The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.-SUN OPFICE, SEPT. 21, 1860.
THEILMOMETBIt, IN THE MELDS.

66—this day at noon.
54—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—highest since noon yesterday.
BAROMETER-30.07 ; still rising rapidly.
WlND—South-Westerly; light, with fine weather,
It rained heavily in the night.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THis DAY.—Morning, sh. 41m.—Afternoon, 6h. 4m,
To-mouno-w.-Morning, 6h. 31m.—Afternoon, 7h. 3m,

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THE SUN.
LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1880.

Everything indicates that the military campaign
in Italy will be soon over; whether the diplomatic
campaign will not be a much more tedious busi-
ness remains to be seen. The soldier's work has
been well done and quickly done ; and it is re-
markable that it has been so done, as, at the same
time to increase the already splendid military re-
putation of GARIBALDI, and yet to show that his
military skill was not the whole, nor even the
chief cause of his success. Without it, indeed, no-
thing would have been accomplished. It was the
key without which the lock of despotism would
never have been moved, or the spark essential to
the explosion of the well-laid train ; but it is clear
that everything from Marsala to Naples needed
but his magic touch to show that he was right in
coming. The easy conquest of Palermo and Mes-
sina after the two hard fought little battles of
Calatafimi and Melazzo, the defection of the
troops melting away everywhere as he approached,
the enthusiastic joy of all the inhabitants, as they
felt sure of safety from BOURBON tyranny, are all
so many evidences that GARIBALDI had a moral
right to be where he was. He . met with enough
resistance from numerically supreme forces to show
that he was the GARIBALDI of the Defence of
Rome, and of the Alps, and of South American
fame, too—but also with such universal welcome as
proclaimed to all the world that his military
prowess was successful against such odds, because
every Italian was his friend, and his spy on the
movements of his enemies.

In the North, the Sardinian Generals have had
the same aid from popular sympathy, but it cannot
be denied that their numbers also have given them
the advantage. And this was quite right. It
was the duty of VICTOR EMMANUEL if he entered
the States of the Church to do so in such force
as to save bloodshed, by expediting the campaign
there. He probably sent as many men as was
consistent with not leaving Lombardy quite ex-
posed
to the Austrians. Happily the results
have altogether corresponded with the ad-
vantages he possessed and with the goodness of
his cause. In no single town, in no meeting in
the field, have the mercenaries proved a match for
the soldiers fighting in, and for their native land.
The accounts of the last great victory over LA-
MORICIERE are fully confirmed, and that General,
an importation himself from France, or from her
half savage colony, cannot, without succours, hold
out long in Ancona. The fifty days he talked of
a week ago will probably not amount to five. As
to succours—whence is he to get them? Austria,
prudently for her own interests, is wiser than
to move, and the poor Ring of NAPLES
has quite enough on his hands. The
campaign in his direction will also surely
be a brief one. GARIBALDI may not be very well
equipped for the siege of places like Gaeta, or even
Capua, but as the garrisons are already deserting......
we may well expect that there will be no fighting,
or only nominal fighting there, and the programme
will probably be the same as at St. Elmo—on
the approach of the terrible general the KING'S
heart will fail him, he will step again on board his
Spanish frigate—the troops will hesitate a little
till he is out of sight, then up will go the Italian
11?3, with a tremendous salute in honour of GARI-
BALDI.

So certain does this, or something like it, now
seem, that already the interest of the public is fix
ing itself on what is to follow the complete libera-
tion of Naples, and of all the States of the Church
except the "Patrimony of
St. Peter," tenanted at
present
by the French in the name of the Papacy
—not Cll.
GRANDGITILLoT assures us, of the tem-
poral rule of the POPE. Still it would seem that
the French are careful, at present, to keep this
little patrimony for the successor of the Fisherman ;
and some persons appear very anxious lest the
determination of GARIBALDI to proclaim theannexa-
tion of Naples from the Quirinal should bring him
into collision with the French at Rome. We can
hardly feel more sure of anything than that GARI-
ALI)I will never so commit himself; and that for
the very simple reason, that we believe GARIBALDI
to have, at the very least, as much practical sense
as any of us English Editors. He can assuredly
Bee as plainly as we can the absurdity of his mea-
suring military strength with France ; it would,
indeed, be hardly " magnificent," so very far would 1