The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-02 00:00:00

MAZZINI' S MANIFESTO.

The Iride, of Naples, publishes in its number of
the 24th of September a manifesto of Mazzini. It
is headed, " Neither Apostates nor Rebels." The
following are the concluding sentences of the mani-
festo :

" We claim the liberty of saying, not that a
republic is the best form of Government, but that
we, 25,000,000 of Italians, ought to be masters in
our own country ; that we can be so if we all wish
it ; that our liberty is there on the point of our
bayonets and in the firm resolution of our souls ;
that it is not in the counsels and acts of France
and Chanceries. To make it dependent upon a
whim of Louis Napoleon or any other man is to
prostitute it, to risk losing it again, and to declare
ourselves unworthy of it.
" We claim the liberty of saying that between
the programme of Cavour and that of Garibaldi we
prefer the latter; that without Rome and Venice
there is no Italy ; that, excepting the war of 1859,
provoked by Austria, and maintained, at the price
of Nice and Savoy, by the arms of the Emperor of
the French ; excepting the invasion of the Roman
provinces, provoked by us, by a necessity which
we created, no initiative of Italian emancipation
belongs to the programme of Cavour; that Rome
and Venice will remain slaves of the stranger if the
insurrection and war of the Volunteers does not
restore them to freedom.
" We claim the liberty of saying that a free and
united country will not be formed by annexing
this or that province to Piedmont, but by amalga-
mating Piedmont and all the provinces of Italy,
and Italy with Rome, which is its centre and heart ;
that the immediate annexation of the conquered pro-
vinces that have acquired liberty, by placing them
under the programme of Cavour, taking them away
from Garibaldi, stops the movement, takes away
the strength of the country from the hands of him
who wishes to employ them well, to place them in
the hands of a man who wishes to condemn them to
inaction, and for a time to suppress the dominating
patriotic idea.
" We claim this and nothing else. Refute but do
not calumniate. Do not always sillily or wickedly
repeat that we work for a Republic, when for two
years we have never spoken of a Republic. Do not
obstinately judge us withoat reading us. Do not
repeat, blind servants of any Alinisterial Gazette,
affirmations a hundred times denied by facts. Do
not excite against us, by perfidious falsehoods, the
passions of a people nho owo to us in a great mett.

The new screw steam gun-vessel Nimble, 5, in
charge of Commander Paul, of the Devonport Dock-
yard, from Pembroke on Thursday afternoon, ar-
rived at Plymouth on Sunday. Off Rame Head she
joined the steam-tug Confiance, which towed her
into Hamoaze. She will be placed alongside the
dockyard to be stripped of her jury gear.
The screw steam storeship Supply, 2, Master-
Commander W. H. Balliston, from Woolwich and
Portsmouth, en route to Malta with stores, arrived
at Plymouth on Sunday. She was hauled yester-
day (Monday) into the basin at Keyham Steamyard,
for the-purpose of being placed in No. 3 Dock to
unship her fan, which is damaged.
All the absentees had not joined the screw steam-
ship Mars, 80, in Plymouth Sound yesterday (Mon-
day) afternoon, when she had her blue-peter flying.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty .—Lieut. Osmond de B. Brock, to
the Royal Adelaide ; Richard Henry Jenkyn, pro-
moted to the rank of second-class assist.-engineer in
the Indus, as supernumerary ; Thomas Leccombe,
paymaster, additional, to the Impregnable ; James
C. Meagher, paymaster, additional, to the Formid-
able ; C. P. Walker, clerk, to the Blenheim ; Henry
Ellis, clerk, to the Ajax ; Arthur Hughes, clerk, to
the Victory, as supernumerary ; J. J. Gormully,
assist.-clerk, to the Trafalgar; and Thomas A. Mil-
ler, assist.-clerk, to the Donegal.