The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 31.

Tams appears to be a good deal of superfluous
ingenuity at work in discovering the precise objects
of GARIBALDI'S approaching visit to England.
One French official writer has the satisfaction to
predict that the enthusiastic welcome to the great
Italian in England will be at once and equally
distasteful to the Governments of Austria and
of Italy. The Cabinet of Turin will not be par-
ticularly grateful for so singular a compliment to
its patriotism. Austria has not now to learn for the
first time that her obstinate refusal to part
with Venetia on handsome and honourable
terms is as little to the taste of England
as her outrageous zeal for the cause of nation-
alities in Sleswig. GARIBALDI Will be greeted
by the people of England on his own merits as a
mao, without respect to the convenience or dis-
pleasure of any foreign Government. Evidently
GARIBALDI, whether he comes among us in a public
or in a private capacity, cannot but be regarded as
the foremost representative of his country's
cause. And it is because that cause, of which he is
the life and soul, is very near and dear to English
sympathies, that all England is burning to do
honour to the new-born Italy in the person of her
purest hero. There is nothing in this to irritate
the susceptibilities of any Power, for
GARIBALDI is to-day what be was fifteen years
ago—the soldier of Italian independence. And the
heart of the British nation no more wavered when
the destined liberator of Naples became a home-
less fugitive on the Adriatic coast, than when the
giver of a kingdom lay a wounded prisoner at
Varignano. The steadfastness, the intensity of
this English feeling is well known to GARIBALDI
himself ; and if it needed proof, his friends might
point to the pages of certain of our contempora-
ries, whose sagacity in giving way to the force of
popular currents of opinion is only equalled by
their alacrity in striking a man who is
down and forsaking a cause in distress.
When the journal which, after extolling to
the skies the conqueror of the Two Sicilies turned
on the victim of Aspromonte to spit taunts of
contemptuous pity in his face, takes his name and
fame once more under its patronage ; and when
even the journals of that Tory party which has the
foulest foes of Italian liberation for its allies,
joins the national chorus of salutation, there is no
need to assure GARIBALDI, no possibility of dis-
guising from his enemies, that the policy of the
English people towards Italy is as unchangeable as
it is irresistible and universal.

Let us leave, then, to foreign busybodies to de-
termine the secret purpose of GARIBALDI'S visit to
our shores. The plain fact is, as we were saying
the other day, that this visit is really and truly
nothing more than the fulfilment on GARIBALDI'S
part of an old promise to many dear per-
sonal friends, and the satisfaction of • long-
cherished
desire to pay to our country the homage
of a profound and heartfelt gratitude and affec•
tion. Those who have the happiness to know that
great man most intimately know that he regards
England as the representative in the modern world
of what he calla " the good principle." He is not
the man to be blind to our faults, or to flatter our
prejudices, but he looks to the majestic image of
ancestral Freedom in this island as the seaman
to some beacon light, burning clear and
high over the gloom and waste of waters.
Nor can the moat jealous of our neighbours im-
pute it to our noble guest or to ourselves as an
offence that the foremost representative of Italian
unity and independence cannot, if he would, set
his foot in safety on the shores of France. GARI-
BALDI admires, as we do, the splendid qualities of
the French people, and he has never accused the
fellow-countrymen of Vicroa limo of taking
away his birthplace or of holding Rome in bondage.
But he feels that on English ground, and face to
face with the free English people, he shall beat take
heart and hope for the conflict that must come, and
upon which he has sworn to spend all that remains
to him of life and strength.

Thus much, at least, we are at liberty to say
without reserve and without offence as to any
public or political significance that may attach to
G 4RIBALDI'I coming among his English friends.
There need not, and cannot be, the slightest pre-
text for reticence or evasion in such a case. The re-
presentative man of Italian freedom comes to the
representative land of liberty and justice, as to the
home and country of all that he holds most sacred
and most precious in this world.

But the dignity of History will pardon us if we
suggest that GARIBALDI, apart from his public
character, may be allowed to come to England as
a private gentleman seeking change of air and
scene, and rest, and accepting the hospitalities of
unostentatious friendship. Most certainly he does
not come to be made the lion of breakfast parties,
the underlined spectacle of Belgravian drawing-
rooms. If any amiable aileffaati contemplate
making use of him in this way, we would take the
liberty to remind them of his words to the populace
at Messina :—" 7am no cumed:an." There is no
man alive to whom the " ovations" that delight
a charlatan are more odious. No doubt he counts
many cordial well•wishers and admirers in all ranks
of English society, and among the highest in the
land may be found not a few who have been
indebted to him for many graceful and serviceable