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

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LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12.

A GOOD fifth of the population of this vast city
went out yesterday to bid welcome to one of the
simplest and poorest of men. No princely retinue
of guards and courtiers attending on his steps—
no pomp and circumstance of sovereignty en-
circling him, GARIBALDI came, saw, and conquered
London with a smile. Something, perhaps, of the
vanity latent in all human things lurks in the
pride and pleasure with which a great nation I
receives its illustrious guests—something akin to
that "vanity of giving" which the French '
moralist discovers in charity itself. Doubt-
less the eye of a morbid anatomist of
public celebrations might have detected some
grains of coarseness and frivolity in the popular 1
rejoicing ; and next Saturday, we dareeay, some I
fastidious tine gentleman will point his little sneer
at the dingy glories of the procession, and tell his
readers how ho held his nose when he sniffed the
British public from the corner of Pall-mall.
Nevertheless, the aspect of London streets yes-
terday, from Vauxhall to Westminster, and
from Westminster to Pall-mall, will not
easily be forgotten by those who witnessed it.
It was no mere mob of idlers and sightseers, gap-
ing at the majestic and padded figure of a Czar,
or peering through the half-closed carriage win-
dows at some modern Cover, who might have
been a modern Catiline. Yesterday it was not
only from clubs and hotels and private houses,
from shops and offices and counting-houses,
that the thousands upon thousands poured
forth ; it was the hardest-working citizens of the
most hard-working capital in the world,
men worn and wan, begrimed and seething with
toil, that came out to give Gain BALDI welcome.
That was the pageant yesterday. Half a million of
the British people moved as one man by one com-
mon, vehement impulse of admiration and affection
for a good man of GoD's own making. Never was an
immense and eager multitude so patient, so good-
tempered, so orderly, so sympathetic—never was
an act of public homage to true greatness so
spontaneous and universal. There was scarce
a man, woman, or child in all that crowd
that was not familiar with the story of
GARIBALDI'S life, with the sweet austere gentle-
ness of his looks, and the easy grace and pic-
turesqueness of his dress. They had all read and
heard of him, and known him, so to speak, in his
habit as he lived. Six long hours they waited
yesterday without murmuring to see with their
own eyes the actual living hero of all those
marvellous exploits and adventures by land and
sea—the man who bad compered and given away a
kingdom, who had deliberately preferred a pea-
sant's home to a palace, poverty to wealth, humi-
lity to power. Brave as a lion, gentle as a lamb ;
inflexible, incorruptible, unalterably loyal ; GARI-
BALDI'S soul they read like an open tablet in his
eyes; and the people looked upon him yesterday
not as a stranger, but as some dear familiar
friend returning home. Naples itself could
hardly in her moat delirious moments greet her
deliverer with a more loving enthusiaam. And
GARIBALDI knows the difference between
the suppressed intensity and habitual reti-
cence of English feeling, and the fickle
incontinence of Southern passion. Heaven
smiled kindly on this happy meeting ! AU rent
well ; and if that respectable weakness in English
society which the great humourist we have lately
lost so happily depicted, has been propitiated by
the fact that GARIBALDI is the guest of a Duke,
on the other hand the Duke deserves well of the
country for doing honour to his own house and
order, in entertaining a guest whose visit marks
an epoch in the histories of England and Italy.

Tee question which Mr. HOXSMAN put to Lord
PALM EUTON last night deserved a better
answer than it received. The hon. gentleman
wished to know whether, if it were the result of
the Conference that engagements were entered
into in the name of England, Ministers would
submit those engagements to the consideration of
Parliament before advising their ratification by the
Crown. As we have not heard that such a course
has been proposed by the Government we may
suppose that Mr. HOESMAN wished to recommend
it to the notice of Parliament, and to the adoption
of the Government. To propose to ask the pre-
vious assent of the country by its represen-
tatives to the engagements which are to
be contracted in its name, is no more than to re-
cognise as applicable to our diplomacy the same
principles that are acknowledged as constitutional
In oar domestic affairs. The management of our
relations with foreign courts, so far as concerns