The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

of any measures the Government may take, and the
leaders of all parties are enthusiastic for vigorous
measures until the Rebellion is " crushed out."
From all the Free States offers of troops to a
greater extent than is required are rapidly
arriving, and it is evident that the public spirit of
the North is kindled to a high degree of intensity
only by the comparatively small affair of Fort
Sumter.

Whether Mr. LINCOLN means to act with the
decision which some of the facts we have
mentioned appear to indicate, remains to be seen.
He would have no easy task at the beginning; his
preparations are not relatively so advanced as those
of the South ; but should the conflict become
long and serious, his navy, and his resources in
money, and in the power to manufacture military
requisites, must give him an immense advantage.
Nor can we, in this country at least, easily believe
that the moral advantage of being on the side of
justice, of right, of freedom, in fighting with the
scoundrel cause of slavery, will not be an immense
advantage. England cannot forget, we hope even
Manchester rill not, that these seven seceded
States are ready to shed blood in defence of
slavery, and of slavery the most cruel and oppres-
sive which ever disgraced the earth. We would
rather bloodshed indeed were avoided, but if war
there must be, the prayer of every Englishman
must ascend to Heaven with that of the negro, and
not with that of his hardened and malignant
oppressor. Let not the South reckon too much on
Lancashire. We need cotton, it is true, but slavery
we cannot endure, and let the consequences to us
be what they might, we believe the vast majority
of Englishmen would rejoice to hear that the result
of a war was.that slaveholders were thoroughly
beaten and their slaves emancipated. Cotton we
should soon get elsewhere. Get rid of Sir CHAS.
WOOD for Lord STANLEY, and send Sir JOHN
LAWRENCE to India, and we should soon have
cotton, and in plenty from our own territory. In
any case we do not believe that cotton would long
be wanting. The demand would stimulate in-
genuity and exertion, and it would soon be swept
to our shores, by a wide spread and determined
effort, which needs some such provocative to call
it forth, and thus to terminate the accursed system
for which seven States, full of tyrants far worse
than European Czars, Emperors, and Kings, are
now ready to shed blood.

Exacter accounts of the attack, defence, and sur-
render of Fort Sumter contain many particulars of
interest. One fact may be well worth the attention
of Lord PALMERSTON--the complete success of
rapidly-constructed defences of extemporised mate-
rials. They illustrate the views of General BuR-
GOYNE, confirmed, indeed, as they were by the
achievements of TOTLEBEN, that earthworks and
sand bags may soon be made capable of sustaining
any fire. We are informed that the earthworks
were expressly constructed " that the artillerists
might be protected from the enemy's fire ;" and
that, though " Major ANDERSON'S guns were well
served, yet no one on shore was killed. It is
therefore to science that we must attribute
the bloodless character of this terrific bombardment,

and not to want of skill in the use of guns." New
Orleans and its defence from works constructed of
cotton bags is also called to mind, and the American
writer regards the whole as giving them an admir-
able lesson on the comparative ease of constructing
impregnable coast defences. We hope our Govern-
ments will all consider well what they do before
they sink irrecoverable millions of money on Ports-
down Hill. To meet what is so unlikely to occur as
a hostile attack from thence, JONATTIAN has shown
us what we could do at a few hours' notice.

GARIBALDI, as we intimated on Saturday, has
nobly closed his recent contentions at Turin by a
general and magnanimous reconciliation. He has
come to a satisfactory understanding at last with
CAVOUR—he has again grasped the hand of fellow-
ship with CIALDINI. But—at the same time it
should be remembered—he has boldly and frankly
spoken out the whole truth to each of them. He
has done this before the Italian Parliament. He
has done this consequently, so to speak, in the sight
and in the hearing of all Christendom. GARIBALDI'S
reconciliation, therefore, must be regarded in no
way whatever as a mere compromise. He has car-
ried his point throughout. His opinions remain
the same in regard to the infamous cession of Nice
and Savoy—that most discreditable act by which
Count CAVOUR rendered GARIBALDI, as the latter
himself expressed it—rendered GARIBALDI, of all
the men in the wide world, " A foreigner in
his own country." Upon that atrocious con-
cession of CAVOUR's to the territorial
greed of the French EMPEROR, GARIBALDI
still looks hack .with scorn and indignation.
He still bears painfully in remembrance the
notorious fact, that he has been allowed
to fight the battle of Italy all along so far in
the French EMPEROR'S eyes upon sufferance,
Have any of us forgotten how in his Imperial
MAJESTY'S despatches from the battle plains of
Lombardy, the name of GARIBALDI, fighting
grandly though he was all the while under the
southern shadow of the Carpathians, was meanly,
despicably tabooed altogether. Not one syllable
of comment, to say nothing of generous tribute, was
ever penned during the whole of the North Italian
Campaign by the Emperor-Generalissimo or by
any one of his MAJESTY'S Marshal-Lieutenants in
reference to that dauntless hero, who upon the skirts
of the vast army of the Allies was performing day
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little band of Volunteers—since famous in both
hemispheres as the Garibaldians. Not one syllable
of comment, to say nothing of a tribute at once
eulogistic and magnanimous ! Again—GARIBALDI
has not forgotton, cannot, we may be quite certain
of this, very easily lose the recollection of the man-
ner in which he was ecnstrained to cast the whole
fortunes of the Italian War of Independence upon
the hazard of a die, when, quitting Genoa with his
daring phalanx of followers, he hastened Persius-
like southwards to release Sicily as the new An-
dromeda. Uncountenanced by France, and—by
reason of the French policy—unaided overtly by
Sardinia, GARIBALDI, when he left the bay o

Genoa on his voyage to Marsals, might have echoed

the words of XULIUS to the seamen, Coesarem vehis !

Upon that one man everything was then depen•

dent, upon his sword, Italia, but trusting at tha

crisis in her destiny confident that it would prove

no broken reed under her hand, but that it and it

alone would be found capable when the

hour had struck of cleaving in twain at a
blow the Gordian K not of her difficulties.

After the accomplishment of that wonderful

enterprise, when, under the guidance of GARIBALDT,
a mere handful of men had compelled a royal army,
twenty thousand strong, to lay down its arms and

yield up the Sicilian soil entirely to its thousand
deliverers—when, a little later on, GARIBALDI alone,
without his Garibaldians, had taken train for
Naples, and there entered the capital of the Southern
Italian Kingdom, though seemingly a mere ordi-
nary railway traveller, as a conqueror and a
deliverer—aiter the accomplishment of that won-
derful enterprise we all remembered how literally
this great man emulattul the self-abnegation
of a CINcINNAns and a WASAINGIVINI