The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-11 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1862.

If the Italian Minister is outspoken at Turin, so
also is the Italian Hero at Corleone. We have now
the last Speech he is reported to have delivered,
and we have his latest Order of the Day. The
Speech comes to us via Turin through the columns
of the Discussione. For the Order of the Day we
are indebted to the new Imperial organ at Paris,
La France, edited by the Count de La GIIER•
RONIERE. GARIBALDI'S spoken words are said to
have been delivered immediately after his occupa-
tion of Rocca and of Palunba. And, if correctly re-
ported, they are certainly as significant and posi-
tive as any that even GARIBALDI has recently given
utterance to. " The present state of affairs," the
General is asserted to have declared, "cannot con-
tinue. I go against the Government, because it
will not let me go to Rome. I go against France
because she defends the Pope. I will have Rome
at any price. Rome or death ! If I succeed so
much the better; if not, I will destroy the Italy
which I made myself." As GARIBALDI is no brag-
gart, we are disposed to regard the closing syllables
of this discourse to be a perversion of the truth, or
at the least an exaggeration. GARIBALDI might
with more truth than any man living assert that he
himself' "made Italy"—that is to say, such as she
now is in her passionate yearning for independence.
But, true as it is, it would be unlike GARIBALDI for
him to say it. As to his threatened vengeance, it is
—whatever else we may say of it—comprehensible.
Never hardly has man had greater provocation

from all those in whose cause he has fought and into
whose hands he has played. Having particularised
the Speech addressed by GARIBALDI to his followers,
we may now refer more directly to the Order of
the Day of which we learn the existence through La
France. According to that journal of last evening,
(the date of its second appearance) this Order of
the Day is superscribed "Head-quarters of the
Army of Italian Independence." It announces to
GARIBALDI'S troops their approaching departure
for Naples, and avows that " great events" are near
at hand.

Meanwhile, if we turn our glance in the opposite
direction, if we look to the latest advices received
from Turin, the sayings and doings of GARIBALDI
are treated from first to last with something but
very little short of ridicule. Listening to the com-
ments there officially put forth through the Ministe-
rial press, or in the Chambers through the mouths

of the Ministers themselves, never perhaps was a

popular leader represented as at once more power-
less, and at the same time more insensate. Is it
rumoured that one of the Royal Regiments has
raised a shout of Evviva Garibaldi ? The
Minister indignantly pronounces the state-
ment to be a disgraceful fabrication. Are
there whispered about, intimations to the effect that
some of the Kiwi's soldiers, and with them one of
the KING'S officers, have gone over to the patriot
band of the Garibaldians ? The Government hesi-
tates not, upon the instant, to declare these intima-
tions to be utterly false, and without one particle of
foundation. If we are to judge of what is occurring
in Sicily from what is said about it, and written and
printed about it, in Turin, the popular movement
called for by GARBALDI is virtually at this moment
at an end ! The General's followers have already
for the most part, either basely deserted him or been
summarily dispersed ! GARIBALDI himself—accord-
ing to the confident declaration of those whose
wishes are doubtless father to the assertion thus
flagrantly made—instead of leading ever so small a
band of adherents to Naples or elsewhere,
on the road to the Eternal City, to the
cry of " Rome or Death," is devoting
his last remaining energies to his own solitary de-
parture, almost, we might call it, Flight—to Eng-
land ! Supposing this rather precipitate statement
to prove in the end correct—supposing that GARI-
BALDI, on finding himself to have been (what almost
everybody who is now looking on at these events
as a dispassionate spectator is beginning firmly and
confidently to believe him to have been) shamefully
deceived by " the powers that be," should deter-
mine to withdraw for a while, not again to Caprera,
but for once to England—certain are we that the
Hero of Italy would receive an ovation far beyond,
in its enthusiasm, even that spontaneous outburst of
welcome accorded to KOSSUTH but a few years back,
on his arrival upon these shores from Hungary.
It does certainly appear to the calm
lookers-on here in England that the Ministerial
party at Turin are commenting upon the
rapid realisation of their wishes rather too confi-
dently. They may disdainfully talk of GARI-
BALDI'S present enterprise as a mad project from
beginning to end. Yet cannot we for the life of us
help recalling to mind that something of the same
thing was said of his earlier undertaking. Mad his
schemes may appear to be, yet GARIBALDI has con-
trived to show pretty plainly before now that there
is a method in his madness. Besides, it is scarcely

to be expected that a man like GARIBALDI, with a
personal popularity so immense as that which
GARIBALDI does most undoubtedly possess,
w..°llld so very readily be disposed to
lung 1113 as as desperate a cause to which he has
already saerified so much, to which he has dedicated
his whole fortun'
ets, and his whole being,without any
reservation wh
eever. Rejoiced at heart, very
likely, would be RATTAZZI and his colleagues if
this new and more than
were
audacious enterprise
burst,to as they keep
of the Italian Hero
telling us, mail after mail,
that has already burst
like a bubble. But—that if! Mail
ail after mail still
leaves GARIBALDI in the island bocage of Sicily, in
the:neighbourhood of Corleone—a locality described
by those who know it to be almost, as One
may say
impregnable. There, according to our last advisces
I
from the South, the General is still, surrounded by
his armed followers—numbering, according to the
lowest computation, 501310 800 (the very number
of the band that landed with him at Marsala),
and, according to other accounts, somewhere
about 3,000. There, at any rate, he is
known to be, with his trusty followers; and, what-
ever the RATTAZZI organs may have the effrontery
to assert to the contrary, we don't think it i'
the least likely that GARIBALDI will take stitch very
speedy flight to England, or that the Garibaldians
will be so very readily dispersed. Rash, the

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