The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

TILE PIEDMONTESE MINISTRY AND

GARIBALDL

We translate from the Espero of Turin the fol-

[owing remarks :

We do not intend here making a defence of the
Ministry by declaring what we believe it has been
enabled to do, with a due regard to its own position,
towards the successful issue of Garibaldi's enter-

prise. We have so little knowledge of Cabinet
secrete to attempt the task, and too much know-
ledge of a good citizen's duties to turn:to an impro-
per use whatever may have been revealed to us by
special opportunities. Time and the press will
hereafter make known those facts,'which must re-
main a mystery for the present.
But with respect to the course which the Govern-
ment has to pursue with regard to the Neapolitan
continental territory, silence or ambiguity on our
part would be out of season. The territory is the
seat of a kingdom in which the monarchial princi-
ple has deeper and healthier roots than in any
other Italian province with the exception of Pied-
mont, and where the tottering dynasty still leans
for support on an army almost wholly consisting
of Italians perfectly organised and disciplined, and
mindful of its long military history. It is a king-
dom which also possesses a large navy, kept up in
an efficient state—the chief navy of Italy. Now,
it is desirable to turn such elements to good account
for the national advantage, and to take proper
measures for saving from destruction and dissolu-
tion not only civil order and the admiraistration at
Naples, but also the militia and regular
stir.Vl;
avoiding any sanguinary collision or any s sudden
overthrow of the administrative instituti"vic,fent
vided it be possible to succeed by other
measures.
yal,dainudntdheart-
Since it is beyond doubt thaitteGlatraibl
he employed her name andlt:heei
took his enterprise in order tothuant
of Victor Emma-
ndep
latter,e n 1
f.d independence, ,
thatwla what
Italians, to summon
nuel as rallying cries for
mbprevent harmony between
obstacle of Turin ? •NwVheeant
them to accahni ev e
intervenetheir
him and the national Go
by the
guardianship of the
without delay
theiny
Neapolitan
caossuur
Kthimmanuel if
name of Italian unity
niseinshgould be purdseulea
and of Victor
they , by adopting such a
course all further esion of Italian blood can be
be aroied ? Have not a common object and
the same end in view
It is only the enemies of Italy who can endeavour,
but in vain, to persuade anybody that the ostracism
of Garibaldi is desired ; it is only her real enemies
who would prefer seeing Naples won by conquest
over the slaughtered heaps of their brethren ; for it
must
always be remembered that every drop of
blood shed in this war, especially in Naples, is,
with a few exceptions, Italian blood, of which we
must always be chary, and which is more now than
ever to be spared, for the day of the final war
a gainst the foreigner. Rome and Venice will call
us one day to account for the battalions that we
should have known how to preserve intact at
Naples.
AVe are convinced that General Garibaldi will in
every undertaking of his consider a paramount ob-
ject to husband, as far as possible, the lives of
Italians, thus preserving for the nation and doubling
the amount of those military forces which Ilave been
provided for him and increased, not less by the
prestige of his own glory, not less by his own loyalty,
valour, moral influence, than by the prestige and
influence of the flag f Italy and Victor Emma-
nuel. Neither Garibaldi nor the Italians in gene-
ral can deceive themselves aboutthis. A combination
of circumstances and moral causes have con-
ducted Italy to the present crisis of her aff
roairs,
p?!
from Garibaldi's landing down to the p
moment. Behind those 1,200 men whom he
eleven
millions with him there were the wishes .1
under one sceptre, and ready to expend there
millions of Italians, only recently brought tgliog
and their blood for their common
nti
yt rYreit u
was an army of 100,000 men, ree.eich,
although
rned
from the fields of Lombardy, and 11
constrained to remain a passiTeth
re-
battles fought in the south
as in 1821, so
toreuard the Mincio
mained yet behind in ordert
aeswprec,etantinorsuioaf, the
petition of their
and the Po, and to P_
passage by the Austrian
other enemies than the
that the heroic voluntee and their chiefs
f the ou •
B rbnn The fall of the
have to contend
unsteady troops oat reveninilitary.
Naples, the confusion of its
despotic system nance of the epugfleet and of the
counsels, the
to offer any serious opposition were
land forces against no
fame
1,
which preceded the
warrior of destiny,
but by a Conviction that the
Italian idea was behind him, no longer uncertain
occasioned not only by the
and hazeirdous, but already embodied in the union
of six national provinces, which had previously
been divided from one
monarchy of Victor Emmanuel. '
another in the national