The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

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plicate more and more the state of affairs. What
was new yesterday is old today ; accounts follow
each other with that precipitation which is the cha-
racteristic sign of the gravity of the moment. Alarms
and false rumours make their way more than ever,
and, what is natural enough, the most abeurd and
the most terrible inventions aro circulated. It is
the reaction against the optimism which prevalled
at the commencement of the affair, when the, Go-
vernment concealed and extenuated the real sti.tcv,
of things. The important fact and the news of the
day is the change which is about to take place in
the operations of Garibaldi and of the party of
action. Up to the present time Sicily has been the
scene of action ; now it is about to be removed to
the continent, t.nd precisely into Calabria. That
province is in a blaze, and several thousand volun-
teers are already there. They form three corps,
one under General Corte, another under General
Bruzzesi, and the third under Nullo. They occupy
the neigbourhood of the three great towns of
Calabria—Cattanzaro, Reggio, and Cosenza. They
are waiting for Garibaldi, and their number every
day increases by reinforcements from all sides,
and especially from Sicily. It was at first
thought that Garibaldi would go alone to the
continent, and leave his volunteers in the island to
afterwards join him in small bands or isolatedrly.
The ex-Dictator has adopted a precisely opposite.
course. As soon as he found the impossibility of
crossing over to the continent with all his corps, he
immediately devised the means of getting over the
difficulty. It was then that the passage of the
volunteers by bands of 50 and 100 was decided on.
You will doubtless remember the inumerable de-
spatches which announced to the government that
the volunteers were deserting '6.4 masse from the
Garibaldian camp.. Every -ono` deeehred, and
the Government was the first to fall into the error.
Those pretended desertions were only the breaking
up of the camp. When Garibaldi advanced on
Catania he had only about 2,500 men with him,
and from Catania the movement towards the con-
tinent was carried on on a large scale, so that at
I the present time only a few hundreds of the volun-
teers remain in the island, and they will soon
follow their companions. Garibaldi intends to
embark the last, and, in spite of all the precautions
of Persano, it will be difficult to prevent his
reaching Calabria. It is thus that the movement
to which no one at first paid any attention has now
assumed such immense proportions, capable of
compromising the future fate of the whole Italian
Peninsula by consequences the nature and bearing
by which it is impossible to foresee.
The Illoniteur publishes the following at the head
of its political summary :
" According to the latest advises from Italy,
Garibaldi left Catania at 11 p.m. on the 24th, with
about 2,000 men. The passage to Melito, where the
expedition arrived the next morning at 5 o'clock,
was made on board the steamer General Abbatucci,
belonging to the Valery Company, which had been
forcibly detained for two days at Catania. The
squadron of evolutions, commanded by Vice-Admiral
Regnault de Genouilly, has received orders to pro-
ceed from Ajaccio to the Bay of Naples." The
squadron in question consists, according to the
Opinion .Nationale, of the lira-of-battle ships Alex-
andre, Algesiras, Redoubtable, Bretagne, Castig-
lione, and Donawerth, and the despatch boat Caton.
A Paris letter in the Independance Belge thus
sums up a number of current reports :
" It is said that an ultimatum hag been sent by
the Imperial Government to the Italian Ministry
calling on the Government of Victor Emmanuel
effectually to suppress the Garibaldian movement,
and adding that, in the event of its inability to do
co, France would herself execute iL the Two Sicilies
the work which the Italian Monarch had failed to
accomplish. The rumour in question goes even so
far as to specify the contingencies to which this
intervention may give rise, and ascribes to the
Government the intention of occupying Gaeta, as a
preliminary step; further, the report pretends that
these intentions, which have as yet no official foun-
dation, but reef on mere conjecture—have awakened
the susceptibilities of England, and alleges that the
British Cabinet has officially informed the Govern-
ment of France that if a French division thus ar-
bitrarily took possession of a fortress belonging to
an independent prince recognised by the two na-
tions, and installed itself on the Neapolitan coast,
at the same moment English vessels would land
troops in Sicily. There is nothing serious in all
this talk. Events have not indeed arrived at such
a point, but the facts, such as they are presented in
these surmises, have nothing, it must be acknow-
ledged, which is not logical, and if a dangerous
path is once entered upon, events might realise
what is yet but newsmongers speculation. It
would be, indeed, serious to furnish Great Britain
with an occasion for one of those occupations
which with her have scarcely ever an end, when
no resistance has been offered to them at the
outset, and especially when they are coloured
with a plausible pretext. Besides, it will no
doubt not be from considerations of prudence
—although sufficiently justified—that the denial
which the French Government will oppose to those
who attribute to it so rash a policy, must be re-
ceived. Notwithstanding the deplorable delays
which perpetuate so lamentably the melancholy
situation of Italy, the Conqueror of Solferino has
evidently too much interest in the unitary mo-
narchy, which only exists through him, to inflict
in the eyes of Europe such humiliation on the Mo-
narch who personifies that unity. Until further
information no credit should therefore be attached
to the report of that intervention. It is said that
under these unsatisfactory circumstances, AL Bene-
detti will not hasten his return to Italy. The
French Minister desires it will be easily understood
that the situation should be clearly defined, or at
least that a little light should be thrown upon it.
It is also affirmed that at the camp of Chalons the
Emperor consulted several general officers on the
Garibaldian rising, subject of the and that the ex-
pressions of their military susceptibilities and
wounded point of honour greatlycontributed to
the tenor of the note which has just appeared in
the Non/tear."

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GREAT Loss OF £9,60° BANK NOTES, &e. This
morning information
forwarded by
rlton, in Kent, left a banking establish-
500p the city police to all
the sous police ioation.s in the metropolis and suburbs,
of the less of £2 under the subjoined circumstances :
eha
At 5 o'clock on die afternoon of Tuesday last, a gentleman
belonging to
meta in cionent's-lane, City, for the purpose of proceeding
by the yorth Kent Railway to Charlton. At that time he
hld is his possession two £l,OOO Bank of England notes,
and a' cheque for £5OO. He proceeded along Lombarj-
oreet, Oracechurcla-street, and over London-bridge, to the
station, and thence by the North Kent line of railway to
Charlton. On arriving at his destination he found the
whole of the large amount of money to be missing. He
cannot account for the disappearance of the money. The
notes and cheques have been stopped payment, and Mr.
Inspector Hamilton, of the city police, has issued this
morning a reward of £lOO.
THE CIRENCESTER SWINDLER.—Captain Conroy,
as he calls himself, but whose real name is James Summers,
has now been finally examined before the Cirencester ma_
gistrates, and fully committed for trial at the Glocester
Winter Assizes on the charges of swindling and bigamy.
As already stated in The Sun, his final committal was de-
ferred until atter the Glocester Assizes, finished last week,
James
in order to afford time for the police to obtain evidence on
the several charges against him. At the concluding exa-
mination it was proved that the prisoner had married three
Summers,
marrieddesertedMargaret thera'
London
at Christ Church, Blackfriars, in July, 1847 ; her father He first,
in youngth the
name women
of i succession,
was a pawnbroker, and the prisoner lived with his wife
until about three years ago, when he deserted her, but
afterwards, finding she was getting a good livelihood by
letting apartments at Islington, he returned to her, and
about a year ago again deserted her. He had four children
by
this
marriage. Ile married, secondly, Emily Dawson
Graham under circumstances already narrated ; and lastly,
be married 'Miss Date, daughter of the landlord of the
King's Head Hotel, Cirencester, on the 9th of July last.
a
He then represented himself as bachelor, and gave his
name as John Alexander Conroy. The prisoner when Raked
what he had to say in reply to the charge answered
ft Nothing," and was fully ownolitted for trial.