The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1864.

Yesterday, after less than a fortnight's sojourn in the ca-
pital, General Garibaldi quitted London on his return to his
island home iu Caprera. With the General also left his two
sons, Menotti and Ricciotti, his secretary, his surgeon, and
the other members of the little household that accompanied
him from his islanl. Up to last night no effort had been
spared by delegates from various deputations to induce the
General to postpone his departure for at least a time; but
Garibaldi, having accepted the Duke of Sutherland's invi-
tation to proceed in his yacht to Caprera. could not think of
drawing back at the eleventh hour from such an engage-
ment. He therefore firmly adhered to the intention he ex-
pressed in the early part of this week of leaving town on
Friday. During the week he had expressed a desire to meet
the Americans resident in London before his departure, and
yesterday he accepted an invitation to breakfast with the
Hon. Freeman H. Morse, consul for the United States, at
his residence, Kensington-gate. Among others present be-
sides the host and Mrs. and Miss Morse, were the U.S. Mi-
nister, Mr Adams, and Mr Wilson and Mr Moran, secretaries
of Legation, Mr Cyrus W, Field, the Hun W. M. Evarts,
Mr J. S. Morgan, Mr W. E. Forster, M.P., and Mrs
Forster, Mr Seely, M.P., and Mrs Seely, Mr Rossini, &c.
After the dejeuner a large number of American ladies and
gentlemen were presented to the General. Shortly before
12 o'clock Garibaldi returned with his host to Mr Seely's
residence at Prince's-gate.

The gentlemen comprising the Italian Reception Com-
mittee, Messrs Bellinzona, Biachi, Ciocci, Cetti, G. Galli,
Lironi, Ortelli, Ponzini, G. Roncoroni, and A. Roncoroni,
and the bearer of the national flag, Mr Bareggi, called at
Prince's-gate to take their farewell of the General. The
committee arranged themselveson either side of the entrance
to the mansion, and were most kindly received by their
renowned countryman, who, while heartily shaking hands
with them, wished them and their families and friends every
happiness.

After leaving Prince's-gate, the General, with Mr Seely,
drovs to Lord Shaftesbury's residence in Grosvenor-square,
and afterwards proceeded to Stafford-house, arriving there
at half-past 12. There was no crowd, for it was believed
that the General had already left town, and certainly none
expected him at Stafford-house. Yet the visit to Stafford-
house was made expressly with the view of affording his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales an opportunit;
of
paying a private and friendly visit to the great "),..alian
triot before quitting this country. The
pa
D...-rince of Wales
came to town yesterday to attend a.
of the Duchy of Lancaster,
al•
. meeting of the Council
.a after the transaction of this
Palace to Staffor
business his Royal IF._gtaness walked from Buckingham
:
house without attracting any observa-
tion* c- ''house
he remained for upwards of an
hour. at is needless to say with what sincere satisfaction
tte announcement of this visit by his Royal Highness to
the General will be received throughout the country. At a
little before 4 o'clock Garibaldi left Stafford•house for
Cliefden-house, near Maidenhead, the seat of the Duchess
Dowager of Sutherland. He will resume his journey
for Plymouth on Monday; and will pass that night at Col,
Peard's residence, Penquite, Cornwall. On Tuesday morn-
ing the General and his friends embark on board the Duke
of Sutherland's yacht for Caprera.

We are favonrei by Mr. Seely with a copy of the follow-
ing farewell address from Garibaldi to the English nation :
" i offer my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the English
nation and their Government for the reception I have met
with in this free land. I came here with the primitive
object of thanking them for their sympathy for me and for
my country, and this my first object is accomplished. I
have desired to be altogether at the disposition of my MT-
lish friends, and to go to every place where I might be
wished to go, but I find that I cannot now fulfil all these
engagements of my heart.

" If I have caused some trouble and disappointment to
many friends, I ask their pardon; but I cannot draw the line
between where I could and where I could not go, and there-
fore for the present these are my thanks and my farewell.
" I hope, perhaps, at no distant timt to return to
see my friends in the domestic life of England, and to re-
deem some of my engagements with the generous people of
this country, which, with deep regret, I feel that I cannot
now fulfils

" G. GARIBAT,D]
"28, Prince's-ga.;o, London, April 22."

TO TIIE EDITOR or TITE SUN.

Sir,—Allow me to confirm everything that was stated
yesterday evening by Mr. Gladstone in the House of
Commons.

The advice tendered to General Garibaldi was dictated
solely by considerations for his health and position. The
names of those present at the meeting would be a sufficient
proof that no other thought could have had any influence.
Many of them were those of his long-tried and best friends,
who bad hazarded much more in his behalf than would be
involved in resistance even to the actual displeasure of a
foreign Power.

That such displeasure, however, was a simple invention
I assert, and am able to prove.
The solid, persevering, and hearty attachment of Mr.
Gladstone to the cause of Italy and General Garibaldi is as
notorious as it is generous and true ; and though I cannot
for myself claim any such honour, I declare in the most
solemn manner, and on the word of a gentleman, my firm
belief that we were all of us animated by the same ardent
desire (without reference to anything, or anybody, but the
General himself) to urge that, and that only, which was
indispensable to his personal welfare.
It was, I assert, the General's own and unsu,ggested d -
cision to give up the provincial journey altogether. He
could not, he declared, draw a line of preference for certain
towns, and that to acotanplish the whole list was impossible,
—Your obedient servant,
April 22.

SHAFTESBURY.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Lennox,
formerly M.P. for Chichester, was administered to
in her Mejesty's Court of Probate by his relict,
Lady Charlotte Lennox, daughter of the fourth
Duke of Gordon, Lord Arthur Lennox was a son
of the late Duke of It'elmond, K.G. He held the
post of Lord of the Treasury and Clerk of the Ord-
nance, 1841-6; and was a Lieut.-Col. in the Army,
formerly commanding the 72d Highlanders and 68th
Light Infantry. This gallant officer died at the age of
fifty-eight, having executed his will so far back as
1840, entirely in his own handwriting, bequeathing
to his relict, Lady Lennox, the whole of his prow
perty, both real and personal, for her life, which,
upon her ladyship's decease, is to be divided equally
amongst all their children.

The will of Mrs Mary Dorothra Pemberton, relict
of the late John Pemberton, Esq., of Sherbarn Hall,
Durham, was proved in the London Court, under
£BO,OOO personalty ; the executors being Thomas C.
Thompson, Esq.,
Barrister-at-Law (nephew of the
late John Pemberton); and the Rev. John Cundill,
B.D. The will bears date 1853, and there are four
codicils. Legacies are left to near relatives and
friends; also legacies to servants. The residue of
the funded property is bequeathed equally amongst
eight of her nieces. Tne estate of Sherbarn Halt is
devised to the said Thomas C. Thompson, who also
takes a moiety of the residue of the real and perso-
nal property, the other moiety being :oft between
Mrs. Burden and Mrs. Murray, the nieces of the
testatrix's late husband.
The will of James Maxse, Esq., of Upper Gros-
venor-street, was proved, in London, under
£300,000 personalty, and probate granted to the
Right Hon. Lady Caroline Fitzhardioge Maxse, the
relict, daughter of the late Earl of Berkeley,
and the solo executrix, appointed by the will,
bearing date 1860, to which are appended five
codicils. To his relict, Lady Caroline, the
testator has bequeathed his real estate, and
also a considerable portion of the personal
estate (saving a sum of £135,000 to be held in trust
for the payment of two annuities to his two suns
and unmarried c' sughter), the relict taking a life
interest in the surplus residue, which, upon
her ladyship's decease, will be divided in certain
proportions amongst the sons and daughters. There
are legacies to servants.
The late Mr. G. Daniel, of Canonbury, has be-
queathed to the British Museum the famous cabinet
carved from the mulberry-tree presented by the
Corporation of Stratford-on-Avon to David Garrick,
upon the occasion of the jubilee of 1769. He has
also left to the British Museum the Garrick cor-
responclenee upon the subject, en 3 a perfectly
unique ring, containing a fine miniature of Shak-
epere under crystal and set in gold,

will not be overlooked. So long as open voting
continues to be the practice, so long will bribery,
influence, and intimidation be the rule rather than
the exception. The meeting at Manchester seems
to have left this point rather in the background,
but it must be made a sine qua non if real and
substantial reform is wanted. Who will give it
remains to bo seen. It is certain to encounter a
formidable oppo!ition, being entirely for the good
of the people that no political interest can profit
by it. Meanwhile the coming election will give
the country an opportunity of testing its repre-
sentatives on the point, and we look upon the
organisation of the National Reform Conference as
a favourable sign of the times.
DEPARTURE OF GARIBALDI,