The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 5.

Prince Napoleon is at Antwerp. He does not
intend to proceed to Sweden.
The illoniteur of this morning says :—" La
France is badly informed in stating that the anni-
versary of the battle of Waterloo was celebrated in
England last year. For several years past the anni-
versary has not been kept in England."

BOURSE, April 4.—The market has been more
buoyanr, and a fair amount of business transacted
at an improvement. Threes, for the Account, are
now at 66f. i sc. Mobilier has advanced to 1,0501.
Railway Market rather heavy. The market closed
as follows :

11 per Cents. ..... 93 53
Do. end month -- --
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 10
Credit Mobilier 1052 50
Do. end month 1053 75
Bank Shares .3295
Credit F owner .... I'2Bo
Roman
BALL'

Italian Loan 67 45
Do. end month —
ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian
4panis.h bl 50
i-Lorne Debt ••.. • .
Deferred

AYe-
Casr, A.cts w I or
967 50 ... 971 25
975 980

Orleans.
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian ..
Austrian
Lombard

948 75 .. 955 -
890 - - -
655 - 660 -
525 - 526 25
478 75 .. 482 50
367 50 ~ 367 50
411 25 ~ 420 -
546 25 551 25
490 - .. 492 50
587 50 .. 590 -

North of Spain
Saragossa ..
Ditto to Barcelona ....

BOMBARDMENT OF DYBBOL,

We (Times) have received the following tole-
gram from our special correspondent :
" ULKEBOL, APRIL 4, 2.45 p.m.
"The Prussians have bombarded Sonderborg 48
hours, without any previous intimation.
"Eighty townspeople, women and children, have
been killed and wounded.

" Fifty houses in the centre of the town have
been burnt.
" Fifteen hundred shells have been thrown into
the town, which is deserted.

"The cannonade suddenly and completely ceased
this morning. It has, however, re.commenced,
The Danish position is uninjured."

THE POPE.

ROME, MONDAY AFTERNOON.

This morning the P )pe went to the Church of
Santa:Maria Sofro. Minerva, where he assisted in the
reiigious ceremonies performed at the Feast of the
Annunciation.
His health is escrlient.
His Holiness was enthusiastically received by
the people.
The streets through which he passed were
thronged.

ITALY.
TURIN, TUESDAY.

The sum of money seized by order of the Turin
Tribunal at Lercmi's, and alleged to be the proceeds
of a subscription towards a fund for Rn association
objected to by the Governmect, has been restored
to Garibaldi's bankers, it having been proved that
the money in question had no connection with the
aforesaid fund.

LITERATURE.

" The" Shakspere Testimonial.

Knight's Pictorial shakspere. Pdrt I. Routledge

and Company.

The Messrs. Routledge, of the Broadway. Lud-
gate-hill, have hit upon one brilliant notion, at
any rate (in the midst of all the confusions
now unhappily fast multiplying about us) as to
the best means of celebrating here, in London, the
tercentenary anniversary of the Birth of William
Shelespere: that memorable event whichitook place
on, the 231 of April, 1564, in the front room of the
first floor of the little old house,still standing, in Hen-
ley-street, in the pretty market town of Stratford-
upon-Avon,in that most central shire in all England,
the beautiful county of Warwick. One brilliant
idea, at least, has very opportunely been hit upon,
we say, by the Messrs. Routledge, in the way of
celebrating befittingly, as it ought to be celebrated,
the recurrence of the ceremony of that glorious
event in this year of grace 1864, the year bringing
round, in its regard, the date of its tercentenary !
These popular publishers are, be it then understood,
issuing anew now, betimes, before the coming round
for the three hundredth time of that auspicious
anniversary, are issuing anew now, betimes, those
wonderful works of Shakspere's which have
alone rendered the date of his birth a matter
of so much importance. In various forms
be it added, these marvellous works are
now being published by the Messrs. Routledge,
for the advantage of those thinking men who
would, really and in a rational manner, honour
Shakspere's Tercentenary Anniversary. And to
the very best of all these rival editions now issuing
simultaneously from the Messrs. Routledge's estab-
lishment, we would here offer our most earnest
greeting upon the occasion n.' its appearance, or
rather, it should be said more accurately, upon
the occasion of the commencement of its ap-
pearance. Charles Knight's Pictorial Edition of
the Works of William Shakspere !—that in every
respect being, to our mini., the Edition of the
world's greatest poet, the Popular Edition par ex-
cellence. It was so recognised, as abort the best of
all the popular editions of the poet, at the period of
its original publication. But it so appears now, as
it certainly has never appeared before—beautified
that is, and improved in various ways, quite conspi-
cuously. For one thing, the work is printed now,
as it was not printed formerly, upon delicately
toned or tinted paper. the issue is advisedly
announced as "New and Revised." It appears
again in a periodical form, so as to place it
within reach of a very iarge number of pur-
chasers. It will be adorned—as it was of old—
with upwards of twelve hundred illustrations : and
these, no mere fanciful illustrations, but valuable
arch alogical illustrations, portraits of historical
characters, views of localities, representations of
armour and costumes, interiors and exteriors of
the various structures referred to—limnings visibly
reminding us of forgotten manners and customs,
and hence of essential servize, in the way
of " illustration." Part I. of this re-
issue of Knight's Pictorial Shakspere has been
published with the commencement of this month
of April, 1864—the month of the Tercentenary
Aniversary. Thirty-two hallarrown monthly
parts, altogether, will complete the periodical
publication. These thirty-two half-crown monthly
parts, binding up then (when completed) into Eight
Handsome Royal Octavo Volumes, including within
them all the Doubtful Plays, all the Poems and the
Sonnets, and, with these, Charles Knight's exhaus-
tive memoir of the Poet-Actor-Dramatist, London
Manager and Country Squire, the celebrated me-
moir, namely, entitled " Shakspere, a Biography."
A happier notion than that of adventuring upon
this most timely reissue of Knight's noble Pictorial
Edition of the writings of Shakspere, has not yet
been thought of in the way of a fitting Celebration
of the approaching Tercentenary. It is a memo-
rial beyond all the banquets tliat could be ar-
ranged, beyond all the bronze or marble that
could be built up into the form of an archi-
tectural and sculptural monument—say even
though it were a memorial of this kind just
twice as beautiful as the lovely Scott Monument
in the City of Edinburgh. And the Messrs. Rout-
ledge's notion as to the issue, in a new and revised
form, of this great Popular Edition of the Works
of Shakspere, is alt this, to our thinking—that is, as
a timely memorial begun to be raised upon the eve
of the Tercentenary Anniversary of the Poet's