The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

SHAKSPERE'S HOUSE.

The sale takes place on Thursday next, at the
Auction Mart. The London and Stratford commit-
tees will bid together for the house, though it is not
their intention to give an exorbitant sum. Lord
Morpeth, the president, thus recommends the sub-
scription in a recent speech at the Sheffield Athe-
naeum :—" I cannot mention Shakspere without just
reminding you that an undertaking bas been lately
set on foot to rescue Shakspere's house for the
English nation. A subscription has been established
for this purpose. Ido not mean to say that any
inordinate sum ought ever to be given to rescue
Shakspere's house from the jobbers in the market;
but I believe those who have undertaken it will con-
duct the purchase prudently, so as to secure the place
from being an object of merchandise. Our American
friends have threatened to remove it bodily to their
own country. I think they have a common right to share
in the fame of Shakspere, seeing that he lived before
they had the misfortune to separate from us; but I do
not wish that they should possess his house as goods
and chattels. I say, that the gentlemen who have
undertaken the subscription will manage the. pur-
chase prudently ; and then, I think, any surplusof
the sum which the English public may raise, in order
to mark ha sense of the claims of Shakspere to a na-
por-
tion tion's admiration, might be very properlyosrh weexltepheircuhdanedidt
on some purpose congenial to the object
good
was subscribed—possibly to provide g
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actors,some
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of our literature in which Shakspere holds the
undisputed first place ; and who also resemble Shak.
spere in this particular, that they have not received
from their contemporaries that full share of credit
and admiration which posterity has in reserve for
them. In pursuit of such an object as this, permit
me to say that I do not see why the members of the
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resolve to give some little token—sixpence or a shilling
per head—to mark their sense of the greatest genius
which ever adorned English literature.

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JENNY LIND AND SFIA;SIiERIeS 11013311..4.072.17
Lind ha; expressed her 'willingness to sing for tits bens t
of the fund now raising for the purchase and appropria-
tiou of Shakspere's house, provided that the arraigle-
ment for her performance be made is some town where
she has not yet been heard.
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1 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SIDMOUTFI, AND Los/ or
LIFE.—On Wednesday last a most
alarming fire occurred at Sidrnottthh,orny
er, and one poor
man, named Holt, lost his life.
families have been deprived of theirTe fire broke out in a
andt . vas
lye acuasrerdi carried among occupied by John Mugford,
stable adjoining a ;house
from a candle in-
cautiously spark falling t
Ca 11.10116 among some loose. .s straw, which
in flares, and
ig-
niting, soon envelopeda supply of water could not be obtained,
unfortunately the whole building
although an excellent fire-engine belonging to the West
of England Insurance Company was on the spot, ready
to have afforded its assistance ; the fire soon communi-
cated with the adjoining buildings, and was not extin-
guished until eleven tenements were destroyed, and even
then with great difficulty, as no water could be ob-
tained, the inhabitants being obliged fo get on the roof*
of the houses and beat off the fire with boughs. The
most melancholy circumstance connected with the fire
was,lowever, the death of Holt, who, it appears, in
endeavouring to save his furniture, was unable to extri-
cate himself from the burning pile, and was burned to
death, as his body was found next morning a blackened
man. Ha has lett a wife, but no onildren.— Watcrn