The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-16 00:00:00

—here too easy—there too:stringent. Certainly
with a result most injurious to our own interests.
On one hand, allowing the precious metals the
utmost facility of transfer abroad—on the other
hand, rigidly restricting the monetary circulation
at home amongst ourselves. As the system has
worked now very recently, we have seen it within
this last week lowering the bullion in the Bank of
England to a total of £13,200,000, with an im-
minent probability of that amount being further
lowered in the same way, during this next week,
to the sum of £12,800,000. Of these fluctuations
we might surely think the country had by this
time had enough. We might at least imagine that
it had thereby been enabled to draw some wisdom
from its somewhat bitter experiences. Has it done
so ? That, alas, still remains to a great extent in-
scrutably problematical. Could we answer—would
that this weripossible—in the affirmative, we should
speedily have reason to announce the issue, once
more, of One and of Two Pound Bank of England
Notes; the close of these periodical rises in the rate
of discount and the termination of these frequent
and bewildering drains upon the bullion-chests
of the Bank accompanied by the absorption some-
where (as during this twelvemonth last past) from
the Bank of France and the Bank of England of
the precious metals in circulation of a full round
sum of £10,000,000 OM to this moment untiaced
and seemingly untraceable.

Who will be the first to visit Caprera, to see it
with his own eyes in the late Italian autumn of
1860, to tell us what it is—not merely by its lati-
tude and longitude, the heights of its lofty rocks,
the extent of its little surface, and the geology of
its strata—but to tell us howlt now looks, what is
the aspect or character of its cultivation, and espe-
cially to what kind of habitation the man has retired
who has just conveyed splendid palaces and parks
from a worthless to a worthy King. Our friends
of the illustrated press may feel quite certain that

whichever of them shall give us a first-rate picture

of the patriots's island-retreat will not want a large
sale that week. And it is a subject worth pains.
It may offer little specially suitable to the artist,
though even that is hardly likely of an island
which, though it has been denominated but a
" ten-acre rock," peers in the climate of Sardinia
more than eight hundred feet above the sea. But
what will interest all is the home of Garibaldi.
That will want nothing but a thoroughly truthful
picture to be of interest for all time. It is the
Mount Vernon of Italy, and thither, most appro-
priately, the Italian despiser of vulgar ambition
sailed in the Washington. And, long befo?e these
words were penned, he has, we trust, concluded a

prosperous voyage. Driven from his ancestral
home by the territorial covetousness of the French-
man, he sought a new home where an Englishman
and he should divide the whole territory between
them. And the Englishman having died, GAM-
BALDI is now, we believe. " monarch of all he
surveys," the only population being himself and
a few of his personal followers. The glory having
departed from Nice will now centre on Caprera.
It was there GARIBALDI could maintain himself by
his industry. It was thence he sailed on his
immortal expedition to Sicily. And it is
thither he has retired after having nobly
achieved one of the noblest deeds of the cen-
tury.

Difficult is it to say which was his greatest
work, blab, we think, the last. He goes to no
Strathfieldsaye or Blenheim; he leaves no charge
on posterity for his offspring; he takes even no
pension on his own account for idle greatness ; he
conferred the greatest of blessings on a nation, and
on a King the boon which all monarchs prize above
all others, a large accession of willing subjects; on
hundreds he conferred opportunities to get places,
promotions, salaries—he takes nothing himself. It
is said a military title of honour has been created
and given him, and we doubt not the honest-hearted
and generous KING would have given him anything
—but he wants nothing ! He can maintain him-
self ; and for the rest, there he will be, ready when
the opportunity calls ; and, even ready to make an
opportunity to complete Italian emancipation. If he
had any favour to ask of VICTOR EMMANUEL it was,
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shall select." An ambitious post that would certainly
not be—but one where he and his could make the
Austrians quake through all the Quadrilateral, we
may be sure it would be. Few, indeed, are the
men who could have led on the noble youth of
Italy to do the deeds they have done. It was his
moral inspiration, quite as much as his military
skill and genius, which made them what they were.
But fewer still could have turned their back on all
that he left a crowd of place-hunters eager to
obtain—few' who in leaving a kingdom at the feet

GARIBALDI evidently understands thoroughly
both our country and our Admirals. As a coun-
terpart we transcribe a despatch announcing
honours of a very different sort, conferred by very
different persons upon the French Onneral nt
Rome, and the French Admiral, who is anchored
not very far from Admiral MUNDAY, " The
Opinions publishes a despatch from Naples an-
nouncing that General GOYON and Admiral BAR-
BIER DE TINAN had been decorated by King
FRANCIS 11. with the Grand Cross of the Order of
St Januarius:!" We question whether our Admiral
would have accepted these honours, if offered him;
we are sure that he will remember with pleasure, I
as long as he lives, the one he has received.
The correspondent of the Daily News, from
whom we have just quoted, shows us in some
further remarks, how completely the feelings of
persons on the spot harmonise with those
so far off—adverting to the hero's departure,
he says :—" I cannot tell you how I feel.
A cloud seems to have come over the city
this morning. The highest specimen of moral
dignity the world. has long seen has just left, and
we have now to fall back upon glitter and glare and
royal rank. Yet his departure is the grandest act
in the history of his connexion with the Italian re-
v olution. And you should know Caprera to appre-
ciate the grandeur of his character. It consists of
two rocks ; it is peopled only by his immediate fol-
lowers or servants ; a few camp cloths would cover
it, such as those which Madame Mario presented
him with from the English supplies ; and by
the time you will receive this, the Conqueror
of the Two Siailies and the idol of many
millions will be seated on a rock, accompanied
by a few faithful hearts, and the lord
of a few cattle. History has few such
beautiful specimens of humanity on record."
We " should know Caprera," he says, and we
hope we shall yet know it. At present we ques-
tion whether a dozen Englishmen, and these pro-
bably sailors, could tell us anything about it. All
we know at prese:nt is, that the majority of maps do
not even mention it ; and that in those which do,
the reader may find it on the north-east side of
the Island of Sardinia, close by another and some-
what larger islet named Madalena. The time
will certainly come when the island will be pur-
chased by the Italian nation, as a memorial of one
of its greatest mem, as Mount Vernon was by the
Americans. We may, then, only hope that it
will be regarded with greater revert:nee than our
republic brethrevL pay to the relics of their WASH-
INGTON.

Devise a great good thing, and a hundred
unlooked-for subsidiary good things are sure to
attend it. A guard of honour to those whom
Englishmen delight to honour, can now be impro-
vised at half an hour's notice by the bugle in most
towns of the Kingdom. We have observed this on
some occasions before. Lord PALMERSTON had
the advantage of it i•a the North ; but it was never
more appropriately shown than yesterday morning.
The young Volunteers for their country turned out
almost as if by magic, at sound of the bugle, in
the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport, and
and Stonehouse, to do honour to their young
Prince. On them it devolved to be the first to re-
ceive him, any, honour which he acknowledged
by riding along in front of their ranks with un-
covered head.

We have already given our Prince our welcome
to his mother country; but we congratulate him
all the more, glancing over the accounts of his
wearisome voyage. Stiff east winds, such as
Lieutenant MAURY had told us were quite enough
to prevent the Hero from making headway, our
own experience at home had suggested ; but such
miserable fogs and calms we had hardly thought of.
Of course, a squadron must keep together, if it can;
but we confess we should have been much inclined
in the Prince's position, to have cast aside form
and rule, to have shipped ourselves on board the
Ariadne, and thus to I Lave got rid of our own dis-
comforts, and relieved the anxieties of all at home
by getting to Plymouth many days earlier. The
Ariadne had all she could do, it seems, to sail slow
enough for the Hero. The little frigate kindly
took the big ship in tow more than once till haw-
sers snapped with the weight of their sluggish
burden ; however, through fogs, and storms, and
calms, and obstinate hem Iwinds, we are glad enough
to welcome our Prince home again.
It has been a difficult naming nut into publie life
for so young a man ; an e. though he had excellent
advisers, yet instances w ere of constant occurrence,
when thrown for the MO3ment on his own discretion,
he acted as became a young Sovereign of Eng-
land. From the accounts which have arrived
from time to time the impression must
have been in this co'antry, as in America,
that his home training has been the best possible.
It is not easy to imagine how any youth could
have better suited the instincts of his age and
the proprieties of his situation. He enjoyed all
that a young man should enjoy with the zest of
nineteen, while what became the son of a QUEEN
in his intercourse with others seemed a part of
his nature. It is not too much to say that his
representation of English loyalty to the Ameri-
cans has been a blessing to both countries. They
like us the better for seeing our PRINCE, and we
like them the better for receiving him so respect-
fully and cordially.

CABINET COUNCIL,—A Cabinet Council was held
yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the
Treasury, in Downing-street.. The Ministers present were
—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor; Earl Gran-
ville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Lewis, Lord J. Russell,
the Right Hon. S. Herbert, Sir C. Wood, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Don. T.
M. Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C.
P. Villiers, Sir G. Grey, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell.

Viscountess Palmerston was, we rav happy fe
learn, so far recovered from her recent indisposition as t)
be able to take a carriage airing yesterday afternoon.
His Highness Prince Belosselsky, accompanied
by IK. de Schevitch and M. Chevreux, has left the Claren-
don Hotel for l'aris,