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London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1862.

Vigorous though the course is now being pursued
by the Turin Government with a view to the sup-
pression of the GARIBALDI movement in Southern
Italy, the plans of the Government towards that end
appear to be still somewhat confused. It now seems
that General CIALDINI having been appointed, with
a flourish of trumpets, Extraordinary Commissioner
in Sicily, is not to remain in Sicily after all, but is
to advance into Calabria. The intention evidently
being in this manner to place GARIBALDI and his
followers between two great gatherings of the
Royal forces—one headed by General CIALDINI,
the other by General DELLA MARMORA. The
vacated post of CIALDINI in Sicily being con-
fided to the vigour and discretion of that
very able and resolute officer, General BRIG-
NONE. So that already the Sicilians have
seen as many as four representatives of the KING in
succession entrusted with the supreme command in
that island since the insurrectionary flag was first
unfurled by the ex-Dictator at Corleone. PALLA-
VICINI having given place to CUGIA—CUGIA to
CIALDINI—and CIALDINI now to BRIGNONE. It
is true that CIALDINI was still at Messina with
General PINELLI when our last advices left. But
his recrossing the Straits into Calabria was re-
garded even then as a proceeding definitively
arranged—as definitively arranged as the General's
replacement in Sicily by BRIGNONE.
Whithersover GARRIBALDI goes, there the in-
terest concentrates. First of all it was to Cor-
leone that all eyes were turned with eager curio-
sity. Then it was, a little later on, that the
same might have been said of Caltanisetta.
S'lreely a week since—it was Catania. As re-
cently as only yesterday the " cynosure" of more
than merely 6,
neighbouring eyes" we all know
was Melito, upon the southern coast of Calabria.
To-day it
is towards Reggio that we are
all looking.
For it was to Reggio—the last telegram
tells us—that GARIBALDI was advancing. Having
collected together as many as 1,300 of his red-
sh ir ted Volunteers at Melito, the Leader of the
Melito and was advancing, as we
Rebellion had left
have said, towards Regtio.
This—after having
issued to his followers on the 25th
instant, that is
on Monday, a proclamation, is which he promised
in a few day's time to conduct themin triumph
erta
into Naples ! According to the Ministerial
jour-
nals at Turin, the Royalist General
of the REVEL had
already entered Reggio with a body KING'S
troops. But how far the loyalty of those troops
could be relied upon if suddenly brought face to
face with GARIBALDI and his red•shirte, may be
doubtful. Particularly remembering that de-
fection at Aderno of half a hundred
" officers" when not in the actual presence
of GARIBALDI—these " officers" in the KING'S
army preferring to fling up their commissions, to
tear off their epaulettes rather than sully their
honour and stain their swords by fighting against
the Liberator of the Two Sicilies ! REVEL'S troops
at Reggio, moreover, would doubtless not be un-
aware of, or indifferent to, the fact that crowds of
Garibaldians were already collected there, a little
further to the north, merely some fifteen or sixteen
miles to the north, in the town of Gioja; while, in
the Gulf of Gioja, vessel after vessel was rapidly
making its appearance, bringing recruits from all
parts of Italy to GARIBALDI'S rallying ground in
Calabria. Energetic though the language of General
DELL& MARMORA in the proclamation recently put
forth by him in his announcement of the State of siege
throughout the Neapolitan Provinces, and his own
appointment as the KING's Commissioner Extra-
ordinary—We still rest
confident as we have done
from the very first, that one and all of them--DELLA
MARMORA, CIALDINI, PINELLI,
PERSANO, Minister
and General alike, the Rose and Foot,
Artillery and Engineers, will pause
before daring
to touch the person of General GARIBALDI !
Mad, wild, impossible though the enter-
prize upon which the Hero has so rashly