The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-13

1860, he resumed his premiership, and Parma
and Modena were at once annexed to Sardinia.
In March the people Of Tuscany and the Emf
lian provinces of the Pontihcal States voted
overwhelmingly In favor of annexa.
tion, in preference to being formed into o
separate kingdom, and on their incorporation
with Sardinia, the name of the kingdom was
changed to Italy. Meanwhile an instruction
had broken out in Sicily, at the head of which
Garibaldi placed himself. The Neapolitan
troops were routed at Calataflrni on May Is; on
June 6 the Sicilian capital, Palermo, surren-
dered Melozzo capitulated on July 27; and
King Bomba saw that his hold on
Sicily could no longer be maintained by
force of arms. Liberal concessions were
resoEted to. as forlorn hope for retaining
Naples, but they came too late. On August 10,
Garibaldi landed on the peninsula, and in
short time, either through his own victories or
local Instructions, was master of the southern
portion of Naples. The King abandoned his
capital and endeavored to make a stand at
Gaeta. He left Naples on the afternoon of
September g. and on the following morning
Garibaldi made triumphal entry
amidst the widest enthusiasm of the
people. A last and dearly-bought victory
was won on the banks of the Volturno, after
which the liberator resigned the Dictatorship
which he had assumed and signed proclama-
ton by which the people of the Two Sicilies
were summoned, on October 81, to decide upon
their own destiny. After the occupation of
Naples by Garibaldi, the army of King Victor
Emanuel, who had given the insurrection his
open countenance from the first, had advanced
into Neapoliian territory and completed the
work.
The people decided, by vote of 1,3l0, 900 out
of APO, 600, in favor of annexation to the king
dom of Italy. On November the King made
triumphal entry into the city of Naples, with
Garibaldi at his side, and on February ID, 1861,
Gaeta, the last post held by the former King of
Naples, surrendered, and Francis III, stripped of
all semblance of power, sought refuge in
Rome.
Victor Emanuel now found himself at the
head of kingdom numbering $4,000, 900
people; but the Pope still maintained his sway
over the natural capital of the peninsula aud
the surrounding territory, and Austria still had
a foothold in Venetia. The Prusso-Austrian
war of 1866 resulted in driving Austria beyond
the Alps, and rendering the borders of the new
kingdom of Italy conterminous with those of
the peninsula, with the single exception of Rome
and its petty dependencies. Italy declared war
against Austria on June 20, 1866. A great battle
was fought at Custoza on June "a, in which the
Italians were worsted. They also sustained a
great naval defeat off Lissa July 49, but
these reverses were compensated for by the
crushing defeats sustained by Austria at the
hands of Prussia, and in July the Italians over
ran Venetia almost without encountering resist
ance, an armistice being agreed upon oa
the Goth.
A treaty of peace was finally concluded be-
tween Italy and Austria on October 3, 1866, in
which Francis Joseph, the Emperor of Austria,
agreed that $50 far as he is concerned Veneha
is acquired for Italy. A popular vote was
Immediately TAKEN resulting in GAL, 75S votes for
annexation to Italy, and only SO against Upon
receiving this result from Venetian deputa-
tion, King Victor Emanuel exclaimed, as we'll
he might, ''This day is the proudest of my life."
All Italy was at last united under one govern
ment, with the exception of the 1859 sqnare
miles of territory and 723, 121 people still sub
iect to the dominion of the Pope.
Rome the Capital of Italy.
And now, as indicated by the latest despaches
from Europe the grand consummation of Ita-
lian unity is about to be witnessed. The evacu-
alton of the Eternal City by the French troops,
which was completed on the Sth of August
left the temporal power of the Pope
at the mercy of the Red Republicans, and to
avoid the establishment of Republic in Rome
Victor Emanuel is about marching into the city
towards which the eyes of all Italy have been
turned for years with an impatient longing.