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London, England, 1859-10-29 00:00:00

dependencies, the abode of the free, and the free
alone." While as to his educational achievements,
those, certainly, do not need, as, from their nume-
rical abundance, they would certainly render diffi-
cult, any explicit and consecutive enumeration. It
is instructive in regard to those labours, by the way,
to bear in remembrance that it was appropriately
from the lips of. Lord BROUGHAM years and years
ago that emanated the famous boast that the
schoolmaster was abroad! The expression, long
since become, proverbial, was first uttered by the
noble and learned lord during his ever memorable
Speech on Reform—his Speech among Speeches
upon Reform, when HENRY BROUGHA3I was M.P.
for the West Riding of Yorkshire. " Field-Mar-
shal the Duke of WELLINGTON," said Mr.
BROUGHAM, "may take the army, he may take the
navy, with all the powers of the Executive
he may array himself; but I fear him
The schoolmaster is abroad, and I will
trust to him armed with his primer rather than to
the soldier with his bayonet." And assuredly for
that very fact of the schoolmaster being abroad we
are indebted, as ,a nation, to the very man who
uttered those now familiar words more than to any
other man of our generation.
Apart, however, as we have already intimated
wholly and. entirely apart from the memorable
character of the banquet itself, it is most memor-
able, for inasmuch as it drew forth from the heart
of the venerable judge, orator, annalist, critic,
lawgiver, statesman, philosopher, philanthropist,
those thrilling words of warning to the nation at
large upon which we have already in these columns
(namely, on the very morrow of the banquet) deli-
berately and earnestly commented. What are
those burning words of his with which he closes the
allegory of the Tempter, the Father of Lies, tempt-
ing France with the Laurel, England with the
Golden Apple (of discord), tempting them both as
speciously as the arch Fiend tempted our first
parents in Paradise? It is just after he has
imagined the British Empire crying out as with
one voice " Avaunt Satan" to the most sordid and
glittering of these allurements that Lord BROUGHAM
adds in regard to the great Tempter, " But
he is unabashed ; he is of infinite perseverance, and
never despairs ; he is of infinite pertinacity, and of
infinite resources also. So he tries another trick—
What are you afraid of ?—and I wish he may be as
certain to have no listeners in this—What are you.
afraid of? Nobody is going to attack you; there
is no chance of any attack ! Why should you spend
so much of your substance in making preparations
for your defence—preparations so costly and alto-
gether useless ? I think some few will listen to
that. But the great body of the people of this
country—high and low, rich and poor, of all ranks,
of all parties, of all descriptions, of all sects—must
know and must feel in their hearts' core that it is
the most dangerous of all the tempting—is the
most perilous of all the Fiend's advice, and that
there is but one safety for this country, and
that is to be prepared by sea and by land, in every
way in which an attack is possible, however un-
likely, so that every attack may be made not only
utterly impossible to succeed, but also impossible to
be attempted—and I verily believe that there never
was a more universal feeling of assent in this coun-
try to any one doctrine than to this, that we don't
distrust our neighbours—very far from it—we
trust them, but we trust ourselves a great deal
more—and that we do the best thing—the kindest
thing both for those neighbours and for ourselves,
in being completely, absolutely prepared for what-
ver may happen." GOD grant that these solemn
recommendations may be acted upon betimes. And
then England may laugh to scorn both the wiles of
the Tempter and the glamour of his temptations.

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The triumphant return of Lord BROUGHAM as
Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh has just
now capped the climax of grateful admiration
proffered simultaneously by his alma 'nate?. and his
birthplace to the venerable and illustrious octo-
genarian.

GARIBALDI is now taking the part which
becomes him. What a noble man he has proved
himself to be ! Ready, on the side of Liberty, to
obey or to command—to take any post which the
occasion requires—in each of them quite above all
mean jealousies, intent only on the same patriotic
object—his fatherland's independence. There is
not a single man in the present struggle in Italy
in whom all Europe feels more personal interest
than it does in GARIBALDI. Every account of him
received through :niividuals wins the hearts and
commands the respect of all, while his pu4lic acts
equally call forth admiration of his genius for
command. Count CAVOUR and his master are
admired and respected, the Emperor of FRANCE is
thought of as an impassive impersonation of fate,
FRANCIS JOSEPH is detested as a Hapsburg and
pitied as a lad ; but GARIBALDI is both admired
and loved.

This great and amiable patriot is now in the
very position in which he is needed—the Ro-
magna. Hard work will the Holy Father and
his Swiss mercenaries have to eject bim and the
soldiers he has gathered around him from thence.
In fifteen days, he tells us, he makes a brave Italian
into a soldier ; and he seems to have the peculiar
power, too, of making Italians brave. He and they
now plainly see that the trust of Italians must be
in themselves. Louis NAPOLEON may or may not
be at heart well affected towards their complete
liberation from all foreign power and influence,
but the treaty of Zurich has made it plain
to them all that he must act, as if he really desirei
the return of the Duke and the Italian Confedera-
tion—Austria being the strongest member of it. It
is clear to all, therefore, and to none more so than
to GARIBALDI, that Italian arms can alone win
Italian freedom. If the emancipated States are
strong enough to hold their own against Austria,
they may be set free. If their front is such that
oceans of patriot blood must flow before they would
submit again to the old despotism, the old des-
potism will not be again forced upon them.

Three documents from GARIBALDI'S pen have ap-
peared in yesterday's and to-day's papers, and they
all show that the hero of Italy is awake to the de-
mands of her position, and that he does not shrink

from making them. He has accepted, as we saw
yesterday, the presidency of the National Society—
a society which has already done very much.
Despite Austrian spies and gold, it prepared the
population, this spring, to second the efforts of

GARIBALDI at the foot of the Alps, and has for-

warded numerous volunteers—the business on which
it is chiefly intent, and on which it is working suc-
cessfully. GARIBALDI points to Greece, fighting
for six years, and America, for fourteen, to gain
their liberties ; and reminds the Italians that, now,
after only a few months' struggle, their cause has
the sympathy of all Europe—he might have said of
all freemen throughout the -world.
In the proclamation which appears to-day, he
appeals to the country on behalf of the families
of needy volunteers. lie demands for the wives

and children of those who leave their homes to

fight for their country's freedom that the country
shall regard them as its charge. Ho calls on the
municipalities to save the soldier from anxiety for
those he has left behind. GARIBALDI is a wart for