The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

GARIBALDI'S DEPARTURE.

TO THE EDITOR OF Tar LURES&

SIR,—I observe in NORIO of the morning papers
of to-day a statement relative to the departure of
General Garibaldi, in which my name is introduced
as having been one of a committee under whom
advice he came to the determination to bring his
visit to a close.

Very numerous invitations to visit provincial
towns had been presented to General Garibaldi,
and provisionally accepted. In the opinion of some
friends of the General this list was too long. It
would have involved too great a tax upon his
strength, or, with the necessary intervals of rest,
would have taken a longer time than was advisable
to exhaust. My opinion has been in favour of a
tour, restricted to some half a dozen of the prin-
cipal towns of England and Scotland, to be con-
cluded within a fortnight, more or leas. The
General felt that he could not draw this line, and
determined to accept the alternative of terminating
his visit at once.

I observe that last night deputations waited upon
him to entreat him to reconsider that determina-
tion—and I for one trust that he will do so—and
that the limited tour of which I have spoken will
yet take place. I may add, that I have been a
member of no "committee," and do not understand
that there has been any committee formed to advise
him in this matter ; but I was at Mr. Seely's house
yesterday morning, and was invitee. by the Gene-
ral's host to be present, as a witness to a determi-
nation upon the General's part, which was ex-
pressed in my presence, but which I deeply regret.
I shall feel much obliged by your giving publicity
to this note in your journal.—l am, kc.'
London, April 21. A. 11A.FFL

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR WALLA.—WO bees
that an effort is just being made to effect a junction
between St. David's College, Lempeter, and the movement
for promoting university and high school education in the
Pnncipality. St. David's College is the church of England
clerical seminary in Wales, having, as principal, Dr.
Ismailia, Dean of St. David's, and, as vice-principal, Pro-
teaser Perowne, the accomplished successor of Dr. Rowland
Williams, of " Essays and Reviews" celebrity. It is under-
stood that this valuable institution has recently received a
large augmentation to its income, sod that its curriculum of
study is to be considerably enlarged and improved. It
is much to be hoped, therefore, that the pro-
posed amicable co-operation between its managers and the
committee formed for procuring for the long neglected
principality of Wales a University constituted on the most
liberal basis, should become an accomplished fact. The
university committee, judging from its prospectus, occupies
• purely non-sectarian platform, and proposes to join by
"affiliation" to the university, all colleges in Wales whose
course of study shall come up to the standard of education
which shall be finally approved. We shall wait anxiously
to see if our friends in Wale* are possessed of sufficient
wisdom to hold in partial abeyance their small ecclesiastical
distinctions, in order to secure for their country the boon of
a broadly planned scheme of libend education.