The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-08-16
Tho Impending Movement in Italy.

Tho Impending Movement in Italy.
Our latest advices announce the imminence
Of popular movement in the democratic
sense throughout the Italian peninsula, and
add the significant expression that the procla-
nation of republic there Is awaited from day
to day. This news chimes in singularly with
the more detailed intelligence just received
from the same quarter by mail. The journals
of Florence, Milan and Naples mention the
revival of agitation both North and South. In
Lombardy the Mazzinians, led on by Menotti
Garibaldi, are vigorously at work, and depots
of arms and ammunition concealed by them
have been discovered by the police in every
district of the city Of Milan. In Rome, so
soon as the telegram announcing the with
drawal of the French garrison was made
public, masses Of Romans were seen shaking
hands with each other and interchanglng salu-
tatlons in suppressed voice. The Holy Father
himself, in conversation with a foreign diplomat,
Is said to have remarked that only second
Montana could recommend him to the forbear-
ance of the Italian troops, and that was out of
the question, since 1t would require third
French intervention-a thing clearly impossi-
BILE. Meanwhile, twenty thousand Italian
regulars, under General La Marmora, have
been thrown forward toward Viterbo, prelimi-
nary to friendly occupation of the Roman
States, and the Papal government is concen-
trating all its troops in the city and hastily re-
pairing Its Notifications, while every effort is
made to supply the places OF the many French
and German officers who are withdrawing from
the immediate service of his Holiness in order
to take active part in the struggle at home.
The convention between France and Italy
for the evacuation OF Rome, recently devised
by the French Emperor on the one side and
Generals Menabrea and Nigra on the other,
and conveyed to Florence by Count Vimercati,
explicitly contemplates an offensive and defen-
sive alliance between the two Powers; the
restoration of the convention of September Is,
1864, to all its force and bearing; the protec-
ton of the Papal See against every species
Of insurrection and violence, and the
granting of loan by France to Italy. These
specifications have, of course, awakened the
ire Of the Italian radicals, and their organs
throughout the country are in full cry against
the royal government. The comic papers,
which are widely circulated and WELD in
fluence in Italy, represent the latter in the
form of a beautiful female asleep, while the
hands Of Napoleon III. and Victor Emmanuel
are seen joining in the distance. A man of
the people calls on her to awake. This ap-
peal to popular passion, sustained, as it is, by
the entire radical press, has not passed I'M
needed, and violent demonstrations are in pro-
gress against any movement on the part of
Italy to interfere in the German-French war.
Nevertheless, the Turin papers state that
orders have been issued to all the railway
authorities of Northern Italy to hasten their
arrangements for the transportation of the new
contingents Of men just called out for army
service, and in all the chief cities of the realm
bids are requested for heavy military supplies.
These preparations, in view of the peculiar
financial and social condition Of Italy, are not
made without an eye TO business. The hour
is, undoubtedly, close at hand when the gentle
man King will be forced along with the popu-
lar tide to make Rome the civic capital of Italy,
or to suppress, if he can, the uprising of the
radicals with the red right hand. In either
case, should Napoleon fall, the spirit of the
old S. p. G. R.-the Senate and people of
Rome combined in republican common
wealth-will be lowering near. Whether Pom
tifcal exorcism will be directed, or even be re-
quired against it, is a question not difficult TO
answer in republican America.