On Friday week the centenary of the birth of Garibaldi
was celebrated in London. Among those who took part in the ceremonies were many who remembered the wonderful scenes of enthusiasm in 1864 when Garibaldi was hailed here as the liberator of Italy. The very presence of the man who' had awakened his country to the love of freedom, and the willingness to fight for it, after nearly three hundred years of ignoble subjugation, was almost as great an inspiration to England as to Italy. The principal event of Friday week was a meeting at Stafford House, where Garibaldi was enter- tained by the late Duke of Sutherland in 1864. The pro- cession which marched to the meeting with banners bore a tattered Garibaldi= standard, and a few of the men wore the famous red shirt. Among those present who had actually been Garibaldi's comrades in the field about twelve were Englishmen. Lord Crewe in an eloquent speech paid a fine tribute not only to Garibaldi, but to the other great liberators, Cavour, Mazzini, and Victor Emmanuel. Another speaker was Mr. George Trevelyan, Garibaldi's latest and best biographer. The story of Garibaldi's life, as he well said, " was an ever-enduring protest against the acceptance by men of the intolerable as the inevitable."
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