The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-22 00:00:00

THE CONDITION OF GARIBALDI.

A private letter has been received from Mr.
P. A. Taylor, M.P., dated Spew* Sept. 17, of
which the following extracts have been sent us for
publication :
We went by boat to the fortress this morning..,
some five miles off. The General's room and sur-
roundings are too bansck-like for any idea of com-
fort as an Englishman understands it, but to a sol-
dier these things neither seem nor are what they
would both seem and be to us under similar condi-
tions. Still I think there is too much bustle, too
many managers, and so forth. I felt a want to
put • despot there who should rule with a firm
hand and with unseen and unheard authority—a
Florence Nightingale or a Jessie Mario. The
main elements, however, of interest and affection
are evidently there, and probably to hardly any
other man could the little over-much of bustle be
so innocuous. His calm, his wonderful serenity of
demeanour seem not to heed, still less to be
excited by the surroundings
Mr. Partridge went into his room to examine the
wound, I remained in an anteroom, not wishing to
add another to the already sufficient number ' • pre-
sently, however, the examination being over, Gari-
baldi sent for me and held out his hand. I have
already given you above in two words the im-
pression produced at the moment, and returning
afterwards—" wonderful serenity," calm, courteous,
and tranquil ; thankful for the least service ren-
dered by any of his attendants, an utter absence of
anything like the peevishness of a suffering man.
Yet without any appearance of pressure, or the ex-
ercise of control over himself. It was an atmos-
phere of moral elevation.
I expressed in a few words the profound sym-
pathy we all feel fur and with him, and which I felt
justified in saying was shared by all England. He
thanked me warmly, or rather earnestly, and said
it was not the first time he had had to express his
thanks to my country. I expressed also the hope
that he would be able to maintain that quiet and
rest so essential to his early recovery, as Italy and
all of us would have much need of him. He ac-
quiesced, and presently pointed to a seat by the
bed, hoping that I should "pardon that he could
not talk much." The doctors soon concluded their
consultation, and we took leave.

He appeals less ill than I was prepared to find
him, but his limbs are, they say, much fallen away.
While we were there he was supporting himself in
a sitting posture by grasping a rope stretched above
him. He can bear no motion of the leg without
great suffering ; and there is evidence that the
necessity of remaining in one posture is producing
that soreness so distressing to the invalid.
A kind lady, Madame Schwabe, has already ob-
tained a water bed from Paris, and it is also to ob-
viate this danger that I stoked you to send out the
surgical apparatus mentioned in my telegram.
The injury consists of a gun-shot wound, half an
inch in length over the interual ankle, which has
been broken off and the joint laid open. Some
portion of the garments were driven into the wound,
but the ball did nut enter. The wound is free
from inflammation, and the patient is as regards his
general health in a not unsatisfactory condition.
The great necessity is perfect quiet. There have
been rumours of an intention on the part of the
government to move Lim. It can be but foolish
rumour. There can be no such intention. It
would be murder. Months must elapse before the
injury can be cured, and there is fear that there
may remain a stiff joint. The appearance of the
wound is healthy, and the suppuration is also free
and satisfactory. His condition is a little under
the mark, and I think Mr. Partridge will gradually
try if he cannot stand a more generous diet. There
has been no bleeding, which is a mercy; merely the
application of leeches.

The government are acting very unwisely in
maintaining, as I hear in several quarters they are,
much mystery about Garibaldi's condition.

I have seen a gentleman from Naples who says
that much irritation prevails in the South, and espe-
cially in Sicily, under the idea that their hero is
being intentionally neglected. lam persuaded that
there is no ground for this. Two or three of his
medical attendants are personal friends and fellow-
prisoners, so that there h. not room for such sus-
picion, and the conduct I have referred to on the
part of the government is the more incomprehen-
sible and weak.

Intelligence received at Turin on Saturday last,
from Fort Varignano, states that Garibaldi is pro-
gressing satisfactorily. A consultation bad taken
place between the medical gentlemen iu attendance.
Dr. Zamotti, from Florence, fully concurred with
Professor Partridge and the other doctors. Ban-
dages had been applied to Garibaldi's wounded
ankle, in order to hold the foot in its proper position.

AN ADVENTUROUS LTITLE TRAVELLER.—An in-
telligent little orphan boy. named John Alexander Bate-
man, bas just come into the hands of the Huntingdonshire
police under the following singular circumstances:—He wee
born at New Zealand, but his mother died on her voyage
over to England, and his father when they arrived at
LiverpooL Thus left an orphan be was takes charge of
by his grandmother, Mrs. Lucy, of Queen's-street. On
Tuesday be determined to go up to London to visit his aunt,
and to see the Exhibition. He accordingly started on foot,
with neither moos y nor food, and actually travelled safer
as Caxton, in Cambndgeshire, about 30 miles oa his road.
There, on Thursday last, he was compelled to apply to the
Upton authorities for food and shelter. They referred him
to the police authorities, by whom he was detained, and yes-
terday he was brought back by Superintendent Copping.
Peterborough Adirtiaer.

A FRIINeIi " Loma FIRM."—Our manufactur-
ing readers would do well to receive with caution instruc •
Lions from French firm' with whom they may not have had
previous correspowleoce. Boole proceedings that have
recently taken place in South Staffordshire, and that
have come to our knowledge, induce us to throw out
this hint. A firm of considerable standing in that part
of the manufacturing districts have narrowly escaped
being victimised by two Frenchmen, who are evidently
trying their " 'prentire hood" at the description of busi-
ness which has made the "long firms" of our own
country so notorious. They were introduced to the con-
cern of which we are speaking by a respectable English
customer, who believed in their probity. They announced
that they were desirous, now that the cmimercial treaty
was in full operation, of availing themselves of
its advantages. They were largely engaged in trade
France,in Fnoe, and bad opened an office in London for
the purpose of facilitating their communications. The
South Staffordshire house, who are tolerably well known
for their shrewdness, were not to "be done." Through
their London agent they mede several calls at the office of
their would-be customers, but never succeeded in finding
the principals at home—their representative invariably
being • " small boy." The firm had srsrcely decided not to
carry out the instructions with which they bad been
honoured by their foreign customers, when the Eoglish ma-
nufacturer, who had introduced them himself, oommuni-
rated with the South Staffordshire firm, and enjoined cen-
tre'. Further inquiries satisfied both the firms that the
Frenchmen in question were really what we have described
themto be—it " loci firm" in embryo—Arassaleskr Era.