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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1864.

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THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,

GENERAL GARIBALDI'S VISIT.

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The Royal Italian Opera was last evening the
scene of an ovation, which, from the social position
of its habitues and the ordinary nil adinirari, ela?-
racter of their well-bred applause, proved that those
who took part in it sympathise heartily in the feel-
ing which may now be said to pervade every class
of society, from the peer to the peasant. No sooner
was the announcement made that the parest of
modern patriots, end the bravest of freedom's soldiers,
desired to honour the opera of his native tongue
with a hearing, than every seat in the house was at
a premium. This might have been anticipated from
a class to whom the price for admission is hardly a
consideration; but what we would desire to remark
is the unmistakable proof which this selection from
the " upper ten thousand" supplied, of the justness
of the opinion consistently expressed in these
columns, despite the hesitating of many, and the
ill-disguised envy and of ethers, that Gari-
baldi, come when he might, would receive from
every Englishman, of every rank, that cordial
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About twenty minutes past eight loud cheering
in the piazza of Covent garden announced to the
well-dressed crowd within the Floral Hall that
Garibaldi had arrived, and shortly afterwards the
hero, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, the Earl of Carlisle, Lady Blantrye,
the Countess Dowager of Sutherland, Lords Albert
and Ronald Leveson Gower, Mr. Negretti, and other
friends, made their appearance and were received
by Mr. Gye and several officials of the opera. Such
was the eagerness for a near approach that the
Ueneral was surrounded and separated from his
escort completely, when two active superintendents
came to the rescue, and cleared a passage for him
across the Floral Hall, and up the staircase leading
to the grand tier, where three boxes had been thrown
into one, exactly opposite the royal box. Never was
crowned head received with such outspoken and
hearty cheers, rivalling in vigour those of the most
popular assemblies, and repeated again and again.
The General, who looks somewhat sick with kind-
ness, bowed repeatedly. The eommo'ion and emo-
tion calmed, Costa tapped his desk, and the band
burst forth with the preluding notes of " Norma."
The choice of this opera and two acts of " Masa-
niello," with the elevation of the Fisherman•Kiog,
ending with the insurrection, the fusillade, and
defeat of the royal troops, was certainly highly sug-
gestive. The music, the gorgeous lase en scene,
the picturesque groups of Neapolitans, and the splen-
did pictures of the Bay of Naples, the market-
place, and other localities, appeared to delight the
gallant visitor and chain his attention. We
have been told much of the General's inflexible
rule of " early to bed," when not campaigning.
Last night, or rather this morning, gave us the
"exception," which logicians tell us "proves the
rule." It was asserted that at the close of 'Worms,"
half-past 10 o'clock, the General would leave. He
merely retired for refreshment, returned, and. sat
out the whole performance, bowing in reply to re-
newed cheers after the fall of the drop-scene, and
applauding warmly at the close. At half-past 12
the General left with his friends.

The Guards' band was in waiting in the Floral
Hall, and played the Garibaldian Hymn at his de-
parture, which was made by the Piazza. entrance,
by which he had entered ; and here again loud and
ringing huzzahs were heard for the man whom the
people delight to honour.
The Norma of Madame Lagrua exhibited the
magnificence, the energy, the intellectuality, and
the power which we have already attributed to this
great singer and tragedienne. Mdlle, Marie Battu
was a charming Adalgisa, and Signor Naudin an
excellent representative of Pollio, proTerbially ill-
received by the audience. The novelty was a new
Oravcso in the person of Herr Szhmil, of whom we
may briefly say that he is an actor, a muEician, and
a singer gifted with great power of delivery, ex-
pres:iion, end depth. His 3roveso so much impressed
us that we are anxious to hear him in another role.

The splendid overture to Masaniello was splen-
didly performed, so splendidly that it was warmly
applauded, and no one seemed to regret the time
by which it lengthened unusually "long Thurs•
day."

Among the company were : —The Duke of Wellington,
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duchess of St.
Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk and Viscount Falkland,
the Duchess Dowager of Sutherland and his Excellency the
Earl a Carlisle and Lords Albert and Ronald Leveson
Gower, the Marchioness of Dewnehire and Lady Alice
Hill, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl of
Dudley, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl Granville, the Earl
of Durham, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Countess
de Grey, the Countess of Harrington, Viscount Sydney,
Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady de Tabby and the
Hon. Misses Warren (2), Lord Arthur Hill, Baron de
Rothschild and Miss de Rothschild, Lady Augustus Went-
worth and Miss Wentworth, Major the Hon. Henry Gage
and Mrs Gage, Hon. Charles Barrington, Hon. Mrs Edward
Villiers and Miss Villiers, Hon. Frederick Somerset Cal-
thorpe, Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, M.P , Hon. Mrs.
Ives and Mr Gordon Ives, Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, the
Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., and Lady Emily Peel,
Sir Anthony de Rothschild and the Misses de Rothschild
(2), Sir Henry Cotterell, Sir Robert Hamilton and Mrs
Hamilton, Admirhl Sir R. Munday, Colonel Farquharson
of Invercauld, Colonel Stuart, Colonel and Mrs Munday,
Mrs W. E. Gladstone, Mre Hutt, Mr and Mrs W. F. De-
larue, Mrs Adamson, Mr and Mrs Marley, Mrs and Mr
Arthur Ward, Dr Billing, Mr Maynard, Mr H. W. Eaton,
Mr J. L. O'Beirne, Mr J. R. Fenwick, Mr J, Perez
Lozano, Mr E. Barry, Mr H. J. Sturt, M.P., Mr Charles
Shelley, Mr Butler Johnstone, Mr Gladstone, jun., Mr H.
W. Wickham, M.P., Mr J. W. Gaskell, M.P., Mr George
Drummond, Mr H. A. Fans, Mr Woodford, Mr Theodore
Kark, Mr J. C. North, Mr. Penney, Mr T. Lucas, Mr
Mair, Mr H. Eaton, Mr G. Stone, Ike.

DEPARTURE OF GENERAL GARIBALDI
FOR BEDFORD.—(Tms DAY.)

General Garibaldi, accompanied by his sons, the
members of his suite, and the Duke of Sutherland,
left Stafford House this morning at 10 o'clock for
Bedford, via the Great Northern Railway. On
arriving at that place, the General will proceed to
Mr. Howard's agricultural works, where a display
of the capabilities of the machines manufactured by
the firm will be given. The route traversed by the
Duke's carriages was lined with people, and, in
some instances, hasty attempts at decoration had
been made.

The cheering along the road was loud and beady,
but at the entrance to the railway station it became
tumultuous. A limited number of persons only was
admitted to the departure platform, so that he
was enabled to depart on this occasion without going
through the fatigue of shaking hands with every
person who could get within arm's reach of him.
He returns to town late in the afternoon.

To-morrow (Saturday) General Garibaldi will
receive in the centre transept of the Crystal Palace,
from the Italian Reception Committee, an address
and presentation sword. A similar sword ill also
be presented to the General's son, Menotti Gari-
baldi. The presentation will take place in a box
or gallery erected for the occasion at the north-east
corner of the great transept, immediately facing
the Handel orcli.estra, and in full view of the visi-
tors. Prior to the presentations a great Italian
concert will be offered to the General by the prin•
cipal artistes of the Italian Operas. The General
Rill leave town privately, and arrive at the Palace
on Saturday ebout two o'clock. He will leave
about five o'clock.
On his return to town Garibaldi go to a
grand dinner and evening party at Lord Palmer-
ston's, Cambridge House. On Monday the whole
of the members of the House of Commons are in-
vited from two to six o'clock, to meet the General
at Mr. Seely's, at Princes-gate. It is, therefore,
probable that the proceedings at Sydenharn on that
day will be over at an early hour. He will dine in
the evening with the Matquie of Clanricarde, and

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4.k4t,
Yesterday the workmen at Chatham dociyarKomfl s
menced the removal of the Lord Warden targetr which has •
been constructed at that establishment, prior to its ship-
ment for Shoeburyness, where it will be re-erected, under
the superintendence of the dockyard officials. The target
represents a portion of the broadside of the Lord Warden,
and should the experiments which are to be carried out,
upon it confirm the expectations formed of its shct resisting-
power, the Lord Warden will be constructed on exactly the
same principle. The total thickness of the iron and teak
timber forming the target is lliin. The outer portion con-
sists of a couple of the large malleable plates sent in by the
Millwall Iron Company, each weighing between seven and
eight tons. Each plate is 2-)ft in length, by 4ft Gin wid.,
and 41in id thickness. These are baited to a thickness of
teak planting of Sin, between which le balks of timber,
s of will t ehffe
vessel which answer to the timber frames of a vessel, are wrought
trecsteid de,
iron plates liin in tbicknesa, and it is exactly this thick-
nesspassage of
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through itis ex
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afterresist
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trating the armour-plates. The 11-inch plates are bolted
to 13ft inches of teak timber, to the interior of which is
fastened the 81. inch teak plenking. Each of the armour •
plates is secured by 22 wrought iron bolts 21 inches in
thickness, the bevil at the head of the bolt being 34 inches.
Each bolt being let into the plate the latter presents an even
surface. The bolts are fastened by means of the ordinary
nuts. The target is of enormous strength, each of the tim-
bers being held together by means of five large wrought iron
knees. Its weight is 25 tons, and altogether it is one of the
strongest targets for experimental purposes ever constructed,
and would appear destined to sustain any amount of batter -
ing. The naval transport Dove has been brought up along-
side the dockyard to receive the target on board to-day, but
owing to the want of the proper appliances, bee., for un-
shipping it at Shoeburyness, the work of landing it promises
to be one of great difficulty.
Yesterday the War Departments transports Petrel and
Bomarsuni arrived alongside the ordnance wharf at Chat-
ham, with the guns, shot, shell, and War Department stores
from the screw corvette Scont,2l, 400 horse power, Capt. J.
Corbett, which is being dismantled at the Nora previously
to being put out of commission, and placed in the steam re-
serve.

The iron eased frigate Caledonia, 35, 1,000 horse power, is
being pushed forward with all despatch in the great basin at
Sheerness, in readiness for being floated out on the 22d inst.
She bent sails yesterday. B;• 'rder of the Admiralty the
Caledonia is not to be tried at the measured mile until the
whole of her stores, &c., are on board, and the frigate is at
her loa] water line.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty : —Capt. J. A. Paynter to the Majestic, vice
Capt. Inglefield, whose period of service has expired; Lieut.
the Hon. Alexander F. Hood to the Excellent; Lieut.
John S. Eaton to the Fisgard—Cyril Corbet and George L.
W. Adair, midshipmen, to the Prince Consort—J. H.
Broome and F. Powell, midshipmen, to the Black Prince—
J. M. Bance, midshipman, to the Aurora—Henry C. S.
Wright, Anthony N. Hammond, Somerset A. Hangerford,
Herbert Horner, and Charles Reeve, naval cadets, to the
Duncan—Gilbert E. Cornwall, naval cadet, to the Prince
Consort—Wm. 11. M. Daniell, Jehn L. E. De Watteville,
John B. Hemming, and Win. R. Cooksey, naval cadets, to
the Black Prince—Richard W. 0. Voysey, Edward P.
Tomkinson, George H. Bruce, and Alfred G. Walter, naval
cadets, to the Warrior—Edward P. Brooks, Arthur H.
Baker, Philip A. Parsons, and Wm. B. Ponsford, naval
cadets, to the Hecla—Charles R. Dawes, and Herbert K.
Heyland, naval cadets, to the Defence—John D. Aubertin,
naval cadet, to the Aurora—Octavius Greig, naval cadet,
to the Gladiator—Henry M. Harrison, assist.-paymaster,
to the Bombay—E. F. Nicholson, assist.-paymaster, super-
numerary, to the Formidable—John Hide and it. J. Sweet•
man, acting additional, to the Rattlesnake.