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

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, April 9.—Wind this day at noon—South-
West ; light breez3 and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, April B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Ernestine,
from New York.
PORTSMOUTH, April B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
Her Mejesty's ship Nile, from Bermuda.
Orr DARTUOITTII, April s.ft-Arrived—Dragoon, from
Calcutta.

BY 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 ltiver—Fran-
cisca from London, for Valparaiso—Belle of the South,
Irom, London, for Cape of Good Hope—Conway from Lens
don, for Quebec—Florence Nightingale, from London, for
Buenos Ayres—Georgia, from London, for Yenioe.

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
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that part of the building which had been a butcher's
shop, and which, I believe, was the residence ot
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 beam.
Opening out of this is a better room, probably the
keeping-room, or, as it to called in York-
shire, the " house place." This, too,
paved with flags, and supported by beams
The fireplace is massive, and under iti
projecting jembs are cosy chimney corners, where,
doubtless, young Shakspere, seated on a settle, many
a time conned 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 house, and which
are not shown. Upstairs is the bed-chamber in
which tradition asserts the great poet to have been
born ; 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 a
substantial farmhouse, much superior to that of
John Shakspere in Henley-street, though, like it,
built of wooden frames filled in with wattle and
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, lives
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 d welling, 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 ot
steps leads into a large keeping-room or hall, when(
un.ier the great old chimney may Lave s.at Shak
spere and his love, in the days of his extreme youth
when Love is stone.blind."