The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-02 00:00:00

ADDRES'S OF GARIBALDI 20 7ILE

ENGLISH NATION.

Garibaldi has issued the following address to the
people of England :

TO THE ENGLISH NATION.

It is while under the double pressure of bodily
and mental pain that man can most truly and most
acutely appreciate good and evil, and leaving the
authors of his misery to eternal shame, devote un-
limited affection and gratitude to his benefactors.
And that to you, 0 people of England, I owe a
heavy debt for benefits bestowed I feel in the in-
most recesses of my soul. You were my friends in
prosperity, and now you continue the precious boon
in the days of my adversity. May God reward
you! And my gratitude is the more intense, 0
worthy people, inasmuch as, rising as it must do
beyond the mere level of individual feeling, it be-
comes sublime in th) general sentiment towards
those nations whose progress you represent. Yes !
you are deserving of the gratitude of the world, be-
cause
you offer an asylum for misfortune from
whatever part it may come; and you identify
yourselves with misery, pity it, and relieve it.
The French or Neapolitan exile finds in your
bosom shelter from his tyrant ; he finds sympathy ;
he is helped, because an exile, because unhappy.
The Haynaus—the hardened instruments of auto-
crats—find no rest in your liberal land, and fly
terrified before the bitter scorn of your generous
sons. And, in truth, without your noble bearing,
what would Europe be ? Tyranny seizes its exiles
in those other lands were virtue is unnatural, where
liberty is a lie ; but they are still safe on the sacred
soil of Albion. I, like so many others, seeing the
cause of justice trampled under foot in so many parts
of the world, despaired of human progress. But,
turning to you, my mind is calmed—calmed by the
contemplation of your fearless progress towards that
end to which the human race seems called by Pro-
vidence. Proceed on your way, 0 calm, uncon-
quered nation, and be less tardy in calling your
sister peoples into the same path of human pro-
gress. Call the French nation to co-operate with
you. You two are worthy to march hand-in-hand
in the vanguard of social progress. Yes, call her !I
In all your meetings let concord between the two
great sisters be your cry. Yes, call her ! Call to her
always, and in every manner—with your voice, and
with the voice of her great exiles—of Victor Hugo,
the high priest of human brotherhood. Tell her that
conquest is, in this age, an anomaly—the emanation
of an unsound mind. Why should we covet the
land of others, when all men should be as brethren ?
Yes, call her ! And she, forgetting that she is tem-
porarily under the dominion of the Genius of Evil
—if not to-day, to-morrow ; if not to-morrow, later,
will reply as she ought to your generous and re-
generating appeal. Call, and at once, the bold sons
of Helvetia, and clasp them firmly to your breast !
The warlike children of the Alps—the vestals of the
sacred fire of liberty on the continent of Europe—
they will be with you. What a host ! Call the
great American Republic, for she is, in truth, your
daughter, and is struggling now for the abolition
of that slavery which you have already so nobly
proclaimed. Help her to escape from the terrible
strife waged against her by the traders in human
flesh. Help her, and then place her by your side at
the great assembly of nations—that final work of
the human intellect. Call to your side all those peo-
ple who would be free, and lose not an hour. The
initiative, which belongs to you to-day, may to-mor-
row concern another. May God forbid such a calamity
Who ever more gallantly than France in 'B9 assumed
that responsibility ? At that solemn moment she
held up "Reason" to the world, crushed tyranny
and consecrated free brotherhood. Now, after
nearly a century, she is reduced to combat the
liberty of nations, to protect tyranny, and over the
altar of Reason to erect the symbol of that wicked
and immoral monstrosity which is called the Papacy.
Arise, then, Britannia, and at once ! Arise with
your undaunted brow, and point out to the peoples
the path they must tread ! With a congress of the
world to decide between nations, war would be an
impossibility. No longer would there exist those
standing armies which make liberty impossible.
What weapons ! What defences ! What enginea
of attack and defence! And then the millions
squandered in implements of destructicn would be
employed in fomenting the industry and diminish-
ing the misery of the human race. Begin, then,
0 people of England ; and, for the love of God,
initiate the vast compact, and bestow this great
gift on the present generation ! Besides Switzer-
land and Belgium, you would see other na-
tions, urged on by the good sense of the people,
accept your invitation, and hasten to enrol them-
selves under your banner. Let London now be the
seat of this congress, which shall be in future
agreed on by a mutual compact of arrangement and
convenience, Once more, God bless you! May
He repay you for the benefits you have heaped so
prodigally on me !—With gratitude and affection,
yours, GARIBALDI.
Varignano, Sept. 28.

VISIT OF THE UNIT FD STATES WAR
STEADIER TUSCARORA 70 IRELAND.

(From the New York Tablet.)

We find in the ft atertown (N.Y.) Journal a let-
ter from an officer, we presume, on board the Tus-
carora, to his father in Watertown. It gives an
account of the visit of that vessel to Kingstown, and
the reception her officers and crew met with in
Ireland. The writer is not an Irishman. We give
an extract from the letter, which shows with what
feelings of delight the Americans were received,
and how our brave tars appreciate the Irish wel-
come

" U.S. Ship Tuscarora, off Douglas,
Isle of Man, Aug. 17, 1862.

"Dear Father,—We arrived here this afternoon, having
left Kingstown, Ireland, this morning at four o'clock. I
wish I could convey to you some idea of the glorious re-
ception we have met with in Ireland. It baffles all descrip-
tion. The people have been crazy over us. Our ship has
been crowded with visitors from morning till night. The
first day of our arrival five thousand persons were on board,
and every day we were there we received no less than two
thousand persons on board. Kingstown is only fifteen
minutes ride by rail from Dublin, so that we were visited
by nearly all the city. At every corner in Dublin there
were large placards, saying, ' The Federal American war
steamer Tuscarora has arrived in Kingstown Harbour.'
The papers were filled with accounts of the ship and of the
attention shown to visitors. All of the officers' names
were published, and in many cases each one was spoken of
as having showr. some one particular attention. The ladies
wore red, white, and blue ribbons in their hats, and in fact
everybody thought of nothing else but of the Tuscarora.
Balls, dinners, parties, suppers, and picnics were given for
us, and not a night passed without our being serenaded by
a fine band or parties of ladies and gentlemen. I never
before had any idea of the Irish people and of their hospi-
tality. The class that we see in the United States can give
us no idea of them. Here we have met none but the very
first class of the country, and, I must say, there is no people
like them on the face of the earth. Every door in Kings-
town and Dublin was open to us, and we had hundreds of
invitations to visit other places in Ireland. The ladies are
certainly the most charming I have ever met. The moment
any of the officers of the ship landed we were at once sur-
rounded with ladies and gentlemen, who insisted upon our
visiting them at once. Carriages were always at hand for
us, and even the boatmen would not accept a fee for bring-
ing us off to the ship at any hour of the night. Dublin is
the most beautiful city I have seen, with the exception of
Paris. All the streets are wide and scrupulously clean;
the buildings are large and fine, mostly built of white
stone. Some of the public buildings are unsurpassed. I
took a look through Trinity College--a fine building. The
library contains 90,000 volumes.

6, A. J. C."

A WORD ABOUT THE FAMINE IN LANCASHIRE.—
Many choose to insist that it is an affair for the Lancashire
gentry to manage. It is the business of the landowners; it
is the business of the millowners. There is a great deal to
be said about this ; but we know better now than we did a
month ago that the sufferers cannot wait till it is agreed
who should relieve them. We must help them first, and
settle the doctrine of incidence afterwards. In the same
way we still hear it objected that the rates in Lancashire
are yet not so high as what some of us are paying in both
town and country, but many more are readywith the answer
than a month ago. The answer is, that if we leave it to the
rates to deal with the distress, Lancashire will be like a
submerged country, where all is destruction and ruin ex •
cept a few scattered hills which stand above the flood.
Whole classeslwould crumble and slide down into paupe-
rism, till none would be left to pay tho rates but a sprink-
ling of rich men. Many see now that it is better not to talk
about the rates in self-excuse. The practical point, in fact,
is to spare the rates to the last moment, and to the last
farthing, for the sake of saving the poorer rate-paYerB.-
9/we a Ka,