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Blackburn, by Mr W. Harrison, F.S.A.
the Dean, Cheshunt, by the Rev. H. R. Ri
Chichester, by the Dean and the Mayor. D\
Mr H. K. Spark, llerlay, by Mr Lewelyn Je,
Dublin (as distinct from Ireland generally), b.,
Dr Lloyd, Dr Butcher, Dr Reeves., Professsr Flora,
Islacarthy, and Messrs Samuel Ferguson and E. D. Starkey.
Dulwich, by the Rev Dr Carver, Master of the College.
Durham, by the Mayor and the Recorder. Edinburgh, by
the Lord Provost, Sir David Brewster, and Mr James
Todd. Glasgow, by the Lord Provost, Rev James Craik,
Prof Nichol, Messrs G. H. Bell, William Euing, G. H. B.
Macleod, David Macrae, and A. J. Symington. Greenock,
by Mr A. P. Paton. Havering, by Mr C. P. Mathews.
Horsemonden, by the Rev Sir W. M. J. Smith-Marriott,
Bart. Kendal, by the Mayor. Lewes, by Messrs W. H.
Blaauw and George P. Bacon. Liverpool, by the Rev Dr
A. Hume, the Rev Hugh Stowell Brown, Messrs James
Spence, and 11. A. Bright. Manchester, by Mr Thomas
Bazley, M.P., the Rev Thomas Corser, Prof Greenwood,
principal of Owen's College, Messrs John Harland, F.S,A.,
and Charles Swain. Newcastle, by Mr J, Cowen, jun.
Northampton, by the Mayor. Oxford City, by Mr Alder-
man Spiers. Paisley, by Mr James Lamb. St. Leonards,
by the Rev W. W. llume. Stratford-on-Avon, by Sir
Robert Hamilton, B •rt., and Mr C. 11, Bracebridge. Up-
minster, by the Rev P. M. Holden, Worcester, by the
BiAtop. York, by the Archbishop, Dr Moak, and Mr
Robert Davies, F.S.A.

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The National Shakspere Committee

The following report of the National Shakspere
Committee was read at the meeting held at the
office of the Society of Arts on Monday :
in the early part of last year it had become evident that
a great many persons desired to mark, by some national act,
the completion of 300 years Trom the date of Shakspere's
birth. A Shakspere committee, which had been formed in
connection with an attempt to increase the fund for pur-
chasing New Place, discussed the subject early in May. A
number of gentlemen meeting at St. John's-gate had formed
a provisional committee, of which they offered the presi-
dency to Mr. Dickens. Another committee, with the name
of Mr. Macready as president, was announced in the public
prints. Some zealous friends of the Dramatic College had
put themselves in commuuicationwith the Duke of Devon-
shire. The Dramatic Authors' Society were discussing the
line of action which it wou'd become them to take. There
were some other centres of honourable activity in the com-
mon cause. These several bodies proposed to celebrate the
national fact in the national capital ; two of them at least
proposed to do so by erecting a statue.
While these measures were being taken, without much
concert, in London, a meeting was convened in Stratford
(May 28), Lord Leigh, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire,
presiding, to consider what should be done. Among other
things, a statue was suggested. Sir Robert Hamilton,
chairman of the local committee, urged that it might be
proper to have a statue in London, where he told the meet-
ing it was intended to erect one, but was not proper in
Stratford, which had the poet's birthplace, his garden, and
his tomb. The Mayor of Stratford spoke against a statue,
and Lord Leigh voted against it. The proposal was rejected
by a formal vote.
The Shakspero Committee, which had been formed to
increase the fund for purchasing New Place, agreeing with
the vote of that Stratford meeting, and with thelexpress
desire of all the London committees, that a national monu-
ment should be erected in the metropolis, convened a meet-
ing at the apartments of the Royal Society of Literature.
The meeting was held on the 22d of June, the Duke of. Man-
chester in the chair, when resolutions were passed to the
following effect:—(l.) That the 300th birthday of the poet
should be celebrated by laying the first stone of a monument
in a conspicuous part of London ; (2) That, to be worthy
of Shakspere and of the country, this celebration should be
conducted under the sanction of her Majesty and the presi-
dency of the Prince of Wales, with the aid of all classes of
the poet's countrymen and admirers; (3) That the existing
committee, consisting of the Dukes of Devonshire, Man-
chester, and Newcastle, a dozen earls and barons, two
bishops, two judges, 12 members of the House of Commons,
and 3G other gentlemen, including the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don and the Mayor of Stratford, should invite the concur-
rence of other bodies, and of eminent individuals, in carry-
ing out the common wish. Sir Robert Hamilton, then and
now chairman of tho Stratford Committee, proposed the
second of these resolutions. The Stratford Committee had
decided against a statue ; and their chairman assisted in
founding the National Shakspere Committee, the object of
which was to erect one in London. This statement of facts
is sufficient to show that no feeling of hostility to Stratford
presided over the organisation of the National Committee.
Those who founded the National Committee had been pre-
viously engaged in raising a fund to complete the purchase
of New Place, and make that property ever to the town.
Their goodwill to Stratford can therefore admit of no doubt.
Some of them, while pursuing the more important national
object, have also given to Stratford their names, their money,
and their time. Indeed, the president, the chairmen, and four
or five vice-presidents of the local body are all prominent
officers and members of the National Committee.
The committee, founded at Midsummer, has drawn to a
common centre all the active promoters of a celebration in
London, and has given the signal for many other towns, at
home and in the culonies, to act. A deputation from the Ur •
ban Club and from the Dramatic Authors' Society offered to
coalesce, and their offers have been accepted. The eminent
persons who had been named as presidents of other associ-
ations—Mr Dickens, Lord Carlisle, and Mr Macready—
have been invited to act as vice-presidents, an invitation
which in every case has been courteously accepted. All
separate schemes having thus been placed under the control
of a single body, the committee has grown into such 'Jennie
tudo and variety that it would probably be right to describe
it even now as in some degree a representation of English
thought. At this moment the National Shakspere Com-
mittee consists of about 400 persons, each more or less
eminent in his own walk of life. Every great branch of our
many-sided society has a delegate at the board.
The Church is represented by the Archbishops of Canter-
bury, York, and Dublin, by the Bishops of fondon, Wor-
cester and St. David's, by the Deans of Canterbury,
Westminster, St. Paul's, and Chichester, and by many
distinguished clergymen.
Law is represented by Lord Chief Baron Pollock and
Lord Justice Knight Bruce, by the Queen's Advocate, her
Majesty's Attorney general, the Chief Justice of Guiana,
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh M. Cairns, Mr. Serjeant Parry,
and many eminent barristers.
The universities are represented by the Duke of Devon-
shire, Lord Brougham, the Master of Trinity, Professor
Goldwin Smith, and the Rev W. G. Clark.
Government is represented by the Duke of Newcastle,
Earl Granville, Earl Russell, and the Right lion. William
Cowper.
The House of Lards is represented, independently of the
peers already named, by the Dukes of Manchester and Cleve-
land, the Marquis Townehend, the Earl of Shrewsbury,
Clarendon, Howe, Sandwich, and Dunraven, Viscounts
Eversley and Stratford de Redcliffe, and by Lord de Lisle
and Dudley, Londesborough, Houghton, and Vernon.
The non •official members of the House of Commons are
represented by Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord John Manners,
the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr
Alderman Selornons, Colonel Sykes, and Messrs. B.zley,
Ewart, Gosehen, Haltbuttou, Hoiford, Newdegate, Rose,
Scholefield, Sheridan, Taylor, Tite, and Wynne.
The Nonconformist clergy are represented by the Rev
Principal of the Regent's-park College, the Rev Principal
of Cheshunt College, the Revs Henry Allen, Thomas Ave-
ling, Win. Brock, Baldwin Brown, G. B. Bubier, John
Stoughton, and Dr Robert Vaughan.
The Jews are represented by the Chief Rabbi, Dr Adler.
Ireland is represented by the Lord Lieutenant, the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, the Dean of the Royal Chapel, Lord Tal-
bot of Malahido, and the President of the Royal Irish
Academy.
Scotland ie represented by the Chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh, Dean Ramsay, Lord Neaves, the Prin-
cipal of the University of Edinburgh, and the Sheriff of
Midlothian.
General literature and the press may be said to be repre-
sented, amongst others, by the President of the Society of
Antiquaries, the President of the Statistical Society, the
President of the Numismatic Society, Mr Charles Dickens,
vice-president ; the Poet Laureate, vice-president ; Lord
Houghton, Lord Lindsay, Sir Frederic Madden, Sir James
Prior, Professor Brewer, Professor Masson, Dr Doran;
Messrs William Allingham, Mathew Arnold, G. P. Bacon,
G.,L. Banks, H. N.,Ba,nett, R, Bell, Algernon Borthwick,
Charles Kent, Shirley Brooks, ;,Chevalier do Chatelain,
W. H. Collingridge, D. Costello, E. Dicey, J. H. Fris-
well, C. W. Goodwin, James Grant, T. C. Grattan, C. L.
Gruneisen, S. C. Hall, T. D. Hardy, J. A. Heraud, T.
Hood, J. Hollingshed, Thornton Hunt, B. Jerrold, J. W.
Kaye, C. L. Kenney, J. Knight, F. Lawrence, G. C.
Leighton, Mark Lemon, E, Levy, J. Lowe, S. Lucas, C.
Mackay, Theodore Martin, Herman Merivale, H. Morley,
H. Ottley, Henry Reeve, J. F. Robertson, W. H. Russell,
G. A. Sala, W. J. Thorns, H, Vizetelly, J. Walicer, W.
H. Wills, Thomas Wright, and Edmund Yates.
Shaksperian literature is represented by the Rev Alex.
Dyce, Rev W. G. Clark, Rev Wm. Harness, Professor
Craik, Messrs Cowden Clarke, Payne Collier, and Charles
Knight,
Dramatic literature is represented by Sir E. B. Lytton,
Bart., Messrs Bayle Bernard, E. L. Blanchard, Leicester
Buckingham, F. C. Burnand, H, J. Byron, Stirling Coyne,
Andrew Halliday, George Lovell, Westland Marston.
JohnlOxenford, J. R. Plantehe, Palgrave Simpson, and the
Rev J. C. Bellew.
Science is represented by the president of the Royal So-
ciety, Sir David Brewster, Professor Owen, Professor
Thomson, Dr Angus Smith, Dr Charles Beke, Messrs R.
Chambers, Warren de la Rue, and George Godwin.
Art is represented by the president of the Royal Aca-
demy, the president of the Society of British Artists, the
president of the Architectural Museum; Messrs Richard
Ansdell, E. H. Bally, E. W. Cooke, George Cruikshank,
Joseph Durham, Alfred Eluiore, Thomas Feed, J. H.
Foley, W. E. Frost, S. A. Hart, John Leighton, Daniel
Maclise, IV. Calder Marshall, David Roberts, Clarkson
Stanfield, G. M. Ward, and Professor Westuiacott.
Music is represented by Sir Fred. G. Onseley, Oxford ;
Pr E. G. Monk, York; Professor Sterndale Bennett, Mr
M. W. Balfe, M. Jules Benedict, Mr J. W. Davison, M.
Otto Goldschmidt, Messrs G, A. Macfarren. G. W. Martin,
Sims Reeves, W. Vincent Wallace, and Dr Rimbault.
Dramatic art is represented by Messrs James Anderson,
J. B. Buckstone, William Creswick, Edmund Falconer,
Charles Pechter, Charles Kean, W. C. Macready, Henry
Marston, Samuel Phelps, J. L. Toole, George Vining, Ben-
j Webster, and Alfred Wigan.
The City of London is, for the moment, represented by
the Lord Mayor, Mr Alderman Rose (tate Lord Mayor),
Mr Alderman Besley, Mr Alderman Salonions, Messrs
W. F. Cosens, G. It. Geschen, M.P., Henry Huth, Henry
Jonnson, E. H. Lawrence (Stock Exchange), W. Leaf, and
George Peabody.
The organisation is only just commencing in the country;
but the following cities and towns are already represented
on the committee :—Nrun..el, by the Mayor. Belfast, by
Protcsser Craik. Birmingham, by Mr. Wm. Scholefieid,
M.P., Mr T. Lloyti, INLP., and Mr George Dawevn, M,A,

General society may, p3rhaps, be considered as being in
some degree represented at the board by--amongst many
others—Sir C. R. Boughton, B Art., Ernest de Bunsen, Esq,
General Sir John F. Burgoyne, Bart., Lieutenant-Colonel
Burns, Mr Bond Cabbell, the Rev J. E. Cox, M.A., Sir
Charles Darling (Governor of Jamaica), Colonel De Bathe,
Sir C, W. Dilke, Bart., Governor Dundas (Prince Edward
Island), Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., Professor Eastwick,
Sir Arthur Elton, Bart., Mr F. J. Furnivall, Mr F. W.
Gibbs, C,8., Colonel Hill (Governor of Antigua), Sir Row-
land Hill, K.C.8., Mr J. Winter Jones, Sir Richard C.
Kirby, C. 8., General Knollys, Capt. Wallingford Knollys,
Mr Frederick Locker, Sir Richard G. Macdonnel, C. 8.,
Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., Mr Frederic Ouvry
(Treasurer to the Society of Antiquaries), Mr Winwood
Reade, Sir Cusack Roney, Governor Walker of Barbadoes,
Dr Forbes Winslow, Sir Lascelles Wraxall, Bart., and Dr
, H. G. Wright.

The erainett men of foreign countries are, as a mere be-
ginning, represented in the persons of M. Hans Christian
Andersen, the Marquis d'Azeglio, M. Louis Blanc, Herr
Albert Cohn, Professor Dingelstedt, Professor Delius,Pro-
fessor Elze, M. Louis Gallait, M. Guizot, Professor Tycho
Mommsen, Count de Montalembert, and Professor
It should be added that no distinguished foreigners have
yet been formally invited ; those who have joined have done
so through their personal connection with members of this
committee.

In connection with this list of names, it is impossible not
to express the profound regret which every one must feel at
the sudden removal from among us of a man of genius,
about whose form of invitation there was a passing diffe-
rence of opinion. His claims to a pla,3e in the committee
had been expressed in a formal voto and in a special invita-
tion. Of his sympathy, and of his co-operation, had he
been spared to us, no sort of doubt can 17e entertained.

From managers of theatres and dramatic artists many
offers of service have been received. Among others, Mr.
Gye has offered Covent-garden for a morning performance ;
Mr. Falconer has proposed to give the proceeds of an even-
ing at Drury-lane; Mr. Webster has proposed to give an
evening at the Adelphi ; Mr. Buekstone has offered an
evening at the Haymarket; and Mr. G. Yining, one at the
Princess's. It may be expected that a performance in aid
of the fund will be given by every manager of tho London
theatres. Miss HelenFaucit, Miss Glyn, and Mrs. Charles
Young have placed their eminent talents at the services of
the cause.

Applications having been made to the committee by
artists and manufacturers for leave to publish busts,medals,
and other commemorative works under its express sanction
powers have been granted to consider such offers—and,
where the works were found to be creditable of their
kind, and the proprietor was desirous of making a suitable
contribution to the fund, to give such express sanction.
One such proposition has been accepted—an offer on the
part of Mescr6, Howell and James to subscribe £5O to the
fund, and to publish a small bust of Shakspere, modelled by
Mr. Felix Miller, of the Government School of Art. Other
proposals of the same kind are under consideration.
The members appointed as a site committee, namely, the
Duke of Manchester, the Right Hon. William Cowper, her
Majesty's Attorney-General, Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Mr.
William Tite, M.P., and Mr. G. R. Goschen, M.P., have
accepted the trust, with the one exception of Mr. Goschen,
whose place has been supplied by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor. Some suggestions as to the best site have already
been sent in, and the committee will be glad to receive and
consider many more.

W. HEPWORTH DIXON, Gen.
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TEE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN.

From the return sissued relating to the relief of the desti-
tute of this town last week it is gratifying to observe a de-
creased expenditure, as compared with the previous week,
of £2l 12s Bd. In all the relief and labour committees ex-

pended £32S 12s 44, and the Board of Guardians .L 223 14s
Sd last week, making a total of £552 17s against £577 93
Si in the preceding week. The guardians extended their
aid to 4,277 persons in the Llackburn relief district, to 901
in the oswaldtwistle district, and to 639 in eau Darwen
district. Their aggregate expenditure in relief was £317
is 11d. The £328 12s 4d expended by the labour and relief
committ,es included the wages paid to 621 unskilled ope-
ratives employed at outdoor work, About 500 being en-
gaged under the Public Works Act, a large proportion
of the expendiu7e will be reimbursed from the con-

tracts. It also included the grants of general relief to
617 persons net otherwise provided for, and the earninzs
by piece of 62 needleworwm. Since the 11th of July last
the sewing classes have made up for distribution by the
clothing committee 22,808 articles, at a cost formanufacturo
of £621 7s lid. From the 7th of October to the 7th No-
vember the classes were under the superintendence of Mrs.
J. G. Potter, of Mytton-hall. In that period the class made
up :3,123 articles, at a cost of £loll3s sd. During the past
12 months it has frequently happened that manufacturers
in the townships surrounding Blackburn have been at full
work, or nearly so, and required many extra operatives to
keep their machinery iu operation, few operatives being able
to manage more than two looms, in place of three or four.
This condition of things has tended much to the relief of
Blackburn. During the past fortnight several mills in this
town have ceased production, and thrown 3,000 operatives
out of work, while in the same period at Darwen several
mills and weaving sheds have been recommenced, after a
stoppage of nearly two years. Other mills and weaving
sheds have been meanwhile extended, and in several in-
stances new machinery has supplied the place of old. A.
want of operatives has be in already felt in Darwen, but not
to any serious extent, and the question now evolving in the
minds of many practical men in the district is how, in the
event of an early revival of trade, a sufficiency of operatives
can be got to meet the demand. Mr. James Pilkington,
M.P. for Blackburn, a large cotton spinner, referred to thie
subject at a congregational meeting over which he presided,
last Friday night, in the following terms :—" It is three
years since I occupied the position I find myself in to-night,
and in that period events of the greatest importance have
taken place affecting the trade and prosperity of Lancashire.
The depression has been brought about through the war
now raging in America, and through our dependence on the
United States for a supply of cotton. It is cheering to think
that most parties consider the worst is past, and that there
is hope of an early renewed trade, not subjected to that
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we have passed. It was feared when work failed, and the
great masses of the people were compelled to depend upon
charity, that scenes would take place that would make
Lancashire so that no respectable person could live in it;
but the spirit in which the operatives have bore their
troubles has gained for them the respect of the nation and
the world." (Loud applause.) The question will prove
itself a vary difficult one. It is calculated that from Black-
burn alone no fewer than 4,000 factory operatives have
migrated to other places to maintain themselves and families
rather than to live upon eleemosynary aid. Of this number
at least 250 have emigrated to America and Australia.
Many of the most experienced and skilled workers are to be
numbered with the latter, the idle and the worthless not
having possessed the means nor been deemed fit subjects to
receive the aid of the Emigration Committee to emigrate.

HOROLOGICAL SCIENCE.—" Here aro arranged a fine
selection of' watches manufactured by him on the latest and
most approved principles of horological science."—Dally
News, July 1, 1862. Chronometer, duplex, lever, horizontal,
repeaters, centre seconds, keyless, split seconds, and every
description of watch,
adapted to all climates. Benson's il-
lustrated pamphlet on watches (free for two stamps) contains
a short history of watchmaking, with prices, from 3 to
guineas each. It acts as a guide in the purchase of a watch,
and enables those who live in any part of the world to select
a watch, and have it sent safe by post. Prize andmedal nd
honourable mention, classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 23
34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established 174 Watch and •
clock maker by special warrant of appointment to H.E.H. the
Prince of Wales.
THE BISHOPRIC OF THE ORANGE RIVER.—
Letters received from Dr. Twells, some time ago.
consecrated to the Bishopric of the Orange fiver
River territThe
ory,
give a very.favourable accoun of his diocese.
bishop has assigned spheres
of duty to the three clergymen.
who went out with him, and he states that ho requires
gentlemen in priest's orders, to whom sti •
forthwith two
ponds of between £2OO and 1300 a year would be given,
tcgether with candidstes for the ministry of the Church.