The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-28 00:00:00

GARIBALDL

The following is a slightly abridged translation
of an article in the Sleek, written by M. Anatole
de la Forge :
The saying of Beaumarchais shout calumny will be
'e•ernally true. St here is one of the most honourable of
men represented as a bandit-chief. In the opinion of many
to this day Garibaldi Is something between a Fra Disvolo
and a Geapatone. People ascribe to him every mime com-
mitted in Italy for the last fifteen years; and the stories told
to his discredit are enough to startle a whole audience at the
Porte-Saint-Idartin. Joseph Garibaldi was born at Nice on
the 4th of July, 1907: his tenni have always lived hi that
seaport, and several of them are living there now. They
have supplied the Sardinian naval service with emelleet gee-
men, and have invariably enjoyed public estimation.
t Jorepb, brought up on the coast among tailors and
dahatmen, was indebted to this rude apprenticeship of
life for a part of hie physical and moral energy.
Already at that time the child was men to possess most of
the gutless since developed in the ram. Aoveattuona and
brave, he displayed in his intercourse with his minrades an
(stmt.:Amery enemy. To games ea well ae to work he
brought strange ardour, but being good am wall as intrepidi
%ribald' suss always reedy to Mho the part of i'bs week
am.. inst. the strong. He would have add willingl7 what
Mania says,'' injustice concerns me." One of his sea.
thentatkal tear %era, M. Arena, now at Nice, wake With
emotion of his oil pupil's good qualities.
Garibaldi tote: tat the Sardinian navy at an early age, sad
soon diatieguisbett himself by his coning and coot-
' nese. Implicated in 1334 in the Italian hermit/liana
movement, this yummy seamen, compromised xis (knee
on account of a litsral conspirac, found himself
compelled to take refuge in Frazee. He travelled on foot
across the mountains to like, where be ley commit A two
days in • friend's home, wbe by dressing hem in the 'ram
of a farmer of his got him across the Ver. Aker pai sing
two years at Marseilles, chit..., in thspuranit of bit ma 'ho-
meliest studies, Garibaldi embarked is en Egyptian r
vans, to go and serve as a naval °Mamie lle fleet defy 1 47
of Tunis. As he did not meet there with apart ea es* 17
his active mind, he could not remain longer than rt. w
months. So he rota set nut for Rio Janeiro. The provine
of Rio Grande del Sol had erected itself into a republic,
Our adventurer meds an offer of his sword to the
military government of Uragasy, and received the chief
command of the equodron intended to act against Baesioar,
Ayres. The motels hated too years. During this time the
new commander, quite in his element, performed suck pro-
digies of valour that the natives mid of him, "It is not &

min but a devil ;" and so auperatition got Mined up with.
his name. He had been seen in several: encounters to desk
with his troops into the thick of the fight, then re=appear erne
and sound, and always victorious, from them terrible en-
gagements, where the fighting was always hand to hand.
Ganhalth's influence over his troops is something wonder-
ful. His form, Herculean strength, his fine energetic and
expressive head—everything, even his pietarenque me-
tame, contributes to increase the prestige he wields.. At
Salta he Is surrounded—he and 300 men—by 3.000 enemies.
What doe. he do? He stands their fire without stirring ;
lets them come up close, then charges them with the bayonet,
and sends them flying. The government of Montevideo
decreed on that day that the Italian legion bad deserved well
of the country, sad that it should take the right, the poet of
honour, even when with native troops, in every engagement.
The insurrection of the Peninsula in 1848 brought Gari-
baldi back to Nioe. A part of his legion accompanied him;
with it he acted prominently in the war of independence
against the Austell= In the Southern Tyrol, where as a
tharpahooter he Incessantly horsed their army.
At Rome Garibaldi was the boded the resistance. Marshal
Valour, in his remarkable report of the operations during
the siege, did justice to the energy and ARE of him adversary.
It was impossible, in feet, to make more of the poor re-
source* left at the disposal of the besieged. The volunteers
fought there like veteran troops. On May 9, at Paleetrins,
be defeated the Neapolitan arroy, twke superior in numbers
to his own. A few days later, at Velletri, when be was sr
verely wounded, he wee still to win the honours of the day.
Finally, he sustained for s whole month the attacks of our
valiant army, and, as all the officers admit, with admirable
presence of mind. The episode of the Bth bastion, repre-
sented by the brilliant pencil of Horace Vernet, gives an
exact idea of the energy displayed in that defence.
In the last council of war held at Rome, Gari-
baldi, on being cal'rd upon to state his opiate's,
proposed the employment of extreme measured; bat they
were not approved. He then left the sacred city with the
remnant of hie little army, traversed the enemy's lines, and
withdrew to the neighlrunbood of St. Marin. There Ma
troops disbanded. Garibaldi reached Genoa with two
hundred soldiers, who had refused to leave him. At the end
of a few menthe he returned to America, where he
very actively in trade and indutry. About 1862 we fialfiendi
again in command of the Peruvian way. When the war
ceased he returned home to Nice.
For five years Garibaldi lived in retirement with his sons
on a email Wend situated between Sardinia end the Made-
leine, the Isle of Covent ; he farmed on a large scale,
ploughed up waste lands, and built large barns and out-
houses. From time to time be used to go to Nice in a small
cutter he kept for conveying hie materials. The most in-
fluential exit respected men of that city, those of the French
colony with Alphonse Kerr at their head, know well how
highly he fm esteemed there. This brave soldier, whom re-
putation in private life cannot be assailed, knew how to ac-
quire the sympathy and reelect of all. His political Weer-
series themselves acknowledge hie hononeable character.
The Abbe Montolivo, the librarian of that city, who has
known the general intimately from childhood, and a thou-
sand other credible witnesses have unceasingly protested
against the calumnies uttered by certain foreign
newspapers against this man, whose only demerit
in their eyes must be that of devoting all the
resource. of his nature to the independence of his
country. A touching letter, written recently by Garibaldi to
the old aide de-camp of Prince Eugene, M. Planet de la
Faye, shows the generous sentiments of this man so ill-un-
derstood but too often. "1 thank you, my dear friend,"
says he, "for your pi tole; I value them highly as coming
to me from you; and may the boar approach that will enable
me to me them against the Austrian soldiers, the only beings
in the world towards whom I feel hatred. You, the com-
forter of our exiled great Mania, preserve for roe a
part of your affections, as to one of the most
humble but most devot•ed soldiers of Italian free-
dom." Whatever sentiments the world may entertain se
to the services rendered by this guerilla chieftain it cannot
fail to perceive in him the emential qualities of the captain,
and especially his extraordinary ascendency over his com-
panions in arm.
His wife al.° was a heroloc ; thews slain at her husband's
oide by the Austrian,. She had never left him on the battle-
11,1d either in America or Italy. One should read in the in-
teresting history of Itiociardi the account of her valiant be-
heviour as the constant companion of all her husband's
journeys and departs. It would teach ue to comprehend
three exoeptional agractere, as much slandered, but for
whom life it-elf is nothing but one long combat and a
glorious example of patriotism.

UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.—The second
examination to be held is Liverpool by the University of
Oxford wilt commence at nine o'clock on Tuesday, June 14,
and be continued day by day till half-put eight on the even-
ing of Wednesday, the 22nd, when it will finally does. Each
day the hours will be from nine to brave in the morning,
two to live in the afTmoon, and from six to half-paat
in the evening. The corporation has 'pin very liberally
granted the use of St. Georgia Hall. The Bev. R. Walker,
M.A., Wadham College, reader in experimental thilotophy,
and late public examiner in the University of Oxford, be
the presiding examiner in Liverpool. The number of candi-
dates is 87 (24 seniors :mei 63 juniors), rather lees than het
year, but there is an In re... in the Dumber of boys
from Liverpool, ao 1 from Liverpool 'clam* who
are coming forward on the present occasion. The mums
hen at the other large centres of examination are—London
224, Mancheeter 93, Exeter 84, Oxford 73, Bheningtuen 55,
Brighton 48, Leeds 41, deco, Sc. Altogether there are 937
candidates. A prim fund has again been farmed, to which
the Earl of Derby has very liberally repeat( d his contribution
of 151. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has given
a substantid proof of his interest in our nomination by con-
tributing 101. W. J. Legh, Y.P., has given M. 3a., and the
Hon. Algernon Egerton, M.P., 21. T. B. Borsht!, M.P.,
J. C. Ewan, SI.P.„ and other gentlemen have mortised to
contribute. His Orate the Duke of Devouthire will also
contribute 51. as the commencement of a prize hull for the
candidates at the Cambridge examination to he hal en
Liverpool next Deoember. Most of three who contributed
to the funds of the area:lotion last year are ronewhig their
contribution' EA the purpose of puretuaing dos and other
furniture, after which these examination" mast be self.
supporting.
't RE ?tIANCIACTVRE OF ARMS.-1"0 manufacture
of aims at LV:ige will shortly take • vide field, several con-
siderable orders having been given to the principal annourers.
At present the eataMishmtent of P.i. hialharb and Co. hes
been ordered by the Ssxon government to complete 20,000
rifle, for which all hands are tole put to work at 011ee. On
the other hand, the British getrernuirot has issued orders for
400,000 rides and carbines; half to be mesle at Lige, and
half at Birmingham. These 240,000 for Digs are to be
given to public competitiots among the "mower". %hose
tandem wee received up to the 20th Inst.—the Brieder.
Tut MAIL SERVIC7„—SOUTRAMPTON, FRIDAY.—
The steam-ship Baal left this day with the Bombay
.mail,
20 passengers, a cargo, and 60 boxes of specie for
.mnbay. value 200,668/.; sad sae box for Alexandria,
rake 2.0001. :he Sultan WI this day with the Peninsular
oar., 22 weenaere, and a full (ergo. The to is to take
out the C)' as and Calcutta mail on the 4th proximo, and
the Avc,a the Brazilian mail an the 9th proximo. The
AlliEnbra is fitting out to run between Malta and the lemon
hl.inds. The Bremen and Boruseia are now due from Mew
York. The Ocean flume. another monster steamer of an-
lerbilia, is expected on Tuesday next. She wet to leave
Mew York on the 2lit is ,T

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