The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-14 00:00:00

Sardinian Government a quantity of muskets and
ammunition and about 400 cannon, the greater part
of which are for marine service. No news has been
received of the expeditions.

GENOA, MAY 12.

According to advices from Naples to the 9th inst.
the Court, the Government, and the people were in
a state of great agitation. Vessels with troops had
left Naples. Several battalions were returning
from the frontier. Notes of the banks of Palermo
and Messixa had ceased to circulate at Naples.

ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 14.

The principal members of the diplomatic corps,
excepting the Minister for Turkey, were a few days
ago convoked by Prince Gortschakoff,
, who declared
to them that the position of the Christians in
Turkey had become so intolerable, that Russia is on
the point of addressing strong representations to
the Porte in favour of them, and hopes to obtain
the support of the other powers.

It is asserted that that the journey of M. de
Budberg to Paris, where he will replace Count
Kisseleff as ambassador of Russia, has brought
about an understanding between France and Russia
in reference to Asia Minor, where the agitation is
continually increasing.

"SIMLA, APRIL 22.
Lord Clyde will return to England by the first
steamer in June from Calcutta."

" APRIL 24.

" THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO SIR C. WOOD.
" I shall leave Simla for Calcutta on the 7th of

May."

"A disturbance at Peshawur respecting taxes, but
founded on a misapprehension, has been greatly
exaggerated by the newspapers. All is quiet, and
the people satisfied."

EXPEDITION OF GARIBALDI.
A letter from Turin, dated May 10, says :
The expedition of Garibaldi to Southern Italy is so
great an event, and likely to lead to such unfore-
seen and startling results, that I think I should ill
acquit myself of my task were I to omit to send
you a diary of all the rumours circulating about me
on the subject.
It is now confidently asserted that the two
steamers upon which he embarked convey a force of
1,400 picked young men. They are armed with
excellent revolvers and short cutlasses for board-
ing purposes. They took, it is stated, forcible pos-
session of the Lombardo and Piedmonte, the latter
a screw steamer. They left Genoa on the night of
Saturday last, the sth. The commotion throughout
these free parts of Italy is indescribable. I wrote
from Parma that several parties of young adven-
turers had started for Genoa; more than 100 had
followed that destination during my short stay in
that town, and I have seen their letters from Genoa
announcing their instant departure. A rush to the
various ports of the Mediterranean has equally
been observed in most cities.
There is a rumour afloat that some of the sharers
in this daring enterprise had preceded their com-
mander, and these, it is asserted, had already
been able to effect a landing in Sicily. The very
spot is mentioned; some lonely bay on the coast
between Marsala and Girgenti. You must under-
stand, however, that I can make myself no security
for the correctness of the report.
Garibaldi, in his private letters, expresses great
regret that he was obliged to leave without paying
his respects to the King. It would have been im-
possible to:conceal his design from the King, and he
did not wish to put his resolution to the test of the
winning manners of that Victor Emmanuel whose
earnest entreaty had already the power to dissuade
him from another of his bold schemes—the invasion
of the Marches a few months ago. His professions
of devotion and attachment to the King are both
warm and cordial, and he inveighs against his pusil-
lanimous Ministers in no measured terms. There
are men about me who think all his indignation is
put on, and that there is a collusion between the pro-
jector of the expedition and those who affect to con-
demn and take apparent measures to thwart it :
but such people, I believe, only betray their igno-
rance of Garibaldi's character, and were not pro-
bably present at the sitting in the Chamber at the
time of the famous Garibaldi interpellation on the
subject of Nice. Cavour wounded the brave Niz-
zard incurably there.
Whatever may be the real views of the Sardinian
Government as to the opportuneness of the under-
taking, they neither could nor would attempt to put
a stop to the gathering of men and means in its aid.
The whole population swarming under the Turin
porticoes is busy with one only topic. There is an
earnestness and gravity about this Turinese crowd
which proves infallibly catching to strangers, You
see but little here of Italian gesticulation ; you her
nowhere the din of loud incessant Italian gabble.
The look is one of dismay and perplexity; an un-
easy boding of ill is to be read inmost countenances
Yet " the man can rely on all that audacity and luck
can achieve. Was he not despaired of in the fearful
straits in which he had put himself, less than a
twelvemonth ago, at Varese ? Had he more than a
handful of men with him at Velletri ? And did he
not drive the father of this very Bourbon to an igno-
minious flight—a flight which, but for the pressing
of the besieging French force around Rome, would
never have stopped except under the cannon of the
Neapolitan forts. Nry, was not King Ferdinand
within an inch of falling into the adventurer's hands,
and gracing with his presence a triumph which
might have given altogether a different turn to the
disastrous vicissitudes of 1849 ? The shunning
of the Neapolitan cruisers, the landing on the coast
of either of the Two Sicilies, the breathing of a new
heart into those Sicilian insurgents, the spreading
of an ungovernable alarm among those dastardly
Royal butchers, the destinies of southern and of all
Italy hang on the cast of a die. Is not the deliver-
ance of one-half of Italy little short of a miracle ?
and is there a limit to the might of a wonder-work-
ing Providence ?" Such are the remarks that rise
uppermost wherever two or three are gathered
together to discuss the one event of the day. We
shall not be long ere the first tidings set our minds
comparatively at rest.
I must add, for my part, that the Sardinian Go- •
vernment sent out the fast screw frigate Maria
Adelaide, under the orders of Admiral Persano, it ;
is said, in pursuit of the expedition, a very ticklish t,
and dangerous mission for the brave patriot Admi •
ral. The Government here entertains serious appre -
hensions that Garibaldi's intention was to lane I
either on the southernmost Tuscan or the Roma:
coast, between Piombino and Civita Vecchia, ant
hence, striking across the country, to raise th,
population of Umbria, who are awaiting him ; then :
to beat up the quarters of that crusading hero, M,
Lamoriciere, in the Marches, and finally attack
the Abruzzi on the Tronto frontier. It is supposei
that this was Garibaldi's original plan, and this ,
perhaps, led to the report, which I yesterda; r
gave, that the steamers had been seen off Telamor e
or Orbetello, near Piombino. To-day the report ;,
equally premature I think, is that Garibaldi ha s
landed at, or near, Terracina. What the Frenc
General Goyon and the Emperor Napoleon woult I
think of an attack upon the Pope it is not easy t(
foretell, nor to what extent the Piedmontese Go- •
vernment would be held by France answerable for '
the deed and made to pay for it. The Cavour
Cabinet, at any rate, are in almost feverish anxiety
about it. What is quite certain is, that if the
French of Rome would only look on without inter-
fering,
neither Lamoriciere nor King Francis 11.
would hold out long against Garibaldi and the
prestige of his name. The die is cast. These Gari- •
bali difficulties, and the differences with France
about the frontier (not of Nice, where the Emperor
Napoleon puts forth no unreasonable demands, but
on the side of Savoy, where he insists upon the
Alpine crest, while the Sardinian negotiators con-
tend for the Fort Esseillon on the western slope of
Mont Cenis,) are said to have raised dissensions
among the members of this Cabinet, not unlikely
to legd to a Ministerial crisis, General Fanti, the