GARIBALDI'S MARRIAGE.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3348, 15 September 1879, Page 3

GARIBALDI'S MARRIAGE.

According to the .Rome papers, and especially to the Capitale, which is understood to be fully informed in all that relates to Garibaldi, the General will appear before the Courts to obtain a declaration of the nullity of his marriage with the Signora feaimondi, celebrated in Home some fifteen or more years ago. Immediately after the marriage ceremony, and before the bride had changed her dress, .Garibaldi received a letter telling him she had deceived him before marrying him. He laid the letter before her. She confessed ; they parted there and then, and some months later the lady gave birth to a son. It was stated soon after Garibaldi's arrival in Borne—and thi3 news confirms it—that one of his chief objects was to obtain tbe settlement of the remainder of his pension on his children. It will he remembered that the Chamber voted him 100,000f. per annum, with the remainder of 50,000f. per annum to his heirs, but who they wera was not specified —an oversight which was somewhat remarkable in the circumstances. Garibaldi has-two families of children, but neither born in wedlock. The first were by Anita, who died in 1849; the second, Manlio and Clelia, by the Signora Francesca, born since his unfortunate marriaee with Signora Eaimondi. But, these being illegitimate, the law cannot take cognizance of their existence, and hence the curious complication has arisen that it can only recognise as his legitimate son a young man who is no child of hi?, but who,, as .things now are, is entitled to succeed to the remainder of his pension. Garibaldi therefore seeks to obtain a decree of millity of his marriage with Signora Jf.iimondi, that he may prevent this, »nd, by marrying their mother, enable Manlio and Clelia to inherit the remainder.