Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19
GaFibalai.


sudden departure 1t is curious affair."
GARIBALDI himself did not seem aware that
anything was affecting his health. But an
eminent British surgeon made a certificate
that he was 'unft to undertake to I'll his
engagements" in that country, and that he
would ''incur great and serious risk if he
attempted to visit the principal cities as he
had intended. On the other hand, GARIBALDI>s
Italian physician published statement that
his health was perfectly satisfactory" and
that he could undergo the journey with safe
ty. GARIBALDI himself published card bid
ding the English people farewell, and saying
that he could not fulfill all his engagements,
but made no allusion to his health.
The general opinion is that his presence
easiness which the popular demonstrations in
his behalf by the English masses gave to the
French Emperor. The British ministry prob,
ably gave him a hint that his further stay
upon q the inviolate island of the sage and
free was not desirable. The tone Of the
French Government journals, it is said, has
shown that the enthusiastic reception Of the
Italian leader by the English people was any,
thing but acceptable to the Emperor, who
hates and fears the man who can at any time
evoke the formidable agency of revolution
and set Europe in blaze.
The reception of GARIBALDI in England i!
one of the most remarkable events of til
times No such popular ferment has beer
witnessed there for years. The aristocracy
seeing doubtless that it was dangerous t.
leave the great revolutionary chief entirely
in the hands of the common people, Wed Will
them in doing him honor. He was borne, say
an exchange in speaking Of these demonstra
tions, through the heaving multitude of Lon
don to a ducal residence, and from tina
time was not only the popular IDOL but wa
| courted like very monarch by the Govern
ment, by the aristocracy, by the world o
| fashion. The Premier Lord PALMERsToN, gave
him great State dinner. The Foreign Secre
tary, Earl RUSSELL, gave him lunch at Penn
broke Lodge. The Chancellor of the Exche
| quer, Mr.. GLADSTONE, gave a magnificent en-
tertainment, in his honor, on Carleton House
terrace. His Royal Highness, the Prince o
| Wales, visits him at Stafford House, and re
mains with him for an hour. Being solicited
| to visit Parliament, he is accommodated will
a seat in the Peers gallery of the House o
| Commons. In the House Of Lords he is in
troduced by Sir AUGUSTUS CLIFFORD, bearin!
at the right of the Throne. The Bishop O
Oxford leaves the Episcopal Bench to shak
him warmly by the hand The Earl Russell
follows, and then many other Lords, until h
leaves, again preceded by the Chamberlain
He is taken to the opera at Her Majesty
theatre, and there receives from the assem-
| bled fashion an ovation that, as we read tn
account of it, seems to have been almost
frenzy of delight.
1t was strange spectacle-the red shirte
revolutionist, the tallow-chandler of State
Island, the farmer Of Caprera, thus feted b
mobiles and Ministers-not only surrounde
by all the splendors, but receiving all tn
homage Of the very highest society in Eng
land. 1t was thus that the governing classe
sought to take possession Of GARIBALDl
Yet they had no possession of him. H
moves about at his will. To day at BARCLA
& PERKINS brewery drinking amid deafenin
hurrahs the health of English workmen; to
morrow receiving a deputatior from the Uni
versal League for the welfare Of the indus
trious classes, and responding in earnes
words for a closer brotherhood between tn
different peoples; the day after, in gather
ing of continental republicans and salutin
MAzzINI-the object of adherence to the al
istocracy and Of special distrust to the Gov
ernment-as ''the guide and counsellor Of hi
young years, his friend and teacher"
The conviction can hardly be resisted, tina
the fact that GARIBALDI could not be kept t
the narrow walk that suited the interests c
the Government, was the real cause of hi
leaving England so suddenly.
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DENOMINATIONS JAMES S. WADswoRTF