The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

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thanks to your devoted patriotism and indomitable courage,
almost freed from the foreign oppressor, we bid you wel-
come. Your name is to us a household word, the symbol
of liberty, associated with lofty daring, bold enterprise, and
unselfish devotion to the cause of human progress; for your
deeds we thank, love, and welcome you; and in the name,
the sacred name of that liberty for which you have fought,
bled, and won tor the oppressed peoples, we give you a place,
the first place in our hearts; and while doing so we cannot
forget that there are many who have been associated with
you in your glorious enterprises who are also deserving of
our admiration and esteem,especially the illustrious Joseph
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Titazzini, who has done so much for Italy, Freedom, and
Humanity. We therefore hope soon to be able to show
our love fur your co-workers, Accept, then, dear brother,
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hopes, viz., your country's and the world's freedom, once
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in the unbounded fulness of our love for yon and
liberty— Welcome.

General Garbaldi, to this addrest, replied as follows :
I like to see the working man particularly. lam very
grateful, and will never forget in my life the welcome of
that class I have the honour to belong to. You call me
brother. I like to be called the brother of the working man
in every part of the world. (Cheers.)
The Italian address was presented to the Genet al on his
arrival at the platform.

The gallant General then shook hands with every per-
son who came within his arms-length, the ladies struggling
quite as much as the men for such an interchange of cordi-
ality. After the greatest difficulty the carriages provided
for the General and his friends were reached, and when
they emerged into the yard fronting the station they
were met with one general and deafening shout of
admiration from the thousands who had been possessed with
tickets admitting them to the Company's premises.
The carriage containing General Garibaldi then pro-
ceeded to the gate of the station in the Wandsworth-road,
and there the working men of London, the Italian resi-
dents, the Odd• Fellows, the Foresters, the Temperance
Societies, the Volunteer Fire Brigades, &e., filwel before it.
Some notion of the Extent of the procession, and the time
it took to pass the General's carriage. may be imagined,
when the first body began to nr.ve in the Wandsworth-
road, the latter portion of it was at Wandsworth common.
As each of the societies passed the General's carriage
they stopped, took off their hats, and cheered him ; and this
process, which always lasted some few minutes, gave ample
opportunities to the crowd to fill up the gaps thus made in
the ranks of the procession. Thus, at last, the "proces-
sion" began to wear very much the aspect of the whole
body of spectators who had come out to welcome him, and
with the same privileges of moving on or stopping as they
might best please. It was not difficult, under these circum-
stances, to foresee that the three-mile route before the
General was likely to be a slow one. At the corner of
Miles-street, owing to the main drainage work in the upper
part of the Wandsworth-road, the procession had to take
a bye-route, but one of the grey horses in the first carriage
reared, cracked the pole, fell iunder the off horse,
which of course began plunging. The damage
was scarcely repaired when a band struck up
behind, and the same brute, again rearing, repeated the
performance, to the imminent danger, as well of the dense
crowd as of those in the carriage. But luckily, although
the pole was smashed and the vehicle disabled, no worse re-
sult ensued.

But now came a hitch somewhere. The first part of the
procession having moved off became lost to sight, and was
never again in view; the second part was for the same time
delayed, and meanwhile the crowds—and crowds is hardly
the words for such a dense mass, made up of roughs and re-
spectable folks—had filled the path, which the very strong
police force on the ground was utterly insufficient to keep.
It :was four o'clock before the general's carriage had
moved, and then came the difficulty. Miles-street was
packed, Bonelestreet was comparatively clear, though the
pole of the first carriage had still to wedge a way through
the people; but when the railway bridge crossing
Upper Kennington-lane was reached it became ap-
parent what was the real nature of the reception
awaiting Garibaldi. One would have said that in Kenning-
ton-lane was collected the whole of the population of South
London, so closely were the people crowded together. But
Kennington•lane was nothing compared to the Kenning-
ton-road. Where did the people come from ? That was
very decidedly the question in everybody's mouth. If all
South London was in Kennington-lane the whole metro-
polis must have been in Kennington-road. But, still the
further the eye stretched and the more the pole of the first
carriage clove its way through the mass of people, the
denser the crowds appeared to become. Whenever the
carriage containing the g,,ncr.,l was seen the shouts grew
uproarious, the ladi s waved their handkerchi:Ss, and the
children in ertne—the inevitable chikren in arms:—
set-Emma as lustily ce anybody (Ise, but roov,d by
lees personal gratification. It was not so touch a reception
of a stranger hero as the welcoming of an old friend. But
what was this to what was to come? The people were, in
comparison, few and scattered before the procession—and
in speaking of the procession we speak only of its hinder
and more important part, for the head of it was far beyond
our ken—arrived in the Westinin.tEr-road. Where the
St. George's-road runs into the Westreinsler.roA the
people were so thick that it was a matter attended with
imminent danger to life and limb to attempt a passage
through therm But the passage had to be made, and here
Superintendent Walker and one or two other mounted chiefs
of the police did good service. Taey had disposed their men
at the points where the cross roads were most likely to
bring great additional crowds, and consequently more un-
controllable pressure. And here their forethought was re-
warded. The policemen did their very best, and it was a
considerable help, but all the policeman at the disposal of
Scotland-yard would have done no good but for that oft-
referred-to-pole of the first carriage wedging itself into and
cleaving asunder the dense mass. So at length the railway
bridge crossing the Westminster-road was reached, and then
there was a lengthened halt ; why nobody exactly knew.
At length there was a short move, and then it appeared
likely that instead of going faster still reduced speed was
probable. For rounding the turn in the road Westminster
Bridge came in view, and the incline leading up to the
bridge was simply packed. Where the passage was to be
found was the problem that presented itself at once to the
mounted officers of police and the people in the fore-
most carriages. But by dint of great effort a way was
found somehow, and then came the bridge.
The rate of the procession's speed may be guessed
from the fact that the first vehicles were five-
and-twenty minutes in crossing the river, and then
came a few minutes of relief ; for though the crowds were
nearly if not quite as thick as ever they had the " A re-
serve" to deal with, and they had in that body met their
match. A very tolerable lane was kept from the Clock
Tower to half-way up Parliament-street, and all was there-
fore plain, if somewhat slow, sailing. It was close upon
seven o'clock when the procession turned the corner into
Parliament-street, at which point the mounted police-offi-
cars received an addition to their numbers, enabling them
to do their work more effectually. And it was not before it
was needed that there came this extra force, headed by Sir
R. Mayne in plain clothes. For near the Irish Office, and
debouching into Whitehall, the procession came in contact
with the thickest crowd yet :encountered. In fact,
it was so thick that in such a narrow thoroughfare loss
of life appeared inevitable if the procession moved.
Whitehall was fairly gained without other aecident than a
few slight bruises ; and in the more open space, though the
crowds were still immense, there was more room for the
mass of people to retire as the carriages advanced. just as
the procession came oppposite the Horse Guards a company
of the guards was being marched out to relieve sentries, and
a cry was raised that they were going to present arms. But
as unconcerned looking as if there was no crowd around
and in front of them the Guards moved off to their duty,
and by the time the head of the 'Recession came up to the
Admiralty, where the officials had gathered in great force
with their friends on the boundary wall, the Guards were
out of sight.
Charing-cross was in itself a scene to afford material for
columns of detailed description, but a few words must serve
to say what it was like. From the fountains then, right
down to the Ship Hotel, the area was crammed; the base of
Nelson's Pillar served as a good stand for a few adventur-
ous spirits, who were, however, distanced in daring by the
dozens who, clambering up the pediment of the statue of
Charles 1., perched themselves about the horse, one man
going so far as to get on the stone steed's back behind the
figure of the Martyr king. Right over to Northumberland
House the people stood in compact mass, and towards the
bottom of the Haymarket, all along Cockspur-street, the
packing was made denser and more dense as the police
forced a passage for the earriages. Turning into Pall-mall
there was the thickest crowd of all, but every one engageti
in the procession summoned heart of grace as the end of
the journey drew near. The windows of the Reform and
the Carlton clubs were tided with leuiee, who, " for this
occasion only," were permitted to invade the sacred and
mysterious precincts of the haunts of their relatives.
The War Office had its whole staff about its windows
and the queer semicircle in which the sentries
pace in front of it. The other palaces in the
Rue des Clubs were all full of sightseers.
The general arrived at Stafford House at 20 minutes to S
o'clock, having been five hours and 20 minutes since ho lett
the railway carriage at Nine Elms undergoing the agonies
of a popular ovation. The enthusiasm here was as marked
as elsewhere, and as Garibaldi descended from his carriage,
and was received at the doer by his host and hostess, the
cheers broke forth again and again, and the people would
no doubt have lingered till midnight but that it became
generally understood that the hero of the day was utterly
tired and would not on any account show himself before
morning to the populace. So they quietly dispersed; and
it Garibaldi was at once as much gratified and as much tired
as those who accompanied him in the procession he had
earned sweet sleep and pleasant dreams in the princely man-
sion which shelters him.
What might he'ce been made one of the most imposing