The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-22

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T1;u;;iES:s;.zrsncss 10. ~. TAI = ~.
The Alleged sAakspeare ferEeries.
From very able rsvisw Of tAs wnols s.o. ~.
Of censrovessy II sAis CO.. 70 Dc "unS !" ~.
&" ElSaswsA" 81 April. ~ ieaIa
were ussofs not aware Of aIsnousa
n.x. ~. =, - time matter 81 aotorlety
q. ~ ss,.-s.v vorDa thai Mr. n. T. 4. q
u v,rrom. Asstsmss Deputy Librarian N sns
pr;,,.N M.ssuu. has charged Mr.. OoLLm
win foresns no, oaly the corrections 10 bis
fo,,., bat other papers deposited In the State
om.s ali having connection with SaAKs.
prAs.. One Of these papers 10 the petition of
the players Of Biackfftar's theatre, first pub
li.hed BY CoLLlsR In An edition Of SRAKs.
rRAR., edited By himself. about twenty-five
years ago. II SCENE that Mr.. HAMILTON and
Sir FREDERICK MADDEN stated their suspi-
sions OF the esnuinsnsss Of the document In
quesaoa to the Master Of the Rolls, who or
dersd IN oslcial saquiry to be made. and APP
pointed the seesssys themsslcss. with Sir fkA"-
CTS PALoRAvs and two others, 70 make IT,
Not single o6icer Of the State Paper O"ce'
.who had the Gu .tody Of the document was
present" 1.-THE certificate Is signed by toree
off,csr, Of the Record Department, and ~ two
gentlemen wholly unconnected with that de-
partment. functionaries Of the British Mu-
scum. who were then engaged In prosecuting
that most crushing charge against Mr.. COL
L,xs. in connection with this very document
IN the issue OF which his character and theirs
was 90 seriously involved" OF course the
verdict was guilty, and that the whole trans
action might be consistent, not single reason
Is assigned for the conclusion At which the In
quest arrived, or the slightest account Of the
evidence which led to It. II II 10 tho custom
to leave oct all officers connected with the
custody Of the Rolls in such q case, the re-
viewer says Sir +. MADDEN might BE- . very
proper man, provided only he had had no pre-
vious connection with the con troversy; 'but,"
asks thu same writer, what place in 30 au-
gust com pany has Mr.. N E. S. A. HAMILTON,
sixth and junior assistant Of the third class in
the MS. department in the British Museum
1, his voice of official weight, in pronouucing
a portion Of the archives of this realm to be
genuine or spurious p The whole series OF
imputatious in connection with the document
under consideration, is in the meantime dis
posed Of By a simple letter from Mr.. LEMON,
assistant keeper Of the State Papers, who says
that the paper was we'll known both to him
self and his father long before Mr.. COLLIER
beesu his researches in the Office. Mr. LEMON
and his father had filled that Office for more
than half q century. HAMILTON had positive
" averred that this forgery, and that of the
folio were by the same hand! BY his own
showing, then, Mr.. COLLI8R IL guiltless OF
both. f-t-
In addition to this failure Of evidence, Mr.
COLLIER has the positive testimony in his
favor, Of the Rev. HENRY WELLESLEY, gen.
tleman, scholar and antiq nary, who is Princi.
pal OF New Inn Hall, at Oxford. This gentle.
man writes to Mr.. COLLIER as follows:
'woopMsNcerE .REcroRy, Hurstplerpo2nt
August Is, 1S39.-Sir: ALTHOUGH do not recollec
the precise date, remember some years ago beini
Wnen . csse Of books from the country had frs
script notes IN the m .rgin He observed to M
have taken 1t myself bat. a. he stated that he ha1
to examine it. nor did think any more about it
until heard Afterwards that, it had been found {.
probability Mr.. Rodd named it to me; but whethe
he or others did 80, the affair was Genevalis spoken
YOU has become the possessor of the book / am
III. WELLESLEY"
II having been shown by the evidence of Mr.
LEMON that the handwriting of the documen
ia tu6 IcCOI0 OHlCc was Aos AAA. OLAAHN
handwriting, aud that, therefore. if Mr.. Col
LIKR forged the notes they must have been thu
work OF a different person from him wht
wrote the State paper document, Mr. HAMIL
TON having staked his case, moreover, upoI
ahe identity of the two hands-it is eviden
that his testimony thus far is Of no value
whatever. But the line Of argument pursued
not only by hin, but by all CoLLIER's accussrs
nE 81 ThA~v h t<
be what his former editions Of SHAKsPEARl
amply testify, very bad editor and a mos
Indifferent commentator. His memory is very
imperfect, his understanding feeble, his com.
msnts rambling and disconnected, his style
puerile, his conceptions ridicule us. and his
cancellations confused and founded on no "a.
tional hypothesis. So they all say. And ye
they all admit that the huge system of forge
ries with which he is charged is the most in
genious ever deviaal by ne wit of man. How
can the two charges poaalbly co-exist! If i
be true that he is weak, shallow, vain man
how could he possibly have perpetrated 81
many forgeries with such astonishing vigol
and aptness7 For, let II be recoliected, tina
these forgeries number above twenty thou
sand. and that prodigious number are Of tn
most mioute character, very often useless al
change whatever in the accepted meaning o
the passage. For instance, German defende
of the corrected folio, who has never seen tn
volume ITSELF but only Mr.. CoLLIER's publ
cations, gives fifty zone instances in which tn
initial letter OF . word is altered, seven II
which il is added, eleven In which it is erased
thirty.four Of initial double coIsOrants al
tered. together with other letters, two hun
dred aud sixty.six of Anal letters yariousl,
altered and 4 proportional number of change
in letters between the first and the last. Doe
any man believe that . forger would under
take such an enormous amount OF uuneces
sary work in . forged hand and wri ting will
pa.ns instead Of mkt
Cotton Press 1T Memphis, and Diversion Q
tett0n - New Places Of Aaxpert.
The estAbiishNeat, about a year ago, of
cotton press, upoa an extensive scale, AT Mem
phis, Tennessee, has resulted in The diversion
Of large amount Ut that great staple Of IN
Soul ern Mississippi. from New Oa1eans I
other places Of export. The cotton press re
duces the bales nearly fifty per cent. In bull
aud thus they become available a. railwa
freight The same process which, ~ the sea
ports, 10 pecsssary In order 70 educe the bulk
aid loosely packed bales from the plantation
TO cauveneat dimensions, for stOrago In u
ships. will now have the effect OF arrestlng
larger amount Of cotton At Memphis, and {
distributing 1t to other places Of export. Al
ready the practicabiiity and influence Of TIL
movement havs bssa established. The Bait
more Americas says that large amounts q
cotton wers for uarded last season from Mem