The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-28 00:00:00

L I FR'
._ , MA JEST Y'S THEATRE. . i CELEBRATION OF sHAR,..---, ,
ee.reßk,e, BIRTH-
A!nirgat elle eeble ..I,cd dietieguiShed compere, 1 . DAY AT STRATFORD-ON-AV-ON.
honoceetle the perforzirenens at her rYlajersctely';elrkTihticattirael
,-,linte'lr,)irdt.:.-4,yi Inaasrtdb,eitung:heevvi,t werne,:reeee
jeeri
jrrieeetedeliei4,eaaydi.eninhetre
with. their presence e eve rday oveeieg we
teloeeeet;--His Grace the Delos of Wellineton, the lat that
tint leeeelro. the Fateo, where gratifyingh
Me.:eilleeess '6f Deere aad Lai Charles Welletleye I !limber of theadmirers'or the let'r!..ftera.l3ie--
pr rhees i d the
eveningn ts' i i p
in
of-;lbug landlord tunaa
the Countess do Flaheutt and ?etedrenoiAte de Fleheulte Iseiebere, partook of the ;there/ cOloring
the Cocottes of Harringtoo end Lady Jane SteMeur (r:lfir.,:.
G.
ALeihnfirereld?; 113-ectl,rliiii,r.:desLr tc...h,e :pb.lnet
!Staohope Me. PeWeaex Bruce and tee Mistes.B:une.
His II py,,ti Highness the Prince of Neelee also honoured' the temperate but good .old•fethTiobrieedc choanirvynivaianlihtyavinnogt
the theatre with hie presence en this cccasion. Her unworthy of siren eeeelebtation.
-/Cjoity'st bex 'wee occupied by eh„ Berl Inc C
,untees prepared "the Qivou,”--" rkike,Alh2ft arid the rest of of Jersey, the Ceutitfess of. Besborongle Lady Isle fleet?- the Royal FAktei49"—" Englseili Ler religious, political,
tins Villiers, Lady Pemsonley, end party. Amecest and social iosiitutionr," ati ef 'which *ere JoYally and
the general company we also remarked the IClarquia' of enthusiastically responded- to, then rcse . and addressed
Clauticarde, the Earl of Shelburne, the Marquis of the meeting to the following effect:—
Exeter, bis Excellency the French -Minister. end In the annals of Ecgle:h ' history—in the archives of
suite, his. Excellency the Sardinien Minister Lady all polished nations—in the ' vocabulary of the world's
Talbot de Malahide, Viicorret Dapplin, Viscount gretit—in the mighty ecroll of time, there is one name
Eenseuteaseie Viscount Enfkld, Lord Gordon, thellon. which, abbveAnd 4eyond all °there, etands pre-ettninently
A. D. Willoughby, the lion. G. S. SnaythP, Lerd,Adol- node, pre--emiuently glorion'. A 212 me tirit, for power of
phi 4 Fezelarence, Sir George Wombwell', Bart., Sir utterance, profuedity of knew:edge, grandeur of concep-
George Bowles, Sir Wthiam Alm 3y, Bart., Sir John thy- lion, end sublimity of thought, has no parallel in the re-
ieyelrleits. ri.ad Ladv Bayley; the Hight Hon. the &ere- cerds of either ancient or theilcen times. A name that, for
~rftrY at War, Sir lielpri Howard, Bart., T:T.P., Lady two eenturit;s :led a belc has been the pioneer of civilize-
,'
son, and
Miss Howard. and piirty, Mrs. Stewart, Mr. ti:ln, the b uoligh tof t h-s nations, a pertion of the everlasting
k. Wheeler, Mr. George Hudson, UP., Mrs. find- heart of nature hereof. A narn:? that as far transcends
Mitchell,
Miss Iludson; Mrs. and Miss Robert, Mr, the name§ of king, and '-princes, heroes and victors, as
",i...."'",.,e11. M.P., Mi,s Trafford Souihwell, Miss Treff Ad. the ineerruptible soul does the fr,pile shell in which
:tettr; tn:le Mr. C. W. Pecke, IMP; and Mrs. Packe it, is eocasrd. A name that has shed a bistro upon
Mr:
ins. a la
ned. A.aelirs; C.
i citrrrryt e. Baldwin
Mr.Er:rlatct.o.Pn,,rerleria?vtlateryt: Ileil:Pp..,, the earth IA Liolv she remain, undiminished' by time
or distance, a hen the proudest monuments of art
Mr: end
,'.fro, Henry Dixon Nfr, Hebert do Burgh, and science, and commerce are forgotten. A
Lieut.-General Sir Alexander w' o'o*(lklad Wo,,d tp-iM3 which, in the palne.es of the rich, the halls
fore, and Miss Woodford; Mr, Henry Singleton, ale of Iserninee the bive.s of ledestisse
William Itese, Colonel We •
Mr. Thistlothse ~ I.t'•
oPr. ele3e!zt:ec Mr. and Mrs. Badd, the peer, Is " familiar in dour mouths as household
Aultr'sre.' fl.igrh. naG G " .and the cottages of
Emily Irvine, , wordry, M.P., Miss worde." , A name, at the shrine, and in the presence of
the reejesty of which, our Garricke and Kembles, our
Beto,ttons and Cooked', our. Kraus and Meereedies have
.knelt doWn in deep end silent admiration. A name, the
, re faience of which shall eutvive "the wreck of matter
and the crush of %twirls," end be heard Mingling with
the eternal !vatic of Abe spierre, When -
, .
, •- -" The cloud capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn templeS, the greatrglobe itself,
-Yea all whichit inheeit, shell dissolve,
And, like the baseless. fabric of a vision,
Leave not a rack behind."
l's!"-ti i say. gerrtlercen, at this time, end in this place,
,Ic2f, the nanao--ehe time-honoured, world-worshipped,
ever ao-he, remembered name to.whioll I allude, is that
of cho "immortal William Shakspere?"—(Loud cheers.)
ith-t William Shakspere V 711(); two -buerlred and sixty
afiars e•go. was not only"unknown to fortune and to fame,"
but was driven forth prom this
h employmentave th e
ho honour
r the.to Londonpro,,,po.seel; G.pelorbemitThmeea
on-Avon, by the persecutipg'aPirit of a vindictive jue-
lice of the peace, to iirld,"sbe' good town of Stratford-
:ter and refuge in menial
Theatre.—(Cheers.)
•
And hero, in aubinittine. the toast -
that it is no part of which I shall shortly
sou)
ymoyurnetitm
et intention to make any consider-
able
ewnegrteh
Im yi n ovencliinclined
dpersonalspOopa lcilsnocuenhcesht isol infehade embodying:s
feelings.Curhee e3r
demand upon
ttle,
lantcietendY,
cmuel
nt itess
toI shonld
overcome,ha v e
as
so
to
encounter,eftor
afford
:
if any mp
-
thie
encou-
ragementdeiffidi-
to persevere in the prosecution of what
may not inaptly he termed an almost hopeless task.
When so much has been said, and well said, too, upon
both the man and his writings—when the spirit of con-
troversy has broken up every field of inquiry, every
inch of ground in which the analytical ploughshare
might for the hundredth time be inserted—when cri-
ticism has laid bare, even to the minutest detail,
the construction and qualities, the very marrow,
so to speak, cf that vast dramatic genius which, as
a German writer has said, " seems to gather strength
like an Alpine avalanche, at every period of its des-
cent,"-eurben erudition and research seem to have
discovered every latent beauty, to have explained
away whatever seemed paradoxical, to have brought
every subordinate and undeveloped character into no-
tice, to have surrounded every once-obscure passage
with a biles of illustration—in short, when almost
all that could be done or said to honour the memory
and throw a light upon the character and genius of the
great Bard, , has been done and said, it would be a work
of supererogation and an act of folly on my part, more
especially at this time, to push the discussion of the
subject beyond that wide and legitimate boundary,
to which it has already extended. All, there-
for:, that I can with propriety do, is to give a
brief and general assent to those well-known, sound and
graceful opinions and eulogies, which I need not quote,
formed and bestowed by the ablest literary authorities.
And this much, at least, I think, is due from me, es
involving no greater exercise of mind or speech than is
common to the majority of men; and still more so, be-
cause, as Ben Jonson says,—" I love the man, and do
honour his memory on this side idolatry, as much as
any"—because, also, I believe him to have possessed
one of, those bright, far-seeing, catholic and
god-like souls, which are rarely born into the world, and
when they do come, are sent, not merely to mould the
character of a dawning literature, and give breath, free-
dom, and vitality to the universal heart, but to show how
near the finite can approach the infinite, the man-made
approximate to the man-Maker. Every age has its
crops of books as of men, and time covers both with dark-
nesr. Time dwarfs a nation to the stature of a man—
puts a literature into a volume, a man and a book, until
one great name, one word of power, becomes to us the
only remaining symbol of departed greatness. In this
sense Greece had its blind. Homer—ltaly its fiery Dante
—Spain its mock-heroic Cervantes—England its Shaks-
pere, and later on, sublime John Milton; ail men of ex-
e I ted,enlarged and wonderful genius, not quite equal, and
yet scarcely inferior to the Stratford peasant. To uses the
voice of the past, the oracle of bygone days, how vast a
word of power is the name of Shakapere! In that
great, calm, placid, lake-like nature of his, undisturbed
by dark, stormful gusts of passion, bow gigantic and
distinct a knowledge lies—what massive yet finished
1 thoughts are imaged—what exquisite and varied portraits
delineated—what penetrating and sublime truths re-
flected. From out that capacious, yet delicately
formed heart of his, which, like an lEolian harp, is tuned
to music by the lightest wind, the softest breath of
nature, does there not rise a kind of universal
psalm' not unfit to make itself heard among these
sacred ones poured forth by the impassioned soul of
o the sweet singer of Israel!" Turn to any one of big
dramas, products of nature, deep as nature's self,—
and whist is it but a large bay window through
which we catch a glimpse of the immortal spirit of
the man—through which are revealed to us flashes of
wit,
an
down from beaven.—(Hear, hear.)
d corruscations of wisdom, like lightning
splendours sent
because he does not parade his faith
an anti - patriot,
True it is, some have called Shakapere a 'sceptic,
and patriotism before the eye, like other men—
because ingeniously concealing himself beneath the
a man who came not, as
gossamer-like folds of a most artistic skill, he throws
his whole soul into the one grand and peaceful sphere
himself
of his worship. For my own part I recognise a
done,
we'll° tuoccohsnpafleaimcktesonfa;nd experiences, prejudices
kind of sacredness in the incarnation ofaludchaaecsipairreitd—ogin.
but to develops the hidden forces of hu-
manity—toin cathedral tones, the d
iaonddieof opinions,
nature, e sing,
se, and interpret the
met htahetei
dog-
matically iihlsyssiv/i
tsi
sym-
pathy existing between the visible and invisible unawinviedlrdsemle
(Cheers.) Which of us is not prepared to echo the beau-
setmakeitnhinthet
tiful sentiment of Washington Irving, when he visited
Shakspere." Which of us, go
mightier have seen the dust of
can refuse to subscribe togthe gloriousonw
pic-
ture :se toffo rad
ni—a'
n'
,I t
and
"The pen isleaking thisords aoufgßu suthvp
ei cr-,
measure of his influence,
Can we wonder that than the sword!" —(Cheers.)
the nations of Europe and the cities
of America—that Asia
and Africa, should send their
potentates and princes, their men of letters and their
their men of wealth,
somebodies and their nobodies, to
behold the birth- l
ac
and the p e and the death-place, the
dwel-
ling grave of him whose electric pen, like the
shuck from a galvanic batter uc , 'ke ned the strong
pulse of the world? Well
mieyhtqthle aesthetic Thomas
Carlyle inquire, " which Englishman ever made in thi
land of ours? which million of Englishmenevould we not
give up rather than Shakespeare?" Suppose now the
question were put to us," Which will you surrender, you
English people, your Indian empire, or your Shakes
pere ?" Would not the answer be. " Indian empire, or
no Indian empire, give us Shakspere—the former must
leave us some day, the latter never!"—(Cheers.) Think
of this, men of Warwickshire, who have met to honour
of this, the memory of the illustrious dead—think
that no Royal re-
membering,pro-
clamation, as it has been remarked, .
selling of railway shares
Act of Parliament,
or other worldly endeavour, brought this noble spirit
to our earth—remembering that the greatest
intellect the world has yet seen, once lived
and
toiled in this humble town of Strat-
ford—think of this, I say, you who would pay
tribute to the colossal, Titian-like grandeur of the man
whom Sir Thomas Lucy caused to be whipped, as a
rogue and vagabond, and then acknowledge that " King
Shakspere" is a conqueror to whose sovereignty we
may ail submit, and the latchet of whose shoes an Alex-
ander, or a Caesar, even clad in imperial purple, would
have been proud and honoured to unloose—
" Crowns have their compass, length of days their date,
Triumphs their tombs, felicity her fate,
Of more than earth, can earth make none pari4eree„
But knowledge makes the man moat like his Baseer.
Gentlemen, I beg to give you—" The immortal memory
of William Shakspere."—(Loud cheers.)
occasion were
Several speeches highly suitable to Oa,
for which
delivered by the Chairman and other speak re e
we cannot find space.
eree The Mayor
The other toasts of the evening,
---. wSheridan Knowles
and Corporation of Stratford"
fEngland"— The Vicar
and the Dramatic Writersee9embers of the comity"—
ani the Clergy"—" Thee
British Stage"—" The war.
" David Garrick and th
Chuirman"—" The Visitors"
wiekshire Lasses"—" The
_t,„ ecc. &e.— Leamington
.
The idos Leamington
—" The Press"—"
Courier.
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I _ ROYAL ITALIAN
®p A.
Their Royal fliebnestes the Di:eke:so of C.trubridge
and the Priecess ?Lary honoured the perfoeme.,-6sHit
the Royal Dalian Opera with theiepreEence labs evening.
Their Royal Highnesses were accompanied by the La,iies
Elizabeth arelTiatherine Grey Egerton. 'Lord William
Pau:et and Captain Clifford were in attends.see upon the
royal party. Atheng ;ho fashionable company bonne ring
the theatre With their presecc, we remarked his Excel-
lency the Sardiniun Miois!er, the Duke end Duchess of
Montrose, and the Ladies Graham, the Marquis 'ef
Northampton. the Mat quis of Douro, M.P., the Earl and,
Courre:es of CheaterfiAd, the Couutess of Glengail, and
Lady Margaret liutler, Countess of Melmeibtity,
the Ccuotess . Craven, the, Countess of. Tinto and the
Ladles Harriet and Charlotte Elho'; tend Lady Eqzi-
Lob Ron:idly; the Count and Countess de Murelia, Visa.
and Viscountess Villiers, Viscount Cranbourne, Visot.
Exmouth, Viscount Templetown, Lord and Lady
Cerington and the Honourable Lady Williams Wine,
Lord Broughton -and the Honourable Miss Hobhouse,
and the Lady Jane flay, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox,
M.P., Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Arthur Hay, Lady
William Powlett and Miss Doyle, Lady Suffield, Baron
de Steonberg, Lady Ashworth and Miss Ashworth, Lady
Cosmo Russell and th© Hon. Mrs. A. Callaghau, Hon.
John Fortescae, M.P., Hon. E. S. Russell, M.P., Hon.
Harry Grey, Lady Rose Lovell and Lady Henrietta
Somerset, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Armytage, Sir
John and Lady Campbell, Sir Robert Peel, Sir William
Abdy, Mr. H. Bingham Baring, M.P., Colonel Brown-
low Knox, M.P., Colonel Steele, Major Gage, Captain
Meyrick, Captain Hotham, Captain de Bathe, Miss
Burdett Coutts, Dr. Quin, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. and
Mrs. Newton Scott, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Ardedeckne, Mr.
R„ Gorden, Mr. Martineau, Mr. Bulteel, Mr. L. Clay-
ton, Mr. Balfour, Captain Johnson, Colonel Tyrrwhite,
the. Misses Majoribanks, Captain the lion. Claude Lyon,
Sir Robert and Lady Carden and the Misses Carden,
Mr. R. Holford and Miss Hollord, Colonel Bright, Capt.
Stopheason, Colonel Crombio, &c.

WELLlNGTONinu,,tratingte G N
Campaigns
Wellington S.
TTheEDEiorama
bids fair to rival in attraction its celebrated predecessor,
" The Overland Route." A series of most interesting
scenes is delineated with admirable artistic skill, and
the lucid comments of the lecturer, Mr. Stocqueler, com-
plete the pleasure afforded by this entertaining and in-
structive exhibition. The most signal triumphs of the
eminent artists engaged, Messrs. Grieve, Telbin,
Absolon, and Alfred Corbould, are the Cathedral
of Burgos, the passage of the Douro, the &hi of
Busaco, the triumphal entry into Madrid, and the
exquisite night scenes of the chapel of Ciudad
Rodrigo, and of the Adour, near Bayonne. The interest
attached to the brilliant career of Wellington, the excel-
lent selection of its salient features, and the exquisite skill
with which so many memorable scenes are presented to the
spectator, must render this diorama one of unrivalled
popularity. Yesterday the curtains were closed rather
prematurely on ore or two occasions, just as the eye
was becoming familiarised to the beauty of the prospect,
and Mr. Stocqueler erroneously informed us that the
Duke was born at Dangan Castle, instead of in Grafton-
street, in Dublin City. These are the only motes we
could detect in ono of the most delightful entertain-
meats we have ever assisted at. Let none of our Lon-
don friends—denizens or visitors, omit the inspection of
the " Campaigns of %Vela gton," at the Gallery of Illus-
tration, or they will lose one of the most genuine treats
of the season.

MR. G. F. YOUNG'S STATISTICS.
TO THE EDITuR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE

Sir,—lu a letter to one of your contemporaries Ms.
Young repeats his assertion (§ 2) that the entries of
wheat and flour for home consumption during the last
year were 6,369 742 quarters, and he refers in proof to
the Trade and Navigation return for the twelve months
ending sth January, 1852. I have consulted that re-
turn, and find that the entries for home consump-
tion,: during the year 1851, of wheat and fl cur. were :
Wheat
Ditto Flour, 5,365,179 cwt., at 3} per qr 1,532.908 „

5,369,742 qrs.
Mr. Young has thus overstated the entries by exactly
one million of quarters ! And yet he is considered by
his party as the supremo authority in statistics, and but
for his health be would no doubt by this time have
given to the public Board of Trade returns the figures
of which might not lcss have puzzled the Free-traders
than delighted the Protectionists.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN EXAMINER OF PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS.

COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN.

One of those dreadful explosions by which so many
lives are constantly destroyed in coal-mines took place
on Friday afternoon last, at Pemberton,' near Wigan,
Lancashire. The colliery it, one belonging to the exe-
cutors of the late Mr. John Daglieb, and is called the
Norley-hall Estate. The shafts are about 160 yards
deep, and the workings to the east extend as far as 750
yards. It was at the extremity of these workings where
the explosion occurred. About 60 workpeople had
descended in the morning, but at noon nearly half of
them had left, leaving the boys and a few men to load '
and get out the coal which had been hewn. About half-
past three o'clock in the afternoon some of these boys,
but it is not known which, are believed to have
fired the gas, which accumulated in great
quantities in the mine, and a terrific explosion
followed. Mr. Twiss the manager of the mines, was
near the mouth of the pit, and took a large body of
colliers to search the workings for the dead and
injured, with as little delay as possible. After encoun-
tering great obstruction from the sulphur or after damp,
they brought out during the evening the bodies of three_
u
persons who had been killed, and a great number of
others in a state of great suffering from burns. ptd
an
to
yesterday ten of the sufferers had died altogether,
eight others were in a state which left but little hope of
recovery.
The names of the dead are:—Peter Lsadbeater, aged
33; Thomas Hitches, aged 15; Edward
14; John Lowe, aged 11; Thomas s Greenall, aged
nrsdt, aged 13;
Ah
Robert Roby, aged 12; Joseph Hitchen, ego 11; James
William Atherton, aged 13; Wit-
iGiarmeellnalaiy,
toang,ead s;gelal3. The names of the injured are:
—James Atherton, who is much burnt and is ne the
point of death; James Hitchen, aged 40 (father of the
and in a F e rn-
,
two boys above-mentioned as dead), also on the point of
ahiluli---
rßsmtdeath; John Topping, aged 10, dangerously burnt;
Adam Winnard, aged 10, dangerously burnt;ohaFairhurst,
William
Derbishire, aged 16, dangerouslyburnt;
Thomas
mond, aged 10, dangerously burnt; j
e also been slightly
aged 21, nearly burnt to death;
James
Leadbeater, aged
28, bruised by tbo force of the explosion,
dan-
gerous state. Two other persons have
injured.
Thern e dintqüill
etsteconmanmalen
answerce from the commenced on
on Monday, bat w
Secretaasrya d
of
jou
State had been received. The evidence went to sh that the mine had been examinedow
reported in a state of safety in the morning and
where men had to work. Itat all the faces of the coal
is of a nature highly appears, however, that the coal
and a great quantity of bituminous, with a bed of cannel,
The
men
are
gas ordinarily escapes from the
workings.
are liable to fine for allowingsupplied any one except the under-
lookers to unlock them. How
person could remove the top fromany of the boys or other
the flame to the explosive a lamp so as to expose
gas
supposed that this had been doneis not known, but it is
the falling earth at the etr near to the °, goaf," or
x
which the coal had been emity of the workings from
taken, In these places the gas
generally accumulates and lights in their vicinity
i wt
should be managed ,11
care.
Six men were killed by fire thisin • mine on the 6th of
January last by a
similar
explosion of fire damp.

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LONDON SOCIETY FOR TIIE BLIND.—On Monday
the annual meeting of the promoters of this charity took
place at the Hanover-square Rooms. The Right Rev. Bishop
Carr in the chair (the Earl of Shaftesbury being obliged to
leave the room on public business elsewhere).
from a report which was read and adopted, It appeared,
that the income
of the society during the past year had exceeded that of
the previous year by 300/. ;
but extraordinary circumstances
had entailed upon the charity additional expenses, and,
therefore, the money in hand was reduced to a lower sum
than might otherwise have been expected. The receipts for
the year had amounted to 1,6131., but owing to the expenses
alluded to, the balance remaining din hand was only Kt., and
it was, therefore, hoped that the benevolent public would
continue their exertions in favour of so charitable a cause.

Ar'----rair.24.—Cotton-market ateady this
focd:faele..raPrgeci::::testttoYinn selbexaps improved
GLA.sGoW,
d
e
s
c
ecr
ti
ep
dt
io
ann IViert:ers:sche'owalitlhe fair npdara severalti' vely
suppliesth ebetterstili limited, but on a change ofeo•aril'i
prospect
large shipments
rutahrekewt.eekT,haendait demand
I.
trim. America, to that ere long we
a better assortment in this
better tone pervades the trade. Pig-iron—Our
market for pig
-iroa during the week has been quiet, with
little busince:i doing, but without any material change in
price. 'l'o-day mixed numbers are held at 365.; Ao. 1,
3€3. Od. to 3rs. ; No. I, Gartsherrie, 38s. 3d. cash against
bill of lading. The i:eioand has been almost entirely for
shipping parcels, principally for America. Bar-iron is
gshe3tihierhaave..
quoted Si. for ordinary, Lind z,l„ 7.5.61 for special brands, ltitis
4 pr cent. for cash.
A SMART LAD.--A boy from the country was
recently taken into a gentleman's family. One evening, after
having been called up to the drawing-room, he came down
into the kitchen, laughing immoderately. " What's th e mat-
ter ?" cried the cook. "Why, clang it !" said he, " there are
twelve on 'em up there, who couldn't anuff the candle, and
they had to ripg for me to do Al"

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Was without success. At this juncture he commenced taking
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six weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for
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Loudon.