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Recolid Of The Week. Home And Colonial. ...
JR ? 5 . 14 , the Convocation for the province of Canterbury assembled ; the Upper House discussed the questions of an alteration in the ecclesiastical law as to baptismal sponsors , and admission of improper candidates into ihe ministry . ' The Lower House made a demonstratimiaganistalterinjr . tlie liturgy ; the meetings were resumed on Wednesday , Feb . 15 . On Wednesday , Feb . 15 , were published the Army Estimates , showing an increase of nearly two millions sterling . On Tuesday ] Feb . 14 , the Registrar-General's returns showed that the cold of last week had increased the mortality : deaths 1 . 44 . A being- 136 more than the average ; births 2 , 021 , being 300 more than the average . : On Sunday , Feb . 12 , died Lieut .-Gen . Sir William Napier , historian of the Peninsular War ; aged 74—O . i the same day expired ¦ Viseoimfc Gormanstown , an Irish Roman Catholic peer ; aged 85 . . -
On Monday , Feb .. 13 , and Tuesday , Feb . 14 , many accidents occurred on tiie ice in the Parks ; a gentleman in St . James ' Park , and a youth afc Hampstead were drowned through the breaking of the ice . . On Monday , Feb . 13 , ivas decided the trial of Lord Ward v . Lumley , for rent of Her Majesty ' s 'Theatre '; veidiet for plaintiff ' , damages £ 4 , 5 ( 50 . —On Tuesday , Feb . 14 , and the twofollowing days , was argued the case of Mwgan v . London Dock Company , for alleged adulteration and deterioration of wiue in the docks . T-On Thursday , Feb . 16 , " in the case of Scully v . Ingram , verdict was nominal for the plaintiff ; sulject to arbitration . —On the saine day was argued the cause of Gye u . Hughes / for recovery of £ 5 , 000 , paid for rent of Her Majesty ' s Theatre ^ .
On Saiiifday , Feb . 31 , at the half-yearly meeting of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland , a dividend of five per cent , was declared . — -On Monday , Feb . 13 . the Mid-Kent Railway declared a dividend of four per cent . —On Tuesday , Feb . 14 , London and Blackball four per cent .: jSToitli-Ejistern various dividends on different stock , from 5 £ to 2 f per cen k—On TJiursday , J ^ eS . 16 , the business in cotton at Liverpool was . confined to six thousand hales . —Oii the same day the wheat trade ^ assumed a firmer tone , and two shillings advance upon l : i ? t v / eek's . rates was readily paid . —On the same day Consols closed at-, 94 £ 91 ^ for money ; 94- ^ - 9-lg- for the account . The ¦ -French Three per cent Rentes were 67 f . G 5 c , both for money and account . . .
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rouEipN . , On Saturday , Feb . 11 > the Paris journal La JPresse received a warning- for " mixing 1 false news with malevolent remarks . "— -On Sunday , Feb . 12 , Priuce Gortschakoff informed the French Government that Russia considers a conference of the five Great Powers nccessarv . ^ -On Monday , Feb . 13 , the ex-Grand JDuke of Tuscany arrived " in Parid . — -On Tuesday , Feb . 14 , the Moniteur announced tluit the opening of the session of the legislative body and the Senate is adjourned to the 1 st , of March . On Tuesday , Feb . 14 , it was announced in , Berlin that Prussia , -has not given in her adhesion to the English proposals ; and that the statement'of sin approaching conference of the four Powers without Austria is false . ' .. ' , " ' ' On l \ tescl « y , Feb . 11 , letters from Naples state that the King had ordered the release of prisoners arrested on supicjon : in Sicily the barbarity of the police increases . '
On Tuesday , Feb . 14 , Bishop Monrad , who had been asl ? ed .. by Ihe King- of Bctifnark to ' form a ministry with unlimited powers , gave his consent , On Wednesday , Feb . 15 , arrivod Now York news to Feb . 3 , Jtfr . Pennington ( republican ) was chosen Spealcc-r by Congress , on Feb . 1— On Feb . 2 ,. fifty lives were lost « it a fire in JEhn-street , Nev / York . — On Feb . 3 ' , the txplosion of a boiler at a factory in Brooklyn bmiod fifteen workmen in the vt ? ins of the building . On Tudsdirt /' , Feb . It , iirrived , vid St . Petersburg-, / news from Pekin 1 o Dec . < i-, the rob'ols wevo quarrelling , and . tho imperial troops had gained some victories ; liJuropean vessels were , at the mouth of tho Peiho '; the Russian mission was prospering ' .
Kntertatnmknts. "Thk Forest Keeper," A T...
KNTERTATNMKNTS . "Thk Forest Keeper , " a two-act drama , produced at puuuv Lank Tiiba'ihe on Monday , is n feeble specimen of the author ' power , though the story ho lias taken for liis foundation seems to hnvo capabilities worthy of his greater industry , or the collaboration of a morp skilful dramatist . Tho hero , Chrhtian Key not d ( Mr . Charles Dillon ) hps , in Act I ., a narrow cscnpo of being an . interesting character . lie is a fine , . honest French peasant , doting on a llamlsomo young \ v \ fe ,, Louixe ( Miss Pngc ) , and their h « i > plncHS h as prettily conveyed ns theii qottage hpmo is skilfully painted . But tho devotion of poor Lquiso to tlie noble family who reared her induces her to shelter ono of ita members , the proscribed
royalist , PucMtmjj ( Mr . IT . Mellon ) . This is discovered , and the unhappy husband , after wildly attempting the life of his supposed rival , codrta death in tho ranks of the republican army . In Act II . ( temp . 1815 ) he turns ^ p a live bnc disbanded trooper . The waifs of Napoleon ' s beaten annlos wcrQ fit u sad discount * in popular esteem in llie year 181 T )} and pur friend , happening to pass through a country town where tl » c new shoots of Legltimism were pronpering exceedingly , gets into a ' * < lifl 1 c « Uy " with the inoli . Pelted and hunted down , ho is Bliclt ^ red by a loc . nl official , who is no othor than the prime movtr in his trnln of sorrows , the ( ji-devant proxcrit , M . Duchamp . Tho audlonoe are first led to flupposo that this gontlcman ha 8 married Loulvo Jiei / nuld , in full boliof of her
widowhood , "but are afterwards informed , in clumsy fashion enough , that the weddiiig has somehow not been , exactly consummated . The situation in which theMady appears ^ with , her daughter before the pair of husbands is an extremely , delj « ate one , and , unfortunately , just as awkwardly handled . Christian—^ mere tri-fle changed in seventeen years—is . recognised mysteriously by liis child / unborn when the separation occurred , yet riot by her mother . The author may be said * in fact , to haVe got his play into a knot so tight , though , simple ; that , after dismally flounderingin quest of a denouement , he is obliged to take the good old remedy the knife , and that in jagged and untidy manner . \ Ve must still admit that though Mr . lioxby has next to no part at all , and one for Mr . Tilbury seems wedged in against the fitness of things , the first act is pleasing , and Mr . Dillon is pleasing too . Yet if ' 'The Forest Keeper' ' is r > - duced by the management under the impression that it offers a'field for the dispfay of the higher powers of . Mr . Dillon , we must add that they have paid him and his ability but a sorry compliment .
At CpVENT Garden , Mr .-. Leslie ' s operetta has apparently not answered cither our expectations or those of the managers . We liked ic ; but the public having , proved of the contrary opinion , \ ve can but bow with the composer , who should at all events be counselled to try again . En attendant Mr . Wallace ' s great effort , " Lurliiie . " which we ere to enjoy next ; ¦ week , the English Opera Company have given the" Crown Diamonds , " the Rose of Castille , " and " La Spnnainbula ; " In the latter Miss Parepa fully sustains her reputation . She was called , recalled , and enthusastically applauded , and we have every pleasure in chronicling her new success . Mr . ffaigh's " Elvino" is , at present suffering , from a little nervousness ; but with such a voice and so many qualifications Mr . Haigli should be of better cheer .
Matters are looking- up at the St . ' James ' s . Miss Wyndham has taken her attractions and her capital into the concern , and appeared On Saturday last very becomingly dressed , and singing very nicely , as Anna in a new burlesque on certain passages in the ^ Eneid , entitled " Dido . ' Mr . Charles Young is really very clever . His niake iip and " busin ess ' as the forlorn Queen materially aid the young author , who has at present a long stern chase ere he may get abreast of Messrs . Talfourd : and Byron , not to speak of P . lanclie . ' \ Dido run mad , not in purple nor white satin , but on Margate sands , Balmoral boots , wideibrimmed straw bait , and in fact in a complete sea-side toilette a la mode , inakes . an amusing : figure per se , . and Mr . Young fills up the picture corrpletely . On Monday a . neat little piece from the French , by Mr . Palgrave Sirapjson , was very nicely played by Miss Wyndham . Miss Nelly Moore , Mr . Craven , and Mr . G . Spencar . Tt is entitled " First Affections , " and proves , or endeavours to prov ^ , that they are by no means so fond as supposed ; but may even end in the most disrp » l ' of' all V . aysr—boredom . The piece is . charmingly . ' . put oil the stage , and is an evident hit . : .
^ fc the now fashionable Stband , Rlr . pooler , a practised dramatist , has produced ah exceedingly ingenious and amusing piece , called '' Sisterly Service . " Miss Sedgwick has appeared [ at the Haymarket as Julia in the " Ilunchback , " aided by Miss Swanborough as Helen , for the present only , we presume . Good as may be the . troupe at the little Strand , it will never do for the fair lessee to leave it . A number of vvell-knOwn literary and artistic amateurs propose to perform , at the Lyceum , on March 7 th , the ' School for Scandal , " and a new extravaganza , written , jointly , by four , or five of the most eminent hands in that species of composition . The profits of the entertainment are to swell a fund now raising for the families of two deceased literary men . The undertaking is by no means h light one for our confreres , and we hope their efforts will be supported by solid sympathy from the public . . '
Parliament. On Friday The Commercial Tre...
PARLIAMENT . ON Friday the Commercial Treaty between England and France was laid on the table by Lord WobHjuousia . The vexed question of the annexation of Savoy and Nico was again raised by the Marquis , of Is ' ormanuy , in reply to whoni Earl Guanville admitted that communications had recently taken place between the two Governments , ( jut not of an official character . Lord Brougham , who has of late exhibited himself somewhat in tbe character of iho apologist of Mr . Bkyan King , presented a petition from Mr . King oh tiio subject of the Sunday riots at St . George ' s in the J 2 as > t . Lord BriouaitAM made some strong remarks on the rioters , but none on the ; author of the riots , . Lord Dungannon postponed his motion on the subject of Sunday sermons in thentres to the 24 th , and though pressed strongly by the Loud Chancei . i-oii , the Archbishop of Caktkkhvkv , and the Uishop ' London , to abandon it nltogether , refused to do so . On Monday the Indictable Offences Bill was introduced for second reading by Lord Cm : i . MsrpiU ); a bill iiitoiidud to give another blow to ' the Grand Jury system , a system described by the noble and learned lord as the ' < hope of London thieves . " The Lord
Chanqem-or reiniu'lced that though ho should not oppose the second , reading , ho considered the question at Issue was surrounded with great difficulties , and therefore that the Bill ought to be . framed with great caution . He must , however , protest ngnlnst doing away with Grand Juries in all cases , though he quite admitted that that tribunal' in many instances was useless ami the parent of abuses . Lord JJkol'oi-mm said he had always proposed to make alterations in the Grand Jury system , though not to ¦ encroach so mudi on its functions as 'liis Bill proposed to do . Lord WknsmsYdm-ic objected to the uiKjtiulitioil abolition of Graml Juries , as he considered thoy were a grout protection to innocence , Trie Dill was read a second limy . h > roply to remark * from the JfSnrl ' of Cahnahvon , ihe DuUe of Kicwoastlb said negotiations , had been commenced will tho Hudson liny Company for the transfer nt onco , or by degrees , of the potyor and rlghl . s ovur ttits territories enjoyedl > y that . Company , He believed thft directors wore willing to make the Lrmisfor
for an udequato « oiii | ienaation . Tlio St . George ' s in the East scandal was revived by Lord Kiiutiv , who presented a petition from tlio vestry o ( that parish complaining' of tlio grevanco under which tho parish hiliowrod . I ho nob ' . o Lord rcniurliod that in a regent naliliun it was asserted ihiUtlio parish had always been noted hv Its " dovot « d attaohmont to tliu kluiniU and liH loyi ' lobcdlcnco to tho crown , " until tho appointment » 1 Mr . Buvan Kino and tlio Introduction by l » ltn ol' unitocustonicd forum ana
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 18, 1860, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18021860/page/21/
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