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ceremoniously) as a monosyllable, like cere-elotbi
c:Tement." Illustrations of this being thereupon
tuldueed. by Mr. Staunton from the " Merry Wice4
of Wittdgor," " Julius emsar," " Midsutnraq
Night's Dream," " To give our hearts unite'
ceremony," " Not sorting with a nuptial core;
mony," " Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies.
This, simply, of course, in regard to pronunciation.
Now, by way of elucidation—ln the same plat,
" All's Well that End's Well" (act iv. scene 4), In
explanation of the passage " Yet I pray To;
but with the word"—upon which Blackstone haa,
suggested it should be read, "yet, I fray you' b''
with a word"—Mr. Staunton writes, " With much
diffidence we venture to suggest that yet apparenui
stands for now ; and that we should read—

" ' Yet, I pay you,
But with the word, &c.'"
" Now, I can only compensate your kindness bi
the word of promise; but the time approaches wile°
all that you undergo for my sake shall be substaw
tially rejected." Surely—most ingenious! In,
"Henry V." (act I. scene 1.) the phrase " all a'
once," which some have proposed to read "rail at
once," draws from the new editor the same " trite
phrase" of the Shaksperian age—found by
hini,
repeated in Sabie's " Fisherman's Tale," A.D. 15931
and Middleton's " Changeling" (act iv. scene 3)--
" She wept, she cried, she sobbed, and all at once,
" Does love turn fool, run mad, and all at once." ,
In the same play, " Henry V." (act iii. scene 5?,
Mr. Staunton suggests that "And for achievement,
should be read, " And, 'fore achievement." " The
import being," says he, "At sight of our army 0'
will be so intimidated as to offer us his ransoa!
before we have captured him." In "Pericles" (act
k
ii. scene 1)
" Their honour be but a goal.to my will,"
Mr. Staunton admirably observes, " This is OP
repugnant to both sense and harmony," adding'
"Surely we should read—
' Their honour be but equal to my will.' "
The suggestion comes like a flash of light upon the
text. Sometimes, however, we are very repugnant
to revert, as Shakspere's new editor wishes us, 9
an evident misprint in the earlier folio text. /1'1:
example, in that lovely opening.speech of the D.'
in " Twelfth Dub
Night," we cling to Pope's exquisite
suggestion that "south" should be substituted foe
" sound" in the familiar words—
',
0, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour I"
Nor can we recognise with Mr. Staunton tilie
necessity of understanding " south," if accepteuf
as meaning the " sough" or soft whiste
of the breeze, but rather. as what Pope understood
to mean literally the south wind, the sweet south'
Again, in that old enigmatical opening of " Cr°l
beline," we cannot bow obediently to the hint 00
the third line should run " Still sooners—do the
king's." An explanation of the passage as it star,originally in the old text has been given 'cm
lucidly (convincingly, to our mind) by a coniniel:
tator altogether overlooked in Mr. Staunton's fl
note. Ayscough gives the passage quit di°
rently, thus—

" You do not meet a man but frowns ; our bloods
No more obey the heavens than our courtiers',
Still seem as does the king's."
And to this bewildering passage Ayscough append!,
this footnote :—" Dr. Johnson observes that 01';
passage is so difficult that commentators may difret
concerning it without animosity or shame ; thoj
the lines stand as they were originally written, Olt
that a paraphrase, such as the licentious and abrar
expressions of our author too frequently requireci
will make emendation unnecessary. We do
meet a man but froupts; our bloods—our county
nances, which, in popular speech, are said to 1;
regulated by the temper of the blood—no 020
obey the laws of heaven—which direct us to apPer,
what we really are—than our courtiers, that
than the bloods of courtiers ; but our bloods, hhe
theirs—still seem as cloth the King's." Ayscour
adds that " Mr. Steevens is of opinion that blood al
pears to be used for inclination," and that "
Tyrwhitt proposes to make the passage clear by
very slight alteration—only leaving out the 106
letter." Dr. Johnson's explanation, however, 1,
ourselves hold fast by as perfectly clear and rationw
though, as we have seen, Dr. Johnson hims
confesses the passage to be "so difficult that coll 1;
mentators may differ concerning it without shall
or animosity." It were superfluous to follow t°
latest and by no means the least of these commely
tators through all the subtle windings and involir
tions of his searching new suggestive annoto:i
tions. They, sparkle abundantly at the foot °
many a page, helping to bring various hidde4.
beauties to light and to clarify here and there Or,
turbid current of the text. For these, many 43'e
them laborious, researches of Mr. Staunton, we 10
indebted to him as loving and reverential student"'
of Shakspere—indebted to him as we might be t°
the fabricator of some new refracting telescope
that enabled us to scan yet more clearly than before
the wonders of the starry heavens.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington left tag°
on Monday, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Duchess of Athole has left the St. George°
Hotel.
Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge left tqwil on
Monday, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
The Counts Elio3 and. d'Alton have taken theft
departure from the Brunswick Hotel, for Paris.
Sir Culling and Lady Eardley have arrived 11/
Claridge's Hotel, from Holwood, near Bromley.
Capt. Ramsay and Mrs. Ramsay have left t 1
St. George's Hotel.
DEATH OF THE EARL OF AYLESFORD.
regret to announce the demise of this nobleman, who expirl
OR Monday, at the family seat in Warwickshire, in his 72
year. His lordship was son of the 4th earl by a daugli&e
of the Marquis of Bath. He succeeded his father in 1814
and married in 1821 a daughter of the 2d Earl of Warricl''
His lordship was formerly Captain of the Yeomen of tll°
Guard, and has been Lord Steward of her Majesty's House'
hold. The title and family honours descend to his lordshiPl
son, Heneage, Lord Guernsey, who was born in 1824, nri
married in 1846 the only daughter and heiress of J. 1'
Knightley, Esq., of Offchurch, in the county of Warwick'
ROBBERY AT MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S.-011
Friday a person named George Blackman, who was de'
scribed as a market gardener at Higham, was charged be:
fore the magistrates at Rochester, with having stolen son;
hay from the premises of Mr. Charles Dickens, Gadshil
near Rochester. The robbery, it appeared, was of a ver;,'
impudent character, the prisoner first turning his horse
into Mr. Dickens's meadow without that gentleman's per'
mission, and then helping himself to the hay from tile
hay stack. A police-constable apprehended him, with
the hay which he had just taken under his arm. The to'
cused pleaded hard to be forgiven, but the Rev. Mr, Davie;
tho presiding magistrate, committed him for three dale'
imprisonment. isonment.—South-Eastern Gazette.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG SURGEO:‘,
—A melancholy accident occurred at the Norwich Dispea'
sary on Saturday evening, resulting in the death of INV'
Alfred Dowson, a gentleman 22 years of age, who had been
officiating during the last few days for his brother,
Arthur Dowson, surgeon of the institution. With the vie"
of giving himself an appetite for his supper Mr. Dowses"
it seems, took what he fancied was some tincture of orange
peel, but which really proved to be tincture of aconite. The
unfortunate young man misread the labels on the bottles,
one being marked " Tint. aurant." and the other " Tint'
aconite.' Having made this fatal mistake he ate sore°
bread and cheese for supper, conversed cheerfully, and re'
tired to rest shortly afterwards ; but he had not been long
in bed before he found himself in such pain that he got uP
and aroused the establishment. Professional assistance woe
soon rendered, but in vain as death soon terminated 111.4
sufferings. At an inquest held by Mr. Wilde, city coroner,
the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the above.

GIRL TRAMPLED TO DEATH IN GLASGOW
THEATRE.—A, very melancholy occurrence took place on
Saturday within the theatre at the Green, occupied by Mt'
Parry. It appears that on that occasion, and throughoilt
the whole day, performance succeeded performance in mina
succession, and that crowds were willing to go in so soon
as those in were ready to go out. From the pit there, aro,
two doors leading into a passage of considerable length, and
31feet wide,which in turn leads into Greenhead-street. These
doors are kept by a party who directs his attention solely to
the duties of that office. Shortly after, one o'clock, and oil
the conclusion of one of the performances, the keeper uw
locked one of the doors, and so great was the heedless rush,
out, that he was jammed between it and the wall, and could
not get freed. Meanwhile a girl, named Rebecca Montge'
mery, 13 years of age, and daughter of a shoemaker, resid-
ing at 2, Hall-close, South Pettigrew-street, being amonK
the first into the passage, somehow fell, within two yards ot
the door, and was run over by the crowd that madly fol-
lowed, and was only rescued after having been knocked in-
sensible, by the door-keeper, Charles Simpson, and other
members of Mr. Parry's company. She was imxnediatell,
conveyed to the shop of Dr. M'Carson, Saltmarket, but ILD
attempts to restore life failed, and the unfortunate girl w 55
handed over to her parents in the Central Police Chambers
a corpse. Mr. Parry has done everything in his power to
lessen the grief thus suddnenly brought on a mourning
family.--Glasgow Bulletin.

THE RIVAL OMNIBUS COMPANIES.—The long-
protracted disputes between the London General and Saloon
Omnibus Companies is now likely soon to reach a termina-
tion. At the last hearing of the charge of conspiracy at the
Westminster Police-court, on Thursday, the 23d ult., the
case was adjourned until the 12th inst., it being understood
that in the meantime the terms of an agreement of arbitra-
tion, as also the arbitrator to whom the whole matter should
b 3 referred, would be agreed upon. Since that time a more
amicable spirit has arisen between the representatives of
each company, and Mr. Vining, the solicitor for the Saloon
Omnibus Company, drew up a draft of the proposed terms
of reference, which has been submitted to, and with slight
alterations, approved of by Messrs. Wilkinson and Stevenet
the solicitors of the London General Omnibus Company,
it being finally agreed that the whole of the question and
matters in difference, with full and ample powers, should be
referred to Mr. Barstow, of the common law bar, who has
consented to undertake the reference, his decision and award
to be final. The agreement of reference as settled will be
forthwith signed, and the learned arbitrator will, before the
term, commence his sittings, and continue them day by
clay, to dispose of the matter with as little delay as possible.
Each company will be represented by counsel, but the ex
pense and inconvenience of the array of counsel for th
various defendants at the police-court-will be avoided, as th
reference will be strictly confined to the matters in dispute
—the charge of conspiracy forming no element in the
reference,