The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-02 00:00:00

Degbladet of to-day says :—" The negotiations at
the Conference on the question of an armistice fur-
nish us with a measure by which to judge of the re-
sult of the Conference itself. England, under Earl
Russell, has sunk so low that she has lost all feel-
ing of honour, and, consequently, it can scarcely
be expected that she will protect international
rights. Should the other powers act in a similar
spirit Denmark must enter into direct negotiations
with the enemy, as more favourable results may be
obtained in Berlin than from London. The princi-
pal thing is to preserve a small but independent
Danish country and a free Danish people."

THE RUMOURED DESPATCH OF A FRENCH
SQUADRON TO THE BALTIC.
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PABIS, MAT L

The Moniker in its edition of this evening says:
" No official confirmation has been received of the
despatch of a French squadron to the Baltic. In
any cue this measure, should it be taken, could
have no other character than that of a demonstra-
tion, destined to support the request made to the
belligerents for a suspension of hostilities."

ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED IN BERLIN,

BERLIN, APLL 30.

Prince Alfred has arrived here, and is staying
with the Crown Princess. His Royal Riglinceswas
received by the King of Prussia to-day'iat one
o'clock. A state dinner will be given at five o'clock
to-day. The Prince will remain is Berlin about
three days.

THE DISTURBANCES AT TUNIS.
MADRID, Arun. 30.

Adria* received from Lisbon state that the
Portuguese war-steamer Mindelho had left for
Tunis, for the purpose of affording protection to
Portuguese subjects. The preparations for the
lamps% se I Progresalls p.r ••••PY 1411263
attention in a great degree.
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PARIS, Xs: 1.
The evening Moniteur mays :—" The Porte has
informed the French government that it was pre-
paring to send one or two ships to Tunis."

THE POPE ON POLAND.
SOME, Ann, 71 (,i► XaresMas).

An allocation was delivered by the Pope in the
Consistory recently held at the Vatican. His
Holiness spoke of the grievances of the church and
its trials in the great northern empire. He brought
forward seousations against the Emperor of Russia,
who, he said, after having driven his subjects to
insurrection, now endeavours, under the pretext
of suppressing the rebellion, to extirpate the
Roman Catholic religion, and transports whole
populations into frozen countries, exiles bishops,
and deprives them of their functions. " Nobody,"
continued his Holiness, "will venture to say that
I wish to maintain revolution.by these necessary
protests. I protest in order to satisfy my con-
science, and that I may not one day bear the
Sovereign Judge ask—' Why didst thou remain
silent ?" The allocution of the Pope has made a
great impression in Rome.

On Saturday &Harpoon the President and Council
.1 the level ears • ennatioths kenquelt es the •
Minivans and other gown om the ire el the
opening of the anneal ibitho is the ream, ?Mahar.
squire. The sampan? imps Ite series sinetirafter 2 *Week,
and spent the intervel till tinges was announced Y viewiag
the planes with whisk She walls of the amilmazsm
adorned. The Pteethent of the Royal Arsodsmory (Mr
lisellake)oompied the elair.
Among the gusts were the Home Secretary, the Foreign
8•=04•11, the Colonial Sourotory, the Secretary for Wu,
the Boarokozy for India, the NUM Lard el as Admiralty,
the Speaker, the Chmosilor ot the Beelimear, he Presideat
of the Baud et Trade,' the Demeinsioner of Works asd
Public Headley, the Lord Chief Jealous ot the Queen's
Bench and Common Plass, the lard Chief Baron, the
Master of the Rolla, the AttonerpOreseal, the Wither.
General, the Archbishop at Oustethery, the Archbishop of
York, the Rasp of London, the Earl ol Derby, the Right
Hoc. B. Disraeli, Mr. C. Dickeos, the Lord Mayor, the
Bishop of Oxford, Lord Or Lord Lord
Strinferd de Redcleffe, sad all the pal sasnitims of the
Royal Academy.
After the easel loyal and patriotic teaMs„
The PRZILDENT pee "The health of the stablemen awl
geetliesso who this day bother the Academy with their
pesseom." (Cheess.)
The Archbishop el CANTIMICZY, in returning than*
mid—O• the pressen 003111i0e I have least • very
wholesome Masa, whets may be metal 'Aired, sot by
!Wulf slo•s. hat bribes, el my ragliassv. slag that
mwround 1.111 Yale easy there te Mr.
Millais's picture of a child asleep is chit soli "My
Second Sermon,") who, though all thamecious whom she
has bees addressing, and of the homily she has bean reading
to as duriog the last throe boon, has is truth by the sto-
rmiest:eel her silent clamber--(oheen and laughter)—given us
• grave wanking of the evil of leephy serums and drowsy
discourses. (Loud cheers.) Sorry, indeed, should Ibe to
disturb that sweet and peaceful slumber, but I beg that
when she dose awake she may be Wormed who they are
who have pointed the must of her story—(cheers)—have
drawn the true Wayne.* from the change that has Fused
over her does she heard her first sermon, lad have resolved
to profit by the lecture abs has the. delivered to than.
(Load chain.) Impressed with these feeliap of gratitude
for much of *sauce aed much ot profit derived from your
hospitable reception of us, your gown, I have to beg you
will all welcome with the utmost cordiality the toast I have
to propose " Prosperity to the Royal Academy."
The PRIMIDEFT returned thanks, and proposed " The
health of the Kiehl. Hon. William Gladstone."
The Csascrt.tos of the RICHIQUiIt said, is the coarse
of his reply, the toast which you bare Just been
pleased to give from the chair pleas me is a position
of premium* to which I am by no means entitled;
for if it be true that I feel • sincere, though an unin-
structed interest in the noble profusion with which you at.
connected, I feel that laterite, I believe, in company with
almost the entire body of my educated fellow-eountrytoeu,
sod I may go much farther than the liars thee deteribed,
and my in mows with the increasing mem of the emir
omit). (Cheers.) I think I may beet reply to the just
and almost too madmen refereece you have made to
the peculiar position of this body with respire to its wants
if I rather consider myself in Collll6lioll with the clue
to which I belong. As regards those wants I trust that
the time is approaching when the collective wisdom
of the nation, repieeented is parlisment, and for this
purpose especially repriernted in the House of Commons,
will be altin, atter hayssssgg solved each a multitude of peat
political and .coil polomn durum the posration to
which we bolos', likewise to cut its way through another
problem which as yet has defied all its skill and good
intention', and provide Attire( repositories for the treasures
of art belonging to the lathe, and likewise for the rich
treasures which it. artists annually produce. (Cheers.)
I think I may fairly say. not only fee the highly isformed
company I have sow the homer to address, bet for the
thousaade and tens of thousands who will for menthe be
enjoying tho spectacle offered by the walls of this Academy,
that nothing could replace to as the lose of this ex.
hibition. (Cheers.) And Sir Charles &Wake, permit
me so far to discharge • debt am it me be dachas/god by an.
Intowlrelgoiest. Speaking from MT own expel sac., I have
mover hod the (edam to scooter one of the members
of your diatiogualted body width' them walls who was
net ready, and use desirous, to become a voluntary and
gratuitous teacher wherever he could find • willing pupil.
(Chews.)
The Paserrater said—Seven days since the Shakespeare
celebration was worthily ioarigurated at Stertford.on•Avos,
sad it would ill bemuse the professors and Meads of art to
overtook the premed oppottanity el doing bump to oar
great pest's memory. Pastas "moonily owe to Shale-
spare a isms potties of their issaration, and will cortinue
to do se as lam as poetry and art exist. In Shakespeare
artists may build not only inexhaustible subjects but sound
principles. It is he who tells them that
" Nature is mad* better by no mean,
But nature makes that mess ;"
and who. is the instructions to the players, records his
cantioo spinet exaggeration and mannerism. With all
his boundless fancy, he instinctively recognises the limits
hotness description end represseastios. la him, es is Homer,
the highest idea of l mull is conveyed without enlarging on
definite visible qualities, mid consequently e knout invading
the province of tin formative arts. Although 31 trends is
, " messed of every creature's the artist is loft free—
perhaps hopelessly fres—to reaiw her image. NOV) aka
have greater reason than the androids of nature and the
disciples a art to reDenitil the same of Sbakosprozo, sad I
will ugly add, in his own word.—
" If be had been forgotten,
It bad bees as • gap in oar great feast,
And all thiogs unbecoming."

(Chem.) The SOMA r. " The Ina;ortal Memory of Shake-
speare." (Hear. hear.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave, "Prospersty to the City of
Louden sad the health et the Right Hon. the Lard Mayor."
(Casa)
The Loin MAYOR returned thanks, and io reference to •
',mark d the Asst speaks, a what might be done in the
*ape of improvements in tleaCity of Landoll, aid—lt ap-
pears to me that the City is very much in the position of
the Israelites is Egypt, who were required to make brick'
without aim (A laugh.) We are deprived is a great
measure of the power of soaking improvement' by the cur-
tailment of our remoras. (Hear.) And our power is inter-
fered with is ether respects. (" Hear," sod a laugh.) You
has pointed to Praire said the magnifteset improvaneste
which have hese effected in Para, but it should be known
that there they have something like 2,000,000 C staling per
=sumo to carry out these improvenanu. The City of Lea-
d... on the other baod, at not permitted to bold the MAIM
the has or use them for the improvement of the great
metropolis.
TIM Panitriewr next gave "The literate of Literature,"
which was replied to by Mr. Fonerem.
The other toasts gives were :—" The Master of Trinity
College Cambridge, Dr. Whowell." who reamed tha_ ,sike •
the ' lateral" et Science, and Prosperity to the Royal
I Society," replied to by Professor Owen ; and " The Rood
Institute of Architects, and the Health of its dlatingunhed
President, Profaner Daddies," replied to by the latta.
The " Health of the Hoarse, Etbibetors" baring hem
prepaid, Viscount UARDINGZ and the Soucrros-Gerteka.t.
acksowledged the teat, after widish the ouespasy separated.

METROPOLITAN BOARD or WORKS—The usual
of the Board of Works was held on Friday at the
Milos in Bpring.gardeen ; Mr..l. Thwaites in the oh air. A
deputation from the Royal Sudety for tie Protection of
Life from Fire attended the board, introduced by Mr.
Alderman Flank, to primal a memorial, in white they
urged that is the went of am Lo dos Fir* Brigade being
placed older the ocratrol of this board, who would be em-
powered to levy rates upon the public for its maintesance,
the establishment of the Royal Society for t►e Proteo-
of life from Pin should be placed in connexion with
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lion
it. In as 1 questions from the chairman, • member
of the deputation rid the presort plant of the society was
of the vane et 10,000 L, sad they eoesidered 86 Greoseapee
were at the present time soffit:Wet. The immodest, at the
fre-setapee bad • sick find 'shied by their own subscrip-
tions, but the society cootributed to it, tied at the peewit
time there was invested in the Bauk of Eriglaud on that
account the sum of 0001. Is the event of the society
Wog pieced with the It. brigade under the board, it was
expected that such of their old sensate who were set es-
the altered form would receive all d onside-
r.v Is des . After • short discuseion the subject was referred
to the meta drain* conimittai far eeeeideentioa sad

;port. A voliunimitas report wee brought up from the
main &siege committee submitting the oorreepoodeece
which bed takes piese between the Secretary of State for
the Rome Desertiment and the chairman of the beard os
the subject of the establieluneut of an improved system for
the prosestioo of hfe sad property agaiest fin in the me-
tropolis ; and It slated that they were of °Maim that the
pnamples referred to is the oerrespoedence should be ap-
proved, with the mirepttoe of that which limits the coati-
butioe of the meostated 0691111 to the messes at the
prepesed system to 10,000 i., mid that Pt lieu thereat the
priecipl• shoold be the mussel by them offices of 30 nes
met. of the eet expeaditur• whatever that may he. ilr.
Freesias mewed the actoptioL of the report, to which Mr.
Roche moved an embedment to insert the word " poem" ia
the place of "set" cost; which ameodment was earned
by • orejeeity of 14 so 11. The chairman 1,111 thee audio.
rimed to eentamaieete the decides to Sir Geempi Grey, sad
afterwards to report the result of his interview with the
Home Secretary. The report was also referred bash to the
main &Mew cessimitkee. The ether business wes disposed
of, sad te• board whearaod.

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