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

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

CANTERBURY 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. ; Stal:s and Balcony, is.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1861.

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-
ti on 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
e ven now cannot be seriously misapprehended—
krtlg,ing 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.flock of sheep than like a body of armed
.soldiers ? Never since the day when C,ESAR could
write home those three electrifying words Yeni,
vici—never since then has any Leader of Men
JIM more perfect right to echo those same words
thS General GARIBALDI had when with his mere
116411dfill 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
N eapolitan army more utterly, more irretriev-
than any vulgar butchery could have
destroyed it—by herding whole regiments and
beatalions up into corners and then making
the m lay down their arms by thousands at the feet
of victors who could be counted merely by a very
fe rw hundreds ! The triumph, for GARIBALDI him_
se iif was something magnificent. The defeat, for the
N 'eapelitair army was something on the other in-
'
e rpressibly ignominious. Why, in point of fact,
B aerally the case stands thus :—When the campaign
is i the South commenced, GARIBALDI positively
if oaded witch less than two thousand men altogether.
A Ad what in the name of all that is wonderful was
th .e numerical strength of the Neapolitan army at
th a; 1; time--the royal army that had to be either
heal en or :Tattered, before the Government it was
sworn to defend could by possibility be destroyed
by that great and daring Adventurer ? Why, the
Ii cyal army of King FRANCIS 11., then the King
de I jure and de facto of the Two Sicilies, num-
b( 'red in all ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOU-
S-% ,ND MEN ! Men ? One can hardly imagine them
to have been really entitled to the name, they
P 1 'cared themselves defenders of the Crown, and an-
t' onists of the invader, so indescribably despic-

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history has already related the particulars
01 that brief and astounding campaign. And it
is Its wend( .rftil in its way as almost anything she
hr a ever had to tell. The Neapolitan army—
th .I",lny-180,0C0 strong (or weak, shall we
sat
?), melted away and vanished like mere dust or
va hef% ire the wind, at the simple rumour of the
1)1 ach GAIIIBALni and his two thousand Geri-
bad

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gn
in
gn
severe
ew thisciu thatla
134 r on, Ric AgoLI is fosunedakilun
his .
eere terms
, )I. 1 the 24th ins,!'ant, p
,ft he former Seapalitan army,
which, although
lm p9sed of 180,000 men, well armed and
equipped
11' back before a handful of heroes, and ho•
) abandoned themselves to brigandage,
some_
a carrying the Bourbon flag, which they have
)noured by rot defending, as they now ail..

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