The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-27 00:00:00

TEE SEAKSPEARE CELEBRATION.

Following the remarks made by the Athenceum
of Saturday, ned quoted by us in our impression of
that evening, we find the subjoined ,idCilional par-
ticulars, which we transfer tc-day in sequence to
our own columns from those of our contemporary :
So far as the organisation has been completed up to thfs
time, the following facts may be stated.
By the great liberality of a member of the committee, the
use of permanent apartments has been secured at 120, Pall-
Mall, which in future may be considered as the head-
quarters of the committee. All public communications :liould
in future be sent to that address. A clerk will be in attens
ance from ten to four, of whom the printed papers of the
committee, and all necessary information may be obtained
IT those who seek them.
Messrs. Coutts and Co. have been appointed bankers to
the committee. An account has been opened at the bank,
and a book of subscriptions laid on the counter. To that
firm moneys and cheques may now be paid to account of
the National Shakspeare Committee.
The following noblemen and gentlemen have already
accepted cffice under the Committee :

Tice-Presidents—The Duke of Manchester, the Earl of
Carlisle, and Charles Dickens, Esq.

General Secretaries—W. Hepworth Dixon and J. O.
Halliwell, Esqs.
Colonial .` ceretaries—Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., and
Sir H. Mac Donnell, C.B.

Dramatic Secretaries—J. Stirling Coyne and J. Lin-
t setts Banks, E.qs.
Treasurers—William Tite, Esq., M.P., and F. W. Cosens,
Esq.
The following noblemen and gentlemen, the Athencrum
then adds, are already on the committee .
pukes : Devonshire, Newcastle; _Earls : Shrewsbury,
Sandwich, Clarendon, De Grey and Ripon, Granville,
Dunraven, Howe, Russell; Viscount Eversley ; Bishops
London, Worcester, St. David's; Lords: De L'lsle and
Dudley, Talb,t de Malahide, Londesborough, Vernon, J.
Manners, Lindsay; The Lord Chief Baron Pollock, The
Right Hon, Lord Justice Knight Bruce; Baronets:
E. Bulwer Lytton, C. H. Rouse Boughton, C. 'Wentworth
(Mike, Culling Eardley, R. Hamilton ; Right Honourable:
The Lord Mayor, S. H. Walpole; Sirs: John Burgoyne,
G.C.8,, Fitzroy Kelly, James Prior; Gen. Sabine;
Reverends : W. Harness, A. Dyce, J. Brewer, J. C. M.
Bellew, Dr. Angus; Messrs.: Guizot, Hans Andersen, T.
Bazley, M.P., B. Bond Cabbell, M.P., NV. Ewart, M.P.,
R. S. Holford, M.P., R. Monckton Milnes, M.P., C. N.
Newdegate, M.P., H. B. Sheridan, M.P., E. F. Flower,
Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon, W. W. E. Wynne, M.P,, G.
Goschen, M.P., J. A. B. Beresford Hope, C. H. Brace-
bridge, Herman Merivale, E. H. Baily, R.A,, Clarkson
Stanfield, R.A., Daniel Maclise, R.A., D. Roberts, R.A.,
E. M. Ward, R.A., Patrick Macthwell, R.A., Calder
Marshall, R.A., Richard Westmacott, R.A., Thomas Faed
A.R.A., Alfred Tennyson, F. W. Gibbs, J. Dugdale
W. C. Macready, B. NVebster, J. P. Collier, H. Johnson,
J. Wilkinson, T. 'Wright, F. Haines, George Godwin, T.
Walker, E Levy, J. Grant, S. Lucas, Charles Kent,
H. Morby, M. R. Sharp, W. Durrant Cooper, Alger-
non Borthwick, Ernest Gambart, T, C. Grattan, G.
Macleay, C. L. Gruneisen, the Mayor of Shrewsbury, the
Mayor of Durham, G. Rose, G. Lovell, J. Hollingehead,
A. Halliday, J. Durham, Frederic Ouvry, Robert Cham-
bers, W. J. Thorns, H. Vizetelly, John Doran, J, C.
Jeaffreson, Charles Kean, Lieut.-Colonel J. G. Burns,
J. R. Planche, Robert Bell, T. Duffus Hardy, Westland
Marston, J. B. Buckstone, C. Fechter, John Oxenford, J.
Stirling Coyne, C. W. Goodwin, W. H. Russell, George
Cruikshank, E, L. Blanchard,Bayle Bernard, J. A. Heraud,
F. G. Tomlins, J. H. Friswell, J. C. Wilson, J. F.Waller,
G. A. Macfarren, J. Knight, A. J. Symington, J. P. Simp-
son, H. J. Byron, Leicester Buckingham, W. W. Reade,
N. E. S. A. Hamilton, W. S. W. Vaux, F. J. Furnival,
W. V. Wallace, J, Levy, M. W. Belle, C. Wright, Alfred
Wigan, H. Marston, R. Ansdell, A.R.A., H. N. Bar.
nett, J. Hole, Samuel Phelps, J. F. Robertson, C. W.
Richardson, W. Creswick, Blanchard Jerrold, T. Purnell,
H. Ottley, W. J. Stewart, J. Richardson, S. Brooks, Mark
Lemon, R. Garnett, C. J .Coleman, E. Dicey, S. Blanchard,
Charles Swain.

Accessions of strength come in daily, and in a short time
the committee, it is hoped, will be able to wait on the
Prince of Wales with a programme worthy of his illustrious
name.