The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

GARIBALDI'S ARRIVAL IN LONDON Leaving Freshwater at 6.30 yesterday morning, ; driving through hamlets and villages, the entire population of which were turned out to have a farewell glimpse of Garibaldi ; after being inspected I curiously and rejected disdainfully by group after group of men, women, and childreu,who had heard of the coming departure from Brooke, and who, taking us for avant couriers, invest us momentarily with a factitious interest, only to dash us (morally) to the ground, we arrive at Cowes shortly before ten. No flags were visible on the fleet of yachts sta tioned in the Medina, and but few to be seen in the town, until we reach the pier. I The General had been there on the preceding Saturday, it was known that he would merely , hurry through, that it was the wish of many of his' friends that he should be spared much excite- Emit so early on the moruing of this eventful Monday, and the Cowes people, obedient I to requirements rather implied than expressed, contented themselves with grouping quietly at various points approaching the town. Running the gauntlet of many a lorgnette, and invariably I witnessing the same dissatisfied expression come! over the faces of our inspectors, as soon as it is I found we are not somebody other than ourselves, we reach the place where the General is to embark. Here are the first symptoms of the old old story we have detailed from time to time these ten days. Flags suspended from one side to the other of the pier, fla4s from its paying places, its wharves, its steamers ; people congregating (though in small numbers) about its gate, and a mingled air of patient waitiug and eager expectancy pervading the whole. After half-an hour or so, the carriages drive up, and the General (in his silver-grey and red poncho and the puce silk handkerchief), Mr. and Mrs. Seely, Colonel and Mrs. Chambers, and the rest of the party, step on board the steam ship Mediu.. (placed at the disposal of Garibaldi by the Southampton and Isle of Wight Mailboat Com pany, the whole of whose directorate are on deck to receive their guests). A little confusion at the gate, during which Mr. Seely himself certifies who are, and who are not, to be admitted, some delay in waiting for the luggage from Brooke, much shaking hands with townspeople, who artfully row round to the side of the steamer whereon the General stands, many acknowledgments of the cheers on the pier, and a particularly deep obeisance to a young lady who waves with her own fair hands a large white flag having a cross for its device, and we rapidly bid good bye to the Isle of Wight. The company's flag had been at the mast-head until the General came on board, when his colours were hoisted, to which a large foreign screw steamer (the funnels of which are so short as to be all but imperceptible) responds by manning its yards (four of its crew on each yard), by lowering its own flag as we pass, and by ringing vehemently at its ship's bells. We are at some distance when all this occurs, and the General anxiously tries to show his appreciation by waving with red wrapped arm his cap to and fro, as lie stands at his full height. Passing the pretty little yacht Medea, decked out as on Saturday in its brightest and most compli mentary hues, passing, too, immediately under the stern of the Boscawen training ship, which silently mans its yards with a clustering, clinging crew of human ants, who wave cape, make signs, and are as outwardly demonstrative as it is possible to be, without breaking discipline by indulgencetin cheers,and the chaplain of which, hat waving as heartily as the rest of them, receives a spe cial recognition from the general, we are soon bailing the familiar Southampton pier, and are pointing out to each other thegold chain of the Mayor as he comes to meet our boat. It may be here noted that the mute eloquence of the Boscawen's salute, its combi nation of open enthusiasm and manly self control, formed one of the most touching tributes we have seen paid to Garibaldi. Thoughtful men noted this on the journey to the island a week or so ago, and if the cultivation of generous sympathies, and the perfection of self command, are the ends of educa tion, assuredly the youth on board the Boscawen are highly educated indeed. We had left Cowes about half-past ten, and after a run of some fifty minutes (during which the directors' hos pitality is duly appreciated, the General sending for Pietro directly he is himself below), we land at Southampton. Hurrying to the station, we pass through several offices and ante-rooms, all of which are lined with well-dressed people wait ing for a farewell peep of the General. Now do the guns of the town give forth a right royal salute ; now does the special train, certain carriages of which are gorgeously decorated with laurels and the Garibaldian colours, receive such of its passengers as are not accompanying the General from the pier to the station ; now is there • short delay, caused, we are told (erroneously), by the presentation of an address from the Mayor of Winchester ; and now does a pleasant, albeit peculiar, sound fall upon the ear. When the popular candidate at the Eatanswill election went through certain rites with the wives and children of the electors, his agent astonished Mr. Pickwick by the ecstatic excitement with which he uttered " He's kissing them all round '." We cannot, as veracious chroniclers, make the same assertion ; for the writer was comfortably seated in his carriage at this stage, and it was the laughter-compelling, crush-suggesting sounds evoked by this decidedly popular ceremony, what ever it may have been, which induced him to ask why we were waiting, and what it was all about " You're not to start till 12, and the're a'nearly a'kisaiu' of him to death," was the answer made me, and as sincere and ardent admirers of General Garibaldi, I hope for his sake and in his interest that the news was true. Next does the platform become gradually thronged, and we remark many of the now familiar faces of the town-council amongst our fellow-passengers. Mr. and Mrs. Seely, Colo nel and Mrs. Chambers, and the Mayor of South ampton occupy one compartment with the General, and to the music of " Hats off ! Now then, cheer !" we glide out of the station punctually at 12. A momentary stoppage a few yards from the plat form, during which the "seem off," headed by Mr. Arthur Andrews, come forward to exchange a few more last words with their particular friends, or to obtain another peep at the General, and we are fairly on our way. Moderating our speed at Bishopstoke, but scarcely sufficiently to give the comparatively few people assembled there an op portunity of greeting or even recognising Garibaldi, we stop first at Winchester where an address is presented' to the General. Eminently hearty, and decidedly enthusiastic as was the feeling dis played, its expression would have been more dignified had it been regulated with some approach to order. At one time the pres sure on the carriages seemed almost dangerous, and though crawling on the stomach underneath a rail way train, on the mere chauce of obtaining a better peep at one of its occupants, denotes energy and perseverance, it is apt to give those who witness the feat some awkward qualms as to its immunity from danger. Mr. Walters, the mayor, struggled bravely against the obtrusive sympathy of his friends, but, as it seemed to us, with but moderate result. Neither the persuasions of the church (largely represented on this platform), nor the volunteer officers, who were in full uniform, nor the awful presence of the mace itself, sufficed to moderate the eagerness of those who perhaps felt this to be their first and only chance of being face to face with Garibaldi We see the Hon. Ralph Dutton. one of the directors, and Mr. Godson, the superintendent of the line; but it is only for an instant, and they speedily merge into the struggling mass composed of the men and women of Winchester. These gentlemen travelled with this train as a special compliment to Garibaldi, and the smart and apparently quite bran new embroidered uniform and pure white gloves of the stalwart handsome guard t suspect that the ootupany had not only soh 004 CDS of the best-looking and most geniaaisi r its servants, but had presented him with a epee& attire whertts to figure on this memorable occasion. We step some 50 yards from the Windhoek* Station its emit the mayor, who iu his scarlet robe has been received into Garibaldi's carriage, there to read his address. Where he sat, or how he accomplished the feat, it is difficult to guess. It is trying to read • formal document in public at all, whether from • dais, a chair, or a rostrum. It must also be trying to find yourself located iu a railway carriage, every seat of which is fully occu pied, some of the occupants being ladies. But the combination of trial is surely reached when, muni cipal robes and all, you find yourself among a party of strangers, to one of whom you bear a special and peculiar mission. It may have been that the address was read at the platform in spite of the crowd, and that the after interview was of a purely social character. We have only to record that on all heads being put out of window to ascertain the [ cause of stoppage ' we saw his worship picking his way on the line between our train and a row of empty trucks, and that we concluded that the crowd bad so interfered with his elocution as to compel him to seek a temporary retreat. At Woking we have another stoppage, and one very stout farmer, balancing himself on a ; small hillock in the outskirts of the I sown, stands upon one leg, throws up his hat, gives the General a hip hip, and is supremely if solitarily happy. Later on, when we are in the station itself, two trains are shunted (it is said) for ours to pass. A lady in down train has evidently Lad secret and occult official information, for she pro duces • carefully culled, and tastefully arranged bouquet, which, poising carefully, she throws, or rather attempts to throw, into the General's lap. Now does her train whiz rapidly off, and now do we observe John, the rail way porter, grin from ear to ear, as he picks up and shows said bouquet to his fellow-offioers, and hint incontinently as to the effect it may produce in other than martial minds. We were sorry for the Kingston and Wimbledon people, but there was no help for it. We rattled by them merrily to keep our appointment in London, and though each of the platforms was moderately crowded, and though we heard their cheers vaguely, and saw them waving hands like misty fantoecini, the whole thing was too rapid for Garibaldi to be really recognised. Now, as indeed they have done all along the road, do the small gardens of the detached and semi-detached villas, the houses fax away from neighbours, furnish their one or two hat and handkerchief wavers, and so contribute their mite to the welcome being given. The children of the Patriotic School are marshalled on its lawn, and we hope (as no doubt has been done) that the scope and origin of the building are explained to the General. Not so the Freemasons' girls, who look, as it seems half fur tively, over their railings, and who have not appa rently beet even told to don their best attire in honour of the day. Passing by railway servants, who are waving laurel branches until they resemble Macbeth's enemies at Dunsinane, noting that the denser and denser crowds become on the various fields and waste grounds, all denote our proximity to London, we are drawn up, and soon follow the General into the highly decorated goods-shed, which has been converted into a temporary triumphal hall for his reception. No sooner was the writer of this account in the yard outside ' after the address-presenting and the , departure of Garibaldi, than he was bailed by Signor Basso, who bad by some mischance beeu left out of the carriages, and who good-naturedly said it was quite impossible to find room for all. He piloted the latter, together with some ladies, to a convey ance, and then set about securing one for him self. Mr. John Richardson, of the reception committee (who is by no means to be confounded with Captain Richardson, of Southampton) gave us a seat in his, and learning from his fellow-com mitteeman, Mr. Taylor, that the General ( whoa, be it always remembe red, not a teetotaller) had just spoken of temperance societies as "excellent institutions," we pass into the road with the Duke of Sutherland's carriage, containing General Gari baldi, following immediately after those of the reception committee. Gradually another and another carriage creeps in, and we have at length to say, in reply to anxious inqniries, that he is seven, and not five carriages behind. We advance to eight, nine, and ten, and at last think it better to say "about twelve." At Westminster-bridge we see, or think we see, the Sutherland and the postillions, and as we progress upCharing cross and Pall-mall, we gain some popularity by the readiness with which we answer questions, and inform our street friends of the whereabouts of the general and of the short time they will have to wait, All this time we keep remarking to each other on the extreme calmness of the crowd behind. They are orderly, gond-tempered, polite, but surely very very quiet. "It's the lesson we've impressed upon them," explains a gentleman on our right. "It's looked on as a trial day for the working classes, and they're afraid of being called noisy, " remarks another on our left, and with these ex planations we are fain to be content. Still, we cannot understand how they can let Garibaldi go by without cheering more than they do, soon being set down in St. James's-street the writer walks back to Pall-mall, to note for himself the precise behaviour of the crowd as the General passes. He waits there for some time, he sees not twelve, but many times twelve, carriages pass by ; he notes the impurtability of the policeman, who drives one of her Majesty's vans in the procession's rear, a procession of ribboned wands is seen, and finally there it merely a [crowd of pedestrians. Nobody can make it out, except the present writer. ' Be knows all about it, and dispenses his informa tion, it is to be feared, in a somewhat patrouising way. He last saw Garibaldi's carriage by the Houses of Parlianieut, the conveyance in which be sat was only twelve behind him then, and he, the speaker, is morally certain, that for some reason ' yet to be explained, the general has been taken round by the park, and is now comfortably located in Stafford-house. After this thesis has been iterated a few times, and proved to be correct by indisputable logic, after many people have been persuaded to give up their seats, and many others have been ridiculed for their persistent folly in keeping theirs after the detachment we have named • has been fully rested and refreshed, and just as it is petulantly repeating its " matter of fact, not of opinion," as to the impossibility of Garibald i now to a particularly obstinate young man, who having paid two shillings for a stand is determined ' to have his money's worth, there comes a mighty roar as of a deluge suddenly let forth, then another, and another, and immediately afterwards the General's carriage stops the way. It was very humiliating, and sufficiently extraordinary, but we had been leading a solemn procession, in the utmost ignorance as to the whereabouts of the man whom we had assembled to honour, and had uncon- I sciously left Garibaldi so far behind as to think 11 cheering absent , when it was only inaudible. • During the evening we met by chance Signors I j Menotti and Guerzoni, who both expressed them selves highly gratified by the truly grand demon : I stzation of the day. THE THE RECEPTION AT NINE ELMS. At dawn yesterday morning the approaches to Nine Elms station ex hibited more life and bustle than is usually found in that somewhat quiet loca lity at noonday. Everywhere men were engaged in putting up stands to enable such as chose to pay from half a crown to a pound and upwards to obtain a good view of the illustrious patriot. It was a happy thought on the part of the Working Men's Committee, to suggest Nine Elms station for the reception, and the South Western Railway Company, with an alacrity that does them honour, fell at once into the views of the gentlemen who took upon themselves the arduous task of superintending the arrangements for a public reception into the metropolis, which has no parallel in the history of the country. Early in the morning the extent of the preparations which bad been made, and with the perfect order which prevailed, were striking. While outside all was confusion and bustle, inside all was calm quietude and simple expectancy. EXPRESS, TUESDAY BANG, Early as it was, the pavements were lined with crowds of people. triages arrived in rapid succes sion, and large bodkin' of police well using liereelean efforts to direct them in thetight line of route. To add to the ordinary didinult,y ei moving in • crowd, the usual road to the Nines nes statism was blocked up by the works in progress for the great metropolitan sewer, consequently carriages had to be turned down a circuitous route by way of South Lambeth, and much confusion on the part of the drivers and gesticulation on that of the police , was the result. Everything, however, was tiooe with perfect good humour, the people ' were out for a holiday, and were deter- ' untied that nothing should disturb their en-, joyment. Most of the stands erected in the vicinity of the station were .filled to suffocation hours before the time fixed for the arrival of the special train conveying Garibaldi and his suite from Southampton. By-and-by came the trade societies which had formed in procession iu various quarters of London, and now marched up the Wandsworth rued with their bands playing and their banners displayed in great numbers. But there were no irritating party mottoes, no political symbols among them. rho appeal made by the authorities to the simple good sense of the people had been quite sufficient, and upon the banners specially made for this purpose simple expreesious of cordial welcome to Garibaldi were all that were to be seen. There were many hundreds of splendid colours displayed by various trade societies, gorgeous in appearance and gigantic in size, but not one contained au emblem to which the least objec tion could be taken by even the woet sensitive. The Italian colours—red, white, and green—as might be expected, preponderated, and they were of all shapes and sizes. First on the ground was the Society of Old Friends, with some thirty magni ficent double-staff banners, and they were quickly followed by the Foresters, the Odd Fellows, and a long array of trade societies, each with baud and banners displayed, defiling past the gates of the station in dense columns, extending as far as the eye could reach, and at length massing themselves in the centre of the road until the time had arrived for them to march past the General. Meanwhile, within the station all was perfect order. By wonderful exertions on the part of the company the large space of • ground usually filled with a multitude of carriages, waggons, and all the machinery connected with a large goods and carriage depot, lad been cleared, and as the carriages which were to take part in the procession arrived, they were ranged in • line on one side of the now open space. Two or three policemen at the great gates and one or two of the committee to examine the tickets were found quite sufficient to maintain order ; and as the rare but admirable precaution had been adopted of not issuing more tickets than the building in which the addresses were made would hold, once inside, there was not the least crowding. The gates were thrown open at half past twelve o'clock, and from that tune till two the ticket holders dropped comfortably in by twos and threes, until at length the shed was completely filled. Inside the gates of the yard bands were playing, policemen marshalling, carriages taking up their places, and a select few of the Garibaldian Legion, some 40 in number, who fought under him in Italy, stood ready to greet their General once more with a rapturous and triumphant cheer. These fine fellows, who all appeared young and active, formed a very marked feature in the station-yard, and from their intimacy with the General they became, until the arrival of their chief absorbed all regard, the admired of all admirers. An excellent arrangement had been made to run a temporary platform right out from the large goods shed in which the reception took place on to the siding itself, so that the General and his suite had only to step at once from the carriage to this platform and enter the building. The shed was very elegantly decorated, and the whole of this part of the arrangements reflects greet credit upon Mr. George Potter, one of the secretaries of the Working Men's Committee, in whom the con trol of the arrangements inside the station was vested. Platforms were erected on each side of the shed, to which holders of green and white tickets respectively were admit ted; while the people who occupied the area between the two platforms were admitted by a red or blue ticket. Thus all confusion was avoided, and here, as at the entrauce of the yard, some two or three of the committee were sufficient to direct the proceedings with perfect order. Here again pendeot Rags and banners of all forms and sizes, plentifuly interspersed with the Italian co lours, fell from the roof and galleries, and the ordinary rough roof of a shed was concealed by tasteful festoons and evergreens. When filled with a moving and excited crowd of well-dressed people, the interior of the building presented a very beau tiful and animated appearance. On the north aide of the shed a platform was erected which communicated with the siding, and on this were the places for the members of the joint committees and the principal visitors. These committees arrived about one o'clock, and very soon after wards the platform began to fill rapidly. In the centre of this platform a space was reserved, or was intended to be reserved, for Garibaldi and his suite, but so many persons obtained access to the platform, and so great a rush was made on it from the special train, that the addresses were delivered in tbemidst of a perfect crowd, which hardly gave the princi pal personage of the day room in which to stand. Among those who were early at the station were Mr. Gore Langton, M.P., Colonel Sykes, M.P., Mr. Goschen, M.P., Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Ayrton, P., Mr. M. Chambers, M.P. There were also present on the platform several members of the Common Council of Loudon, among whom were Alderman Abbiss, Alderman Meal, the Chamberlain (Mr. Scott), Messrs. A. Gilbert, G. Walter, J. Stewart, F. Dadswell, R. Stapleton, J. Bennett, J. H. Heeps, S. Cuthbert, J. Hind, W. Payne, S. Straker, and J. Thomas. Among the most busy and ac tive men on the platform were Mr. Richardson and Mr. Taylor, secretaries of the City Reception Committee, and the secretaries of the Working Men's Committee, Mr. Hartwell and Mr. Potter. Most of the visitors had Garibaldi rosettes on their breasts, attached to which was a portrait of the General, many of them also had the Italian colours either in simple streamers or inter woven in the form of a cross. During the two hours or so that the people in the shed were pa tiently waitingl the Italian Union Band played a variety of marches and other martial music. As the hour of Garibaldi's approach arrived, the fever of expectation waxed higher and higher, and the ex citement becam e more and more intensified. At length, I precisely at 20 minutes past 2 o'clock, the rumble of an approaching train was heard, and a faint cheer from the railway officials in the distance reached the shed, by which we knew the special train con -1 veying Garibaldi and his suite had arrived. A few i minutes more spent in the midst of the most feverish excitement, and the General enters, leaning on the arm of Mr. Seely, M.P., and closely fol lowed by his two sons, Menotti and Ricciotti ; the members of the reception committee rush to wards him, and grasp his extended hand, and all, English and Italians, crowd round him in the most indescribable emotion. Then rings out a shout loud and clear, which carried out into the station yard is caught up again and again, till it reaches the great surging multitude outside, and swelled by ten thousand voices it rolls on and on like some mighty billow spreading far and wide the welcome news that the great Italian liberator had set his foot in our metropolis. The attitude of Garibaldi as he walked down the platform was majestic. Calm and composed, where all around him were wild with excitement, he advanced to the centre of the platform, acknowledging the repeated cheers that totally silenced the band which ever since his arrival had been playing with might and main the Garibaldian Hymn, with a. slight deprecatory motion of his hand and a gracious inclination of the head. He oast an eagle glance around ;him, and his fine grey eyes fl ashe d with mingled pride and pleasure. " God bless you, Garibaldi"—" Welcome, welcome Garibaldi to the land of liberty"—" Welcome Italian hero"—" Wel come pure-hearted patriot," were ejaculations which began to make themselves heard, and especially from the mouths of many ladies, who thronged about APRIL 12, fiord th r ob platform and whose enthusia sm issaised to know nu bounds: Theo awl* ybere woe a salvo of cheer* and hats and haifilregabieforere waving madly W every direction. But now tie cheering subsides and the sem mitkes pram forward with the addresses. The first is by the London Reception Committee. Mr. Richardson comes forward, and having shaken hands warmly with Garibaldi, promo& to road the following address which is received throughout with cheering : TO GLIIIRAL GARTBALDL Sir,—The inhabitants of the British metropolis rejoice to welcome you among them, rejoice in the opportunity thus afforded them of testifying their enthusiastic ealmiration for the first of living patriots, the undaunted and disinterested champion of not only the freedom and indepeodeoce of his own beloved and classic land, but of civil end religious free dom throughout the world. Free England welcomes with affectionate and heartfelt respect the great Apostle .4 Liberty ; the heroic) and chi valrous soldier, whose sword is never drawn but in a just cause; the conqueror of a kingdom, that he might deliver its people from oppression ; poor himself, whilst making others rich ; the self-devoted, self-denying citizen, loving the rights and welfare of his own country, and of the whole human race better than his own life ; the truly good, pure-hearted, and upright man whose private worth is only imputed by his public virtues, and more than Spartan and Koman magnanimity. We thank you, gener►l, for thus honouring us by be coming for a time our guest; and we sincerely and pro. fouodly trust and pray that the same merciful and Almighty Power, which has hitherto and in a marvellous manner preserved, amidst the greatest perils and dangers a life so precious to Christendom and mankind, will complete your restoration to perfect health and strength, and enable you yet to accomplish all that your heart desires for the future, making that future even more glerior than the past, more fruitful in great and goad works, more beneficial to Italy and all other oppressed na tiosalitees.—By order of the Committee. JOHN RICHARDSON. Hoe. JOHN ROBRItt TAYLOR, f SeCtotArRIS. London, April 11, 1864. Again Garibaldi shakes hands with the secre taries, and comiog forward to the edge of the plat form, every voiiv is hushed, while in tones that tremble with emotion, be makes the following reply : lam very happy to be enabled to-day to give my thanks to this noble nation for its generous sympathy for the now of my country, and the amuse of mankind. (Great cheering.) Lou ago I wished for this day, and ►ery happy am 1 to express to you all my gratitude. The General retires back a little, amidst renewed cheers, and then Mr. Hartwell, one of the secretaries of the Work ing Men's Committee, comes forward and reads the following address from the Working Meu's Com mittee, which was also in the course of its reading loudly cheered : Illustrious Chief,—ln the name of Britain's sus and daughters of toil, we bid you welcome to this metropolis. We hail you u the representative of a regenerated and united Italy, and for the love we bear to that beautiful land and its noble people, so long oppressed—but now, thanks to your devoted patriotism and indomitable courage, almost freed from the foreign oppressors, we bid you wel- come. Your name is to us a household word, the symbol of liberty, associated with lofty daring, bold enter- prise, and nueltish devotion to the cause of human program ; for your noble deeds we thank, love, and welcome you ; and in the name, the sacred name, of that liberty for which you have fought, bled, and won for the oppressed peoples. we give you • place, the first place in our hearts ; and while doing so we cannot forget that there are many who have been associated with you in your glorious enterprises who are also deserving of our ad miration sod esteem, especially the illustrious Joseph Ifazzini, who has dose so much for Italy, freedom, and humanity. We therefore hope soon to be able to show our love for your co-workers. Aoospt then, dear brother, our heartfelt delight at seeing you in our midst; and, ex pressing a fervent &mire for the full realisation of your hopes, viz., your country's and the world's freedom, once more—in the unbounded fulness of our love for you sad liberty—weloome. Signed, on behalf of the working men of Great Britain's metropolis, ROBLIU aMITIVILL, Secretary of the Working Magee Committee. London, April 11, 1864. Before the General could reply an Italian lady, Madame Filopanti, rushed eagerly up to the platform and addressed the General in a set speech, part only of which was heard from a misapprehen sion that it was an interruption of the proceedings, which indeed it was, but an agreeable one, for the lady turned out to be related to one of Garibaldi's oldest and moat esteemed friends : Welcome (she says)—welcome, Garibaldi. This good Red generous people long to honour you for your bravery and your chivalry, for your generous and all-worthy ambition. An admiration great as glorious bursts forth spootanscarly from the heart of the most noble, as it is the most power ful, nation in the world. By this expression of their feel ings, this manifestation of their sympathy and their admira tion, they prove themselves the friends of virtue, of hu manity, and of liberty. lam overpowered with joy to wit ness this glorious movement, this loving scene. And the more so that I am the countrywoman °tithe hero whom you have No heartily greeted with enthusiasm, sad I dare raise my voice in this assembly of Englishmen to thank them in your name and in the name of Italy for the honour they are bestowing upoo you. Garibaldi, may your holy pa triotism and disinterestednees be greeted by the final triumph of Italian liberty against despotism. (Loud chem.) May your noble example exhilarate all hearts and contri bute to establish that love and truth among natioos in the hallowed 00410 of liberty, which will one day unite humanity in one happy family. (Cheers-) During the delivery of this address, at first so interrupted, but at last received with enthusiasm, Garibaldi courteously bowed to the lady, still making use of the same graceful deprecatory motions of the baud when reference was made to his merits. When Garibaldi came forward to acknowledge the working men's address, he seemed bursting with emotion. At length, overcoming his feelings with an effort, he stepped forward, and said : I wish to say to the workmen particularly that lam very grateful, and shall never io toy life forget the welcome of a class to which I consider that I have the tumour to belong. (Prolonged cheers.) I to call my brothers the workmen of every part of the world. This address, touching from its simplicity and from the visible emotion of Garibaldi while deli vering it, seemed to touch the hearts of the people, and another vigorous cheer rang out, in the midst of which a general move was made to the door of the building, and there ensued another scene of wild enthusiasm, the people below the platform rushing forward in a body to try and shake hands with the Italian patriot, and mostly failing in the attempt, they fell to cheering with might and main as some compensition. Those on the platform having been cautioned in large placards not to move from their places, of course a simul taneous rush was made, in consequence of which one of the secretaries, Mr. Taylor, was precipitated over the platform, but fortunately received no damage in his descent. A frantic police man endeavoured to interpose his single person as an obstacle to the onward rush, but what can a policeman do against some two hundredl In a moment V 216 was swept away in the vortex, and was no more seen or heard. Arrived in the open space there was a general rush to the carriages, and the one in which Garibaldi, his two sons, and Mr. Seely, M.P., were seated, having been surrounded by a body guard of marshals and the members of the Garibaldiu: legion, proceeded to the entrance gates to witness the march past of the various trade societies. THE JOURNEY TO STAFFORD-HOUSE. There never was so great a crowd assembled in our streets, nor one so thoroughly inspired by one absorbing sentiment, as that which the metropolis of the world sent forth yesterday to welcome the humble, self-despising, single-minded man whose only claim upon English love and admiration was that he had fought freedom's battle and won it in a land which for centuries before his ooming had known no fate but to change the yoke of one tyrant for that of another, and every fresh fetter more galling than its predecessor. We are told the population of London numbers three ;6‘ 31414i0ng, suniassuredly two-thirds of that number :turned out te- see use to cheer Garibaldi. From Xine Elms Stafford-bowie is a distance of little less tliau five miles-94nd five miles of wide roadway simnel, crowded will human behugs, and all inspired with one saittimilt, gathered for oue purpose, and waiting for ems mu, was a sight which the world has probably never seen equalled either in sub lunity or aniggestiveness. We feel that it would be quite impossible to express in written words the impression it made upon ourselves, or to produce by description even a faint reflection of that impression upon others. The most simple form of words in which a fact can be stated are the must suitable for such a theme. As many English men and women as could find standing room in five miles of wide roadway, or as could gaze from window, or balcony, or housetop all along the line of procession, were abroad yesterday patiently waiting from morning until almost night the coming of their hero, and showing, by their incessant inquiry of "Is he coming f" that they thought of nothing, saw nothing, wished for no thing but the approach of Garibaldi. The weather was everything that could be wished for carrying out this stupendous demonstration in the most successful manner. The sky was dull in the morning, but towards noon the clouds cleared away, and the sun shone very nearly as brightly as our visitor may ever expect to see it in our northern clime. The people began to gather as early as eleven o'clock, and in a manner different from any former great assemblages that we have witnessed in Lon don. They were not to be observed all hurry log in oue direction, and becomng denser and dewier in numbers as they more nearly ap proached the great centre of attraction. Everyone seemed to be fully aware that there were quite enough of people coming forth to greet Garibaldi to fill the whole line of his route from the railway I station to Stafford-house, and accordingly each man or woman took up his or her station at once, and remained in it throughout the entire day, pre serving as order, cheerfulness, and propriety of demeanour, such as all the police in Europe could not have enforced in a crowd of similar dimen sions, but brought together by a leas worthy motive. The people kept the route clear themselves, the front row locking arms all the way along, and the dense muses which were packed on each side of the way, between the volunteer, pclioe, and the houses, aiding the good work by submitting to every incon venience rather than break the line. Sir Richard Idayne'a police were of course there also, but they stood few and far between, a.id their superinten dents had nothing to do but ride gently along the centre, and good humouredly wave their batons. The people were as docile as children ; they had come forth for a good day's work, and they were determined that its moral should not lose oue hair's breadth in political value by the slightest approach to riot or disturbance. The working men of London had organised a pro cession for the purpose of meeting and welcoming the liberator of Italy ; but this procession, although numbering fifty thousand intelligent artizaus, regularly marshalled either according to their respective trades or under the banners of their various friendly societies, was completely swallowed up in the mighty ovation of the whole metropolitan people, and served merely as • foretaste to Garibaldi of the extr►ordinary testimony which was about to be given of the estimation in which his principles and services in the cause of liberty were held by the English people. Taken by itself, however, this procession of the trades would have been an extraordinary triumph for any ordinary man. When its head appeared in front of the railway station, with the emblematic banners of the cord wainers waving in the air, the last file was stated to be standing on Wandsworth-common, and although we could not test this by personal inspec tion, it is probably not much of an exaggeration. Not more than ten or twelve carriages were admit ted into the courtyard of the station together, with a moderate number of spectators on foot. A com pany of volunteers "who had served with Garibaldi" occupied a conspicuous position close to the great gate that opened in upon the platform, and their band played the Garibaldian hymn whilst we waited the arrival of the Southampton train. There was space enough for circulation within this privileged enclosure, but without, far as the eye could reach on every side, the waves of the living ocean could be seen heaving and surging, whilst that awful sound, " the whisper of a million," broke upon the ear and told of the ovation which was to some. Every window was filled with faces, men oould be seen climbing to the most perilous positions. in order to obtain a commanding new, and hundreds of men and boys, who had crept into the yard notwithstanding the utmost vigilance of the police, suddenly popped their heads up out of each railway truck and cattle waggon on the ground, whilst others pushed these huge machines as near as possible to the gate through which Garibaldi was to come to his carriage. Up to half-past two o'clock there were to be seen about the station only the few carriers we have mentioned sad their occupants, the selected band of volun teers who had served with Garibaldi, the Notting-bill tire brigade, and the band that so persistently played the Garibaldian hymn. There came now and then a faint cheer from within the station, and a deep murmur from the immense crowd in the road outside ; then could be seen the fluttering of the trades' banners over the walls, and the eager faces peering through the rails, but all this was quietude itself as contrasted with the scene upon which the curtain was so soon to rise. At about one o'clock the carriage of the Duke of Sutherland, drawn by four noble bays, and attended by outriders, drove up to the gate, and the cheering both within and without showed how gratified were the people at the compliment paid by the highest aristocracy to their represents-' tire man. At last the great gates of the station were thrown open, and the vista it disclosed was of extraordinary interest for the outside spectators. From the roof fluttered the Italian national colours in flap and festoons ; generics ran all round filled with ladies whose white handkerchiefs waved like a snow storm ; the centre presented a sea of human heads, struggling, cheering, moving slowly forth • and from all sides rose a cheer which gradually in creased like the swell of an organ and burst out into full volume as General Garibaldi, surrounded by hie friends, appeared at the doorway and prepared to ascend the carriage which had been sent for him by his distinguished friend. Everyone who sees Garibaldi describes his appearance, or the impres sion which his appearance makes on them , for it would appear as if nature had intended him to be " all things to all men," that is to have points about him which all and each can admire and sympathise with. To ourselves he appeared, as he stood up in the carriage to return the salutations of the people, as • man who would be picked out in a moment amongst ten thousand as a born leader of men, and to have in perfection that peculiar port and pre sence which win for chiefs the title of lion from their followers. He is of the middle size, but no one thinks of his stature ; broad shouldered and well-knit, tawny hair and beard, and that peculiar deep grey eye, which can at one moment express the most melting tenderness, but at another flash with the lightning glance of the conqueror. He stood up, looking for a moment irravely round, and to that look a hundred thousand men would have yielded obedience bad they stood in arms at his feet. In the next moment he smiled, and every one rushed forward to shake his hand, their instinct had recognised him as a leader, their hearts now accepted him as a friend. Had the General had a thousand bands they would not have been enough for the eager Britons who shake hands eternally with those they love, as well as those whom they pro pose in the next minute to knock down, but the police, who knew by experience the lengths to which this frank and friendly ceremonial is 1/0010- times carried, suddenly rushed to the carriage door on each side, and by • vigorous demonstration suc ceeded in preserving the General's wrist from dislocation. It is to be honed that there will be no necessity for the repetition of such strong measures, but that the public will remember that Garibaldi is only one whilst they are legion, I and that the fervour of the British shake hands, whilst only a pleasant stimulus to each of themselves, becomes &serious strain upon nerve awl when the force of a thousand gripes is coutentratet ou one unhappy wrist and set of fingers. W 6 .4 liusautli was in this country he was couiplete4 disabled from writing, so much was his wriat sre tii ;, and Lis nerves shattered by the perpetual ahali: of hands to which he had to submit during Las pro. greet The General wore a grey military cloak carelessly, but picturesquely, draped, r e l ieve d over out shoulder by the bright scarlet which ever) oh. recognises as the Garibaldi red, and as he , a.,1 up in his carnage to enjoy and reciprocate the feelings of the people, it would he tuip.miiLle imagine a more striking picture than his lace ant figure presented. There was a good deal of delay iu organising the exit of the carriages and the defile of the procession, which halted outside, aod which it was proposed should pass the Sather laud carriage. At last the latter was ;;,t out, and hating drawn up on the mold,. the working men pa s sed o n marc hi ng und 4 their various banners and attended by their ban q., which played as each section came up some Arcs that was thought suitable to the occasiou. A. police, who very properly deemed the preser%,:. of order to be before everything, had oratr. l the gates of the railway yard to be chat , ' the moment General Garibaldt's carria-e had passed out, we could only see the , tat. dards and sometimes the heads of the stail. dard bearers we could read the mottoes and hear the music, but for the rest we could merely estaaate the numbers of the procession iu military fad Jam, by timing the pace, reckoning the tiles, and ..b. serving how long a time elapsed before the la,t banner had passed on. The Shoemakers Wilt first, with ten marshals and a flag inscribed " Welcon. e , Garibaldi ;" then the members of the joint con'. mitten, and closely following them the ttuiperatte societies, who required only five marshals to leaf them. Next followed t he variants trades unions in ;Treat foroe, with their own bands, and the whole closed up with a number of private carriages, including that which contained the representatives of the public press, and which was not allowed talcs.* until the whole of the trades' procession had defiled past Garibaldi. From the time this procession t,ok iu passing it was computed that its numbers did not exceed forty thoussuidould it was very soon ab sorbed by the enormous civwd which now surroutand it on every side. Th carriages iu their turn passed the General and saluted, and places having at last been allotted, the procession moved on, tie General's carriage bringing up the rear, its pLee indicated by a white banderolle on each aide, and immediately in front of it was a baud headed by a very conspicuous personage mounted on a bay charger, who was constantly being cheered in mistake for Garibaldi, and then as regularly " chaffed" and criticised when the spectators found out their mistake. The interest of the spectacle was now and hence forth fairly divided between the object of tbit great of ation and the ovation itself, for whilst the people cheered and shouted fur Garibaldi the latter looked with wondering admiration on the counties, myriads of human beings who surrounded him ou every side, and who seemed but to have one absorb ing idea, that of doing him honour and bidding him welcome. In the narrow road, in the broad highway, in the palatial street, it was still the same. Houses decked with the Italian ooiours, windows and bal conies bright with fair faces and Garibaldian favours, the road, black with moving humanity, and the liviug sea heaving and surging, but still keeping the passage clear whilst the lengthy cortege pawed slowly along. We have seen many crowds iu various great centresof population, we have seen royal pro- gresses and imperial entries, but we ueversaw any thing like the crowds that filled London streets yester day, and we believe that that is the verdict which will be given by those who were present and who're competent to form an opinion. With such masses of people to pass through, it is not surprising that our progress should be slow. The narrow way that led from the railway station to the Wandsworth-road was a passage of great difficulty, but we lived in hopes of easier transit when we got into the wider highway ; where however it was all the same. Wands worth-road was so full sa to cause a stoppage every twoor three minutes. Then the crowd would cheer for Garibaldi, and handkerchiefs would be seen waving from every window. The white banderolle at the carriage door, like the white plume at i Ivry indicated the presence of the hero, would be seen to be stationary, and the occupants of the fruit carriages would be inundated with eager questions of "la he coming." The people thought or talked of nothing else. "Is he coming I" " When will he be here r " Has anything happened to him 1" and then when these questions were answered, a general shout was the regular order of things, re peated over and over again duringour slow progress. Many thousands of the people, through whose ranks the carriages slowly threaded their away in the later. part, of the afternoon, had stood in the ranks from early morning, but not an impatient word or an angry gesture escaped them. It was sufficient for them to know that Garibaldi we well, and that he was coming ; with ' these two assurances they were prepared to wait cheerfully for as many hours longer. The hand some front of the Licensed Victuallers' School gaily decorated with banners, and with the children cheering and waving their handkerchiefs, arrested the General's attention, and shortly after wards, se the cavalcade GLUM out to the Kenning ton-road, the full magnitude of the crowd began to be fairly appreciated. There is a wide open space at Keonington-cross, and, once entered upon this, the whole vista of the road almost down to West minster-bridge was thrown open to the view. We looked back to where the white banderolle told us the position of the general's carriage, and we could could see him standing up and gesticulating his amazement at the myriads of human beings before hint. White handkerchiefs were waving from every hand in the windows, the crowd.cheered and cheered again, and another start of the carriages launched us fairly into the human torrent. It was here that our carriage, drawing up at the roadside for a moment, allowed us to see pees a singular and suggestive procession. It was the representatives of the venous oppressed nationalities who have found shelter and protection in England, and who had come forth humbly to honour the man who, they hoped, was destined by Providence to inaugurate a brighter future for the world. There was the Pole—perhaps newly escaped from the tender mercies of Berg or Mouravieff—the Hunga rian and the Italian who bad fled from the laden despotism of Austria, and also some bright and eager faces which told of a nationality nearer home, where freedom of thought and expres sion iv sometimes visited with penal ties as heavy as the Russian kuout or the Austrian dungeons. Wan and poor many of these men looked, but none of them craven or broken-hearted. They stepped along boldly on the free soil of England, and seemed to acquire fresh confidence as every now and then they turned back to look at Gariba ldi , and to join in the cheers which rose at every fresh point where the pressure of the crowd caused a momentary suspension 0 f -Pmllllol We had left the station at Lalf-past two ; it was now six o'cloc k _, and we had only reached that portion of the Westminster-road where the suburban villas terminate, and the street, proper, leading up to the bridge may be said to begin. The crowd seemed only to increase in magnitude, and to cut pass in patience and good humour the thousands through whose ranks we had already palmed. They thought nothing of themselves, but the long waiting had brought on nervous anxiety for the safety of their visitor, and rumours be gan to be circulated as to an accident bavin happened, and also as to the General having bee so exhausted on his arrival at Nine Elms as to ne °cogitate bis immediate going to bed. The occupau of the carriages were besieged with eager queatiow. and the accident was explained to have been mere y the breaking of a trace in the genera?' carriage, ail the gambols of a restive horse in another, without a the,latter case, however, any worse result than an in mediate descent of all the occupants of the carriage to terra firma. The popular mind wait nor relieved, and occupation was found in watching for the white flag, which they were told signaled the approach of the hero of the ovation. The crowd was still growing denser every moment, aid Iv 1 hllliemm P" tai fa' loc ha da Pe D 1(