The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-12 00:00:00

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THE SITN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1862.

It is earnestly to be hoped that a lamentable
statement put forward this mm fling in the Foreign
correspondence of the limes may, on further in-
quiry, prove to be altogether unfounded, or, at the
very least, considerably exaggerated. We at once
give the announcement in its integrity: precisely
in the words in which it is expressed in the columns
of our contemporary.

" A calamitous duel," writes the Times'
Correspondent at Turin, under date the 9th
instant, " has been fought to-day near Turin
between MENOTTI GARIBALDI, the hero's eldest
son, and that Colonel, now Brigadier-General,
PALLAVICINO, who attacked the volunteers at As-
promonte. This latter had given offence to the
officers of GARIBALDI'S staff when he said in his
report that while the combat raged these officers
were busy sharing the contents of their chief's mili-
tary chest among them. The efforts of well-mean-
ing persons who wished to prevent the duel were
unavailing. MENOTTI GARIBALDI is said to be
mortally wounded in the side ; PALLAVICINO is also
seriously hurt. I have not been able, however, to
ascertain the particulars of the sad event, and still
hope the account of it may be exaggerated."
Supposing, most unhappily, that the report thus
confidently stated should be eventually confirmed,
occurring as such a fatal duel will then be seen to
have done immediately after the melancholy catas-
trophe closing the encounter with swords between
Mr. DILLON and M. DE GRAMMONT, otherwise
known as the Duc de CADEROUSSE—dueIIing,
as a system, we may rest assured, will,
elsewhere than England, be abolished. Its
abolition, at any rate, will infallibly be hastened.
Ttie more civilised States upon the Continent will
follow in this the rational example long since set
to the world at large by England—meaning, that
is to say, when Eaglishmen resolved at length, by
common consent, upon getting rid, at once and for
all, of this barbarous and intrinsically ridi-
culous, yet at the same time execrable,
method of settling a dispute. Of late years
a man could hardly put himself, socially, in a more
ludicrous position than by taking part in a duel.
One of the last ever attempted—who can yet have
forgotten it ?—was that in which the late Viscount
STRANQFORD, better known during the chief part
of his brief and brilliant career as the Hon. G EORGE
SMYTHE, appeared as one of the principals! The
intending duellists and their seconds taking train
one morning at the Waterloo terminus—getting
out of the train twenty miles down the line at
Weybridge Station—taking a hired fly in which
the combatants (that were to be) and their friends
(!) rode amicably (some inside, some outside the
vehicle) to a secluded spot beyond the gorse and
furze and heather of that pretty common of Wey-
bridge. The particulars of that latest of these hos-
tile encounters, here in England, no sooner became
bruited about than the wits of London had it all
theirga own way—that is, of course, in the way of
-natured ridicule. Punch's comic artists and
droll
ong-writers were " at it" industriously week
after Week
ieaeepkfoar a long while. Bon mots, flavoured
ant sarcasm, were echoed about the
clubs and dra
The whole incident by many a laughing lip. i
seen to be and felt to be
something intensely nt
as was
absurd and nonsensical.)
Thenceforth—en
far the opinions of one's neigh-
bours can affect uas;we
similar should all of us shrink from
taking part in n
proceeding, if for no
other and nobler reason, because
so doing we
should be rendering ourselves le by
auu:ihiiintg-stocks to
the general community. A ci
would be a butt.
sett oo ff
It would require the Tido' wadya3's
a different kind of courage than any ever dr
as requisite by the deadliest shot and the liveliest
ficeater once upon a time accustomed, as an °raj_ I
nary rnatutinal arrangement, to indulge in, the l
luxury of coffee and pistols for two, at some un--
earthly hoar or so before cccit-crow Courage,
that is, to face the poignant shafts of ridicule. Cou.
raga to bear the brut of pcpular scorn, and—worst
of 6 all—the anguish of being openly laughed at !
Until, however, we shall
have received distinct
intimation of the actual and literal trath of the
account of this fatal rencontre between AIENOTTI
GARIBALDI, the eldest son of the Hero, and Gene-
ral PALLAVICINO, the leader of the Bersaglieri
'who shot down GARIBALDI himself at Aspromonte