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APRIL 23, 1850.

Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-

Elizabethan cottage for Sheridan Knowles—such as we
knew him ten years ego, when he prudently passed every
other glass of port (out of respect of the gout), but was in
other respects the most genial soul breathing Shaks-
perian
_alive. Whatever call" the honoured author
of Virginius may have had, he may depend on it that
none would become his lateit years so well as that of
officiating as the high priest at the shrine of Shakspere.
For he in fact—in spirit as well as fact—is the true
custedier of the relics of Shakspere. No other man
that we know of, since Shakspere's time, has more of the
spirit of Shakspere in him than Sheridan Knowles.! It
is a folly of him to abandon, his duty. He is pointed
out by, nature and by his compatriots as the proper
Keeper of the Remains. We will not flatter him by
saying here (as has often been said to him, in
green-rooms and galleries,. during the last five-and-
twenty years) that ho is Shakspere rediuivus.
No ; but we will say, with honest and . heart-
warm emphasis, that he has about him more
of the Shsksperian afflatus than any man we know—
that he is indicated by all lovers of Shakspere as the test
and most suitable High Priest at the Temple, and,
therefore (sickness and sudden calls notwithstanding),
we trust that dear old Sheridan will consent t.) do honour
to himself and England (net forgetting ould Ireland), by
becoming in due time the keeper of the relics of Shales-

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(From the First Number of the Leamington his.)
On this day two. hundred-and, eighty years ego, in a
humble apartment in a neighbouring town, was born the
greatest benefactor to the mind of modern Europe—
William Shakspere.
It is only fitting, therefore, that the pages cf a War-
wickshire magazine, commencing existence on this aus-
picious day, should contain some utterance of gratitude
and praise, however feebly and imperfectly expressed, to
him who has nut only made the county famous which
gave him to the world, but whose life labour,'—more
perhaps than any other single circumstance,—has made
the country of his birth hallowed ground to all the
civilized nations of the earth. For, wherever the light
of modern civilization has penetrated, the name of Wil-
liam Shakspere has been borne, refulgent with the
benignant radiance; end a herever, among modern na-
tions, the human intellect has found noblest utterance,
how much of the voice and thought of Shakspere min-
gles with the strain? Not only in England, America,
India, and all the wide scattered colonies wherein men
speak the language that Shakspere spoke ; bat
throughout thoughtful Germany, quick-feeling
France, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, with their sus-
ceptibilities keen as their icy winters, and
warm es their genial summers;—nay, throughout
even eghte Spain and Portugal, and mingling with the
splendid beabarism of the regions of the Shah, the rell-
age, tend the Czar, we hear the echoes of Shekspere's
voice, and find his thoughts distilling through the hearts
and minds of all these nations—civilising, purifying,
elevating them all! Nut to speak it profanely, and with
the liveliest recollection of what wo owe to Homer, Mil-
ton, Chaucer, Dante, and him chute death-day was that
of our Shakspere, as his genial genius was ef kindred
birth, Cervantes;—not ungrateful to the many -other
great, but lesser minds, to whom of late yeere we ewer i
so much of elevation and delight—not to speak it prop
fanely—to no other book except the Bible are the heart
and spirit of man so much indebted as to that which
Shakspere wrote.
It is the fashion of very distinguished men now-a-
days to say, that Shalt-spell-4 was a mind, whose gran-
deur was unseen in his owenend tie immediate succeed-
ing times; and that, as we must recede from a mountain
some considerable distance in order to perceive all its
magnitude, so it is only at this distance of time, and
with the aid of modern optics that his vastness and
grandeur come into full view. A compliment we suspect-,
this, to modern powers of vision, rather than to Shaks-
pere's genius or times! It neaskspere had been so
little appreciated, as American Emerson and some score
or two of the Poet's editors would have us believe,
whence arose the glorious first folio editions of his
works—the "tall copies" which book antiquaries are at
this moment hunting for all over Eon lend, as for price-
less gt ms? How is it that three never was a time since
Shakepere wrote, but that copies of his works were
in &mend, and booksellers were found to bring
forth new editions, and hire new commentators
,to
wrap-up like royal undertakers the illustrious
remains in lead? They say—cur great modern
essayists on Shakspere—that he was a man whom
Lord Bacon, his contemporary, never mentions in his
inventory of the men cf genius of his epoch, that Ben
Jonson, though he knew and seine what admired him,
uttered at his death merely a sonnet in his praise, par-
ticular:zing the fact that the dead immortal "had small
Latin endless Greek;" and that Sir Hen:y Wotton, who
lived during the whole of Shakspere'e manhood, and was
familiar, for upwards of twenty years after his death,
with all the distinguished men of that brilliant time,
never speaks of him the noblest of them all.
These great modern essayists farther say, that Cole-
ridge and Goethe a e the " only critics who haveex-
pressed oar convictions with anything like adequate
fidelity," and that former critics have been quite feeble
in ther appreciation of Shakspere. It may be very
true that the outburst of modern German literature
took place shortly after Losing had introduced, and
Wieland and Schlegel had translated, him into that
laiaguage,-- end it is doubtless title that none more
profeundly than Coleridge—" the rapt one of the god-
like forehead, the Heaven-eyed creature,"—dived into
the mind of Shakspere, brought from its serene
depths the glorious gems that sparkle there, and held
thern aloft to the common gaze of men. But it is just as
great a mistake, in our humble judgment, to ascribe
to the present age or to modern writers the full appre-
ciation of Shakspere's genius, as it was to ascribe tho
acknowledgment of the excellence of Milton's " Para-
dise Lest" to the Saturday papers of Addison in the
Spectator. In both cases the effect is taken for the
cause, and that cause was the exceeding and acknow-
ledged excellence of Shakspere and Milton. No, we
cannot join in this compliment to our own times, at the
expense of all those which have intervened between
us and Shakspere. The echo of his voice has been
heard—melodiously loud—through all thews ages. True,
it sounds louder to our ears at present, because we, the
modern listeners, are in the focus of the modern reflec-
tors of the sound. We hear only or chiefly the voices
of our own small circle of thee. But, at any period
during the lust century, editions, selections, beauties of
Shakapere, have been issued, appropriately prefaced by—
At no period of time has the study of Shakspere been
so universal as at present: nor is there any circumstance
more honourable to the good taste of the public." At
all times during the last, reading, century iu England, of
Shakspere's book it has been said—
" Age cannot wither it; nor custom stale
Its infinite variety."
And if, during the present volcanic times in literature,
editions of Shakspere, by the names of octavo, duode-
cimo, pocket, diamond, and pearl, follow each other
quick, thick and heavy like a thunder shower,"—this
is no proof that Shakspere is better appreciated now than
he was in the times of Raleigh, Southampton, Addison,
Johnsor, Goldsmith, Garrick, any more than the lint
that millions of Bibles issue from the press now, for hun-
dreds that were printed two centuries ego, is any proof
that the heart of Eughted is more religious now then
then. Alas, no ! What proof indeed—except the
ereater demand for his works, arising from the increase
in the population returns—is there that Shakspere is
more or to much appreciated as of yore ? Are
we to find it in the fact that the house
ts which ho was born—the Pilgrim Shrine of
genius, and of all lovers of genius for two centuries—is at
this moment in Pawn ? Are we to discover proof that
(he present enlightened, wealthy age, girlsappreciates
end worships this bright peculiar star of the intellect of
England, in the circumstance that after worlds of
anxious endeavour on the pert of local and national
committees; after feasts, fetes, lecturer, processions;
superhuman efforts of amateur dramatic novelists; a
literary Cabinet Minister made one of the custodiers of
the immortal relies; Houses of Parliament stirred on the
topic; active agitation throughout the country, runny
dinners eaten and digested; nay the whole English and
P
American press roused into paragraphic elequence,—the
object to be effected, the buying of a poor little brick house
in Stratford-on-Avon, is absolutely not yet achieved? All
this enthusiasm and sentiment, all this Parliamentary
and alter-dinner eloquence—all this playing of plays by
gentlemen dramatists—if all this has realty resulted in
our vast, intellectual, wealthy England, in the fact, that,
after all, this little brick house where Shakspere was
born, cannot be got out of the bands of the mortgagee
for the event of four hundred pounds ; if, this is, as it is,
the melancholy, pitiful, ridiculous fact, what pretence
have we for saying that we reverence and love Shak-
spere more than our fathers, or that we love or rever-
ence him at all ?
" Such graves as his aro Pilgrim Shrines,
Shrines to no code or creed confined ;
The Delphian vales, the Palestines,
The Meccas of the mind."
Yet, excepting the circumstance that two ladies
(while the old woman who kept the house was out) stole
away a portion of the poet's matnel-piece, and that many
royal, noble, literary, :and other notabilities, have
cheaply done honour to themselves by recording their
names in his visitors' book; and except that the Ameri-
cans have taken the opportunity of displaying their un-
fortunate peculiar national vanity by placarding with
unknown names—in large letters—the spots in the old
whitewashed wall of Shakspere 's house, whereon better
known names previously existed—except, in short, for
the various methods by. which people speaking the
English language have tried to make the house, name,
reputation, centrality of Shakspere, subservient in seve-
ral shapes to their own little personal glory, what proof
have we that men really reverence that shrine, or are
willing that it should be held in reverence? Well may
Sheridan Knowles, in despair and disgust, turn to the
highest shrine, seeing how the best earthly one is dese-
crated and deserted ;—forgetting however that, howso-
ever robbed of its Easter dues, and unhonoured by the
weakhy and the great (by the only honour they have it
in their power to give), from the shrine of Shakspere
issued more sayings in harmony with the Bible, and
' more truths which have kept Englishmen (bad us we
are) in harmony with the Bible, than ever issued
from any other earthly shrine or Prophet of
modern centuries. How much we owe to the
Bible for our escape from the perilous experiments of
revolutionary France and Germany, acme of us know
and acknowledge;—what we owe to Shakspere, as an
auxiliary and expounder of the Divine Truth, few
acknowledge, and yet (with all deference to those au-
thorised, expounders of that Truth who seem to deny
the beneficent influence of Shakspere in this matter)—we
believe that to him too—to his geniality, morality, and
piety—is, in no small degree, to be ascribed our escape
from the heartless, impious, unsocial dogmas which are
deselatieg continental society in our own days.
No, we do not believe that Shakspere was less he-
neared in his own, or any intervening age, than he is
now. Even the cold-eyed Queen Eliztheth,—stilt',
stately, and distant as Ale was,—round the icyness of her
nature thaw beneath the genial warmth of Shakspere's
genius;—she, who honoured few, honoured him. Spite
of the spirit of the age which made men think it
some sacrifice for a mortal coronetted Lord to associate
with the immortal son of a wool-comber, he had men of
honour and title among his friends. Now, how is it with
our Queen? How with Lord Carlisle and his peers? Let
the 4001. mortgage on Shakepere 's birth-ptace reply.
Our own belief is that neither Queen Bess nor Lord
Southampton would have consented to this national die-
grace; and would not only have purchased the humble
glorious brick-house, but have provided some pleasant

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pere.
Let England and America Lee that he is housed snd
honoured us such a trustworthy servant of the world
should' be; if he will indeed consent to fulfil this rule
which nature has evidently "cast" for him, and which
his country men, with the respect and love duo to his
honourable and genial nature, desire him to fulfil.

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SUSPECTED MURDER BY
POISONING.

Towards the end of last week reports were current
in Edinburgh and Leith of another murder having
been committed near this city, which have been
strengthened by the epprerenSion of a man,-reeiding
in Stead's. place, Leith-walk, and the disinterment
of his wiii, who was buried two days before. From
the gradual manner in which the various circumstances
have transpired, and from the closeness of all precog-
nitions and examinations in reference to the matter,
in which respect the law cf Scotland denies the full
and authentic information which in England is made
patent to the public, it is somewhat difficult to ascer-
tain and authenticate every particular, but we believe
the following statement may be considered accurate:—
On Friday week the wife of William Benson, a
moulder in Shotts Iron Foundry, Leith-walk, whO
resided in one of the old houses in Stead's-place, a
little' below Springfield, was taken suddenly and
seriously ill, and continued on Saturday and Sun-
day to retch violently and suffer severe pain. On
Monday last the poor woman died, and was buried
On Wednesday in ROsebank Cemetery ; but at this
time the cause of her illness was not •suspected,
and great sympathy was shown with the husband,
who expressed much happiness that his wife had died
in the full consolation of religion and confidence of a
happy transition to the world above.• But by a
fatality which seems to mark out all who die out of
nature's course; two dogs catering for food entered
the house of deceased, and shortly after died, appa-
rei.tly of poison, having in all probability partaken of
poisoned victuals in the house; or of what the unfortu-
nate woman had voided in her vomiting.
One of the dogs was the faithful companion of an
old mendicantdeprived of both legs, and who for above
a quarter of a century, has been seldom known to be
absent from his accustomed spot near the middle of
Leith-walk, where, in a little car, he is wont to sit pa-
tiently all day long, being duly drawn home by his ca-
nine friend as evening approaches. During the long-
period that this old man has been known to the
passers-by, he has, it is said, had but two doge, and
his last companion has attended him for a con-
siderable number of years. The other dog be-
longed•to a merchant in the neighbourhood. The
death of these animals gradually excited the most
painful suspicions and further investigation seemed
to warrant the apprehension of the husband of
the deceased, who on Friday was lodged in
the Calton Gaol, after an examination, in which
we understand, he admitted having 'purchOed a
quantity of arsenic about three weeks ago from an
apothecary in: Leith, for the destruction of rats. The
body of the deceased was the same day disinterred,
and the stomach examined, when it was found to con-
tain some arsenic, which unquestionably had been
the cause of her sufferings and death.
William Benson, whose behaviour was usually re-
tiring, if not forbidding, has generally borne a good
character, and both he and his unfortunate wife
were members of the Wesleyan Methodict Society,
and attended the congregation of that body at
the foot of Leith-walk. According to the testi-
mony, of a neighbour, be was never done praying
and singing, but the piety and integrity of his con-
duct have recently been rendered questionable by
injurious reports of his having paid undue atten-
tion to another female. It is also somewhat strange
that rats, for which Benson alleges having bought the
poison, have rarely if ever been seen in the building
in which he resided. Whether any circumstances of
weightier moment conspire against him we cannot
tell; but assuredly nothing that has yet publicly
transpired can be held as conclusive of the ques-
tion as to how and by whom the fatal poison was ad-
ministered.
The deceased was about 40 years of age, and of
quiet behaviour. She had but one child, a girl six
years of age, who, even at that tender age, was em-
ployed beside her father in some trifling work about
the foundry.
A precognition of parties having knowledge of the
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the ensuing year. Other gentlemen then addressed
the meeting in support of various resolutions in ac-
cordance with its object, and the proceedings ter-
minated after a vote of thanks to the Right Rev.
Chairman.

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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the. Paris journals of yesterday.
The PRESIDENT of the Republic and his Minis ters
feel severely the check which they have received in
the National Assembly on the Transportation
and they are more especially annoyed at it, because it
was inflicted on them by M. ODILON BARROT, as-
sisted by the Legitimatists.
It is now discovered that there is no truth in the
story of the Roman-like heroism said to have 3+een
exhibited by M. LECLERC at the barricades in June,
1848. It is true he had his son shot by
his side, but the rest of the story is a fabrication.
Nevertheless, M. LECLERC will most probably be re-
turned for Paris, inasmuch as, being a moderate Re-
publican, he is supported by General CAVAIGNAC and
his party from principle, while he is supported by the
Legitimatists from spite and to keep out FERDINAND
For, the Orleanist, and is accepted by the Orleanists
and Bonapartiste as "a pis alley. Nevertheless his
success, should he succeed, cannot be taken as an in-
dication of the popularity of the reactionaries. lie is
a Republican, and will owe a large number
of the votes which be may poll to that fact ; the
Cavaignacists, fur instance, who will poll for M.
LECLERC as against 111. EUGENE SUE would, had
the original .candidatures been persevered in, have
polled for M. Deromr (de l'Eure) as against M.
FERDINAND FOY. That divisions exist in the reac-
tionary camp of a nature so irreconcileable as to
preclude all chance of the restoration of monarchy in
France, and thus to consolidate the Republic by ren-
dering it an inevitable necessity is evident from an
article which appears iu the Journal des Debats, in
which the hatred to the Republic of those who have
sworn to serve it is naively admitted, while at the same
time the utter impotence of that-hatred is candidly
aclenowleged.
" Ask (says this journal) each party in turn to sacri-
fice the klepublic, and they will do so with the greatest
re•adiness, provided that the sacrifice turn to their own
adVantage. , If, however, his neighbour he the party to
profit by it, then he opposes all notion of the kind with all
his might, and for sake of preventing him from reaching
power, he employs an energy that fails him for his own
proper Accous,t."
The Debate then goes on to say—
" ;Since tteni the Repu'elic becomts necessary because
of our mutual jealousies, we beg to ask our friends of
tl'e Orleanist party, of tlio Legitimatise party, and of the
Bon.:aparttst` party, what is to be done? What is to be
done if you belitive with great reason that the actual
organization of the Republic compromises the safety of
seenly—what, unless to give to this inevitable Republic
inztitutions capable of defending and preserving society,
arid of accommodating it to the nature of our civiliza-
tion? What,' some of our allies will reply, and if
we do give Conservative institutions to the Republic, do
we not prevent the advent of what we hope?' There
may be truth in the objection, but we tell the enlightened
men of the party, if they have made up their minds not
to du anything in aid of the present, lest they should
co,npromise the future, that their resolution to do
nothing amounts to a resolution to perish, and to make
us perish with them."
The old Orleanist predilections of the ci devant
organ of M. Guizor break out towards the con-
clt,sion of the article in a selemen warning to the
Legitimatists, who are reminded that-7-
••• For eighteen years they laboured to overthrow the
constitutional monarchy of July, thinking that by K.
doing they would bring back legitimacy, instead of which
they have now got the Republic. Let them take care
lest, by now working to prevent the establishment of a
Conservative Republic, they are not working against
society itself I As their first effort produced the Re-
public, so their second may produce socialism. They
are, indeed, powerful to do what they do not desire to see
done."

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announced that Cardinal DUPONT has been
definitively appointed Ambassador from the French
Republic to the Holy See.
The 25th Regiment of the Line is about to leave
the garrison of Paris. The Presse says, within the
last fifteen days eleven privates of that regiment have
been transported to Africa fur holding democratic
opinions.
The National states that the corps of Sapeurs
Pompiers (firemen) of Paris are to be disbanded, in
consequence of their Republican opinions.
M. L' MILK OLIVIA, former Commissary of the
Provisional Government, and subsequently Prefect
of the Bunches du Rhone and of the Haute Marue,
was tried before the assize court of Draguignan
on the 13th instant, for having opened a political
club without permission. He was acquitted by the

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