The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS,

The following are the only bankrupts of commercial ina
portance in the Gazette :
Sauna Sichmon, diamond merchant, Bucklersbury, City
Alexandre corblin, wine merchant, Chelsea
Samuel H, Winter, schoolmaster, Woolwich
John Goswell, builder, Wimbledon
Edward Woolward, plumber, -Kentish Town
Richard Freeman, butcher, North-street, Lieson-grovo
Thomas Rhodes, warehouseman, Ilulmo
Benjamin D.a;:runs Heathcote, publican, Derby
Daniel Smith, draper, Carlisle
John Sykes, stay munuiecturer, Leeds
James Kimberley, confectioner, Stufferd
Joss ph Pennock, civil engineer, Manchester
John James Hammond, builder, Portent
Joseph Walker, upholsterer, Worn ster
Harry Prowse, wood turner, Birmingham
SCO bell 13 AN KRU P 1: S
James Wilson bralstOunder, Glasgow
.
Brown, farmer, S!a. nafin, Aberdeenshire
Course of Exchange,—This Days

Amsterdam ........ Short.DiVo
11 IS} n 19/
...... 3 Mouths. 12 2 12 21
Rotterdam ... 12 2/ 12
Antwerp
Brussels .-- 25 75 25 80
llamburgh
Paris •• • Short. 25 30 25 37t
Ditto
Marseilles.. — 25 7,5 25 SU
Frankfort on Maine • . 121 1211
Vienna
12 0 12 5
Trieste
Petereburgh —30 i
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz — 471 48
Leghorn ---25 80 25 85
Milan .... — 25 85 25 00
Genoa .. — 25 85 25 00
Naples
Palermo.. — 25 871 25 92/
Messina — 25 871 25 921
Lisbon - 51i 51A
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).. .• . • per oz., £3 17 9
Silver in Bars (Standard)

The Shakspere Commemoration,
As ITSELF SARCASTICALLY COMMEMORATED BY
A SATURDAY REVIEWER.

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Surely we have seen the last of it, exclaims our
sardonic contemporary, who adds—To talk Shak.
speie on a Shakspere subject—

• . . . the times have been
That when the brains were out the man would die,
And there an end ; but now they rise again
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns.
Twenty ! twice twenty times was the Shakspere
Tercentenary celebration done to death. Every art
and device of mortal man combined to produce the
terrible and ignominousfiaseo of this unlucky scheme.
The two committees which quarrelled about the
honour of inventing what was destined from the
first to fail ; the secretaries who quarrelled with the
committee, and the committee which disavowed the
secretaries, and then disavowed and dissolved itself;
the somebody who affronted the late Mr. Thackeray,
and the somebody who affronted Mr. Phelps, and
the somebody who affronted Mr. Pechter, and the
somebody who affronted Mr. Bellew, and Mr. Bele
lew who affronted everbedy the Memorial Com-
mittee which passed a solemn vote, "Agreed unani-
mously that we receive 1;39,000, to be furnished
by public subscription ;" and the public who never
would subscribe thirty thousand ehiliings—the
whole thing runs into a parody. This is the statue
that the committee did not set up ; this is the actor
that worried the committee; this is the parson that
riled the actor that worried the committee, &a. &c.
ad infinitum—and infinite series of blunders, break-
downs, quarrels, vanities, absurd ities,extravagances.
Wo thought that we had done with it. But it
reappears. Even the dinner at Stratford, at which
Lord Carlisle presided, was not the last of it—the
dinner which was so bad that the excellent Viceroy
has never recovered from it. Nor was the Prim-
rose-hill oak-planting the last of it, at which the
Shakspere worshippers and the Garibaldi worship.
pers, after the fashion of rival religionists, got to
loggerheads. Ecce iterum Mr Hepworth Dixon,
who promised that the minutes of the Shakepere
Memorial Committee should be deposited in the
British Museum, but who will now be called upon,
we fear, to deposit them in Baeinghall-street. At
any rate, the Stratford Shakspearian Tercentenary
Commemoration Committee is in a hopeless state of
insolvency. Whether the two Committees—the
London Committee and the Stratford Committee—
ever coalesced, we are not quite sure. Nor are wo
cortain whether any Rump of the London Memo-
rial Committee survives to be roasted yet once more.
We remember only that secession alter secession
took place. We have an indistinct recol'ection that
the Monumental Committee fell to pieces after a
literary gentleman, without consulting the whole
body, drew up the famous programme of a "monu-
ment embracing a statue" in " the style of the
poet's period." Nor can we call to mind that the
Memorial Committee, if it still exists, has ever pre-
sented a report, or told us how much of the £30,000
which it passed a resolution to receive has been re-
ceived. Indeed, as we are not aware whether the
London Committee is alive or dead, hybernating or
aestivating, asleep or awake or on a journey, we
desire to say nothing about it. it is only to be
hoped that, when its day of account comes, the
London Committee may present a better balances
sheet than its Stratford brethren.