The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

THE MOORS,

The Dun fries Courier says :—One of the best
moors in this locality is that of Kirkgunzeorsn:
and its character is maintained ; on Thin'
day a party of four guns, from Terregleki__,
did not enter the ground until after e Pilll "Y
wart pre-
bagged 551- brace of grouse. One of tt
we hear
served and managed moors in theurSietl,ewartry is
that of Woodhall ; Mr. Kennedy
olL,talie, 1. 3th, from
e °b: gghae ad. heu r•nuost°walillowgilelld
has only been out on two days;
eleven to six o'clock,
e snipe, and might
281 brace of grouse and
have made a much larger bag
small birds to escape; on the 14th he killed 181 brace.
party of two
From Newton-Stewart we hear that one
guns on Penninghame moors—viz., Messrs. E.
Stopfordßlair, o
and J.
T. E.orho
Severn—in short time
bagged 20 brace. usemuir we also learn
that Mr. M‘Haffie and Mr. J. Vans Agnew bagge d
26 brace, 1 wild duck, and 4 hares. On Craig
nell
Mr. James Mackie, of Bargaly, M.P., anad Mr. John
'
Bell, of Hillowtown, shot 301- brace. Mr.
Stewart,
of Cairnsmore, in one hour on Monday
bagged 81 brace. afternoon.

Tin; MURDER AT STEPNET.-IC°
progress ap-
pears to have been made in detecting the murderer. In the
course of yesterday Mr. Faith and gr. W 1 ittaker, who
each married a step-daughter of the murdered woman, ex—
pressed their intention to offer a reward be Teen them of
£2OO. In all probability the whole of the prop erty belong-
ing to the deceased will revert to the Crown for want of
' kin4l-01) and assuming sho has died intestate.

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And Selections from
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Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
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The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
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Negro delineations, anecdotes, ,&c., in addition to the usual
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The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

THB WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, AUGUST 24, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
65—highest since noon yesterday.
49—lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.87.
WlND—South-Westerly; rain, rain, nothing but rain

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAL—Morning, :6h. 57m.—Afternoon, 7h. 25m,
To-moyatow.-Morning, 7h. 59m.—Afternoon, Bh. 41m,

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1860,

GARIBALDI is certainly in Calabria, and has
united his forces which had crossed the straits, at
Reggio. Beyond these main facts the accounts
vary somewhat, though at any moment, even while
we are writing and interpreting what appears to
us to be their meaning, the electric wire may clear
up all mystery. _

Reggio, the largest town and fortification on
that part of the mainland which forms one shore
of the Straits of Messina, was, it appears, the first
object of Garibaldi's efforts. It seems from this
that he is desirous to make Sicily. the basis of his
operations, and he is able to do so notwithstand.
ing the presence of the Neapolitan fleet, which
seems to be no hindrance to his operations—and,
amusingly enough, repeated, on the occasion of the
present landing, its brave feat at Marsala—that of
firing into a stranded and deserted steamer, the
Torino.

We have already had the particulars of iklissoni's
landing with about 300 men, and his unsuccessful
attempt to surprise the fortress of Torre del Ca-
vallo ; he had, however, successfully made good
his retreat, or advance, into the hills of Calabria,
where the mountaineers received him cordially.
This was on the Bth ; then followed GARIBALDI'S
mysterious secret departure ; and, on the 19th or
20th a passage in force, some accounts say of 3000,
some raise it to 5,000, and even to 8,000 men, to
the attack of Reggio. It seems certain that the
general himself landed at Melito, just 10 miles
south of Reggio; other accounts speak of a landing
also at Bagnara, about twelve miles north of the
same town. We strongly suspect, that to distract
the attention of the Neapolitan ships and soldiers,
landings may have been effected at both the small
places mentioned, and that the two bodies, com-
bined with the former small band under Nilsson',
may have all united in the attack on Reggio.
The Opinione of Turin contains a dispatch from
Naples, dated Wednesday evening, which affirms
that " GARIBALDI has taken Reggio." One from
Messina, dated Monday, had stated that he and
Nilssonz were to attack it that evening ; if so, it
could have made little resistance, which, indeed,
was hardly expected. All these accounts speak of
8,000 as the number of Garibaldians who had
landed. The Royal army is uniformly said to have
been concentrating itself at Monte Leone, a town
about forty miles north of Reggio, which, if the
soldiers stand by the Royal colours, will become,
we no ay hope, the Calata Fimi of tile second Sicily,
and 'are may add, that we may equally hope that
Nap] es will become in all respects but one—the
atrocious bombardment—a second Palermo.

Pr obably a not distant futurQ, will indicate the
result. We must not, however, be impatient, how-
ever sanguine our desires and hopes may be. GARI-
BALDI, as he told the King of SARDINIA, is the
very best judge of what the situation requires. His
information must be very good of all that is going
on ill every town in Italy, and no doubt he knows
what is done and said, and thought, in the Royal
army, perhaps in the Royal Council Chamber. The
general has always combined the caution and de-
liberation of a responsible commander, with the
dash of the guerilla chief. It may well be that he
knows that there is a leaven at work in the Royal
regit vents, which, if he gives it reasonable time to
work, will save a great deal of bloodshed. He has
alretlay proclaimed to the soldiers, that he respects
their oourage, that he shrinks from shedding the
bloo d of Italians, and he asks rather their co-opera-
tion in bringing about a united Italy. And, that
thes e are his genuine sentiments, no one even affects
to dioubt. An utter stranger to fear in the pre-
seneo of enemies, he would rather have no ene-
raies ; and entirely reversing the , basely brutal
Cone uct of the Austrians who revel in the blood
of the captured, be they men, women, or children—,
he l'eally seems determined to show how the bravest
of 14°1`liers may fulfil the gentlest precepts of the
Got ;pel, for even these Austrians, who would have
murdered in cold blood him and his if they had
caught him, he has
dismissed when taken, with
worrds and deeds of kindness. It tempts one to
ext Maim—Now long Nvi,u,
men be king-ridden by
sus 1 brutes as the Bourbons and Hapsburgs,
wb .en nature furnishes •them with GARIBALDIS and
K()SSITTLIS ?

Nominally, the Ring'' of NAPLES has seventy or
eighty thousand. soldiers to oppose GARIBALDI on
his way northward; about twenty thousand being
at Monte Leone, the town near the coast forty
miles north of iteggio, which we have already

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mentioned. Whether it will be GARIBALDI'S
plan to conquer by force or persuasion,
all the divisions of the Royal forces which
1€ may [ova on his wly to Naples, and so
keep open a land line of communications with
Sicily, or whether he will attempt any kind of
coup de main on Naples, it is impossible yet to
conjecture. His plans will be modified, doubtless,
by what he knows of the royal army—and he
alone can judge whether they will be more
loyal to the Bourbon than to Italy. There must
be a great many men among them, who, if grati-
tude for favours received had its weight, have pro.
bably been well paid both in pillage and in hard cash,
for doing the cruel work of the monarch. There
must be a great many who know that, under an
upright Government, their occupation would be
gone, and their house made too hot for them. How
far officers and men of this class may make a stand
for their only hope, remains to be seen. There
seems, however, to be much reason to hope that the
majority, both of soldiers and sailors, will be
faithful to the Italian cause. We hope that, in
any case, the commanders of French and English
ships of war have it in charge to forbid the bom-
bardment of any part of the city of Naples from
which assailants are not actually firing on the
KING'. troops.

Mr. BRIGHT was right enough when he inquired
of what use the Election Commissions are. No
punishment follows either to individuals or to the
borough ; if, indeed, in such a case as that of
Wakefield, both parties have to submit to the pro-
secution of a few on each side, selected by the
public prosecutor " with admirable impartiality,"
the common sense, or rather the English feeling,
of the public revolts at convictions by such means.
The trial is not regarded as a fair one after the in-
dividual has been lured to confess, and he is not
lowered in public opinion by what is thought his
" rather hard case." Indeed the general, and we
believe correct idea, is, that if Commissioners were
appointed at each genera] election, and were
set to cross-examine on oath every member as
to the pecuniary or other influence to which be
owed his seat, very few would be entitled to cast
a stone at their fellow-members.

There is the exposure, to be sure. There are also
the various phrases and devices by which hon.
members and candidates endeavour to avoid saying
in plain English, " I spent so many hundreds or
thousands, the larger part of which I meant to be
expended in paying those who wanted money for
their votes." Above all there are the occasional se-
crets, known only to a few before, but which be-
come public gossip for a few days, and must be
very entertaining to all the gaping Quidnuncs of
thehour. But of what use it all is, except to demon-
strate that legislation can de nothing effectual to
lessen all this corruption, except by making con-
stituencies large enough, and by interposing secrecy
of voting betvteen the seducer and his too pliable
victim,—we know not. That lesson, however, all
of us have already learned ; and none know it more
perfectly, or believe it more firmly, than just our
leading Whigs and Tories. Their faith in the effi-
cacy of secret voting is the one sole reason why they
hate it. If, however, all these exposures will not
shame our hardened leaders of both parties into ac-
ceptance of the ballot, we can see no earthly use is
purchasing a few spicy revelations at the enormous
cost of these Election Commissions.
A few of these have, of course, been furnished at

Berwick. It was amusing enough to see Mr. HoDG
SON slow to come to the point, that he had drawn
out sums much exceeding what fair expenses
would require, and then putting altogether a novel
face on getting a large quantity of sovereigns into his
hands, on the very eve of an election. They were,
it seems, for a kind of shop window bribery. He
made a display of—" tremendous sacrifices," in
order to win ; but, as in most displays, no sacrifice
was to be made at all. The elector was to vote, as
if expecting he would make " wonderful bargains,"
but his only gain was to be the honour of voting
for a purity candidate like Mr, HODGSON. Yet, in
reply to a question from the Commissioner, he dis-
avowed any intention to "bilk" the expectant elec-
tor ! How he squared the two things he has not
told us. We merely know that he was conjuror
enough to make a display of sovereigns, to persuade
electors that sovereigns would follow votes, and
then not to have " bilked" them, when he had got
their votes, and kept his sovereigns !
Then of course the story of ALEXANDER
BRODIE was for a time piquant enough. Why,
really, after all, the gossips believed that they had
traced bribery and corruption to very high quarters.
The Right Hon. BENJAMIN DISRAELI giving his
handwriting to ex• Sergeant BRODIE, who had told
him, according to his own story, that he knew the
bribable persons at Frome, and had relatives at
Berwick—surely now the election gossips had Mr.
DISRAELI on the hip ! Yet even this story could
hardly keep itself afloat as first told. It was evi-
dent that Mr. NICHOL himself was not a little puz-
zled and doubtful ; and when Mr. EARLE came to
be examined the whole vanished into the imaginings
of a madman. We do not wish, however,
more than Mr. EARLE, to speak hardly of
poor BRODIE ; unjust treatment had evidently
unnaturally excited his mind, till everything
took undue proportions. A kind word from
a distinguished person was intimacy with him, and
showing a gentleman for once into a political de-
bating room, which he felt somewhat curious to
see, was being his cicerone for regular expeditions
of that kind. In fact it seems BRODIE is in the
habit of "addressing people," and is taken by many
for a character. Mr. DISRAELI evidently regarded
him as one, •and sometime, if the occupations of
earlier days should ever again sooth or amuse the
mind of the statesman, ALEXANDER BRODIE may
furnish one of many minor pictures from life.
It was of course something to have a batch of
candidates and members all compelled to answer
every question about their electoral amours with

such a constituency as Berwick. Mr. EARLE tells

us a very natural story, of how he worked the
barrack dodge, presenting the memorial, receiving
"official smiles," but saying or doing nothing to
compromise the Government. Not unwilling, as
he says, that they should think he might do some-
thing with the Government, and not contradicting
stronger representatiens by others, than he him-
self would have dreamed of making. "Perhaps he
allowed too much to be said," Mr. EARLE frankly
observed, but certainly not more than any other
candidate would have allowed. We are none of us
so "righteous overmuch," as on such occasions to
throw cold water on the excited eloquence of
zealous partisans ; and on the whole we may cer-
tainly congratulate a private secretary of a Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer that he could present such
a fair electoral case to the Commissioners.
Mr. GORDON and Mr. STAPLETON had also to

pass the fearful ordeal. The former received spe-
cial commendation from the Commissioner for
straightforwardness. His story has a little of the
natural and innocent about it, certainly. Building
a church was, he thought, one legitimate mode of
obtaining a good status in Berwick. He did not,

at the time, know that Dissenters were no numer-

ous that a church was not wanted; and between
the spiritual good, and the spending of £2,115 17s.