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No. 4Q3. Sept. 3, 18590 THE LEADEE. 1 00...
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No. 4q3. Sept. 3, 18590 The Leadee. 1 00...
No . 4 Q 3 . Sept . 3 , 18590 THE LEADEE . 1 007
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The Earl And Countess Of Derby Are At Ta...
The Earl and Countess of Derby are at Taymoutli Castle , Perthshire , on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Bread albane . The Marquis of Stafford , who has been cruising with the Duke of Sutherland in the Undine yacht , has arrived at Tarbet , Ross-shire . " The Prince Imperial , Tvho continues to enjoy excellent health , " says a letter from Biarritz , " rides out on the beach on a little pony given him by the Queen of England . He is watched with great interest by the numerous persons who always assemble near the spot . " Sir Allen McXab is seriously ill , having been attacked with bilious fever and the gout simultaneously . _ ' . . ¦ _ ¦ .. _
Si < mor Mazzini is at present staying at Stella for the purpose of recruiting his strength . He is unwell from severe labour , and intends remaining at his present abode for some days . The Council-General of the Indre-et-Loire decided two days ago that a subscription should be opened for the purchase of a sword of honour to be presented to Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers . Each of the members present inscribed his name . A correspondent informs us that there has been a great influx of French excursionists at Ramsgate . Lodgings are so scarce that even garrets yield 2 s . 6 d . per night . The Roman Catholic bishops of Canada had put forth a manifesto against representation by population and mixed schools . Bishop Can- has been afflicted with so serious an illness that he has been compelled to resign the rectory of Bath , to which he was nominated in 1854 , on the resignation of the Hon . and Rev . W . J . Brodrick . Dr . Carr was consecrated to the bishopric of Bombay in 1836 , and resigned it in 1851 on account of ill health . The acrobat Blondin has again crossed over Niagara river oh his tight rope , carrying a man on his back ! lie promises next to take over a cooking stove with him , and when in the centre of the rope to cook some omelettes . A quarrel took place on the banks of the river during the last exhibition , and one man was precipitated into the river and drowned .
The weather has been favourable for harvesting throughout Canada . In Upper Canada the crops liad been secured , and in the lower province they were being got in . A steam " elevator" at Oswego and the adjoining warehouse had been destroyed by fire , entailing a loss of 15 o , 000 dollars . The warehouse is said to have contained 150 , 000 bushels of wheat and corn . Colonel Frederick C . Cotton , of the Madras Engineers " , has drawn up a memorandum on the subject oi" cheap water communication between
Kurrachee and the Indus , for the Commissioner of Scinde . He recommends—1 st , a canal from the Indus above Tatta ( probably Jerruk ) j 2 nd , a canal to join the harbour Kurrachee with Girzee ; and 3 rd , an improvement of the passage through the Delta , by locking the water up to the level of high spring tide , and making artificial cuttings where they are required . This lust improvement is urgently required both for the use of the Indus flotilla and for the Oriental Steam Company . Should it be objected
ca woum a great volume of the Indus , some of its flood water might be stored in the Kurjoor Lake , A letter from Boston , United States , says : — !' There is a strong sabbatical feeling growing up in this country , and which principally exhibits itself in tlio large cities . In New York tho liquor shops arc closod , nominally at least , o « the Sabbath , tho experiment having been commenced about n month ago , and persevered in , The Philivdelphians have stopped tho running of cars in their horse railways on Sundays , and purppso to compel tho steamboats on tliQ Delaware and tho Sohuylkill to lay up on that day .
Vesuvius is bursting out into patches of fire in all directions . Profo . asor Palmieri describes the process as follows :-- " Tho fire runs along in hidden and initurally-formod conduits , the walls of which It bursts through when in any groat mass , and then overflows . Evory spot of flro , therefore , docs not imply that a fresh mouth has boon opened , but that a nipturo has taken place . " During tho past fortnight tho drift boats at Porthlevon have boon catclung from 15 , 000 pilchards flown to 200 nnd 300 per boat por night . Some oats have taken-a large quantity of lake . At St . Ivoa , # few days ago several seinoe were shot , and bout 000 hogsheads of piloharda wore taken . At Sonaon Covo 250 hogsheads were caught . The fiahonuou complain greatly of the ravages committed by tho dogfish , for these pests actually attack the nots whop they aro alongside the boat .
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- — . * . —¦—TnE annual exhibition of the French Fine Arts Schools opened on Wednesday , and will continue on the Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday in each week until the 2 nd proximo . Not the least attractive feattire of the galleries is the collection of works by pupils of the French Academy at Rome , to the most successful of whom prizes and honorary certificates are awarded . The collection of the complement of the £ 50 , 000 required to complete the arrangements between the Horticultural Society and her Majesty ' s Great Exhibition Commissioners proceeds , as might be expected , somewhat slowly . The Council are , however , sanguine that the whole fund will ultimately be forthcoming , and that they will have the honour of being associated , we might almost say , with
Royalty , in tins interesting scheme for the popularisation of Brompton . As we read the scheme , it is within probability that the garden , when in full perfection , may fall into the hands of the Commissioners after all ; for the term of the lease is short , and the fine on renewal may amount , if claimed , to £ 20 , 000 . The prospectus is obscurely worded , perhaps to give as little prominence as possible to this objectionable feature ; but ladies and gentlemen who purpose becoming life subscribers should , ' they draw their cheques , make inquiry whether their rights may not die before themselves . On the roll of donors appear the names of her Majesty , the Prince Consort , and the Royal children ; and nearly 300 persons of quality and amateurs of gardening have given , lent , and subscribed sums amounting to not less than £ 30 , 000 .
Richard Westall ' s picture of " Christ Crowned with Thorns , " recently mutilated by a melancholy maniac , has been ably restored under Mr . Farrer ' s direction , and oiice more occupies its accustomed place in All Souls ' church . The rents in the canvas have been closed so as to defy detection by ordinary observers , and Mr . Farrer ' s celebrity is sufficient guarantee that no more than inevitable injury has been inflicted on the picture as a work of art by that too often erring member , the hand of the restorer . We have been extremely pleased to hear that Mr . Henry Tidey ' s remarkable drawing of "The Feast of Roses , " one of the gems of this year ' s exhibition of the New Water Colour Society , has been purchased by her Majesty . A " Picnic Party , " by the same artist , is one of the ornaments of Mr . Morby ' s gallery in 'Change-alley . allude
While in , or near 'Change-alley , we may to Mr . Sang ' s redecoration of the Royal Exchange , which is progressing rapidly . It is far more luminous than that it is about to replace , and is as elaborate in design ; but we agree , Mr . Tite , M . P ., notwithstanding , with' those who object that gay colours are out of all keeping with the material and purpose of the building . The new work is in fresco , and it is hoped will be more permanent than the encaustic paintings it succeeds . Lough ' s unfortunate statue of Her Majesty , in the centre of the area , is certainly a painful example of what oxxr Anglo-Metropolitan atmosphere can do against marble . The fingers of the right , hand have absolutely rotted oft " , and the whole image is in a state of squalor and decay , that if not disgraceful is at least deplorable .
Letters from Paris speak of new stimulus to the decorative energy—never very slack—of the French authorities . The bronze leopards at the angles of the hew quadrangle , fronting the once dingy Imperial library in the Rue Richelieu , nre daily expected to bo in position . The plaster models prepared for marble statues of the famous Tronchot and Pourtali * , compilers of the Code Napoleon , now adorn the hall of tho Cour do Cassation . Tho statues theinselvos were decreed by the first Imperial Government , but wero countermanded by that of the Restoration . But the models having been preserved as heirlooms by tho families of tho distinguished codiners , have been l-eccntly claimed by the faculty of 1 ' aris , with a view to ultimate reproduction in marble .
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J . e Menestrel ( a Parisian musical journal ) announces the marriage of Wieniawski , the violinist , to a niece of Mr . G . A . Osborne , one of pur * most eminent composers for , and professors of , the pianoforte . A canard of the wildest has been fledged , to the effect that our gifted countrywoman , Miss Louisa Pyne , will not take the part of the heroine in a reproduction of Meyerbeer ' s "Dinorah , " by the English Opera Company at Covent Garden this winter , " as she does not find it sufficiently dramatic for her talents . " The discerning author of this story ' s being has amusingly libelled Miss Pyne ' s appreciation , both of Meyerbeer ' s music arid her own special fitness . We should hardly Be going too far were we
to assert that no artist who has yet assumed the character of Dinorah is so well fitted to illustrate the delicacies of the music allotted to it . The eccentric maestro was , we have reason to believe , delighted to recognise in our cantatrice a future exponent of his musical thoughts , such as lie had not given cold England credit for . It was the general remark of all connoisseurs on the production of the " Pardon " here , that the heroine ' s part was , so to speak , designed for Miss Pvne ; and we have every hope that we shall have the" opportunity of realising the wish then engendered , that the opportunity might be afforded her of displaying not merely her musical lovelorn
but also her dramatic talents , as the - maiden of Plofermel . If impediment arises to the presentation of the work by the Pyne and Harrison company , it will be traceable more , we apprehend , to the equal difficulty of arranging an English libretto , or of acquiring the right to perform the Italian one , than to any fancied insufficiency of the fair naanageress . But if a German libretto has been constructed , which we presume must be the case , as the work is in rehearsal , on dit , in twenty-two German theatres , we see no reason -why some of the veteran " arrangers" of London need despair of finding something to wed to the immortal strains ot Meyerbeer . __ ... Schallehen
Royal Surrey . Gardens . — Mr . , ex-musical director of the Crystal Palace , is labouring zealouslv , even under the very nose of the antipathetic Spurgeon , to get up a counter revival " -here in favour of music and dancing . He has a strong band of sixty performers , and a chorus of two hundred , besides soloists , and- has lately had in his favour not only the attractions of the grandly beautiful Indian tiger , Jungla Csaid to be late of the Court of Oude ) , but also those of most excellent fireworks , balloon , ascents ,, and the gardens themsel v , which are tastefully laid out and admirably kept . That his attempt is a progressively successful one cannot be doubted , if we may take the evenings of Monday and Thursday as specimens . On those occasions Mr . Horace Jones ' s elegant Music Hall was crowded by a well-composed and extremely respectable audience , who , after applauding to the echo an amply long musical enterand at
tainment , set themselves to dancing looking dancing with a business-like tenacity of purpose nowise akin to the indifference , real or feigned , that characterises so many of the company at the more aristocratic garden of Crcmorne . An . ong the vocal stars of the establishment are Signor Belletti , Mr . and Madame Weiss , Mr . George Perron , and Miss Susannah Cole ; and of the instrumental pieces , the " Traviata" and " Trovatore" selections , the legion of popular overtures , and Mr . Schallehu ' s Grand March , never fuil to reap the honest and oheoring testimony of delight at tho hands of tho company . On Thursday evening , for tho benofit of the manager Mr . Corbyn , the Christy ' s Minstrel * flitted across with a selection from their renowned \>» dg ; e t , and the Italian nro-flend , Bciono-Corc , exhibited to the Surrey thousands that puzzling ' refractory property ho seems to sharo with asbestos and lirebricks , and which has won him such renown on the scone of his accustomed triumph , the A « f . burnham
V W ? ttfaT but we dare not add , upon unquestionable authority , that Mr . Simpson , of tho ast-muned place of entertainment , has purchased the remainder of tho lease of the Surrey Gardens estate E WO / ., with a view to its , conversion into ljurdiud'hiver . It i » clear that it has matchless capabilities for such a purpose , and the chances are t a ' were it once in the hands of such an adopt At amusement catering as Mr . Simpson , us accessibility from so many parts of London would ensure its success as n speculation . , Tho Bradford Festival terminated with a morning performance of the " Messiah '' and an evening one of Mr . Jackson ' s cantata " The Year . " Tho former was a striking success , tho choral singing nannMallv bcinff magnificent . The solo , _ cust was
more than usually strong , comprising MosUaracs Clara Novollo , Shorrington , and Sundcrland , ana Missus Pulinor and Freeman $ 'Messrs . Sims Kcoycs , Santloy , und WJIbyo Coop . or .,. with that oxcdl ' ont artist , Wignor BolloUl . The now cantata is also Spoken highly of by those who wore more fortunate
Mic . Cuahles Diixon had the honour ot playing in tho molpdrama of " Bolpliogor , " on Friday night , at tho Queen ' s Theatre , Edinburgh , before his Koyal Highness tho Prince of Wales . The winter campaign at ! tho Adelphi is to open with a now pieco by Mr . Watts Phillips , in which Mr . Webster , Mr . Toole , Mr . Billlngton , and Mr . David Fisher ( from the l ' rincoss ' s ) will appa ur . Signor Costa is engaged , it iu said , upon a now oratorlQj the toxt by Mrv Bartholomew , a very pructlaod hand In a branch of literature whoso dimculty la hardly appreciated , that of writing for musical composure .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091859/page/11/
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