The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

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File. VIEN Cs AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton. Farms ; Misses Keeley, nuowdon. raneciewa. ?NTI ammo. Selectloos from AB YOU LIKE IT and THE MERCHANT OMVENICE,—Abd THE COMEDY Or ERRORS. Mews. Vunag, U. Trate, MAK& D. Fisher, Forrester, sad the Brothers Webb . Madames B. Yens, H. Musket, aad Pampa. LYOZUM. ON MONDAY Evarwo, PLAYING WITH 71 IL EILITANNU. THIS ET !Ate. THE LEFT-HANDED MARILIAOL Mrs. B. Lane and all the ConspenigHE GREAT 01106 T EFFECT. W -DELEAR. Muter teeslle and Mfaa C. St. Caro. —And the Fifth Act of JANE 8 OHL —Camino, at 61. 111012 MATED AT ILINDOK DDmOIL MT DST —llforntag, 2h. elm.. .A.Dersess. 76. 8a To4IOIMOW Maniac SA. 21m ... Atiarmiem Th. 30.. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23. Ar the moment when GARIBALDI is bidding farewell to England we should be loth to utter a single ill-omened word as to the suddenness and mystery of his departure, or the disap pointment which he leaves behind. Enough for the moment to record that after all the vehement exhibitions, in Parliament and else where, of excessive frankness and simplicity, the British public are left in the dark to interpret how they may GARIBALDI'S own written declaration to his friends that he considers himself " obliged " to leave England. A Tory contemporary, whose vociferous sympathy for a man who is proud to call MAZZINI his " friend and teacher" may be taken for what it is worth—(if we remem ber that not a month ago the same journal was de nouncing MAzzisi as a friend and instigator of assassins)—sums up the whole misunderstanding very fairly in a single sentence, " One word " would be sufficient fur the purpose" (to solve the mystery), " yet that one word is withheld." Had GARIBALDI in his farewell address, which we publish this morning, thought fit to state that it was purely the state of his health that " obliged " him to re turn unexpectedly to Caprera, every doubt would be silenced, every misgiving in the public mind would be set at rest. But G•eleAtin--the soul of truth and honour—is unable to state anything of the kind. And thus suspicion grows by what it feeds on, and throughout the country there prevails an uncomfortable impression that the ministerial apologists do protest too much. In such a case as this it would perhaps be a little more decent and judicious on the part of Whig organs to spare their sneers at the sorrowful and somewhat impatient regrets of the English working classes, GARIBALDI'S and Irony's firm friends in darker days when aristocratic en thusiasts of the eleventh hour regarded the one as a dangerous democratic dreamer, and the other as a revolutionary chimera. But we hasten to turn from this untoward busi ness. Rather on this occasion let us congratulate our re►ders on the magnificent welcome which all ranks, and orders, and degrees of the most power fully organized society in the world, from the highest to the lowest, from the richest to the poorest, in this immense capital and centre of liberty, intelligence, and enterprise, have bestowed upon an un-crowned, untitled, honest man—" the " noblest work of God." One need not affect to is the dupe of all the vulgar and trivial incidents or accessories of a inauifestation so unanimous, a sym pathy so prevailing and intense as that which has disturbed and possessed the whole world of London during the last fortnight. With all its inseparable human taint of folly, and alloy of vanity, and dross of spurious excitement, the Loudon welcome of GARIBALDI has been truly national, and SIB such, it takes rank, as Mr. GLADSTONE de scribed it, as an historical event. Nu doubt the English are heartily fond of anything or any body to stare at and to follow. Life is tedious ; there is a woeful sameness in "the season ;" the round of fashion is a !monotonous and weary ser vitude; enior i sits behind the riders, and droops upon the carriage cushions in Rotten-row ; any thing for a change, for a sensation ; an interruption ! We have had Czar NICHOLAS, the last of the cannibals from New Zealand, To Tnexa, and an Emperor NAPOLEON, in the life-time of a generation, to talk about and stare at for • week or two. We have had perhaps once or twice in our streets and public places some nobler object of curiosity and gossip : we have had eloquent— too eloquent—patriots, but they represented falling or fallen causes, and stayed too long &menet us, and gradually sunk out of sight. The upper ten thousand went not out to see them, and to the uppermost five hundred they wore but " breign refugees." Never, we suppose, has an old, an exclusive and • contemptuous society, isolated and entrenched in wealth, rank, and privilege, opened its doors, and its arms, to a man of the people and the peo ple's cause ; to the democracy, the Revolution, and all other dangerous ideas and aspirations, incar nate, as English society, to the lonely and lowly Liberator of Italy. How is this ? Is it coquetry, is it trifling, is it the insatiable longing of select idlers sick of each other and of themselves, for a plunge into the vast unsounded ocean of real moving life around them ; for some contact with the rough, rude forces of thought and action which from time to time upheave the world ? Is it a sentimental sympathy with the fortunes of Italy, or with the romantic daring and marvellous feats of a brilliant soldier of fortune, an adventurous sea captain 1 No ; it is not by the epic legend of a life of battles and storms, of sufferings, and achievements heroic, that English society has been surprised into rever ence and shaken with emotion. Nor is it the sweet austere melancholy of the gentle 10010, nor the calm grandeur of the presence and bear ing, that has fascinated the frivolous, awed the self seeking and corrupt, abashed the cynical and confounded the base of nature and of thought, who have come face to face with GARIBALDI. It is the living presence of a pure, high soul, un clouded by sordid interests and passions, possessed by divine patent of a nobility which kings can neither give nor take away, equal to any fate, su perior to any fortune, inaccessible to earthly favours and reward,. The secret, we say, of GARIBALUI'iS fascination ia to be found in the serenity and simplicity of the pure soul mir- ~~ ~~ r rowed in that face, and it it good for ouch a man is bare to shame our idols and to bumble our folio pia Key be moon be among u• Pasta ! PARTING - ADDRESS OF GENERAL • GARIBALDL The following is General Garibaldi's address to the English nation on his departure : _ _ "1 offer my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the English nation and their government for the re ception I have met with in this free land. " I cams here with the primitive object of thank ing them for their sympathy for me and for my country, and this my first object is accomplished. " I have desired to be altogether at the disposi tion of my English friends, and to go to every place where I might be wished to go ; but I fiud that I cannot now fulfil all these engagements of my heart. "If I have caused some trouble and disappoint ment to many friends, I ask their pardon • but I cannot draw the line between where I cou ld and where I could not go ; and therefore for the pre sent, these are my thanks and my farewell. "Still I hope, - perhaps at to; distaut time, to return to see my friends in the domestic life of Eng land, and to redeem some of the engagements with the generous people of this country, which, with deep regret, I feel that I cannot now fulfil. (Signed) "G. GARIBALDI. "26, Prizargate, Lases, April 22." GAMIBALDIS MOVICKCNTS. General Garibaldi will resume his journey from Cliefden for Plymouth on Monday, and will pass that night at Colonel Peard's residence, Penquite, Cornwall. On Tuesday morning the general and his friends embark on board the Duke of Suther land's yacht for Caprera. trbt Coun. OSBORNE, APRIL 22. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds yesterday morning and afternoon. Princess Helena rods on horseback, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's park. Then were present—Sir William Dubar, Keeper of the Privy Seal ; Sir William John Alexander, Attorsey. General; Lieutenant-General Knollys, Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness ; and the Lord Portman. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Gyration of the Settlements on the West Comet of Africa, and from the Lord High Commissioner o the lonian Islands. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge had a dipper party Let evening at Gloucester-boom, Park-Lae. Their Royal Higbee's:o the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of blecklenburg-Strelita, the Princess Mary, and a distinguished circle were preseut. The Duke of Newcastle was enabled to take a carriage airing yesterday with the Countess of Lincoln. HIS grace's health has wonderfully improved during the last tea days. The Duchess of Marlborough has issued cards for an ueembly on the 12th of May, at her greoe'a resi dence io St. Jaznea'a.square. His Excellency M. Armand L. de Balan, Pleni potentiary at the cmiterame, haa arrived at biaorigy'a Hotel, accompanied by his suite, from Berlin. • The marriage was celebrated on Thursday, at Strattoe, by the Lord Bishop of St. Asapb, of John Boa ham-Carter, req., M.P., to Mary, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring, Bart., M.P. VISIT or THE FILMES AND PRINCVS OF WALES TO THE UNIVERSITY OT CAMBRIDG/L-At the congregation holden on Thursday last, a syndicate was appointed to make proper arrangements for the reception of their royal high. :stases. It is at present understood that they will arrive on the 15th, that the public celebration will take place on the 16th. and that the royal guest. will depart on the lith. The prize poem. and exercises will be recited in the Senatt• house on the 16th. On the 15th, her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will present the Challege Cup to the successful competitors of the University Ride Corps. We hear also that there is to be a grand banquet in King's College.—Csaihridoe led-pendent. THE CONFERENCL—WINDSOR CASTLE, April 18. —This day had audience of her Majesty -The Baron de Ceti°, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of B••11/6, to deliver hie sew credeetials ; and Monsieur de Qusade, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the King of Denmark, Monsieur de Bille, &Toy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary from his Danish Ma , lest., and Monsieur de Krieger, plenipotentiaries to the conferences about to be held in Loodoe with a view to the restoration of peace in the north of Europe. To whieb audiences they were respectively introduced by Earl Russell, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.—Garette. . %Vitamin, APRIL 21.—Tbo Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain sod Ireland, coosti►utisg and appointing the Most Noble Edward Adol. phi's, Doke of Superset, K.C. ; Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick William Grey, K.C.B. ; Resr•Admiral Charles Eden, C.B. ; Rear. Admiral Charles Frederick ; Beer-Admi ral the Hoe. James Robert Drummond, C.B. ; and Hugh Culling Euriley Childers, Esp., to be her Majesty's commis sioners for executing the °Moe of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom of Greet Britain sod Ireland, sad the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging. Ga CONVOCATION Or THE PROVINCE O► C►iTERBCRy, —The upper house did not ait yesterday. The lower house met at 11 o'clock under the presidency cf Archdeacon Birk ersteth, but there was a sensible diminution of the number of proctors presort. The Principal of Jesus College. Oxford (Dr. Williams), presented a gravamen in favour of taking Into consideratiou the fact that the deans and canons of Webb dioceses had iOOOlllllll assigned to them amounting to only seven-tenths of the smallest income of their Euglish brethren, while many of the Engliah dignitaries have in mates much exceedieg that minimum. The Bev. 31. W. Marry presented a gravamen to the effect that the minds of churchmen were filled with anxiety as to the precise result of the recent judgment of the Privy Council on the doctrine of the church, and that many were anxiously look ing for an expression of the mind of couvocation on this point, and on its taking any and if any, what measures, to remedy the alleged evils. A long dim-maim took place on the Burial Service, and convocation was adjourned till the 21st of Jun*. THE AUTHOR OF "TOM BRows's ScHOOLDAYs n AND THE liatinEtigeresioN OF FIBBBE:KT.—We understand that a number of the elector, of Finsbury, a borough which will be vacated by Sir Morton Pato's retirement, have re quested Mr. Hughes to stand on the liberal sale. If the statement is true it will be the most creditable thing the borough has done for year., for Mr. Hughes will anther job for the electors, dotter them, nor swallow their pledges. He is a stroog liberal, or rather radical—one of those who think that our next business is to fight pauperism, sod a men with a real care for the working class. If Finsbury has the intelligence to accept such a nominatioe, sad send " Tom Brown" to parliament, it will bane done at least something towards making educated men believe that big boroughs know bow to choose representatives—Spectator. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MSETINOS FOS THE Emectsc Winc.—Mooday, Actuaries, at 7, " Ranson Sows," dler e, A "Mr. Newbatt ; • Governmeut Annuities Bill," Geographical, at 84, " Explorations, Upper I Nile," Mr. Pethenek ; " Feud Booms from the Zambesi," Dr. Kirk ; "Antiquity of Physical Geography of Africa," Sir R. I. Murchison. Tuesday, Horticultural, at 3, " Vegetation and Insect Life of the Amerce," Mr. Batas ; Ethnological, at 8, "Celtic Languages sad Ream," Mr. Campbell and Sir Jodie Shill; "Danish Coluit•Fiuda." Mr. Lubbock ; Royal Institution. at 3. "On Homer," Pro fessor Mackie ; Esgtssees, at 8, " Locomotive Engines for Steep Inclines." Mr. Crow; „ Impedimental Frictio n be. tweet' Wheel Tine sad Rails," Mr. Adams ; Zoological, at 9, " Birds collected by Rev. H. B. Tristram, P al estine," Dr. Saeger • " Change of Colour in Common Trout," Dr. Crisp ; "Diseription of Three new Species of Australian Sashes," Mr. Gerard Krafft. Wednesday, Geological, at 8, "Geology of Arissig. Nova Bootie," Rev. D. Hoosymare; " Fish Remise from Upper Liemistooe of Permian Series, Durham," Mr. Kirkby ; Society of Arts, at 8, " Patent Laws ; " Archaeological Aseociatioo, at 84, " Hut Circles oe Dartmoor," Mr. Ormerod. Thursday, Astiquaries, at 8 ; Royal, at 84 ; Royal Institution, at 3, " On Homer," Pro fessor Blactie. Friday. Royal Institution, at 8, "The Existence of Atoms," Professor Williamson. Saturday. Zoological, at 1, Aseivereary ; Royal lastitutioo, at 3, Metallic elsaisata," Professor Fraoklaad. GEIi MIL GARIBALDI AND THE MILITLRYCLUNS..— We eederielea that there being a great desire mourn the members M the elder service clubs to admit Garibaldi as an looorary member. the combos was raised as to whether he actually held a commission in lbe Italian army. This fact having been amertaioed in the negative. a resolution was adopted that it would be contrary to established custom to admit him.— United Serrsee Gaxtte. The ice crop gathered lent winter is now said to be the lamest ever stored.—New York paper. • ' , 4 AiSS Ait DAY is 44 • LATEST INTELLIGIIKOE. THE ASSAULT ON DUPPEL The Danish accounts of the aassult on Duppel have at last arrived, and lead to the belief that the details given by the Prussian journals were rather under than beyond the truth. The government of Copenhagen does not attempt to extenuate in any way its defeat The conflict is admitted to have been terrible. Gen. Duplat and the other field officers who were either killed or badly wounded, belonged to the left wing of the Danes. That part of the defending force being deprived of its chiefs, and opposed to an enemy far superior in number, was obliged to effect its retreat under a murderous fire from the Prussian artillery. The right wing was taken on the flank and overwhelmed by the besiegers. It made ita retreat, but left in the enemy's hands a great number of prisoners, independently of the dead and wounded who strewed the ground. At length the remnants of the small Danish army succeeded in reaching the tite-de-pont of Sonderborg. In that place was renewed the sacrifice of Overlie. As time was necessary for the different regiments to pass over to the Island of Alsen, two or three battalions hastily assembled and sustained the shock of the enemy. The remains of the Danish army found refuge in the Island, but with dreadful loss ; the Copenhagen despatch, with terrible plainness, declaring that the greater part of the Ist Brigade has disappeared, and one-half of the Bth been destroyed ! According to the information received from both sides, there appears to be no doubt that the attack was as skilfully organised as the defence was courageous. The Prussians had appointed a force of 25,000 men for the assault ; 15,000 picked men from the regimeuta of Brandeburg and Westphalia were to form the attacking the party, the remaining 10,000 constituting the reserve. The Prussians took their measures so well that their losses were relatively smaller, being 60 officers wounded, 6 or 7 killed, and 800 rank and file put hors de combat. Among the wounded are mentioned Generals de Mannstein and de Raven, and Colonel de Cusel. (LEUTIMI meow's.) SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 23. The Queen hu left for Aranjuez. The Nowedades of to-day says : "The Progreasist banquet will not disturb public tranquillity, although more than 1,000 persons will take part in it." AMERICA. (Per the North American, viii Oreenceatle), NEW YORK, APRIL 9, APPIRROOK. The army of the Potomac is preparing for an early forward movement. All surplus baggage has been sent to the rear, and furloughs hare been stopped. 00XMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Aran, 9, Arnaxoo9. Money tight. Gold, 70 prem. Exchange on London, 1814. Stocks opened firm to-day, but have since become very heavy. New York Centrals, 1431 ; Illinois, 149 k ; Erie, 1261. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 74a. Breachituffs advancing. Petroleum very firm. Crude, 35i ; refined, 52 to 52&. The City of Manchester, from New York on the 9th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 7.30 a.m. She brings 131 passengers and 276,270 dole. in specie. She landed 10 sacks of mails and 12 passengers, and proceeded at 7.40 a.m. Her news has been anticipated. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (racom ors Owl coutrarosorss.) PARIS. FRIDAY Evionxa. The English Shakespeare banquet is, after all, to take place—at least, I suppose so, because I have a letter from the secretary of the committee, telling me that it is "all right again," and enclosing a ticket. I observe, however, that this evening's edition of Gutiguani done not contain the contra diction which appeared in this morning's number of its announcement last night, that the banquet had been prohibited. It is quite certain that the banquet was interdicted on Wednesday, because I was told so, not only at the Grand Hotel, but ty the secretary and one of the leading members of the committee. The French government, in think ing better of it, confirms, in the strongest manner, all the strictures hitherto made. The Temps has received a warning on account of a capital article by M. Floquet in its number of April 21, entitled "Pais et Liberte, " which graphically, and without exaggeration, sets forth various instances of an illiberal and reactionary policy of the departmest of the interior which grieves and astonishes the most sincere friends of the empire. The corpus delicti is thus described in the warning : Coosiderieg that is distorting recast sots of the adminis tration and giving them a false interpretatioe, the author of the article endeavours to excite to hatred and contempt of the government. MM. Carnet, Garnier-Pages, Glais-Bizoin, Pelle tau, Planat, and Jules Simon have proposed as an amendment to the complicated law on coalitions now before the chamber the simple repeal of three articles (No. 414, 415, and 416) of the penal code—the effect of which would be to assimilate the French law to that of the English, which, recog nising the right of a nian co his labour as the most sacred of all property, knows no such thing as penalties against strikes and coalitions so long as no breach of the peace is committed. Many of the liberal members are grieved and surprised to find that Emile 011ivier has waived the true prin ciple and consented to a compromise with govern ment in this matter. P.B.—Up to this moment I do not know whether the English banquet will take place or not. I in cline to think not. Although, u above stated, the secretary sends me a ticket, two members of the committee send me messages that there will be no dinner. ClRCAMlA.—TheLevalit Herald, of the 13th inst., considers that the Circassian war of independence is at an end. The reverse sustained by the Lrbykh tribe, the most warlike and renowned of the Cir cassian', on the Ist, is described as crushing and final. The chiefs and foreign officers have escaped to Trebizonde, and the people are swarming to the coast, endeavouring to treat with the Rani= au thorities for the means of reaching Turkey. The Ottoman government has sent five steamers to bring them off, and is negotiating with the Russian Steam Navigation Company for the same purpose. The Morinsento of Genoa of the 19th contains the following :—" A serenade to the English round was given last sight u an acknowledgment of the reception given to Garibaldi in England. An immense erowd raised cheers for the English, and applauded the airs executed by the band of the National Girard, which played three times ' God Save the Queen' altentately with Garibaldi's hymn. The unmade lasted from 11 to lis the morning. The arise raised the mast frequently were, ' Viva l'lnglialtsma! ' Viva Garibaldi !' and Viva Bimini ! ' An address is to be presented to the British consul this day." . . _ The price of butter is 2s. Gd. per 11; in the city of New York. 1' , r %WA, v 4 \ . 1 4 . I , TILE SITAXESPEARE TERCENtENAR 'G, AP L'•,i ON this day, three hundred years ago, when a young mother lay with her new-born infant by her side, what an overwhelming thing it would have been to her to hear that the birth of that child would be commemorated three centurie', later as • national blessing—not only all over England, but wherever Englishmen are living, on any part of the globe ! How amazing it would have been to her to be told that his fame— ' noble and endeared in his own day—would, after a prosaic period, grow and spread till it should surpass that of any other man since the days of tradition, till, in three hundred years, Old England would care more for the 23rd of April for WILLIAM SHAKE SPEAREN sake than for ST. GBOROE of ENGLAND himself. What an astonishing thought to parents living in an age when the Patron Saint of England was so proudly honoured, that their child should be, in English hearts and minds, even greater than he ! How they would have looked into that infant face, and tried to fancy how Much • thing could come to pass ! Yet hen it is—before our eyes on this memorable day. Our forefathers sang good old songs and prayed good old prayers in honour of ST. GEORGE of ENGLAND, and boasted that all . Russia was doing the same thing, and that the Turks themselves tried to claim him for a Milian'. man hero ; our grandfathers went forth to eft the day kept in the reign of the last of the Gaoaora by that procession of mail coaches which has gone by, never to return ; and now the Saint and Hero him self is eclipsed and forgotten by the glory of the child born on his day ! And OUr SHAKESPEARE'S fame will not give way in its turn to any other. Cham pionship by the stout heart and the strong arm may be rivalled in any age, and finally discredited or forgotten ; but intellectual creations of the highest order are a gift to the whole race, inestimable and imperishable, and, by a law of Nature, more prized as time passes, and the human mind advances. We need but look back into the interval between SHAKESPEARE'S birth and this day to see how true this is in the cue of the greatest of intellectual creators. Look at the pastimes of the reign of Criaatz• 11., a hundred years after SHAKESPEARE'S birth, and compare them with the scenery and action of his dramas. Great as his name was then, how much had his countrymen to learn of him and his works. A hundred years later there had been partial awakening, to a sense of the value of our inheritance ; but how partial it was ! JOHNSON was accepted as a commentator who conferred honour on his author ; and at Stratford itself GARRICK was associated as an equal with SHAKE SPEARE; and the absence of Dr. JOHNSON from the celebration in 1769 was regarded as a misfortune for both. No doubt there were students of SHAKESPEARE all over the country by that time— young men and maidens, old men, and even chil dren (as in our day), who had discovered the prize for themselves, and were poring over one play or another in the book-closet or the garret, among the sedges of clauic rivers or under the sycamores in summer, or in the easy chair by the fireside in winter. But to the great public SHAKESPEARE was little more than a name ; and small wits and their shallow readers knew no better than to dis parage or patronise him. How great is the advance in our day on the coming round of the third centenary ! How many editions of the plays have been absorbed by the classes before supposed to be far below " the " reading public !" What a competition there is among working men and women for any copy in their reading-rooms or libraries ! How frequent is now the quotation from this author in the humblest addresses uttered to any audience ! And, better than this, how instant is the response of the popular intelligence to any allusion to any of SHAKESPEARE'S characters—how universal the conception of the Imogen, the Portia, the Hotspur and the Hamlet, which are the beet treasures of the most cultivated minds of our own and every other country. Much as remains to be done to render these works practically the inheri tance of the whole nation, the progress made is such as to ensure this result. The rejoicings of this day will be a long step towards it. Our children's grandchildren may see the next centenary, and will inherit the tradition of the present, in its local aspect ; and we have every reason for believing that they will have become more worthy of the day than our generation is, as we are worthier than some of our forefathers. We shall be quizzed in that day as we now quiz the former generation who tried to honour SHAKE SPEARE. They saw Brutus and Prospero in peri wigs and knee-buckles on the stage ; and at fancy balls in various towns to-day there will be Ophelias and Rosalind. in tight stays and artificial ringlets, and Miranda. and witches in crinolines. These things happen still, as we still meet with complacent gentlemen and ladies who smile at SHAKESPEARE being so much overrated. But the I I bad taste, the indifference, the cynical irreverence are giving way, not only from generation to gene ration, but from year to year. Though Stratford is the central point of interest to-day, it is only one among very many scenes of homage and enjoyment. The holiday-making is very widely spread ; but a hundred years hence it will not have, as now, to be achieved by manage ment from above, but will be spontaneous among the people, from the highest to the lowest. It is well that English men and women should honour their SH•EESPEAEE in any way which seems to them worthy—by statue, or obelisk ; by a scho larship, an institute, an annual festiv►l, or any other mode of permanent record. But amidst all such diversities of worship it should be remem• bered that there is one, indisputably supreme, which is open to us all—a monument as immortal as the man—to which we can all put a hand—the bringing the mind of SHAKESPEARE into communi cation with every other now living to learn of him. When every mind in the empire has tasted the relish of that diet of the gods which our consum mate poet has spread for the whole world, his birthday will he worthily kept; and we may hasten that time by the heartiness with which we are seen by the young and the humble to honour and enjoy this day. CRYSTAL PALACE. The directors of the Crystal Palace are evidently resolved to play sliberal pert in the great untionnl corn. merooration of Shakespeare ; and in order to show their de termination to be among the foremost of the numerous esteems for the public entertainment, in commotion with the illustrious poet, they yesterday exposed to view for the first tuns, a reproduction of the house io which be was born This work has bees executed by the indefatigable veteran, Mr. E. T. Parris, who, it appears, was occupied for mensal days in taking drawings and models, sod so careful has this conscientious artist been to produce a correct rendering of the poet's birth-place, even in its most minute details, that the very cracks in the windows and the knots in the beams have been most faithfully copied. The result is that the spectator may well reconcile himself to the belief that the veritable dwelling is before him. The exhibitioe does net steraly omelet of a SOMA, re presentation of the outward walls of the building ; but its interior is also given, with all that minuteness which might he looked for is the neatly executed model of a lodging house. The estim building (comprising as it dose ~~ r ~i 1864. two homes, both of which are supposed to have belonged ,to Shakespeare) occupies a large amount of space, but II was sufficient far the purposes of the artist to show the interior of only a portico, and that portion consisting of the room on the first floor, in which it is supposed Shakespeare was bon, and the room on the ground floor through which visitors have to pass in their transit from the street These two rooms are rendered with a degree of fidelity, which is instructive to those who have not seen the original building, and surpriving to those who are familiar with it, and lest the Squiring spectator should endeavour to show where be has discovered some point of difference between the house and is reproduction, care has been taken to introduce such accessorise as have loop been associated with Shakespeare's dwelling plain. A little desk is placed in the upper room, with a book upon t, in which visitor, are requested to rip their names, and around it is a collection of phet graphs and representations of the most interesting objects to be seen in Stratford. In one respect the artist has deputed from his original, viz., in the arrangement of the staircase; and upon this point he says it would have been useless to reproduce the stain, as they are so narrow, that the MUM of ingress and egress to the upper room would be much too circumscribed for a large concourse of visitors. In order to meet this difficulty Mr. Parris his ingeniously turned to account the stairs of Dr. Johnson', chambers in the Temple, which the Crystal Palace Company became possessed of some years ago. These stain he has so arranged at the back of the home, and has so covered them with a rusty coating of colour; as to make them harmonise most artistically with the room to which they lead ; and the general effect is at once most agreeable and illusory. On the whole, Mr. Parris may be congratulated upon having produced, sad the directors upon having exhibited, a most interesting addition to the already attractive features to be seen in the Crystal Palace ; and there can be no doubt that both the artist and the company will find their reward in an extended patron• age. The incsumeet will be inaugurated to-day at 2 o'clock. At :1 a concert will take place, consisting of music emaciated with Shakespeare, is which Mr. Leslie's choir of 120 voices will join. Madame Pampa and Mr. Cummings will render some of the most popular solos, accompanied by the baud of the Company considerably strengthened, nixie,. the guidance of Mr. MANI., which will also perform Nicolat's o•ertme to the Merry Wires of Windsor, and other pions with Shakespearian laths. Duriei the concert a little surprise will be enacted, in remission with the Shakespeare bonne, which it is believed will interest the visitors, and be found to be not inappro priate to the oocaaion. After the concert the interior of Shakespeare's house will be shown, but in order to ensure due regularity in the ad mission of visitors, a small charge wiU be made. On klooday and during next week, Shakespearian music will be given daily in front of the house. and the presen tation of the photograph of the house to visitors to the palace wall be continued daily. The new season tickets, which are now being issued, will be admitted from Satunisy, April 23 to April 30, 1863, in clusive. THE ACTORS SHAKESPEARE SUPPER. The members of the profession to which Sh►kespeare beloeged were determined to be first is the field in cele brating the tercentesary of his birth, sod accordingly tSey pre a professional demonstration in the shape of a supper at the Freemasons' Tavern last evening, when the chair was announced to be taken by Mr. Benjamin Webster at a quarter to 12, Mr. Buckstone occupying the vice-chair. About 400 est done, among whom were— Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. E. Clarke, Mr. W. Montgomery, Mr. Fergneson, the eminent surgeon ; Dr. Hastings, Dr. O'Cornor, Mr. J. L Tools, Mr. B. Webb, and Mr. Frank Toole. The programme of the festival significantly commenced with the title of the well•knowo glee, "Hail, smiling morn!" the convivial proceeding' opening at midnight. The bust of Shakeepeare copied from that in the church at Stratford-on• A roe, and plated at the service of the committee by the modeller, Mr. Brucciani, was unveiled rather after than before the witch ing hour. The presidents spoke well and heartily to the purpose. Among the music provided for the occasion was the Shakmpearian song, " Take, oh, take those lips away," newlyset to music by Mr. Alfred Mellon ; and the vocalists who had volunteered to take part in the festivities did, mostly, appear to their names. The supper was folly worthy the establishment selected for this demonstration of the London actors. These gentlemen auembled in such numbers as to overflow the hall. WORKING MEN'S SHAKESPELRIAN JUBILEE. (TB LS DAY). The weather to-day ties been highly favourable to the success of the amopmente of the Working Men's Shake speare Committee. At 2 o'clock this afternoon, the committee receive Mr. Phelps, at their committee-room, at the Queen's Hotel, adjaosot to Primrose-hill, and proceed with the Hooonrable Artillery Company's Baud at their head, to the enclosure at the foot of the southern slope. The order of proceedings will then be as follows ; Sbakspearisn Overture. 2nd.—Glee.—" Under the Greenwood tree." " Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me, Arbil tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither ; He shall see no enemy But winter and rough weather." 3rd.—" Wedding Much." 4th.—The ork .dl be planted by Mr. gunnel Phelps, nod named by Miss Eliza Cook (if her health permits of her being present). who will sprinkle it with water obtained from the river Avon. rith.—" The Brave Old Oak," by the band. 6th.—The " Tercentenary Ode," written by EIiSA Cook, and spoken by Mr. Henry Marston. : " The Clottd-esppl Towers." -- " The clood-capp'd towers, The gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, The great globe itself. yea, all which it inherit, Shall dissolve—and, like the baseless. Fabric of a ♦isios, formal, wt a wrack bobble' Sib.—A brief address, by Mr. G. Linoseus Banks. 9th.—The Shakespearian Overture. 10th. —A brief address, by the ebainnan of the Working Men's Committee. Song—" England's Minstrel King.' , Written sod oomposed for the ooussioo, by G. Linmeus Banks and G. A. Madnrreo, E.qs. "Of all the names that proudly live, Enshrined is song or story, Aod to the World's great ano►la give A golden gleam of glory, One name there is, one mighty name With rey'rent love we cherish, The foremost in the scroll of Fame, The last through time to perish. 0! Bard of paths Aron, sweet bard of patio Avon ! From age to age in thin* own pap, Thy fame lives, Bard of Avon. Oft Nature will* the great shall spring From homesteads as call lowly, A cottage loot has held a King Who made its altar holy : So Shakespeare, "England's Minstrel King," Went out thro' peasant's portal, To sit uo Fancy's Throne, and sing hoop that should be immortal 0! Bard of gentle Avoo, " Of Troy the Bard of Chios mpg, Love fashioned 1./trestles measure, Amasses's lyre alternate rang, Inspire 4 by wine and pleanum : Bat be who Heaven's warrant held To sing of all creation. The ueivereal soul oompell'd To give him inspiration ! O! herd of gentle Avon, dz." 12th.— "God we the Queeo." After which the oom• pany will disperse, aid proceed to the great feetiral ►t the Royal Agricultural Hell, letiagtoe. THE STRATFORD-UPON•AVON CELEBRATION. Yesterday (Friday) mole, the Earl of Chirlisle Oho Lnrd•Lieuteesot of Ireland) arrived at the Great Western Railway Sterice, at Leamingtoo, at 6.13.p.m. front London. The Right Hoe. Lord Leigh, accompanied by his brother, the Hoo. E. C. Leigh, met hie lordship at the station. After exchaagiog the usual civilities sod compliments. the party left for Stooeleigh Abbey, in Lord Leigh's carriage. LETTER FROM VICTOR HI7OO. Had the French banquet takes place, the following letter from Victor Hugo was to hare bee. road : " Hautovills House, April 1& "It seems to mess if I was mearoing to Frames. The season is that I foal myself among you. You call me aad my soul rushee towards you. " Shakespeare you Frenchmen give ms ed. winkle sample. " You put Bbakerpear• cm the fullest level with OW satiosal illustrious men. You make him freaaraies with Moller% whom you emaciate with him and with Voltam t , whom you bring into his fold. At the moment when Ens. land meads Garibaldi a citizen of London you make Shekespearea citizen of the republic of French letters. "Yon know, in fact, that Shakespeare belongs to you. You love everything in that man ; in the first plum you lore him became he is essentially a man, nest you glorify in hin t the actor who was in distivss, the philosopher who did kettle with fortune, and the poet who conquered. Your acclawa. Lions honour in his life the force of will, in his gem. power, in Lis art, conscience, in his theatre humanity. " You are right, and it is just civilisation claps her hands around that noble head. " You are posts gbwifying poetry, you are thinkers glorifying philosophy, you are 'Aids glorifying art : you are something still more—you are Francs glorifying Log. land. It is the magnanimous accolade of sister to sister, of the nation of St. Vincent de Paul to the nation of Wilber. force, of Paris where there is equality to London where there is liberty. From this embrace will result exchanges. Os* will give what the other wants. " It is a fine thing in the name of Frame to salute For. land through the person of its great man ; you do more, you leave geographical limits; neither French nor English, you are the brotbers of a genius end you fut., him ; you fete the glob* itself ; you coogratuiate the earth, which on such a day 300 years ago saw the birth of Shakespeare. You consecrate this sublime principle of the uhi. quity of minds wham* the unity of civ ilisation proceeds ; you remove egotism from the heart of nationalities. Corneille is not ours; Milton is not theirs; all are to all. The whole world is country to intelligence. You take all geniuses to give them to all the peoples ; in removing the barrier between poets you remove it from between men, and by the amalgamation of glories you commence the effacing of frontier,. Sacred mingling !—I t is a great day ! " Homer, Dente, Shakespeare, Holi 4 re. Voltaire, co. partners ; the taking posesmion of great men by the entire human race ; the common sharing of the thef"cr, ; such is the first step. 'fhe met will follow. Thie is the work which you inaugurate —a work which is cosmopolitan, human, fraternal, indifferent to nationality, above local demarcations, the magnificent Moo. tiou of Europe by France, and of the entire world by Europe. From a fete like this does civilieation flow. " For the presidency of this memorable elusion, you have the stoles of the most renowned ; popular and illus. trios. names abound amongst you ; your list is bright with them. The brilliant incarnations of art, of the drams. of romance, of history, poetry, philosophy, and eta queues, are grouped almost all io this solemnity around the pedestal of Shakespeare ; but you have doubtless had this thought, that is order to give to the celebration of this anniversary its peculiarly external character, in order that this manifestation may be apart from and beyond all frontiers, it would be well to have as president a man who is himself planed in this exceptional position,—* Frenchman out of France, at once absent and present, basing his foot in England and hie heart at Paris—a kind of link, situated at a fitting distance, and able in some degree to put into each other the hands of two august nations. It has been found, by an arrangement of fate, that this position was mine, and the glorious choice which you hove made of me, I owe to this chance,—to-day a happy one. I give you thanks, and I propose to you this toast : "To Shakespeare and to England. "To the success of great men of intelligence, sod to the communion of the peoples in program and in the ideal " VICTOR HI G).' WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) ISATVIDAY, APIL sl, II LX. 11.• I- Bs, V. 4 L 11. --- --. 8aba....... 30.20 549 B.&W. ; 2 I 1 I &&W. b— 1 Abortlaele ... 30.13 OA L&L. ' ,4 ' 8. b' 2 loath 30.28401 W. 2I 2 I L b— 1 A rdroesso 30.1712 21.12. ; 2 2 j N. ,eb I Grammatba 30.211 W. 1 ;2 • L cb —1 1 Galway 30.211;10 8.8.1. ; 2 2' LLW. 'cb 2 Cape Clear 30.1111 51 8. 1 I 4 B.E. eb 4 Queenstown 30.05 53 N.12. ' 5 8813 ' a —, I Liverpool lO lb 51 8.1 , '3 . E.B. I. nt I Holyhead 3O 24 55i W. N.W. 1 ,4 . N.W. Is 2 Pembroke,— 30.23 53j 1.8.1 3 &Z. 1 b — ` 2 Beamom .. 30.20 531 11.4. E 6 9E. ' b —; 4 Brest 39.1_501 &N.Y.. 4 111. K. 'be — ' 4 L'Orleut 31.04 66' E.N.E. . 4 ' E. N.E. be I 4 Rochefort —4004 Id' E. • 3 N.Z. eb '— 12 Plymouth ' 20.1065 Z. I 6. L I bl ; 2 Weymouth 30.2462 K. 3 9.2. b I Portamoetb 30.2254 12.1 I 4 E. 8.1 I c —l2 Loudon :30.!3 41 E. : 3 lt. I b —; - Dover 40.2667 Z. i 1 E. b— 1 T,1100016 00.284900.28 N. 3 ' E. N.E. b , . 1 Scarborough 10.2661 N.E. 1 3 N.N.L b — I Maids 30.1000 8 X 2 &L bl 12 Hellgolmsd 8. T. SUNDAY. FIWUAILL 11 , 1 DAT. S.S. W. to - - 1.1.1, mode- S S t.!;-.14.i.",in;;d.r.u.. rate, One. floe. E. to IS„ SlOderate, WESITIZ. S. to S. W. and NW EMIL to &S K, mode rate, tine. moderate t.• fresh. proerally Los , . SOITHIMIL E. S.E. to S S.W., light to fresh. nue. As nett abuse. Eartins. Basthers=Bootland. Wessern.lreland. Wales, and ad jacencies. leentlerimLortlah Channel and Biscay May. Kaden mliasterard Loeser! sad North Ben The Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy comprises Mears. BoxaU, F. Goodall. sad Webster. The private view of the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours took place to-day (Saturday); the gallery will be open to the public on Monday next The four new members of the society—Yeasts. E. R. Jams, Boyce, Walker. and Lundgren—greatly add to its force. TEE REPRESENTATION OF SEWER-UPON-TRENT, — Mr. Alderman Combed her decided not to offer himself for re-election after the dissolution of the present parliameet. The worthy alderman has, during a long course of mars, takes a great interest in the commercial and social welfare of the potteries, and has always been a poerous supporter of the public ituditutions of the district. His Inside end oxistittumita, however much they may regret the decision at which he has arrived, can hardly have bees token by sur prise, for it has been rumoured for soma time past that be was considering the desirability of retiring from pediment. The alderman was first elected for Stokeupon-Treat is July, 1837, and sat for the borough till July, 1832, when he was unsuccessfoL In March, 1857, he tapered be seat, and at the pretend slectios in April, 1859, he we. re elected. Mr. Bereeford Hope will again offer himself to the constituency.—Staffordshire A deeniser. ENGLISH CRICKETERS IS NEW ZEALAND.—The Ones matches in New Zealand resulted in two victories for the EoBlieb Eleven ; use by Moe wicket., sod the other is one Malaga, with toe runs to spare. The third was draws, but the Deem were beaten in their first innings. In Mr. Grace end Tarraot's match with an Eleven, which they woe by cies, Tempt bowled out ten and ,aught the other. Wilson, Wills, Alyttoo, Stevens, Sale, Teneast. Lame, Powys,Wood, and Blakiston were selected from the New Zeeland players to play in kedereen's spies' Parr's Eleven. Wills bowled Mr. Grace the very first ball at Christ Oben*, and took Parr's wicket': end. like Redfern sod J. Mace was well " hit up:" and Mud° - mid bowled Parr for 8 and Hayward for 2 in the earns match. Tennant has made most runs is one innisge-2t, not out. The cards of the day are unique, and describe the colour of the player's cap, sad his evict position in the field. It is mid that them will be a very large amount to divide among the eleven professional player; and that they will not be back before the end of Juae. Nothing is settled ea to who massing behind. Csffyo's bowl isg has been very ineffective, and Jackson end Hayward are now the coveted tutors. I..ockyer, or " Lightning Tom," as be has been named, has written a most amusing despatch to the Sporting Life, describing their New Zealand travebi. He sad Mr. Gomm were twice over at the head of the bat ting score, and hems one of. the remarks. so grand is its simplicity, "we went on to the boards there to have beta again." He tells bow they played on a field without a blade of gram and won in our Maims ; and how getting arose the gold fields, they shot cockatoos and parrots and riche or ten possums, and caught black fish. A few mile, from Avoca a large cavalcade of horsemen mare oat to meet them and conduct them (jumping their horses over trunks of trees by the roadside) to a banquet ; where " there were no end 14 speeches and passable wines. Mark the cautions critic of Croydon ! They also seem to have visited a Maori settlement, whose women bewailed them of their silk pocket-haadkerchisfs aad made (mores Parr a king on the spot. The ceremony was simple, aa their Queen merely gave him a green stone, and be presented her with a railway wrapper of many colours. Of course he has bees termed " Parr Kingi" ever 'ion. ; but " his new gab *ht," according to Tom. •'seem to be rather an annoyance to him than otherwise." The Twelve have suffered all changer of fortune by ma and land. At our time we find them ballad six apauldeg greys driven by "Cabbage-tree Ned," and at another in a boat decorated with flowers, and ten others, with flags, aa an escort. Awe, they have no reel. except on the cabin Boor—Julius Cuecu with another man's boot-heel is his mouth, and Anderson tumbling out of • berth, to hi. own sore affright And the damage of Callyn's tombola • or they are paasiog over moantaies by a short eat on fo'ok or with their coach wheels three Mabee off a precipice. H. H. Stephenson sad Willehirt are mdeemar ieg to get up an Eleven to do battle until their return. — Illustrated London Nem It is estimated that the amount of lumber cut es the Ilaelliss river, Maio., last winter, was Z 4.000.000 feet. The stock on bond is 40,000,000 (est.—New Yak World. Mi. i \ .