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

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 23.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Hight:
nesses Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, ei'
Buckingham Palace at a quarter-past 10 o'cl°cl,
this morning. and arrived at Windsor Castle
shortly after 11.
Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse dined With,
the Prince and Princess of Wa'es at Marlborouga
House yesterday evening.

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

LITERATURE.

lloitiledge's Shilling Shakspere. Edited by Charleg
Knight. One vol. ; pp. 761. George Routledge
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 14 a Pearl
of price, brought within the reach of all at th 3
cost of a few halfpence. A whole library in itself,
it can nevertheless be dropped into a side pocket or
stowed away in the corner of one's valise. Whe"t.
artist was it who said that The Bible, Shakspere'
and Vasari would suffice for him if he were con'
demnel to perpetual solitary confinement ? The
Bible and Shakspere would do, at a pinch, by the's'
selves. For, as the example,or rather as the archetype,
and all-comprehending representative of profane
literature, Shakspere's works are more than 3
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 e
quisite sonnets, each a cameo most delicately an,a,
wondrously carvelled—the " Rape of Lucrece,,,
the " Venus and Adonis," the "Lover's Complaint,
the " Passionate Pilgrim," the dainty song°
(set to their own music), the prologues, the
epilogues, the choruses the multifarione
emanations from the heart and intellect, the
genius and fancy of William Shakspere are more,
,
like the productions of a crowd of poets than n'
one man. Hence the fantastic theories put forth
at different times as to the authorship of wake
that it seemed impossible, simply impossible, ac-
cording to these theorists, for one man to hill°
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 Burps°
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 satisfae'
tory, but in no way whatever surprising, to kiinsg
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) IS
legible one-volumed reprint of the plays and poems
of our peerless Shakspere.

Irtisll ORANGErsm.--The Orangemen of Neel
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 point°
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." He had
received an invitation to attend an Orange meeting
at Waringstown, which several Roman Catholic!
had signed. He could not say whether there would
be any further prosecutions at the next 12th °'s
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 solitall
walks in the Forest of Fontainebleau, and making
experiments with the small portable pump which
has been used with so much advantage by the EDir
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 Akhbar•
relates that a lion a few days ago carried off
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 tbe
youngest stumbled and fell, and was caught up to
the jaws of the voracious animal. One of the other°
on reaching home died of fright.
On the 10th of July Mr. Fawcett will move'
" That, in the opinion of this house, Catholiat
Presbyterians, and other inhabitants of Ireland will
not be placed in a position of equality, in re'
ference to university education in that country's
with those who are members of the Established
Church, until all religious disabilities are removed
from the fellowships, scholarships, and other honour°
and emoluments of Trinity College, Dublin." k 3
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 religil
denominations, more particularly Catholics all
Presbyterians, shall be afforded by the State ego'
advantages in respect to education, and equal pro:
tection for their religious faith, to those now affordo
by Trinity College, Dublin, to the Protestant in'
habitants of Ireland." _

The Moscow Gazette expresses great alarm at the
large proportion of Polish officers still to be folio'
in the Russian army. It shows from official re'
ports that at the end of the year 1867 the totarl,
number of officers was 21,908, of whom 16,68
professed professed the Russian orthodox religion, 3,21
were Roman Catholics, and 1,531 Protestants.
in this case the terms Roman Catholic and I'°l°
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!'
he is " politically safe." Notwithstanding tills'
the Moscow Gazette considers that the proportil
of Poles in the army is still much too great, all
warns the Government not to fall into the s3lll
mistake as it did in 1863, when regiments oftleere
almost entirely by Poles were stationed in tllO
Polish provinces of the empire, in the Caucas43'
and in Siberia.
The French and Pontifical officers at Civitf
Vecchia gave a dinner on Friday in celebration °0
the Pope's accession. The foreign consuls and tilt
Pontifical delegate were present. General Dunl..l
presided. He proposed the health of Pius 1.1';
that venerable Pontiff, he said, whom the Emper°l
and France would never abandon. The raPtici
delegate responded by proposing " Health all
the
prosperity to the Emperor of the French/
Sovereign of noble and generous France, whe7,'"
her protection of the Pontifical throne, rendered
service to religion, order, and true progress." 0
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