The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

AN INTERVIEW WITH GARIBALDI.

The following letter from Mr. John M'Adam, of
Gamow, to his brother, is published in the North British.
Mail.

" ifsdalass, Jon. 3..
"On the 2Gth of December I left Genoa for Capron.
All went well until the afternoon, when the wind shifted

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and threatened a gale. We made for the ,Gulf of Spezzia,
about 63 miles from Genoa, where we lay 44 hours, during
which I bad simple time to see the general features of the
country, which is hilly, producing good wines and olives.
Some lead is anti ted ; but one important branch of trade is
pursued by our townsmen, Mears. Henderson, who ship
large quantities of ,tine white marble to Leghorn, thence to
Britain
" Madalens—the pr, int nearest the Island of Cajocm-- is
a very small seaport to wn. In 1004 Nelms mole this his
centre of observation, 'Osman SOOIIIIIIIMIS the Mediter-
ranean, as it hes many ohenuok of exit. Possibly this
may have influenced ow* aldi is his choice. Be this as it
may, it is now foTtwate ; for when hits hagglegage hear
go in any kind of weather, it without observation, where
duty calls. Taking boat, in lilt le more than an hour 1 reached
the general's bane, which is qi care, of ow story, and having
• little watch tower in thecentn '. The rooms are nearly 20 ft.
high in the ceiling, and must be well adapted for • summer
residence. The island itaelf I wee Id think rather more that
two miles long by one in breadtb, and is more broken and
rocky than any spot I have seen is Scotland or America.
The soil, however, where it has wit
of Comics, and the lower, at equally hod together in distant
spots, is fertile, and situated as it is in view of the snow-
clad hills y rocky, See-
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duds and smaller island., I cannot deluteeti the feeling
of one who has, during an active life, lit. rem buffeted through
the world, wishing to end his clays in di s retirement.
" As the domestic matters of such a; man should be pri-
vate, no matter how publicly his public character should
be considered, so ought one: to be careful i "Peeking of one
so frank and unsuspecting in all his dean" '•
" I found this truly great man stoma led by his own
family, his brother, a frank, hardy sea oss sin, and a few
friends, discussing freely the incidents of the times, on
which cunninger, possibly not wiser, mss would have
affected mystery.
" I was welcomed by Garibaldi in a maw r which be-
comes a great man, and puts a plain man like Irv& elf at case.
He did honour to the good men who had sent t ne on thin
mission, when he placed me at every meal neat himself,
and pointed out my bed as one of the two in his et en !min-
I accepted this honour proudly and gratefully— pO in .
the country of which Garibaldi could not speak tw ' often, .
for the moral aid, even more than the =Aerial semi ‘ta"Ce.
which it bad rendered to Italy; and with gratitt de to
my countrymen wbo had sent me with their SWAIM ice of
their abiding interest in him and his country in the co. 'lling
crisis.

" Seeing that he was deeply engaged with his inane ave
monthly receipt of letters, I left him with his two see re'twice, to take a quiet survey of his island home. And . si
you are aware of the apprehension entertained in Britain 's
to any sudden attack on him, I scrambled up the higher t
dividing ridges to see whether facilities existed for his
enemies from the opposite coast. The people here laugh ak
the idea of any body of men being found daring enough tot,
attack him in front, and by any other way it would take ✓
body of men hours to work their way, even in daylight.
over the granite rocks, which, sea-worn and honercombeill
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to their very eununits, are evidently of volcanic origin.
" During the da the general wan very much engaged,
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but towards evening he mixed with his friends, and Con-
versed freely ; and when by ourselves in his own room, feed-
ing the fire with roots—his only fuel—he spoke feelingly
and warmly of the British people, and of the stand made
by Lord John Russell in favour of Italy.
" Misr sapper mars writing, then to bed, where for hours
he sat dictating to his two secretaries. I dropt over to sleep,
and when I awakened all was quiet ; but some hours before
day he was at work with them again, and so continued until
two hours after daybreak. I mention this mainly to ex*
plain how much he has to do, and to excuse him for any
disappointment to his correepondents.
"Being anxious to scrape acquaintance with Rio Nona,
and to redeem a promise I had made to a friend, I found
the celebrated little gentleman scratching his loag ears ;
but when I looked at his other end I could got fiud it in my
heart to extract a single hair. Poor little fellow, he is but
a small donkey for so world-wide a name ; and Tam
O'Shanter'a mare Meg brought her rider safely over the
Brig o'Doon with as much of a tan to swear by. His, or
rather her brother sae was not there ; possibly. as the
English in Naples have named him Lord Robert Montagu,
he may have gone to England on a visit to his name-father,
to obtain the usual candle cup given at christenings.
" Senora Teresa, the general's daughter, is a very pleasant
and unaffected young lady, but she speaks no English, nei-
ther does her brother Mennoti ; he is taller than his father.
has very much the look of a fine young sailor in his red
shirt, and bronze, not dark complexion ; he bids fair to be
a very strong man, is now twenty years of age, and you are
aware has already distinguished himself in the late cam-
paigns. Nothing pleased sae more than his modesty and self-
possession in the various circumstances which I saw hint
placed in among his father's friends, both at home and else-
where. When I left the general he bade me assure my friends
that he trusted in better times to come among them
and thank them for what they had done for his country
and to thank Joseph Cowen and the men of Newcastle for
his sword and the telescope, which he has used through ell
his battles. I will reserve hie remarks on the present cir-
cumstances of Europe for the consideration of the com-
mittee for whom I am acting ; suffice it for the public that
he is anxious, but hopefuL And it is to be hoped that the
British friends of the great roan, who must twist him in
the coming struggle, will forego little differences of opinion,
and tight shoulder to shoulder, for all will be needed im the
coming death struggle of European despotimi. When I
get lack I may recur to many things, of which I am un-
willing to speak until I can consult with the London and
Glasgow committees.
" At Msdalena I received an invitation to dine with one
of our English Alexander Selkirk., who turn up on many
of the islands of the Mediterranean. Captain Roberta is a
' retired naval officer, and is, iu fact, the great support of
the little community. When a young man be must have
been a lively one, for even now, in old age and had health,
he is a brisk old tar and, better still, he is a great friend
of Garibaldi and Italian freedom.
" Hearn that the Glasgow portion of the Legion, and the
other portions for whom I lett things and money at Naples.
have not yet left ; but it is to be hoped that they will soon
L return to their own country. —I am affectionately yours,
" Joon M'Anse."

G kRIBALDI AND THE GENODzE

WORKMEN.

The following ii a letter front Garibaldi to the
Astociation of Genoese Workmen in reply to an address
requesting him to accept the honorary presidency of that
body :
" Brother,—You have my affection, and will base it all
my life; Ido nut doubt of yours. To be beloved by yon 14
a thing which surpasses all human recompense—the sole
ambition of my whole existence. devoted as that has been
to Italy. I gratefully accept the title you wish to confer
on me ; I shall bear it with pride in your ranks on the day—
• day which is at hand—when Italy shall summon us alb to
break the last links of her chains.— Entirely .ours.
" Caprera, Dec. 30. " G. GAsisAtut."

MIDLAND COUNTIEA BINDING BIRDs
The grand annual prise exhibition of this society was
at the Exchanzmhall. Nottiugham. yesterday. AU=
of British and-foreign ilomesti^ cage hints were admitted to
the competition, consisting .4 canaries of all hues, Bold.
docile', bullfinches, ithm-kds, paroqueta w ftvers, Java
sparrows, uightingsles, jackdaws, African wax.bills, piping
crows. Ac. This roars exhibition is one of an unusually
interesting character, for, although the piercing cold
weather has been sogreet a disadvantage to the travelling,
of birds, yet many splendid specimens have been s.. ut from
various parts in the north and south of England. This
prizes awarded were very numerous, and the silver cup WAR
vonoll by Mr. Hawkins, of London ; the number of prises
won by him was thir►y-nine.
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LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 10.

le has often been s subject of wonder not
nnmingled with regret to those who are the beat,
because the most thoughtful friends of our
constitutional polity, that the condition of our
Royal Marriage Law should have been so long
suffered to remain where it was left by the unwise
and unpatriotic Parliament of 1772. In a tit of
chagrin at the marriage of his brother, the Duke of
Cr mamma so, with the daughter of Lord Inseam,
and of the Duke of Guivessrea with Lady Walla's-
r„ I ;1:0RIM 111. insisted upon the introduction
of the well known Marriage Bill, and succeeded,
thongh not without conaiderable difficulty, in
having it carried through both the Houses of the
Legislature. By its provisions any marriage, how-
ever solemnised, is declared to be ;pee facto void '1
which shall be contracted by any demendant of
K ing Gamut 11. without the consent of tlisOrown
previously signified under the Great Seal ; save
in the ease of a descendant who, being above
the age of twenty-five, shall give twelve months'
notice to the Privy Council, and shall sot have
been forbidden during that time to enter into such
contract by the joint address of both Houses to
the Throne. An Act was indeed pained during
the present reign to prevent the premature mar-
riage of • King or Queen during the period of
minority ; but this was so universally acknow-
teapot) at the time to be a wise and useful enact-
went, end is still regarded by all who have ever
thought about the matter as so manifestly politic
and just, that it may be omitted altogether from
any inquiry into the reasonableness of maintaining
the etisting Law of Marriage as it affects other
members of the Royal Family. Two question,
are invelred in the prohibitory statute of 1772—
the one a question of morel equity, the other of
polkaed prudence. They are essentially distinct,
and ought to be considered separately. Is it just
to a junior member of the Royal House to fetter
arbittarily his or her conjugal choice in a manner
to which the legal condition of other persons in
the community affords no sort of analogy 1 And
if just, is it for the advantage of the Crown or of
the realm that such peculiar disability should sub-
sist These arc questions which we should have
hesitated to discuss a few weeks ago, when the
possibility of a personal application of general
remarks would have embarrassed the liberty of
the journalist. The announcement of the engage-
znent of the Princess Aunt and Prince Lou. of
Hem; and the public congratulations which have
been tendered them on the event, by obviating
misconception of the tendency of our remarks,
restore our freedom.

The position of the younger sons of • con-
stitutional sovereign is no doubt in many
respects anomalous. As members of the House
of Peers they are called upon to exercise poli-
tical duties without the same presumption
of independence, as regards the monarch and
the people, which is required by the theory
of a hereditary senate. They are naturally sup-
posed to have interests and feelings not altogether
unbiassed in favour of the Crown ; and nobody
expects it should be otherwise. The instances in
'Ouch Princes of the Blood have signalised them-
selves in taking a prominent part in parliamentary
opposition are not for the most part of an edifying
character, though there are memorials of manly
and consistent conduct like that pursued by
the father of the present QUEEN when Duke
of KIM; and by the late Duke of SCA-
stx, which the popular mind still loves to look
back upon with affectionate regard. It cannot,
however, be denied, that the exigencies of their
political and social position render it peculiarly de-
sirable that the younger branches of the Royal
Family should have the solace, the sympathy, and
the support of those social connexions which may
most fitly tend to nationalise and liberalise their
tlo.tights and feelings. Mingliug, as they are cer-
tain to do, with the members of the ancient and
opulent aristocracy, they are likely to form at-
tachments of love or friendship as other men do ;
and about the best that could be wished for them
would be that such preferences when disin-
ten,tedly formed should be hallowed by the pure
and ennobling sand:one that are invoked by all
other orders in a Christian State. Why should
their affections be statutably frozen, or their
inherent ,Pights of choice and of Com-
panionship for life be subjected to the will of
others! Was it justifiable as a question
of morals to endeavour to prevent the late Duke
of S 1 ',,,EX from living happily with Lady Acucar
lit nazi. as his true and lawful wife ; or failing
that, was it Morally right for a series of years
solvently to deny the marriage, and impute to •
faithful and affectionate wife—for wife in the
sight of th.o she nodnubtedly was, as much as
any duchess in the land—the reproach of living
in coneubinage It is vain to pretend that the
of Crown or Parliament can
snake wroev to be right or change right into
wrong. Public opinion, it may confidently be
said, never ratified the Royal Marriage Act of
illr..afte 111. It was attributed to narrow-minded
prejudice and pride, on the part of that not very
sagacious 11mila:di, and to party meanness on the
part of Lin Ministers and their majority in Par-
Lament. The belt It.all in the realm protested
against the aiemure Lite time ; and the national
f.rliig sought trot in a long-continued rain of
vibrate, rimotinade. arid caricature,

Hsi • ther., nr. solid or sniotk motive of policy
bi r. Of. -firm to. roinpmrate for its Anntoral
tr ,d. , ? TIr:o 'nay Ix 3 t ,fteillerations

which we need not enter here, why an heir appa-
rent or an heir presumptive should be etatutably
bound not to marry without the consent of his
responsible advisers of the Privy Connell, or pest
hags, of Parliament. We should be sorry to see
the door opened to intrigues and cabals, such as
those by which, in Teooatimea, NORTHUMBERLAND
endeavoured to clutch the crown for his son, or
those by which, in the days of the subsequent
dynasty, the daughter of CLARENDON was secretly
wedded to the next heir to the throne. But with
regard to the junior branches of the Royal Family,
public opinion, we are persuaded, would heartily
approve of material relaxations of the present law,
if not of its abolition. The nation recog-
nises no advantage to itself in the per-
petuation of a system whereby all the
Princes and Princesses of the Blood are
compelled to mate with the members of foreign
reigning Houses. A very strong impression
exists, on the contrary, that as the titled aristo-
, cracy instinctively seeks to recruit its strength
by intermarriage with eminent individuals of the
Commons, and adds in no small degree to its
stability by so doing, so it were well if the less
prominent branches of Royalty were permitted to
unity with the sons and daughters of the princely
houses by which on all sides they are surrounded.
During the greater portion of the national history
they were so permitted. The restriction has
nothing of antiquity about it which could give it
in the eyes of any a claim to veneration ; and we
are certainly not aware of any particular good
that has ever been even pretended as the fruit of
our experience during the last ninety years. It
was notoriously set at nought by more than one
of the persons whose conduct it was intended to
regulate during the reign of the Sovereign who
was its author. In the childless reigns of the
two succeeding monarchs the case did not arise ;
and it is only of late that during the present
reign contingencies of future royal marriages have
been recalled practically to our recollection.