The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-12 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 1862.

It is earnestly to be hoped that a lamentable
statement put forward this moining in the Foreign
correspondence of the 7imes may, on further in-
quiry, prove to be altogether unfounded, or, at the
very least, considerably exaggerated. We at once
give the announcement in its integrity : precisely
in the words in which it is expressed in the columns
of our contemporary.

" A calamitous duel," writes the Times'
Correspondent at Turin, under date the 9th
instant, "has been fought to-day near Turin
between MENOTTI GARIBALDI, the hero's eldest
son, and that Colonel, now Btigadier-General,
PALLAVICINO, who attacked the volunteers at As-
promonte. This latter had given offence to the
officers of GARIBALDI'S staff when he said in his
report that while the combat raged these officers
were busy sharing the contents of their chief's miii•
tary chest among them. The efforts of well-mean-
ing persons who wished to prevent the duel were
unavailing. MENOTTI GARIBALDI is said to be
mortally wounded in the side ; PALLAVICINO is also
seriously hurt. I have not been able, however, to
ascertain the particulars of the sad event, and still
hope the account of it may be exaggerated."

Supposing, most unhappily, that the report thus
confidently stated should be eventually confirmed,
occurring as such a fatal duel will then be seen to
have done immediately after the melancholy catas-
trophe closing the encounter with swords between
Mr. DILLON and M. DE GRAMMONT, otherwise
known as the Duc de CADEROUSSE—dueIIing,
as a system, we may rest assured, will,
elsewhere than England, be abolished. Its
abolition, at any rate, will infallibly be hastened.
Tne more civilised States upon the Continent will
follow in this the rational example long since set
to the world at large by England—meaning, that
is to say, when Eaglishmen resolved at length, by
common consent, upon getting rid, at once and for
all, of this barbarous and intrinsically ridi-
culous, yet at the same time execrable,
method of settling a dispute. Of late years
a man could hardly put himself, socially, in a more
ludicrous position than by taking part in a duel.
One of the last ever attempted—who can yet have
forgotten it ?—was that in which the late Viscount
STRANGFORD, better known during the chief part
of his brief and brilliant career as the Hon. GEORGE
SMYTHE, appeared as one of the principals! The
intending duellists and their seconds taking train
one morning at the Waterloo terminus—getting
out of the train twenty miles clown the line at
Weybridge Station—taking a hired fly in which
the combatants (that were to be) and their friends
(!) rode amicably (some inside, acme outside the
vehicle) to a secluded spot beyond the gorse and
,furze and heather of that pretty common of Wcy-
bridge. The particulars of that latest of these hos-
tile
.encounters, here in England, no sooner became
bra tedl about than the wits of London had it all
their "a way--that is, of course, in the way of
good-natured ridicule. Punch's comic artists and
droll Song-writers we.re" at it" industriously week
after week fc;
long while. Bon mots, flavoured
with a pleat
sarcasm, were echoed about the
clubs and drawing-rooms
The whole incident
e by many a laughing lip.
intensely a absurd
seen
something to be and felt to be
and nonsensical.
Thenceforth—so far as the
opinions of one's neigh-
bours can affect us—we should kil
of us
if s shrink nom
taking part in any similar proceeding, for no
other and nobler reason, because by
so
doing we
should be rendering ourselves laughing-stooks to
the general community. A duellist nowadays
be a butt. It would require the display
would
a different kind of courage than any ever dreamt of
as requisite by the deadliest shot and the liveliest
fireater once upon a time accustomed, as an ordi.,
nary matutinal arrangement, to indulge in the
luxury of coffee and pistols for two, at some un-
earthly hour or so before cock-crow ! Courage,
that is, to face the poignant shafts of ridicule. Cou-
rage to bear the brunt of popular s‘rorn, and—worst
of all—the anguish of being openly laughed at !
Until, however, we shall have received distinct
intimation of the actual and literal troth of the
account of this fatal rencontre between MENOTTI
GARIBALDI, the eldest son of the Hero, and Gene-
ral PALLAVICINO, the leader of the Bersaglieri
who shot down Gar,IBALDI himself at Aspromonte