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October 14, 1854.] THE LEADER. 981
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A HEART OF GOLD. We shall be only doing ...
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FBOM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Octobe...
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MONKY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE. Frid...
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COHN MA It K E T. ,n Mark Lane, Friday l...
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BRITISH FUNJ)S YOU THE PAST WEEK. (CjLQ9...
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FOUlSlCiN FUNDS. (LA.ST OV\SIQ\AU QUOTAT...
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sense as " Up , guards , and at them . " Trash and bud taste of this ¦ sorl escape rebuke by being unworthy of it . We turn , with pleasure , from publications utterly worthless to a book conscientiously written and really likely to "be of some use to the reader . This work forms the second volume oi Messrs . Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature . It is called Athens and the Peloponnese , with Sketches of Northern Greece , and is translated from the German of Hermann Hettner . This new contribution to a promising Series is a very praiseworthy little book , earnestly and intelligently written . It contains several p leasant sketches of manners in modern Greece , and much Useful antiquarian information , which is clearly and unaffectedly imparted to the reader .
October 14, 1854.] The Leader. 981
October 14 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 981
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A HEART OF GOLD . We shall be only doing common justice to Mr . Douglas Jerrold if we preface our report of the production of A Heart oj Gold at the Princkss ' s Theatre , by intimating that the play has been presented to the public at an unfortunate time , and under adverse dramatic circumstances . In the first place , all the popular sympathies are just now entirely absox-bed , to the exclusion of every other interest , by the news from the " seat of war . " In the second place , Mr . JerrolcTs play , the merits of which Test exclusively on the novelty of the main idea , and the admirable writing of the dialogue , has been produced at a theatre where the audiences have been accustomed to the most breathlessly exciting dramatic stories , and . the most lavish magnificence of spectacle produced in our time on the English stage . In the third place , A Heart of Gold , after having been written with special reference to actors and actresses of the first degree , has been performed by actors and actresses of the second degree only . Miss Heath and Miss Murray , Mr . Ryder and Mr . Cathcart , who played the four principal parts , and who all conscientiously exerted , themselves to do their best , canhardly as yet be said to have reached the highest ^ rank in their profession , even in the estimation of their most partial admirers . Produced under the disadvantages to- which we have alluded , A Heart of Gold has , we regret to say , achieved only a moderate success . And yet the play is founded on an excellent and a new idea . John Dymond , " wasted , and heartbroken at the rejection of his suit by Maud Nuibrown , yi \\ o can admire but cannot love him—dying in his own "belief and in the belief of all around him—admits his successful rival , Pierce Thanet , to a final iutei-view— gives to Pierce the whole of his money , accompanying the gift with bitter words of sarcasm on the unholy power of -gold , wrung out of him . by the last pangs of" anguish and despair , and , to all appearance dies , after having enriched his moneyless rival with the wealth which could alone obtain the consent of Maud ' s father to her union with Pierce . So the first act ends . In the second , Dymond again appears . What seemed to be death was but a trance that resembled death . He has come back to life to find himself bewared Oo
11 by his own act , dependent on the mercy and honour of the favoured rival - whom he has enriched , at the moment when that rival is al ) out to marry ^ with the help of Dymond ' s gold , the woman whom Dymond loves . This is H the grand situation of the play ; the admirable middle-point from which the •\ p lot might have mounted to the climax of interest—of " breathless" interest j in the best and highest sense . Unfortunately , the second act ended with what , ( as far as the sympathies of the audience were concerned ) ought to have been j the end of the play—Maud ' s indignant rejection of Pierce for refusum- to , restore his legacy , after circumstances had made it no legacy at all ; and the offer of her hand to Dymond . Dymond is the interesting character of the play . Pierce never wins the sympathies of the audience from first to last ; and yet , in the third act , when he luis returned the money , Maud discovers that her first love is the only man she can worry—fierce is restored to his former place in her affections—Dymond resigns her , and so the play ends , to the evident and not . unnatural disappointment of the audience . We can , congratulate Mr . Jerrold most sincerely on having conceived an admirable dramatic idea , and on having produced some of the very best dialogue that has ever fallen even from his masterly pen . But we are bound in common candour to add , that b y . relying too exclusively on the excellence of his idea —simply as an idea —and by trusting too much to the vigour and the sparkle of his dialogue , he has missed the opportunity of telling a good story in an interesting way , and of developing well-imagined characters in the rio-ht direction . In literary merit , A Heart of Gold is superior to some of the most popular modern plays which still live , and will long continue to live , on the stage . Anyone of Mr . Jea-pld ' s scenes is , as apiece of writing , immeasurably better thaii all the scenes in The Stranger put together . Maiid Nutbrowri ' s prose description of her first sight of London from the top of St . Paul ' s has more genuine poetry in it than the most professedly poetical passage that could be extracted from The Lady of Lyons . But The Stranger and The Lady of Lyons keep the stage , after the experience of many years , and will continue to be acted when the Heart of Gold has hut too probablydisappeared from the playbills for good . What reason can be given for this ? The simplest and plainest of all reasons , as it appears to us : Kotzobue and Sir Bulwer / Lytton , as writers for the stage , have made it their first business to ^ tell audiences an interesting story . If Mr . Douglas Jerrold had but done himself justice by working on the same principle , A Heart of Gold -would not only have been read—as it certainly will be read—with genuine pleasure , but would also have been one oi" the stock-pieces of the English , stage . ¦ ° We have encroached so much on the spaeo at our command , in the preceding remarks , that . we are only able to announce the deserved success of a very neatly-written little comedy , in one act , called Living tw Fast , which opens the dramatic entertainments at the Princess ' s Theatre . The piece is written by Mr . A . C . Troughton . The Olympic has opened again with the excellent company and the successful plays of last season . As soon as the first new piece is produced , we will take cai-e that our readers shall hear about it .
Fbom The London Gazette. Tuesday, Octobe...
FBOM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , October 10 . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . — Pbascis Buerow , Redruth , Cornwall , tailor and draper—William Beckett , Gillingham , Norfolk , cattle dealer and salesman— Henby KEitrooTv ] icdford , Lancashire , sillc nmnufacturer , BANKRUI'TS . — Hesuy CnATXEiaa , Lothbury , City , mercliant — Josepii Tjrevethan " , Cambrian JJrickflolds , Lower Norwood , brickmaker—Thomas AVa g iioks , l ^ ochentcr , Kent , draper—Geokok Tox , 23 , Crombio ' s-row , Commercial-road East , clothier — Lewis IJabsetx , Werthvr Tydvil , Glamorganshire , grocer—John Hu » iiE 8 , Bangor , Cai'iiarvoiiHhire , imikcoper ~ UANii ! i , Lonodim , Manchester , lronfqundcr—Joseph Bukoe Godfkey , Taunton , Somersetshire , coachmakcr . Friday , October 13 . BANKRUPTS . —James Ward , licensed victualler and tftvorn-keopcT , Jorinyn-strcot , St . JamcH ' s — Wht . iam JIUNitv Bautleman Hawes , cliemist , Strand—Thomas HocoiiToN . ironmongor , Collyhursife , Lancasliiro—Richaud Bu'ncii , grocer , Bury , Lancashire—Joux IIkwutt , brickmakcr , Lcnmington Priors , ¦ Warwickshire—Jame s Dyson , draper , Huddersjllcld—James Cokjiett , saddlor and victualler , Stoiubridgo , Worcester — Roi 3 EKT Siiepi > aud , grocer , Glossip , ]) erbyshiro .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . mimis . HAY . — RoTtlembor 21 , at Jorsoy , tlio wife of Captain Dnun-™ VMV }? T }\! . r ? th Highlanders : si daughter . WIOKIIAM . —Sontoml > cr : > 5 , nt Fi .-rmoy , Ireland , tho wife or Thomas Wickhaiu , Xisq ., Captain in H . M . ' s 33 rd Iteylniout : ii daughter . DIj ) BftATH . —Octobur 30 , at Syclonham , the wife of J . Do Jirath : a son . MARRIAGES . TOPlIAM-j . I'OllTLAND .-Oetoher fi , IJciutonaut-ColoHol roplmin , tlio Lieutenant of Hor MaJ <;» ty ' H Hoily-Guard of Uohtloiuou-at-ArmH , to the LailyMar . v ljoutiuclc , youiiB «> nt D , & iVft , F ° l tl 10 lat 0 J > uko of . I ' orthuul . 8 ARlU !/ JWOIJL , IN .--lIcMiry JnrcUno Stroot ; , Esq ., sraon . l son of tlio Into Cuptiilii . lohn Struct , of tho ltovul Aril lory , to Anna lo'eotto HI air , youi W ist daiiKlitor of nTv 1 U o ™? 1 » 9 , K « n .. of M ) , Melville-htrotit , Mdliihiir « h . HAY-S-WKTl' 3 -Octohor 5 , William J , <\| th Huv , Kun , soeond hou of Sir Ami row Loith Hay , of Wiwiuch , " K . H ., u , «™»« v Aimo , eluost daualitor of John Ueiwuiiont S \ vel , o , DKATII 8 . SOIIAAV . -SDptonibor 20 , killed at the Alma , Captain John Uoomo Soliaw , hor MnJoMty ' H noth lU'glimmt , oldest sou of rn a ° ii a ? f * ? . l'K ° Sohaw , M . sq ., niurohunt , OIhmbow . DRUM MtYMn " A" ' < : tlq " UruiiBwlck-iiquaro , « ri Khton ., l > . Vrk W ^ n ~ ° V'i ' , ^ ' ?¦'' hSfl 1 »» l » i ) o . a' 5 . Norfolk-stroet Bth wft , ?' T > ? S ^ Corion Drununoiid . G . U . K ., Col . of TYt 13 ^ fiTS J « f llmont ' « odol P hty-thrcO ' afVnp tl ?; " i ? l i ni J !' i ' 22 < a ? «'' 9 ' «» ' « . ncwJorntod hy fatiKiio Burton % « "i ° of th 0 A I , "" ' WriBadlur-auiioralVlUram oxpedU 1 ii A o ti , o ClSea : llllB " ^ JSu » »» » . wlt » ih °
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MONKY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , October 13 , 1 S 54 . DcniNG the week there has lieen but littla fluctuation in U 10 quotations of the Funds , tho prices varying from OflA to 9 oJ B , and a depression i , as h ( sm folt m ahn 0 ! st all r . lij " , secuntics , cjne / ly caused froru want of animation in the market and scarcity of money . A contango is demanded upon Consols as well as nearly all railway stock / proving a Bull account . News is anxiously expected from tlio seat of war as to further proceedings there i should such news bo favourable as expected , many look for a rise of hoixio importance in prices , although experience proves that nows Of all kinds is mostly discounted by tho Stock Kxchanso LuxembourK Constituted aru looking inclined for better things ; Turks cannot get one way or tho other far from 3 pin . i Caledonians , since deailt in x , d ., havo drooiied to about 30 { , whore they still hover . Tlio following aro the closing prices s-flsi , I monoy , 95 * . S for account ; Kxchoquor bills , J lo 7 pm . J """ * . h Calodonians , 01 , 02 , x . d . ; Eastern Counties , lift , 113 ; groat Northern , B 9 . 00 ; Groat Irish Soiitli-Wostoni , 00 , 02 ' Great Western , 705 , 71 } ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 711 , 713 ; London and IJlaokwall 8 i , Hi ; London and liriirhlioii , 103 105 ; London and North-VVcMtwii , 101 J , 1013 ; London and « ox . !? . " i W < istT . ' - i ^ ; ? Ildlalltl . «' •>! . « 9 * ; North IJritish , 32 i , 3 . 1 J ; bcottish Central , 0-1 , < JD x . d . ; Antwcrr ) andKottordam , ( ij ( iJS ; Eastern of Franco , Mi , 3 ai ; Lyons and GooiT *;^' ^ P ! n >! No / r . tl » er » Vrniico , SH J , Paris and Lyons , 1 i » n " i" 1 r , \ ' C , ' °$ . H nu 55 « i « -ln- > itl » , 1 ( 5 , 17 ; Affim Fria , I , !*; Ooadoa , li , 2 j IShkIihIi and Austmlian Connor , 14 2 Linaros . 84 , 94 ; Npuveau Monde , ft , 4 , SaulinRo do Cuba 45 , 0 ; U lilted Mexican , 25 , ai 5 AgrieuUurnls , 40 . 42 ; South Australian Land , 30 , » 7 ; Van Dlemon ' H Land ! 124 , i » .
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COHN MA It K E T . , Mark Lane , Friday lOvnnhitt , Oct . ia . Tun supply of A \ lu ; nt ami nil other Vlrulii continues to bo barely oquiu to tho domain ! , and prices havo an iiuwnrd ' tondoiio . y . ' At . tUl . s day ' s market thoro him boon n fair bu . sino . sa dono In VI lii'iit at . 2 s . over Moiuhi . v ' a ruU-s , and many holdorH rofuso to soil oven at thl . s ndvnuocv Outi « r « also < td , clearer . JSo alteration in barley has occurrod . Tho Coiitinonlii ) demand for Wiioat , Flour , Kyo und Uarloy oontinuoH , and tho tlnio has bi .-un oxUmdod lo tho i oiid of July in uuxt ; ywir , duriiiK which tho lninortatloii of I Whuat uito 1-ranou at a numiiiiil duty In to bo permitted ThoHunplios of AVliont al tlio Uallio porla aro tjtlll Inoonh dorablo , and priuos aro umtntnluud with much llnnnoaa . 'ihntiiuoiH now mo short during wliicli tihipmonta can bo made , before tho milting in of thu front , that any hupdIIoh of importance cannot bo oxnoctod from that quarter Tho quotations aro i ) 1 Hm . to ( Ujlbs . Uokormark Whoat M * fld to 00 m . puv miarUir , f . o . b . at Stuttin , freight to London as ., Ollbs . hlKh nilxud Whoat , 00 .- * ., M . bw . to ( J 2 lbs . rod , ftiis nor quartor i . o . b . at KixmiKuborK , with a t >» . freight . In oonuoquouao of tho largo ordorti 1 ' or l ' oas which hnvo boon wont out to KtxjuiKsborB . prices havo advanced thoro to : 17 m . nor quarter f . o . l > . JJoans and Tares aro uIho nmoh innulrod for . tho formor aro now ! l 7 m Ocl .. tho latter , ' ) 0 h . f . o . b l ' rom Now York wo loivru that tho report of our largo
crop , added to tho in creasing supplies there , had caused a considerable fall in the value or Whoat q , nd Flour but prices too still too high for export to this country , notwithstanding freights woro low —viz ., Od . per barrel on Flour and 3 Jd . to 4 rt- per bushel on Wheat to Liverpool . bmoc tlio 1 st of September-only' 40 barrels of Flour have been , exported from thu United States to Great Britain and Ireland ; during tho same period about 12 , 000 nrs . of 1 ndian torn havo boon shipped to thin country from Now York , of which there aro sellers hero at 10 s . and buyers at 39 * . cost , freight and insurance . It now appears likely that tho value of ¦ whoat and FJour will decline before long MifHeiontjy to permit of export to this country , and should any advance take place licet ! wo may after all derive a larger quantity from thonco than has up to this time been oxpoctcd ,
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BRITISH FUNJ ) S YOU THE PAST WEEK . ( CjLQ 9 INa PltiPES . ) J Sat . Mon . Tuos . Wed . Thur , Vrid . Un , nk Stock ' I . . I . > , mi 3 par Cent . Hud ' " . \ ' ' yjjj " y Vi , ' 3 ; i nor Cent . Con . An . « jji « 51 95 V ' usf 0 D 2 uri Consols for Aoeouut , iJoi J ) flg ya ' i vr > 3 003 <> 4 3 } por Cent . An ! 95 J- « ni i NovainorCouts ... 83 4 ' Long Aim . 1 SUO ., " "" At " * Vj '"Vi India Stock 230 iilii ) ' * , ** Ditto lioiuls , £ 1000 7 ( i ji io'ii ' Ditto , uudor A-looo io ,, \" t" \ io » i ) V » " n liK . JHUd , . C 1000 dp 7 , 7 > i in R ""' * " : 4 '' 7 7 > ¦* 4 7 Ditto , Small ' 4 | i , i , 7 > 4 4 !
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FOUlSlCiN FUNDS . ( LA . ST OV \ SIQ \ AU QUOTATION OUIUNCl THE "\ Vl 5 BK EXUIXQ Tiit-iiaDAY ISyknino . ) Ihw / Jllan 'Hondrt OS lliiNwian lionds , i > ijcv IiiiciiOh AyrcH (!| icr Cntn . ... ( , ' eiitH 1 S 2 m Ohiliuii o prr tents lui RiiHwIan 4 . J \ Mv' 6 vn U . ' , ' . ' , «| j Danish o 1 ii'r Cciils S | mnlah 3 |) , L't . KowD ( .. 'f . is } hduiidor . UmulH SimnlHhCoininittooOorl . Mexican : ! per Ocnt . s . ... iii ? , of Couj ) . not fun 01 Mexican !! per Ct . for Venezuela tl . J jktOenl . s . .,, . Ace ; Ui'ltfinn 4 J j « 'r Onta .... !) : Jt ' iii'tu KU'wi ^ iicrO . 'iitd . ... ' Dutch 2 J per Coufs & i I ' ortiiKUi' . to ft )) . <> ntM . ... I Diauh'i nurUuiit . Corlir ' . D'J
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 14, 1854, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14101854/page/21/
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