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London, England, 1864-04-15 00:00:00

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o❑ the follqwing Wednesday with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer at Carlton House-terrace.
Nearly 200 members of the Reform Club
have put down their names for the dinner to be given
at the club house to General Garibaldi. " The use
of the institution," says the Daily News, " is felt
as on injury by some of the Catholic members,
with whom some liberal Protestant members have
expressed their sympathy. The invitation, how-
ever, being simply the act of those who give it, does
not compromise the Catholic members, as an ect of
the club would do."

Tho General's simple habits have been in no wise
departed from since his sojourn at Stafford House.
He rises at five, and breakfasts at six, the meal con-
sisting of bread, grepFe, cheese, and a glass of wine,
and then smokes a cigar while walking in the
grounds attached to the mansion.

General Garibaldi and his sons have been elected,
by the committee of the New United Service Club,
honorary members during their stay in this country.
The arrangements at the Crystal Palace are pro-
gressing satisfactorily, and from the demand for
places there is no doubt that the Crystal Palace will
to-morrow have ono of the greatest displays ever
witnessed. The programme of the day will be found
in our advertising columns. It is requested by the
managers of the fete, that all persons should pro-
vide themselves beforehand with tickets, and
whether by rail or by road they will do well to
start early for the Palace. For Saturday no
tickets will be sold in town after this evening, For
Monday, the day for the presentation of addresses,
reserved seat tickets will be issued at Exeter hall
only, commencing at 10 o'clock in the morning.

The Health of Garibaldi,

(F17;11, the Lancet.)

One of the avowed motives of the visit of General
Garibaldi to this country was to avail himself of
the services of Mr. Fergusson in the treatment of
the still subsisting effects of the injury to his
wounded joint. General Garibaldi has been under
the continuous surgical care of Mr. Fergusson since
his arrival in London, and we are able to give,
upon the best authority, accarate details of the
present condition of this illustrious man, which w:11
be read with the greater interest by the members
of the profession, in that the original nature and
extent of the injuries were the cause of so much
doubt and difficulty as to diagnosis and treatment.
Garibaldi seems in good health and spirits. Consi-
dering the anxieties and sufferings of 1862, and his
oppressed state throughout the greater part of
1863, his general condition may now be declared
excellent. His constitution must originally have
been good; and setting aside his present halt, he dis-
plays a wiry vigour of frame which most men at the
age of 57 might envy. Compared with the accounts
of him during his voyage, and on his arrival iu this
country, he is greatly improved ; for already his
residence in " the garden of England," and the
good care of his worthy host, Mr. Seeley, have put
him in such bloom that (barring casualties) he
bids as fair to reach the allotted span as any
one of his age. To be brief, ho appears as sound
constitutionally as min at his age can be. His
wounded limb naturally attracts most attention. He
walks lamely, yet without much, if any pain. The
wound has to all appearance healed thoroughly,
and has left less evil than might have been anti-
cipated. There is a small round scar, about an
inch above the inner ankle, which tells of serious
damage to the bone, and extreme risk to the ankle-
joint. The place is a little depressed, indicating loss
of tissue and fragments of bone—so common in gun-
shot injuries of the kind; bat the akin is as healthy
as could be expected at this date. When the parts
were first inspected there was a slight tinge of red,
which the General declared to be temporary, and
attributed to the fatigue of his entry into London.
This blush has since gone off. Tho inflamma-
tion from the wound has evidently extended into
the ankle joint, and the result is a great amount
of stiffening, which is the chief cause of lame-
ness. Lateral movements of the foot are tolerably
free, probably from acquired increased un•
bility of some of the joints (tarsal) bat flexion and
extension at the ankle-joint proper are impercep-
tible. The foot is slightly turned inwaids, and this
is, perhaps, the chief present cause of a pi culiarity
of gait. Ia walking the wounded limb is carried
at a considerable distance from the other, so that
the sole of the foot may be placed flat on the ground.
Should the stiffness at the ankle-joint relax, this
slight malposition will gradually disappear, and
with the improvement in both, the lameness will
become less and less, until, in all likelihood, it will
not be perceptible to an ordinary observer. There
is further hope in this respect, from the circumstance
that the knee, which was necessarily constrained
during the treatment, of the wound, is still a little
stiff, and that the calf has not regained its natural
size and vigour. Uader all the circumstances, it
may be unhesitatingly declared that Garibaldi, con-
stitutionally and locally, could not have been better
at this date, after such a wound and such an inflam-
mation ; and it may be a subject of congratulation
to the admirers of the hero, and all who are fondly
interested in his fate, that both limb and life have
spared.

(From the Medical Times and Gazette.)

We are glad to be able to present our readers
with the following authentic surgical account of the
present condition of the illustrious foreigner :—The
wound in General Garibaldi's leg has been entirely
and soundly cidtrised for three months or more,
and the only indication of the injury is a dimple on
the inner side of the ankle where the ball entered.
There is no sinus and no discharge, and as the parts
are thoroughly cicatrised, there is, in all probability,
nothing present in the shape of a foreign body or
piece of necrosed bone. The main symptoms from
which the General is at present suffering are the
effects of long-continued inflammation, represented
by considerable stiffness and want of motion about
the ankle, There is limitation of movement in
various directions, and, in all probability, there is
a pretty firm ankylosis of the ankle joint itself.
There is, however, a considerable capacity of motion
in the tarsus. By the aid of a stick the General can
move the limb freely. From this account it is clear
that no active surgical treatment is needful.

STEAM FIRE-ENGINE.--A powerful steam fire-
engine was yesterday shipped on board the Fingal
steamer for Copenhagen. It is intended for the Royal
Board of Fire of that city, but it is expected that it will in
the first instance be used for the extinction of fire caused by
the bombardment of the Danish fortresses by the Germans.
Immediately after the inundation at Sheffield steam pump-
ing machinery was telegraphed for from London, and this
engine was immediately sent down. It was engaged five
days continuously pumping water, sand, and dirt, from the
basements of the steel and other manufactories, and finished
on the fifth day, the 19th of March, byworking in public
for two hours as a steam fire-engine, when it threw two
large jets above the factory chimneys. It was also worked
on the 31st of March, in the presence of Captain Shaw,
superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, and Mr. Mat-
thews, of the firm of John Penn and Son, when liin. jet
was worked continuously with a pressure of 100 lb. to the
square inch. Steam was generated to 501 b. to the square
ince in eight minutes, cold water being used. This engine
is an improvement upon that which obtained the first prize
at the international competition at the Crystal Palace on the
Ist of July, 1863. It weighs 30 cwt., and is the 30th steam
fire-engine constructed by Messrs. Shand, Mason, and Co.
PERSONATING A DEAD MAN.—At the Police-
office, Nottingham, on Thursday, James Orme, a
collier, residing at Heanor, was charged with having ob-
tained fraudulently £5B from the Nottingham Savings-bank.
From the evidence of John Adams, a clerk in the bank, it
appeared that on Wednesday week the prisoner came into
the bank with a book which had not been presented for eight
years. On being asked his name he said it was John Davies,
stating that the book belonged4o him. He said he would
take out the whole amount. Part of the, money was given
to him then, and the rest on the following Saturday. The
real owner of the bank book had died five years ago, and
land prisoner had obtained possession of it when at deceased's
house. Some further evidence was adduced, and the pri-
soner was remanded for a week.