The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-09 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day,

LONDON, April 9.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West ; light breezy and fine weather.
PLymouTH,April S.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ernestine,
from New York.

PORTSMOUTH, April B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's ship Nile, from Bermuda.
OFF DARTMOUTH, April B.—Arrivod—Dragoou, from
Calcutta.

ET MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, April 9—John and Harriet, from Antwerp—
Guerrier, from Pernambuco.

Arrived, April 9—Camilla, steamer, from Oporto.
Sailed—Holland, steamer, for Ostend—Panther, steamer,
for Boulogne—Hanover, steamer, for Calais.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed— H.M.S. Scout, from china, for the .H,iver—Fran-
cisca, from London, for Valparaiso—Belle of the South,
from London, for Cape of Good Hope—Conway from Lon •
don, for Quebec—Florence Nightingale, from London, for
Buenos Ayres—Georgia, from London, for Venice.

SHAKSPERE'S HOME AND ANNE HATHAWAY'S
—At Stratford-upon-Avon—writes the Rev. J. M.
Jephson, in his book on " Shakspere's Birthplace,
Home, and Grove—the first room I entered was in
that part of the building which had been a butcher's
shop, and which, I believe, was the residence of
John Shakspere. It seemed to be a sort of hall, or
outer kitchen, paved with unshapely flags. The
great old fire-place is supported by immense stone
jambs, and the ceiling by a ponderous beau'.
Opening out of this is a better room, probably the
keeping-room, or, as it is called in York.
shire, the " house place." This, too, is
paved with flags, and supported by beams.
The fire-place is massive, and under its
projecting j Arabs are cosy chimney corners, where,
doubtless, young Shakspere, seated on a settle, many
a time canned his lessons of a winter's 'evening, or
read in. Holinshed, or roasted crabs for the lambs'
wool, or perhaps dried himself after one of his raids
upon a neighbouring park or warren. Beyond this
are two smaller rooms, which were probably bed.
chambers; and beyond them, again, some more
rooms, which, there seems every reason to believe.
formed part of the other adjoining hoase, and which
are not shown. Upstairs is the bed-chamber in
which tradition asserts the great poet to have been
horn; and tradition is probably right, for it is the
best chamber in the house, and therefore probably
appropriated to the mistress on such an occasion.'
At Shottery Mr. Jephson writes— of Ann(
Hathaway's cottage—" It was once obviously b
substantial farmhouse, much superior to that of
John Shakspere in Henley-street, though, like it,
built of wooden frames filled in with wattle one
dab on foundations of stone. In modern times
brick has been in some places substituted where the
stone has become decayed. The roof is thatched,
I thick with reeds. It is now divided into,
two cottages. and Mrs. Baker, a pleasing, re-
spectable-looking woman, who believes her.
self to be related to the Hathaways,
in a portion of it. She is proud of her connexion
with the poet—an honour which she appreciates the
more, perhaps, as it brings her in many a shilling
from the pilgrims
who flock to see the house. She
willingly shows the inside of her dwelling, and
several pieces of old furniture which, as she avers,
have descended to her from her ancestors. If so.
and there is no reason to doubt the fact, they may
very possibly have been used by young Shakspere
when he was courting his future wife. A flight o'
steps leads into a large keening room or hall, when,
under the great old chimney may have sat Shak
spere and his love, in the days of his extreme youth
when Love is stone.blincl."