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6 SHAKESPEARE Americans in England at the Birthplace of the Poet-Dramatist. PLEASANT MEMORIES AT THE SHRINE, “Giving a Gentle Kiss to Every Sedge. An Interesting Discussion—“Who Wrote Shakespeare 2” Lonpon, August 25, 1874. In their acquaintance with Shakespeare the Americans stand next to tne Germans, in their | love for him next to the English. It is not sur- prising, therefore, that after having exhausted the gayeties and the commercial wonders of the metropolis, one of their first visits should be to the little Warwickshire town where he was porn, and where he died, and to the lovely surrounding country which, more than any other part of the island, {8 associated with his boyish freaks and escapades of his man days’ work. shire are situated not merely Stratford-upon-Avon, which may be looked upon as the Shaxespearian hub, but Kenliworth, surrounded by the rich halo of romanee by Sir Walter Scott; Coventry, with its memories of Peeping Tom and Lady Godiva, so gracefully | resuscitated by Tennyson; Rugby, whose far-famed school has produced so many famous men; Leam- {ngton, one of our most fashionabie spas, and Warwick itself, with its castle, ‘tbat fairest monu- ment,” as Scott calis it, “of ancient and chival- rous splendor,” which yet remains uninjured by time; though since Scott wrote a disastrous fire infiicted upon it some injury, which, under the akuful hands of another Scott—Sir Glibert, the great architect—is now most successfully restore. Access to these places is easy, on the main line or on connecting artertes of the Great Western Railway, within a couple of hours’ | ride of London. AT STRATFORD-UPON- AVON, } The tourist's steps will probably be first bent towards Stratiord itself, and there, in a quiet and pleasant old town, so thoroughly English in its character, he will find excellent accommodation | atthe Red Horse, a clean, quaint, old-fashioned | inn, in which Shakespeare himself mignt have In Warwick- | they all lie either | some ten years ago, when I made my pherimage to Stratford, one of the most genial and hospitable | ff men, left the place soon rward and is since ead ; but I believe the same clerk remains, and visitors will find in him a most excellent cicerone, who, while thoroughly versed in his sub- Ject, is modest and unassuming, aud Without the Slightest tendency to bore. Poet's great imend, John & Combe; but in the presence of the pervading genius of the place one ig not inclined to bestow on them any attention. As washington Irving has truly sald, “The mind | reluses to dweil on anything that is not connected ‘ith Shak are. This idea pervades the place— the whole pie seems but as his mausoleum. The feelings, no longer checked and thwarted by doubt, here indulge in periect confidence. foreveen that beiore many years he svouid return to it covered with renown; that his name shot 1d become the boast and glory of his native piace; that nis ashes should be religiously guarded as its Most precious treasure; and that its lessening | spire, on which his. eyes were fixed in teariul con- templation, should One day become the beacon, towering amidst the gentle landscape. to guide the literary pilgrim of every nation to tis tomb! Alfieri, Virgn, and others of first writing ia brief. then cetensing, and finaily of subjecting the wuole to rigid correction, the author remarks;— Where is the record tn all literary history of extended compositions like these dramas having been spun out in | this Arachne-like fashion ? Common actors might posal- Diy believe or imaxing that thelr (aeetious manager, amidst the daily bustle of the theatre, and in the tew Eours of leisure which they could snatch trom business OTHBR MONUMENTS, | or trom sleep, out of his mirac vention, aud with There are other pandsome monuments in Strat- the inspi rei pen of born genius could dash offs "am ford church, notab! ‘che memory of the let’ ora “Lear” as easily as twinkle nis eye. He maintains that the judictous judge and critic must rather turn his search to the retired cham- bers of Gray’s Inn, to the lodge at Twickenham Park or to the jens at Gorhambury, where sat brooding in silence and in private the great soul that had taken “all knowledge for his province.” In the “Return from Parnassus,’ 1606, act v., scene 1, one siudioso, going aside, says :— Retter it is ’mongst fidalers to be chiefe, Other traces of him may be false or dubious, Then at plaiers’ trencher beg reliere. bat here is palpable sy yidence ‘and absolute Pt pea . . . . ° ee certainty, How would it have cheered the England affordes those glorious a. spirit of the youthful bard, when wandering fort That carried erst their tardels On thele ecko, in disgrace upon a aoubtfal world he cast back 4 | = Coursers to ride on through the gazing streets, heavy look upon his paternal home, could be have Sooping it in their glaring satten sutes, And pages to attend their maisterships. With mouthing words that better wits have framed, They purchase lands, and now esquires are mad It is somewhat singular that Shakespeare was the only one of his profession who by pecuniary successes Was enabled to purchase lands, and by himself by its descent an eaquire, 1601. That Shakespeare was uptversally reputed to have been the author of the “Sonnets,” aud that A POINT OF PEACEFUL REUNION IN THE NATION- “othe ar which does not There is no portion of the ye! bring Its Proportion of tourists to the Shakespeare country, and in summer time especially you may fod pilgrims of ai) nationalines wandering along | the world-famous banks of the Avon, that lovely | stream which in its rapid and ever-lmpetuous | | course winds along throngh arich and beautiful | | country, bow expanding into broad, glassy pools, | now Making sweet music with the enamelled stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every seage He overtaketh in his pugriwage. In its course it fows through the noble park of Stoneicigh, expands into a Deautiiul Jake at Guise | Clif (where, according to the old legends, Guy, Earl of Warwick, retired from the pleasures of am- bition and love, scooped bimseif @ cave out of the | rock and died), washes the base of Warwick O: tie and winds through the grounds of Chariecot Park, whence Shakespeare 1s said to have stolen | Sir Thomas Lucy’s deer, Then atter many @ tu | Ing it fows ina broad and placid stream pa: Stratford, ungering, PR tel site of the poet's | grave, and wanders through scenes the natural | | Teatures of which have suffered little change since the tume of Shakespeare, | WHO WROTE “SHAKESPEARE?” | pis abe tekwledtats (From Fraser’s Magazine.] The late Lord Palmerston maintained that the | Plays of Shakespeare were written by Lord Veru- | | lam, who passed them of under the name of an | actor, for tear of compromising his professional evidence tending to show that the trary was known, or, at least, strongly suspected, by some rsops at the time of their publication. Dyce gtves warn- ing that the allusions scattered through the whole series Ol sonnets are not to be hastily reterrea to the persoual circumstances o1 Shakspeare, although “une or two of them reflect his genuine feelings.” Mr. Hattiwell observes :—“It ig remark- able that contemporary writers refer to them (the sonnets) muck oltener than to the plays.’ A writer on this subject an the Athenjum (Sep- vember 13, 1858) remarks :— There is the one great tact to begin with—sh: are never claimed thé plays as his own he posae he Shakespeare was unquestionably the dramas which were theatres and at court, and died without seeing the most Temarkable seriés of intellectual works that ever issued. irom the brain of man set in the custody oi type. Atalater stage the author explains in extenso his views ior piaiitalning that ‘“Lucrece” and “Venus and Adonis" were dedicated to Southamp- ton, uncer the name of Snakespeare, as an ar- ranged and designed cover for the real ‘author, ments of shakespeare must depend upon the internal personal history. research, undertook to produce @ list of the iraus- lations of ancient authors known to have existed prospects and philosophic gravity. During the past eight years evidences of Lord | Palmerston’s theory have been accumulating in | skilful hands; but by far the most masterly work upon the subject is that of the Hon, Nathaniel Holmes, Judge and Professor of Law in Harvard University, Cambridge, Unitea States of America. | tarried, and which very probably served him as a model for that famous hostelry where the two car- Tiers stopped on the night of the Mad Prince's ex- Pedition to Gadsuill, The birthplace of the poet is a small building, of humble but ancient appear- ance, situated in Henley street. A board, which | formerly stood over the projecting window on the | ground floor, bearing this inscription, “The immor- tal Shakespeare was born in this house,’ has been | removei. The house, humble though it now ap- Pears, must at one time have been of some im- | portance, As was common in ancient days, it was | subdivided, though the exact date when this was | done is not known, One half of it was known as | Matdenhead Inn in 1642; the other half was long | ased as a butcher shop, and was divided about 1807 into two parts, the shop and a dwelling house. It isin the half originally used as a butcher shop that, according to the universal tradition of the town, the greatest poet the world has ever known was born. Bequeathed in his will by the poet to bis sister Joan, the wife of William Hart, the bulld- (ng remained in possession of the Hart family till 1806, when it was sold to Thomas Court, the landlord | of the Maidenhead Inn. In 1847 the house was put ap for sale, when, in consequence of a powerful appeal made to the ieelings of the nation by the public press, prompt and vigorous measures were andertaken to secure this inestimable relic as pud- lic property, and it was purchased by the agents of the fund for a little more than £3,000. Shake- speare’s house is thus the property of the English nation, and another fund, raised in 1861, and the | are the “Proo.s” of the theory, which lead to tue | | succeeds @ series of “Models,” His book—the “Authorship of Shakespeare,” an upon scientific rather than circumstantial evi- | dence, and ts logicaily divided into parts, begin- | ning with the ‘“Preliminaries—Shakespeare and | Bacon,” which settle, so far as the researches of | that day were concerned, their relative itves, edu. cations and occupations. Immediately following | next department—“More Direct Proofs.” Then “Philosophical Evidences” and the “Spiritual Illumination,” | while the ‘Couclusion’’ contains a treatise upon the “Philosopher and Poet.” Under the first head—*The Early Life of Saake- speare’—our author concludes that, beyond that primary instruction which could be obtained at the tree grammar sclool at Stratford, in which Latin was taught by one of the masters, it is pretty certain that Suakespeare had no education from public institutiuus or from private tuition. Mich is the view maintained by the mass or the biographers, with the exception of Lord Campbell, Messrs. Rushton, Heard and others, who would have seven years Of the poct’s life, after his sud- den witidrawal {rom school at tne age of fourteen, devoted to the study of the law; Dra. Buckaill and | Stearns, an equal amount of time to the acquiring of the medical art; while Bishop Wordsworth con- cludes his tnteresting work with the remark:— “Take the entire range of English literature, put together our best authors who have written upon | Subjects pot professedly religious or theological, | and we shall not tind, I believe, in tuem ail united | | Lucian; besides that, tentive ‘student that’ this author drew materials, ideas | . from the tragedies of sophocies | im the English tongue in the time of Shakespeare, as a source Oo! ali his classical erudition— But it falls far short ot furnishing @ satistactoryexplan- | does he appear to have declined the honor of ation of the matter, in our day. and in the face ot nun ous instances to the contrary, scarcely leas decisive t this one, that the ‘Timon of Athens’ turns out to have been tounded in great part upon the translated Greek of it as now ci and even e9 pressio and Eurtpides, Latin of Ovid, nd even Plato, no less than from the Virgil,” Horace, Seneca and Tacitus | octav a 0 8 | **'s “apparently with the utmos indifference to the avo of 600 pages—seoks to ground this beuet question, Whether they had ever been translated into | Ng.ish oF not, Indeed, Rowe found traces in Shakespeare of the “kiectra” of Sophocies; Colman, of Ovid; Pope, of Dares Phygius, and other Greek authors; Farmer, 01 Horace and Virgil; Malone, of Lucre- | tius, Statius, Catuilus, Seueca, Sopnocies and Euripides; Sieevens, of Plautus; Knight, of the “Autizone” of Sophocies; and White, of the “Alcestis” of Euripides. Mr. Coiman notes tne fact as quite certain that the author of the “Taming of the Shrew’? nad at leastread Ovid, irom whose “Epistles” we find ‘Unese lines :— Hae ibat Simots; hie est Sigeta tellus; Hic steterat Priami regia celsa sens. In the same tract occurs Ben Jonson's cele- | brated charge of Shakespeare's “small Latin and less Greek,’ a8 seemingly absolutely to mity judge from our own ume, a m Greek iy seldom without a very | Latin. On the other hand, Mr. Dyce remarks :— I believe. however, Jonson’s meaning to be—that to | his comparatively slender knowledge of Latin, shake- | Speare never added any acauaintance with the Greek; | ana such, Iam persuaded, was the case. ‘The “Comedy of Errors’ was little’ more than a | reproduction, in. @ different dress, of the ‘Men- | ech” of Piautus, also an author frequent | quoted by Bacon. The first performance of the piay took place during tne Christmas revels, 1594, on which occasion it 1s historically certain that , Bacon farnisted, at least, a masque, and as our author attempts to prove, this play also; and there ‘was no English translation of the “Menachini” | before 1595. The masque alluded to is | described and attributed to Bacon by Mr. Spedding. Kitson maintains that the “Comedy of Errors’? Was not originaily Shakespeare’s, put roceeded irom some playwright Who was capa- So much evidence of the Bibie having been read and used as we have found in Shakespeare alone.” Indeed, one commentator asserts that volumes admission fee of sixpence each person, provides — for its proper preservation and repair. Passing | | May b> filled, severally, witn proois oi the dram- through the room on the ground floor, a somewhat | oles familiarity with nieaudien: farming, bare and dreary apartment, the visitor climbs | gardening apd domestic economy; military aud @ winding wooden staircase into the room | B4Utical ulfairs, the flue arts, trade, poilucs aud | where Shakespeare was born—a 1} tinged, small windowed room, tolerably well rogues. oS ee a eed bt ror the i . exhaustive knowledge oi vourt etiquette of whicn ee Wie Scat Sirtaatey aally 8 Nee SIRt| ie plays give evidence, which would be quite ag | bethan fireplace and with rough whitewashed | hazardous for untutored manipulation as matters | walls, on which a white space now, however, can | oi tue Ve profession; as hy thedaornl Lord bigs pong | says :—‘*ihere is nothing 80 dangerous as for one scarcely be seen between the million autographs | OOf'or tne crait to tamper wish uur free masonry,” | pencilied over them by pilgrims and strangers. | {hese historical facts are adduced to prove that | “These autograpns,” says Washington Irving, in | his charming paper on Stratford in the “sketch | Bpeare | ble of reading the “Menccomi” without a transla- | tion. While Capell very justly remarks:—“If tne | poet had not dipped into Plautus, surreptus nad | never stood in his copy, the translation having no | Such a@agnomen, but calling one brother simply | ‘Mencechmus,’ the other ‘Sosicies,’’ taken trom the stories oj Cinthio, Boccaccio and Betleforest, which “are not known to have been translated into English.’ He, however, admits that one volume oi Patnter’s translation oi the “Histoires Tragiques’ and Florio's “Montaigne”? Were in existence a8 early as 1603, Of these mod- ern languages Mr. Dyce apprehends taat Shake- ‘knew but little,” while Mr. Grant White afirms, be sure, at Stratford Grammar Schvol,” the boy William could have received no “private tuition” ie parental her ane eae the fatner | bequeathed not so much as @ printeu page to nis | Book,” “present a simple and striking instance of na t rie "3 the spontaneous and universal homage oi man- kind tothe great poet of nature.” The signature of the great American author himself and that of Sir Walter Scott are invariably pointed out to visitors, and on other parts of the wails and in the visitors’ book wili be found autographs of Many of the most illustrious men and women of the age. The panes of the Little window, too, are scratched all over with the names of visitors. In the adjoining room & a fine oll portrait of Shake- speare, presented by the late Mr. W. 0. Hunt, Town Cierk of Stratford, who devoted his life to the collection of Shakespearian miscellanea; and in another portion of the house isa museam of Shakespearian relics, containing copies of the | oldest editions of the poet’s works now extant, | and everything illustrative of his life and of the | time in which ne lived. No tradition points out the room in New Place, the house which he subse- quently occupiea, where Shakespeare died, and | some lines tn allusion to this tact Were written on the wall of the birturoom in 1821, but bave lon; since been obliterated. They run as iollows:— THE PORTIO CHRONICLE. ‘The mighty shakespeare’s birth the room we see, that where he dicd in vain to find we try, Ureless the search —for all immortal he, And those who are iminortal never die, Tn Gue rear of the house is the garden, a quaint | of his exalted muse that Mr. Halawell considers | vid pieasaunce, careiuily kept and planted with the particular flowers ailuged to in tie Nap datt ot Shakespeare, which wil not be dificult sor the fanciful mind to depict. NEW PLAOR. Turn we now to New Place, the site of Shake- speare’s residence during the latter part of his { tue. He purchased the mansion which formerly stood here in 1597, When he was only thirty-three years of age, and here he died in 1616. Although | few traces of the original building now remain, the ground on wich it stood has been pur- chased for the public and is well kept; a large mulberry tree which had been planted by Shakesveare’s own and, and which stood in the garden, was shown py Sir Hugn Clopton, to whom the propert: then be. longed, to Mackin and_ Garric! in 174%, After sir Hogh’s death, in 1751, this property was purchased by the Rev. Francis Gastrell, who, tax- ing umbrage at the number of visitors desiring to | © see the house and grounds which possess such a universal interest, in 1758 ordered the mulverry tree to be cut down and the louse razed w the ground. at this act of Vandalism that the iconoclastic di vine had to leave Stratford in the dead of the night amid upiversal rage and curses, THE POET'S GRAVE. To us, bowever, the memorial of Shakespeare by | far exceeding the birthplace in interest is the grave in the parish church, The church itself, a structure of unusual beanty, tapering spire, is approached nue of Lateef lime trees, while the deep, silent Avon meanders past its chancel windows. In the chancei, the most perfect and beantitul part of the fabric, is the grave of Shakespeare. It is afew paces from the wail, in front of nts famous monu- Ment, Which stands about five feet from the = The grave is covered over by a plain jagstone and bears the well known inscription :— Good frend, for Jesus’ sake forbeare To digge the dust encloased here. Bleste be ye man yt spa And curst be he yt mc The monumentai bust, supposed to be the only really trustworthy and original representation of the it, i placed under an arch between two Corinthian columns o: black marovle. The bast is ‘the size Of lile, and is painted over in imitation of are, The hands and face are of flesh color, the eyes of a light hazel, the hair and beard auburn, the doublet, or coat, is scariet and covered with & loose biack gown, Without sieeves. The upper part of tne cushion On Which tie hands rest is green, the under half crimson and the tassels pit, The poet ia represented with a pen tn lis right hand and a scroll in his left. Tradition ts that the bust ‘was copied from a cast after nature, It now ap- Lott? In the colors in which it was originally inted, bat in 1793 at the desire of Mr. Matone, the | Frigg ati ee a ite paint was re: . Ber at coloring carefully restored. ‘The Rey, the parish al coloring Goocue’ uraaville, who was Vicar of The rage of the inhabitants was so great | with an exquisitely | nae Sy @ thick ave- | | son. The assertion is made that there exists no writ- ten compositions Of Shakespeare belonging to the time previous to bis going to Loudon, und no proof that there ever Was any, except @ mere tradition of @ lawwpoon upon Sir Thomas Lucy, of which no | Scrap has been authentically preserved. “The verses which later traditions have attributed to | him, whether as tragments of this supposed Iam- poou OF as epliaphs and epigrams written toward the close of his career are, as any one may see, but miserable doggerel at the best, and might have been written by the sorriest poetaster.”’ Shake- Speare is suid by Rowe and Aubrey to have made in lace liie the weil known lines upon Joun-a- Combe, witch effusion the biographers vainly aitempt te blot irom their memories. Mr. Richard Grant White is constraiued to remark, “I am inclined to think that he (Shakespeare) did crack this innocent joke | upon his friend, using, as he would ve likely to | use, an old well known jest, and giviug it a new turn upon the money lender’s name. Mr. Dowdali, im an existing letter to Edward Southweil, dated April 10, 1692, remarks that Shakespeare’s epitaph was written by tue poet himsei! a little beiore lig death. Furthermore, it is mentioned by Mr. Steevens, as # singular cir- | cumstance, that “shakespeare does not ap- to have written any verses on contemporaries, eltner in praise of | the living, or in honor oi the dead? There are, however, several verses in existence attributed to Shakespeare which are so unworthy them as necessarily implying “a deteriorauop of power for whicn no one Las assigned @ sufficient reason.” Several of the leading essayists upon Shake- Speare are quoted wlio were unable to find agree- | ment in the accounta of vue poet's strange Bohemian life and the products oi his genius, which have become aa it were the very spine of Modern literature. | | The German critic Schlegel, equally amazed at the ex- tent of the knowledge and the depth of the philosophy ot these piays of Shai thor of which he could not but conside: id mastered * indeed, the bare propomtion th: man, his arrival in London, at the age of twenty-three, with only such @ history a we possess ot his earlier lite, edu- cation. studies and pursuits, could have begun almost immediately, to produce’ the matchless works know by his nai not merely the most masterly works of art, and, as such, in the opinion of eminent critics, surpassing the Greek tragedy iweit, but classical poems and plays the most protoundiy | philosophical in the English language or in any other (for no jess a critic than Goethe 8 awarded this high praise), may Justy wrike ua at the outset ag simply pre. | posterous and absurd. “What,” exclaims Coleridge at | this consequence of the traditional Wlography, “are we to have miracles in sport? * * * dod chi | idiots by whom to convey divine truths to man?” Bosewn, no less const: hi ae manager and shareholder, not in any distinguished trom other ‘actors and | that he was “a veritable farmer” withal, in ap- parently obliged to lay down the problem in despair, with | the significant confession :~"1 cannot marry thissact to | his verse. Other admirable men have led ifves in some | sort of Keeping with their thought: but this man in wide | contrast.” in like manner Jean Paul Kichter would | have him buried, it his lite were like. his writings, with | Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates and the high: nobility of the human race, in the same best consecrated eartn of God's tlower garden in the deep North.” Carlyle, that other master critic of our time, chewing the cud of “this careless mortal, open to the universe and itsinfluences, not caring strenuously to open himself; who, Prometheus-like, will scale lieaven (it it must be ko), and is satistied if he therewith pay tne play house,” as it were, with the lm pertubability of Teureisdroch hi at last with the brief exclamation, “An unparallelea | mortal. m the wrier’s time, in his own handwriting, | the original author. finished originais, which were kept a secret Word, and this wonder of the players wor explained.” | imeelf, simply breaks out Our author maintains that it does not appear by any direct proof that the original manuscript of any one of the plays or poems was ever seen, even under such circumstances as to afford any con- clusive evidence, however probable, that le was | | remember (says Ben Jonson) the players have otten | mentioned it as au Donor Wo shakespenre, that ia his | writings (whatsoever he penn’d) he never blotted out s line. “We have only to suppuse for Toment,” ob: serves our author, “ihat the manuscripts may have been 0 01 known complete and copied by him from some unkno’' P) om we uid be at once the way ol learning those terms his ua Vitiug the custom of Bacon, Burke, Goethe, | is oat KeMArkalie, Whjch are pot such as he ma: The dramatist’s medical knowledge is of such | profundity that Dr. Bucknill ooserves:— The immortal dramatist paid an amount of attention | to subjects of medicat interest scarcely it et all inferior to that which las served as the bas.s of the learnea and ingevious arguinent that this intesectual king of men ae devoted seven good years ot his lite to the practice of law, It has been suggested that Shakespeare might | have gained his apparently exhaustless knowledge Of Medicine trom his son-in-law, Dr, Hail, This is indeed possible (replies our author), but it would be a more satiniactory explanation of this special fea- ture in the plays if it did not require uy to carry back his medical studies at least to the date ot King Jonn, and alwost make them encroach upon those seven good | years already demanded for the study of law. eapectally in the absence of any positive evidence in his personal history that he had ever looked into a book of law or medicine. Bacon devoted so much attention to medicine that he gives a general survey of meuical learnin: | down to his own time in his “Advancement o Learning.” Dr. Bucknil. notices that “there 18 more 0! medicine than oi law in Bacon’s ‘Essays’ | and ‘Advancement of Learning.’ ? | Our author devotes much space to a scholarly and interesting comparison between the medical views of Shakespeare and those of Bacon, and concludes that the Shakespearian expressions are inexact = accordance with the — due- trines of Galen, Hippocrates, Rabelal and others with whose writings Ba ‘was quite familiar, for he cites and reviews those very authors, with many more. Instances duced by Dr. Bucknill amount, not merely to evi- dence, but to p:oof, that Shakespeare had read | Widely in medical iiterature; while the learned uysician, commenting upon the tist’s | Enowiede of psychology, remarks that “it bas been possible to compare his knowledge with the Most advanced Knowledge of the present day.” And yet no period of Shukespeare’s life is known to have been devoted to the study of medicine, and he bequeaths uo trace of a iibrary in hia will. No acquaintance which William Shakespeare could have had with law, consistently with the known facts of his jife, can reasonably account for thiv striking feature in the piays. It was not to be had in the office of # bau- iff, and the considerations reterred to by Lord Camp. bell ought to be taken as satisfactory that he could never have been a regular student atiaw at Stratiord-apon- | Avon, especially since His Lordship did not become a convert to this uaavoidable and very necessary concie sion of Mr. Collier. | Lord Campbell remarks upon Shakespeare's | Juridical phrases and forensic allusions :—‘On the retrospect lam amazed, nos only by their num- ber, but by the accuracy and propriety with which they are unitormly imtroduced;” and he adds, “There ts nothing 80 dangerous as for one not of | the craft to tamper with oar free masonry.” The Lord Chief Justice thought we might be | Justified in believing that Shakes! was @ clerk i aD attorney's office at Stratiord wittout any direct proof ot the fact, mainly relying, with Mr. Collier, upon “the seeming utter impossibility of Shakespeare having acquired, on any other theory, the wonderiul knowledge of law which he un- doubtedly displays.’ Uniortanately, however, for the permanence of this view, Loid Campbell, in the retrospect of bis work, addresses Mr. Collier ip these words:— |, Still I warn you that 1 myself remain rather sceptical. Ali that I can admit to you is that you may be right. Resuming the judge, however, J must lay down that Your opponeuts are Dot called iipon to prove a negative | and that the onus protandé rests upon itt ou. mm Wise remember that you require us implicitly to believe a fact which, were it true, positive and irreiragable evi- dence in Shakespeare's ow: dwriting mixht have | been forthcoming toestablish it. a Deen actual); enrolled asan attorney, neiher the records of the loc: court at Stratford nor the superior courts at Westmin- ster Woald present bis name in being concerned in any suits ag an atiorney; bucit might have been reasonably xpected that there wonld have beer deeds or wills wit: nessed by hin sill extant eand, after @ very diligent search, fone such can be discovered. Nor can this con- sideration be disregarded, that between Nash's Bole He, in the end of the sixteenth century, and Cnalmer's er id after, there is no Shakespeare having cc nee ig ap attorney's pens, paper, ink aad pou office at Strattora. As the courts of law in Shakespeare's time occu- pied much more attention than they do now, tt has , been suggested that ib wasin attendance upon | them that he picked up his legal vocabulary. But this same able commentator cousiaers this supposition as not only failing to account for the poet’s peculiar freedom and exactnesa tn the use of the phraseology—it does not even place him in of which a grant-of-arms made to Dis father in 1599 became | the fact was hever questioned unui a recent | | Gate our author admits, though he adduces some con- | in parenthesis, ‘not to be @ poet; and then, by claimed and his ad there wit? is an undoubted difficulty in understanding how aman | CAN be | who cared for “Lucréce” and “Venus and Adonis” | trey, could be negligent about “Hamlet and “Othello.” Yet ‘p fayed” In his mame atvine | Working for Dread,” The argument for the learning and philberyhigassars: f evidence contammed in the writings themsclyes, noi only | unsupported in any adequate manner, but tor the most | . 3 down part absoiuiely contradicted by the kiown fuctsof his | DY Wpphakspere. Our author opserves that do 13, Farmer, Steevens and Malone, after laborious | ped r enough to the at- | Proved not to be the product 2 | tical necessity, it 1s not difficult to imagine tuat | —decide that he had some knowledge of both: anc it we | who hasany | Competent share of | talan and French were not taught, we | would have heard at ordinary proceedings at ntst prius, but such a8 re‘er to the tenure or transier ol real property—‘fine and recovery,” “statutes merchant,” “purchase,” “ingenture,” “tenure,’? “double voucher,” “fee simple,” “iee farm," *‘re- mainder,” “reversion,” ‘sorfeiture,” and the like. Finally, 80 accurate and precise is the use of legal parlance by this man, who is pot authen- tically known to have devoted one isolated mo- meant of his life to the study of law, that Lord Campbell expresses his astonishmeat and marvels that, “while novelists and dramatists are oon- stantly making mistakes 10 the law of mar- riage, of wills, and of inheritan: | peare’s law, lavishly as he neituer be aemurrer nor writ of error.” in mentioning the contemporaneousness of Shakespeare and Bacon our autuor notes that im 1587, when the former is sup- osed tO have come up to London, Bacon aa already been calied to the utter Bar, has become a Bencker, and sits at the Kead- er’s Tapie in Gray’s Inn. At the Christmas revels o1 that year be avsists the gentlemen ot the Inn in etting up the tragedy of the ‘‘Misiortunes of | Srinur” and certain masques for which he writes some additional speeches, while Shakespeare is et but @ mere “‘serviture” at the Biackiriars | ‘neatre, and still unsuspected of being the autvor | of anything. | Bacon, in 1589, ice, to Shakes- Reppeunds it, there can ill Of exceptions, nor Thus runs the story ol Francis & member of Parliament, and making ‘the acquaintance of the theatre-going young lords, Essex, South- | ampton, Kutlarid, Montgomery and tue rest; to 1693, still pursuing his studies in bis revrea now presenting the Queen with a sonnet Coi posed by himsell, “though prolessing,"” as he says reason of expensive habits, compelled to obtain help srom the Lombards and Jews. In 1692, writ- ing to Lord Burghley, Bacon says:— Again the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move | Me: tor though L cannot accuse myseli that | am either prodigal or slothiul, yet my health is not to speud nor | my course toget, #"* * “And if Your Lordship wiil not carry we on twill notdo as Anaxagoras did, who re duced himself with contemplation unto voluntary po’ erty: but this] will do: I wiil seil the inheritance that I | bave and purchase some lease of qtuck revenue, or sume office of yain that shail be executed by «eputy, ani so [Shas over wil care of service and become some sorry ook maker. . dn that very year Robert Greene (“Groat’s Worth discovers thut a new poet has arisen, 3 ‘the only Shakescene in # coune Meanwhile, Bacon is embarrassed with | duns and Jews’ bonds, and is “poor and sicaly, In 164 some eight or ten of the earlier plays | Were already upon tne stage and were generaily takep to be the work of Shakespeare, “though | none of them had as yet been printed under nis name.” It is assumed as @ remarkavie fact | that prior to the year 1598 Shakespeare's | ; Dame had not appeared on the title page of any printed play, apd that it was only in that year that the quartos bore the titles of the plays as “written,” “newly auginenied and corrected,” or “newly set fort aud overseeu,” year 1598 nothing deunite anywhere ap- except the dedications to Southampton and usions which followed, on wuich to base the claim ofthe autuorship Oo! the piays lor Shakespeare beyond tue bare iact that the plays were upon the | Stage im the theatres which he was connected | with, aud were generaliy attriputed to him; nor | their paternity. The jact is by no megns 2 | to be ignored that several of the plays attributed to the poet during his life are now indisputably t ol bis pen. Hereupon our author hints at the pith of his theory and offers toe view that, on the supposi- tion ‘that these plays came irom Gray’s Inn, and were the early attempts of a briefess young bar- rister who did not desire to be Known as a writer | Jor the stage, and who meant to “profess not to be | @ poet,” but to whom any ‘lease of quick revenue” | might not be unacceptable and cover some prac- this “absvlute Johannes Factovum” wouid be just the man to suit his purpose; nor is it necessary to suppose that un expiess bargain would be struck in terms between them in the first instance, but Tather that the arrangements came about gradu- ally in the course of ume. The circumstance 18 mentioned under which the ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ made its first appear- ; ance, 1609, a8 worthy Of special note in this con- nection. The preface announces it thus:—“‘A never-writer to an ever-reader. Newes.” “A never-writer,”’ botes Our author, “must have meant one never kuown to the public &s u writer oi plays, and could not weil be William Shakespeare himsell, | who was writing 80 much for the ever-reading puvlic.” This play contains “one of those Luwerous instances of similarity, not to say iden- tity of thought (between tne works of Shakespeare and Bacon) which, though not absolutely cuon- Clusive in themserves, are, nevertheless, scarcely less convinelve than the most direct evideuce when considered with all the rest.” In the “Advancement,” treating of moral culture, Bacon quotes Aristotle as saying that “youn | en are no ft auditors of moral philosopny,” | because “they are not settled from the polling heat o! their affections, nor attempered with time and experience.” Jn the ‘Troilus and Uressida’’ We have the same thing in these words:— Notso much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unit to hear moral philosophy. ‘The reasons you allege do more conduce ‘Yo the hot passion of distempered blood ‘Vhan to make up a free determination *Twixt right and wrong. Mr: Spedding remarks that Aristotle speaks | only of ‘political philosophy,” and that the error of ‘Bacon is tollowed by Shakespeare. Tais | imstance may have been the fruit of plagiarism, } DUC Our author urges that the whule tenor of uné argument in the play 18 so exactly in keeping with Bacon’s manner of dealing wito the subject . that it hard to believe a mere plagiarist would have jollowed him so projoundiy. Ata later stage of the work are given many hundred paralleitsius of word aud thought between the works of these great contemporaries, Who never, by brielest uint, gave indication that either was cognizant of tne existence of the other, whicn singularity urged the pays! in the Athenwum, quoted above, to re- mark :— Bacon was rather fond of speaking of his temporarics, ot quoting their wit and recording their Sayings. in his “abophthegins” we And nearly all that ig Known about Kalelgn’s power of reparwe. How came such a gatherer of wit, humors and churacters to ignore the greatest man living? Had he a reason tor his omission? It were {die to assuine gee the greatness of “Lear” and “M. have been some reason tor this silence. One singuiar instance of parallelism occurs in Bacon’s ‘‘Hssay on Gardens” and the “Winter's Tale.” Bacon maintained that “there ougnt to be dens for ail the months of the year, in which | severally things of beauty may be in their sea- son; and he proceeds to name the flowers proper | to each month and season. ‘Now,’ remarks our | author, “ihe fowers Lamed in the cottage scene Of the fourth act of the “Winter's Tale” appear to have been drawn from one and the same caien dar and in about tie order as tuose of the essay." As thus, in Lhe essay :— For December and January and the iatter part of No- vember you must take such things as are green ail win- ter * * * rosemary * * * lavender * * * murjo- ram. Perdita (in the play) :— y Reverend beat For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep Seeming and savor ail tie winter long, The essay: — Primroses; for March there come violets, especially the single blue—the yellow daffodil; in April tollow the ouble white violet—ihe cowstip; ower-ae-luces, and likes of all natures—the pale dattodil, Perdita:— reat con- that Bacon tailed to ‘there must Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, und take The winds of March with beauty olets dim, * pale primroses. * * * bold oxlips, aud ‘The crown imperial; liltes of ali kinds, The flower-de-luce betng oue! The essay :— Jn May and June come pinks of all so: marigold; lavender in flowers; in July co of all Varieties. Perdita:— Sir, the year growing ancient— summer's death, nor on the birth he French gulitowers Not yeton. Of trembling winter—the fairest flowers o’ th’ season Are our carnations and streaked gilitiowers; Hot lave: mint, savory, marjoram; ‘The marigold, that goes to bed with th’ sun: these are flowers Of middie summer. Mr. Spedding notices these resemblances, and observes that if this essay had peen contaiued in the earlier edition of Bacon’s works some expres- sions would have made him suspect that Shake- are had been reading it. But this particular essay Was ner ited until 1625, nine years after the death of kespeare, which preciudes the ibility Of the poet having plagiarized. “Nor it probable that Bacon would have anything to learn of William Shakespeare concerning the science of gardening.” Or. Bucknill, betrayed into @ rhapsody upon the genius of Shakespeare, exciaiins:— Had he not been a poet, might he not have beer souupbart Some American fy has laiely started idea that the plays of Shakespeare wore written by ba. con! Verily ware It not for t Mt Of power of iinagi- nation and verbal cuphouy which ts displayed in “Ba- Some of shakespeare't own rough’ inemuranda ca Tock 01 Sind motives, which had strayed trom nis desk,” Bat Bacon’s admirable biographer, Mr. Sped- Ging, maiatains that the philosopher was not without the fine frenzy of the poet, and that, 1 it had taken the ordinary direction, it would have carried him to @ place among the great poets. Darley selected Bacon as a biograpni- cal imi jandmark, ‘because he 18 @ poetical aginatur; because dramatic poets are (or ougnt to be) philosophers; and because his ine fluence upon our human Iiterature bas bee! through tne direction he gave to the world o| thought, far more cunsideravie than palpable. Even Macaulay admitted that the poetical tacul! ‘was powerial in Bacon's mind; but, not like nis ‘Wit, 80 powerful as Occasionally to usurp the place of his reason. Uur author makes strong his view of Bacon’s taient for poetry by quotations from va- | rious Masqnes and sonnets now well authenti- cated as the work of the philosopher, | Concerning Lord Veruiam’s ‘‘Metrical Version of | the ’salms,"’ which were dedicated to his friend the learned and pious poet, George Herbert, as | “the beat jucge jot divinity and poesy met,” it is | very justly observed that it was the solace of his idié hours during @ time of impaired health, about @ year before his death. In idea and sentiment he | was absolutely limited to the original Psalm; | nevertheless, in elegance, ease Of rhythmic low and pathetic sweetness, Many passages are not unworthy of Herbert himaels. The researches of Messrs. Spedding and Dixon have brought to light, from the same bundle of tne mMaauscripia im which were found the | writings of an; ty silent , identity like this. And here the vast difference which is NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1874——QUADRUPLE SHEET. Speecnes for the Essex masque, arranged by con, & peer witnout date, ttle or beading, but which is thought to be o; the date of “Romeo end Johet.” Mr. Spedding evidently believes the plece to have been written by Bacon, of which, indeed, there 18 Bearcely any room for doubt. The impor- tant thing to be noted here ts. that in it the Ba- conian prose actually runs into Shakespearian rhymed verge under our very eyes, thus:—“‘And at last, this present year, out of one of the holiest wane was delivered to him an oracle in these words :— “Seated between the Old World and the New, Aland there is no other and may touct, Where reigns # queen in peace and honor true: ever da Ata ual tude i” vel las "As she, in holding up the world o ice, of his eyes."” Bacon was earnestly @: d in dramatic enter- tainments in the same year in which Shakespeare is guid to have arrived tp London to join the Blackfriars Company, aa yet wholly unknown to fame. Our author mentions the fact that even as late as December 9, 1613, the philosopher of nis own motion prepares a masque for His Majesty's tertainment, wilich, an account says, “Will ‘stand him in £2,000,'? In 1607-8 Bacon 1s engaged upon his “Characters of Jultus and Augustus Cesar,” and py some mur- vellous accident the tragedy of “Julius Cwsar” comes from \he hand of Shakespeare very soon after, ‘as if there were at least ‘a semblable co- herence’ between the two men’s spirits.” Writing to Sir Tobie Matthew About this time concerning his “Happy Memory’ of the late Queen, Bacon says :—‘‘l showed you some model, taough at the tine methought you Were as willing to near ‘Julius Caesar’ us Queen Elizabeth commended.” In the October of 1613 Bacon becomes Attorney General and the plays cease to appear. Granting Lord Verulam to be the author o. the plays, there appears sudicient reason ior bis cessation of liter- ary exertions When the duties Oo: state were be- ginning to crowd upon him, when ne was no longer vexed with the consideraiion of a livell- hood, ana when the ambitious dreams of his youth Were upon the eve of realizauon. But how Shakespeare, then in his forty-niuth year | and the zenith of bis renown, could have laid down his pen witn the last great drama, and never have employed it again Save Be paRopes “doggerel,” 18 an Eleusinian mystery ‘here is @ circumstance of great singularity avhich has occasioned much comment, and has been remarked by @ commentator upon the lie and writings of Bacon, As the note Is Well worthy Of attention, 1t had best be given in the full Navor of verbal quotation : In Shakespeare's plays there is @ dramatic series of historical events, from the deposition of Richard Ul. to the birth of milzabeth. But in his series there is One curious, unaccounted for hiatus ‘The poet,” says Charles Kuixht, “aas not chosen to exhibit the establisn- ment of law ind order in the astute government of Menzy VIL.” In Bacon's works y menis of a history oi England. ‘They are but mere At once the token that the idea of history had been present in Lord Bacon’s mind, and the evidence that it | ad Hot been worked out on paper—ut leasi in this way. | But ons reign is not a iragment, itis a history—the “iis: | tory oF Henry V LL. "—the iuissing portion of the dramatic series; and the exhibition of the “establishment of law and order,” which the genial editor of Shakespeare sees to be c series, 18, | wanung to complete the unity of the drama! wrought out in Lord Bacon's book. 1 Henry VIl.." by Bacon, completes the seri speare histories trom’ iichard IT. to He! takes the story up, too, from the very Shakespeare, it is dropped. kichard Bosworth feld the order tor the decent interment of the dead. Bucon’s history beglug with an “Arter,” as if it was a continua. | Yon, “And so it is—a continuation of the drama, taking up the history “immeuiately after the victory,” a3 Bacon writes in his secoud sentence. Not a word about Henry Vil. as Earl of Richmond: nothing about the | events which preceded the baitic of Bosworth—a story without # beginning; the beginning or it 1s found in the | drama. Our author theorizes at great length upon the | “reasons ior concealment,” and decides that with Bacon a desire to rise in the profession of the law | or his ambition lor high place in the state, te low | reputation Oi the playwright and the mean estate , Of all poor poets in that age, and the need of a larger liberty, are of themselves a sufficient ex- planation of bis wish to cover this authorship and to remain & concealed poet in his own time. The expression “concealed poet” is borrowed from a letter of Bacon to Master Davis, the distinguished Statesman, upon his going to be presented at Court, in which Bacon begs to be recommended to his Majesty, and closes with the remarkabie line :— “So desiring you to be good to concealed poets, I continue, &c,” ‘The pretext, then, our author urges, for being a tradsba or tn early life would seew to have been lor Ube bettering of his estate, which was indeed | meagre, together with his plau tor lutroducing to | @ place in bis “Great Instauratiou” the poetry of the drama as “a Means of development of men’s munds,”” | iv 1s now Well established that Ben Jonson was not severely critical Of the productions of Sha Speare, nor was he as envious ui bis superiority, and lame as early tradition teaches, Indeed the poct’s acquaintance wich Jouson began with | ‘a remarkabie piece of humanity and good nature, According to our author, Ben Jonson must pave been wware of the secret understanding between his mutual iriends; while much significance is attacned to his advice in the folio ader, | looke, not on his picture, but nis booke.’” | Untortunately for the cause or history, Sir Tobie Matthew became 4 “pervert”? “and was banished the country; it has been suggested with much reason that he would douotless | have been to Bacon what Boswell was to Jolinson. | They were much attached, apd during his stay in | England Sir i obie was contiaually with Bacon. It ts recorded as the Kabit of Bacon to send Sir Tobie | ls various works as they appeared, and on one or | more occasions the philosopuer enclosed “a recre- avion” with tue particular work, though wiat the subject of these recreations migit have been does not appear. Sir Tobte generally ucknowiedged tue receipt of such presents, and in one v1 his let~ | ters, without date or address, occurs the following mysterious phrase :—*'| will not promise to return. you weigit lor welght, but measure jor measure.”’ Hereupon comes up the Celebrated “Matthew Postscript,” WHICA jorms one Of the leading arti- cles in the Shakespeare argument. It is appended to a jetter to Bacon which is without date, but is | addressed to the Viscount St, Alvan, and must, | Place I. with | ends |, with the coronation of Richmond and | therelore, have been written suvsequent to tne 27tn of January, 1621, when His Lordsiip was tn- vested with that ‘title. Tue letter appears | to be in answer to one trom Lord Verulam dated 9th of April (year hot given), accompanying | sume “greai and noble tuken” of his *Lordsni) favor;’’ which, according to our author, was a | newly printed book; “ior ‘Bacon, as we know from tue letters, Was in the habit of sending to Mr. Matthew & copy of his Works as they were pub- | Lshed; and much of their correspoudence had re- | | latton more or lesa to the books and writings on which Bacon was at tue time engaged.” Tho aigument runs that the only work published by | Bacon between 1620-23 was tie “History of Henry VIL,” and it ts possible that the “great and nobie token” may nave referred to this publication. Bur at the same time an equal amount of probability resis in favor ol the gift haying been an early issue of the Shakespeure folto ot 18% which w t Stauoners’ Hall in November of that ye reuson to believe it was issued in the spring of the same year, there being # copy now in existence bearing the date oi 1622 on the utle page, showing that a part of the edition was actually struck off before the end of 162d. Nichols informs us that Tobie Matthéw resided in London during the years 1621, 1622 and until | the 18th of April, 1623, when he departed for | Spain, but returned to England in the Uctover of the same year and was knignted by the King on | the 10th of the month. As Sir Tobie had per- | formed in Bacon’s masque at Essex’s House, as | he was the intimate literary companion and nad | been termed by Bacon his ‘critical inquisitor,” and, morever, ag the philosopher opserves, in @ letter to Cottington, “as true a iriend ag | you or I have’—we shail be prepared, as our author fancies, not to be greatly surprised at the intimation given in this postscript that sir Tobie knew a secret respecting which he could not for- | bear to compliinent His Lordsuip on this occasion. | ‘The letter reads thus :- Lonp Viscount Sr. Auman :— wt HonoRgD LoRD—I have recelved your great and noble token and favor of the 9th day of April, and can but return the bumblest of my thanks for Your Lord ship's vouchsaflng go to visit this poorest and unworth est of your servants. Itdoth me good at heart that, ul- Fhons' benot where I wasin piace, yetlam in the | fortune ot Your Lordship’s tavor, it] may call that for- tune which } observe to be so’ unchangeable. { pray hard that it may once come into my power to serve you for it, and who can tell but that, as sorts imaginatio gen erat corm, so strong desires may do ayinucht Sure I au that mine are ever waitin, ‘our Lordship, and wish- ing as much happiness as virtue, | humbly do Your Lordshtp due to your incomparable reverence, Your Lordship’s most obliged and humble soryan: TOBIK MATTHEW. P.8.—The most prodigious wit that ever I knew of my nation, and of this side of the soa, is of Your Lordship's name, though he be known by another. Hada the work in question been the “History of Henry Vil.” there nad been no need of Sir Tobie’s allusion to the name of ‘another,’ since all the works of Bacon as phtlosopher, statesman and prose writer were published under his own name, “Who else,” inquirea our author, “but this same Shakespeare cou'd have veen con- sidered by Mr. Matthew to be a cover for the most prodigious wit ofall England at that day?’ At thia point of the work under criticism the network of circumstantial evidence ceases, and the author, opening upon the remaining naif of his book with the skill of the scholar and the warmth of the enthi devotes the remaining space to a consideration of Bacon’s “Great Instau- ration’ and the examples it presents of paraliel- isms in thought and diction with the works of Shakespeare. It is safe to say no such list can be produced trom the two authors of that or any other age; no of lite, genius or studies ever produced an =! on Known to have existed Letween these men in respect of their education, stulies and whole personal history would seem to preciude all possibility of mistake. The coincidences are not merely such as might be attributed t whe style and usaye of that age; they extend to the sco) thought, the particular ideas. the feeling, the choice of metaphor those singular peouliariti id use of ot modes of thinging an the illustrative imavery, and Oddities and quaintnesses ot words which everywhere, and at all times, mark and distinguish the individual writer. At a later stage of the book Bacon is portrayed expression an ins strong light as unique among hig country- men—as vhe who had sounded the depths and Scaled the heights of the higher philosophy. We know how Bacon attainad to these heights, pat it is not explained how the unlearned, Wultarn hi 1080) otherwise than by @ #1 jstion of the “speci avi of inborn genius. spearo reached these ‘aummiuita” of ail Hereunon tha work draws to a clpae, entirely ; husband, | Godges, as they are | at once, Tree of bombast or even deciamatton, while in com. clusion thor quotes the words of ae ful, wonder-making avea! What a mas imdeed, ret was this Shakespeare! riad-minded, be was!” ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA. The Cunard steamer Java arrived yesterday at her dock in Jersey City, after a very rough pas. sage, during which she behaved, according to the testimony of the passengers, admirably. Although breasting @ heavy sea and halt @ gale of wind nearly the whole way, her last day’s run was 230 miles. The Java is one of the best boats in the Cunard line, and Captain Murphy, her master, has won golden opinions, not only for his admirable seamanship, but for his courtesy and attention to the comfort and convenience of his passengers, Everybody who has crossed the Atlantic knows how much of one’s personal comfort is due to the good nature of the captaity Among the notable passengers of the Java were Dr. I. 1. Hayes, the HERALD cowmissioner to Ice- land; the family of Mr. Lester Wallack, Professor William Darling, of the University Medical College, and Dr. Dawson, of New York. Mr. Wallack met the steamer tn his superb yacht, Columbia, and boarded her at Quarantine. Mr. G. W. Moore, of St. James Hall, London, was also on board, and to while away the tedium of the prolonged voyage gave two evening concerts in the saloon, as- sisted by Mr. James Pearce, the well known organist of Christ Church, New York, and Mr, E, G. Evans, professor of music, Brooklyn, beside a number of amateur singers, including two of the lady passengers. Altogether the voyage seems to have peen peculiarly enjoyable notwithstand- ing the storm. At the last concer, at which Dr, Hayes presided, a collection was taken up for the benefit of the Urphan Sallors’ Home, Liverpool, and the handsome sum of £25 was realized and turned over to Captain Murphy, greatly to his de- light. Two gentiemen, Mr. Fox and Mr. Cranstoi gave five guineas each, aad Mr. Moore follow with a sovereign. PAYMENT OF PENSIONS. The second day of the quarterly payment at the Pension Office brought together @ throng no smaller than the first, On Friday night, when the last payment was made and a balance struck, it was nearly midnight. Yesterday morning at six o'clock the doors were opened to a crowd of about 400 persons, males and females, to whom Mr, Dutcher disbursed, during the day, over $25,000, ‘This covered about 800 pensions, Mr. Benjamin R. Shopp, the special agent on duty in this district, discovered a number of iraudulent claims among those presented to Mr. Dutcher. The greatest offenders in this respect are women who have lost their husoands, to whom a pension was given, which properly goes to the widow as long as she remains single. A number of these have remarried, but try to keep the fact from the authorities, and unless they are found out continue to draw the money from the government as i nothing nad occurred to forfeit Uhe claim. One case came up where a woman had married @ man shortiy aiter the death of her pensioued This man left a child, and the wile, as guardian, drew 4 quarterly penston of $34, Since then sne remarried, sent the child to the Refuge and appropriates the money obtained to her own use, There are still other cases which are con- cocted with considerable cunning to deceive and defraud the government, requiring the untiring action of the special agents to detect. in the main, the government loses bu‘ very little by these eneraily detected. ‘The pay- ments will continue for nearly two weeks. It is hoped when the next quarter day comes the Dew office which Mr. Dutcher is to occupy, on the Opposite side of the street, under the new Naval Ofice, wiil be ready, 80 ay to give not only better accoumodations to the pensioners, but more spave to the hampered employés of the Pension Office. THE PLOATING HOSPITAL Destitute Sick Children’s Relief Fund. ‘The following additional contributions have been received by the Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Master of the Guild, and nanded to Henry C. De Witt, Almoner:— THROUGH REV. J. W. Grace Chapel Fresh Air fund. THROUGH G, WILKES, M. D, A triend to all who beiriend the poor......... THROUGH WATCH AND TOOTH. Hamilton Fire Insurance Company. SENT 10 THE GUILD OFFICK. For the sick child ings Brothers.. excursi KRAMER, ren’s, -$1 1 00 15.00 Proceeds 50) ~~ barrels. 50 Grand total. . Contributions to the und are carne: and may be sent to the HERALD omMice, Mayor Havemeyer, City Hail; Arnold, Con- stable & Oo., No. 885 Broadway; D. Appleton & Co., | No, 564 Broadway; August Belmont & Co., No, 19 Nassau street; 8. L. M. Bariow, No. 35 William street; Hatch & Foote, No. 12 Wall street; George ‘Wilkes, M. D., No, 16 North Wasuington square, or Rev. Alvah Wiswall, Masier of St. John’s Guild, | No, 52 Varick street. ‘The fifteenth excursion takes place on Tuesday, September 8, leaving piers at toot of West Tenth street, Market street aud Twenty-third street, East River, at eight, nine and haif past nine A. M. Donations Recived. The HERALD has received the following dona- tlons:— For the Catholic working girls. from five Foundling Asylum, 3 2 6 2 ess For the samé, from G. 8. E. C. to St. John’s Guild, for the sick poor. CHARITIES AND OOBRECTIONS. The Commissioners Demand a Hearing. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Chart- ties and Correction yesterday morning the follow- ing resolution was adopted :— Resolved, That the honorable the Board of Aldermen | be respecttally requested to give the Bourd of Commu sioners an early opportunity to reply to tue report made to that body by the Commissioners of Accounis on Thurs- | day, the sd inst, * President Laimbeer was also instructed to for- ward the resolution to the President ot the Board of Aldermen with the following letter:— ‘rhe Commissioners of Chavities and Correction, s0- licitous to be heard in reply to the report of the Com- missioners of Accounts, “have passed the resolution which Lhave the honor to enclose, and f respec tuliy request that it may be laid betore the honorabie the Board of Aldermen at their firsc meeting. ~~ QNOE MORB TO S0HOOL. Reopening of Our Educational ‘Insti- tutes, Nine weeks’ recess from study and learning has been granted this year to the little folks attending the public schools, which t¢ a Jonger vacation than has ever been enjoyed by them before. To-mor- Tow this season of recreation ceases, and gram- Mar, arithmetic, geography and other studiea must again absorb the minds of the teachers as well as the scholars, In a word, both must hie from “flelds anew and pastures green” to the clasa room, some to begin liie as scholars from tne A, B, CO; others to “take tn” the last Glass prior to entering college or leaving school altogether. Most of the schools have during the recess undere gone @ process of renovation, having been thor- oughly cleaned and painted, tter the lst of January next the new law on compulsory education goes into effect, which pro- vides that all children over the age of eight years must attend school or receive instruction at home, and that no child under fourteen years shail be employed in any factory unless mstruc- tion shall be given to said child by a competent teacher, The act further recites the penalties to be incurred by those offending against the same. ‘The Board of Education has invoked the aid of the police to ascertain by a census what children are ‘withheld from attending school in violation of the Compulsory Education act, and will take proper measures to compel their attendance in the public schools. To provide for their accommodation it ts believed that larger buiidings wilt be required in several of the districts, and the needed additions ‘will at once be commenced. A WOMANS SUICIDE, Would Rather Die Than Live Without Him. Annie Kreitzer, thirty-six years of age, died yes terday morning, at No. 192 East Houston street, from the effects of morphine, which she had taken some time the evening before, The woman had been acting as housekeeper for & man who gives his name as Henry Hall, and it seems that Hall had promised to marry her, but withdrew the promise on his learning that she had at the pres- ent time a husband living inGermany. According to Hall's statement Annie cook to drink to drown her sorrow and disappointment. On Friday even- ing he left her in the house alone, after hearing some expostulations from her relative to the inar- Tiage, and did nut return until seven o'clock yes- terday morning, when he found that she had taken poison, The woman lingered until about hall-past Hine ofolock, when she died. Hall, early in the morning, but afser some delay, had sent for a po- lice surgeon of the Seventeenth precinct. Coroner Eickho held af inquest in the afternoon. and the verdict of the jury was suicide by poisoning, KILLED ON THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD, A shocking accident occurred on the New Haven Railroad, at Mount Vernon, Westchester county, yesterday, David Scott, a milkman, was beth J ae itreat cine ie rin aoe weee wago! & locomotive and shat I i Scast was fatally injured and