The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-19 00:00:00

Presentation to General Garibaldi,

Per Laps one of the moat gratifying incidents that
took place yesterday, at the Crystal Palace, was
the presentation made to General Garibaldi by the
Central Horticultural Society of London, of which
Mr. George Gordon, Mr_ George Glenny, Mr.
Samuel Broome, of the Inner Temple Gardens;
Mr. Dale, of the Middle Temple Gardens ; Mr.
Cole, Mr. J. Crute, Mr. Wyness, of Buckingham
Palace Gardens ; Mr. Green, Mr. Cunningham, were
amongst the leading members. The present con-
sisted of two massive silver baskets, the one con-
taining the choicest flowers, and the other the
rarest fruit. Each basket bore the following inscrip-
tion:—" Presented by the Central Horticultural
Society of London to General Garibaldi, April 18,
1864," and the appearance each presented, when
filled with their beautiful contents, was perfectly
unique. The General seemed delighted with the
present, and, on the baskets being handed to him,
he accepted them evidently with the utmost grati-
fication. The proceedings, although occupying but
a short time, seemed to give more than usual
pleasure to the General, and on the deputation
retiring, he expressed his warmest thanks to the
members of the society for their very chaste and
handsome gilt.

Rumoured cause of Garibaldi's Departure,

(From the Morning Post.)

It will be learned with some surprise that our
Italian visitor, General Garibaldi, is about to leave
England to return to his island home at Caprera.
The surprise that might be felt will, however, be
mush lessened when it is considered that since the
General's stay in London he has been subjected to
such a degree of excitement, and has been com-
pelled to undergo an amount of labour which
would have tried the constitution of a young and
vigorous man, and which it is now discovered has
greatly retarded his recovery, if it has not
jeopardised his health to a serious extent. Although
no fears were entertained up to a late period last
week that General Garibaldi would be enabled to
♦isit the North of England, and pay all the visits
he had promised to make, which he, in fact, is
most anxious to do, his medical advisers now
imperatively urge the necessity of retirement and
rest. General Garibaldi obeys these requirements
reluctantly, as he is deeply impressed with a feel-
ing of gratitude towards the English nation for
the demonstrations made in his honour during the
visit to England, with which he has been exceed-
ingly pleased, and after u few days' stay at the
house of Mr. Seely, at Princes-gate, he will bid
adieu to the metropolis. .

Yesterday morning the general took a temporary
leave of the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at
Stafford House, whither he did not return at the
close of his day's tour, but proceeded to the resi-
dence of his friend, Mr. Seely. The general will
rio to Cornwall on Friday next to visit Col. Beard,
ozh:ibaldi's Englishman ;" and, after staying with
him for tw.:' days, will sail from Plytnouth on Mon-
in the Duke of Sutherland's
day, for Capre:as
yacht.

(From the Morning Aliyertiser.)
Assurances were given to us at .an early hour
yesterday evening, that there is no trt:th in the
report of Oaribaldi's illness, and that it han been

got up at the instance of our Government as a pre•
text for the Italian hero leaving this country sooner
than he intended.

The reason assigned for this wish on the part of
the Palmerston Cabinet, to get rid of Garibaldi was,
that Louis Napoleon had made it a condition to his
supporting the views of our Government in the
coming Conference, that the ovations which Gari-
baldi is every where receiving should cease, by get•
ting him out of the country.
We were unwilling to give credit to the commu-
nication to this effect made to us ; but at a later hour
in the evening we were furnished with evidence in
corroboration of the statements so made, which has
almost compelled us to changa our opinion. There
is one great fact, which, of itself, points in the di-
rection which we have mentioned, namely, that on
the very day we receive our intelligence that
Louis Napoleon has agreed through the medium of
Lord Clarendon to act in concert with our Govern-
ment in the Conference on the Danish question, we
hear for the first time of Garibaldi's illness, and his
consequent determination to quit our shores in a
few days. The thing looks at least so suspicious,
that the country has a right to demand further
information on the subject.

(From the Daily IYews.)

The surprising announcement is made that Gari-
baldi will leave England for Caprera on Friday
next. This intelligence will cause general and deep
disappointment throughout the North, where he has
been impatiently expected, and where the greatest
pains have been taken to procure him a reception
worthy of the people. But we believe it will disap-
point no one more than it has disappointed the
General himself, who came to this country before all
things to see the toiling millions—those who be-
lieved in bite when others mocked, and who will
remain true to him when some whose voices now
swell the roar of public enthusiasm will have re-
turned to their wonted cynicism. Until within
these hours Garibaldi was unaware that his visit
was to ba cut short. The ground alleged is " ill
health.' But the only evidence on this point hi-
therto produced is a letter from Mr. Fergusson, of
King's College, in which he says, " From all I can
see, I fear that the General is undertaking much
more than is conducive to his health and comfort,
and more than a man under his circumstances could
stand." \Ve believe every word of this. Our people
have no mercy on the General. Some weary with
the excitement of town life, others from the provinces,
I full of vigour and country air, have " gone at him,"
and the consequence is that he wants a little rest. Bat
surely there never was a poorer excuse for spiriting
away a popular hero than Mr. Fergusson's letter. It
is one that mightbe written concerning hundreds who
will be in the City to-dtiy, and who would not be

induced by it to withdraw themselves a day from
business. If we could suppose that the opinion it
expresses had been obtained by solicitation, that
circumstance would only make more apparent its
insufficiency for the purpose to which it has been
turned. Mr. Fergusson does not say that Garibaldi
must go home, nor anything like it. What the
General wants is a week's repose, such as Mr. Seely
gave him at Brook, to the immense advantage of his
health. After a proper interval of quiet, he might
be allowed to visit a selected few of the municipal
towns of the north ; he would not then go back feel-
ing that one of the principal objects of his visit re-
mained unfulfilled. All this, of course, is said on
z he assumption that the state of the General's health
is really the reason for cutting short his visit. There
may be more serious reasons with which we are un-
acquainted, "importing Denmark's health and
England's too," and we must be prudent. We have
friends to managc, and difficulties to avcid. It is
said that some great persons have condescended to
be jealous of the husbandman of Ceprera. More-
over, cool heads among us think that the Garibaldi
fever has gone far enough. Nobody can tell what
may come of a popular excitement so intense as
that we now see. One of the most staid of our
Whig contemporaries has said of it, in an unguarded
moment, that it is "a turning point in our time."
But who wants the time to turn ? Evidently the
General is de trop. Then to Caprera with
Garibaldi !

(From the Morning Sear.)

Yesterday in the Crystal Palace the remark of
everyone was that Garibaldi was looking better
than he had looked at any previous time since his
arrival in England. Professor Partridge's pab-
lished letter testifies to an opinion somewhat similar,
founded upon examination and critical knowledge.
Of course the letter from Dr. Fergusson is a piece
of advice not given without mature consideration,
and which no friend of Garibaldi could urge him to
neglect. Bat it only recommends that caution and
quiet which we can all readily understand to be
absolutely necessary in order that a man, still little
better than an invalid, may not overtask his re-
sources and act regardless of the warnings of nerve
and pulse. It does.not bind Garibaldi to make a
hasty retreat ; it does not prescribe an instantaneous
voyage Lack to Caprera as an indispensable restora-
tive.

If we argue thus, it is not merely because we
should deeply regret to find the great northern
populations disappointed of a long-expected de-
light. It is in great measure because of some rea-
sons which will right'y or wrongly be assigned
for a sudden departure of Garibaldi. No one
who mixed for five minutes in any group of per-
sons in London last evening can fail to under-
stand our allusion. The story was in every mouth,
and it would be idle to affect any reticence on the
subject. People asserted that a pressure had been
brought to bear by the French Government, and
that the English Ministry, desirous to remove all
cause of ill-feeling from the mind of an ally, had
made a direct and personal appeal to Garibaldi to
induce him to cut short his visit and leave the
country. Any one who has time or inclination to
read through the Paris correspondences of some
foreign journals will find if often asserted of late
that during Lord Clarendon's mission to Paris cer-
tain concessions were asked of tle English Go-
vernment, in the name of good feeling and cordial
alliance. The rumour pervading London yesterday
asserted that one of these concessions was to be made
by inducing Garibaldi to cut short his visit, and
leave England. We should be reluctant, indeed,to
believe that any part of such a statement could be
true. Nothing could be more ignoble on the part
of either Government than such conduct as this re-
port imputes. That the French Government could
have had the weakness, the want of dignity, the
want of common self respect to make such a request
of our representative in Paris seems almost to sur-
pass belief. That our Government could have
condescended to listen to such a request,
and to a't upon it ought to appear
far less worthy of credit. Yet we have
heard the statement vouched for as well founded by
those whose authority removes any report sanc-
tioned by them quite out of the range of the com-
mon every-day canard. On the other hand, it is
only fair to state that we have received assurances
from some whose authority is likewise entitled to
credit that Garibaldi has not been influenced in any
way by the British Government. For the credit of
England one would hope that this latter may prove
the correct statement. By whomsoever Garibaldi
is advised to quit the country, so soon we sincerely
trust that the English Government has had nothing
to do with his resolution. The advice coming from
others might have been influenced by just, honour•
able, and disinterested considerations; bat no word
coming from the English Government which tended
to shorten the stay of our illustrious guest could
be aught but dishonourable to them and insulting
to the English people. Deeply as it would grieve
all Englishmen to hear that Garibaldi felt com-
pelled by the condition of his health to shorten his
stay among us, it would grieve them still more to
know that one of the most welcome and honoured
guests in England ever received had been virtually,
compelled to withdraw from among us at the bid-
ding of a foreign Government.