The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

q 73 lue of their co-operation, which he found so

avaluable after his landing in Sicily, in !con-

ceiling all his movements from the enemy.

And then the last paragraph, how wisilem

and humanity blend with zeal for his

cause—" Finally, I say to all Italians with the cer-
tainty of being listened to, that being few the
struggle will be long, and with great sacrifice of
gold and blood ; but being many we shall secure
the liberty of Italy quickly and well, so that
future generations shall remember us with affection."
Why, the noble man seems to have emission to
unite all noble hearts, as well as to sweep tyrants
from his nstive soil. So far as successful, his kind-
liness of nature will do as mach as his courage and
love of liberty, to regenerate his native country, and
to make its feuds and heart•burnings things of the
past. Wonderful man, truly—the General, the sol-
dier, and the peacemaker ; the enthusiast and the
sage, all in one ! Take him altogether the greatest
man of the day.
And now that he has made good his ground thus

far, and appears disposed to use, not to hazard his
past successes, he does not want advisers. A great
English journal kindly advises him to declare
beforehand, that he intends to leave Italian

liberty incomplete. He is to publish to
all the world that he will not attack Austria in her '
stolen quadrangle. He is ostentatiously to proclaim,
forsooth, that he surrenders one of the noblest of
Italian provinces, hopelessly, to the worst of ty-
rannies. Of what use this could be except to

damp the best zeal of the Italians we can hardly
conceive. Supposing that he completely succeeds
in uniting all Italy but Venetia in one free nation
—a supposition LAMORICTERE and his Holiness
must permit us to consider as quite allow-
able—how long would such a united Italy
endure the groans of the Venetians under the
cruelties which they are now suffering ? For Aus-
tria to govern there without atrocious brutality
seems impossible; for a united and strong Italy to
endure such 'treatment of their brethren in blood,
language, and sympathies seems equally impossible.
A united Italy might, it is computed, bring 300,000
into the field—Austria could only oppose to them
garrisons of discontented Hungarians and Croats,
too glad perhaps to bargain with their assailants to
aid them in securing liberty for their fatherlands.
We have little fear, however, that GARIBALDI
will listen to such advisers. It may not
be worth his while to say much about
Venetia yet. Great men are not fond of boast-
ing. He has a great deal to accomplish be-
fore he will be able to give a practical thought to
Mantua and Verona—but it would he madness in
him to shade in the slightest degree the tints of his
tricolour. It mast proclaim unmistakeably—ltaly
for the Italian—a free Italy for the free Italians !
Let Austria interpret it as she she chooses ; let her
avert her doom if she can ;—if she be wise she will try
and get a ransom while she can for lands which she
has no moral right to occupy. An unholy alliance's
gift, is her only title; if she can get from those who
would benevolently prefer giving her a few millions
for it, to shedding human blood, she had better take
it, and be thankful—her creditors, if she used it in
paying them, would be thankful too.

This day Parliament is at length prorogued
by "the Royal Commisioners. It being ordained
by a happy dispensation that there shall be
an end to all things—even this seemingly inter-
minable session of 1860 is brought at last slowly
and wearily to its conclusion. Mr. Speaker is
now, happily for himself, emancipated yet once
again from the thraldom of his wig, his
robes, and his shoe-buckles. The Sergeant-
, at-Arms has shouldered for the last time in
this year of grace that ponderous " bauble"
of the mace contemned by CROMWELL. The
Lord Chancellor may speedily find that true
repose is procurable upon a harder cushion than
the woolsack. Her MAJESTY'S Ministers, or at
least a few of the more indefatigable amongst
them, have already celebrated their escape awhile
from the drudgeries of office in their old accus-
tomed manner by consuming down at Greenwich
that strange immemorial banquet, flavoured with
squeezings of lemon over whitebait and Vauxhall
slices of brown bread and butter, apparently from
some mysterious reason (hitherto unexplained even
by Notes and Queries) essential as the autumnal
nutriment of England's administrators ! All the
usual formalities, in fact, have again been scrupu-
lously complied with, and as we have said, and as
we all rejoice to know, the Lords and Commons
are prorogued.
Looking back through this more than ordinarily
protracted session of now very nearly seven months'
duration—it is something to assert, and to assert
with truth, that cve can do so in more than one
particular (even after all that has been " said," and
all that has not been "done")—not without a cer-
tain degree of complacency. Granted that Parlia-
mentary Reform (that was to have been settled at
least for the next thirty years) has, in defiance of
every prediction to the contrary, again been given
the go by ! Granted that the general expectation
in this one vital particular has been thus egregiously
disappointed by the very Ministry that had thrust
its predecessors out of and itself into dace for
the express purpose and with the avowed object of
putting a salutary close to the long-agitated vexata
questio of reform in our system of Par).lamentary
representation. Granted that little, indeed has
been done in the way of fura
..ering the pro-
gress of law amendments—of advancing in any ap-
preciable manner the furtherance of that grand
movement of which Lord BROUGHAM'S energetic
genius may be described as the prinzum mobile, or mo-
tive-power, or direct source of impulsion. Not a step
are we more advanced than we were a twelvemonth
since to the revisifm of our criminal code, to the
readjustment of our laws relating to bankruptcy
and insolvency, to the registration of our landed
estates, to the codification of our whole complex,
incoherent s,od heterogeneous scheme of jurispru-
dence.
Nothing, literally nothing done in this way
—although Lord BROUGHAM was there ever at
hand ready with his herculean assistance; although
Lord CAMPJELL of all men was Lord High Chan-
cellor, and Sir RICHARD BETIIELL of all men was
Attorney-General ; although in the Commons Xelni-
sters were secure in this particular branch of re-
form of obtaining the cordial co-operation of that
eminent band of lawyers confronting them from
the Opposition benches, men like FITZROY KELLY,
HUGH CAIRNS, and JAMES WHITESIDE, as secure as
they were of obtaining a no less cordial co-operation
in the Lords from the venerable and illustrious
group of Tory Lard Chancellors, particularly from
those recognised Nestors among our jurisconsnits,
Lord LYNDHURST and Lord ST. LEONARDS.

Granted, again, that this unfortunate session of
1860, which was notoriously to have witnessed the
final extinction of the abhorred' and iniquitous
Income Tax, has only, in reference to that most
cruel and unjust of all imposts, rendered itself in-
famous by witnessing its flagrant reimposition !
And this, moreover, by the very financier who had
seven years previously predicted its abandonment
in 'GO, after an elaborately graduated diminution !
Granted that this same luckless session has passed
by without relieving the community of that long-
, detested ecclesiastical" fardel" of the Church-rates