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 Dano.Germsn
question, which met to-day :
England—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 Confederation-112. 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 Clanged to a general Con-
gress, Prince Gortschakoff, 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 Peers

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 :

"Hauteville 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 en 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 Shakspere the freedom
of the republic of letters. Shakespere, 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. But 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 Landon 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. You 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,
Shakspere, 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; magni6cent 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
cnosen 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 Shakapere'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 independeet of anything
like frontier, you required for President a man
placed nirnself in that exceptional condition—a
Frenchman out of France—at the same time absent
and present—with his foot in England and hia
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
ma I owe to that happy chance. I return you my
thanks for that Let, and I propose to you this toast
—" To Shakspere and England. To the definitive
Success of the great 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 67f. 15c. Mobilier
last quoted at 1,220 f. Little doing in Railway
Shares, but prices in general without materia
alteration. The market c

41 per Cents 94 25
Do, ead month —

3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 05

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

losed as follows :
Italian Loan 6B 65
Do. end month 6B 55
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes --
Rome Debt
Deferred
VAT%
Cash. Account.
896 892 50
980 975
952 50 .. 95U
895
607 50 .. 670
503 75
482 50 .. 483 75
375 370
417 50 417 50
653 75 .. 556 25
492 50 .. 490
577 50 673 75

Bank Shares 3370

Credit Foncior 1.280
Roman 76

HAIL'

Orleans ~
Northern
Lyons and Meditarranean
New ditto
Southern ..
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
LOW bard
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, but 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 al
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 present. 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 he 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 at
Sutherland's steam yacht Ondine is already wait-
ing the arrival of her illustrious passenger. Gari-
baldi embarks on board the Ondine at 8 o'clock to-

morrow morning, and at 9 will be steaming Caial
to Capers,

THE HEALTH OF GENERAL GARIBALDI.
Stafford-house, April 24.
The Duke of Sutherland presents his compli-
ments to the editor of The Sun, and begs to enclose
a letter received last evening tram Mr. Fergussou
respecting the health of General Garibaldi :--
16, George..square, Hanover-square W., April 23.
My Lord Duke,—At Mr. Seely's special request I saw:
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 adraitted
fatigue, both of body and brain. My impression was that

he looked jaded and worn,
The fatigue associated with his receptions in Lona°ll
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 en
his left forearm, one of which alone might have wade
another man give up all his ordinary occupations for a awe'
I think it due to your grace, to Mr. Seely, and others
who ad vised with the General regarding his intended pro-
vincial movements, that you should be made acquainted
with this, and I hope that your grace will consider it as e
proof that it is not without good reason that I presumed to
intrude my first opinion on a subject which was so full of
interest to every one.
I have the honour to be your grace's most obedient ser-
vant, W. FERGUSON'.
To his Grace the Duke of Sutherland.
The following telegrams have been received by
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, RicciA.RDli
(FROM THE MAYOR OF CEFALO.)
This municipality offers to the English people its sincere
thanks end the expression of its deep gratitude for the high
honours shown to Garibaldi, which are proofs of their
affection for Italy. MICHELE GIUSEPPE.
(FROM ATELLINO.)
In you we thank generous England for the reception
given to General Garibaldi. The honorary president of this
operative society tenders its thanks for the sympathy elow,n,
by Great Britain, which has always taken the lead of a"
civilised nations in the path of social progress.
GAETANO MAGLIO.