over the events of the Revolution
of February 1848, but we may be permitted to observe, that the
combinations by which that event was effected were ramified and
extensive, and were long silently and secretly in motion.

The personal history of M. Rollin, since February 1848, is well-known
and patent to all the world. He was the _ame damnee_ of the
Provisional Government--the man whose extreme opinions, intemperate
circulars, and vehement patronage of persons professing the political
creed of Robespierre--indisposed all moderate men to rally around the
new system. It was in covering Ledru Rollin with the shield of his
popularity that Lamartine lost his own, and that he ceased to be the
political idol of a people of whom he must ever be regarded as one
of the literary glories and illustrations. On the dissolution of
the Provisional Government, Ledru Rollin constituted himself one of
the leaders of the movement party. In ready powers of speech and in
popularity no man stood higher; but he did not possess the power of
restraining his followers or of holding them in hand, and the result
was, that instead of being their leader he became their instrument.
Fond of applause, ambitious of distinction, timid by nature, destitute
of pluck, and of that rarer virtue moral courage, Ledru Rollin,
to avoid the imputation of faint-heartedness, put himself in the
foreground, but the measures of his followers being ill-taken, the
plot in which he was mixed up egregiously failed, and he is now in
consequence an exile in England.

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GENERAL GARIBALDI.

MR. FILIPANTE gives the following notice of this Italian revolutionary
leader in a communication to the _Evening Post_. "His exertions in
behalf of the liberal movement in Italy have been indefatigable. As
active as he was courageous, he was among the first to take up arms
against Austrian tyranny, and the last to lay them down. Even when the
triumvirate at Rome had been overthrown, and the most ardent spirits
despaired of the republic, Garibaldi and his noble band of soldiers
refused to yield; they maintained a vigorous resistance to the last,
and only quitted the ground when the cause was so far gone that their
own success would have been of no general advantage.

"The General is about forty years of age. He was in early life an
officer in the Sardinian service, but, engaging in an unsuccessful
revolt against the government of Charles Albert, he