The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-15 00:00:00

MR. AND MRS. HERMANN VEZIN AT BATH.-

These talented artistes have just concluded a very
successful engagement at the Bath and Bristol theatres.
Speaking of Mrs. Vezin's performance of Rosalind in "As
You Like It," the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette says;—
" She played Rosalind as if conscious that in Stiakspere's
delightful play and admirable dialogue she had found some-
thing that was worthy of her talents. 'We had the freshness,
playfulness, vivacity, and the 'sweet and affectionate im-
pulses of this, the best of Shakspere'a comic heroines. The
whole was presented with an intelligence and evident un-
del standing of the poet which we cannot speak too warmly of.
On Snakepere she is a fascinating commentator—oue who
teaches through the eye as well as the ear. By an inflexion
of the voice or a cast of the countenance she continually
discloses the concealed force of allusions that not simply
Lhe careless or the obtuse would never see, but which even
a careful reader might pass unnoticed. The well-known
point, when Rosalind betrays her incipient love for Orlando
by turning back with Celia, affecting to think that he calls
them, and tells him that he has "overthrown more than
his enemies," was spoken excellently well ; and bespoke the
hearty sympathies of the house,which she did not lose during
the whole play, She was called in the course of the per-
formance, and again at the fall of the curtain. Mr Her-
mann Vezin was the melancholy Jaques—a character, by
the way, which is quite as telling in the study as on the
stage. The seven ages of man was a good specimen of
elocution, and the whole character was played with much
judgment.

HOW ABOUT MAZZINI AND GARIBALDI ?—How,
asks the Queen, "can Garibaldi ex pkin his own
change of opinion as regards Mazzini ? In 1819, Garibaldi
wrote a letter to Mr. Isaac Crother. of Newcastle, in which
he spoke of Signor Mazzini. The words used ware as fol-
lows :—" This is my opinion about Mazzini : Mazzini has
been for a long period the representative of the liberal
opinions in Italy, and for this reason every man loving his
country considered him as his chief. Had Mazzini shown
courage enough to lead his friends in danger, had Mazzini
shown that noble feeling which puts the cause of his own
oppressed country above every selfish consideration,
Mazzini might have been a great man. But Mazzini
having been without those two qualifications,fii/ necessa-
rily in the contempt of every man of heart, and has been
ever since committing faults. Mazzini, by his
obstinacy and his unaccountable amour propre has
made democracy impossible in our country, and has
obliged us to resort to monarchy in order to find what we
want above all in Italy—our independence." We are accus-
tomed to some strange revolutions in this great whirlgig of
ours, and, like the jackdaw, we have little other resource,
than to cry " Caw 1" over them, but this passes the common.
In all this letter to Mr. Crother, Garibaldi has not one word
of " liberty," but it is " democracy" that is the object
dearest to his heart : the monarchy, you see, is a pis alter.
This is a strange doctrine for the guest of Stafford House,
the hero who dines with Lord Palmerston, and shakes
hands immediately afterwards with Lord Derby. Again,
if what Garibaldi wrote of Mazzini be true, or ever was
true, by what purifying process the latter has come to be
worthy to be received as a friend by the former we must
profess that we cannot understand. How can he shake
the hand of a man of whom he has deliberately written that
he has " fallan necessarily in the contempt of every man of
heart ?"

In the course of yesterday afternoon General
Garibaldi, accompanied by his son Menotti and his
secretary Guerzoni, paid a visit to Mazzini, and to Mr
and Mrs. Venturi at Onslow-terrace, Brompton. The
General remained an hour with his illustrious friend, and
was received with the usual enthusiasm in the streets on
leaving.

THE RELIGION OF EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS.—
[But then, it should be remembered, that this is
counting all the petty German princes as such I]—Accord-
ing to a statistical account of the religious belief of the
Sovereigns of Europe, out of the 43 now reigning, 17 be-
long to the Lutheran creed, 8 Evangelical, 4 Calvinist, 1
Greek rite, 1 Mussubnan, 1 Episcopal, and 11 Catholic,-
64/ignltti,