The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-20 00:00:00

TO TIM TOMB O► Tat MI MI.

NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE COMMITTEE.

SlR,—The undersigned, feeling it incumbent
upon them to withdraw from the National Shake-
speare Committee, are desirous of stating their
reasons for doing so.

Their strong anxiety that a national tribute to
our greatest poet should be worthy of its object,
and their equally strong conviction that those who
have assumed the direction of the movement do
nut comprehend, and therefore will not satisfy,
the expectations of the nation, compel them to
take the unpleasant step of separating themselves
from gentlemen with whom they have endeavoured
to co-operate.
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Without dwelling upon the irregular and un-
businesslike character of the proceedings of the
executive body, the undersigned complain that
more than half a year Las been wasted in procuring
a list of names which would have been given in,
without solicitation, had a practical anti worthy
scheme been laid before the public.

BARLOW'S PATENT CASK STAND, • new
Invention, so admirably contrived that a tall bark u
well as smaller mks. may be raised or tilted on it witboat
labour or trouble. Its action Is so Impalpable that the sediment
of the most limpid Bald by no pe,lbility can be disturbed.
Price A, las., lia., to suit 41, 0, and 18 gallon casks.

BARLow's SELF-ACTING SYPHON TAP.
No ,std required. No more fiat beer or sear wise.
Prise 4a. dd ditto, electroplated, ea—apply direct to JAIII3
BALLOW, patentee, 14, Kiss K Ina an Idasaloo-base.
Bee Wet hie sates sad ad&ra are oa every article. all others are
eptuiotui tesitatioss. letravlsaa Palls Zstsbilthed

E P P 8' 8 C 0 C 0 A,
Distiagulsbed u a
FRAGRANT, °HATEFUL, AND INTIGORATTNO
RREAKFA,T BEVERAGE.
Originated spacially for the uae of those under honheoplthie
irtiament, It has through its agreeabieneas become generally
accepted.

FOX SMITH'S BEST STORE CANDLES
give a much whiter light and barn longer than common
dip : Composite, Belmont nag and Sperm, MeMille for Palmer's
lamps, and every description of caa•:le. Finest cols* oil, yellow,
mottled, and fancy soap : best ivialiq and lowest price, for cash
only, of lrt).l SWUM, Sal, Wand, W.C.

FURNITURE CARRIAGE FREE to any
PAPA' of the KINGDOM.
Drawing-mons mites, complete L 0 0
Dining-room suites, cempiate
Bedroom suites, complete
Warranted lint clew
P. sad & BILYFUS, 164, Otkedntreat
illustrated catalogues grata sad poet boson application.

CRth'OLINES.—SANSFLECTIIMS. 10s. 6d.
PHILPOTTS, 37, PICCADILLY.
CRINOLINES for EVENING WRAP.. 1811.6 d.
PHILPOTTS, 37, PICCADILLY.
CRINOLINES for LITTLE OIRLS. Ss. 6d.
PHILPOTTS, 37, PICCADILLY.
CRINOLINES.--ONDINA, or WAVED. 21s.
The PATENT ONDINA, or Waved loom% does away with
the unsightly results of the ordinary hoops, and so perfect ore the
wavelike bands, that a lady may ascend a steep calf. leas against
a table, throw herself into sit armchair, per to her sten at the
opera, or occupy a fourth seat in a carriage, without Inconver.
Diem,. to herself or others, or provoking rude restarts of the
observers, thus modifying In an important degree all those peen-
Merles tending to destroy the modesty of English women ; and,
isstly, it allows the dross to foil into graceful fold& Price, Ulu
and 25a. ed. Illastratoons tree.
E. PHILPOTT, $7, PICCADILLY, W.

D IMMEL'S NEW PERFUMED VALEN-
TINES, St. Valentine's Glom, and the Sachet Valentine
of the language of !lowers, price ls. each, or either tent by post
for 14 stamps. EININIEL'd ROSE-WATER CRACKERS, each of
which contains a small rosewater fountain. A new and amus-
ing dente for erenfret
imaxn, N. trend, and 24, ecnithllL London.

IPARENTS and GUARDIANS —The return
M Youth to their respective Boarding Schools induces a
solicitude for their permmal comfort and attraction. sad
ROW LANDS' SIACANIAR OIL, for aeceleralieft the growth end
Improving and beautifying the hair. Howls ds' Kalydor, for
Improving the skin and complexion, and removing cutaneous
defects, and Rowlands' Odonto. or Pearl Dentifrice, for refl.:tutu'
the teeth beautifully white, and preserving the gums ate con-
sidered indiapensable accoropaninienti.—Nold by A. ROW LAND
and soNg. if, Hatton-gardea, and by chemlata and perfumers.—
Ask for Iceland*. articles.

It was not until December last that the question
of the site of the proposed memorial was referred to
a sub-committee for consideration, and the all-im-
portant question of the nature of the memorial was
not taken up until the present month.
At this moment, within little more than three
months from the 2Srd of April, the Committee is as
ignorant as the public where the memorial is to be
placed, and what it is to be. That • monument
worthy of Shakespeare and to be reared by the
united energies of the three kingdoms and the fifty
ca'.onies, can be devised, discussed, and accepted
by the country within a few weeks,. is an idea too
absurd to be entertained by a nation of practical
men who hold Shakespeare In befitting reverence.
Had the executive a due appreciation of their
task, it might have been possible to arrange some
pleasant celebration for the 23rd of April, while
taking time to consider the question of memorial
with the care it demands; but the executive, having
wasted so much time, are now endeavouring to hurry
matters, and in order to do so, have obtained leave
to take a step which must deprive the memorial of
, a national character. _ . . .

The General Committee, after showing its estimate
of its executive by rejecting a draft report prepared
and improperly put into circulation by that body
as the report of the committee, followed up what
was in effect a vote of censure by appointing a sub-
committee to prepare another document to beissued
to the public. This sub-committee unanimously
decided that it would be premature to address the
public until the site and memorial committees
should have reported. It was agreed that it would
be absurd to make such an appeal in the absence of
a definite object.
On Monday last this report was presented to a
meeting of the General Committee, and was approved
by it.
The General Committee, after Abed thus derided
that it was in no condition to address the saliivat
having no information to communicate, was led
to stultify that decision by voting that the public
should be appealed to, and, moreover, that it should
be asked for a definite sum. It bad occurred to
scmebody that the memorial ought to cost 30,0004,
and that this notion should be presented to the
nation, which, however, was to be at liberty to give
more if it pleased, and was to be assured that any
surplus should be laid oat philaethropically.
This final blunder, the conclusion of a series,
appears to the undersigned to be fataL They are,
therefore, compelled to withdraw from co-operation
in a scheme which, as at present managed, must
end in discreditable failure, and draw down uni-
versal contempt upon English professions of rever-
mice for Shakespeare.

TOM TAYLOR.
THEODORI MARTIN.
SHIRLEY BROOM
J. 8. Barns.
T. DEFEO. HARDY.
TnowAs WALL=
ROBERT BELL.
C. L. GRONZEHLI.
Harm FRIIIWILL.

nINNEFORD'S PURE FLUID MAGNESIA
baa been, during twenly-dve years, emphatically WIC-
Joned by the medical profession, and universally accepted by
the public, es the best remedy the acidity of the stomach, heart-
horn, headache. gout, and indigestion and as a mild aperient
for delicate constitutions, more especially for ladle, and chil-
dren. It Is prepared. in a state of perfect purity and of uniform
strength, by DINNUOID and (.0., 172, New loud-street, Lon- -
don and sold by all radiseatable amid' throngboat the world.

Fonsiow-orncs, Jaw. I&—The Queen has been
sleerd to approve of Mr. Charles G. Hannah as Consul at
l aura for the United Staten of Amerim.—Gezerse.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAOR ON Mazziwi. —The French
polio, have been guilty at a diabolic attempt. They have
sought to throw into the house of IL Mural pa shells
Mint with poisonous charges. leickaly these etre&
spied the column of an Engii!hi printing-lease, and ex- PARIS. Jew. 19.
pladmd without harm to the ustended Moths, hat with The Constitutionnel of this evening publishes an
damaging effect upon the conspirators. We believe that their '
extradition has bean demanded by the British government. article signed by M. Limayrac, in which the writer
regrets the haste with which Prussia and Austria

(TWOPENG

demand concessions from Denmark, "thus reudtr
ing more imminent the war which Europe desires to
avoid."

M. Limayrac continues : "The new phase of
the Austro-Prussian policy differs so widely from
that at first followed, that public opinion is natu-
rally impatient to know the causes of the sudden
change which has taken place at Berlin and
Vienna."

FRANKFORT-ON-THIS-MAINE, JAL 19.

At an extra sitting of the Federal Diet to-day
the representatives of Austria and Prussia gave ex-
planations of a tranquillising character, and stated
that it was not the intention of those Powers either
to interfere with the Federal troops or the Federal
Commissioners. They merely wished to obtain the
sanction of the Diet to march through the Duchy of
Holstein. These communications were referred to
the committee on the again of Sleswig-Holstein.

THE " CONSPIRACY " IN PARIS.
TURIN, JAI. 19.

To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, Signor
Crispi announced his intention of asking informa-
tion of thaowersaselat relative to the con eilasprs
lately arrested in Traria, and declared that none of
them had taken part in the Marsala expedition.

FRANCE.
THE CORPS LEGISLATIF.
DEBATE ON THE FINANCES.
PARIS, JAN.
Paragraph 3 of the address was adopted today
in the Corps Legialatif.
In the debate upon paragraph 4, MM. Darimon
and Jules Simon made speeches, explaining the
amendment brought forward by the Opposition,
relative to liberty of public meetings and the
modification of the law upon coalitions of working
Men.

The Duke de Morny oppoeed the amendment,
which was supported by M. Emile 011ivier. M.
Parien also spoke against it, and enumerated the
governmental measure in favour of the working
classes.

The amendment was finally rejected by 195 against
64 votes.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY ELECTIONS.
PARIS, JAL 19.

At the Epinal supplementary elections, M. Buffet,
the opposition candidate, was elected by a majority
of over 3,000 votes. M. Boureier-Villiers had
about 3,000 votes.

THE TREATY OF COMMERCE BETWEEN
FRANCE AND ITALY.

PAWS, .IA9. 19.
The ratifications of the treaty of commerce be-
tween France and Italy were exchanged to-day.

POLAND.

BRESLAU, JAL 19.

The authorities in this city have undertaken
numerous arrests of Polish residents. Several have
been sent to Berlin, where they will be brought
before the chief court.

Intelligence from the palatinate of Lublin states
that the temperature is at 25 deg. Rkauniur.

The Atlantic Royal Mail Steamer Hibernia
sailed at 2.25 p.m. yesterday from Galway for New York,
with 300 passengers, 28 marl bags, and the latest telegrams.
The Messageries Imperiales steamer, with the
India and Chins mails, left Marseilles yesterday with 77
psesengen, 463 packages of nierobsedise, sod specie value
468,8901., for India and Ghia ; and 67 passeogers, 1,182
packages of merchaocbae, sad 218,3161. in specie, for Alex-
andria. _ _

Wurrentem, Jtx. 18.—The Queen has been
pleased to greet unto the Rev. Francis Janine, D.C.L., the
deseery of her Modesty's cathedral Ann* Lieoolo, void
by the death of Thomas Oarnier, R.C.L. —Graeae.
Tan Dzses Foo.—The dense fog which was
experienced at Liverpool last week appears to have
micireled the &etch coast. At the Isle of Wight
the fog was more demo sad kat* then be. begs Mews
for years. The Channel Aeon mol packet was
detained 24 house by it, and the Indian mail simmer Ripon,
though at anchor in the nano, Meat usable to move ea
account of the fog, could not be found by two small steamers
that were sent in search of her. After the Ripon bad been
stuck in the fog for 15 bourn, a small steamer came upon
her by crawling along the Solent in a zigzag course. The
pasaeogets on board the Chap..' Islands steamer bad con.
gamed all their provisions, and were upon their " last split
pea," and just gout' to break in upon the cargo of ogee and
poultry on board. when the weather cleared off and they
were enabled to latish their voyage. -

THE VICTORLI CEOBB.--WAR•OFFIcE, Jas. 16.--
The Queer has bees graciously pleased to signify bar inten-
tion to outer the dereratios of the Victoria Cron on the
nedermentiosed officer and non-commissioned officer of her
Majesty's army. whose claims to the same have been sub-
mitted for her Majesty's approval, es account of acts of
bravery performed by them in New Zealand, se recorded
against their names, viz. .—Colour-Sergeant (now Ensign)
Edward Mar Kenna, 6.5 th Regiment, for gallant
corded at the engsgemest near Cameron-town,
New Zealand. on the 7th of September,
after both bin officers, Captain Swift and Lieu.
tent Butler, had been shot, in charging through the
position of an enemy heavily outnumbering tuni, and draw-
' log off his small force, consisting of two sergeants, one
bugler, and thirty-five men, through • broken and roomed
country, with the We of bat use num killed and another
miring. Lieut.-General CalliarOD, C. 8., oOtalliandlUg her Ma-
lesty's tomes in that colony, reports that, in Colour-Sergeant
liailienna, the detachment found a commander whose
coolness, intrepidity, and jsdgmenl, justified the confidante
placed in him by the soldiers brought so suddenly under his
command. Lasos-Corporid John Ryan, S'ith Regimens, for
gallant condole at the engagement near Cameron-town
above referred to. This non-commissioned officer, with
Privates Belford and Talbot, of the same regiment, who
have been recommended for the medal for distinguished
modem in the field, for their behaviour on the same coca.
lion, removed the body of the late Captain Swift from the
Held of actioo, after he lied been mortally wounded, aed re-
mained with it all night ie a bush sarromided by theeemay.
—Gazette.
THE MCKIM By THE GAROTTE 11,1 BETHELL-
GREZE.—Yesterby afternoon, Mr. H. Baines Walthew
resumed, at the George the Fourth Tavern, Gemeetrest,
Betbnaleneea, the inquiry touching the death of Mrs.
Matilda doors, aged 3fl yews, who expired iron, the effects
of being garotted. The deceased was the wife of a coca
dealer, carrying on barium at No. 96, Green-street. Ose
evening last spring a boy entered the shop and asked her
for change of • dock,. To give it to him she pulled • beg
of mosey containing 81. or 91. oat of her pocket. Directly
afterwards • young man dressed like • gentleman came in
sod examined some oats, saying that U they were of good
quality he would seed his groom for some. She found that
her beg of moray was use, and seized hold of the
man's coat cuff, saying " Yee you have taken my
money." He instantly aught her by the throat, and
burled his knuckles in her seek ; they straggled and fell.
Habit her fingers and kicked her in the side, but as she was
• very powerful robust woman she still retained her hold of
hist:tat, and he bad to slip it Of to try to get away. Failing
in that Mathes,w the bag of Motley at her, and undid his
muffler to whioh she clung, and then rushed into the street.
Siegnlitr to state, two persona saw the struggle in progress,
but and not interfere. as thew believed that the man might
be theme of Mrs. Moors. The letter was immediately ob-
liged to take to Ler bed, and she died from her injuries on
Monday week. Er-deuce as to the cause of death having
bees lakes yesterday, the coroner said that it was clearly •
need wilful murder. The outrage was one of most un-
usual audacity, and it was morh to be desired that the per-
petrator should be brought to justice. The jury returned
a verdict of "Wilful marder mend a man unknown," and
requested the coroner should write to the Home Secretary,
and suggest that a reward should be offered for the appre-
hension of the guilty pews. The eareeter said he would
communicate with Sir George Grey on the subject. It was
stated that the coat sad mailer of the man who committed
the murder would bs kept on view at the district Audios-
hones for purposes of idestffication.
A further trial of the coffer-dam invented by
Captain Wiling', R.N., is to take place on board her
Majesty's ship Remit to-morrow morning, when that
vessel takes • trip to the Nee* to try her speed, he., nader
the superintendence of the officers of the reruns at Shur