The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-24 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

ASSAULTS ON THE POLlCE.—William Washington
was charged with assaulting Mary Anne, his wife,
and further assaulting Sergeant Arthur Mason,
24 1.3.

Sergeant Mason said the wife was not in attend-
ance. At seven o'clock he was in Regent-street,
Westminster, and saw the prisoner and his wife.
The prisoner suddenly turned round and struck his
wife a tremendous blow in the mouth, which bled
very much. She gave the prisoner in charge, and
ho held him by the cuff of the coat ; prisoner
began scuffling; threw him twice, and tried to get
his hand in his stock, but Davis, 234 B, came to his
assistance and prevented his doing so.
Prisoner said his wife aggravated him, and he was
sorry he struck her ; he did not intend to assault the
constable.

Mr. Arnold fined him 20s. or 11 days for the
assault on the sergeant, and ordered him to find
bail to keep the peace to his wife for six months.
Gustavus Adolphus Whalebone, a cab-driver,
13,950, was charged with being drunk and assault-
ing Sergeant Bone, 7 B, while in the execution of
his duty.
The Sergeant said the prisoner was drunk and
beating his horse in Tothill-street, Westminster,
and he followed him down his master's yard.
The prisoner jumped off the box and said, " Take
that, you --," and struck him in the mouth ;
the sergeant closed with him, and the prisoner
threw him, severely injuring his head; the washer
and Mr. Downey, his master, came, but could not
get him off the sergeant, and he was so violent, and
kicked so much, that the latter was obliged to draw
his staff and use it freely.
Prisoner denied the charge, and contended that
the constable had no right to follow him into the
yard, and he should have taken his name in the
street. The constable shook him, and they fell
together.
Mr. Arnold convicted him of misconduct as a
hackney carriage driver, committed him for two
months' hard labour, and revoked his license.

The Commissioners on International Coinage
held a meeting yesterday, at 6, Old Palace-yard. Present
—Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P.
Colonel the Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten, M.P., the Right
Hon. S. Cave, M.P., the Right Hon. M. Longfield, Sir
John Lubbock, Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P., the Gover-
nor of the Bank, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Hubbard, M.P.,
Mr. Thomspn Hankey, M.P., Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., the
Astronomer Royal, the Master of the Mint, and Mr. Rivers
Wilson, eecretary.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 23.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, left
Buckingham Palace at a quarter-past 10 o'clock
this morning. and arrived at Windsor Castle
shortly after 11.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse dined with
the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough
House yesterday evening.

The Princess of 'Wales drove out yesterday,
attended by Viscountess Welden.

LITERATURE.

Routledge's Shilling Shalcspere. Edited by Charles
Knight. One vol. ; pp. 761. George R)utlelge
and Sons, London and New York.

This exquisitely printed volume is to our mini
the most wonderful triumph yet achieved is
the way of cheap literature. It is a pearl
of price, brought within the reach of all at the
cost of a few halfpence. A whole library in itself,
it can nevertheless be dropped into a silo pocket or
stowed away in the corner of one's valise. What
artist was it who said that The Bible, Shakspere,
and Vasari would suffice for him if he were con-
demned to perpetual solitary confinement ? The
Bible and Shakspere would do, at a pinch, by them-
selves. For, as the example,or rather as the archetype
and all-comprehending representative of profane
literature, Shakspere's works are more than a
microcosm. They are not so much a world in little,
as they are the world itself, clearly and marvellously
reflected. Massed together, they form " one entire
and perfect chrysolite." Examined each apart from
the rest, every separate work is a masterpiece.
Hamlet, The Tempest, Macbeth, King Lear,
Othello, would, any one of them, alone, have
made the fame of a great poet, of one of the
world's greatest poets and dramatists. Emanating
all from the same brain, and together with them
all the comedies, all the tragedies, all the historical
plays—the whole of the hundred and fifty-four ex-
quisite sonnets, each a cameo most delicately and
wondrously carvelled—the " Rape of Lucrece,"
the " Venus and Adonis," the "Lover's Complaint,"
the " Passionate Pilgrim," the dainty songs
(set to their own music), the prologues, the
epilogues, the choruses the multifarious
emanations from the heart and intellect, the
genius and fancy of William Shakspere are more
like the productions of a crowd of poets than of
one man. Hence the fantastic theories put forth
at different times as to the authorship of works
that it seemed impossible, simply impossible, ac-
cording to these theorists, for one mac to have
produced. And now to have all these astonishing
masterpieces clustered together in a single
volume, exquisitely printed, and purchasable
for one shilling—surely nothing could surpass
that in the way of cheap literature. Here, in truth,
is The Splendid Shilling—not in John Phillips's little
obselete poem so entitled, but in this extraordinary
edition of the works of Shakspere, published by the
Messrs. Routledge and edited by the best of all
Shakspere's editors, Charles Knight, also the very
best of all Shakspere's biographers. It is satisfac-
tory, but in no way whatever surprising, to know
that already 50,000 copies of " Routledge's Shilling
Shakespere, edited by Charles Knight," have been
ordered by the trade. It is only an immense cir-
culation that can ever reimburse the munificent
outlay involved in the production of so intrinsi-
cally costly and yet at the same time so astonish-
ingly cheap a publication as this latest, completest•
compactest, yet for all that (in keen eyes) most
legible one-volumed reprint of the plays and poems
of our peerless Shakspere.

Lam ORANGEtsm.--The Orangemen of Newry
have made a presentation of a timepiece to Mr.
Johnston, of Ballykilbeg, which suggested to him
in his speech subsequently to advise the brethren to
" regulate all their hours by William's (the Third)
clock ; and, above all things, when the hour points
to twelve, to remember the 12th of July, 1690."
They must tell the Government, no matter who
may be Prime Minister, that they cannot afford to
disregard the Protestant voice of Ireland." lie had
received an invitation to attend an Orange meeting
at Waringstown, which several Roman Catholics
had signed. He could not say whether there would
be any further prosecutions at the next 12th of
July. " The Government," he imagined, "would,
if they had it again to do, think twice before send-
ing Johnston of Ballykilbeg to prison." Three
clergymen spoke on the occasion.
A correspondent of the Nord mentions that the
Emperor Napoleon is very fond of taking solitary
walks in the Forest of Fontainebleau, and making
experiments with the small portable pump which
has been used with so much advantage by the Eng-
lish in Abyssinia. It is said that his Majesty has
discovered by its means a sulphur spring in the
forest.

A letter from Aumale, Algeria, in the Akhbart
relates that a lion a few days ago carried off a
young Arab girl of five years. Three native chil-
dren were playing near a Kabyle mill, inhabited by
their parents, not far from Bouira, when a lion
suddenly appeared. All took to flight ; but the
youngest stumbled and fell, and was caught up in
the jaws of the voracious animal. One of the others
on reaching home died of fright.
On the 10th of July Mr. Fawcett will move--
" That, in the opinion of this house, Catholics,
Presbyterians, and other inhabitants of Ireland Win
not be placed in a position of equality, in re-
ference to university education in that country'
with those who are members of the Established
Church, until all religious disabilities are removed
from the fellowships, scholarships, and other honours
and emoluments of Trinity College, Dublin." As
an amendment to Mr. Fawcett's resolution, Sir
Joseph M'Kenna will move to leave out all after
the word " until," in order to insert the words " her
Majesty's subjects in Ireland, of various religious
denominations, more particularly Catholics and
Presbyterians, shall be afforded by the State equal
advantages in respect to education, and equal pro-
tection for their religious faith, to those now afforded
by Trinity College, Dublin, to the Protestant la'
habitants of Ireland."

The Moscow Gazette expresses great alarm at the
large proportion of Polish officers still to be found
in the Russian army. It shows from official re-
ports that at the end of the year 1867 the total
number of officers was 21,908, of whom 16,685
professed the Russian orthodox religion, 3,211
were Roman Catholics, and 1,531 Protestants. As
in this case the terms Roman Catholic and ole
are synonymous, one-seventh of the officers in the
Russian army are Poles. This is a somewhat
smaller proportion than existed two years ago, the
Government having since the Polish insurrection
refused to appoint any person as an officer unle.se
he is " politically safe." Notwithstanding thi°'
the Moscow Gazette considers that the proportion,
of Poles in the army is still much too great, an
°
warns the Government not to fall into the sate°
mistake as it did in 1863, when regiments officered
almost entirely by Poles were stationed in. the
Polish provinces of the empire, in the Caucasl-14,
and in Siberia.
The French and Pontifical officers at Civi°
Vecchia gave a dinner on Friday in celebration 0,
the Pope's accession. The foreign consuls and tho
Pontifical delegate were present. General Dune
presided. lie proposed the health of Pius
that venerable Pontiff, he said, whom the ErePer°l
and France would never abandon. The Papa
ci
delegate responded by proposing " healthW
prosperity to the Emperor of the French/ tho
wh
Sovereign of noble and generous France, 0, v
her protection of the Pontifical throne, rendered
service to religion, order, and true progress."
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