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of a " Nocturne" and a ' < Mermaid Galop . " And last , not least , the Vocal Association , vrhose progress under the conduct of the learned beneficiare we have often noticed , rallied round him on this occasion with their most successful choral morceaux , including ^ that beautiful lately - exhumed fragment of Mendelssohn ' s " lorelei , ' - " the " Ave Maria . " The Philiiarmoxic Concert comprised an ample selection of the best classical music , both vocal and instrumental . Madame Novello , who sang splendidly
in an air by J . S . Bach , and Mademoiselle Ar tot ( whom we alluded to above ) , gave " Una voce poco fa , " so as to heighten , if possible , the favourable impression of her abilities entertained by the critical and professional world , on the two previous occasions of her appearance . The instrumental pieces de resistance were Mozart ' G minor symphony , Beethoven ' s " Pastorale " , and the popular " Zampa ' ¦ ' Herold , the very champagne of overtures . Mademoiselle Mosner , an excellent harpist , was much applauded in a striking concerto ( accompanied ) by the late Parish Alvars .
The Hanjoel Ciiokai , Society ' s concert at the Foundling Hospital was all that the hundred amateur members of the excellent chorus and their twice two hundred friends could desire . Mr . Willing , the conductor , has either had uncommonly good material to work upon , or hns made vast progress , considering the limited time since this society has been at work , in drilling and turning out an effective body of choralists . The only tiling Handelian about the affair was the name , and so much the
better ; fbr after all anight with Handel with complete means is no light affair for Midsummer . The programme was short , comprising music by Mendelssohn , Mercadante , and some Dutch duiness by Van Bree . The soloists it is immaterial to mention . Quite a minor feature in the estimation of the committee and subscribers , they had no peculiar encouragement to exceed their powers , and did not do so . The honours -were won and ¦ worn by choir and chapel-master , to whom , we have given their due . . ¦¦¦ ¦
Mr . J . Alfred Novbxlo has liberally placed at the disposal of each representative of the press at the ensuing Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace , a complete set of his " authorised " Handbooks of the Music for the three days . The St . James ' s The . atre opened as announced , on Saturday , with Spanish Ballet and English Opera . The first of these articles , formed the first course , and attracted , as we expected a good deal of fashionable company ; Mr . Edward Loder ' s " ¦ Raymond and Agnes , " a very pleasing work , new to London , if not precisely to the stage , was worth a few more
rehearsals by artists of such calibre as Miss Susan Pyne , Mr . J . II . LefHer , and Mr . Gadsby . It will , from present appearances , after a short run , get somewhat into form , and do an aniount of credit to the composer , which lie at present fails to reap from it . The principal members of the troupe are Madame Rudersdorff , Mr , George Perren , and Mr . H . Braham . Mr . Perren is an excellent opera tenor for smalt theatres . We have heard him to great advantage on the Manchester boards , and his charming voice is likely' to m & lcc a greater impression at the St . James ' s than would have been the case had he
genteel and well frequented a theatre , as we can now happily call the Adelphi , a certain smartness of diction , neatness of work , and other attributes of the " slight and elegant ' * school of comedietta . We were not disappointed . Mrs . Mellon appeared to advantage in uniform , ajid sang Mr . Balfe ' s setting of the ridiculous song " Riflemen Form " nicely that the most cynical of cynics , could not withhold his sanction from the wild encore bestowed upon it by the groundlings . Mr . RoiiEitT Beolou ' s Reading took place , pursuant to announcement , on Thursday evening , at the Marylebone Literary Institution , and if the attractions of Ascot week , and of fresh air generallj
ensured ample elbow-room to all present , the audience was yet remarkable for its literary character . Poets and poets' sons were there gathered round the poet of the occasion , and delighted to Avelcome from his own lips the recital of polished strains , both comic and sentimental , that had moved them , or most of them on previous occasions , whether in print or from the stage . The pathetic " Tent-maker ' s Story , " from The Welcome Guest , was the first piece read . Then came the quaint modern-antique ballad of ¦ ' Robin Hood and the Detective Officer . " This . ingenious burlesque of the true Robin Hood ballad stylo is worthy of the author of the Ingoldsby collection .
It was first printed , we believe , in one of those ephemeral serials ( to use a manifest Hibernicism ) ot which the great literary forcing-house of London is so prolific , and was a novelty to the majority of those present * and told admirably . The seedy circumstances of the itobinHood gang , their shifts and dpdyes , their plentiful lack of money , the craft of Allen-xdale wlio got his living as an Ivthiopian Serenader in neighbouring Nottingham ; and the caption finally of Robin Hood himself , who had guided the detective to the forest haunt , are no less
humourously treated in the lay than they were genially delivered by the lecturer . A pretty ballad called " Neighbour Nelly " was next succeeded by sorne of those admirable . scenes from Mr . Brough ' s famous Olympic burlesque of "Medea , "iii ivhichMr . Robsan ' s dramatic energy so well seconded the . author ' s conception . After one or two other lyrical pieces the entertainment concluded with the " Story of Lady Godiva " and " The Vulture , " the last , a powerful imitation , paraphrase , or , shall we say , burlesque , upon Edgar Poe ' s well known " Raven . "
If Mr . Brough lacks , at present , the confidence and . little artifices of the hardened lecturer , lie is at all events free from all those defects which are sometimes so objectionable in " Professors . " On t lie serious passages he appears , at present , somewhat disinclined to dwell at sufficient , length , but Ms delivery of the mox'O facetious portions of the x * eadiqg left nothing to be desired . The annual dinner of the Dramatic Authors '
Society , at the new Opera Colonnade Hotel , on Saturday last , was , as might be expected , a very pleasant affair . Lieutenant-Colonel Addison was in the chair , and contributed largely by his ready elocution and great geniality to the success of the evening . Messrs .. Plnnche , Robert Bell , Bayle Bernarfl , Sterling Coyne , K . X . Blanc-hard , F . Talfourd , and other gentlemen prominently connected with the drama , were present , and worthily supported the gallant and populur president .
The following distinguished persons have honoured the Royal Italian Opera , Drury Lane , by their presence during last week : —Prince Vogaridcs , His Grace the D like of Bedford and party , the Countess of Winchilseo ., the Duchess of Richmond , the Dulco of Devonshire , Lady Ceeila Lennox , the Baroness Ruehter , the Marquis of Salisbury , Viscontc Eugene di Morsant , Xord and Lady Kennedy , Lady Iagestrie , Lady Rollo , Lady Florence Pnget , Lord Ward , Karl of Lonsdalo , Lady L . Tennent , tfir Proby Cautlcy , Bart ., Sir Aloxandcr Wundford , Sir
E . Hoare , Hon . Captain Willis , Sir Charles Oakley , Marquis ofClanricarde , Lady Howard , Lady Palincr , Lord and Lady Saltoun , Lady Johann , Lord Harius , General Robbina , Sir Ralph Steward , Sir Ralph an < l Lady Howard , Mrs . Witmorc , Miss Iiulso , Lady Rolley , Major Blake , Major Pole , Major Lyon , lion . Mrs . North , Colonel King , Colonel ^ yilliam 8 , Lord David Kennedy , General Boulun , Major Gardluor , Captain Stuart , Colonel Gold , Henry WombwoU , Esq ., C . Mitrtyn , Esq ., — Arcedeckno , Esq ., C . Fludyor , Esq ., 0 . Goslin , Esq ., & c .
ventured again into the over-large arena of Drurylane . At the Pkinoess ' s Theatre Mr . Kean has produced a slight but well constructed and successful little novelty , under the title of " If tho Cap Fits . " Miss Murray is tho heroine , Mrs , JEliertov , a marriageable widow . Three military admirers of hers , all in each other ' s confidence , and each sure of Ins lady-killing power in one particular masculine attraction , are a captain , a lieutenant , and a dootor , played by Mr , Walter Lacy , Mr , Everett , and Mr . F . Matthews . These eons of Mars go so far in deciding
the lady ' s fate , without consulting her own views or inclinations , as to toss up for first attack , and for the strategical operations each shall pursue . It falls out unluckily that each of them is forced by the lottery to adopt precisely thttt mode of fascination in which he is not at home : and . when their giuno is up , they find out that rotributlvely tho embroidered smoklngcap they had employed as a ballot-box , had been worked by the widow ' s fair hands for a successful rival , whom they liad entirely forgotten to take into calculation . Tire piece is as smartly acted as it is nicely put together , and will bo popular to the season ' s end .
The AuKra-m lias npw taken rank beside tirnohonoured Astley ' e ns a theatre of war . Tho last scrap of news wo have to offer from it-rwo were almost tempted to sny the last bullet-in- ~ relates to the enlistment , of Mr » - Alfred Mellon in " Tho Kifle Volunteers , " a pleasant trifle by Mr . EdwardStorling . Of course , in a thoroughly , touch-and-go piece tie oirconstancc . knocked up , probably , at a few days ' notlco , we had to expewt elaboration of neither plot nor sentiment . But wo had cvovy right to expect from so practised a hand as the author ' s , and in « o
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This Hop Duty . —The following official notification has been published : — -TUo hop duty for tl » o year J 858 may bo paid in four instalments . Ono is to bo paid forthwith without any further notice , and tliQ others on tho following dutcia ,: August 10 , 186 U } November , io , 1859 } February 10 , 1 S 0 O . Of a joint note of hand may bo given for tho payment of the first moiety in November noxt , with interest at 4 per cent ., bearing date from tho lGtli of May . If payment bo muda in lour instalments neither bond nor interest will bo required .
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from Hull and other places some of the corn-vvliicli comes from abroad . France , notwithstanding she feeds her- army in Italy entirely from her own stores , continues to . send us wheat ar . d flour , and almost all the foreign at present in our markets come from that country . Already in some parts of the South of France the harvest lias commenced , and the crops throughout that , great country and Spain are well spoken of . If the weather continue favourable , and the harvest turn out we'll , we shall not feel flic war in the price of food . If the harvest should be deficient here the ivar
THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON TRADE . TT /^ E have searched hi vain for any evidence that 1 » the war has as yet seriously affected trade . We might expect , fis one of its first results , ' from increased consumption , waste ,, and the withdrawal of hands from agriculture ,... that corn should be dearer ; but the promising season lias much more influence over prices than the war , and our corn markets are ¦ fallings though the supplies sent forward are very short . The only evidence we any where see of the influence of war is , perhaps , the somewhat advanced prices in ' Germany , whither goes
would interpose no obstacle to our obtaining supplies from the Black Sea—though . they came down the Danube— -from Egypt , and the United States , the great sources of our supplies of grain . They would be freely brought in our own ships ; or in any neutral ships , to our own shores . The war must be much more extensive and much more disastrous than we can at . pivsent fancy it likely' to be before we shall-feel any ill effects from it in our own corn market .
From the countries from which we procure corn we also procure wool , and except as the war should interfere to destroy the flocks in Hungary and other places , we shall get as much as we can require and pay for . At present-one great source of supply is our Australian Colonies , and up to this time they , as well as other countries , have sent forward an increased quantity : We may anticipate some little , deficiency in the silk crops from the presence of such , large armies in Lombardy , butivo believe that the care . which has been taken thirt
year in Italy and the south of Franco to procure additional worms from different countries will almost compensate fbr the loss ; and the crop , which has not been great for two or three years , will probably be equal to what it lias of late been . So far , however , as our manufacturers aro concerned , they derive their chief supply—ninetenths of" the whole—from China and India , which will not be interfered with by the war . Nearly the whole of our supply of cotton comes from countries beyond the roach of the wai- —India , the Brazils , and the United States , and it cannot be allectod
by the war . It is accordingly noticed that in none ot the < a-eat seats of our manufacturers " is there any remarkable stagnution . On the contrary , there continues to be a great demand for cotton at Liverpool , and considerable activity prevails at M « mehestcr , Leeds , Macclesfield , Nottingham , and tho other centres of our ingenious and ennobled industries . Looking at the railway receipts , und other indications of business in the . United States , and noticing there the terrible fraud and delusion which hns induced hundreds of thousands of people to waste their substance and many months ot their lives in a frantic expedition to Tikk's 1 ' bak m search of gold , where tlioro was none to begot , wo cannot expect from our great customer such si larcre demand fbr our goods , and such a largo supply of goods from tho States ns we might have liiul , if the people there had all been prosperous . But the decline of railway receipt * and th « ravenous chase after gold -aro ^'" f J ^ "I continuations of tho grout follies of 1 ^ 7 , « nd though they may alifeot our trade , we shall kij w that thin is tho consequence of delusions n * disastrous in their ofll'ds us wars . Nobody will for ono moment suppose that I ho rise in the price of nuffar , ooflbo , and ten , which m taking place , is caused by the war . . Jo bo no extent the war wight interrupt tho »« P MlUUo " of those articlos into Trieste and into Crermimy and Holland , for tho uso of Austria , nnd to loBsen trade , though not directly—ior cargoes i > those goods may be freely convoyed m nouirui bottoms into the ports of the belligercnta—
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Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18061859/page/20/
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