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THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1862,

RATAZZI'S doom as Prime Minister of Italy—we
may be certain of this—is sealed. It is merely a
question as to a little sooner or a little later. But
to suppose for one single instant that anything so
paltry, so utterly despicable as the policy recently
adventured upon by that creature of the French
EMPEROR can fail to bring the former to disgrace
is not to be imagined. What are the simple facts P
That GARIBALDI was summoned from his seclusion
at Caprera. That he was authorised to reorganise
the rifle corps throughout the Roman peninsula.
That immediately after his arrival at Palermo he is
seated at the side of the young Princes at a public
banquet: as if in distinct declaration that he and the
Government were yet of one accord—that there was
a complete identity of feeling
and opinion
between
the Hero and his Sovereign. It is literally as if a
pitfall had been carefully dug for the Lion Heart
at—Corleone ! A pitfall deceptively strewn over
with—laurels ! Towards this meanly-prepared
trap, however, GARIBALDI has been, for a long
while past, on one side carefully lured by the speci-
ous affectation of complicity in his designs ob-
truded upon his unsuspecting nature by the Go-
vernment : and towards it, on the other hand, he has
been painfully goaded by the irritating antagonism
to all his hopes and aspirations manifested from first
to last by VICTOR EMMANUEL's imperial ally. The
deception practised upon GARIBALDI by the
RATAZZI administration is a fact notorious and
transparent. It will be RATAZZI'S NEMESIS. The
recognition of it is already beginning to tell upon
the Italian multitude. They regard it with
mingled feelings of scorn and indignation. Their
love for GARIBALDI is now becoming fast intensified
with pity. They abhor not unnaturally the shame-
ful duplicity which has been thus practised upon a
man so pre-eminently simple and magnanimous.
Their cries of "Down with RATAZZI "—wherever
they have been raised (and they have already been
raised at the same time, at parts widely separated
from each other)--if they have not been loud, have
at any rate been deep, and from the inmost hearts
of the multitude at Palermo and at Florence !
CAVGUR—the people of Italy think (and with
reason)—would never have condescended to a policy
like this; a policy of pretence and double-dealing.
He never would have paltered thus with the truth-
ful and honest nature of GARIBALDI. He would
never have encouraged him in the indulgence of
false hopes, merely to place him abruptly, when
the evil hour had struck, at a disadvantage so cruel
as to amount almost to a personal degradation.
CAVGUR would have despised so pitiable a pro-
gramme. And hardly less certain is it
that it would have been absolutely the
same with RICASOLI. But seemingly, for
RATAZZI, the whole scheme has possessed a sin-
gular and especial fascination. It has apparently
been, throughout, congenial to his whole intellect
and temperament. And apparently, also, for the
time being, it gives promise of proving—successful!
Successful, that is, in the Ministerial interpretation
now given to the word at Turin. Not otherwise, we
may absolutely rest assured. So far, indeed, from
being—as Signor RATTAZZI doubtless flatters him-
self it will be—permanently successful; it must
prove, on the contrary, in the end, the most dis-
astrous line of proceeding for himself that he, as
Italian Prime Minister could possibly have entered
upon ! His object—so far as it can in any way at
all be divined—has clearly been to tempt GARI-
BALDI on to his destruction. Doing this by in-
flaming the Hero's very natural confidence in his
own capacity, while backed by the nation, to
triumph over all obstacles—no matter how appa-
rently overwhelming. So far he has unques-
tionably fulfilled his design. It is now long since
the day when GARIBALDI could, with reason, de-
clare, in regard to this his latest and
most daring enterprize Alea jacta est. The signal
for the new Garibaldian movement was given in the
very first of those audacious speeches delivered by
the General during July at Palermo. It has been
reiterated—this signal—since then, again and again.
The reprimand given to the Prefect of the Sicilian
capital, the acceptance of that Prefect's resignation,
the dismissal of the Syndic of Marsala, the anti-
Garibaldian speeches of the KING'S Ministers in
the Chamber of Deputies at Turin, finally—and,
accordingly as the document is viewed from the
right or the left, by friend or foe, either too late or
too early—the Royal Proclamation issued at the
instance of RATAZZI, and in the name of King Vic-
TOR EMMANUEL-all those incidents have, of course,
been very recently indicating to the Great Adven-

turer quite plainly how little he could look for in
support of his project at the hands of the Govern-

meat. That Government that—having led him

onward so far—insidiously turned against him when

he had fairly committed his name, his fame, his

reputation, the ambition of his life to the chances
of another popular rising under his banners in the

cause of Italian Independence.

Contradictory as the tidings from Italy have
bees from day to day during the past week or fort-
night they are now in every way more contradic-
toryt_ than ever It is asserted in one and the same
uremia. oow by.
the Garibea_ thelseealttaehsrtda advices from Turin, that
aatind%eatre already dispersed or are
atythe(arcecsohrdiritnegd rteocruaitlal
dispersing,
that numbered
we could
learn
'Lb'nt, them via Turin !) at
the most aOO, are now
ttlis,. least 3,000! This
ns
sudden transference of
belief trem the minimum
to the maximum—yet corning to weperceive
at the self-same moment when it is
being intimated
that the Garibaldiaus around Coriebni,
are being
scattered by the threatening of an advance
against
them of the _Royal troops—or, through a
panic-stricken despair in their own tars
tunes, are rapidly scattering back to their old
---
homes themselves! At the same time there reaches

us the telegraphic intimation, that a new inter-
view (after so long an estrangement !) has, within

last few days, taken place between Signor MAZZINI

and General GARIBALDI. This interview being

the almost inevitable sequel, as one may say, of the

royal declaration against GARIBALDI, pronounced
in the presence of all Italy, nay, of all Europe, by

King VICTOR EmmANuEL. As the natural result

of this monarch's startling proclamation, Malan