The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-21 00:00:00

SIIAKSPERE'S COMMENTATORS !

A list of proposed emendations to a passage in "Much
Ado About Nothing, which stands thus in the old copies ;
If such a one will smile and stroke his beard.
Andsorrow,wagge,crie hem, when he should grone,
where the first five words of the second line are here given
as follows by the various editors and critics; not one pro-
posing a reading which carries conviction with it :
• And hallow, wag, cry hem.— 7hird Folio.
And hollow, wag, cry hem.—Fourth Folio.
And sorrow wage ; cry, hem.— Theobald.
And sorrow waive, cry hem.—Manner.
And, sorrow wag I cry; hem.—Johnson.
Bid sorrow wag, cry "hem l"—Capell.
And sorrow gagge ; cry hem.— Tyrwhitt.
And sorrowing, cry hem.—Beath.
Cry, sorrow, wag I and hem.--Stevens.
In sorrow wag ; cry hem.—Malone.
And sorry wag, cry hem.—Stevens,
And, sorrow waggery, hem.—Ritson.
And sorrow-wagg'd cry hem.—Becket.
And—sorrow wag I—cry hem.—Dyce.
Call sorrow joy, cry hem.—Collier
say, sorrow, wag; cry hem.— Waacr.
And sorrow's wag, cry hem.—G. White.
And sorrow away I cry hem.—/Talliwell.
At sorrow wink, cry hem.—. Anonymous.

ARREST OF PRINCE PASKIEWITCH.—VIENNA,
Nov. 17.—T0-day Prince Paskiewitch, a son of the
famous General, who conquered and held in subjection
Poland for twenty years, arrived at this capital, attended
by an Austrian detective and two policemen. The Prince
had been staying at Venice for several weeks for the benefit
of his health, as he asserts to keep up a connection with the
revolutionary committee, as the Government suspect. His
dealings seem to have been of an important character, the
Government having resolved not only to remove him from
the scene of his activity, but also to send him into the in-
terior for awhile, although a prince, a general, and a Rus-
sian subject. Until further notice, he will be obliged to
take up his residence in Brunn, in Moravia, and submit to
official surveillance. It is not a little amusing to perceive
that the papers have been ordered to attribute his arrest to
some underhand work with the great Polish conspiracy.
Paskiewitch and Poland—Polish conspiracy and Venice ;
there are about as many impossibilities as words in the
charge.
COLONEL CRAWLEY and " Historicus," sketched
by a graphic reporter.—He (Colonel Crawley) is a
man above the average height, of a manly build, wearing a
Crimean medal with one bar. His hair is thin, approach-
ing to grey—he wears a broad, closely-cropped, and very
thin whisker, with a thin dark moustache. The nose is
prominent, his brow of an average height, and the whole
face might be fairly styled handsome were it not (here comes
themischief) for a blemish in the eyes,or rather in the position
of them, for the eyes themselves are clear, keen, restless
organs, very apt to detect, we should imagine, a speck of dirt
on a soldier's accoutrements, but they are placed too closely
together, and the eyebrow comes heavily over, in a way to
give a stern, almost sinister, look to the whole face, and
detects from its otherwise open expression. The cheek
bones are high, and in the progress of the trial became
flushed." With a nose and eyebrows like that, Colonel
Crawley can hardly be otherwise than guilty. Mr. Vernon
Harcourt, the legal adviser of the colonel (of whom the re•
porter informs us that he "is understood to be the ' Histo-
ricus' of the limes") does not escape the ken of this pho-
tographic describer, "He has a good legal face, with a keen
eye and a lipless mouth, expressive of no mean determina-
tion if he should ever require to exercise it, Apparently,
as if to balance his expression, he parts somewhat effemi-
nately at the middle." What hope can there be of Colonel
Crawley, when his adviser parts his hair down the middle ?
Perhaps the reporter curls his.— The Lady's Newspaper.
EASY DOES IT!—The description 'if an old man
at work tinkering up a boat, vide Wilkie Collins's
" Miscellanies :"—" He is sitting on the left side of the
vessel when I first look at him. In one hand he holds a
crooked nail; in the other, a hammer. He coughs slowly,
and looks out to sea; he sighs slowly, and looks back to-
wards the land; he rises slowly, and surveys the deck of
the vessel; he stoops slowly, and picks up a flat bit of iron,
and puts it on the bulwark, and places the crooked nail
upon it, and then sits down and looks at the effect of the
arrangement so far. When he has had enough of the arrange-
ment, he gives the sea a turn again, then the land, After
that, he steps back a little and looks at the hammer, weighs
it gently in his hand, moistens his hand, advances to the
crooked nail on the bit of iron, groans softly to himself and
shakes his head as he looks at it, administers three delibe-
rate taps with the hammer, to straighten it, finds that ho
does not succeed to his mind ; again groans softly, again
shakes his head, again sits down and rests himself on the
left side of the vessel. Since I first looked at him I have
timed him by my watch; he has killed a quarter of an hour
over that one crooked nail, and ho has not straightened it
yet I Wonderful man, can I over hope to rival him ? Will
he condescend to talk to me ? Stay 1 lam not free to try
him ; the doctor has told me not to excite myself with
society; all communion of mind between me and this
finished and perfect idler is, I fear, prohibited. Better to
walk on, and come back, and look at him again.
ANOTHER DEATH FROM STARVATION.—Yester-
day afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex
coroner, held an inquiry at the Sir George Osborne's Head
Tavern, Princes-street, Mile-end, respecting the death of
Henry Lerry, who was found dying from starvation in the
public street. James White, 90 11, said that on Tuesday
night about 10 o'clock, he saw deceased lying insensible in
Old Montague-street. Witness thought he was drunk, and
got a stretcher and removed him to the station, where he
was locked up in the cell. He got no food, but the next
morning he was taken to the workhouse. The only thence
drdtos
he could speak were "Henry Larry," which was believet
to
be his name. James Thrift said deceased was broughwas
the union by the police on Wednesday morning.
in a dreadful state. There was no flesh on him. WilheenHhies
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will commence its fourth season on Wednesday next with
awe of 44 Judas Maccabseus."
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Mr. Santley, and Mr. R. Seymour. Organist,
Boardman. Band and chorus, 700. Conductor, Mr. G. W.
Martin.

SHAJSPERE NOT OVER-RATED!—Lord,Brougham
(in reference to the late paragraph in the Athenceum) has
stated that he " may have said that some able men seem to
devote too much of their time to collecting anecdotes of
Shakspere, but never that he was over-rated, or that his
opinion differed from the rest of the world." So much for
Lord Brougham's depreciation of Shakspere.