A correspondent has sent to the papers a remarkable letter
which Garibaldi wrote to a British. Member of Parliament on leaving England in 1854. Garibaldi says :— " Born and educated as I have been in the cause of humanity, my heart is entirely devoted to liberty, universal liberty—national and world-wide, era e sempre -(now and for every. England is-a great and powerful nation, independent of auxiliary aid, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge of the exile; friend of the oppressed, but if ever England. your native country, should be so circumstanced as to require the help of an ally, cursed be that Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence. Your Government has given the autocrat a check, and the Austrians a lesson. The despots of Europe are against you in consequence. Should England at any time in a just cause need my arm, I am ready to nnsheath in her defenee the noble and splendid sword received at your hands.'
The appositeness of the letter to the present situation is quite singular,
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