Garibaldi has left Caprera on a visit to Rome, and
has been received there as only Garibaldi is received, the vast crowd. hushing itself, as the whisper went round that he was ill. His arrival has excited a degree of consternation which is still un- explained, as he is apparently too ill for action. There is a report, however, that this is a feint, and that he has left Caprera in order to command an army gathered under pretext of a project of colonisation in order to land in Albania, and commence the second task of his life,—the enfranchisement of the Greeks. Garibaldi has thousands of enthusiastic admirers on the other side of the Adriatic, and his landing in the Gulf of Arta would be the signal for an uprising which would shake the power of the Turks throughout their Greek possessions. The rumour may be entirely unfounded, as the hero is evidently ill; but he has addressed a letter to a Roman journal, in which there is evidence of strong antipathy to the Depretis Ministry, and a curious tone of menace towards the dynasty, which is told that it is on its trial, that the people suffer more than under the old tyrannies, and that Monarchy in Italy may not be eternal. It would seem probable that Gari- baldi has some definite design in his mind, but its nature has been hidden in the secrecy which, in spite of his childlikeness, the old. naval captain knows perfectly well how to preserve.
