The Sun. — 1859-10-11 (London, England)

ANVM. Further particulars have now enabled us to recognise only too vividly the whole horror of this atrocious and most lamentable catastrophe. Musing over those particulars, one cannot but instinctively call to mind that despairing cry which rang from the lips of the beautiful RoLAND when she stood upon the scaffold of the guillotine awaiting her own turn for execution—that lamentable cry which will resound for ever down the lengthened perspective'of history—" Oh, Liberty ! in thy name what crimes are perpetrated!" Here, in this detestable assassination of the Count ANVITI, is the latest and not the least execrable of these peculiar atrocities. Until ANVITI was "done to death" in the streets of Parma, during one of the earlier days of this month of October (the Fifth)—the calm, majestic, resolute, and. tranquil attitude maintained by the population of the Duchies from the moment when their respective Princes had fled to the camp of the Austrians (there flagrantly to draw the sword amongst the foes of Italian independence), this calm, majestic, resolute, and tranquil attitude on the part of the population of the Duchies had been the theme of very general and of nobly-deserved admiration. Sympathising here in England with the loftier hopes and aspirations of the Italians, we all said exultingly, in the presence of that superb self-command on the part of the inhabitants of those central portions of the Roman peninsula—They are worthy of realising those glorious dreams of their social and political emancipation ! Suddenly, in the midst of which emotional greetings of applause from their sympathisers, come from Parma the tidings of this most unlooked for calamity! Happily—(it is about the only thought by way of compensative mitigation left to us)—" It all passed," we do believe, as it is said to have done by an eyewitness, or rather by one who was there in Parma at the period of the assassi"lt all passed in a sudden whirl." It was —we are firmly persuaded—the act resulting from an outburst of popular delirium : a deed—abrupt and unpremeditated.  n at ion—'  Intelligence suddenly falls like a bombshell into the midst of the city of Parma—news that Colonel ANVITI, commander of the Parma soldiery during the brief interval when martial law was enforced, that Colonel ANVITI of all men, he who was among the most detested among all the adherents of the late dynasty (as his dreadful death, indeed, has but too signally demonstrated)—that Colonel ANVITI had been discovered on the frontiers ! That the ex-commander of Parma had been discovered there —disguised—in company, it was said, with an Austrian general—he himself (ANVITI) having in his possession letters, money, and aPapal passport. To get 'tier with these sudden tidings came the knowledge that Col. ANVITI had been placed in the custody of the gendarmes (by the patriotic volunteers by whom he }tad been captured), and that he was then actually at that moment in Parma in the barracks of the gieridarmes under temporary confinement. Here obviously was the error of the authorities. A prisoner of such importance, oie so especially hateful Ito the population, ought in reason to have been encircled by a guard proportioned in energy and determination to the extent of ANVITI'S unpopularity and to the exceeding gravity of the time and circumstances. The tidings of the wretched prisoner's capture, we are told, " ran suddenly like a shock through the city "—it passed mysteriously through all Parma with "a thrill of execration." The corre.ipondent who recounts the murder to one of our principal morning contemporaries, the Post, sums up the deed of blood in a single sentence when he writes—" A crowd gathered romsd the barrack, and on a sudden movement a number of the most brutal of the populace burst in, stabbed the wretched man to death, dragged his body through the streets, and having Qat off his head., placed it upon the column of the  L_.,  MU I. .S° • < • • " A;# Auk. 4 .4••••,110, .44 . - . -;.'41114 1.4 1. •310 ", ~301;‘) 11144