The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-21 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AND MAZZINI.

On Sunday last General Garibaldi, accompanied
by his secretary, Signor Guerzoni, took lunch at
the house of the distinguished Russian exile, M.
Alexandre Herzen, at Teddington. A select party
of English and foreign friends were assembled to
meet him, amongst whom were Signor Saffi, Prince
Dolgoroukon, Signor Mordini, a member of the
Italian Parliament, &c. Joseph Mazzini was also
present.

A luncheon had been prepared, at the conclusion
of whieh Mazzini rose and proposed the health of
Qeneral CxAribaldi in the following words :

" My toast will include all that is dear to us all, those
things for which we have fought and striven. I drink to
the liberty of the peoples; to the association of the peoples ;
to the man who is the living incarnation of these great
ideas, Joseph Garibaldi ; to that poor, sacred heroic, Poland
whose sons have been silently fighting and dying for liberty
for more than a year ; to that young Russia, whose device
is land and liberty—new Russia,that will at no distant day
hold out a sister's hand to Poland, acknowledge her equality
and independence, and cancel the remembrance of the Rus-
sia of the Czar; to those Russians who, with our friend
Herzen at theft head, have most wrought end laboured
towards the creation of this new Russia; to that religion
of duty which will give us strength to strive, and to devote
ourselves, even unto death, for the realisation of these
ideas."

The toast having been drunk with enthusiasm,
Garibaldi rose and said :
"I am about to make a declaration which I ought to
have made long ago. There is a man amongst us here who
has rendered the greatest services to our country, and to
the cause of liberty. When I was a young man, having
nought but aspirations towards the good, I sought for one
able to act as the guide and counsellor of my young years.
I sought such a man even as he who is athirst seeking the
spring. I found this man. Healone watched when all ariund
him slept. He alone fed the sacred dame. He has ever re-
mained my friend—ever as full of love for his country and
of devotion to the cause of liberty. Thts man is 'Joseph
Mazzini. Jo my friend and teacher!"
The General afterwards rose a second time and
said

" Mszkini has uttered some words with regard to un-
happy Poland, to which I adhere with all my heart, Now
let us drink to that young Russia that suffers, struggles,
and shall triumph like ourselves, and is destined to play a
noble and important part in Europe."
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After this, raising his glass for the last time,
Garibaldi drank—
"To that free England, whose generous hospitality and
noble and fruitful sympathy have won from all oppressed
peoples so large a debt of gratitude and affection,"

THE PERSIAN GULF TELEGRAPH.—Advices
have been received from Sir Charles Bright an-
nouncing the entire completion of the Persian gulf cable on
the 27th of March. The line was working excellently
through its whole length. The laud-line between the head
of the gulf and Bagdad is not yet completed.

IRISH PRISONS.—From the report of Mr. Con-,
nellan, Inspector-General of Prisons, it appears
that the total number of commitals to the City of Dublin
Female Prison last year was 6.325. Of these 2,230 were
drunkards, 283 vagrants, and 45 lunatics. The rest were
criminals of various classes, and they were 500 more than
in the previous year, while the drunkards increased
in nearly the same proportion. The average daily num-
ber in Grange Gorman Female Prison during the year
was 225. The average number in daily custody in
the Richmond Bridewoll, the prison for males, was
277, the number for 1862 being 255. But the criminal
convictions were less than in the previous years. The
Board of Superintendence of City of Dublin Prisons re•
mark, in their report, that the state of this prison must be
regarded as satisfactory evidence of the progressive im•
provement in the moral and social condition of the city,
notwithstanding the severe trials through which the coun-
try has passed during the last three years of general dis-
tress. The Board consider that the extension of licensed
beerhouses has had a most pernicious effect on the morals
of the lower orders, The Board strongly deprecate the law
which imposes on Dublin the support of lunatics belonging
to other parts of Ireland. There has been a much larger
number of committals to Grange Germ in Female Prison,
which is accounted for by the number of dissolute charac •
tem, The city prisons cost about £12,000 a year,