have been
so long and so pertinaciously delayed that the
smallest atom of grace there could ever have been
in
anylAmnesty at all will be found to have com-
it, sooner or later this Amnesty.
The
may rest assured of
nletely evaporated.
Cabinet we think as meanly of as
possible
we nevertheless do give it credit for a
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certain amount of cunning ability. We cannot
seriously believe that they have been, even for a
brief interval, so demented as to have meditated in
a Heinous Malefactor. They
real earnest bringing GARIBALDI before any Public
Tribunal for Trial as
have merely all this time been endeavouring, under
much bluster about a Trial as a thing
inevitable, to affect to court publicity in
regard to all these recent transactions.
in Pub-
licity, full and detailed publicitYy, being, truth,
all the while, the very thing they themselves most
dreaded, and which GARIBALDI himself would
naturally most desiderate, Who can doubt It ?
GARIBALDI'S career from first to last has been
open, bold, arid—remembering his steady attention
to one aim throughout—perfectly consistent. The
policy of RATTAZZI and his colleagues, on the con-
trary, has been shuffling, confused, now hot, now
cold, and, to say the very least, as a whole, fla-
grantly inconsistent. The Italian Ministers, in
effect, have, while ostentatiously affecting to work
power),working and i in. their own selfish
n. the interests,
onlyinterests
I(ttaol y,
retain been
also, not in any way less undeniably, of their
imperial patron the French EMPEROR ! The
Hero now lying wounded at Spezzia,
on the contrary, having throughout his career
striven unselfishly, at the risk of his life and of
everything he held dear in life, solely for the Unifica-
tion of that Italy for which he has so often fought
and—until that last fatal Friday of August—con-
Tiered! Among the accusers and the accused Who