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 was compelled to leave his native land.  He fled to Montevideo, where he fought with distinction in the wars against Rosas.  At the breaking out of the late revolution he returned.  His military capacities being well known, he was entrusted with a command; and throughout the war his services were most efficient.  He defeated the allied troops of Austria, France, and Naples, in several battles; his name, in fact, became a terror, and when the republic fell, and he was compelled to retire to the Appenines, the invaders felt that his return would be more formidable than any other event.

“From Italy he went to Morocco, where he has since lived.  But his friends, desiring that his great energies should be actively employed, have offered him the command of a merchant ship, which he has accepted.  He will, therefore, hereafter be engaged in the peaceful pursuits of commerce, unless his country should again require his exertions.”

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CRIME, IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

In recent discussions of the effects of education upon morals, the relative conditions of Great Britain and France in this respect have often been referred to.  The following paragraph shows that the statistics in the case have not been well understood: