The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

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APRIL 26, 1848.

Raui%titnnoenedr-'streaeyt,
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16, at
raitnliceaslf-sptraesette,levsetn.
cabinet
maker and upholsterer, May 16, at eleven—B. Stock,
Margate, Rent, innkeeper, May 16, at twelve—V. F.
Strong arid W. Hoskin h h f Clink-street,
,ye- ouse-w ar ,
Southwark, coal merchant, M 16, at eleven—W. Hos-
kin- D h . ay
6., ye- ouse-wharf, Clink-street, Southwark, coal
eleven—.J. H.
merchant. May 16, at half- 1 L Alexander
and past ,W. Bardgett, Old Broad-street, City, May 18, at
two. James's,lrownlie,

In tho Country.
A. Dawson, Huddersfield, fancy cloth manufacturer,
May 19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—F. Kirby, Leeds,
grocer, May 19, at eleven, at the Court. Leeds—J. Ro-
binson, Bradford, worsted spinner and manufacturer, May
19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—G. Odd Jun., jun., Brad.
ford, innkeeper and ropexnaker, May 19, at eleven, at
the Court ateeds—H. Prince, Exeter, furrier, May 24,
at eleven,the Court, Exeter—R. Martin, Plymouth,
ale and porter merchant, May 24, at eleven, at the Court,
Exeter— R. W. Appleton, Liverpool, merchant, May 16,
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—C, Faint, Blackpool,
Lancashire, hotel keeper, May 19, at twelve, at the
Court, Liverpool—J.West
ton spinner „Rawtenstall, Lancashire, cot-
ner a manufacturer, May 18, at the Court,
Mecnc and —J. Bolton and W. Ireland, Manchester,
check gingham manufacturers, May 19, at eleven,
at the Court, I`,lanchester—S, Brown, Sunderland, com-
mon brewer, May, 18, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle..
upon-TYnc—J. S. Rablah, Barnard Castle, Durham, tan-
ner, May 18, at half-past ten, at th® Court, Newcastle-
-19, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
upon-Tyne—T. Bowser, Morpeth, linen and woollen dra-
eM—aJy.Wooller, Stockton-on-Tees, draper, May 19, at
Newcastle-
per,
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Atkin,
Stockton-on-Tees, grocer, May 16, at halipast ten, at
the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. D. Hay, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, bread and biscuit baker, May 18, at
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. H.
half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Emery,
at
ld tailor, M 17, at halfpast ten, at the Court,
Hurley, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, draper, May 17,
Lichfie ,
half-past ten, at the Court, Biro:ling'
Birmingham—T. Reader, Foleshill, Warwickshire,
h kit, Staffordshire, draper, May
ham—B. Hood,
Smett
vithe Court, Birmingham.
27, at balf-past ten, a
T OF DIVIDENDS.
PAYMENT miller, May 27, at

Curer.
Edward Aylward, Lamberhurst, Kent, tailor.
John Elphick, norsmonden, Kent, butcher.
Thomas Radford, Chard, Somersetshire, blacksmith,
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

A. M'Martin, Alva, innkeeper, to meet within Camp.
bell's (late Gibb's) Inn, Stirling, April 29 and May 20,
at two.

I. Calmann, Glasgow, merchant, to meet within the
Star Hotel, Glasgow, April 29 and May 27, at one.
C. G. Sidey, Perth, bookseller, to meet within the Star
Inn, Perth, May 1 and May 22, at two.
Saracen's
He2ad, lantno:e.
Paisley,
A. and B. Ross, Edinburgh, boot and shoemakers, to
meet within the Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh,
lay3nediay4
A. Dixon, Greenock, spirit merchant. to meet within
the
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mittee was held, at which Dr. Thomson pres
preliminary proceedings were chiefly formal,and,whTethheeirr
or not, they were of very little importance. It appeared by the report that during the last year various attempts had
been made to purchase the house, generally supposed to
have been the birthplace of Shakspere ; that the pur-
chase, upon certain guarantees, had been completed, but
there was at the present moment a liability on the part
of the committee, amounting to about 4001. This defi-
ciency it was proposed ,to meet by extraordinary means.
Messrs. Charles Dickens, Foster, Douglas Jerrold, and
others, proposed to perform as amateurs twice in London
and once in Birmingham and Stratford ; and, in
addition to this, Mdlle. Jenny Lind would, for the pur-
pose of promoting the objects of the Shaksperian Club,
give a concert exclusively on that account. Besides
this there is to be a grand ball at Willis's Rooms, and
by these attractious it is thought that not only will the
deficiency be made up, but that there will be a surplus
revenue for other purposes. Nor is this all. A corre-
spondence read from Mr. Simpson, of Bramby, near
Guildford, addressed to Dr. Thomson, the Chairman of
the Stratford Committee, and to Lord Morpeth, in the
course of which he proposed to send down to Stratford,
for the purpose of exhibition, on the 24th of April, a
series of oil paintings (thirty in number), by the late
Mr. Singleton, illustrative of the works of Shakspere.
The paintings had been bequeathed to him by the late
Mr. Singleton, and by the testator valued at about
2,0001. Mr. Simpson proposed to send the oil-paintings
So
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were
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down to Stratford to be exhibited yesterday, and for a
fortnight longer, upon the committee paying 201. for the
expense of carriage. He further proposed that the
paintings should be generally exhibite4,4ha proceeds to
be applied to the purchase of Shaksme's house, the
endowment of a resident, and the balaN„e, '4.after such
proceeds, aided by a subscription, to be paid to him for
the pictures. The committee accepted the temporary
loan of the paintings, but nothing further.‘ , k
The Londok ConuNtee; inthe tour o? yesterday
(very unfavourable weather) visited Charlcote; it was,
however,lnothing more than a visit of compliment, and
few persohs did themselves the honour to follow their
example. The various places in which relics of the
furniture of Shakspere were kept, and in some of which
his family were said to have dwelt, were visited by per-
haps a dozen persons; but the festival generally excited
the least possible interest. The chief point of attraction
was the dinner at

THE SHAESPERE HALL.
The attendance there was of the highest respectability.
Lord Brooke, M.P., occupied the chair, supported by
Lord Morpeth, Sir David Dundas, Mr. Mark Philips,
and other distinguished individuals.
The CHAIRMAN (Lord Brooke), after the usual loyal
and constitutional toasts had been proposed, and all of
which were drunk with the greatest enthusiasm, called
upon the.company to drink to the " Immortal memory
of William Shakspere." If that poet had excelled
in one point more than another, it was in express-
ing the beauties, excellences, and virtues of the female
sex.—(Great applause.)
Mr. P. COLLIER acknowledged the toast. He proposed,
on the suggestion of a friend, that the toast to the drama,
in consequence of its present depressed state, should be
drunk in silence.
Lord MORPETH then rose amidst loud cheers to pro-
pose " The Poets of Ireland." I find, said his Lord-
ship, that the duty of proposing a toast has been
assigned to me. But before giving that toast perhaps I
may be allowed to preface it with a very few observations
respecting the special purpose which has gathered us
together this night.—(Cheers.) In the first place, as
the Chairman of the London Committee, you will allow
me, on behalf of ray colleagues, to express the great
gratification we have derived from the proceedings of
the local committee of this town; and I need hardly say
also, that with respect to those who are the habitual
residents of this town and neighbourhood, and to which
the inspirations and genius of the spot must have become
familiar, that to us, who come from the dingier lati-
tudes, how refreshing we find it to have this opportunity
of rubbing off some of the metropolitan dust, and re-
freshing our eyes, our ears, and our memories, among
the sylvan lanes of your own lovely Warwickshire.—
(Cheers.) Will you allow me to say that I have no
sympathy with those who see harm in everything—in
fiction, in poetry, and in plays.—(Loud cheers.) At
the same time we are not to forget that there is hardly
anything to which there is not some risk of danger to
be guarded against. Now, this risk and tendency to
which occasions like the present might be liable was
that of allowing the admiration and the enthusiasm for
genius to mount into idolatry—that for which genius
alone and by itself can advance no legitimate pre_
wasae may
fervently believe
as his muse
Lentch east We .may
Shakspere fondly h o
s comely
hope--we
the life of
was lofty. This we may hope and believe, but we know
that if we could combine all that his writings contain of
the beautiful and the sublime—if we could concentrate
all the excellencies even of his four superlative plays—
the Macbeth, the Lear, the Hamlet, and the Othello—there
would stillte orie prayer of humble faith, one governing
act of real self-denial, a beauty and sublimity after all
worthy of our admiration. But taking such feelings as
these for our safeguards, we may pass from the consi-
deration of Shakspere, as a man of whom we know but
little, to the consideration of him as an author, and of
whom in such a character we know much, and some of
those present have enabled us to know more.—(Cheers.)
For me to dwell upon the merits of Shakspere, would,
indeed, be gilding refined gold and painting the lily.—
(Cheers.) I have just alluded to my colleagties of the
London Shaksperian House Committee ; let me now
allude, for a moment, to my colleagues in another Com-
mittee, sometimes called the Cabinet. They are, as you
are aware, much occupied by pressing and anxious cares,
but I am glad that I have this opportunity of appearing
in this our short time of holiday, as their representative,
to declare 'how ready they feel to join in the mark of
homage which you are assembled to pay to the foremost
genius of the country. Luckily, on this occasion, we have
nothing to, do with the influences of party politics, but
there are 'scenes in which I think the Celebration of this
evening need not be wholly separated from the domain
of the wider and more comprehensive subject that may
be classed under the head of politics; for I will put it
to you—Have not the writings and the genius of Shaks-
pere contributed, in no inconsiderable degree, to aug-
ment the consideration and influence of England?—
(Cheers.) I myself feel that I could bear witness to
this when travelling amongst our Transatlantic brethren
of the great American Republic; for I foundt that, how-
ever willing any one might be to raise a
dispute about
the Maine boundary, or to pick a quarrel about the
Oregon, or to boast how they had licked the Britishers
of New. Orleans, yet I never found a single American
who was not eager to claim brotherhood with the coup.
many
trymen of Shakspere.—(Cheer I
Shakspere.—(Cheers.) And think
of you who live in this town must be cognizant of the
American
fact that the first thing that an does when he
lands upon our shores is not to see the splendour of the
of • •ce
s justice
or to run to examine the hall
or the Legislature—not to see the palaces of monarchy,
or the temples •
of religion—not to visit the more
rne.
turesque and romantic portions of our land, the northern
lakes, or the Scottish islands—but, sometimes even
before he has been to bed, he rushes to Stratford, and
asks to be shown the birthplace and the
grave of Shaks-
pere,i
or, in more metrical words than Lay
own, .hies
to—

" The dear scene where the Avon runs ever,
The birthplace, the grave, and the home of the bard."
(Cheers,)• But this impatience and ardour are not con-
fined even to those who speak the same language, and
who share the same blood. Even our French brethren
have by this time discarded at least those portions of
the heresies of Voltaire. And 45 for our Writ= kills-

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
George Cannon, Horton Kirby, Kent, common brewer.
Walter Ling, Laker.ham, Norwich, brushmaker.
William Sugden, Rochdale, Lancashire, blacksmith.
James Kirkman, Ainsworth, Lancashire, provision
dealer.
William Fane, Bedford, clerk.
John Adkins, Stock, Essex, baker.
Richard Barrett, Dengie; Essex, blacksmith.
William Douglas, Manchester, grocer.
William Anderton, Hulme, Lancashire, I:censed vic-
tualler.
John Law, Manchester, cotton waste dealer.
William Morgan, Manchester, dairyman.
Frederick Walker, Norwich, clerk.
William Wims, anchester, dealer in fruit.
Timothy Nichols, Brandon Parva, Norfolk, Niggler.
Robert Cocker, jun., Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire,
publican.
William Slader, Appledore, Devonshire, shoemaker.
Dyler Cooper Sadler, Great Yarmouth, bricklayer.
George Blake, Great Yarmouth, basketmaker.
Richard Gardiner, Reedham, Norfolk, cooper and fish