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Such enormities need no comment 1t is an as
sassination as cowardy as it is vile and OF which
at most an example could be found oply amonU
savages and barbarians
You are requested, Sir, to communicate this des
patch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Gov
ernment TO which you are accredited, and beg of
you, at the same time to receive the assurances of
my distinguished consideration"
From the London Times
Such is the story given to the world by Count Ca
vour, who not only vouches for its authenticity by
representing it "legally confirmed but express
ly states that it is published in an official form by
the Government of Sardinia in order that it might
be the more readily believed in foreign countries
and received with the indignation which its details
are calculated to excite. Now, we have no wish to
forget on this, any more than other occasions that
there are two sides to the tale and we may perhaps
remark that the reports of Austrian rapine, incl
dentally denounced by Count CavOur in this very
circular, have been considerably qualified by cor
respondents of our own, one of them acting with
the Allied armies, and free from any Austrian bias
Still we cannot but conclude that this butcbery was
really perpetratedi in the manner described and both
Austrlans and Sardinians may well assure them
selves that the indignation of Europe will wait upon
the deed 1t is just possible that the evidence against
these poor peasants was somewhat stronger than is
aiieged,-that, we can imagine, would be the form
which the Austrian eXculpatOn would take: but
however this may be- the cold-blooded massacre of
the tamilyis is an act which NAV indeed have passed
as necessary in the days of Tilly Waenstein, but
which Will now only create a shudder of horror
tons that we can suppose would Justify this barbar-
Gus and Wholesale execution and that the execution
really took place, and that these nine countrvmen
were shot down described, we cannot doubt
Not only is there the constable to bear testimony
to the tale, but the old farmer himself not having
been killed on the spot, survived for five davs in
the hospital of VOghera to which he had been car
rled, and Count Cavour informs us that Gen. Ur-
bans card, with other documents bearing upon the
affair, remains in possession of the authorities
The other story to which we have referred furp-
lShes single contrast to this shocking piece of
military cruelty. An English traveller has actually
paid visit to the head qaa ters of Garbadi and has
given his countrymen, through the medium of our
columns, some description ofthis redoubtabe parti-
san. Garibald and his men have been painted by
the Austrans in coors of the very darkest dve in
somuch that our correspondent was fully prepared
to encounter some of the purest specimens of bri-
gands and cut-throats. To his surprise, he finds
qulet, Intelligent man. commanding body of order
" and respectable PATRIOTS not atred in very bril-
liant uniform or costume, but thoroughly weilcon-
dGcted, and animated, apparently, by sentiments
Whlch would do any men honor. Garibaldi feels
deeply tor his countrys wrongs, but he is neither
Drlgand nor butcher; and if which we should be
slow to believe, there many Austrian command
ers who could order such an outrage as that COM
mltted at Torrcella only say that those who
nave been heaping opprobrium the heads of the |
ltalan patriots must prepare to sustain the re- |
proaches themselves.