The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-30 00:00:00

CONCERTS.

WEATHER...-SIIN OFFICE, JULY 29, 1560,
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
67—highest since noon yesterday.
52. —lowest this morning and during the night.
66.—this day at noon.

JULY 30.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAD,.

62',---hizhegt since noon yesterday.
this morning and during the night
63.—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.21.
WIN D—North-Westerly ; light, with fine weather.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 30, /880,

GAraBALDI is now in Messina—soon, we trust, to
be master of it. With a garrison of fifteen thou-
sand men, were they all reliable, Messina is very
strong and might become a Sebastopol to an army
not provided with the means of keeping up such a
" fire of hell" as that which opened the way for the
rush into the Malakoff. But are the soldiers, are
the officers especially, to be trusted ? There is but
a small minority amongst them devoted to their
KING at all hazards. A much larger number are
in favour of a constitution ; but, to insure that, they
need not shed their blood that it should be a con-
stitution octroyed by a Bourbon and committed to
his faithful keeping. They are more sure of a
permanent constitution by sticking to GARIBALDI.
Then there is the large Italian Party, compris-
ing all the intelligence, education, and enthusiasm
of the army, and probably the most likely
to influence its feelings. With such senti-
ments fermenting amongst the officers' and soldiers,
every day must make them morally a weaker
garrison, and spare the ammunition of GARIBALDI
and the blood of the Italians. Humanity would be
gratified to learn that Messina was really evacuated,
and that the slaughter of Melazzo was not to be
repeated.

The progress of events, however, is of a kind to
gain for the great Liberator a kind of praise to
which many would not have thought him entitled.
At first, after the grand success at Palermo, there
was almost an " ignorant impatience" of his alleged
inaction. He ought to make at once a dash on
Messina and the eastern towns, and all would fly
before him. It is now evident that he knew his
work better—that, like our great Captain, he would
leave nothing to. chance, at a time when any seri.

ous failure would have emboldened afresh the

despots of Rome, of Naples, and of Paris. He se-

lected the best of the Sicilians and drilled them ;

he waited for reinforcements of Sardinian, or rather

Italian, volunteers, for ammunition and other sup-

plies ; and, as fortunate as anything for him, he
waited for the desertion of the Neapolitan ship•of-

War Veloce, which soon did justice to her name, and to

the inspiration of a cause which doubled the skill and
etiergies of every man on board, and both captured
h
°stile vessels and deterred hired vessels from
taking troops
from the mainland to Messina. In
due time he iniarched his divisions through the length
of the island, and it fell to the lot of the northern,
and principal., Goo, to win the hard fought battle
near Melazzr,, to carry the fort at the point of the
bayonet, and to match on
to Messina itself.
The report of the humanity of the KING turns
out, aS We half anticipatedntbe little better than a
fable. Ife would Probably have
been too glad to
purchase immunity from a continental visit of the
great General, by leaving him
quiet
possession of
all Sicily, knowing full well that he
Could hold it
but for a short time at most ; but the battle
of
3felazzo disposes of all the pretences to humanity,
It was not to spare blood, but to spare himself the

the presence of GARIBALDI in Calabria, or in Naples

itself, that the overtures were made. Once master

of J.esibina, indeed, nothing could prevent a descent

CAN TI -1113 UR HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA.
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Meph!tstopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Mamaerite
Conductor. Jonghmans.
And selections from
D'ivorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is Hall, Bd.
Cot& is Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian id Mimic), and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
exprestsly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The il allery is open from 5 till II on Sunday Evening.

BAROMETER-20.95.
WIN:o—E. to N.E . Heavy thunderstorms yesterday
afterno sm.