The Sun. — 1860-06-05 (London, England)

GARIBALDI. Two thousand against twenty-five thousand! Certainly GARIBALDI and his followers have the nation, the people themselves, at his back. That is their reliance—that is what they counted upon when setting forth upon this apparently rasli, but, as the event is proving, perfectly rational expedition. But equally certain is it—that when the soldiers of GARIBALDI first put foot upon Sicilian soil they mustered actually under " two thousand." So formidable, however, was that little band under the leadership of their famous Captain, that the war ships from Naples at their approach wisely kept aloof—allowed them to effect a landing uninterruptedly—they, the volunteers, together with their arms and accoutre ments, and then—but not till then—opened fire upon the two empty and deserted vessels that had brought over the expedition! Precisely in the same safe and cautious manner are they acting now, with a view to inflict as much damage as possible upon their antagonists, with as small danger as may be of any injury being inflicted in return upon themselves. The army of 25,000 men being unable to defend Palermo against the 2,000 volunteers under GARIBALDI, the Neapolitan fleet begins determinedly opening fire upon the defenceless city—an act of desperation happily but seldom adventured upon in modern warfare, and then only. until now, under circumstances of the utmost extremity. Where large masses of unarmed people— civilians—men, women, and children—arc crowded together, there the artillery of true warriors will be found (when looking retrospectively down the long vista of history), but rarely, indeed, to have directed their fire, a fire that so directed is felt instinctively by brave men to be little less than literally murderous ! The Neapolitans are open• ing a new era in warfare. They are giving the world a precedent, in regard to which it will have to be remembered that a royal army 25,000 strong having been driven to an extremity by a little band of two thousand, have conceived it to be only reasonable, nay,the merest matter ofcourse, that they, the vast defeated majority, should be avenged by the brutal bombardment of adefenceless city crowded with civilians of both sexes and of all ages ! Again, we ask, is the continuance of this act of unexampled brutality, of unparalleled inhumanity, to be tolerated by the nations, even by the neutral powers of Christendom ? The act itself is one of such peculiar atrocity as to afford even the most peace-loving advocates of non-intervention the opportunity, the right, (might we not rather say, the sol€mn and imperative duty ?) of interference. The bombardment of Palermo caps the climax of everything that has ever been charged against the Neapolitan Government. Will it not serve, tos, most effectually, to brim up the cup—there in Sicily, there also in Naples itself —of the popular indignation ?  It is not in our own Church alone that there are Churches within a Church, or at least great diversities, doctrinal and ecclesiastical, among those who bear, religiously, the same name. As we have our High and Low, onr Broad and Moderate Churchmen, so the other great Christian bodies of our