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

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In a letter addressed to the Times, a Mr. Coleman
writes es follows
It is generally understood that there is no living
descendant of our great poet's family.
Will you permit me, through the medium of your
columns, to call attention to the fact that there is
now living at No. 6, Great Berry•street, Woiver.
tiatnplon, George Shakepere, 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, Lino
who was said to have been the actor who told Oidys
that be had seen his brother William act Achill in
" As You Like It ?"

Poor Mr. George Shakspere's indigent circum-
stances have until recently prevented him from
taking the necessary steps to trace his pedigree (u
n it s
operation surrounded with difficulties) and i
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 take the trouble to call upon
Mr. Shakspere.
So far back as eight years ago I first met my
client white I waa fulfilling an engagement at the
theatre in Wolverhampton. At that period he
lacked one connecting link to enab;e him to trace
his descent to Gilbert Shakspere. For any 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 of 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
hard 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, air,
would deign to use your powerful pen, perhaps one
of Shaksefre's blood might be appointed curator to
Shakspere's house.

Whereupon (adds the Times)—Wonierful, if
:rue.

Th
OIINSON CLUB.—This club, the club of
Johnson and Reynolds, celebrated its centenary (it
was founded in 1764) at the Clarendon on Tuesday last. It
was the club not only of Johnson and Reynolds, but of
Burke, Fox, Sheridan, Windham, Canning, Gibbon, Adam
Smith, &c., not to mention later distinguished 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, Cranworth, 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 hom attend-
ing were—The Duke of Argyle (in Scotland), the Earl of
Carlisle (in Ireland), Earl Russell, and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Lord Overstone (at Oxford), Lord Glenels
(abroad), and Mr W. Stirling, from indisposition.
TEE ALABAMA.—Again has the Atabama changed
her scene of operations, and has once more appeared
off the Brazil coast, The ship Kent, which arrived at Ply-
mouth on Wednesday, from Melbourne, spoke her on the
24th of Apia in lat. 15 S, and long. 32 W., 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 976 tons,
built and owned in Portsmouth, U.S., and was for many
years trading between Liverpool and New Orleaolt

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Prom the recently published " Memoires du Car-
dinal Gonsalvi," we take the following letter,
written by the father of Napoleon 111. :--
To Cardinal Gonsalvi :
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
his 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 uc of being implicitly or
explicitly concerned in every lint which is hatched. Nay,
we are even accused of abusing the Pope's hospirality in
order to 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 it 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, lir others, sisters, and
my uncle, owe too deep a debt of respectful gratitude to the
Sovereign Pontiff, and to your eminence, to bring down
farther misery on this city, where we, exiles of entire Eu-
rope, have been received with a paternal kindness which re-
cent injustice only lenders more touching. We do nut con•
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.

BOURSE, June 9.—There has been rather more
business doing, but without any material change in
prices, Tnreee, for the Account, having only im-
proved to 67f. 10c. Mobilier are- now nnvaried at
1,138 f. The. Railway Market firm, with a slight
advance on some of the lines, The market closed
as follows :

(Italian Loan 7O 20
Do. end month 7O 40
Ditto Threes 42 50
New Mexican
ii.ussian
A I.lStrian__ —

Spani,h Threes
Uome Debt
Deferred
al, IL WA Ycl.
Cash. Account.
Orleans 875 875
Northern 092 60 .. 995
Lyon, and Pledit crranean 873 75 .. 875 —Nen, ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern ..„ 468 75 465
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain 60
Sarturossa t, 7 7 53 680
Ditto to Barcelona 2.55 257 50
The Last of the Shaksperes,