The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-28 00:00:00

Working Men's Garibaldi Committee,

A general meeting of this committee was held last night,
at the Whittington Club, to receive the report of the depu-
tation appointed to wait upon Sir George Grey in relation
to the suppression of the meeting on Saturday last on
Primrose•hill. There was a very full attendance. Mr.
Nieass (plasterer) occupied the chair.
The Secretary reported the result of the interview of the
deputation with Sir G. Grey, who had made nearly the
same statement to them as he had made in the House of
Commons. Neither he nor Sir R. Mayne had given any
special instructions to the police regarding the meeting,
which had been suppressed by that body under their ge-
neral orders relating to meetings in the Park, Sir G, Grey
had declined to discuss the legality of those orders with the
deputation, who, if they wished, must take an opportunity
of deciding the point by a legal action. He thought this
explanation of Sir George Grey only made matters worse.
It would be bad enough to have their meetings suppreseed
by the Home Secretary or the Police Commissioner ; but,
at any rate, there was a certain amount of responsibility
attached to those gentlemen. It now appeared that the
liberty of public meetings in the open air, so much
prized by Englishmen, depended simply upon the caprice
of some petty police officer. (Hear.) He hoped Sir George
Grey's suggestion would be acted upon, and the legality of
Sir R. Mayne's ukase tested.

Considerable discussion followed, the prevailing opinion
being that another meeting should be held upon Primrose-
hill on Saturday week, when, if the police again interfered,
sufficient resistance should be made by the chairman or some
members of the committee to warrant the police taking
them into custody, in order that the question might come
fairly before a court of law as to whether the orders of Sir
R. Mayne were justified by an Act of Parliament. With
this understanding the following resolutfon was agreed to
unanimously, on the motion of Mr. Howell, bricklayer,
seconded by Mr. Osborne, plasterer :—" That this commit-
tee is of opinion that the adjourned Garibaldi meeting
should be held at an early date, and that at such meeting
the legality of the interference of the police with orderly
open-air public meetings in the parks or elsewhere be tested;
that a sub-committee of 12 be appointed to confer with the
city sub-committee, with full power to convene such meet-
ing, which shall be held, no positive Act of Parliament
existing to the contrary, on Primrose-hill, on Saturday
evening week, at 6 o'clock.
The sub-committee having been appointed, the committee
adjourned. Subscriptions in aid of the expenses to be in-
curred in testing Sir R.Mayne's order,and protesting against
police interference with the liberty of public meeting, are
invited to be sent in to the treasurers of the Garibaldi Re-
ception Committee.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, April 23 ;—Her Majesty's screw iron-
clad frigate Resistance, 16, Capt. W. C. Chamber-
lain, arrived here on the evening of the 21st inst.
from the Pirates and Corfu. She brought down a
company of Royal Engineers, under the command
of Capt, Bland. Mr. W. E. Wale, paymaster Royal
Navy, nominated as secretary to Rear,Admiral the
Hon. J. Denman, and Mr S. Lewis, paymaster,
invalided,also arrived in her,and left for Southamp-
ton in the packet Ceylon to-day. The Resistance
left at Corfu on the 19th inst. the Orlando, 46,
Capt. G. G. Randolph, and the steam tender
Growler. The Cossack, 20, Capt. W. R. Rolland,
arrived at Corfu on the 15th inst. from riAnte, and
left on the 19th to return there. The Trident, 3,
Commander C. J. Balfour, was at Patras by the
latest reports, and was expected to be ordered to
Malta shortly. The Revenge, 73 (flagship of Rear-
Admiral H, R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Capt. the Hon.
F. A. Foley ; the Gibraltar, 81, Capt. J. C. Prevost
and the Surprise, 4, Commander W. H. Whyte,'
were at the Pimus when the Resistance left.
The screw storeship Dromedary, 2, Master-Com-
mander A. Brown, arrived from Corfu on Monday
with stores, The screw gunboat Foxhound, 4,
Commander W. H. Anderson, arrived the same day
from Corfu, having called at Benghazi to embark
Mr. Richard Read, her Majesty's Vice-Consul there,
who has been appointed to Scutari as Consul. The
Caradoc, 2, paddlewheel despatch vessel, Lieut.-
Commander E. Wilkinson, left Malta on Monday
for Messina, the Pyrreas, Smyrna, and Constan•
tinop:e, having on board as passengers Dr. Trower,
Bishop of Gibraltar, and suite. The Icarus, 11,
Acting-Commander H. T. Boger, left on Tuesday
for England, to be paid off. The Liffey, 35, Capt.
G. Parker, the Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Army-
tage, and the Foxhound are refitting in Malta har-
bour. There are also here the following vessels
ready for sea :—The Marlborough, 121 (flagship of
Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H.), Capt. C. Fellowes ;
the Royal Oak, 35, ironclad, Capt. F. A. Campbell;
the Meanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodebouse; the Pelican,
17, Commander W. Comber; and the Psyche, 2,
despatch vessel, Lieut.-Commander R. Sterne. The
Marlborough gave a ball on the 21st., at which the
Governor and 500 or 600 guests were present. The
Pheabe and Chanticleer remain on the coast of
Syria, the Racoon and Procris at Gibraltar, and
the Weser and Cockatrice on the Danube. Colonel
Woods, Bth Regiment ; Dr. Griffen, 25th Regi-
ment ; Dr. Welsh, 22d Regiment ; Ensign M. G.
Cole, Bth Regiment; and Ensign E. Williams, Bth
Regiment, have returned from Corfu. There is
nothing certain about the removal of all the troops
from Corfu. The last report is that they will not
leave till the end of June. The Fox, transport, is
entering port from the lonian Islands.
Vice-Admiral Sir F. W. Grey, K,C.8., and Rear-
Admiral Sir Charles Frederick, accompanied by
Rear-Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy,
were engaged on Tuesday and part of Monday in
inspecting the vessels building and under repair
and conversion in Portsmouth dockyard.
Lieut. John Wills (half-pay) has been appointa
Retired Commander.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Annesley, to
be Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice
Commander Robinson, deceased ; Lieut. C. Alder,
to the Rattlesnake; W. J. Cunningham, master, to
the Indus, for the Cordelia ; Henry Aguilar, master,
to the Fisgard, for the Enterprise ; Adolphus Sat•
ton, master, to the Fisgard, for the 'Wolverine ;
Gerald Molloy, assist.-surg., to the Indus ; Alfred
Whitlen, assist.-paymaster, to the Formidable ; J.
Petts, assist.-engineer, to the Royal George ; J.
Crawford, assist.-engineer, to the Irresistible ; and
E. Lauder, essist.-clerk, to the Fisgard.

THE ARMY.
Major-Gen. Lord William Paulet, C. 8., Lieut.-
Governor of Portsmouth, and Commanding-in-

Chief the south-west district, with Vice-Admiral
Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., Naval Commander-
in-Chief at Portsmouth and in the south-west dis-
trict, embarked yesterday on board the Fire Queen
steam yacht, Staff Commander Paul, and crossed
over to Osborne on a visit to her Majesty.
The St. Lawrence East Indiaman arrived at
Portsmouth on Tuesday afternoon with the follo w-
ing troops and passengers on board :—Majors Pinter
and Lawrance ; Capts. Knapp and Palliser ; Lieuts.
Helyer, Hutchens, Pulleyn, and Swindley ; Cornets
Cooke, Chambers, and Maritam ; Vet.•Surg. Grey;
Assist.-Sorg. Sherlock, Riding-master Pickworth ;
Mrs. Pinter and Mrs. Sherlock; and 216 men of the
Bth Hussars, 5 women, and 11 children. The left
wing was disembarked yesterday, under the super-
vision of Col. Shadwell, Assist-Quartermaster
General for the south-west district, and was sent
on at 2 p.m. by special train to Brighton, where
for the present the regiment will be quartered. The
St. Lawrence left Calcutta on the 13th of January,
calling at the Cape of Good Hope on the Ist of
March, and at St. Helena on the 12th of March.
Three deaths occurred on the voyage.
The ship Newcastle, 1,135 tons, one of Messrs.
Green's Blackwall fleet), Commander Wm. Symons,
from Calcutta Jan. 16, and St. Helena March 10,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning, with the
headquarters of the Ist battalion of the 13th Foot on
board, in the following strength—Lieut.-Col. J, W.
Cox, C. 8., in command; Capts. G. S. Twynam and
A. G. Onslow ; Lieuts. D. B. Persse, R. F. King
(Acting Adjt.), W. G. Smith, and A. C. Cunning-
hame ; Ensigns R.Warren (Instructor of Musketry) ;
C. F. Powell, A. S. Hart, and W. F• Middleton ;
Assist.-Surg. P. N. Jackson (in medical charge),
and one officer's wife, 24 sergeants, 15 corporals, 4
buglers, 240 privates, 8 soldiers' wives, and 8 chil-
dren. Ensigns Powell and Hart and 27 men are on
the sick list. One child has been born since the date
of embarcation at Calcutta, and one schoolmaster
and one private soldier have died. Soon after the
ship's arrival had been telegraphed to head-quarters
orders were received in return directing her to pro-
ceed on to Dover, 'where the troops will disembark
and join the left wing. At 3 p.m. the Newcastle
was towed by a Government steam tug clear of the
east end of the Isle of Wight, where she made sail,
with the wind at south-east.

On Tuesday a draught of the 2d battalion of the
20th Regiment, numbering 36 non-commissioned
officers and men, under the command of Captain C.
Fahie, left Chatham garrison for Dover, there to
embark on board her Majesty's screw steamer Ad-
venture, 400 horse power, for China, to augment
the service companies of that regiment.

On Tuesday the 9th Lancers passed through
Liverpool on their way to Dublin.

Stratford-on-Avon Tercentenary Festival,

STRATFORD-ON-AVON, Wednesday Evening.
Last night the series of theatrical amusements
commenced, and the aspect of the interior of the
Pavilion was completely changed. During the per-
formance of the Messiah," on Monday, the appear.
ante of the building was nearly the same as during
the banquet, chairs being substituted for tables.
The principal singers occupied the site of the pre-
sident's table, the band replaced the newspaper
reporters and the boys of the choir, and the
portion of the upper gallery at the back, com-
prising three sides of the dodecagon, was filled
by the chorus. The tenants of the chairs in the
arena or pit, which is the place of honour, like the
stalls of an ordinary theatre, sat therefore with
their backs to the stage, which was directly oppo-
site to the orchestra. Last night the orchestra had
been removed and the chairs all turned round, so
that the front of the house on Tuesday was yester-
day the back.

The visitors of the Festival had now ample op-
portunity to admire the beautiful drop curtain,
painted and presented by Mr. Telbin. It is after
the model of the drop scene at the Princess's, of
which, however, it is not a copy. The centre is oc-
cupied by the well-known statue of Shakspere, with
a view of Stratford Church in the background.
This is supposed to stand in a vestibule, which is
hung with a rich crimson drapery, studded all over
with the initial letter " S," save where there are
two medallions respectively containing the figures
of the Tragic and Comic Muse. The heavy colour
of the drapery is relieved by two curtains of white
satin, looped up at the topmast corner of the pic-
ture. To this drop-scene the proscenium forms a
massive frame, too large allegorical figures, repre-
senting " Genius" and " Immortality," standing on
each side.

Were I writing for London playgoers only I
should consider I had rendered myself sufficiently
intelligible if I simply stated that " Twelfth Night''
was performed by the Haymarket company with
Haymarket scenery, and was followed by My
Aunt's Advice (one of the innumerable versions of
"Livre 1., Chapitre M."), with Mr. Sothern in the
principal character. Since, however, for the pre.
sent week, Stratford, not London, is the theatrical
capital of England, at AI the Warwickshire public
has not got Haymarket usages at its fingers'.ends,
it is as well to give the official programme entire

" In the evening, at seven o'clock, will bo represented, by
the company of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London,
Shakspere's comedy of "Twelfth Night; or, What you
Will :"

Orsino (Duke of Elyria.. .. Mr. Howe.
Sebastian (a young gentleman, brother to Viola) Mr
Wearthersby.

AntonioF Fabian..
b i(aans captain, friend to-Sebastian) .. Mr Braid
Roberto (a sea captain, friend to Viola), Mr W. Gordon
Curio Mr Clark
Valentine! 1 Lords attending on the Duke fMr Worrell
Sir Toby Belch (uncle to the Lady Olivia) ..Mr Rogers
Sir Andrew Agnecheek Mr Buckstone
Malvolio (steward to Olivia) ..Mr Chippendale
{ Mr W, Farren
Clown
.. Servantsto 'v lOl'ia Mr Compton
A Priest Mr Cullenford
First Officer....Mr Coe. Second Officer....Mr James
Olivia (a rich Countess).... .... Miss H. Lindley
Viola (in love with the Duke) ........ Mies Louisa Angel
Maria (Olivia's woman) Mrs E. Fitzwilliam
Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other
Attendants.
Scene.—A City in Illyria, and the sea coast near it.
After which, a Comedietta in one act, adapted from the
French of MM. Pierron and Laferriere, by Mr Sothern,
entitled "My Aunt's Advice "
Mr Charles Arundel
Captain Howard Leslie ....Mr Sothern
Mrs Charles Arundel Miss Nelly Moore
Jane Miss Coleman.
The performance thus announced was honoured
by the immediate patronage of Lord Carlisle, who
aat in the centre of the front row of the arena,
with Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Leigh, Sir Robert
Hamilton, and other distinguished visitors already
mentioned in the report of Saturday's banquet,
ranged on each side of him. The audience was
more numerous than at either of the concerts. This
was expected, since to a large agricultural popu-
lation resident in the vicinity of Stratford a
play acted in anything approaching the London
manner, and illustrated by London scenery,
such as is painted now, must be a wonderful exhift
bition. The Birmingham Theatre, it is true, holds
a high rank among provincial establishments, and
there is a theatre at Leamington ; but Birmingham
is sufficiently distant to leave Stratford a public of
its own, and the Leamington house, I am informed,
is not greatly patronised. Moreover, the magnifi-
cent Pavilion is in itself well worth seeing.

The play was well selected, for it not only suits
the Haymarket company, but it has recently been
decorated with beautiful scenes illustrating the
Illyrian country, in which the action nominally
takes place, and therefore widely different from the
conventional pictures ordinarily used in provincial
theatres. The costumes are partially of the modern
Greek kind; those of Sebastian and Viola (once
dressed as a conventional page) being more conspi.
cuous than the rest. All these scenes and dresses
were brought down to the Pavilion by Mr. Buck-
stone, and by the inhabitants of a country town and
the rural district around it the performance might
really be enjoyed as a series of remarkab:e pictures.
Londoners, provided every year with a stock of sen-
sation scenes, and violently stimulated by astound-
ing " effects," can scarcely imagine the impression
which a piece perfectly put upon the stage pro-
duces on the inhabitants of an agricultural town.
Mr. Buckstone was received with especial favour.
During all the preparations for the Festival he has
been most energo!ic and judicious, as a sort of

theatrical counseller to the committee, and it is by
following his advice that some of the most serious
obstacles have been surmounted. This fact was well
known to the chief of last night's audience. More-
ever, the excellent comedian did not wholly rely on
his reputation es a Shaksperean philanthropist.
He played Sir Andrew Aguecheek with fun even
more than usually exuberant, making a compound
of sot, zany, and poltroon that caused the wooden
walls of the Pavilion to reverberate with laughter.
Mr. Compton, who played the Clown with admira-
ble quaintness, was another leading favourite, being
known here not only through his London celebrity
but through a high reputation at Birmingham.
Malvolio was played with thoroughly sustained for-
mality by Mr. Chippendale, and was apparently a
more thankful part than it is usually found in Lon-
don, the practical joke of the " cross garters" being
immensely relished by the audience. Mr. Rogers as
the bluff besotted Sir Toby, and Mr. W. Farren as
the mischief-loving Fabian, were likewise excellent,
and nothing could go off with greater spirit than
the more broadly comic scene of the play—the duel
between Sir Andrew and Viola awakening a special
shout of mirth. Miss Louisa Angel, who played
Viola, was an object of general admiration, both on
account of her personal appearance and her sensible
inobtrusive style of acting ; and the celebrated lines,
"She never told her love, k 0.," which had been sung
with Haydn's music the evening before, was duly
marked out by applause. Mr. Howe performed the
Duke with his wonted urbane dignity, and in the
new building had an opportunity of proving the ex-
cellent quality of his voice. It is not too much to
say that his words, though uttered without effort,
were more distinct to the ear than those of aoy
other performer.

The character of Captain Howard Leslie,sustained
by Mr. Sothern in the afterpiece, is the first that he
essayed in London after establishing himself as
Lord Dundreary. It seems to exhibit him as an
excellent light comedian, and his coolness at the
beginning and his mock rhodomantade at the
end greatly delighted the Stratford audience.
This evening, to-morrow, and Friday he will play
Lord Dundreary at Birmingham, and will then re-
turn to London to appear at the Haymarket on
Saturday in a new piece entitled "David Garrick."
Miss Nelly Moore, known in London as a rising
young actress, distinguished herself greatly by the
spirit with which she played the self-willed and not
very scrupulous Mrs. Arundel.

This afternoon there was a dramatic recital in the
regular Stratford Theatre by Mrs. Macready, a lady
from the United States, who a few years back made
a favourable impression as a reader without book,
who by freedom of action and variation of voice
gives an almost histrionic representation of the playa
she recites. The audience, who nearly filled the little
theatre, now called the Shakspere Rooms, seemed
well gratified by the entertainment. The house it-
self, which stands on the site of the garden of New-
place, and of which such high expectations were
raised in 1827, is of itself worth a visit. It is very
small and low pitched, with two tiers of boxes—one
on the level of the pit, the other, though raised to
no great elevation, nearly reaching the ceiling.
Here were performed the plays that constituted a
portion of the entertainments of the Festival of 1830,
when Mr. Charles Kean was the principal actor, and
was generally looked upon as a rising young man.
At present it is in anything but working condition,
as is amply proved by its deficiency in one detail,
generally considered necessary to theatrical repre-
sentation—viz., the stage.

With the two concerts on Monday, and with the
excursion to Charlecote, and the plays of yesterday,
I have been so occupied as to neglect the collec-
tion of works of art associated with Shakepere
which is exhibited all the week at the Town-hall,
and which when the value of many of the works
is known, will doubtless prove as attractive as
anything connected with the Festival. The cora
poration itself possesses an invaluable treasure in
the full-length :portrait of Garrick embracing a
bust of Shakspere, painted by Gainsborough.
Then there is a large assortment of Shaksperean
portraits of various degrees of authenticity, among
them the so-called " Jansen" (with two others, not
at all like it, attributed to the same artist), the
" Lumley," the " Stratford," the " Droeshart." a
lithograph of the "Felton," and a drawing of the
" Chandos." To these may be added a copy of the
" KeBselstadt cast," which is now in the custody of
Professor Owen, and which is believed by some to
be the mask taken from the poet's face after death
for the sculptor of his bust. The discussion as to
the authorities in favour of these different portraits
forms a branch of erudition in itself ; but those who
would skim pleasantly through the subject I may
refer to a small handsomely illustrated book on the
" Life Portraits of Shakspere," written by Mr. J.
H. Friswell, who, however, does not touch the
"Lumley." The "Stratford" and the copy of the
"Felton" now exhibited at the Town-hall, both
belong to the Shakspere Museum, to which they
were given by Mr. W. Oakley Hunt, the present
town clerk, who is highly respected as one of the
best Shaksperian antiquaries in this little Shak-
sperian world. "Of the "Kesselstadt east" an ex-
cellent photograph has been taken by Mr. Nottage,
of the London Stereoscopic Society.
The picture owners have been very liberal in their
contributions to this exhibition. Her Majesty has
sent Sir T. Lawrence's well-known portrait of J. P.
Kenable as Hamlet, to which Sir Joshua's Mrs. Sid-
dons as the Tragic Muse is a worthy pendent. Her-
lowe's great picture of the Enable gamily engaged
in the trial of Queen Katherine is likewise here,
with three admirable works by Zoffany, lent by
Lord Carlisle—viz,, the updrafts of Foote as Major
oturgeon, and of Garrick as Abel Drugger, and a
curious painting of three actors, supposed to
represent characters in Sir John Vanbrugh's
comedy, " /Cop." Among the likenesses of
living artists is an admirable drawing of
Miss Helen Faucit by Burton, lent by Mr.
Theodore Martin. The pictures are nearly 300 in
number, comprising a quantity of ideal works in
addition to those of historical interest. Mr. Court-
ney, a carver of the town, has contributed to the
exhibition a "tercentenary table," a marvellous
piece of workmanship, in which six views, illustra-
ting Shakspere's life, are inlaid in curiously coloured
woods. Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, too, have struck
a Isronze medal, with a head of Shakepere surrounded
by the names of his plays on the obverse side, and
the apotheosis on the reverse. The testimonial pre-
sented to Mr, Charles Kean after his retirement
from the Princess's stands in a conspicuous part of
one of the rooms, as well as Vechteis shield in
honour of Shakspere, Milton, and Newton, shown
at the International Exhibition of 1862.

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