[1] _Die Schwefelbande._—(_Author’s Note._)
[2] Don Carlos, born 1818, usually called Count of Montemolin to
distinguish him from the better known Don Carlos, his father. Both were
unsuccessful pretenders to the throne of Queen Isabella of Spain. Don
Juan was the brother of the Count of Montemolin, and at the latter’s
death succeeded to his claims.
[3] _Honveds_ (‘Land-defenders’), the name given to the old national
heroes of Hungary, was in 1848 adopted by the revolutionary
armies.—(_Translator’s Notes._)
[4] Sir George Grove in his _Dictionary of Music and Musicians_ says of
Jullien (originally Julien): ‘No one at all in the same category has
occupied anything like the same position in public favour. His name
was a household word and his face and figure household shapes during a
period of nearly twenty years.’ ‘To Jullien is attributed the immense
improvements made in our orchestras during these twenty years.’ Among
other works he composed The Allied Armies Quadrille (Crimean War, 1854),
The Indian Quadrille and Havelock’s March (Indian Mutiny, 1857), The
English Quadrille, and The French Quadrille.—(_Translator’s Note._)
[5] The Austrian Field-Marshal Urban defeated Garibaldi’s volunteers and
took Varese, but was obliged to abandon it (June 1859).—(_Translator’s
Note._)
[6] This lady was the wife of the Count F. A. Pulszky, who was a friend
of Kossuth and associated with him in the efforts to throw off the
yoke of the Austrian Government. He wrote several books describing his
adventures, and his wife wrote her memoirs, known in English as _Memoirs
of an Hungarian Lady_ (published in London, 1850), and other books, such
as _Tales and Traditions of Hungary_ (1851).
[7] The famous Lord Raglan, who distinguished himself in the campaigns
against Napoleon and still more so in the Crimean War, lost his right arm
at Waterloo and is said to have practised writing with his left hand the
very next day. The ‘Raglan sleeve’ is doubtless so named in his honour.
[8] St.-Arnaud, Jacques Leroy de (1801-1854), one of the leading
organisers of the Coup d’État of December 2, defeated the Russians at
Alma.
[9] Omer Pasha, Turkish General in the Crimean War.—(_Translator’s
Notes._)
[10] Delahodde (or De Lahode), Lucien, wrote _Histoire des Sociétés
Secrètes de 1830 à 1848_, and _La Naissance de la République_.
[11] Chenu, J. A., wrote _Les Conspirateurs_, which called forth
a reply, _Réponse aux deux libelles de Chenu et Delahodde_, by J.
Miot.—(_Translator’s Notes._)
[12] Delescluze, Charles (1809-1871), a French journalist and politician,
was a member of the Commune in 1871 and killed at the barricades.
[13] Boichot, Jean Baptiste (born 1820), elected a Representative of
the People, appeared in uniform at the demonstration of June 13, 1849,
escaped to Switzerland and afterwards to London, where he wrote books
in conjunction with Félix Pyat and was head of the society called ‘La
Commune Révolutionnaire.’ He returned to Paris in 1854, was captured and
imprisoned.—(_Translator’s Notes._)
[14] Latour was Austrian War Minister, murdered by an infuriated crowd on
October 6, 1848.
[15] An unconscious pun which occurs in an old Russian poem on the
Crusades.—(_Translator’s Notes._)
[16] Probably James Buchanan, then President of the United States, is
meant.—(_Translator’s Note._)
[17] Stansfeld, The Rt. Hon. James, born 1820, was, 1859, returned to
Parliament for Halifax as an advanced Liberal. He was a Lord of the
Admiralty from 1863 to 1864, when he resigned. In 1886 he was President
of the Local Government Board, with a seat in the Cabinet. He was a close
friend of Mazzini.—(_Translator’s Note._)
[18] A village in the province of Milan where the French defeated the
Austrians in 1859.—(_Translator’s Note._)
[19] The _Alabama_ was a vessel built by a British firm in a British port
for the Southern States in the American Civil War. It did great damage to
the shipping of the Northern States, capturing sixty-five ships. Feeling
on the subject ran so high that at one time there seemed a danger of
England’s taking part in the war on the side of the South.—(_Translator’s
Note._)
[20] I remember one case of a stolen watch and two or three of fights
with Irishmen.—(_Author’s Note._)
[21] Is it not strange that Garibaldi was at one with Karl Vogt in his
estimate of the Schleswig-Holstein question?—(_Author’s Note._)
[22] The region including the four towns of Verona, Legnago, Peschiera
and Mantua is meant.—(_Translator’s Note._)
[23] Chief agent of the French police before 1827 and author of famous
Memoirs. The name has been wrongly transliterated as ‘Vidok’ in Volume
II.—(_Translator’s Note._)
[24] This refers to the following passage, which appeared in the _Bell_,
Number 184, May 1, 1864:—
_April 17, 1864._
‘To _young_ Russia suffering and struggling for the _new_ Russia which,
when once it has vanquished the Russian Tsardom, will undoubtedly in its
development have immense significance for the destinies of the world!’
_From the health proposed by Garibaldi._
‘Your words will reach our friends, they will reach into the fortresses
and mines....’
_From the reply to it._
We promised an article describing Garibaldi’s visit to England; now
that it has so _unexpectedly_ come to an end we are convinced of its
historical significance, but that article is to come. For the moment we
would only give our friends some details concerning Garibaldi’s visit
to us, and those details, indeed, will consist of the brief speeches of
Mazzini and Garibaldi. The English newspapers have been so overloaded
with descriptions of receptions, welcomes, dishes, garlands, and so on,
that we are as little anxious to enter into competition with them as we
are capable of equalling the aristocratic Balthazar feasts in honour of
the revolutionary leader.
Our banquet was a modest one, there were not twenty invited guests to it
(among them, not counting Garibaldi and Mazzini, there were several of
their nearest friends: Saffi, who was one of the Triumvirate in Rome,
Mordini, the Dictator of Sicily, Guerzoni, et cetera. Mrs. Stansfeld was
among the ladies). In the _Daily News_, in the _Morning Star_, in Prince
Dolgoruky’s _Listok_, there have been descriptions of the crowds of
people before the garden railings, the shouts of ‘Hurrah!’ (as Garibaldi
walked in he was almost carried off his feet, the ladies kissed his hands
and the hem of his cloak) and so on—as it has been at every house which
the uncrowned king has visited.