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THE SUN, LONDON., THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1860.

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(From the Times' correspondent.)
GENOA, DEC. 10.
I came to this place to attend the anniversary of
the expulsion of the Austrians from Genoa, on the
10th of December, 1746, a festival known among
the common people of the country as Balilla-day,
from the name of the young popular hero, the
mason's boy, or whatever else was his trade, who
threw the first stone at the German invader,
thereby giving the signal, for,,,that outburst of
genuine Italian passion which reproduced the
achievements of the Sicilian Vespers, unstained by
the atrocities of those ancient and yet better known

massacres.

The centenary celebration of that ever memo-
rable event, on the 10th of December, 1846, after
the Sardinian Government, under the influence of
its powerful Austrian ally, had long hushed up the
very recollection and forbidden even the remotest
allusion to it ; the revival of that tradition, so glo-
rious in Genoese annals, at a time when Charles
Albert was coquetting with the newly-spreading
idea of Italian nationality, at a time in which a
young benevolent Pontiff, and most other Italian
Sovereigns, were showing some disposition to com-
promise with and encourage that idea, was one of
the boldest steps marking the progress of Italy
to wards her emancipation. On that day, and that
year, the Genoese, always an excitable people,
raised the first cry, " Out with the foreigner !" The
cry was caught up by Romagna and Tuscany ; a
thousand bonfires gleamed in the night along the
crest and on all the ridges of the Apennines; and
a thrill of almost frantic hope ran through the
veins of the crushed Lombards and Venetians.
Austria stormed, and her despotic allies protested.
But Charles Albert owed his overbearing neighbour
more than one grudge ; the breach widened between
the two Powers, bordering on one another on the
Ticino ; displeasure heightened into hostility, and
led to that unequal struggle in which the Savoyard
Monarch succumbed, but by his noble death re-
deemed no less his country than his name, and
prepared the ground for the elevation of his race.
Since that time Balilla's day has invariably been
honoured in Genoa, and in days of especial patriotic
excitement, as on the eve of the new Lombard war
of 1859, it was made the occasion of noisy popular
demonstrations. This year it will be made the pre-
text for a Garibaldian movement. We bad here
yesterday and the day before no less than 3,800
red-shirted Reduci, returning heroes just landed
from Naples. A word was circulated among
them and among the people that on this day
loud paeans should resound in honour of their adven-
turous leader. Already, on Saturday evening, the
performance in two or three of the Genoa theatres
came to naught in compliance with the demands of
these disbanded volunteers, who, renewing here the
exploits by which they had distinguished them-
selves at Naples, again and again, and even 10 and
12 times, called for the Garibaldi hymn. In the
course of yesterday, last night, and even this morn-
ing, heavy trains, laden with hundreds of these
patriot warriors, were, by the prudent and provi-
dential Government authorities, sent into the in-
land provinces of Lombardy and /Emilia to which
they belonged, and great was the riot and racket
with which these home-bound worthies filled the
railway station and its approaches. The streets of
Genoa are, however, still swarming with scarlet-
clad, more or less dingy and tattered, man. We are
curious to see to what extent they are still bent on
mischief, and to what extent they will be allowed
to perpetrate it. _ _ _

Already, early in the morning, I read, stuck up
at every street-corner, the following pithy inscrip-

tion
"W. Garibaldi ! W. I Vincitori di Calatifimi ! W.
Gli eroi del Volturno !*
" Genoese ! This day brings round the annivea•
sary of the 10th of December, 1746; it is a day
sacred to every Italian heart: The Genoese will
not fail to attend the ceremony at the sanctuary of
Oregina. The meeting is appointed at 2 o'clock in
the Piazza dell' Acquaverde. Let this year our
cry be Rome and Venice!' "
Another inEcription by Barilli, going the round
of the halfpenny papers, thus closes :
" Italians ! Celebrate this glorious day with
your oath shortly to engrave its remembrance on
the marbles of the Capitol of Rome, your city !"
There is certainly no harm in these volunteers and
the Genoese people giving vent to their admiration
for Garibaldi and the Garibaldians, or even utter-
ance to their warm wishes that Rome and Venice
may soon be made to share with their sister cities
the blessings of national freedom and independence.
But the singing of Garibaldi's hymn does not
imply the necessity of hissing the King's anthem, as
was repeatedly done at Naples, or of preventing
the performance of any other musical piece.
" This hymn," says a Neapolitan correspondence,

"is here repeated 15 and even 20 times in one
evening, and every time hailed with storms of
rapturous applause. The affair may in the long run
become rather monotonous and tedious ; but what
if it so pleases the Neapolitan people r What, in-
deed P one might answer ; but the question is
whether those who bawl the loudest for the hymn
in question are really the Neapolitan people, and if
these latter are not, on the contrary, greatly an-
noyed by the noise of a few mischief-makers, bent
on spoiling their ordinary amusement. Perhaps
these were the considerations which induced the
Lieutenancy and the Director of the Police, Silvio
Spaventa, to close the theatre in which these dis-
orders were carried on with the most outrageous
recklessness; but, unfortunately, the Government
and the police reckoned on the firm behaviour of
the troops, and we are now informed that a captain
of infantry of the line winked at the forcibly open-
ing the theatre, and his troops fraternized with the
people. Surely a man must be a very staunch
Garibaldian indeed to deny that this is not as it
should be ?
Again I repeat there is no harm in crying loudly
for the speedy deliverance of Rome and Venetia.
But the enemies of public order, here as well as at
Naples, are perfectly aware of the rupture between
Garibaldi—who would have gone to war with the
French for Rome, and with the Austrians for
Venice, long before he had settled his differences
with the Bourbon at Capua and Gaeta and
Cavour, who still hopes for the liberation of those
cities and provinces by peaceful means, and who at
all events, thinks that the country should not
voluntarily venture on such gigantic wars as must
ensue before it has fully organised and armed itself
for (them. But, " Garibaldi, Rome, and Venice"
make a capital party-cry; and, although it is not
likely the country will ever agree in deposing
Count Cavour in order to substitute for him at the
head of the Government, agreeably to the
suggestion in Garibaldi's last proclamation, the
" far preferable" Cattaneo, still it is just possible
that this cry may be used to create disturbances
here and there in the Northern to less than in the

* The mark " W." in Italy is used by way of a sign,
instead of Viva, Evviva--Hurrak I

Southern provinces, or at-least so to influence the
forthcoming elections as to return a new Chamber
which may render the position of the present Cabinet
unter able.

Whatever may happen, however, I apprehend no
very serious outbreak at Genoa from to-day's per-
formance. Some of the ultra-liberals in this city
are sufficiently wrong headed and perverse ; and
no other Italian town would tolerate the crazy
Mazzinian organ, 11 Unita Italiana, which in fact
circulates nowhere else than here ; but the Genoese,
taken in the mass, are a thrifty, laborious people;
they know that their trade has just doubled within
the last ten years ; and their deep-rooted, inextin-
guishable antipathy to the Piedmontese which made
them fret against the hard lot which annexed their
republic to the Sardinian Monarchy, and which, so
far as national prejudice is concerned, is n truth
as bad as ever, is however greatly soothed by their
late conjunction with Lombardy and the /Emilia,
a consummation that has made their harbour the
great emporium of all Northern Italian commerce,
and will further increase their prosperity if a rail-
way line is ever constructed across the Gothard or
Luckmanier to put them into communication with
the South of Germany.
All this the Genoese know, and they tcre far more
anxious about the enlargement and improvement
of their port, the construction of _wharfs, and piers,
and jetties, which may put them on a par with other
civilised harbours (for the backwardness of which
works they surely have only themselves to blame),
than for the triumph of a party which would only
unseat Cavour to raise such men as Bertani, Crispi,
or Cattaneo to power. _ _

The ceremony of to-day, in spite of all sinister an-

ticipations, will I think Piss over as quietly as ever.
The municipal and Government authorities will
preceed to the sanctuary or church of Oregina, a
plain commonplace building perched on the summit
of one of the brown bleak hills encompassing Genoa,
with a hard, stony, winding path to it, flanked with
the 15 stations of the Via Cruets ; there will be
High Mass, and Low Mass in the morning, the
Te Deum, the Tantum ergo, the benediction in the
afternoon, and all the other dumb-shows with which
the Roman Church indiscriminately celebrates all
her glad solemnities ; there will be no speech, no
commemorative oration ; and at the utmost the
National Guards, the remaining Garibaldians, and
the populace will shout themselves hoarse on their
way to church and back, or at the theatre, roaring
for the Garibaldi hymn, but that will be all.
I shall, however, leave this letter open to chroni-
cle any incident which, contrary to my expectation,
may disturb the even tenour of the day.

MONDAY, 4 O'CLOCK, P.M.

My surmises were correct. Some time after two
o'clock straggling crowds, with a stray banner here
and there, were seen moving towards the place of
the rendezvous, under my hotel windows, in Green.
water-square (Piazza Acquaverde). The day was
lovely; people were seated, as usual here, bare-
headed and in light clothing in the open air. Pre-
sently the crowd in a mass, without any order of
procession, took their road leisurely towards the
hilly and fatiguing ascent leading to the Oregina
Church, where sensible people did not much care to
follow them. There can now be no doubt as to the
festival turning out a very quiet and rather dull
affair.

I am told that every idea of a demonstration was
abandoned from the time it was known the Gari-
baldians, or most of them, were going, and these

latter were induced to hasten their departure, nol
so mnch by orders from Government as by dissen
sions which broke out among them.

FRANCE.

,i'

(From the Paris Correspondent of the Times.)
If public rumour can be trusted, M. de Persigny
has just acted in a manner which will not fail to be
warmly approved by those whose approval is worth
having, and condemned by those whose condemna-
tion is sometimes praise. M. de Kersaint, ono of
the deputies wlao represented in the Legislative
Corps the department of the Puy de Dome, died
some short time since. The person whs aspired to

replace him is M. Chatelus, who, besides his own
merits, enjoys the distinction, enviable or unen-
viable, as the case may be, of being the intimate
friend of M. de Moray, and with such patronage
—which, as is boastfully declared, pulverizes all
other—the aspirant to M. de Kersaint's vacant seat
could not entertain a single doubt of success. It
was necessary to apply, but, as was thought, only
as a simple matter of form, for the sanction of the
Minister of the Interior to bring forward M.
Chatelus as the candidate of the Government, or, to
use the official argot, le candidat de ? Administration.
As little difficulty was anticipated in this quarter
as ever was found with his predecessor. To the
astonishment and disgust of the introducer of M.
Chatelus, M. de Persigny is said to have unhesi-
tatingly and firmly refused his sanction to M. de
Morny's candidate being put forward as that of the
Administration. He doubtless gave his reasons for
that refusal, and these reasons were so conclusive
that he declared (so the story runs) that, rather
than sanction a thing of the kind he would resign.
M. Chatelus will, therefore, have to stand on his

own merits and those of M. de Morny.
The resistance of M. de Persigny—always sup
posing the rumour I speak of to be correct—is
said to redound to his credit. It encourages
the hope that he will persist, and, so far as
in him lies, neutralise the influence of a coterie
which has done much injury to the Government.
M. de Morny may be wronged, but he is looked
upon as the chief of a certain coterie (popularly
known by a more expressive name) of speculators
who have their hand in everything going, and who
turn the immense influence of their patron to
their common purposes. The Grande Centrale,
the coal mines and ironworks of Aubin,
the coal mines of Carmaux, the railroads, &c., tes-
tify to the skill and boldness of the President of
the Legislative Corps. That a man like M. de
Persigny7should be distasteful to this coterie, who
we are told can do what they please, is not sur-
prising ; and he may be certain that no intrigue
will be left untried against him.
The picture drawn by M. de Persigny in his last
circular of the state of the press in England is con-
sidered by the Debats as far too favourable ; and
the writer, M. Prevost-Paradol, points to the re-
ports published in the Irish journals of the late
repeal meeting in Dublin as instances of the ex-
traordinary latitude allowed by the English Go-
vernment to the most objectionable attacks on all
that in France the public is accustomed to consider
sacred. The spectacle of The O'Donoghue endea-
vouring to ape O'Connell might, of course, the
writer observes, be passed over as unworthy of
serious notice ; but what is to be said of the appeal
to the sword of Marshal M'Mahon, and the hope
expressed that French troops may one day land,
on the Irish coast ? The writer disclaims any wish
to see such a programme carried out, and affirms
that he only mentions the matter for the purpose
of proving that the press in Great Britain does not
always respect the State, and that if it has merited
an unlimited liberty it has arrived at that great
privilege not by any wonderful amount of pru-
dence. The article then says:—
" Is not the Count, then, mistaken as to the pre-
sent condition of the press in England ? He says
that in that country there is complete liberty for
whatever is an advantage, or not dangerous, to the
State, and negation of all liberty of attacking the
State. If M. de Persigny bas the curiosity to
peruse the democratical and Socialist journals of
England, he will see, on the Queen, on the House
of Lords, on the aristocracy, on the Parliament,
and on property, theories and language which
surpass in folly and violence anything of the kind
ever published in France. There is complete
liberty, or rather licence for these miserable pro-
ductions ; they have no other enemy than the
public indifference. We ourselves received for
some time a journal well calculated to
wound all the sentiments of religious England :7
it was called the Atheist, and once every week
it
endeavoured to prove that there is no God. It
is
dead, but from natural causes no doubt, for we have
never heard of any prosecution againstit:" The
writer explains what in his opinion might be
accorded to the press in France at the present
time :—" We should have desired for the French
press (still regarded with suspicion by the country,
we are free to confess) a law of some kind, to'place
it under the exclusive control of the courts ofj astice,
and definitively remove it from that of the Admi-
nistration. If the law of 1819, which was formerly