The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about f per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.17} per X 1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about the same price in London and Paris.
By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4231 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.4 f per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
1-10th.per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 177 f to 1781 per cent., and the premium on
gold is about 631 percent. At these rates there is no profit
On the importation:of gold from the United States.

THE FOLLOWING NEW FRENCH PERIODICALS
have been recently announced :—Le Globe, Le Rasoir, and
Le Sauveur dcs Peuples : iourned du Spiriewne, Propaga-
toff (le 1' Unite Fr aternelle.

Garibaldi's Visit to the Dowager-Duchess of

Sutherland.

At an early hour this morning the court-yard of Staford
House was crowded with people in the supposition that at
some time in the morning General Garibaldi would drive
out, and that they might have an opportunity of catching
a glimpse at him without undergoing the difficulties which
presented themselves yesterday.

By mid-day the yard was densely thronged, and much
interest began to be excited when it was rumoured that at
half-past 12 the General would leave Stafford House for
Chiswick. Precisely at that hour one of the Duke's car-
riages drove into the yard, and in a few minutes the General
stepped into it, followed by the Duke of Sutherland and
another gentleman. The carriage was at once driven down
St. James's•street and Piccadilly to Chiswick, where the
General and the Duke partook of lunche3n with the
Dowager Duchess of Sutherland.

General Garibaldi was greeted with immense cheers as
he quitted Stafford House.

Garibaldi's Reception,

(From the Times Paris Correspondent.)

Our old acquaintance M. Assolant gives in the
Courrier du Dimanche an account of the proceedings
in England on the occasion of Garibaldi's visit.
Garibaldi, it seems, had heard while in Caprera of
the probability, or rather thecertainty,of there being
a large surplus revenue for the English Exchequer.
He knew the amount exactly as it has been declared
by Mr. Gladstone, and he resolved to set out at once
for the only country where such a phenomenon oc-
corred. The surplus, he conceived, should not be
applied to so common-place a purpose as reducing
taxation, but to the higher and nobler object of pro-
curing the million of muskets which he has so often
and so vainly called for, to enable him to complete
Italian unity. When Garibaldi's intention was
known all who speak the language of Shakspere
bounded with joy, for they were about to behold
what they have never yet beheld—a real bona fide
hen. The list of English heroes is, to be sure,
rather long; but, somehow or other, not one of them
is the genuine article. English heroes are bat a
mixture of linen, thread, and cotton. Cromwell was
only a preacher and a tradesman. Marlborough sold
his country, his army, and himself for 20,000,000 f.;
Clive, while he held a sword in one hand, wielded
with the other the yard-measure of the shopkeeping
East India Company ;Nelson had the courage and the
furious appetites of a bulldog; "and Wellington him-
self, the only constantly lucky General of the present
century, speculated so well in his trade of killing
men, and gained so many domains, honours, titles,
and pensions that the best enlogium one can bestow
upon him is that he was a capital accountant and a
clever man." As for Garibaldi. no one has ever
doubted his being a hero of the true type, for he had
not, like the others, a ready-made army under his
command. He held out at Rome, in 1849, two
months against the French army, which certainly is
not an army of pasteboard ; he baffled the Aus-
trians, who were in his pursuit ; in 1859 he was the
first to enter Lombardy with his volunteers; and
in 1860, when all Italy hesitated, he landed in
Sicily with his thousand crusaders.
The English receive Garibaldi with enthusiasm,
for enthusiasm is (he cheapest mode of flattering
Italy. They did not give a man or a shilling for
the campaign of 1859; but they will with pleasure
give the hero plum pudding and sandwiches for 15
days, not to speak of tea in the evening. They will
buy his photographic portraits; shoat for him as
he passes along in procession ; drink thousands of
gallons of beer to his health ; write in their news-
papers that he is the first, the greatest, the most
illustrious of all men (the English race, of course,
excepted); and they will pay him enormous com-
pliments, in order that he may in turn tell them
that they are the pick and choice of the human
species—the chosen people of God, destined to teach
all other people how they are to eat, drink, sleep,
shout, think, and digest.
In the same happy vein M. Assolant sketches
the civic banquet that will not fail to be given to
Garibaldi in Landon. As M. Assolant once spent
a week in that city, he will, of course, be accepted
as a perfectly competent authority on these enter-
tainments. The programme of the feast is this:—
The Lord Mayor, wearing his wig, preceded by his
";enormous abdomen," and followed by his aldermen
with red faces, will receive him on the stairs of the
Mansion-house, seat him en his right hand, exactly
opposite a tureen of turtle soup, of ox tail, and the
ox itself roasted entire for exactly the apace of 12
hours. The wines of France, Spain, and the Cape
will be set flowing like the waters of a fountain.
Two hundred English young women, the daughters
of dukes, marquises, counts, and simple million-
noires, will shout with might and main the moment
they see the hero. The hero will respond to these
shouts with low bows, and will put his hand to his
heart by way of showing that emotion prevents
him from speaking, but does not affect his appetite.
When the dessert is nearly over the Lord Mayor
will rise and propose the " Health of the Queen,"
at the same time expressing the joy he feels at see-
ing by his side an illustrious stranger, who, &c. ;
and Garibaldi will reply that he had long desired
to set his foot on English soil—on that soil
which is the terro' of the tyrant and the hope of
the slave; at, ,d those Englishmen " wile have so
many shillings al:d so much liberty." As some
apprehension will then arise that at this point
Garibaldi may enter on financial matters, and pro-
pose to the guests to lend mone: to Italy, " which,"
as M. Assolant shrewedly observes; " is somewhat
unpleasant after drinking," they will
.all hasten to
applaud by way of interrupting him. Viscount
Palmerston, " the facetious statesman," wii.! next
propose a toast in honour of the English ladie,s—
-►
" the finest and the most graceful in the universe.
The toast will, of course, have its effect, for every
true Englishman loves to drink, whether in honour
of the ladies or for his own private satisfaction.
Then the noble viscount will propose a toast to the
English volunteers, which will be as well received
as the first; and he will launch out let° praises of
English valour, English industry, the English navy,
the English militia, and the English ,artillery; but
be will not forget to impress upon the eompany
that it is his vigilance only that has saved England
from French invasion, and that if he had not open:
two or three thousand millions of francs in building
forts and ironclads the turtle soup which his hon.
friend the Lord Mayor placed on the table would
not be safe in English stomachs, but be swallowed
by the frog-eaters on the other side of the channel,
as well as the excellent ox tail with which his hon.
friend had also supplied the guests. The company
will, after this speech, be convinced of the patriot-
ism and °legume) of the viscount, " for" adds M.
Assolant, "the best way to gain applause from
your hearers is to lavish praise upon them."
The scene thus faithfully sketched will be re-
peated in Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glas-
gow, Bristol, York, and, in fact, in every place
where Garibaldi shows himself. An excellent
choice
-
choice wines, great compliments, drums and
ner,
trumpets—nothing
will be wanting, But the mo-
ment he attempts to utter a word about business, or
to hint about the million of muskets he wishes to
have, purses and hearts will be instantly closed.
" The Englishman in his house and the Englishman
in his shop are two very different persons."
If, as there can be little doubt, M. Assolant has
been favoured by the Lord Mayor with an early
copy of his programme cf the civic feast, the menu
of the Mansion house must be strangly restricted,
for in M. Assolant's summary of it the solid part
of the entertainment consists only of turtle and ox-
tail soup.

The Nottingham Ancient Imperial United Order
of Oddfellows, who number about 3,500 members
in the Sheffield Chapter, will hold a demonstration
at Sheffield early in July. In accepting the invi-
tation of the committee, Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P.,
remarked that Mr. Gladstone's new measure ren-
dered all pertaining to Oddfellows' Societies parti-
cularly interesting.

COPPER ORE SALES. —At the Redruth ticketing
on Thursday 1,872 tone of ore were sold, realising £10,380
38 6d ; average standard, £126 lOs ; average price per ton,
£5 lls ; average produce, 61 ; quantity of fine copper, 122
tons 15 cwt. Compared with the previous week's sale the
standard has advanced £1 165,, and the price per ton of ore
2s 2d.