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    • GARIBALDI IN" CALABRIA. ! ^ nnu:nnciir ovnopfpH mrtmpnt bas arrived '
    • STRANGE BEDFELLOWS.
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      * ' ** - - ' ¦ ' . ' — ' ! penal offence punishable by fine and imprisonment of an expression of opinion and a narration of facts , that ninetenths of the people of England indulge in from day to day . In his own locality . Mr . George Ckawshay has made himself a , public laughing-stock for " many years , . but his connection . kvith a wealthy iron firm lias enabled him to become a ' Mayor , " and after this last exhibition of intelligence , his fellow-townsmen ought to present him with a cap and bells . rhe essence of the offence constituted by the Foreign Enlistment Act consists in some act of personal solicitation or hiring , and it was plain that a general inquiry , •• Who will fight for Garibaldi , " was quite a -different thing from endeavouring to induce Jones and Smith to enlist m his ranks . As Lord Palmsrston explained to some members of the Pope ' s Brass Band , " only great clumsiness on the part of Garibaldi ' s agents could possibly bring them within the meshes of the law ; and individual freedom must be altogether subverted , if Englishmen are to be prevented from travelling to Italy , and joining that noble army by whom her liberation is becoming an accomplished fact . It is quite ridiculous to attempt to stop these movements . All that could possibly be done would be to change their form , j As soonas it was found that some persons were afraid to send I uoney to Mr . Ashukst for the " million of muskets , " they | were invited by Mr . 1 Io » gk to subscribe to a " Garibaldi restimonial ; " and if Mr . George Ckawshay should alarm anybody about foreign enlistment , what is there to hinder the formation of a •' Gakibaldi Railway Corps , " to facilitate the communication between Naples and Turin ? We do not suppose that Mr * Crawshay entertains any spite against Mr . Langle y , or seriously imagines that he can succeed in his foolish purpose of coercing those who do not agree with him . The Mayor of Gateshead appears to suffer from diseased vanity ; he wants distinction , and no judicious friend appears able to point out a rational method within bis reach . The- friends- of Garibaldi ought not , however , to . complain . He - advertises their plans , and has succeeded in showing that the Act of Parliament he relied upon is quite insufficient to prevent the movement he objects to . It was just as well that the legal bugbear should be made ridiculous , and we do not know anybody better able to bring it into contempt than the fussy and foolish gentleman whom Gateshead thought proper to choose for its Mayor .

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      ' ' " ¦ ¦ : l " ~ " ~ ' """" "" 748 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Aug . 25 , 1860 .

      Garibaldi In" Calabria. ! ^ Nnu:Nnciir Ovnopfph Mrtmpnt Bas Arrived '

      GARIBALDI IN" CALABRIA . ! ^ : nnciir ovnopfpH mrtmpnt bas arrived '

      Strange Bedfellows.

      STRANGE BEDFELLOWS .

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      X patriot chief of the Italians once more trusts to Divine Providence and a just cause , or tempts Fortune in an enterpri se of great peril , but also of " great pith and momenf ? ' His conduct will be looked at in bbth these lights , but the former will be " the most general and the most true . The little band of Greeks at Salamis had not a more desperate task before them , nor was the defeat of the barbarian host of less consequence to humanity than is the issue of the Italian struggle , which must decide whether twenty-six millions of a race remarkable for its genius and its power to minister to human progress shall finully escape from the hateful thraldom of despotism , and take " its place among the free and foremost nations of the earth . There is not a brave heart in Europe , uncorrupted by Papal superstition , that does not beat faster , in anxious expectation of receiving early news of Gaiubaldi ' s success , and on the shores of the Danube , and the recesses of the Carpathians , millions know that their chance of freedom is intimately connected with the fortunes of the Italian cause . If Garibaldi rescues Naples from its atrocious government . Sardinia will be strong enough to attempt the liberation of Venetia . The Austrian knows this , and it is not improbable that he will try to take time by the forelock , and be first in the strife . The crafty , but foolish German Princes , with Prussia at their head , bid fair to be accomplices of Austria in her evil designs , and Englishmen cannot declare too strongly that they will not permit the French alliance to be broken for the " balance of power , " through Kaiseh and the Popb . ™~ GXinB ~ ATm ^ must strain every nerve to assist his cause . The odds against him are enormous ; and with the immediate prospect of fighting Austria before her , Sardinia can afford him little help . England can . and we believe will do much in money , arms , and sympathy , and those who do assist , will , in after years , be proud to tell their children that they wero fellow-workers with Italy when her liberties were won . The capture of Reggio is a happy omen of future triumphs .

      POLITICS , like poverty , make men acquainted with strange bedfellows . We are ^ afraid that politics cannot be a very straightforward trade , or this would not be thfr case . What necessity can there be for a , political man in his political capacity to associate with persons , or avail himself of the services of persons , whom , in his capacity of private gentleman / he would scorn to be seen talking to- ? those who make politics the business of thenlife and the stepping-stone of their ambition can best answer this question . We do not doubt that they see and feel the necessity . Some shopkeepers will tell you that copy-slip morality is sill wrong about honesty , and that that quality , is the very worst policy , if you mean making a fortune . If your aim m life be a handsome competency and a suburban mansion , your motto must be turmeric and devil ' s dust . " The real article is only for the mean-spirited persons who go in for a hand-to-mouth existence and an approving-conscience . The principle of these people is that as they live in Rogues' -town they must do as rogues do ; that is sound policy all the world over . Politicians may view their world bv the same light . " Gentlemen opposite" play these tricks ; we must pay them off in their own coin , or get the worst of . it . And it is not ' human . quietly to accept the worst . of it , either in the shop or in the senate . We are not about to charge our political men with any vast amount of dishonourable dealing in the discharge of their public duties , or , indeed , with any disposition to dishonourable dealingwhatever ; but it is , nevertheless , very evident that there is a class of persons firmly impressed with the idea that men in office have alwavs a good deal of dirty work , 'only wanting dirty fellows to do it . It is an article of faith with these people that ministers iiw \ le « -islators , whether whigy tory , or radical , are always ready t ;> bribe , treat , and intimidate , whenever they think they can -gamany party advantage thereby . So far the estimate which these persons form of public men may be regarded as a compliment . But they have also another article of belief , and that is , that public , men , bv proper -management , may always be induced to perpetrate a job The governing classes may not be so highly nattered on this score , for though it may , in some degree , be complimentary to a man to regard him as a rogue , it is in the highest degree insulting to his vanity and his selt-esteem to account him simply a , tool . But the IJntc-HESj the Iiiwixs , tlie Jobsqxs ,: and the i » i : oi ) ii : s evidently look iipon our public men as 1 ) oth . : ¦¦ \ v — # The proceedings before the Berwick Election , Commission furnish us with a striking portrait of one of these House of Commons bores . It ' is . 'not the " portrait of a gentleman' " this time , but the portrait of a discharged serg-eant—one Serg-ealit Bropie—a ^ personage about whom the public has been troubled more than once before now . This person , it may be remembered , was dismissed from the cavalry on account ofthe ' part lie took in connection with a duel , lhe circumstances , if we remember aright , were no discredit to him , but rather the contrary . Ho was afterwards dismissed from an uppointment in the saddlery department of Weedon , and here . ¦ again the Sergeant seemed to be an ill-used man . What , however , was his inisfortime in one sense , redounded to his great advantage . lie came up to town a full-fledged political martyr , and siicce . eded in bi-ino-ini ? his case before the House of Commons . 1 or a time the HfreinHrestTOTr-ofHfce-t ^ BitODiE party , and an anti-BjiODiE party ; and the wrongs of Brodie were as warmly debated as if Beobik had been the Ketpriu Bill or Church Kates . The Sergeant being- a shrewd man m _ his way did not fail to take ' advantage of the interest which he excited . He haunted the lobby , and made himself personally ¦ kn own to all who took an interest , or were likely to take an interest , m Ins case . He did not get nny redress , but he scraped acquaintance with .. Lord Paxmuhe , Lord Palmeustox , Mr . Disraeli , and various . other distinguished men , and so set up a reputation for being- on ultimate terms with great people . From that time , until the present month , the fame of Brodie slept . But now again we hear the sound ol his trumpet . He has evidently been turning his House of Commons acquaintance to good account . Ageneral election is on the tajus , and we behold the dashing- Sergeant walking about Leicester-squaro with Mr . Disraeli ' s private secretary . The Sergeant is desirous of showing Mr . Eaule tho lions of tho square ; and takes him to Wyld ' s News Kooms to hear a debate ; but , unfortunately for Mr . Eakle , the flow of eloquence has given place to the ^ low ot '' liquor 1 on tho occasion , and instead of an orator pouring forth a Ciceronian invective against Lord Palmerston , the honourable gentleman only beheld two men drinking . But that is nothing .. What did Mr . ' DoNAM ) Nicoix , M . P . for Frome , Heeon the evening of the 14 th of April , 1851 ) Y He actually saw Sergeant Buopie m conversation with Mr . JDiskajxi himself—with tho Cjiancmcllou ot tho Exchequer ! Mr . Nicotii saw them walk together towards the library , and presently Buodie returned alone , bearing m his hand an onvolopo , with tho seal of tho House of Commons stamped upon it . And tin ' s was the account which Sergeant Buopnt gave Mr . Nicoix of his intcrviow with Mr . Dishaeli . That gcntleinnn ^ vam eH ~ f 6 " ]^ 6 w ~ ii ^ Mr 7 rlJK 6 mE ™ cou l ^^ Consovvativo party at the general election . Buodie said lie coum ; ho had relations nt Berwick , and knew the weak points of tlio electors , and wus acquainted with tho . frail suction of tlio electors at Frome . Mr . Dibuaici . i hereupon expressed bin wish , in strict confidence ; that Bkouie nhould get soino one to attack Lord Palmehbton and Mr , Veknox S . ^ riTW , at W yib's News Koonitt . AH this had been confided to Mr . Broijie in strict confidence j but ho was too good a Liberal , und too devoted to Mr , Nicoix ' s cause , to assist in such a plot . Hero , then . we have tho Right Honourable Benjamin Disraem , Chancellor of Her Majesty ' s Exchequer , concocting

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1860, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2362/page/4/