The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

that warlike outbreak will occur on the Adriatic
coast the Danube. Between the Italian and the
Hungarian followers of the hermit of Caprera a
bond of blood has been cemented on the battlefield,
and the Court of Vienna must show no common
address if it can come to such terms with its
Magyar and Slavonic subjects as to make them
deaf to the charmer's voice, who will proclaim that
the best compact between a Sovereign and his
twice and thrice deluded subjects should be sealed
with the pommel of a drawn sword. Unquestion-
ably, Garibaldi may have to deal with Russia and
France, no less than with Austria and Germany,
he may have to set aside the conclusions of a
European Congress ; but his line of conduct has
long been chalked out for him by his own head-
long impulse; and he cannot swerve one inch
from it, whatever may be the eims-quences. So
long as the goal he aims at is the emancipation of
the whole soil of Italy, not only the passions, but
the sense of the country are all enlisted on his side.
With the most wary and timid the question is but
one of time and expediency; but on the main prin-

ciple there are no two opinions, and where one man
does not hesitate to lean, all his free countrymen
must be fain to follow.

There is only one man in the country who is not
fully at liberty to give in to the general movement,
and that is Count Cavour, Count Cavour stands to
some extent committed to the Anglo-French alli-
ance, and bound to the maintenance of order and
peace. A statesman at the head of a legal and re-
cognised Government is answerable to his country
and to his neighbours for any attempt of which he
cannot calculate the probable results. The uncom-
promising audacity by which a guerilla chief
brusquely courts, and often wins, the smiles of for-
tune, would be stigmatised as unpardonable folly if
it were imitated, or even counter. anted by a wary
diplomatist. Yet Cavour has been able hitherto to
guide only by following the current. He has reaped
the benefit of those Garibaldian achievements which
he would have been utterly unable to prevent. His
place of safety has always been, and still will be,
in the second line of Garibaldi's army. The day in
which he adopted any stronger measures against a
second Garibaldi exploit than vague apparent re-
monstrance and actual threadbare connivance would
mark the close of his political career. Should Turr,
Eber, and Bixio, and the noblest of the red-shirted
leaders, effect their purpose either in Dalmatia or
any other part of the disorganised Austrian empire,
Italy would have to co-operate with them, with or
without the consent and goodwill of King Victor
Emmanuel or his advisers.

It seems important to me that the great European
Powers should look well to this. Any question of
internal policy, the-pacification of Naples and Sicily,
the theories of centralisation and self-government,
and, all such matters, will find a natural, however
arduous and, perhaps, not bloodless solution, either
in the deliberation of the national Parliament or in
the application of strong martial rule to the most
unreasonable, refractory provinces. Anyhow, the
Italians will settle their own home affairs without
any danger to the public peace, so long as they are
left to themselves ; but on the question of Venetia
or on that no less important, though for the present
adjourned, of Rome, nothing but the most crushing
force will ever induce the Italians to hear reason.
In Garibaldi they have found the man after their
own heart ; whithersoever he leads they will go
with him. Garibaldi's opponents will have no
power against him, unless they succeed in pre-
viously loosening the knot, or knots, which he is
preparing to cut.
It seems to me very clear that as the time for
outward action draws near the billows of domestic
agitation begin to abate. News from Naples is
to-day of a more reassuring character ; it is by no
means unlikely that the Prince of Carignano may
meet with a cordial reception in that town and
kingdom, notwithstanding the storm of unpopu-
larity which has been raised against the bevy of
his youthful advisers. Nor is it at all improbable
that the populace of Palermo, satisfied with his
easy triumph over the obnoxious Cordova and La
Farina may look with forbearance on the men who
have taken power as their successors. . Torrearsa
is both an able and firm man and a highly respected
personage, and Emcrico Amari is one of that pa-
triotic family whose name hallows the cause they
serve in the eyes of the Italians. After all, any
people will tire in time of clamour and riot, and
those who have something to lose in the Two Ski-
lies cannot look without misgiving on a chronic
disorder, which may well end in the ascendancy of
those who have all to gain from prolonged mischief.
Those South Italian populations, however noisy
and lawless, are also fickle and timid; they break
out into sudden volcanic eruptions, but again they
as readily subside, 'without any apparent reason for
the ebb and flow of their subterranean fires.
The interest they will take in Garibaldi's next
move will easily engross the attention of men
whose strongest pretext for dissatisfaction rested on
Garibaldi's alleged slights. The first roar of the
canon aimed against a foreign foe will hush up the