The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-21 00:00:00

the top of the Quirinal. It may be that all these
reports do Garibaldi injustice, and that the "pro-
gramme" which he is determined to carry out is
not of the character attributed to him. It may be
that he is willing to wait until the flight of the
Pope or the spontaneous course of events shall
free Rome from her thraldom, and restore her to
her natural office in the Pal ian Peninsula. It
may be, also, that he is quite alive to the
madness of venturing within that great trap
which the Austrians still keep set and baited
close by Solferino, and that he is content to
wait for Venice until the expenses have told
upon the temper of the Austrian R2ichsrath and
until the temptation of the ten millions offered by
Italy can no longer be resisted. It is possible that
the existence of designs which under present cir-
cumstances would savour of insanity may be only
suggested from Turin by persons in the interest
of the Ministers who arc now proscribed by tine
Dictator.

But, if so, why this pertinacious demand that
Cavour shall be dismissed ? Garibaldi has never
hitherto shown himself a man likely to be influenced
by merely personal motives. That he dislikes Cavour
is well known. That he dislikes him for his diplo-
macy and for his cession of Nice, and, possibly, also
for the unworthy manner in which he has some-
times treated Garibaldi, we are not now to be told.
That he should be determined not to give up Sicily
and Naples to be trafficked for between Cavour and
the Emperor of the French is very natural. We
may, perhaps, thus find it possible to accept the in-
disputable fact that Garibaldi has made this demand
without receiving with absolute confidence the in-
terpretation put upon it at Turin. Read it, how-
ever, as we may, it is a most disastrous movement.
Great as Garibaldi is, he is not more necessary to
the success of the Revolution now tending to its
accomplishment than Cavour is. There is some
equivocal work yet to be done, which Garibaldi
cannot do. All the old symptoms of compensation
and annexation are reappearing. The French
journals are vehemently denying all designs upon
certain islands, just as they once before as vehe-
mently denied all designs upon Nice ; and France
is at the same time protesting against the annexa-
tion of Naples, just as she protested against the an-
nexation of Tuscany. These are matters which will
require management, and Cavour is the only man
who has the talent to carry such arrangements
through. Everything cannot be done by force, and
if it could Garibaldi does not possess the force. In
banishing Cavour Garibaldi disables one of the arms
of Italy. He is, moreover, creating a great pub-
lic scandal, for he is exhibiting to the world the
proof of a sad fact—that the two greatest labour-
ers for Italian unity, and the two most promi-
nent Italians, are unable to act together. He is
showing the old Italian weakness working, at her
extreme need, in her two best mea. There can be
no sufficient reason for this open strife. Both men
mean the same thing and are endeavouring to ob-
tain the same object ; but Cavour recognises diffi-
culties which have to be avoided or conjured away,
while Garibaldi believes he can ride down all ob-
stacles sword in hand. If they insist upon separat-
ing, our sympathies will go forward with Garibaldi,
but our hopes will halt behind Cavour. Garibaldi's
impetuous system is admirable against his own
countrymen, but Cavour will be indispensable to
Italy as an antagonist for France and Austria.—
Times.