The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25
LADY HENRY SOMERSET
 REMEMBERS GARABAIDI

" HE Garibaldi centenary brings a viv-
 i'd remembrance of the figure clad
 \ in scarlet whom in my childhood. all went out for to see." In 1864 Gari- baldi visited London, and many were the stories and much was the admiration which centered around him. The Italian hero stayed with the Duke of Sut1erland in his great palace looking over the Park of St. James We were told how bath was brought to the room, and on 1t being deposited in his luxurious apartment the General asked what 1t meant. He was evidently not in the habit of seeing the Englishman's tub as part of the daily routine
 Garibaldfs meeting with Tennyson was
 also subject of much interest. Tenny- son had for the Italian warrior the deep est of admiration, and the meeting be-
 tween these two must have been curious indeed. as 1t would have been difficult
 to have found two men more taciturn and less given to the amenities of life. h.
 deed Garibaldi was one of the most silent men possible. 'I have known him." says one of hls great admirers, ''sit in the Cafe de la Piazza Minerva in a room watch ing game of chess during whole after noon or evening without uttering a single word of comment
 It is a curious coincidence that Gari- baldfs Day, celebrated on the fourth of July in London. should be the anniver- sary of the celebration of the great day of American Independence. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland gave great lunch
 con party to celebrate the occasion, at which the Italian ambassador was pres ent Forty-three years ago all classes had hailed Garibaldl as the perfect knight of the nineteenth century, and 1t was appro-
 priate that the great town house of the Dukes of Sutherland should have been the mise en scene of the centenary celebra- ton. When the luncheon was over the representatives of fourteen Italian soci- cites, with their appropriate banners, the very ones which had in 1864 been carried in the procession that welcomed Gari-
 baldi entered the hall. The Duke of
 Sutherland briefly welcomed the Italians,
 and the Earl of Crewe delivered an ad- dress in which he said that the name,
 Joseph Garibaldi, was linked to such names as those of Abraham Lincoln'
 Robert Lee and Charles Gordon. 'To such men," he said we bare our heads in re- spect, because their characters are even greater than their achievements. They are greater TOT what they were than for
 what they did," Garibaldi was man who hated war. He has said that he had a struggle with himself every time he or dered a battalion to charge, and yet he fought for the liberation of his country. Mir Herbert Gladstone followed. He said he should not be worthy to bear his name were it not that he had the warmest sympathy with the commemoration, as he spoke of the magnificent reception that MT. Gladstone has received on his last visit to Naples Italian hymns were | I.a ri I,a1 e
 I was very young indeed when Garibeldi | came to England. in fact the echoes of the event of those times only reached my 1 childish ears when I was playing with my toys on nursery floor, and yet I can | still recollect the little sneers and scoffs l which, in spite of the general admiration. were given to the humble peasant man | who had done such great deeds and won | such great reuown. Now those are si- | fenced. and now none remember him save | as the hero and the patriot
 | General consternation was depicted or every face In Dublin when it became | known that the Royal Order jewels had | been stolen The robbery was discovered | because the jewels were required for the | state reception of the King in Dublin. | They belonged to the illustrious Order of l St. Patrick which consists of twenty | four knights of the nobest families. with | the sovereign and lord lieutenant at the | head The walls of St. Patrick Hall in | Dublin are hung with the banners of the knights and the statutes of she order run that the brotherhod of the most | illustrious Order of St. Patrick has de- creed that no one should be admitted save ! he be a gentleman of blood" Moreover