ITALY.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 307, 28 September 1860, Page 3

ITALY.

Genoa, July 24. A government must suvely 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 correspondsnt met on his way to Palermo five Neapolitan officers 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 not hesitated for a moment to sacrifice their brilliant position to the noblest of causes. They are Barons Francesco and Michele JRenzi, Count Conversano, and Marquises Castro Balba 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 his fleet for transporting fresh troops either to Calabiia or the Abruzzi, lest it should bolt to Palermo. In point of fact, there is no doubt that the hours of Bourbon dynasty are now numbered, and that its complete ruin is near at hand.. Signor Mana, 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 Mana is an intimate friend of Poerio, and he lias 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 has so despised at Portici only a month ago. Oa 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 therefore be astonished at hearing that the great popularity Count Cavour enjoyed only six months ago is, if not entirely gone, leastV greatly diminished. Garibaldi is the man of tbi day; and action, not diplomacy, is now wanted by the Italians. This will explain to you how the party which derived its name from Mazzina is now very powerful hi 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 galantuomo 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 death-blow to the King of Naples. We shall know before very long whether the Emperor meaus what he says. I shall start for Palermo this evening on board the Isere, so anxious lam to reach Sicily. More than a thousand volunteers- will be ray companions on the voyage;. Two thousand of these brave fellows sailed yesterday in the Amazon for the same destination. As } rou see, it is a regular crusade, of which Garibaldi is the "Peter the Hermit." Even Eugland is nobly represented in it, for with iue will sail this very evening, Captain Irwin, who was adjutant of the 7th Volunteer Eiflesj 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 wnat the excitement of ihe Italians is like. Signbrßeitani, Garibaldi's agent in.this .city, is busy at work sending to Sicily men, arms, and money. Hehasestablished avegular office, which is partly directed by Count Piancidhi, the well-known author of a book upon the crime* of the Roman Court,