ITALY.

Marlborough Press, Volume I, Issue 40, 6 October 1860, Page 3

ITALY.

{From, the Special Correspondent of the Evening Express.) Genoa, July 24. A government must surely be near shipwreck when friends and enemies alike desert the country in spite of the granting of a liberal constitution. Such is, however, the case with Naples. Your special correspondent met on his way to Palermo five Neapolitan oflicers who, after having sent in their resignation, left Naples in order to join Garibaldi in Sicily. The following are the names of these five noble fellows, who at this great crisis in the affairs of their native country, have no hesitated for a moment to sacrifice their brilliant position to the noblest of causes. They are Barons Francesco and Michele Renzi, Count Conversano,. and Marquises Castro Baiba and Camella. They all held commissions in the Life Guard of his Sicilian Majesty. They told me that the sentiments by which they are actuated, and which induced them to leave their native country, animate the great majority of their fellow-officers. It is, besides, their firm opinion that as soon as Garibaldi shall have set foot on the Neapolitan continent, the so much talked of royal army will melt away like snow in the April sun. The Neapolitan navy is so much against the King that the government does not dare to employ it against the conqueror of Sicily, nor does he dare to use hie fleet for transporting fresh troops either to Calabria or the Abruzzi, lest it should bolt to Palermo. In point of fact, there is no doubt that the hours of the Bourbon dynasty are now numbered, and that its completeruin is near at hand. Signor Manna, the envoy of the King to Turin, seems to share this opinion, and I am told that this gentleman did not hesitate to say so to his intimate friends. Signor Manna is an intimate friend of Poerio, and he has seen both him and Signor Devincenzi in Turin, where the steady and determined patriotism of these two Neapolitan refugees was not such as to give him much encouragement You may easily understand how difficult is the position of Count Cavour. On the one hand, he cannot decline to negotiate with the envoy of a so-called Italian prince who so far humiliates himself as to seek the

alliance of that very sovereign who was so despised at Portici only a month ago. On the other hand, foreign diplomacy presses upon the Sardinian premier the acceptance of an alliance which the Italian people condemn and abhor. You must not be therefore astonished at hearing that the great popularity Count Cavour enjoyed only six months ago is, if not entirely gone, at least greatly diminished. Garibaldi is the man of the day; and action, not diplomacy, is now wanted by the Italians. This will explain to you how the party which derived its name from Mazzini is now very powerful in this country. Not that there is any great propensity to republican principles amongst the Italians: they are heartily attached to Victor Emmanuel, for. they know that the King galant -uomo is the dearest friend of Garibaldi. But they think that the day is come for acting, and the king himself, I hear, shares this opinion. According to what I heard in an exceedingly well informed quarter, on my passing through Turin, Louis Napoleon is not very much against this policy of action, .which will strike a deaih blow to the King of Naples. We shall know before very long whether the Emperor really meaus what he says. I shall start for Palermo this evening, on board the Isere, so anxious am Ito reach Sicily. More than a thousand volunteers will be my companions on the voyage. Two thousand of these brave fellows sailed yesterday in the Amazon for the same destination. As you see., it is .a regular crusade, of which Garibaldi is the “ Peter the Hermit.” Even England is nobly represented in it, for with me will sail, this very evening, Captain Irwin, who was adjutant of the 7th Volunteer Rifles, besides other Englishmen. I hear that Kossuth is expected in Italy at the end of this month; and great are people’s speculation about the arrival of the Hungarian leader. Were you here you would see what the excitement of the Italians is like. Signor Bertani, Garibaldi’s agent in this city, is busy at work sending to Sicily men, arms, and money. . He has established a regular office, which is partly directed by CQunt Pianciani, the well-known author of a book upon the crimes of the Roman Court.