The morning call., 1894-12-29
EXIT BOMBING.

| The news of the death of francesca
| IL Of Naples carries US back to what now
seems ancient history. Francesca sue
ceeded his father. Bomba, as King oil
Naples and the two Sicilies just at the time
the Northern soul was being fired to blood
heat by the attempts Of the Southerners tc
plant slavery in Kansas. American
who were then abroad remember him as q
| mild young man who professed the most
beautiful sentiments, and promised to
esta blish the millennium in the worst-gov.
erned country in Europe. By contrast
with his father, a sovereign who was only
slightly dlabolical would have seemed
angelic. francesca assured the leading
Neapnlltans that, during his reign. the
subterranean dungeons of the castle of
st. Elmo would be abandoned to bats and
spiders, aud that the lord high executiuner
might take long holiday. But il was
not in the nature of Bourbon 10 tell the
truth or to keep his word. The boy
Kings seat on the throne was not warm
when he began to arrest patriots and to
execute critics of The monarchy. In their
bitter rage the Neapolitans christened
him Bombino. He responded by massing
his troops round his cities.
Events vera marching swiftly. In early
June of 1859 The French crossed the Alps
and drove the Austrlans out of all North
ern Italy except Venice and the Quad
rilateral. In the March following Central
Italy Joined the kingdom of Savoy. A
few weeks afterward an Instruction broke
out IN Palermo, Messina and Catania.
what was wanted was a leader. He
turned up in the person OF Garibaldi.
The noble veteran notified Cavour that be
intended to sail for Sicily at the head of a
thousand men. To this the statesman re-
piled that such an enterprise was contrary
to law and must be stopped; but if Carl
baldl needed arms or supplies for any
friends who happened to be going fishing
the royal arsenals had orders to supply
them. Piedmon tese men-of-war would ac-
company him on his proposed voyage to
preserve the peace. In week from that
time Garibaldi landed at Marsala and pro-
claimed Victor Emmanuel King of Italy.
From there he marched almost without
striking blow to the gates of Naples. An
American who accompanied him, and who
had seen real fighting and was destined to
see more, described the march as farce.
Bonn bino's subjects threw their hats in the
air at the approach of his enemies; his
soldiers enlisted under Garibaldi. The
boy King and his wife, " no was more of
man than he was, took refuge in the strong
fortress of Gaeta.
GaribaldTs operations were pronounced
very irregular and reprehensibe by Ca
YOUR, and to avoid further trouble. as the
guerrilla chieftaln had artillery heavy
enough to-bombard Gaeta, General Cial-
DIM was sent down with besieging train
and took the place. Victor Emmanuel
reprimanded Garibaldi for disturbing the
peace In the dominions of his good
brother, Francesca the Second: after
which the King and the Lberator made
their entry into Naples. side by side,
through crowds which shouted. Long live
United Italyi Long live King Victor
Emmanuel" while Bombino was seeking
safety on board French man-of-war. By
an odd coincidence the triumphal entry
which commemorated The final expulsion
Of the Bonrbons and the union of Naples
and the two Sicilies with the rest OF Italy
took place on the day after the election of
Abraham Lincoln as President of the
United States.
From that time until Thursday last
Bombino has been a wanderer on the face
OF the earth. stopping now and then to
concoct feeble plots against the Italian
monarchy. but as rule leading life of
ease and idleness. as monarch re-
tired from business. He has formed
one Of the band of ''sovereigns in exile"
in which the Count of Chambord, the
Duke of Bordeaux, Queen Isabella of
Spain and more lately Dom Pedro of
Brazil have been enrolled. They have not
been an edifying spectacle. History
credits the BOurbons with few good
deeds. and they may plead them in extern
uation when their case is called before the
final judge of mankind. But in reviewing
the whole record the observer must pro-
nounce that the evil which they did so
Overwhelmingly predominates over the
good that it were irony to affect sorrow
over their disannearanpa