The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21, Evening.
A downward reaction has taken place in gold to.
day, the price falling to 551, closing at 57. Ex-
change on London, 172; Paris, 3.24. There was
much excitement in stocks yesterday at higher
prices. To-day, however, the market closed
heavy. New York Central, 1361; Illinois,
1291 ; Erie, 1081; 6 per cent U.S. Bonds,
1041. Cotton advancing. Middling Upland, 841,
Flour, wheat, and corn declining. Provitions
heavy. Coffee, good inquiry. Sugar advancing.
Molasses steady. Petroleum inactive. Crude, 311
32. Refined, 47 48.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Evening).

It is rumoured that Longstreet is advancing on
Knoxville, reinfurced by two divisions of Lee's
army.

A GRATEFUL OFFERING.—A seams 's daughter
(C. T.) has sent to the National Lifeboat Institution £2O,
being the produce of her needlework.
SHAKSPERE'S MONUMENTAL BUST IN THE
CHANCEL OF STRATFORD CHURCH is known, without
much difficulty, to have been executed by Gerard Johnson
in London immediately after Shakspere's death in 1616,
and it is probable that Johnson worked from a plaster cast
of the features, which now lies in the British Museum,
under the custody of Professor Owen. The cast belonged
to a collection of art curiosities left by Count von Kessel-
stadt, who died at Mayence in 1843, and whose ancestors,
for above 300 years, had been accustomed to preserve such
things, and had sometimes purchased them in London. It
is not at all improbable, as Mr. Friswell observes, that a
German nobleman, or one of his correspondents, being in
London shortly after Shakspere's death, and finding that
the German sculptor had executed a bust of him, winch
was praised in the contemporary verses of Ben Jenson. and
Digges, would pick up the cast from which it was modelled
and add it to his collection at home. The cast, it is sa'd,.
agrees very well with the bust, except that in the bust the
upper lip is longer, the nose shorter and thicker, and the
checks aro fuller than in the cast.

;Ilere is a rumour, which will probably turn out
to be well founded, that the next Gazette, or One
very soon after it, will contain a notioe of the distribution.
of the Kertch prize money to the Royal Navy. The
flag officers' share will be something under £3,000, to
be distributed as follows :—Sir E. Lyons, represented
by his son Lord Lyons, now British Minister at
Washington, £1,484 ; Admiral Sir
•Stewart, £371;
Admiral Boxer, £371 ; Admiral Grey, £371; Admiral
Stopford, £371. Admiral Lyons, it will be remem-
bered, commanded the naval forces ; Admira Stewart was
his second in command ; Admiral Grey being in charge at
Constantinople, and Admiral Stopford, we believe, being at
Malta. Each captain will get £248; each commander, £124.
The proportions due to each of the ten classes may be esti-
mated by multiplying LI 3s. 6d., the value of each share, by
the number of shares due to each class. Better late than
never. It is only eight years since Kertch fell into the
hands of the Anglo-French expedition, and this celerity is
quite refreshing.—Army and Navy Gazette.
ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN
RAILWAY.—Another fatal accident has occurred at
the Bletchley station, on the London and North-Western
Railway, whereby one of the pointsmcn, named Henry
Wenner, aged 32 years, received such frightful injuries that
ho only survived a few minutes after his removal to the in-
firmary at Bedford. It appears the deceased was crossing
the line at a point about 160 yards from the station just
as a train was approaching on the up-line, and at the
instant a train of empty coal-waggons came along on the
down lino, and before he could step into the six-toot space
between the rails ho was struck by the buffer of the en-
gine of the down train and knocked down. Nearly 25
of the trucks passed over his legs and arms. At the inquest
held on Saturday before the borough coroner, a verdict of
" Accidental death" was returned, but the jury expressedl
that
any sufferers should receive immediate attention en the oc-
casion of accidents at that place.
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petition of the deputation from this latter country,