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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1862.

Instead of being surrounded by the Royal troops,
and entirely at their mercy--GARIBALDI, accord-
ing to our last advices from the island of Sicily, is
stated to be at the head of a devoted band of armed
adherents, numbering not under three thousand,
but over eight thousand volunteers. Rumours were
still flying about on either side of the Straits of
Messina, when the latest telegrams were flashed to
us, that the General had actually himself crossed over
to the mainland. There was a formal contradiction
of this statement put forth by the Government at
Turin, it is true, but in some quarters, even at Turin,
the report was not altogether discredited neverthe-
less. It is possible—if we care not to say Probable
—at any moment of course that GARIBALDI (going
in advance of his adherents)
may cross over from
the island to the Yeninsuta.
sword. in hand, of the
-When he for-
mally took possession,
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any
a couple of years
since,kingdomhe
dido t hne retr
way essential,
it will be remembered, to take either a regular
suite, a staff of officers or an escort with him to
the mainland. Having fought and conquered in
Sicily, he left his victorious bands of Garibaldians
behind him in that island, some of them being
feted at Messina and some at Palermo,
the rest being scattered north, south, east,
west, between those two chief cities of the
Sicilians. And he then literally entered the
capital of Naples like any ordinary railway tra-
veller. We don't undertake to say, of course,
that GARIBALDI purchased a railway ticket, first,
second, or third class. We can only arrive pretty
confidently at the conclusion that he did not take
a " return ticket" upon starting for Naples.
The historical fact, however, is beyond dis-
pute, that one fine day when the up-
train stopped at the Naples terminus—out
of one of the carriages stepped General
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI, Hero of Marsala, Victor of
Calatafimi, Liberator, and, for the time being, Dic-
tator of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Dressed
in very threadbare raiment, in the very garb, in
fact, in which he had roughed it through the
whole of the campaign between the hour of his quit-
ting Genoa and the hour of his entering Naples,
GARIBALDI stepped out of one of the carriages in
that railway train accompanied only by one or
two of his personal attendants.
If he were to land now once more on those
southern shores of the peninsula, who shall
say that he would not, by the mere fact
of his advent, cause the whole kingdom
or, we ought now to say, the whole province,
to rise in arms to welcome him ? It is idle to
talk of his prestige having dwindled away, or, to
any appreciable extent, become diminished. His
name is as completely as ever beloved by
the Italian multitude far and wide throughout the
peninsula—especially, as it has long been, by the
Milanese, by the Genoese, by the Florentines, by
the Neapolitans. His discretion is thought less of
than ever : no doubt about that ! But when did
any one lay much:stress—if any—upon the Discre-
tion of GARIBALDI ? While, as to his other charac-
teristics, they shine as brightly now as they have
ever done. His honesty is as visible as ever, and
as revered. His consistency is all the more con-
spicuous now, for inasmuch as it stands almost in a
manner, as one may say, isolated—shining out
brightly in contrast to the cloudy inconsistencies
of almost every other Italian Leader. His disin-
terestedness still remains steadily at the same point
at which it has been so long fixed—it could not rise
higher : being, as it is, a very proverb among the
Europeans. And it is this—indiscreet if you will,
but while indiscreet honest, heroic, patriotic,
disinterested, magnanimous GARIBALDI, who is
standing now, sword in hand, at the head of his
Volunteers for the vindication of the cause he has
all along, at the point of that sword, resolutely
maintained ! You can hardly in reason blame him.
He alone, is regard to this, comes out distinctly to
the recognition of us all as perfectly and absolutely
consistent. And he is rash, desperate, foolhardy
now in the very wildness of his new enterprise,
simply because he has been cajoled and deceived and
thwarted to the very last extremity, and then
abruptly left in the lurch by atl the rest of the
Italian chiefs and parties—when he had been fairly
driven by them to that last extremity! These are
the simple facts. This is the plain, glaring, un-
deniable truth. There is no gainsaying it. GARI