The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-10 00:00:00

FRANCE.

.13ouRsE, June 9.—There has been rather more
business doing, but without any material change in
prices, Threes, for the Account, having only im-
proved to 67f. 10e. Mobilier are now unvaried at

1,138 f. 75c. Railway M
advance on some of the 1
as follows

xrket firm, with a slight
lies, The market closed

4t per Cents .. 93 30
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 05
Credit Mobiher 1132 50
Do. end month 1136 25
Bank Shares 3375
Credit k oncior 1250
Roman

I
Italian Loan 7O 20
Do. end month 7O 40
Ditto Threes .. 42 50
New Mexican .... 581
ttussian.
Austrian
Spanish Threes. -
Elome Debt -
Deferred

iLwaYe.
Cash. Account.
Orleans
875 875
Northern
Lyons. and Mediterranean 873 75 .. 875 --
New ditto
)ather“ .
est;r.rn
Eastern ... ,
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
saraeossa
Ditto to Barcelona .

653 75 .. 653 75
501 2.5 - -
468 75 .. 465 -
370 370 -
403 75 , . 407 50
537 50 .. 541 25
448 75 .. 447 50
577 53 .. 580 -
265 257 50

The Last of the Shaksperes,

In a letter eddressed to the Times, a Mr, Coleman
writes as follows :
It is generally understood that there is no living
descendant of our great poet's
Will you permit me, through the medium of your
calumns, to call attention to the fact that there is
now living at No. 6, Great Berry•streot, Wolver-
hampton, George Shakspere, of Henley-on •Arden,
the eldest male descendant in the direct line from
Gilbert, William Shakspere's brother,—that very
Gilbert who lived until after the Restoration, and
who was said to have been the actor who told Oldys
that he bad seen his brother William act Adam in
" As You I,,ke It ?"

Poor Mr. George Shakspere's indigent circum-
stances have until recently prevented him from
taking the necessary steps to trace his pedigree (an
operation surrounded with difficulties); and it is
only through the kindness.of a gentleman living in
Wolverhampton that he has been enabled to com-
plete the record, which, by the way, may be seen
by any one who will tike the trouble to call upon
Mr. Shakspere.

So far back as eight years ago I first met my
client whi;c I was fulfilling an engagement at the
theatre in Wolverhampton. At that period he
lacked one connecting link to enable him to trace
his descent to Gilbert Shalispere. For my part, I
needed no other testimony than that his face
afforded. Heaven had written his pedigree in the
plainest characters upon his brow; he was the
living image of our poet, notwithstanding which I
advised him not to publish his relationship until he
had completed every link of the chain.
The work cf years is at last accomplished, and
now I venture to suggest that those who have been
endeavouring to do honour to our dead poet should
do something for his living descendant. I am sure
poor Shakspere's condition has only to be known
to be mended. He has a difficulty in obtaining by
bard labour the daily bread for his wife and family.
Here is an excellent opportunity for the wealthy to
dispose of a little of their superfluity. The ma-
nagers of the London theatres will, I feel assured,
readily get up a benefit or two, and if you, sir,
would deign to use your powerful pen, perhaps one
of Shakspere's blood might be appointed curator to
Shakspere's house.

Whereupon (adds the Times)—Wonderful, if
,rue.

HE Ji

OHNSON CLUB.—This club, the club of
Johnson and Reynolds, celebrated its centenary (it
was founded in 1761) at the Clarendon on Tuesday last. It
was the club not only of Johnson and Reynolds, but of
Burke, Fox, Sheridan, Windham, Canning, Gibbon, Adem
Smith, &c., not to mention later distinsuished names.
There were present—ln the chair, the Dean of St. Paul's ;
his Excellency M. van de Weyer, Earls Clarendon and
Stanhope, the Bishops of London and Oxford; Lord
Brougham, Stanley, Cranwortb, Kingsdown, and Harry
Vane; the Right Hon. Sir Edmund Head, Spencer Wal-
pole, and Robert Lowe ; Sir henry Holland, Sir C. East-
lake, Sir Roderick Murchison, Vice-Chancellor Sir W.
Page Wood, the Master of Trinity, Professor Owen, Mr
G. Grote, Mr C. Austen, Mr H. Reeve, and Mr G. Rich-
mond. Among the few members prevented from attend-
ing were--The Duke of Argyle (in Scotland), the Earl of
Carlisle (in Ireland), Earl Russell, and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Lord Overtone (at Oxford), Lord Glenels
(abroad), and Mr W. Stirling, from indisposition.
THE ALABAMA.—..Again has the Alabama changed
her scene of operations, and has once more appeared
off the Brazil coas , The ship Kent, which arrived at Ply-
mouth on Wednesday, from Melbourne, spoke her on the
24th of April in lat. 15 S, and long. 32 NY., or in the parallel
of Bahia. Previous to the Kent speaking her she had de-
stroyed the American ship Rockingham, which left Callao
on the 22d February with a full cargo of guano for Cork for
orders. The Rockingham was a large ship of 975 tons,
built and owned iu Portsmouth, U.S., and was for many
yews traclipg between Liverpool aud New Orleans'

From the recently published " Memoires du Car-
dinal Gonsalvi," we take the following letter,
written by the father of Napoleon III.:
To t.,at alatn
Eminence,—Following the advice of the Very Holy
Father and of your Eminence, I have seen Monsignor Ber-
netti, who is especially charged with the affair, and, with
12:s accustomed frankness, he has explained to me what it
is with which the foreign Powers appear to reproach the
family of the Emperor Napoleon. The complaint of the
great Powers, and especially of England, is, that we are
always conspiring. They accuse IE3 of being implicitly or
explicitly concerned in every plot which is hatched. Nay,
we are even accused of abusing the Pope's hospitality in
order Lo excite in the States of the Church difference with
and hatred against the person of our august Sovereign.
I have been happy enough to convince the cardinal of
the contrary—as he will tell you. if the family. of the
Emperor, which owes so much to the Pope and to your
Eminence, had conceived the detestable project of dis-
turbing Europe, and if it had the means of so doing, the
gratitude which we all feel towards the Holy See would
arrest us in our career. My mother, brothers, sisters, and
my uncle, owe too deep a debt of respectful gratitude to the
Sovereign Pontiff, and to your eminence, to bring down
further misery on this city, where we, exiles of entire Eu-
rope, have been received with a paternal kindness which re-
cent injustice only renders more touching. We do not c,n•
spire against anyone, much less against the representative
of God on earth. In Rome we enjoy all the rights of
citizens, and when my mother learned the Christian manner
in which the Pope and yourself avenged the prison of Fon-
tlinebleau, and the exile of Rheims, she could only bless
you, in the name of her great and unhappy lost one, while
shedding painless tears for the first time since the misfor-
tunes of 1814. To conspire against our august and only
benefactor would be to disgrace our name. The family of
Bonaparte will never have to reproach itself with that. I
have convinced Monsignor Bernetti of the truth of this,
and he has promised to convince your eminence of the fact.
Continue to us, then, the protection of the Holy Father.—
Accept, &C., LOUIS DE ST. LEU.
Rome, Sept. 30, 1821.