The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1862.

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Maryland and defenders of Virginia.
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But should this not also be a lesson to the North.
If they follow these very men into Eastern Vir-
ginia—for Western Virginia has refused slave-
holders' ruIe—M'CLELLAN would, in all proba-
bility, be again, and, in turn, the defeated. If
each is triumphant in its own limits, it surely
points to each being contented with those limits.
We fear it will not be so. The Northerns are as
excitable and versatile as children, and a single
ray of success will seem to them like the fore-
runner of the full sunshine. The cry will again
be—" Death to Secession !"—" Crush the Rebels"
—and so forth. Misfortunes will be all forgotten
—fresh levies demanded, fresh paper money created

—taxes still evaded—and another raid made south-
ward, to be, perhaps, again disastrously repulsed.
We can hardly believe that common sense will
govern the councils of the North in the hour of
victory, nor will their intoxication be the less
for its following so promptly a discreditable
defeat.

The North will probably be confident in its re-
sources. Marvellous as the efforts of the
South have been to supply themselves with the
munitions of war, it is difficult to believe
that it can provide them, should the contest
be long protracted. We hear of the South equip-
ping iron frigates in England, but though one of
them has been reported as in America for a long
time, we learn nothing of her doings. It would
seem that the South can never break the blockade ;
and if not, can smuggling, with its heavy charges,
be expected to supply arms and ammunition P
The North naturally thinks, that while it can
make and purchase so much more than the South
it must soon wear out its antagonist—and that
the difference of population must in the long run
tell in its favour. The North will, therefore, fight
till at least the great prize—the Border States—
be conceded to it. If it can be induced to let the
planting States go, it will not part with Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Maryland. On

the other hand, the South will be as slow to
concede them. We augur, therefore, from a
Federal victory, a bitter prolongation of the war.

Alike in France and England, there are nume-
rous American citizens who, together with their
families, have been reduced to a condition of more
or less deplorable indigence in consequence of this
lamentable civil war upon the other side of the At-
lantic. It is not alone that since the outbreak of
this fratricidal conflict the ports all along the
southern coasts owning allegiance to the Confede-
rate Government, have been closed for many months
past by an inexorable blockade. In Europe on
less than in America; certain fatal barriers have been
raised, shutting out hundreds and thousands of our
fellow mortals not merely from wealth, but from
the bare means of supporting existence. By
reason of the stoppage of the raw material of
our cotton manufactures, multitudes of our
own intelligent operatives in the north, but more
particularly in the county palatine of Lancaster,
have been plunged into a state of actual beggary :
and they are now beholding with a not unnatural
sentiment of dismay the rapid approach of that ter-
rible winter which:threatens them with nothing less
than actual starvation. While these afflicting con-
sequences of the war now at its height in Mary-
land and Pennsylvania have been long becoming
every day more and more manifest even to the most
careless and casual observers—there has been, less
obtrusively, but not a jot less painfully, another evil
result of this present strife between the Federals
and the Confederates—a result so grievous
and so truly piteous in its character that it has at
length necessitated something like a distinct recog-
nition: The sufferings of American citizens—here
in England, there in France—individuals and whole
families being suddenly reduced upon both sides of
the Channel to positive indigence from comparative
affluence, or at the least, in the majority of in-
stances, from honourable competence ! Such are
among the evil results of the American war that we
are here alluding to, as to a hitherto hidden misery 1
that can no longer be ignored, that must by neces-
sity and from motives of sheer humanity be looked
to. That this misery is at last in serious earnest
beginning to demand, from its very magnitude,
that frank recognition that must necessitate im-
mediately afterwards some practical and energetic
attempts at its alleviatiun, we are rejoiced
to recognise at length as a substantial fact. It is
a tardy recognition of this veiled grief amongst us,
it is true—but at the least, and at the last, it is a
recognition of it. A benevolent enterprise has
been actually set on foot in Paris very recently,
with a view to the mitigation of the sufferings now
so long prevailing, among American citizens domi-
ciled in France and in England—a benevolent
enterprise originating in the generous thought of a
private individual (an American lady eight years
resident in the French capital), but a scheme so
noble and so generous in the mere idea of it
that it has received the express and deliberate
sanction of the French Imperial Government.

Elsewhere in our impression of this evening we
give formal particulars of the project we are here
solicitous to bring under the attention of the more
benevolent of our own countrymen. And upon re-
ferring to these particulars, it will be seen that
the aid intended to be so accorded is designed to
be really, so far as it goes, of some practical ad-
vantage to the sufferers, whose griefs and miseries
are intended to be assuaged—assistance being cal-
culated
to be brought together to this end to the
value, in round numbers, of some £20,000, or 1
100,000 dollars, or 500,000 francs. Unfortunately
it does so happen, upon the very threshold, in
regard to this generous enterprise, that it comes
to us in no very welcome guise, indeed, it may
be said at once, in what is, strictly speaking,
among us English, an illegal form—namely,
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now particularised. Tickets at 5 francs (that is 45.)
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of those 100,000 francs, i e., at X 4,000 sterling ! Now,
upon the face of it, it becomes
manifest, no doubt,
that before the scheme but just set afoot in France,
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might very
ensured the authorisation of our own
nreaarnaeilayndbeorganisation, its introduction
Governmant—just as cordially and
as readily
as it has already received the sanction and

approval of the French Imperial Government..
In the meantime, for such as it is, we submit the
project in its integrity, as it now stands before
the Parisian public, to the generous consideration
of our own fellow countrymen in these islands,
satisfied, while we do so, that when the enterprise
shall have been enabled to come into actual legal
operation hero in England, the people of the United
Kingdom will evince no reluctance to co-operate in
the good work of assisting to alleviate as much as
may be possible the heavy load of sufferings now
endured by their brethren both in blood and
language, the American citizens scattered amongst
our own population.

The GARIBALDI Committee, we suppose, may
now be considered to have fairly done its work—to
have earned the right of terminating its labours.
It has collected, in various sums, from all kinds of
people, between £7OO and £BOO sterling—the pub-
lished subscription list including, among other items,
three guineas from her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It has paid Professor PARTRIDGE
apparently a very handsome fee, and has had
enough left in hand to liquidate all the other in-
cidental expenses connected with the professor's his-
torical excursion—his passage money and so forth.
Arriving at Spezzia on the 16th instant, Professor
PARTRIDGE, F.R.S., of King's College, and of
King's College Hospital—(of whom, by the way,
La France condescendsto speak as of " a respect-
able sort of a man")—has been enabled to fulfil
his mission in every possible respect most satisfac-
torily before the close of this still current month
of September. His report to the GARIBALDI
Committee, under date Spezzia, the 20th instant,
we are enabled to publish, in proof of this
satisfactory completion of his enterprize, in extenso,
in our columns of this evening. Through
the evidence of this deeply interesting document,
we are now at length fully acquainted with the
exact extent of GARIBALDI'S wounds and of his euf-
forings, as well as the general condition, also, of the
Hero Prisoner of Varignano. " The accident,"
says Mr. PARTRIDGE, " may be described shortly
as a tranverse compound fracture of the right in-
ternal malleolus (ankle bone), produced by a rifle
shot, which, though it opened the joint by a
small aperture, did not enter it, nor lodge itself
in any other part of the limb. The outer
ankle bone remains uninjured, nor does
the astragalus (tie great pulley-like bone
of the foot which sustains the leg) appear to have
been injured; the most careful examinations made
immediately after the accident, and since, have led
to the conclusion that no other bone except the tibia
(or greater bone of the leg) was implicated in the
injury." So much for the nature of the injury
itself. As to the treatment of the wounds, the
Professor is yet more explicit. And his account
certainly assures us of this—that everything that
could be done, has been done, towards
effecting a cure ; and that so far as
can be at present recognised by medical
and surgical skill, that cure is now in
fair way of accomplishment. The incident, in fine,
in which Professor PARTRIDGE has had the privi-
lege of taking a part so conspicuous, and, we believe,
also so very memorable, may at length be regarded
as completed. And now that it is completed—who
shall deny that it is an incident equally honourable
to England and to GARIBALDI ?

LATEST NEWS.

TURIN, SEPT. 26.
The distribution of the prizes to the students at
the Technical Schools took place to-day.
Prince Napoleon, Prince de Savoie Carignan,
Prince Humbert, and the Princesses Clotilde and
Maria Pia, with the diplomatic body, were present.
The Marquis Pepoli delivered an eloquent speech
to the students and the audience. He said :

" The unity of the country, now achieved, also
requires unity in study. It responds to the convic-
tions of all. They are deceived who imagine that
municipal spirit or special interests can destroy or
endanger that unity which is now the glory and
the hope of every Italian citizen. Violence will
contest it in vain, for it bas been created by moral
force and the triumph of modern civilisation."
ThelMarquis pronounced a warm panegyric upon
Prince Napoleon, who, he said, had defended in
the French Senate the unity of Italy, which he
loved like his own country.
The speaker concluded by praising the attituds
of Turin, which fervently desired to lay down its
position as the capital of the kingdom upon the
altar of the country, for the sake of fulfilling the
national wish. (Great applause.)

ROME, SEPT. 24.
The Marquis de Lavalette will leave next week
for Biarritz, whence he will proceed to Spain.
It is asserted that M. de Lavalette, having ex-
hausted all diplomatic means of bringing about a
solution of the Roman question, will not again re-
turn to Rome as ambassador from France to the
Holy See.