The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-29 00:00:00

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Tile Paris correisiiOnclexit of the Independance Bege says
that the French troops will not disembark it. Ovita
Vecchia if the Garibaldians are defeated by the Papal •
troops, except, indeed, the Italian troops marclispJheit. _
aid. In that case a French army will cross the AlFs and
march upon Turin. Another writer says that the Mil-
baldians are very badly armed. They have only a few
muskets and revolvers.

Qaribaldi, on taking the command of his followers
said that all those who were not prepared to die should
leave the ranks, and all tbose who were not strong enough
to endgre "fatigue, long marches, cold, hunger, thirst,'
should return home. Some hundreds of volunteers, too
young or too weak for so arduous a campaign, then went
to the rear.

Very active preparations are going on at Cherbourg to
get ready for sea some of the numerous vessels of war in
that port. The workmen are at work night and day. The
ironclad frigate Flandre, and the floating batteries Embus,
cade, Protectrice, and Fourdroyante, have been completely
armed. The ironclad frigate Surveillante is to complete
at Lorient. The corvette Orione is to start for Toulon.
It is believed that the Magenta and the ram Taureau will
be annul in a few days.

The mails from Rome had not arrived in Paris on
Monday at the time that the evening papers went t,
press ; consequently we are without fuller details of
the events mentioned previously by the telegraph. The
Etendard, however, understands that in the affair of
Monte Rotondo, Garibaldi, although he had three times
as many men as the Pontifical troops numbered, was
unable to take the Pontifical position, but after two
desperate assaults, in which Nicotera and Tosto were
severely wounded, the latter, it is believed, fatally, he
abandoned the attempt and continued his march upon
Rome, leaving the Papal troops in his rear. This was a
dangerous course,and quite contrary to military traditions.
It is to be supposed that Garibaldi trusted to the magic of
his name, and hoped that the people would rise when he
appeared among them. It is reported that at the battle
of Viterbo, De Sanctis as well as Acerbi was killed. Both
were members of the Italian Parliament.

According to the France, Col. D'Argy, who commands
the Antibes Legion, has arrived at Paris and informed the
French Government that the Pontifical troops, if shut up
in Rome, can defend themselves against the Italian troop
for twenty-four hours, and against the Garibaldians
"indefinitely."

General Menabrea, the new Italian Prime Minister, is
described as far more of a statesman than Cialdini, who
was exclusively a military man. He belonged to the
"Right" in the Piedmontese Parliament, but joined Cavour
at an opportune moment. He is both Catholic in religion
and Liberal in politics. He is a warm supporter of the
Franco-Italian alliance. This last fact explains the pro.
clamation of Victor Emmanuel. General Viale, the new
Minister of War, belongs to the old Piedmontese army,
and is aide-de-camp to the King ; Gualterio, Minister of
the Interior, has been Prefect at Naples and Palermo, and
obtained a character for great severity; Mari is President
of the Chamber of Deputies, and is supposed to be a mode-
rate man ; Cambray-Digny, the Minister of Finance, is
Syndic of Florence, and has no reputation as a financier.

There are grave suspicions at Florence as to the honest,:
of the Galantuomo Re. It is rumoured that the Kink
has carried on a compromising private correspondence
with the Pope, pledging himself not to destroy the
temporal power, and that it was in consequence of
the Pope's threat to publish these letters that Gari-
baldi was arrested. The defeat of Custozza was
at the time freely attributed to the King's interference.
The order was unexpectedly given to the army to fall
back. Prince Humbert, who was on the point of charging
at the head of his division, was filled with grief and rage
when that order became known, and refused at first to
obey it. This is remembered in his favour, and has given
rise to the rumour that Victor Emmanuel is about to abdi-
cate in favour of his son.

The Russian journals seem to bo contemplating the
downfall of the Pope with even more satisfaction than do
the English journals. The Moscow Gazette says that the
temporal power is not a mere local nuisance, but it is a
question of universal moment. This paper thinks that
the Church is injured by its secular dignities, and that it
will be purified and reinvigorated by having the sword of
the Sovereign wrested from the hand of the Pontiff. The
Gazette goes on to urge that Russia should support Italy
in its demand for a renewal of the September Convention.