The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-21 00:00:00

Gill?IBALDI AND ITALY.

Last night a very interesting lecture was de-
livered upon the successful revolution in Italy, by
Signora Jessie White Mario, in St. James Hall, the
large room of which was crowded. The chair was
taken by P, A. Taylor, Esq.. M.P., about eight
o'clock, and when Signora Mario made her ap-
paarance on the platform she was enthusiastically
cheered,
The CHAIRMAN said he had no desire to detain
them for any length of time from the business of
the evening, as he knew they were anxious to hear
Signora Mario deliver her lecture. The ordinary
office of a chairman was to endeavour to obtain
a patient hearing for those who addressed a
meeting, a request which, on the present occa-
sion, would be quite superfluous ; or a gentle-
man of weight and influence might be appointed
chairman, with the view of giving importance to
the lecture; but he would venture to say there was
not one man in the country whose presence there
would add a wreath to the chaplet which already
adorned her brow. (Loud cheers.) She was a lady
wheats intelligence, courage, and devotion had been
most conspicuous in Italy, and he had to thank her,
in the name of the Garibaldi Committee, for the lec
tures she had already delivered-50 in England and
Scotland. The lectures given in England had been
a great success, while in Scotland Signora tlario
had received a great ovation. (Cheers.) In oneof
the battles she had faced a storm of ballets, and her
devotion in following the wounded to the hospitals
had earned for her the title of the Florence Night-
gale of Italy. (Renewed cheers.) In no battles
were so few of the wounded soldiers lost, owing to
the care and attention which had been paid them.
Those who repudiated as a dream the idea which
ten years ago were entertained of Italian unity and
independence, were now compelled to acknowledge
what had been accomplished by the sword of Gari-
baldi. (Cheers.) It was known to many now that
Joseph Mazzini w as not only a patriot and an exile,
but a prophet and a seer, and it had fallen to the
lot of few men as it had to him, to write his name
on the accomplishment of Italian independence.
(Cheers.) Rome, they all knew, was essential to
Italy, for it was the capital in which all the tradi-
tions of the provinces were centred. The question
of Rome was the pressing question of the day, not
only as regarded Italy, but as regarded all Europe
—(cheers)—because the only security for the peace
of Europe was the unity and independence of Italy.
(Renewed cheers.) He believed that Mr. Disraeli,
in some remarks he had recently made, mistook
t arthhee
temper of the people, as he did the temper
He ,
House of Commons on the Italian question.
hear.) The chairman concluded
by
of cheers.
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Italy svat
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that tha unity nf Truly tong n
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said, seemed to be awakening
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ages. So recently as 1856 a st
expulsion of the Austrians a chimera ; but in 18R2
the Premierof England said tha(ictnhthßeeeorums. Len)eiownoerfte
them
which
and i a foreigneoccupation
realised,
ceasing
do justice to the living and the dead actors in the
drama of independent Italy. The first man who
spoke of united Italy with Rome for its capital was
the great. Italian poet Dante. Another distinguished
man observed that Italian unity could not be ob-
tained with Rome for its capital, except by the abo-
lition of the Papacy. She then referred to the
period of the first French revolution and to the
hopes which were entertained in Italy upon the
successes of the First Napoleon, but these hopes
were not sustained by him; quite the contrary,
and upon his downfall Italy was parcelled out into
small duchies. The revolutions, she said, in 1821
and in 1831, in several parts of Italy were protests
against such partitioning at the treaty of Vienna.
She then very zealously defended Mazzini from
what she termed the unfair and unfounded charges
which had been levelled against him. He had lived
in exile and poverty, labouring to lay the foundation
of Italian unity, and to no man was Italy so much
indebted as to Joseph Mazzini—(aheers)—and he
saw that when the Italians were one for all, and all
for each, they would accomplish Italian liberty.. It.
was owing to the Italians themselves that Mazzini,
in coming and going in his visits to Italy, e
protected when a price was set upon hishead.
r"lbu
mission of Mazzini was entrusted to the I
of the
Garibaldi to carry out. (Cheers.)
ry was
a mis-
takesbeli
ecommitted
entertainedby som ethpaeto
Mazzinile i this°annedo country
Garibaldit
• would havesacrificed everythin
bY But
the of a Repu le.
sacrifice all for the establishrnen
tfotoChtahrel Charles
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the letter Mazzini bad
and which she quoted, was written
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and the answer he received to that letter was
an order to quit Italy. He then went to Mal...
seilles, and he there founded the Society of Young
Italy, of which Garibaldi was one of its first rurim-
hers. Having traced the history of the efforts of
that society from the year 1834, she referred to Vat
sad fate of the brothers Bandiera, whose letters
were opened by an English statesman, and upon
the information communicated to the King of
Naples these brothers were arrested and were
taken out and shot. She referred them to the con-
duct of Republican France, under the Presidency
of Louis Napoleon, in sending 30,000 troops to put
down the revolution in Rome, and though England
in her churches preached against. the Papacy she
then raised no voice to protest against the attempt
to force the Pope upon the Italians. Her descrip..
tion of the wonderful exploits of Garibaldi in effect-
ing the liberation of Sicily was most graphic; and,
although that liberation hab been of so recent 'it
date, and people are mostly familiar with all ,he
principal details, she managed to make her nrArra-
tive full of interest and completely chainr,d the
attention of the audience, who occasionally inter-
rupted her with enthusiastic cheers. Her Itct-are
occupied an hour and a half, and was admirably
Well delivered by her. She reprobated in most
severe terms the unworthy intrigues of Louis Na-
poleon in Italy, and she expressed very unfavotlr-
able opintons of Count Cavour, who was mixed up,
she alleged, in these intrigues. He sold to a
foreign usurper the birth-place of Garibaldi, and
where rested the ashes of his mother. She added
4‘l I have nothing to say of these facts. They speak, for themselves." Louis Napoleon would have re-
stored the expelled Grand Dukes to
what they
called their possessions, and here it was that Eng..
land stood the able friend of Italy. Lord John
Russell checkmated the Emperor, like an able,
general. The Grand Dukes, he said, might be r..e-
stored by those who expelled them, if the people
chose to do so; but they must not be restored by
foreign aid. At the conclusion of the lecture she
was again enthusiastically cheered.

The personal appearance of Signora Mario is
prepossesing, and ber figure graceful. Her counte-
nance is very expressive and animated, and she ha.,
a finely modulated voice, which adds much to the
charm of her delivery. She appeared not to be
at all wearied at the close of the lecture. Her se,
cond lecture will be upon Naples and Caprera, irda
will be given on Tuesday next.

SERIOUS BOILER EXPLOSION AND
LOSS OF LIFE .41' GREEIFOCK.

An accident of a most serious and alarming cha,
ratter, arising from the bursting of a boiler at tlje
large iron shipbuilding works of Messrs. Scott rind
Company, Cartsdyke, took place yesterday morn_
ing, and resulted in the death of at least one nun,
And serious, if not fatal, injuries to about a closer(
others. We give the particulars so far as they
could be gathered by a personal hurried visit to,
and inspection of, the steno of the unfortunrite
event.

The works of Messrs. Scott and Co. are si'mated
near to Garvel Park, exactly where the main street
of Cartsdyke runs into East Hamilton-street, pro-
ceeding on towards Port-Glasgow. The main
thoroughfare there forms an obtuse angle, in the
very corner of which, and on the north side of the
street, stood for more than a century and a half, a
little, old. fashioned house, with rook-stepped
gables, the southern corner of w'nieh jutted out a
few feet on to the footpath. It was originally knovra
by the name of Garvel House, and enjoyed the re-
putation of having been the halting place for one
night of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Preten-
der, in his way up the Vale of Clyde. It became a
roadside public• house, and continued so for several
years. It belonged to a Mr. Murdoch, who, when
tlarvel Park passed into the possession of Mr. C.
Scott, the respected senior partner of the present
firm of Scott and Co., and when that enterprising
firm set down their works there, sold this antique
house to Mr. Scott. The jutting corner was removed
to improve the street, a wall erected on the new lice,
and the old house, joined to other interior erections,
formed a boiler .house and blacksmith's shops.
In the same house, extending within a few feet
of the street, stood the boiler which burst,
and which supplied steam to a horizontal
uncondensiug steam engine, which propelled
the machinery at the works, at the south-
west extremity. The boiler, which is tubular,
is about 25 feet in length and 7 feet in diameter.
The explosion took place exactly at three minutes
to six o'clock, immediately before the time at which
the steam was to have been let on to propel the
engine, and therefore at a time when the pressure
would in all likelihood be at its maximum. The
part of the boiler that gave way was the internal
flue, immediately over the Ere, and the rent ran
almost the length of the bailer. The steam, in thus
bursting out, would meet with some resistance from
the furnace bars which were at the inside end, and
this accounts for the greatest pressure being out-
wards to the main street ; but at both ends the
escaping steam must have been impelled with the
force of a shot from a cannon; in fact, the boiler,
which has never shifted from its seat, presented the
appearance of a great cannon fired off at both ends.
The inside, running due east from the furnace
mouth of the boiler, out of which the immense pres-
sure of steam squirted, pointed towards blacksmiths'
shops. It first threw down a wooden partition,
deeply indented a wooden crane upright, carried
away away a vice bench, shattered a Dundas
and scattered
about 10 cwt., and threw down
wtasnoirskwmaelnl
,twh that
athbeolleltoad rubblebody
hf
Jamesw a
Finnic,l . I w
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theto
got, shockingly mutilated, G. M'Donald, an-
other,ollwedn tthhreo
imfopudend there near
this wall,
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to his fire.
supposed
white
Jamesto hßussellave
ab e
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while '
the street outsidem the act
been injured on
day's work. The
But the greater number of persons appear to have
of passing to their _ explosion
direction threw
through
westwards in that
which separated the house from the street, filling
the 111 min-street with a mass of ruins, and we are
told of many hairbreadth escapes made here by men
to their work—one passing being immolated, and
bis companion escaping unscathed. The debris was
propelled westward along the Main-street of Carts-
dyke for upwards of 200 yards, dashing the fronts
of the houses on the south side with mud,
splinters of wood, stones, &c. A two-storey house
on the south side of the street, nearly opposite to
the boiler-house, has had the window dashed
to atoms, the houses filled with wet mud, and
splinters of wood, bricks, and heavy iron, tools have
been projected into the houses, the interiors of
which have been completely devasted, and the in-
mates narrowly escaped severe injury. One bed
in one of these houses had just been vacated, when
the debris came dashing through the window
frames, come of the missiles making deep indenta-
tions into the wood and plaster. In one of the
houses, Colin -itoßs, painter, an old man, who was
an invalid, while sitting at the fire, was startled
with the smashing in of the window and knocked
down ; and in another house, James Brown, a la-
bower, when the window was smashed in, shut the
shutters and held his back to them, but he was
forced to the other end of the apartment, and was
considerably injured about the body. and had one
of his feet cut. The whole of this tenement pre-
sented a complete scene of devastation, as if it hadsp
been under water, and left with a deposit of mud'
stones, and other debris. orted
en rep
The following are the names of the sa the
rered
to be injured, so far as could be etrity of whom
early part of the day, and the majority
were conveyed to the Infirmary:—ee, an elderly
' James Finnie, smith or bolt screwy
Lad burn, with a
man, unmarried,' residing 13,eofy in a shockingly
sister, killed outright; his
duu
t of the ruins in-
mutilated condition, being
he g
- explosion. George
side immediately afterm
arried, found inside, arms
M'Donald, a holder-on,
expected to live. Henry
and legs broken ;_nn
d a striker, found inside, se.
Scullion or Mulholland,
d otherwise injured. James Rug.
verely scalded estnla has a wife and family, found in-
sell,
sid a bleckste, some ribsr'i
broken, and otherwise injured; not
Malcolm Paterson, carpenter,
expected to live.
found OUTSI •de severely ecclded, and otherwise in-
'
rr
d• FranciS y, aged 14, a rivet boy,
lure
bruised and scalded. Charles M'Donald, aged
16, apprentice-plater, found outside, do., do.
Samuel Patten, elderly man, a striker, head
and face scalded. Peter M'Culloch, aged 20, engi-
neer at Blake and Barclay's Works, injured in pass•
ing to his work. Neil M'lnnes, a striker at Blake
and Barclay's works, also injured in passing. Win•
Raeside, aged 17, apprentice joiner, slightly injured
outside in passing. Hugh M'llvenny, a labourer
with Caird and Co., injured about the face Oil
street outside. Peter M.Callum, joinseirng
out
Lang and Aitken, injured in 1)..s (obis
been
side to his job, mostly about the head o and
legs. legs. Several others are reported
_ .
jured slightly.--. Daily