The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-27 00:00:00

naturally, at first, took Southern threats for mere

bullying.

It could not believe in such folly as

secession. Few Englishmen could believe it; Mr.
SEWARD especially did not, and even the more

decided Mr. LINCOLN thought that by a fair and
legal course the South must be brought to see its

untenable position. The result, however, may be
very different when the South forces the North to

united sentiments and action. Pennsylvania has
already obeyed the PRESIDENT'S summons to arm—

and the other States seem to be rapidly taking the

same course. And, if the present excitement goes
on, a few weeks will see the two sections of the
late United States converted into two vast camps
1104tilo brothers; each side confident in itg

strength and courage ; each animated by the most
vindictive spirit; and each prepared to fight to
desperation, not only for victory, but for entire
supremacy. May HEAVEN avert so horrible a war !
It is painful to look back on the " ifs" of the past.
"If " Pennsylvania had not proved faithless to
liberty when BUCHANAN was elected; if she had
given her vote for FREMONT and freedom, as all her
associations and historical recollections required
her to do ; if she had not by her treachery placed
such a soulless traitor to freedom as BUCHANAN, in
the Presidential chair, the soldier FREMONT, a man
too of tried ability and resources, would never have
permitted a Southern revolt ; indeed it is little
likely it would have been hazarded under hisreign.
Under BUCHANAN it could do it safely. His Cabinet
was its agent. He himself did not firmly oppose
it. He rather connived. The treachery of Penn-
sylvania in 1856 may be looked upon as the proxi-
mii‘te cause of all the present troubles in America—
troubLQs of which no one on this or that side the
water can Anretend to foretell the issue.

, The similarity of the quarrel between BRUTUS
and CASSIUS, and th,.' contention between CIALDINI
and GARIBALDI has noN:' been fully demonstrated.
The scene has been complet`.ed in the latter instance
as in the former, by a recom'illation. After the
stormy exchange of reproaches—
reproaches ut-
tered, to begin with, by CASSIUS .and CIALDINI—
the curtain falls when in each instanc,l the brothers
in arms are embracing. The dignity, the magnani-
mity, the grandeur of the whole reconciliation
appertaining not more entirely in the earlier
interview to BRUTUS than now in this
later, and indeed very recent interview
to GARIBALDI ! The jealousy of CASSIUS,
the jealousy of CIALDINI the world has seen con-
quered. BRUTUS and GARIBALDI have nobly held
out the hand of good fellowship to their unpro-
voked assailants, in spite of all the bitter remem-
brance of the taunts in which the latter had so re-
cently, before that act of magnanimity, been in-
dulging. In the instance recorded by SHAICSPERE
it is the conscience of CASSIUS that guides him
back to a recognition of the harshness of his
bearing towards his far loftier-minded companion.
In CIALDINI's case, the stings of his own conscience
have been materially aided in urging him
to consent to a reconciliation with General
GARIBALDI, in the first place, by that startling
letter of General TRIPOLI'S, that letter absolutely
denying what he himself (CIALDINI) had asserted
about the musket shots reserved for the Piedmon-
tese upon their arrival in the Abruzzi, by order of
the Dictator-Liberator; and fully and entirely cor-
roborating the haughty denial of anything of the
kind by the Dictator-Liberator himself—the BR-1T-
M of the occasion—GARIBALDI. That letter of
TRIPOLI'S, in the first instance, we say, must have
come materially in aid of the stings of CIALDINI'B
own conscience, assuring him, upon calm reflection,
that he had been at the very least over hot,
and over hasty in the monstrous accusations
hurled by him against General GARIBALDI.
And in the next plade—it is said—there came
forward a potent mediator enough, between not
only GARIBALDI and CIALDINI, but also between
GARIBALDI and CAVOVR, a mediator no less influ-
ential and persuasive than the Re Galantuonzo
himself—in this instance assuredly his very enemies
will allow, a Re Galantuonzo in very deed—the Sol-
dier "King of Italy," VICTOR EMMANUEL. So that
the threatening storms are said to have fairly blown
over now at Turin, GARIBALDI being completely re-
conciled now, let us believe—in the persons of Count
CAVOUR and General CIALDINI—to the Brain and
Left Hand of the Italian Movement. 11l tidings
these for the opponents of that Movement! But news
full of the happiest auguries for all those who are
believers there, in Italy, of something more than
the mere "geographical expression" sneered at by
the late Prince METTERNICH.