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THE SUN.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1882,

From Melito GARIBALDI has already advanced
his insurrectionary movement to Mileto. Nearly
the whole of Calabria Ultra is already in the power

of the Hero's red-shirted Volunteers. It is there, in
the toe of the Italian Boot, that it pinches ! About

eight important towns in that one province alone
are even now in the hands of the Garibaldians—
Melito and Mileto as aforesaid, and with these also

Bora, Oppida, Nicotera, Palmi, Gerace, and Carig-
n ano. The Royalist authorities,after putting so bold
a face upon the matter, find that the revolutionary
rising of which the signal was but so very recently
given in Sicily by GARIBALDI, is not so really con-
temptible after all, is decidedly not so easily Fut an
end to, as was predicted. Far and wide throughout
the peninsula the population are astir in sympathy
more or less openly avowed with the outlawed
Hero. In Southern Italy, especially, the flame,
kindled first of all in Sicily—having overleaped the
sea-channel of Messina, borne onwards by the
wind that blew GABIBALDI himself from Catania
to Melito--is spreading northwards from town to
town, until it becomes already evident that General
DELLA MABMORA will find his work cut out for him
in terrible earnest ! Strange work for him truly,
and for many of his associates, both civil and mili-
tary—this work of a reactionary movement as like
as possible to a Counter Revolution.

It is, of course, within the general recollection
how the RATTAIII organs at Turin have all along
been asserting that the cause of the Govern-

ment has everywhere triumphed in spite of the
utmost efforts of the Garibaldians—but more par-
ticularly in Sicily. Than the successes achieved in
the King's name throughout Sicily, the world was
veraciously informed, nothing could by possibility
be in any way more entirely satisfactory. Mes-
sina and Palermo were loyal to the core, and in
proof of this were described by the Turin jour-
nalists as in the most exemplary state of
tranquillity. Not only this but Caltanisetta

itself, so long the head-quarters of the Arch-
Traitor, was no sooner evacuated by him and his
followers; the latter were no sooner replaced by the
royal troops than that 'same rendezvous of rebel-
lion, Caltanisetta, proved to have been peopled all
the while by the foes of General GARIBALDI and
the friends of King VICTOR EMMANUEL ! In this
way the ministerial accounts of the situation of
affairs in Sicily coming to us via Turin, have been
coloured too deeply with the tinge of the couleur de
rose. The probable result being that the tint will

turn out to be rather that of the couleur de sang-
thus verifying, by a sort of anti-climax, the hue
imparted by Ministers and their partisans to these
official sketches of " the situation."
It looks so very much like a complete restoration
of tranquillity among the Sicilians—the policy now
adopted towards them and their compatriots in the
neighbouring parts of the peninsula by the RATTAZZI
Government ! All Sicily, and since then the whole
Neapolitan Provinces as well—being placed in a
State of Siege !
Not only has General CIALDINI been entrusted
with the powers of a Dictator, in his capacity as
the KING'S Extraordinary Commissioner in Sicily
—but the like has been done in regard to the Nea-
politan Provinces, by the appointment of General
DELLA MARMORA there also as his MAJESTY'S
Commissioner Extraordinary.
Catania, it is true, has no sooner been quitted by
General GARIBALDI, in his daring advance across
the Straits of Messina into Calabria, than Catania
also like Caltanisetta, has been seized by the soldiers
of VICTOR EMMANUEL. As many as eight hundred
Garibaldians being taken prisoners upon the en-
trance of the Royal troops. As we don't hear of
any bloodshed at Catania upon the occasion of its
capture by the army of the SOVEREIGN, we may
suppose the barricades recently thrown up in its
streets to have been raised there simply as a blind !
Possibly a blind simply to cover the advance—not
the flight, but the advance—of GARIBALDI himself
into Calabria. However, this may have been, and
although Catania seems to have been entered by
the Royal troops without any difficulty whatever—
GARIBALDI having in the meantime got fairly off
to Melito—we can understand how merely partial
is the success of its seizure deemed to be by the
captors, upon noting what was really the first act
that celebrated their entrance into Catania. The
Minister PERSANI, who arrived there with the
soldiery, immediately ordering the arrest of the com-
manders of thetwo frigates then lying off theport of
Catania! Indignant, of course, at having, through
their remissness, if not through their complicity,
seized upon the cage only after the bird had flown !
Catania was in the hands of the royal troops, but
GARIBALDI was away ! like a royal eagle upon its
new eyrie at Miletu, in that fresh outburst of the
political hurricane, of which MAZZINI is, as usual,
but the Stormy Petrel, flitting across the darken-
ing scene (the veriest bird of ill omen), merely to
disappear into safety while the tempest is at its
height. GARIBALDI'S flight from Catania to Cala-
bria is no doubt designed by him rather to emulate
a flight like that of the imperial eagle of NAPOLEON
THE GREAT in 1815, when—swooping across the
Mediterranean from Elba to the Gulf of San Juan
—it flew onwards from steeple to steeple until it
alighted upon the
Towers of Notre Dame ! The
tßhAel.l3inow aspires to reach being of
Castle of San Angelo. What pro-
bability he has of reaching it We
all know. Upon
his return from Elba NAPOLEON the FIRST had but
to frighten away by the mere terrora:feffhi6ste"
race,
of
com-
ing," the timorous court retinuee
headed by a faineant BOURBON, like
King
LOUIS XVIII! Whereas upon the declaration by
GARIBALDI that he is advancing through Calabria
to the cry of " Rome or Death," the present occu._
pants of the Eternal City evidence a determination
to do anything rather than take their departure
from it for the purpose of re-embarking for France
at Civita Vecchia. That this could alone be the
effect produced by the untimely enterprise entered
upon by GARIBALDI in spite of every remonstrance
—everybody but GARIBALDI recognised from
the first moment. So poignantly has the Emperor
of the FRENCH been (piqued by GARIBALDI'S insen-
sate movement) into a dogged determination, coute
qui coute, to retain possession of Rome, that it now
appears that the recent official note in the Xoniteur,

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