Our Turin correspondent sends a small but valuable contribution to
the news of Garibaldi's venture :—
" Turin, Hay 9. " We are as yet without news of the Garibaldi expedition of the 5th instant, which was to rebuild and revive the Sicilian insurrection. Garibaldi has since been followed by a much greater force than his im- mediate escort ; and, as I have already said, almost everything turns on the landing ; if happily accomplished, then en avant. I inclose Garibaldi's letter, or last words to one of the deputies.
"Unexpected difficulties have ansen in the preliminary labours of the delimitation of Nice and Savoy ; and, as the treaty for the cession of these provinces is rather meagre on that point, there will be no way for Piedmont but to yield."
We have the text of General Garibaldi's letter to Signor Bertini, to whom he entrusts important duties :— "Use all possible means to aid us in our undertaking.
"Make the Italians aware that, if we are duly assisted, in a little time ' Italy ' will be made, and at small cost ; but that they will not have done their duty, if they limit themselves to a few sterile subscriptions. "That the part of Italy which is now free, instead of a hundred thousand aeldiers, ought na irm five hundred thousand ; a number certainly not 'dig- ?repot-timed. tb the population. That small states which have not their independence to conquer, possess that proportion of soldiers. That with
such an army, Italy would no lone. i
longer be n need of foreign patrons, who will consume her little bylittle under the pretext of freeing her." Garibaldi says that wherever Italians are fighting their oppressors, they must be helped to the uttermost ; and the Sicilian insurrection should be aided "wherever there are enemies to combat."
"I did not counsel the movement in Sicily, but, our brothers having of themselves taken up arms, I felt bound to help them. "Our war-cry will always be—' Italy and Victor Emmanuel!' "
A Vienna despatch of the 9th instant, in the Nerd, says that the Foreign Office there has received intelligence of Garibaldi's having landed ill Sicily, with 600 men.
There are further reports this afternoon ; that General Garibaldi has landed not in Sicily, but in Calabria, and that the insurrection in Sicily has extended.
The official journal of Rome declares that King Victor Emmanuel was "very anxious" while in the Romagna and 'in a great hurry to depart."
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