The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

Admission—llan, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

fIANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AND
FINE ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL, the
Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance
since his return to England on MONDAY, the 2d of
September. Admission--Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony,

O X F O R D,
43, OXFORD-STREET.
Open Every Evening. Selections from "La Traviats,"
"En Ballo in Maschera," Sze., by Mis., Russell, Messrs. C.
Greville, Volley, Tivoli, and H. Herbert, with full band and
chorus. Other vocal and instrumental music of the highest
order, and varied attractive entertainments. The Comic
portion by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"),
Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall,
and W. Randall. Hall, sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one
shillluz. Private Boxes. los. M. A grand selection from
Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boccßnegra," produced on the
most complete scale, with aoditional principals, and aug-
mented band and chorus. will be presented (for the first t: me
in England) on MONDAY next, arranged and conducted by
Mr. Jonghmans.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1881.

The Baron RICASOLI'S denunciation of the late
Neapolitan army is not certainly in any way what-
ever to be wondered at. It occurs—this denuncia-
tion of the scattered troops of FRANCIS IL—in the
circular dated from Turin, August the 24th, and
addressed by the Prime Minister of Italy to the
diplomatic agents of the newly-constituted Govern-
ment. As yet we only know the general drift of
this circular, which has but so recently been pub-
lished in Bullier's Correspondence. Another post
doubtless will enable us to present the communica-
tion in its complete form to our readers; so that
they may then judge of its general value for them-
selves, Already, however, there are one or two
particulars referred to by the Baron RICASOLI that
even now cannot be seriously misapprehended—
judging them alone from the mere casual glimpse
yet obtained of them. And foremost among those
portions of the circular of the Italian Minister is
the passage in which he speaks in no measured terms
of severity about the late Neapolitan army.
The history of that army has certainly by this time
been long enough matter of European notoriety,
to render it quite unnecessary for us to recapitu-
late facts in order that Baron RICASOLI'S indig-
nation may be seriously accounted for. Does not
all Europe still remember with scorn how that
numerous army of King FRANCIS the Second of
Naples was scattered far and Wide more like an
enormous sock of sheep than like a body of armed
soldiers ? Never since the day when CESAR could
write home those three electrifying words Veni,
vidi, vici—never since then has any Leader of Men
had more perfect right to echo those same words
than General GARIBALDI had when with his mere
handful of followers he went and destroyed by a
sweep or two of his sword A Huge Army and
an elaborate system of Kingly Government.
Bringing down the Neapolitan Sovereignty in
ruins by the mere announcement of his approach,
by the mere terror of his name ! Destroying the
Neapolitan army more utterly, more irretriev-
ably than any vulgar butchery could have
destroyed it—by herding whole regiments and
battalions up into corners and then making
them lay down their arms by thousands at the feet
of victors who could be counted merely by a very
few hundreds ! The triumph, for GARIBALDI him-
self was something magnificent. The defeat, for the

Neapolitan army was something on the other in-
expressibly ignominious. Why, in point of fact,
literally the case stands thus :—When the camr aign
in the• South commenced, GARIBALDI positively
landed with less than two thousand men altogether.
And what in the name of all that is wonderful woe
the numerical strength of the Neapolitan army at
that time—the royal army that had to be either
beaten or scattered, before the Government it was
sworn to defend could by possibility be destroyed
by that great and daring Adventurer ? Why, the
Royal army of King FRANCIS 11., then the King
de jure and de facto of the Two Sicilies, num-
bered in all ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOU-
SAND MEN ! Alen ? One can hardly imagine them
to have been really entitled to the name, they
proved themselves defenders of the Crown, and an-
tagonists of the invauer, so indescribably despic-
able !

History has already related the particulars
of that brief and astounding campaign. And it
is as wonderful in its way as almost anything she
hi" ever had to tell. The Neapolitan army—
the itoYal army-1,80,000 strong (or weak, shall we
?), melted away and vanished like mere dust or
vapour before the wind, at the simple rumour of the
approach of GAUIBALDI and his two thousand Gari-
baldiaus.

No wonder thet remembering all this, that
Miron RicAsom is found in his new circular
of the 24th instant,
axing in severe terms
of the former Neapolitan armyei
var-vvraheidehan, «although
equipped,composed oflBo,ooo men,
fell back before a h. Indful. of heroes, and who since
have abandoned th emselves to brigandage,
anedatghe:ysohmavei
times carrying the Pot irbon flag) w
dishonoured by Ea 41efending, as they tow di..