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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1862.

fan of April
The TWENTY-EIC was a glorious
nod VICTOR EMMANUEL—a
day indeed for Italy
bloodless but glorious rout, also, all their slanderers.
h,e Irish Brigade,
BoWYERs and NORMANEYS, even t
Will have to be as silent here, as Wile the few
Bourbonists who at Naples yet mourn the loss of
the wages of corruption, and of the pleasant task
of persecuting patriots. The prudent silence of
our Tories, fearful of offending Englishmen if they
spoke out their sympathy with banished legiti-
macy and a tottering Papacy, and of alienating
Irishmen if they ventured to feiga an interest in
Italian unity and independence—this prudent
silence will become a necessary silence, in sight of
such au exhibition of national and Southern feeling
as that at Naples on the landing of the King of
ITALY.

If mourners for the old dynasty were there, they
only knew of their own existence. Not a hostile
cry, not a groan, 40t a hiss, could be heard from the

immense crowds which turned out to welcome,
with an enthusiasm hardly possible to be surpassed,
the Monarch whom GARIBALDI enabled them to
choose. The receptions of GARIBALDI himself have
hardly been more unanimous, cordial, and joyful.
We remember nothing approaching to it, except
that first burst of overwhelming joy with which
the Milanese welcomed the two Monarchs after the
Austrians had evacuated their city ; and when the
uncontrollable emotions of the liberated Italians
deprived, it was said, even Lorrs NAPOLEON
himself for the moment of his self-con-
trol. VICTOR EMMANUEL is, also, a man
of iron nerves, but he was too much of a man
to witness unmoved the hearty, kindly, hopeful,
confiding, exulting acts and utterances of the thou-
sands who, in their southern capital, greeted their
new and their trustworthy monarch.
For a week or a fortnight previously the event had
been anxiously looked for, and when the day came,
and royal weather with it, the whole population
seemed to turn out, not merely to see, but to shower
their bouquets or to shout their welcome to the
monarch of their choice. Many parts of the city
were actually abandoned, all crowding to the points
at which they could do honour to the KING.
" Housetops were filled with several hundred thou-
sand persons, as if Naples had been turned inside
out." The bay was crowded with boats hovering
around the Royal barge, and on the KING'S land-
ing the ardour knew no bounds. Long live King
VICTOR EMMANUEL—King, honest man !—King of
United Italy—resounds from tens of thousands of
voices ; those most important of all politicians on
such occasions—the ladies—doing their part most
fully ; a plain proof that even Italian priests and
confessors dare not attempt to instil their re-
actionary sentiments into female ears in Italy.
Indeed, the secular clergy are to a large extent loyal
to the people's cause ; it is their superiors, the
bishops, and upwards to the chief bishop, who
anathematise the KING, and all who wish him to

reign over them.
All opposition, however, was doomed to retreat
to holes and corners on the 28th. The French, and
still more the English ships-of-war, joined the na-
tives in giving their hearty cheers and hurrahs,
and did their part with innumerable flags, in re-
sponse to arches and garlands and festoons, and
splendid illuminations and serenades at night.
Justly does the correspondent, who hesitated to say
too much about the formal popular election of the
KING by ballot, describe this as the true plebiscite
—the real election. There was no room for mis-
take or doubt here. Such a demonstration could
not be bought, even had such been the wish ; and it
is certain enough that it was not done to order, or
brought about by fear. It was the spontaneous and
enthusiastic confirmation, by the Southern capital
of its choice of Italian unity and constitutional go-
vernment, its final adieu to Bourbonism. Every one
of those ringing cheers was a curse on the old
. dynasty, its cruelties, and its wretched supersti-
tions. The value of all this joy is greatly enhanced
by the wicked measures taken to destroy it. Hither-
to tne French, the POPE, and the EX-KING among
them, have compelled the Neapolitans to suffer both
socially and politically, for exercising the first
right of a people, that of choosing their own form
of Government. They have compelled the Nea-
politans to acquiesce in Turin as a capital, and
they have infested the southern territories with
their brigangage, They have thus tried to mor-
tify the vanity of a city once a capital itself, and
they have, at the same time, inflicted the worst
disorders and dangers of war in time of peace.
Bat the Neapolitans are not to be moved ; they
trust their King as not a Piedmoutese merely, but
an Italian, and full well do they appreciate the
unworthy intermeddling of France, which, under
all kinds of lying pretexts, keeps them out of the
only capital to which all other Italian capitals
would willingly surrender their claims.
Possibly the whole occurrence may have its
weight with the singular and self-willed AUTO-
CRAT of the Tuilleries. It is do no doubt flattering
to his own pride, and to that of the nation, that
France can do as it will at Rome ; and thus show
its suptemaey in Italy. But we may hope that
the French and their ruler will soon think gene-
rosity more honlurable than a barren display of a
power which no one doubts—that it will appear
that Lord PALMERSTON did not, as we indeed hoped
at the time, sneak without knowing the French
EMPEROR'S mind, in the Italian debate—that Gen.
Goyon has not been recalled without purpose, and
a general, who is no ultra-montainist, but an
honest soldier, proposed in his place—but, that the
time of Italian deliverance from the French and the
POPE may be at hand. Then will come the pre-
paration for the greater struggle—the struggle
which must come, and which must end with
exultations at Venice resembling those at Milan
in 1859, and those at Naples in April, 1862.

The statistics of the Great Exhibition afford to
us all, perhaps, the readiest suggestion of the
general character, the scope and diversity of that
extraordinary enterprise. It is indicative at once
of the vast dimensions of the undertaking—the per-
fectly credible statement of the fact that upon the
first day of the Exhibition, upon the day of its
inauguration, the building, besides containing
within it all the multifarious treasures of art and
nature, of science and industry, sheltered at one and
the same time also under its enormous transparent
roof, as nearly as can be computed accurately, '33,000
persons, either taking part in the ceremonial proces-
sion or simply witnessing it. It is remarkable also
in its way merely to bear in mind for a moment
the number of different regions of the earth
that have contributed to this Great World's
Show. Besides the contributions of more or less
intrinsic value, each of them in their way invested
with a special interest, that for months and months
past pouring into the Palace of the Ex-
hibition have
from every
mevery City and town in the United
Kingdom—the like has been doing all this while,
more or less energetically, as the time of prepara-
tion sped onwards, by as many as 31 British colo-
nies, and by no less than 36 foreign countries, to
the North and to the South, to the East and to the
West, and in both hemispheres.
If we examine the mere structure of the Exhibi-
tion Building itself we shall find ample reasons in
spite of its external ugliness to gaze upon the
edifice when within it with feelings of
wonder and admiration. Unlike the Fairy
Naves and Transepts of Crystal that rose
eleven years ago from the green sward of
Hyde Park almost as magically it seemed in
rapidity and even in beauty, as the Arabian Halls
of Aleddin—the present Exhibition Building is
not for one thing, and just to begin with, a Crystal
Palace at all. The enormous cucumber frames at
each extremity of it are, it is true, cased with glass
ttn,thie naves and dignified with the titles of domes—portions
of
transepts again are illuminated
with long slanting Skylights j but otherwise the
materials with which the edifice has been construe•
ted, are—Timber, and Bricks, and Iron, and Felt.
It is by a sort of PenessitY, therefore, that in its
construction almost all the great leading principles
of esthetics have been remorselessly violated. Tn-
lonlnoh that the Building is without any arehi-
beauty whatever. In point
tectural of fast the