The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-27 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

The Eupply of meat on sh!e is model ate, and the demand
rules inactive, at the annexed quotations :
Beef, from 2a 3d to 4s 2d ; mui:.9n, 3a 6d to 4a 4d;
lamb, 55 4d to Gs 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to ta 8d; and pork, 3s 2d
to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase.

THE TERCENTENARY OF SHAKSPERE,

As a cottribution to the recent festival the
Messrs. Moses and Son have lately issued an
extraordinary pamphlet, which, whilst regarded as
a literary curiosity, will well repay the time occu-
pied in its perusal. It is not often that we can say
as much for pamphlets published by London trading
firms, however eminent; but, in this instance, a
vast quantity of labour and ieseorch has been ex-
pended, and the result has been most pleasing and
satisfactory. At the conclusion of a capitally-
written introduction, the Messrs. Moses say :
" Our main purpose in this little pamphlet is not to prove
that Shakepere is at the head of all the poets in the world
—that were indeed a work of supererogation—but to help to
show, as far at least as one example can effect that purpose,
that the recognition of his greatness on so grand and impres-
sive an occasion as the occurrence of his three hundredth
birth-day, is not confined to any single quarter of this vast
metropolis, in which his genius was first developed, nor to
any particular class, or rank, or profession of the descen-
dants of his fellow-citizens. We eagerly, but humbly, take
our small share in the general commemoration of a day
that ought to be regarded with deep interest by all intel-
ligent people in all civilised lands, but especially by every
native of the country which had the honour to give him
birth."

Then follows hundreds of quotations from the
works of the immortal bard to show the importance
of dress as an ornament to the person, commencing
with the judicious precepts put into the mouth of
Polonius when parting with his son—

Costly thy habit as thy puree can buy;
But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ;
For the apparel oft proclaims the mat: ;
And they in France, of the best rank and station,
Aro most select and generous chief in that.—Hamlet.

The little publication is exceedingly well timed,
and quite worthy of being preserved amongst the
pleasant recollections of the 23d of April, 1864.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—An ordinary
general meeting of this society was held yesterday, in the
Council Room, South Kensington, when upwards of 30 new
Fellows were elected. Amongst them wo notioed Lord
Stratford de Reckliffe, Lady Gee. Paulet, Hon. Mrs. David
Murray, Captain J. B. Martin, &c. After the election
Mr. Bates gave a very interesting lecture on the Vegetation
and Insect Life of the Amazons ; it was illustrated by nu-
merous plants and a magnificent display of butterflies, which
proved a great attraction to the numerous assemblage of
Fellows and their friends.
A QUEER CIIRISTIAN.—Parson Brownlow, a
cordial hater of the South, says in his paper, the Knoxville
nig and Rebel Ventilator :—" Had we our wish we
/ would throw hell wide open, and place all such beast-like
officere an men upon an inclined plane, at an angle of 45
degrees, grease the planks with hog's lard six inches thick,
with a wicket at the bottom, and send them, as one stream
of traitors, robbers, and assassins, into the hottest part of
the infernal regions."
Du. COLENSO, before hie return to Natal, will
(out of motives of pbilanthropy, of course), publish a
people's edition of his work on the Pentateuch, to be issued
at a moderate price--a shilling is the standard cheap form
—and to be condensed by the omission of the Ilebrew

criticisms.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a shock-
ing accident betel Mr. James Jones, an elderly
gentleman, who has for many years held the responsible
position of engineer to the Oxford City Waterworks Com-
pany, lle had made an inspection of some fittings in con-
nexion with the waterworks in the upper story of Mr. Joel
Evans's brewery, in the parish of St. Clement, Oxford, and
on reaching the bottom of the ladder he missed his footing
and fell headforemost into a large vat of boiling liquid. Mr.
Evans, who preceded him down the ladder, and some of
the men, attracted by the agonising screams of Mr. Jones,
immediately rezoned him, and medical aid was speedily at
hand, but in divesting him of his clothing his flesh was
\, literally peeled from his body, and he was removed to the
Radcliffe Infirmary, where he lies in a hopeless state. The
vat was entirely unprotected, and this is the third accident
(two of them fatal) that has oocurred from the same cause
in this neighbourhood in a few weeks,