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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1862.

Not a syllable of detailed information as to the
Health of GARIBALDI. We must wait patiently,
it is to be presumed, until we hear what Professor
PARTRIDGE will have to say upon that subjfct.
As for the laconic, not to say curt and ungracious,
telegrams that have come to us, " few and far be-
tween," though anything but " like angel's visits,"
from Turin—telling us, now that the patient's
fever was " sligbt," now that his sufferings from the
wound in the ankle had ceased at last, again that
suppuration had commenced and that copiously, and
altogether that the General's condition was to be
regarded as in no way dangerous, we all accept in-
formation about GARIBALDI coming to us from that
quarter with unbelief, not unmixed with indignation.
General Buto's letter is not to be so easily far-
gotten. To all the Turin Telegrams about GARI-
BALDI'S health the painful revelations contained in

that letter perpetually recurred to our remembrance

as most apposite running commentaries. Had we
not all of us in vivid recollection the formal official
annou,ncement contained in a recent copy of the
Gazzetta di Torino, to the effect that an apartment
had been prepared by the authorities in the fortress
of Varignano for the reception of the Wounded Hero
immediately after his arrival in the Gulf of Spezzia
on board the Duca di Genova? A " preparation''
that turned out to mean—according to the evidence
of an eyewitness as reliable as General Bixto—no
bed, not a single chair, not a scrap of linen, not one ,
solitary bandage ! That was the " preparation,'
forsooth, trumpetted to Europe through the Turin
Gazette ! That was the care taken by the Italian
Government of the illustrious sufferer whose great
and magnanimous sword had struck off the chains of
the southern Population ; and who had been repaid
by the country he had so heroically served, and
by the KING whom he had so faith-
fully championed—by defeat, by wounds, by
imprisonment ! Whatever after that might be
said upon the authority of the Government at Turin
in respect to the condition of General GARIBALDI,
we must naturally enough, we must inevitably and
by necessity discredit. England has deemed the
treatment of GARIBALDI from first to last by this
despotic Cabinet so disgraceful—
first of all by its
duplicity ; secondly, by its brutality ; thirdly, by its
utter indifference towards the sufferings and igno-
minies inflicted upon him by the successive influ-
ence of that duplicity and brutality of the ungrate-
ful Italian Government—England has regarded
these incidents with so much horror and with such
en honest and burning indignation that (in distrust
of the Italian Doctor and the RATTAZZI Cabinet)
she his sent out a medical adviser of her own
choosing, and of her own rearing, to watch tenderly
over the Wounded prisoner, and to preserve, if that
may yet be practice ble, the imperilled life of the
Hero GARIBALDI. The incident of this journey (to
Spezzia) of Professor PARTRIDGE will be especially
remembered, we may be quite certain of that, in the
annals of the epoch now being evolved.
It will be recorded there as not the least
memorable occurrence of an age in which
Fought and Conquered, and afterwards (in the
mysterious fluctuations of Fortune) Fought and
Fell a man of men like GARIBALDI. The incident
will be related and remembered as one honourable
alike—equally and conspicuously—to England and
to GARIBALDI.

While sympathy has Urns been practically mani-
fested towards the wound ed Hero by his British
admirers—the Italians have • not altogether remained

silent and impassive under the affecting knowledge
of his most bitter misfortunes. The King of
ITALY, it is true, can coolly refrain from writing
one word, from uttering one syllable expressive of
regret for all that has recently occurred in the de-
ceiving and maltreating and imprisoning of his
MAJESTY'sGreatest Subject byhis MAJESTY'S mean-
est and most treacherous advisers. Signor RAT-
TAZZI, the Head of that responsible cluster of
advisers, and, therefore, in this matter the most
guilty among them all, can remain still, on his part,
perfectly dumb as to General GARIBALDI'S present
position, and as to the circumstances that have led
him into it. General CIALDINI, the chivalrous
and knightly commander of the forces of King
VICTOR EaSaIANUEL, can sully whatever re-
putation he may have possessed before for
honour and magnanimity—by demanding that a
far greater man than ever he can hope to become,
shall be brought to public trial as a Traitor to the
very Crown that illustrious man may be said to have
welded by the blows of his patriot sword, and to have
placed upon the brow of his Sovereign with a hand
that never accepted in reward even one bauble
symbolical of that Sovereign's or of his People's
Gratitude. While the KING, the Premier, and the
Soldier are bearing themselves thus heartlessly
towards the Defeated, Wounded, and Imprisoned
GARIBALDI, some at least of the people of Italy are
giving utterance, it may be feebly, but at any rate
quite honestly and frankly, to their mingled senti-
ments of gratitude for GARIBALDI, and of indigna-
tion against the Government. From Naples—
the scene of one of the Hero's greatest exploits, the
completion, namely, of his wonderful liberation of
the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies—from Naples
fittingly has come forth, but just now, one of the most
eloquently articulated evidences of this blended
gratitude and indignation. An address, signed
by numerous members of the Bar and Deputies,
by men and women of the Upper and Middle
classes of Neapolitan society, indiscriminately, has
reecently been despatched to General GARIBALDI,
in his prison-home at Varignano. It is dated
significantly enough, on the 7th of September.
And, breathing forth at once the feeling that
prompted it, it says, without a particle of
circumlocution, " General,—To day two years are
completed since Naples saw the tyranny of the
Bourbons destroyed; since you, the soul and leader
of a gigantic enterprise, first to unfold the banner
of a united Italy, entered our city alone, and were
received here with the enthusiasm of an entire peo-
ple. We should be wanting in the holiest of human
sentiments, that of gratitude, if, silent on occasion
of your misfortune, this day should pass away un-
marked. Illustrious prisoner ! to.day, then, Naples
sends you an affectionate salutation. The vicissi-
tudes of human fortune, whatever they may be,
cannot take from you the glory of having made us
Italians, or from us the memory of the heart."
Signed though these touching words have been by
merely a few hundred Italians at Naples,
they will find an echo in the hearts,
we may be certain, of very many thou-
sands of Italians throughout the whole length
of the peninsula. That echo, those innumerable
echoes would not long remain inaudible, were
not the reins of Government gathered up as
tightly as they are at Turin, while the Soldier-
Representatives of that Government, iu the pro-
vinces of the new Kingdom, look as obediently
to RATTAZZI for orders, as do General CIALDINI and
General DE LA MAMORA—and while RATTAZZI
himself looks just as obediently for orders, in his
turn, to his Majesty the French EMPEROR! But
for these repressing influences the KING must
have been constrained, long since, to grant an
Amnesty, instead of allowing his Ministers still
to babble about a Trial of GARIBALDI and his
—accomplices ! But, for Patriotic (!) Gene-
rals like CIALDINI, and independent (!)
statesmen like RATTAZZI and his colleagues, and
magnanimous (!) allies like the Emperor of the
FRENCH—GARIBALDI would never have been con-
signed (tortured with wounds) to prison. Or, sup•
posing him to have been brought there in that
plight, in some mysterious manner, by other agen-
cies, he would not at least have been left there suf-
fering and neglected, as though he had been the
last instead of being the first and most illustrious
among the Subjects and Friends of him whom that
Friend and Subject was the first to dub (with how
much or with how little truth ?) the Be Cralantuomo.

It is natural at the present stage of the great
struggle to inquire into the causes of Southern
success. Success we may justly term it, since
even should the South be ultimately vanquished,
or even subjugated, its achievements up to this
time would be none the less wonderful. Richmond
has proved a Torres Vedras to the North. It has
rolled back the war of invasion through another
peninsula, and sent it to the gates of the enemy's
capital, And this main feat of Southern arms has
been accompanied by a corresponding onward move-
ment of the Confederate forces along the whole line
of attack and defence. Not only on the Potomac,
but on the Ohio, the Missouri, and down the Mis-
sissippi to New Orleans itself, the Confederates are
Ibarsting the famous " Anaconda coil." This, after
lalmost a year and a half of war, and as the re-
trieval of severe losses at first, must be for the time
present regarded as a great success. What are the
causes of it ? To us they appear to be such as to
leave small hope of its being reversed by the Fe-
derals. -we of course speak subject to the prover-
bial chances of war, and especially of a war in
which the char ces have been so different to what
all parties expected. Whatever the event, how-
ever, in some things the South has shown that it
possesses advantages which have made it fully a
match for the North. I

Foremost amongst these is the difference between
the Presidents. It is hardly invidious to say that a
glance at their photographs, as we see them published
in this country, would make it difficult to believe
that the honest, rounded, features of the oblong face,
lighted by a quiet undiscerning eye, and surmount-
ing a gawkey framework, represented a match for
the cool determination and intelligence looking
1 forth from the aquiline features and k2en eye of the
Southern statesman. The former is the
impersona-
tion of blundering well meaning honesty, the lat-
ter that of sharpness,
acuteness, and capacity for
directing action good or bad. The same impression
the two faces convey, precisely, as their rival mes-
sages. Before we could know what either would
prove to be from facts, our readers may remember,
how much struck we were with the altogether
higher order of intelligence manifest in tha writinr,
of the Southern President. A " muddle" of incon-
clusive, ungrammatical, well meaning backwoods
eloquence, with occasionally good alliterations or
antitheses more suited to a schoolboy theme, than to
a Ruler's speech, is the character of A,tr. ,
"AN-
COLN'S performances. While those of Mr. DAvis
almost came up
to the English standard in
lucidity, avoidance of bombast, and simple
statement of fact. It was hard to extract the mean-
ing from Mr. LINCOLN'S messages. His rival's
were
understood as fast as read. One thing
the most hasty reader remarked, the Southern
President saw his way so clearly that he did not
hesitate to state mistakes and losses as distinctly as
successes, and all his intimations of what the South
intended to do, proved to be fact, not bluster. This