Garibaldi died on the evening of Friday se'nnight, the last
of the four men, Cavour, Mazzini, Victor Emanuel, and himself, who, in 1860, among them made Italy. Perhaps we ought to add the Emperor Napoleon ; but his help, indispensable as it was, was given with another object than the enfranchisement of the country he assisted to make free. Of the four, Garibaldi was the lowest in mental power ; but his unequalled courage, his ascendancy over the masses of South Italy, and his marvellous disinterestedness, made him, perhaps, the most efficient. No- thing in history or romance surpasses his descent on Sicily with scarcely a thousand men, his return to the mainland, and his con- quest of the capital, in which he arrived by railway almost with- out a, guard. The single feat which overshadows it is his surrender of the kingdom he had captured to Victor Emanuel, because that was best for Italy. No character at once so great and so childlike, so royal in its command over men and so nearly feeble in its uncontrolled yielding to passing emotions, has ever- appeared in modern history, and none has ever excited such regard among the masses of mankind. To the last, the Italian sailor, without birth or education, was a power in Southern Europe ; and while all Italians worshipped him, and the masses of London turned out to do him honour, his name had such a charm on the Achiatic, that in 1880 a report of his intention to descend into Elyria appalled the Eastern Courts. He was not Cavour's equal, but we shall see many Cavours before we see a second Garibaldi.
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