The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1862.

Notwithstanding the boldness of the King of
ITALY'S proclamation—the all but unanimity of the
Chambers in supporting the Italian Premier and
his colleagues—the pride and the power of the
French EMPEROR, with his well-disciplined divi-
sion already at Rome, and his grand army of
500,000 or 600,000 men at home, ready to aid that
garrison when -necessary—we may rest perfectly
convinced of this, that VICTOR EMMANUEL, that
RATAZZI, that NAPOLEON himself, will think twice
before laying a hand upon GARIBALDI.
It is idle to argue, as our chief morning contem-
porary has argued but very recently, that the great
Italian Patriot and Hero would find it difficult to
induce even a hundred adventurers to march under
his banner in the event of his unfurling it for an
advance upon Rome. Wherever GARIBALDI might
choose to direct his steps,,in defiance of no matter
what antagonist—there, against the foe pointed
out to his compatriots, the latter would follow him
for a certainty. The intelligence now being brought
to us, mail after mail, from the Roman peninsula,
proves this incontestably to be the fact. And it is
not intelligence coming to us from the South alone.
Tidings of the nature here hinted at arrive in larger
and larger abundance from Genoa, as well as from
Sicily. GARIBALDI may call for his Garibaldians,
said the Times very recently, but it will be in vain!
All this being but an echo, the latest and the loudest,
of the old familiar derision and incredulity. "You
may call spirits from the vasty deep : but—will
they come ?" Italy is answering this half-articu-
lated unbelief—and her answer is tolerably plain
already in its precision. The youth of• Italy, to
whom GARIBALDI more especially appealed, are not
remaining, either in the North, or in the South, in
any way apathetic. It matters nothing to the
would-be recruits at Genoa that GARIBALDI has
sent two of his personal suite thither to reason with
them, to assure them in the name of the General,
that their hastening at this juncture to Sicily is
altogether superfluous. The assurance comes too late,
even though it comes to them earnestly and urgently
from the Sicilian head-quarters of GARIBALDI'S new
expeditionary force. They have already heard the
General's summons—these young Italian patriots—
and are thronging by twos and threes, in clusters, in
crowds, hundreds upon hundreds, from the different
northern provinces of the Italian Kingdom, hastening
down to Genoa for the merest chance of embarka-
tion for Sicily—for GARIBALDI ! Striplings many
of them, bat still strong enough and old enough, in
ambition and in patriotism, to covet the privilege of
weilding a sword in the ranks marshalled, it
matters but little to them against what fearful odds,
by GARIBALDI. Nay, to reach Genoa, they have
pawned what little they possess in the world in the
vague hope of getting off somehow, from that sea-
port. to swell the numbers of the little nucleus of a
patriot army now being gathered together by their
idolized chief in Sicily. It is not, then, because we
regard the motive of the present enterprise of
GARIBALDI as an insane and idle daydream, that
we grieve to have observed the rupture that has
now taken place between the General on one hand,
and the Parliament, the Ministry, and the KING
upon the other. Whatever else may come of it,
we may be tolerably sure of this that GARIBALDI
Will not find himself as isolated as some of the friends
of Italy(?) have imagined. It is because we anticipate
—rather than this—the wider and yet wider separa-
tion not of One Man, together with a mere handful
of followers from all the rest of the section sud-
denly estranged from him—for what reason ? lite-
rally because he, and he alone, is really consistent
to the last !—it is because we anticipate a far wider
division among the Italians now—if there is to be
any division among them at all (a matter still to this
very moment problematical)—it is simply and solely
because of this momentous hazard that we find
ourselves, in a manner, standing aghast before the
very audacity of GARIBALDI'S new enterprise.
When it is maintained, however, that the destina-
tion of GARIBALDI is (beyond any serious doubt
of it) the Eternal City—we cannot for our own
part but remember what, without question,
GARIBALDI himself has unquestionably taken into
account in the matter : namely, that—there
are more ways to Rome than one. 11, hen
he quitted Genoa a couple of years since to
achieve the almost bloodless conquest of the King-
dim of the Two Sicilies, he did not lead his 800

men point blank to Naples—but he went to Naples
by way of Sicily, he landed at Marsala, and
thence, after crossing swords with the Bourbon
soldiers, advanced upon Palermo. There is, we
should presume, but small probability that while
certainly in any case staking everything upon the
hazard of a die by entering resolutely upon his
now rapidly advancing expedition, GARIBALDI
should, upon any conceivable pretext whatever, lead
his band of patriot followers to all but certain de-
struction ! Namely, by conducting them in the first
instance,•at the very outset of his enterprise against
!till , the soldiers of the Emperor NAPOLEON and the
army of Ring VICTOR EMMANUEL ranged against
Coming in battle array ! A proclamation—
pointing
just
to Rome—it is' true, has but
,011,
the ito,49,:een - •
addressed by GARIBALDI td
a'Matrons. • A mere flourish of
trumpets, it,
be teini3tsti • nds like to us • what we should
RiuALDI 4bbZiel--bulrthat we remember it is
GAvicilZhie affixed to it—merely so
much wild and
iroo:domontade. But simul-
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aptlipiesars
unot, r
'1 ',talon to the RoMan
quite a diffe-
mclpaltty,
ritealnnatteroooruldssel,r of proclamation alto and
. One addressed
any province to, Stctlians,
by GARIBALDI Dot to ROMalls, tot
not to Italians even of nee otvr.
eriog
haze of these conf
of light through all the used
but to—the Sclaves !It is like the first'aiitum
quitted
manifesto—to the Selav '
ings and doings of GARIBALDI since he
• say-
ings bis
retreat at Caprera. Ama
A proclamation that, if the Wording of it is to be
taken in its literal sense, would appear to point
that out as GIARIBALDI'S immediate destination !
• In the meantime, while we are waiting and
watching thus .with
breathless interest, the pro-
gress of events there in southern Italy, but par-
ticularly among the • Sicilians, benuse of GABI-
BALDI's presence among them_
the civil and mili-
tary authorities of the Italian' Government with
the permission' of the Kirici, at the direction' cf
his Ministers, at the secret instigation of his
Imperial Ally and (shall we say it 1)) Master,

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