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Great Handel Festival. Crystal Palace, 1...
consists of—76 first violins , 74 second violins , 50 violas , 50 violoncellos , 50 double . , basses , 8 flutes , 8 oboes , 8 clarionets , 8 bassoons , 12 horns , 6 trumpets , 6 cornets , 3 op hicleides , 8 serpents , 9 trombones , 2 pair of kettledrums , 1 large long drum , 6 side drums ; 385 performers in all , who are arranged at 202 desks . The chorus , originally intended to eonsist of 2000 voices , slightly exceeds that number . The entire orchestra , therefore , is , as near as possible , 2500 . In the centre , between the organ and the band , the large drum made by Mr . Distin For the festival will be a conspicuous object . It is between six and seven feet in diameter , and when gently struck , produces a tone resembling the booming of a deep pedalpipe . The chorus comprises about 1000 metropolitan
amateurs , 200 professional chorus , and nearly 850 choristers carefully selected and rehearsed , from the great provincial choral societies and the cathedral choirs . These latter will arrive in London on the afternoon of Friday , the 12 th of "June , and the final choral rehearsal -will be held in Exeter Hall at half-past six o ' clock the same evening . With the exception of a very few seats reserved for distinguished visitors , the entire area , gallery , and platform will , on that occasion , be occupied by the chorus , who will be arranged in double choir . Israel in Egypt will , probably , be the principal feature of this rehearsal , and it is expected that the 2000 voices thus assembled will produce an effect far beyond anything ever before witnessed- The preparations are
gradually but rapidly progressing towards completion , and thus far every arrangement has been most satisfactorily carried out for the Festival . In order to record more fully the notabilities of the Festival a large number of the provincial press have signified their desire to send special musical reporters , and nearly 300 seats will be reserved for the gentlemen who will attend , for this purpose . In order to accommodate parties visiting London at the time of the Handel Festival , the principal railway companies have agreed to issue , return tickets , available for that week , at reduced fares . Many persons who
would otherwise have been excluded from attending the Festival will thus be enabled to attend at a moderate expense . To musical amateurs the Festival week will present several attractions : the Benevolent Choir Fund will have a grand choral service at "Westminster Abbey , and , in connexion with the Madrigal Society , have their flnniiftT dinner at Freemasons' Hall . After dinner , madrigals , & c , will be sung by about 200 voices . The Sacred Harmonic Society have also arranged to have a performance of Mr . Costa ' s oratorio , EH , at Exeter Hall , on the evening of Wednesday , the 17 th of June , to which it is intended to invite all who attend from the country to take part in the Festival .
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State Of Trade. The Trade Reports For Th...
STATE OF TRADE . The trade reports for the week ending last Saturday show continued inactivity at Manchester and the surrounding towns , prices exhibiting a degree of weakness likely to lead to an extended adoption of the short time movement . The Birmingham accounts describe steadiness in the iron-market , and an average home and foreign business in the other manufactures of the place . In the woollen districts , the increased firmness observable last week has been maintained , and the Irish linenmarkets are without alteration . — Times .
In the general business of the port of London during the same week there has been considerable activity . The number of ships reported inward was 241 , being 62 below the large total in the previous account . Those included 65 with cargoes of wheat , rice , oats , & c . ; 25 with cargoes of sugar , and one cargo of tea and silk . The number of vessels cleared outward was 125 , including 15 in ballast , showing an increase of 22 . — Idem .
In consequence of a notice from the masters of a reduction of wages from 6 s , to 4 s . 6 d . per day—the fortnight ' s notice having expired on Friday week — the shipwrights of the Tyne ani Wear turned out last Saturday , and remain on strike . The men offer to go to work for 5 s . per day , but there are no immediate prospects of a settlement . The shipbuilding trade is dull in the Wear . There will be near 8000 men out of employment on those rivers . The ahipjoinera have also turned out .
The daily papers announce the suspension of Messrs . William Macintosh and Co ., of Manchester , with liabilities supposed to amount to 100 , 000 / ., of which about 40 , 000 / . fall on London .
Ireland. . Ofbtoial Afpoxmtments Op Ikia...
IRELAND . . Ofbtoial Afpoxmtments op iKiaHMEN . —Mr . Henry Arthur Herbert , member for Kerry , baa accepted the posts of Chief Secretary for Ireland , in the room of Mr . Horaman , resigned . Mr . Chichostor Fortoscuo , has boon appointed Under-Seoretary for the Colonies . Tub Enoumbkrisd Estates Court . —Tho Wostmcath estates of Peter Fitzgerald , Knight of Kerry , who was the petitioner for the sale , wore disposed of on Friday week in eight lots , tho gross produce of which amounted to 24 , 895 / . Death op Lord Lxsmoru . —Viscount Liamoro expired on Sunday morning 1 at Shanbally Castle , in the county of Tlpperary . Ho hnd boon for a long time in extremely bad health . Ho is succeeded in his title and estates by his son , tho Hon . Qoorgo Ponsonby O'Oallaguau .
America. Central American Affairs Still ...
AMERICA . Central American affairs still occupy attention in the United States . We now learn that the treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Honduras , together ¦ with the additional article guaranteeing the neutrality of the inter-oceanic railroad through the Republic of Honduras from Porto Cabello on the Atlantic to the Bay of Fonseca on the Pacific , has been ratified by the Honduras Government ; but that the two conventions relative to the Bay Islands and to Mosquito , which were signed at the same time by Senor Don Victor Herran on the part of Honduras , and by Lord Clarendon on the part of Great Britain , have not been ratified . Some intelligence with respect to the policy of the United States in connexion with the Chinese war is
communicated by the Washington correspondent of the New York Times , who writes on the 17 th ult . : — " Despatches have been received from England stating that the position of our Government , as laid down in the reply of General Cass to Lord Napier relative to the Chinese affair , is entirely satisfactory to the British Cabinet . Joint armed intervention was asked for and decidedly declined ; but our Government agreed to co-operate by representation and joint remonstrance . " Lord Napier has again called the attention of the Washington Cabinet to the claims of certain English subjects for indemnity on account of losses at Greytown .
A storm appears to be gathering over Utah . Major M'Culloch is said to have declined the Governorship of that state , and it is believed that it will be found necessary to send troops there in large numbers , the command of whom will probably be given to General Harney . Governor Drummond has arrived at Washington , bringing with him accounts of the utter demoralisation of . people . From Mexico we learn that Crabbe ' s California Filibustering party has been attacked at Corborea by the Mexican troops , and forced to surrender at discretion . The Filibusters , including their leader , we . re shot .
A fearful riot ( say the American journals ) occurred at Louisville on the 14 th ult . The negroes accused of murdering the Joyce family some months since were acquitted . One of them turned States' evidence , but his testimony was not legal or corroborated . There was considerable excitement about the court-house during the trial , and about dark a mob broke into the cannonhouse and got a cannon , which they placed in front of the gaol . Several shots were fired by the mob and returned from the gaol . The gaoler , fearing the escape of the prisoners , formally surrendered two of them , who were bung by the mob ; the third cut his throat with a razor , but the negro who turned States' evidence was unmolested . The remaining negro implicated in the Joyce murder was hung by the mob next night , making three hanged and one suicide .
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decidod a slave case in direct opposition to the decision of the United States Supreme Court , in the Dred Scott case . There has been a great discovery of gold at Upata , in the province of Venezuela . The metal is exceedingly pure , and has been found in very large quantities . A bill has been introduced into the Californian Legislature to provide for the payment of the interest on the public debt due next July and January ; also another bill ' to provide for paying certain equitable claims against the State of California , and to contract a funded debt for that purpose . ' The latter bill had passed tho Senate and was before tho Assembly at the last dates . A member of Congress , from Pennsylvania , has fallen a victim to ' tho National Hotel disease , ' the result , it would seem , of foul air .
" The proprietors of the Daily Times , " says tho Time * Now York corresponden t , " offer 6000 dollars reward to whoever will discover evidence to convict tho murderer of Dr . Burdell . Some of tho other journals who do not make an offer make fun of the proposition . Tho livening Post offers 5000 peanuts , and tho Herald throws dollars to tho winds in gratuities for the discovery of all the undiscovered murderers for tho past twenty years . Mrs . Cunningham goes abroud an acquitted woman , and Eckel is discharged on his own recognizance , his counsel grumbling because tho Government prefer to bring him to trial six months hence . " The news from tho South ia said to be unfavourable as regards the cotton crop for this year . That of last year was also bad .
The allied forcoa of Central America ( according to despatches from head quarters , dntod April 22 nd ) continued pressing Walker severely . Deserters wore continuully coining in daily to the allies . Wnlltor ' s party were living on hides . Tho allied fire was suspended for a time from want of ammunition , but a supply oftwonty quintals of powdor reached tho allies , and tho fire again reopened . Walker ' s party was reduced to throe hundred and twenty mon . Tho allied forces mustorod 2600 men , which number was daily increasing . The River San Juan is open to trafiio by passports from Greytown and Fort St . Carlos . Tho Amorioan steamers havo discontinued visiting Groytown , now that the transit in in tho hand * of tho allies . Vivuneo lius boon ropulsed at Calluo ( Peru ) , and Caetollo has embarked at Puota , for Culluo .
Tho Finance Minister of Venezuela ban announced that his Government declines to nssont to tho agreement effected lost January by their own Commissioner *! with
the London committee of Spanish American k ^ holders . He adds that the Government K £ to ^ L a decree for the settlement of the debt according S own views . s w lca The New York money-market is easier . In theatnot market there has been a slight improvement
The Orient. India. The Disaffection Amon...
THE ORIENT . INDIA . The disaffection among the native soldiers seems to ! lessening , but had not quite disappeared when tlie ' W mails left India . Symptoms of an outbreak have man ' fested themselves at Umballa . The empty Euronean barracks have been burnt down , and the Native Infantrv hospital shared the same fate a few hours afterwarrtf After the sepoy of the 34 th , who wouuded Lieutenant Baugh , had been hanged , the Jemadar of the guard was similarly punished . The charges against the latter were as follows : — " For having , when officer in command of the quarter guard of the 31 th N . I ., on the day on which Mungul Tandy attacked the adjutant and quarter
master , told the men of the guard , when they evinced a desire to go out and aid the adjutant and sergeant-major in resisting the murderous attack made upon them 'If a man leaves this guard , or attempts to do so I ' will have him hanged for disobedience of orders . ' Farther -with having , in the lines of the 34 th regiment N . I . endeavoured to spread sedition by telling the men of ' that corps that if any of them brought him one of the new cartridges he would cut his head off ; also , for having warned the men of the 34 th N . I . to hold themselves in readiness for a general revolt on the night of Hoolee Lastlwith held
y , having a punchact in his own quarters for the purpose of organising a general rising of the sepoys against government ; at which punchaet two pay liavildars , a uaick , and a lance-naick from the 34 th K . I . were present . " On being brought to the scaffold , the Jemadar , who up to that moment had hoped for mercy , made a speech to his comrades , in which he acknowledged the justice of his sentence , said he had rebelled against a good government , and exhorted his fellowcountrymen to obey their officers . Everything passed off quietly , owing partly , perhaps , to" preparations having been made to overawe any hostile
demonstrations . A suttee has occurred in the village of Vung , in Kutch . A . woman , sixty-five years of age , immolated herself on the funeral pile of her son , a young man oi five-and-twenty . The bystanders attempted to dissuade her ; but , finding her resolution firm , they ceased to oppose her wishes . The Rao , on learning what had been done , took the advice of Captain Raikes , our political agent , and sentenced some of the leading men in the affair to two years' imprisonment , with hard labour , inflicting fines on others . Another great lire in Pegu has completely destroyed the rising town of Bassein . Coal has been found in the Siwnu district of Scinde . Trade is in rather an inactive state . I'KKSIA .
The Coiistilutionnel , of Paris , publishes a private letter from the Persian dull " , received through liiigdad , which announces that on the 21 st of April the English troops evacuated the town of Moliammerah . The steamships Comet , Planet , and Assyria brought them buck to Bushire . General Outram continued to evacuate the Persian Gulf . The troops wore beginning to experience rather . severe losses by disease . The Persian army on tho froutiors of Afghanistan was evacuating tlie districts occupied by it . it had alreaily quitted Tumih , and would soon evacuate Herat .
CHINA . The war—if war it can be called goes on l > ut languidly . Some successful attacks have been made by our vessels on Chinese war junks , and several of them have been destroyed . In thoso enterprises , a . few of our own mon have been wounded , more or loss seriously . A light luis taken place at Ningpo between some Frenchmen engaged in convoying juuks and t"o loltu ' gueso Iorchainun , who claim a monopoly of tho con ™> trade . The French boat was captured ; but tho nimu has been brought beforo tho notice of his Excellency jh . Bourboulon . . , < Tho traflic , both import and export , at bhaiigum " Lhrontoiu-d by tho successes of thu rebel * ami t » o con tumplntod desertion of tho Imperialist : ! unions tnen wages arc paid . . . . . . „ admissioni »
The Mandarin ' s son who , having gained coolie on board tho Qulnaro , induced the « -iii » flrnn » attempt to murder hor ofllcors and crew , and tune w eoasion of her , has suflored thu last penalty ot » w » His seventeen adherents , who nro to bo tnu mporiuu life , begged that they might dio with him . Mr . Markwioh , an old and highly recocted roeniow of tho English mcjioantlle community at » 0 B f £ , " lias boon murdered witli muro ( linn 0 "" J"V . ^ iA Ilia throat whs litorally torn away by il » »»» lmnd . The object was plunder , »»* i "' '" J ^ w uppunintly drondlng a surprise , iled boforo tlioy aeouro anything . They wore Mr . Markwloh - £ «> J VH . its . A reward hnd boon npoolnlly ollurod to » I ° J « by tho Chinese for tho liondd of tliolr . hng 1 Mi ° W \ A European mid his Clihwao uocomplloo liftvo tried and convlotod of nuino very uruol 't »» ' |( largo body of Chinese cooliott , whom nftor dojutw'B
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06061857/page/4/
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