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February 3,1855.] THE LEADER. 117
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Colonists And Travellers. Australia And ...
As a pendant to Mr . Hargreave ' s work , which contains so manrincidents of travel in wild countries , we have placed Mr . Galton ' s Art of Travel , w which the author has collected with singular research a series of recipes for the alleviation of every imaginable difficulty that can beset a man in the wilderness . These are partl y the results of his own experiences in his explorations of tropical South Africa , and partly gathered from the works , of other travellers , sportsmen , and missionaries . As far as our own experience will guide us in judging of Mr . Galton ' s " shifts and contrivances' —and we have had the fortune or misfortune to be obliged personally to test many of them—we can strongly commend thom . We should be sorry to endorse them all as infallible or even advisable ( are there many people who will adopt the expedient of cutting a hole in their arm and inserting in it a silver tube filled with gems , and letting the skin heal over it , as a protection against highway robbery ?) , but altogether the book is very entertaining to * dip into , ' and will be useful to every man who wanders beyond the precincts of civilisation .
February 3,1855.] The Leader. 117
February 3 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 117
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Gluck And Johanna Wagner. (From An Occas...
GLUCK AND JOHANNA WAGNER . ( From an occasional Correspondent . " ) Berlin is the only city in Germany , or , indeed , in the world , where , in the course of a season , you are sure to hear one or more of Gluck ' s operas ; and that alone , to a real lover of music , makes Berlin worth a visit . For consider what it is to liear a chef-d ' oeuvre , especially the chef-d ' oeuvre of a master not to be heard in other theatres ! Consider the mingled instruction and delight derived from sueh a representation , compared with the mitigated mediocrity of worn-out French and Italian operas , represented by worn-out singers , or singers not worth wearing out ! Consider what it is to hear Gluck in Germany , where the representations of Italian operas are , as Liszt wittily said to me one evening as we came from such a representation , like the railway imitated by a lumbering diligence ! I love the Italian opera ; I love its sensuous beauty , its "linked sweetness long drawn out ; " I love its melodies and passionate phrases , not being very critical as to whether the music is wedded to very mortal verse , or whether it , strictly speaking , represents the proper feeling of the situation . I accept its faults for the sake of its beauties ; but I demand Italian singers , and cannot quite enjoy , even in the easy after-dinner mood , the a-peu-pres style of German singing . My real delights , therefore , in Germany , have been to ~ hear Wagner ' s operas in Weimar , and in Berlin the operas of Beethoven and Gluck ; because in these cases the interest-of the music made one accept the mediocrity of the singers . But with Gluck there was the special interest , before hinted , of masterpieces to be heard nowhere else . It was like taking up Tom Jones or the Vicar of Wakefield after a course of French novel reading , to pass from a London opera season to the enjoyment of such a work as the Orfeo ; not that I mean to slight French novels , nor the London opera season—both pleasurable things in their way— -but the pleasure derived from a chefd'ceuvre , especially when mingled with a certain historical interest , is altogether of a higher kind . Gluck ' s music , although very learned , is the music of a man of genius , and appeals , therefore , to the common apprehension as
well as to the musical erudite . It has a certain quaintness and simplicity which reminded me of Dryden ' s prose , the slight traces of archaism only serving to set forth more vividly the manly vigour and beauty of the style . It is old new music—old in its instrumentation , old in a certain barren symmetry , occasionally approaching formality , and new with the eternal youth of genius , melody , and passion . Such marvellous musical declamation , as is to be found in Orfeo and the Iphigenia I remember nowhere else ; and if Johanna Wagner were to make her appearance in London in the character of "Orfeo , " she would electrify the audience and conquer all the critics . I waited some time before seeing Johanna Wagner , repressing curiosity for the sake of doing her justice . It did not seem just to this artist to receive one ' s first impression of her in parts such as " Tancredi , " " Fides , " and " Lucrezia Borgia , " wherein she would be overshadowed by the recollections of the mighty Pasta , the intense Viardot , and the glorious Grisi ; for , even supposing that she equalled these great actresses , how could I think she equalled them , haunted by their images ? To see her in " Orfeo" was to see her in a trying part , with no other standard than herself . It was worth waiting for . Johanna Wagner ' s excellence lies in dramatic singing . Her voice , without being magical , is a fine one , powerful , not of great compass , but tolerably even ; a mezzo soprano rather than contralto , at least in quality , for her soprano range is limited . I know not what amount of execution in the voluble style she may possess , but her phrasing is large , passionate , anil simple ; her modulations exquisitely managed ; her pianissimo delicate , yet full of timbre ; and her mode of singing recitative equals that of the greatest singers . 1 still hear the passionate expression , the musical a ^ ony of despair which she threw into the recitative which precedes the No perduto il pel sembiante ( an aria , by the way , which I rerommend to any reader with a contralto voice , as worthy of her immediate study ) . Johanna ' s singing ol this aria was one of those things which to hear is to remember through life-Unhappily , her voice is not high enough to enable her to take the part of " Iphigenia , " so that when I procured the tickets , I made a wry face at finding no Johanna , but another was to be the heroine . Thanks to the lovely musicf the treat was almost as great with the Iphigenia as with the Orfeo ; the execution was inferior , but the music compensated . One thing very noticeable in this music , and especially grateful to those who have persisted in objecting to the modern style of instrumentation , which stuns the ear and drowns the * voices of the singers in meaningless clang of brass and rolling of parchment , is , that Gluck contrives to produce the most consummate orchestral effects , such as the noisy incompetence of moderns never approaches , and he produces them by the simplest of all means , and the truest —namely , by gradation . Never once does his __ orchestra overpower the voices ; never once does lie make it a misery to sensitive nerves ; and yet his storm and the hurrying agitation of the Furies are among the most expressive and powerful passages in descriptive music . When a man masters his . orchestra in the way Beethoven , Mozart , and-Gluck mastered it , he is never , forced to recur to noise any more than a good writer is forced to recur to violence . When a man knows the value of words , he knows how to dispose them , so that very simple words shall fall with overwhelming effect . Unhappily our modern composers do not , for the most part , master their orchestra ; they remind me of the bad writers describetl in Friends in Council , who use several epithets in the vague hope that one among them may be found to fit , with this difference , that their epithets are resonant brass and sonorous parchment . "•
From The London Gazette. Tuesday, Januar...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , January 30 . BANKRUPTS . —Robert Desmond Sulivan , Great Yarmouth , shipowner—George . Boys , Belitha Villas , West , Barnsbury-park , wine merchant — James Daniel , Bugbrook , Northamptonshire , coal merchant—William Robert Schwonke , Union-court , Old Broad-street , commission merchant—William and Joseph Raven , Fish-streethill , wholesale stationers — Thomas Masters . Crystal Palace Hotel and Beulah Hotel , Norwood , hotel keeper — George Hall , Brighton , upholsterer—William Hughes , Shelton , Staffordshire , builder—John LATiMER . Newcastleunder-Lymo , draper—George Bailey , Walsall , innkeeper —William Grainger , Dudley , builder—Edmund Lloyd Owen , near Wolverhampton , mineral merchant — John Phillips , Broadwinsor , Dorset , baker — John Harris , Torquay , grocer—Thomas Ramsden and Wijcliam Bradford Baxter , Bailiffo-bridge , Yorkshire , worsted spinners—Thomas Hodson Hodson , Pcckforton , near Becston , Cheshire , cattle-dealer—Wiiliam Rennie , James Johnsow , and William Rankin , Liverpool , shipwrights — James Sidebotham , Manchester , grocer—John Richardson , Manchester , umbrella manufacturer . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS—J . M'GLAsnAN Glasgow , merchant—D . M'Farlane , Oban , baker—W . and J . B . Low , Arbroath , drapers . Friday , February 2 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . —Richard Derbyshire , Liverpool , merchant . BANKRUPTS . —John Watney , Wimbledon , Surrey , baker—William Shipman , Manchester , baker—Jambs Clapton , Exeter , provision dealer—John Birt , Gun Mills , Gloucester , paper manufacturer—Samuel SnEPPARD Ireland , Brighton , cabinetmaker—Henry George Cabxb , Goswoll-streot , Clerkenwoll , draper — Henry Bcckell , Portsca , draper—James Swann , Covontry , Warwickshire , hardware and general dealer—Wm . Perkins , Birmingham , soda water doalor—William Harve y Fletcher , Kiddcrminstor , auctioneer—William Brown Nash , Collegehill , Cannon-street West , City , wine merchant—Edward Hodges Baily , Nowman-strcot , Oxford-street , Middlesex , sculptor—John Beaumont , son ., and John Beaumont , jun ., Conamorcial-plnco , City-rood , coachmakors , SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —Jameb Ford , Edinburgh , provision merchant , & c—John Smith , Cowcaddons , Glasgow , draper—Alexander Whyth , and Co ., Glasgow , merchants , & c .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. C...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . COTTON—Jan . 28 , at 40 , Olargos-stroot , Piccadilly , prematurely , tho wife of Dr . Cott 6 n : a son , who survived but a short period . HOLMES . —Jan . 25 . at Wostovor , Isle of Wight , tho lady of tho Hon . Wra . a Court Holmes : a daughter . MILLS . —Jan . 26 , at No . 9 , Grosvonor-squaro , tho Lady Louisa Millst aeon .
Marriages. Pigott—Ricketts.—Feb. 1, At W...
MARRIAGES . PIGOTT—RICKETTS . —Feb . 1 , at Walcot Church , Bath , by the Rev- Lortus Cliffe , assisted by tho Rev . William Wellington , the Rev . George O . Smyth PigOi . t , Rector of Kingston Seamoorr Somerset ; to-Maria , oiuy-daughteror Alfred Ricketts , Esq ., of Lansdown-crescent , Bath . RUSSELL- NELSON . —Jan . 25 , at Charlton Church , in the parish of Downton , Wilts , Robert John Russell , Esq ., of Great Finborough , in the county of Suffolk , to Lady Frances Catherine Nelson , eldest daughter of the late Thomos , second Earl Nelson . DEATHS . COOPER .- * Jan . 27 , at Isleworth House , Middlesex , Lady Cooper , relict of Sir William Henry Cooper , Bart ., aged eighty-seven . JONES . —Jan . 20 . at tho E . I . College , Haileybury , tho Rov . Rd . Jones , M . A ., for nearly twenty years Professor of Political Economy and History in that College , aged sixty-four . KERB . —Jan . 24 , at St . Cuthbert ' s College , Ushaw , Lord John Montagu Hobart Kerr , youngest son of tho lato , and brother of the present , Marquis of Lothian , aged thirteen . ,, PHILLIMORE . —Jan . 24 , at Shiplako House , Reading , Joseph Phillimore , Esq ., D . C . L . Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford , and her Majesty ' s Advocate in her Office of Admiralty , aged eighty . ROBINSON . —Jan . 27 , at Dyrhatn Rectory , Gloucestershire , Sir George Best Robinson , Bart ., formerly Chief Superintendent in China , aged fifty-seven .
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening . February 2 , 1885 . Consols have fallen somowhat during the week , principally owing to tho Ministerial crisis ; something ia doubtless duo to tho continual arrivals of private letters from the Crimea with tho account of our gallant but unfortunato army , seemingly abandoned to tho rigours of the climate , and consequent ) disease , owing to the fearful mismanagement of the transport and commissariat department . Yet , with all this , Consols are very strong—no real sales , that Is tho secret . At this time last year , when we had greater confidence in tho speedy termination of tho war , when wo had tho finest army that over left England , untouched by disease or the sword , tho Funds nearly reached 80 . Now , with nearly half those bravo mon horade combat , with tho most gloomy prospects for , tho Burvivors in tho Crimea , and , to crown all , a Ministerial crisis , the Funds aro between 01 and 02 . The solution of this contradiction is . that last year large speculative sales took place in anticipation of a panic , the Boars woro caught napping , and so roughly handled that they have not dared
to renew the experiment this year . The universal hope in the City seems to have been that Lord Palmerston . should becomo War Minister , and form a temporary strong administration . The leading journal ' s recommendation of Lord Grey does not seem acceptable . To-night , one may suppose tliat soirio MiiiisterialarrangementWill'take places and the Funds will probably rise J per cent , with a strong administration . , , , . In tho home railway market there has been a good deal of business transacted ; prices aro hardly so good . Turkish Bonds arc somowhat flatter - 70 about . In the mining market there has been some demand for North British , Australasian , Australian , Cordilleras , and South Australian copper ; also Peninsulars aro slightly better . Crystal Palace are stationary at 34 , 3 i per share . Tho New Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to the Post-oifice has issued a very promising prospectus ; the works to b . Jforthwith commenced . Four o ' clock . —Consols , closo firmer at . 911 , Oil , with an impression that Lord Palmerston has succeeded in forming aCaBliiot . — Caledonians , 62 , 024 x . n . ; Eastern Counties , 111 , Ills Great Northern . 89 * . 904 ; Ditto ( A Stock ) 72 , 74 ; Ditto ( B Stock ) . 120 , 1 * 28 ; South-Westerns , 84 , 85 ; Birmiughams , 100 J , 1005 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 744 , 76 ; Berwicks , 75 J , 76 * ; Yorks , 534 , 54 * ; Midland , 09 * , 70 ; Oxford , 31 , 32 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 64 , 6 J ; Eastern of Franco , 324 32 }; Great Luxembourg , 2 J , 21 ; East Indian , 1 , 14 pin . ; Ditto Extension , I , i pm . ; Northern of France , 84 4 , 341 ; Paris and Lyotas , 21 j , 211 pm . ; Paris and Orleans , 47 , 49 ; Paris and Rouen , 42 , 44 ; Great Central of-Franco , SJ , S pin . ; Namur and LiC-go , 6 } , 7 i ; Western of Franco , 7 , 74 pm . ; Agua Frias , | , I ; Colonial Gold , fl , I ; Linaros . Ci , 7 *; Imperial Brazil , 1 J . 2 J ; Cocacs , 1 , IA ; St . JohnDol Roy , 28 , 30 ; Peninsulas , i dis ., J'pm . i Waller Gold , fl , i ; South Australian Copper . 4 I pm . ; Australasian Bank , 80 , 82 ; Oriental , 37 , 39 : Union Bank of Australia , 05 , 67 x . d . ; London Chartered Bank of Australia , U , 1 * pm . ; North British Australasian Land and Loan , 1 dis ., A pm . ; Australian Scottish Tnvoatmont . i . i pm . ; Crystal Palace , 31 , 3 *; Screw Weam , ]»> ** . « South Australian Land , 341 , 35 4 ; Australian Agricultural , 314 , 32 * x . . d . ; Peel River , 2 J , 3 .
Corn Makket. Mark Lane, Friday Evening. ...
CORN MAKKET . Mark Lane , Friday Evening . English Wheat declined Is . to 2 s . since lost week . Holders of Foreign are Jinn , and the country markets arc more ftctlvo than London . Saida Whoat is in demand at Bin . to 82 B .. cost , freight and insurance for arrived cargoes . Barley ia cheaper , which is tho more remarkable , as tho low qualUioa are Is . to 2 s . below tho actual price of Oats , whioh arc filb . to 711 ) . por bushel choapor . Egyptian Barley is worth 27 fl . fob . in Alexandria , and Salonlca as muoh . A cargo has boon sold at 23 s . cd . / coat , freight and insurance , arrivod off tho Coast . Oats aro Hkowiso rather cheaper , which Is owing to considerable suppllos , nearly 100 , 000 qrs . having arrived
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 3, 1855, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03021855/page/21/
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