The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-04 00:00:00

THE WE OFFICE, Jr2az 4.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
71—highest since noon yesterday.
65—lowest this morning and during the night.
71—this day at noon.
BAROMETER- -29.80.
WIND, Easterly ; light, with fine sunshiny weather.

THE SUN.
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1859.

We have again news of GARIBALDI. It appears
that the guerilla chief has evaded the snares laid
for his reception, as we yesterday predicted he
would do, and that at eleven o'cloek on Thursday
night he re-entered Como with all his troops.
It
has also been said that he had surprised and beaten
the Austrians at Varese, and that the town is once
more free from the enemy and restored to the hands
of the patriots. This is important intelligence, of true.
We cannot, however, place unlimited reliance on
every announcement made by telegrams from Turin.
They have in too many instances been either gross
exaggerations or been strongly approximating
to falsehoods. We trust that GARIBALDI has
escaped—that the gallant Republican General will
not be detained in a state of forced inactivity
during the remainder of the war, or be compelled
at a safe distance to read the accounts of hostilities
in which he might have taken a part, but for being
driven on neutral territory. There were many
reasons, which we assigned yesterday, however, to
believe that he would escape scot free, and he has
completely verified the predictions we indulged in
on his behalf. If at Como on the night of the 2d,
it is manifest that he cannot be in the mountains,
pursued by General URBAN'S corps. As Sir BOTLE
ROCHE long since remarked he is not a bird, and
consequently cannot be at two places at the same

time.
The war fever is spreading throughout Germany.
The defeats of the Austrians on every occasion, in
place of dejecting, is exciting the higkest enthu-
siasm of the people. They cannot understand
why German troops should not carry all before
them, and, to adopt Yankee language, be enabled
to " wop all creation." This is, however, more
easily said than done. The Sardinians are tough
customers, and the Zouaves have shown that they
cannot be despised, even against the most formid-
able odds. The other French soldiers are also good
men, who are merely waiting for an opportunity to
display their valour, skill, and efficiency in the
field. But the Allgemeine Zeitung, or Augsburg
Gazette, generally swell-informed journal, fancies
that 500,000 German troops could not only invade
France, but even Paris itself, and dictate terms of
peace in the very capital. This, as we have stated,
would be a task of no ordinary difficulty. Even the
500,000 Germans could not quite so easily get
across France, to say nothing of capturing Paris,
despite the formidable defences erected some time
ago, who thought that they would go fur to preserve
the dynasty of which they partially led to the over-
throw.

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The German vauntings are really too absurd.
We should scarcely expect them from such a
people, generally slow and stolid, but capable of
being worked up to a high pitch of excitement on
extraordinary occasions. Although many may
detest the NAPOLEON despotism, they would
scarcely consent to get rid of it 'at the ex-
pense of calling in the assistance of the hated
Prussians, or the scarcely less unpopular Hano-
verians and Bavarians. There would be war to
the knife against the invaders, and not only every
soldier of the line, but every national guard would
struggle to the last before they would permit the
French soil to be polluted by foreign footsteps,
more especially of those against whom they che-
rished the bitterest animosity for past misconduct
on both sides. It was probably the French inso-
lence that excited the Prussian vindictiveness; but
never, perhaps, was it displayed more powerfully
than
after the battle of Waterloo and the march of
BLITCIIER on Paris.

But, returning to more probable events, it is
certainly by no means unlikely that a heavy blow
will be struck on one side or the other during the
ensuing week. The Austrians have fallen back ;
they have withdrawn their men, together with
1,000 wounded, from Robbio. They are manifestly
determined to act on the defensive, under the
strong positions which they have assumed, andthere
will be no oranary amount of hardihood req aired to
inditce any, enemy to make an attack under such

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