The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-25 00:00:00

THE CONFERENCE.

The following is a correct list of the Plenipoten-
tiaries to the Conference on the Rino-Germn
question, which met to-day :
Eogland—Earl Russell and Lord Clarendon.
France—Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne.
Austria—Count Apponyi and Privy Councillor
Biegeleben.

Prussia—Count Bernstorff and Privy Councillor
Balan, formerly Ambassador at Copenhagen.
The German Confedtration—M. de Beust, Saxon
Minister.
Russia—Baron Brunow and Councillor Ewers.
Sweden—General Wachtmeister.
Denmark—Baron de Bille, M. Quaade (the
Minister), and Councillor Krieger.

BERLIN, APRIL 25.

Advices from St. Petersburg state that it is not
likely that Russia will send a second plenipoten-
tiary to the London Conference. Should, how-
ever, the Conferences be changed to a general Con
gress, Prince Gortechakoff, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, would proceed to London.
The Russian Minister at Turin, Count Stackle-
berg, has obtained leave of absence for two months.

LISBON, APRIL (11.20 a.m.)
The Australian screw steamer, 2 steam frigates,
and 1 ironclad frigate have arrived here.
The tobacco question is being discussed by the
House of Peer.s

BUCHAREST, APRIL 24.
The Chamber of Deputies has passed a resolution

that in future the Ministers are to take the oath
of allegiance to the people, and not to the Prince.

FRANCE.

The Debats publishes the following letter from
Victor Hugo to the committee of the French festival
It was to have been read at the prohibited French
meeting :

"Hsuteville House, April 18.
"Gentlemen,—lt seems to me that lam returning
to France. To feel myself among you is almost like
being there. You call me, and my soul hastens to
your call. In glorifying Shakspere, you, French-
men, are giving an admirable example. You place
Shakspere on a level with your own national illus-
trating; you make him fraternise with Moliere,
whom you associate with him, and with Voltaire
whom you bring back to him. At the moment when
England confers the freedom of the City of London
on Garibaldi, you confer on Saakspere the freedom
of the republic of letters. Shekespere, in fact,
belongs to you. You like everything in him,
and you like him first because he is a man,
you crown in him the player who has suffered;
the philosopher who has struggled, the poet who
has conquered. You acclamations honour the strong
will of his life, the power of his genius, the con-
scientiousness of his art, the human reality of his
stage. You are right, it is just to do so. Civilisa-
tion applauds this noble festival. You are poets
glorifying poetry,
.thinkers glorifying philosophy
artists glorifying art. Bat you are also something
besides—you represent France greeting ',England.
It is the noble embrace of sisters, of the land of
Vincent de Paul and the land of Wilberforce, of
Paris, the headquarters of equality, and London the
capital of freedom. From that embrace an ex-
change will arise. One will give the other what
it has. To honour England in her great man,
in the name of France, is great ; you do more—
you do away with geographical limits—neither
French nor English, you are the brethren
of a genius, and you honour him. You honour
this very globe, you honour the earth which on
this day three hundred years witnessed the
birth of Shakepere; you consecrate the sublime
principle of the übiquity of minds, whence springs
the unity of civilisation ; you extirpate selfishness
from the heart of nationalities. Corneille does not
belong to us, nor Milton to them—they are common
property. The whole world is the fatherland of
intelligence. Yon take genius, no matter whence
it comes, to give it to all nations; by removing the
barrier that separates poets you destroy that which
divides men, and by the amalgamation of glory you
commence the obliteration of frontiers. Holy pro-
miscuity—this is a great day. Homer, Dante,
Shakepere, Moliere, Voltaire, undivided—the taking
possession of these great men by the whole of man-
kind—the community of masterpieces. Such is the
first step ; the rest will follow.

"That is the work you are inaugurating—a work
cosmopolitan, human, binding, fraternal, unfettered
by the trammels of nationality, superior to local
delimitations; magnificent adoption of Europe by
France, and of the whole world by Europe. From
a fete like this civilisation must proceed. To pre-
side at this memorable meeting you could have
chosen persons of the highest renown ; illustrious
and popular names abound amongst you ; your
list of guests is sparkling with them ; the brightest
personifications of art, of the drama, history, poetry,
philosophy, and eloquence, are grouped in this
solemnity around Sbakspere's pedestal ; but you
doubtless imagined that in order to impart
to the celebration of this anniversary its
character peculiarly extern—in order that the
manifestation should be independent of anything
like frontier, you required for President a man
placed himself in that exceptional condition—a
Frenchman out of France—at the same time absent
and present—with his foot in England and his
heart in Paris—a sort of connecting link, placed
both at a distance and adjacent, to join together hand
in hand the two august nations, It so happened that
by an arrangement of destiny that position was
mine, and the proud choice that you have made of
me I owe to that happy chance. I return you my
thanks for that act, and I propose to you this toast
—" To Shakspere and England. To the definitive
Success of the greet Men of Intelligence and to the
Communion of Nations in Progress and Works of
Imagination."
BOURSE, April 23.—The market has been rather
heavy, and prices show a slight decline, Threes,
for the Account, being now at 671. 15c. Mobilier
last quoted at 1,220 f. Little doing in Railway
Shares, but prices in general without material
alteration. The market c
41 per Cents. 94 25
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 05

Credit Mobilier,,,,l2oo
Do end m0nth....1200

Bank Shares 3370

losed as follows :
Italian Loan 6B E 5
Do. end month 6B 55
New ditto ..
Do. end month....
Russian.

Austrian
Spanieh Threes —
Home Debt
Deferred
vAYa.
Cash. Account.
890 892 50
980 .. 975
952 50 .. 950
895
667 50 670
503 75 ..
482 50 .. 483 75
375 370
417 50 417 50
653 75 .. 5)6 25
492 50 490
577 50 .. 573 75

Credit Fancier l2BO
Roman

RAIL

Orleans ...
Korthern ...
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern .... ,• •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard
North of Spain
Saragossa.. ..
Ditto to Barcelona ....

GENERAL GARIBALDI,

On Saturday General Garibaldi remained the
guest of the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland at
her grace's exquisite villa Cliefden House. As a
matter of course, however, the general has not re-
mained in seclusion during his brief stay, bat has
been seeing and being seen almost as much as when
in the metropolis. On Saturday, true to his simple
life and island habits, he was up with the dawn
strolling about the beautiful grounds of Cliefden.
At 11 o'clock he left the house in a carriage and
four, accompanied by the Duchess Dowager of
Sutherland and the Duchess of Argyll, and pro-
ceeded by way of Slough to inspect the royal model
farm at Windsor. In the course of his drive he was
everywhere enthusiastically received. Upon reach-
ing the farm he was received by Mr. Tait, the
bailiff of the Home Farm, who showed the
visitors over the royal dairy. Garibaldi then paid
a visit to the Flemish Farm, where Mr. Brebner was
in attendance, and showed him among the cattle
a yoang bull, two years old, which was christened
" Garibaldi" some two years ago. Before the visit had
concluded a number of farmers and others arrived
on the field, and if the illustrious visitor had pro-
longed his stay for an hour or so more the whole
town of Windsor and the adjacent villages would
have flocked to the scene. A number of the far-
mers offered to present General Garibaldi with a
steam plough as a token of their recognition of his
great merits. This offer was made through Mr.
Stevens, but the General naïvely remarked, while
thanking his warm-hearted admirers, that his farm
only consisted of about 25 acres, ane that the rest
of the island of Caprera was nothing better than
barren rock and unproductive mountain, so that a
steam plough, much as he admired its operations,
would be of little or no value to himself. He
courteously and kindly refused the donation, and
expressed his thanks with the warmest feeling of
gratitude. He reached Cliefden on his return about
half-past 2 o'clock. A luncheon was then served, at
which 30 visitors were psesent. In the afternoon
Garibaldi and a party of gentlemen went out in
boats on the Thames, where they spent a consider-
able time. Garibaldi expressed himself delighted
with the surrounding scenery, and especially with
the picturesque appearance of Cliefden from the
river. In the evening the visitors, most of whom
stay till Garibaldi takes his departure to-day, were
entertained at dinner by the Duchess Dowager.
Garibaldi left Slough this morning by the 9.45
a.m. train for Cornwall, where ho will spend the
evening with Col. Peard at Penquite. This country
seat is close to the picturesque bay of Looe, one of
those charming indents so frequently met on
the Cornish coast. In this bay the Duke of
Sutherland's steam yacht Ondine is already wait-
ing the arrival of her iilustrioas passenger. Gari-
baldi embarks on board the Online at 8 o'clock to-

morrow morning, and at 9 will be steaming afg
to Caprera.

THE HEALTH OF GENERAL GARIBALDI.
Stafford-house, April 24..
The Duke of Sutherland presents his oomph'
ments to the editor of The Sun, and begs to enclose
a letter received last evening from Mr. Fergueson
respecting the health of General Garibaldi:-
16, George-square, Hanover-square W., April 23.
My Lord Duke,—At Mr. Seely's special request I OW.
General Garibaldi, at Stafford-house, within a few hours of
his departure from London.
The General declared himself as well as he had ever been
since he arrived in England, but on close inquiry
admittedt
fatigue, both of body and brain. My impression was tha

he looked jaded and worn,
The fatigue associated with his receptions in London
might readily have accounted for this, but there was another
reason equally urgent. Your grace will be sorry to learn
that he has latterly suffered from boils, and he had two on
his left forearm, one of which alone might have mad°
another man give up all his ordinary occupations tor a time,
I think it due to your grace, to Mr. Seely, and others
who ad vised with the General regarding his intended PO[l
vincial movements, that you should be made acquainted
with this, and I hops that your grace will consider it as 8
proof that it is not without good reason that I presumed to,
intrude my first opinion on a subject which was so full °I
interest to every one.
I have the honour to be your grace's most obedient se"
vent, W. FERGUSON.
To his Grace the Duke of Sutherland.
The following telegrams have been received 11
the Lord Mayor
NAPLES, April 24.
The Neapolitans, by a resolution of a general meeting,
send to the noble English people their sentiments of grati•
tude for the splendid reception given to Garibaldi.
President, RICCIARDIi
FROM THE MAYOR OF CEFA.LO.)
This municipality offers to the English people its sinter
f
thanks end the expression of its deep gratitude for the high
honours shown to Garibaldi, which are proofs of their
affection for Italy. MICHELE GUISEFFO'
(FROM ATELLINO.)
In you we thank generous England for the reception
given to General Garibaldi. The honorary president Of till:
operative society tenders its thanks for the sympathy sh°w-i-1
by Great Britain, which has always taken the lead ail'
civilised nations in the path of social progress.
GAETANO MAGLI°.

The Society of Painters in Water Coloo'

(Tills DAY.)
The sixtieth annual exhibition of this
guished and popular institution has, this day, heeti
opened to public view—the private view WI,
enabled us to survey the collection there for t"'"
present season on Saturday afternoon. The Gellert'
as usual, contains from 300 to 400 water colour dile/i
ings, contributed by exhibitors as various in style as
in merit. Although we are precluded from entering'
in our impression of this evening into any veil de•
tails d examination of the works of art here exhibited;
we would at once pronounce the collection of picture
for the present as rather above then below the:
average of the noble collections adorning the 01'8
of the same institution during the last dozen yea/
or more. While saying this, however, we d° °0
for an instant regard the present collection as, cp°
the whole, on a par with its immediate predscesa°';
But then, as we took occasion to rein°
last year, the collection for 1863 was, to 011*,
thinking, in a very rare and peculiar manner, es,,
ceptional. It was signally and exceptionally go' ,
i
insomuch that it is in no degree depreciator). °
the general collection to remark, as we bane
done, that, as compared with that collecti°l3'
that as contrasted with that exceptional c°l.
lection, the Exhibition of 1864 is hardly ua te!,,he,
mark—the highest high water level of 186
Nevertheless, though yielding, and no wonder,
the palm to its immediate predecessor, the tolled'
tion for the present season is, as before observe ;
above rather than below the average of the exhibitions
in this favourite gallery at No. 5, Pall-Mall Beat'
during the last dozen years or more. On crowing
the threshhold of it, we are painfully reminded af:
great, indeed an irreparable, loss to this
Society of Water Colourists, the reminder coming
to us from Alexander Munro'a admirable Will
marble bust of the late William Hunt, the great iTate
colourist. And there glancing radiantly out upon
from the four screens, are the last exquisite little
gems ofmasterpieces from his wonderful brusheet°r9
of those apples that, as we look at thorn, we are 161-
,i
to peel and munch—grapes that seem only to Weill°
the pressure of a finger to spurt with juice-..;
peaches that would tempt a bee—wild roses, ih
delicate leaves of which one could almost
one's very breathing must flutter. Distribute
at uncertain intervals, too, round Ike Wsiis
of the gallery, the visitor recognises, et
glance, as usual, many another old fa°:,
liar favourite—these other popular favourite::
however, being yet, happily, in the land of the
living. Frederick Tayler with his open air sPer
—Joseph Nash with his domestic and arcitectnrlis
interiors—Maria Harrison and Valentine Barth°le
snd
mew vieing with each other with flowers, wild
cultivated, here the primrose, here the hollylloelv
Britten Willis with his Cuyp-like cattle pieces' e
Evans of Eton, and John Gilbert of EveryWhrvert 0
tisll proving themselves to be inexhaustible !
last mentioned in 20 has an animated atib 0
glowing representation of the " Battle of tf,
Boyne." H. P. Riviere has a pretty little graci333,
bit of comicality in 36, " The Stray Kitten." ly
Burne Jones, though rather oddly, very charreiro),
pourtrays, in a tall pre Raphet.lite picture (5.t
under an exceedingly new aspect, our immoncrlii
heroine of the kitchen, " Cinderella." Conic°tii
us to Alfred Fripp's (72) a " Piping ShePh.t',o
Boy" as affording us one of the loveli" g
tastes of fresh air and specimens of Nel':
life in the whole collection. The purchaser et `.
picture will have a perennial charm Isengicgui3',of
his house-wail in the very look out of the eYes 0 t
that Piping Shepherd Boy of Fripp's There is
the head of the gallery, in 18, " Hellelil and gilt`''
brand," a most effective delineation by 1 • f
Burton, (one of our master water-colourists), of
Knight of old in battle harness meeting 01
ladyclove upon the spiral turret etaircasel let
kissing her sleeve tenderly as they pass each °t: to
—one of these sleeves the knights of old used Urdu
their helmets before charging, lance in rest, tii i 0
the dust and blood of the tourney ! Brittan 'eta
gives us one of his happiest effects in 11 5 " 0P se,
ins Day, from a scene in Sussex,"—with, of c°ll`
meditative cattle most artistically gr suPiedAst
the foreground. Branwhite's bran whit, a 1/1- to
Scenes are as refrigerating as ever m erciless
glance at. Oae of his chief successes 010 • •
being 111, " Winter Scene, Foggy morning-
. ore °,
ket Foster, who has plenty of charming I:l,ert,',
scattered about the room, hero " The Sand
there "The Wooden Bridge" has surpassed bivti sl
in 125, "Flying a Kite." Carl Haag's eric'soe 0
sketches fail, eves yet, to tire us, and the ftell
may be said in their way, too, of I‘ll 4 tpe
Italian Landscapes. Before the visitor leaves t
gallery he ought to take one look at 317, :1°
Third Screen, namely, F. Walker's chart:o3g fes
lineation of a scene from the late Mr. Thacker:e if!
"Philip." Philip—it is the very Philip hir°l3;io,
—in the Pew, with the children grouped ahcnt
The attendance at the private view on Sat d,
•
was, if that be possible, more than ever, crow ie

The Oxford and Canterbury Music 11°315.
e fe
Both these halls are holding t-h—e—tercententary sitifi.
At the former is a grand vocal display to words by 5'...-1'c'
spoMacbeth," i; ere, including " Locke's Music to mnd a se'' 130
n of his "Songs," enshrined •
ti
in fitting music. . ;,
Two Gentlemen of Verona," which received a character's t'
setting from Sir Henry Bishop, and is conspicuous for th°
d delicious air, "Bid me discourse," was produced on at ms
ay, and met with a brilliant reception ;end all theil,rit:a3
in the interesting programme are in addition to the '---4:hri
ftiVu'invdesatoiof
ni•Vo ;nod:. oorp,o"ra,wohnideho f OwtthoiohNaicovloariy
slitaiaiSsa. rig:
the result. These musical offerings are ce '
to it),JY,,
kmliitotonermeipsthtsortooutoghalryit Sthheakosopozioann, than some of the drag '3lew-
certainly not marred by any bic
who figure in commemoration. At the Canterbury lia..
the prolific Mr. Vandervell turnigies 3•Er. 11Iorto with!:
piece de circonstance (pardon us, dear Shade) and boIrILY..
christens it "The Tercentenary, or a Night with Sila
and the abrortwanegoeurathenetrooato•oevii
spere," and,with the aid of the famous Ghost effate, bring,
a multitude of Shakspere's characters before the eye. Hers.:
also, the "words of Shads are" extensively dot the p:.
gramme, and are conned over with loyal eagerNeke by l'
thueiastio audiences.