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116 THE ' LEAD ER. [No. 410, January 30,...
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We hear with regret that Mr. Charles Kea...
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Me. Cobden on Parliamentary Reform. — Mr...
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The Festival Performances. The Second Of...
-fokd the music by Mr . Howard Glover . The execution of this occasional piece betrayed aludicrous haste and want of preparation ; the orchestra ( so excellently handled in its accompaniments to the opera ) was all abroad , and the singers nowhere . Nevertheless , the saddened grace of Madame Spezia ' s solo , especially in the touching lines , ' ' ' . ' ¦ = Royal bride , thine island home , Girt by ocean , ne ' er forget , found its way to tli « hearts of the audience , and , if we mistake not , brought tears to the eyes of 'the ' . young Princess . The spectacle presented by the vast audience upstanding while the National Anthem was chanted , was brilliant m the extreme , and one which the gentle Bride will not easily forget . She will find honour and respect elsewhere , but enthusiasm so affectionate and heartfelt belongs to the land of English homes . Last evening the last State performance took place , and The Rivals was played by Mr . Buckstone and his zealous and intelligent Haymarket company , reinforced by Mr . Keeljby and Mr . Hudson , Miss Fitzpatrick , and Miss Reynolds , with extraordinary animation and success .
116 The ' Lead Er. [No. 410, January 30,...
116 THE ' LEAD ER . [ No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 .
We Hear With Regret That Mr. Charles Kea...
We hear with regret that Mr . Charles Kean is very seriously indisposed , and that by the earnest recommendation of Sir James Clarke he has been persuaded . to snatch a brief interval of entire repose from the harassing labours and anxieties of manager and actor . He is said to be suffering from the effects of overwork and consequent nervous exhaustion , complicated by an attack of influenza . We hope , however , that a fortnight ' s rest and change of air will restore him in renewed strength and health to the duties of his profession and the applause of the public . His dignified and disinterested conduct with regard to the ' Festival Performances , ' has largely increased the number of those admirers who feel an almost personal interest in one who has , with perfect taste and discretion , equally removed from unworthy concessions and undue pretensions , vindicated his own self-respect , the dignity of his art , and his personal and professional relations towards the Court and the public . The following letter from a lady-correspondent ( with a pardonable dash of enthusiasm in the composition ) very fairly expresses , we believe , the general feeling on the subject to which it refers : — - " Sir , —By-and-by , when the effervescence of loyalty that at present agitates the town shall have cooled down , it will be thought a > strange thing that our Queen exhibited herself , on the occasion of her daughter ' s marriage , as a ' theatrical star , ' to draw brilliant audiences for the purpose of dazzling her foreign visitors , who were unaware of the undignified machinery by which it was effected . " Strange , too , « thought the absence of Charles Kean from the Festival Performances , the tragic actor and accomplished gentleman , par excellence , of our day . And this omission becomes incomprehensible to those who know , that for the ten years he has managed the Windsor Theatricals , he has—besides closing his own theatrenever received any remuneration whatever from Her Majesty , bis railroad expenses even being unpaid . _ " The public , who lately so generously sympathized with him , ought to treat him to one cheer more' on being apprised of these facts . I enclose my card , and remain , " Your obedient servant , " Fair Play . "
The Photographic Art Journal , of which we have received the opening number fulfils the first condition of existence for any publication—it meets a want . Success will follow discerning management and liberal enterprise . If we may judge by the present specimen , the Photographic Art Journal will be creditable to its conductors in external appearance ; and the two illustrations are very finely and delicately executed : the one is from a photograph of the Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan , an alto-relievo by M . Justin , a French sculptor , and is as rich as a mezzotint ; the other is a speaking portrait of William Russell , the sometime Crimean , and now or about to be Indian , correspondent of the Times . The letter-press of the Journal will , no doubt , gain in strength and interest with succeeding months .
Me. Cobden On Parliamentary Reform. — Mr...
Me . Cobden on Parliamentary Reform . — Mr . Cobden has addressed a letter to Mr . Willans , the Chairman of his committee at the last election for Huddersfield , in which he advocates the claims of the 'working classes to the franchise , and doubts their imputed Socialistic tendencies . He observes : — " If we take a review of the conduct of the masses of the people on occasions of political strife , we shall find that they have generally been right before their ' betters ; ' and , although they have had no votes , their hands and voices have been raised in favour of every great principle of morality and justice . I have had great experience in appealing to all classes , and I say most sincerely that I should prefer an . audience of which the working class formed a considerable part in - all cases where I was the advocate of the rights of humanity . Great bodies of men are , no doubt , liable to he misled by appeals to their passions ; they are not always logical or capable of clear reasoning , but they are instinctively just and truthful ; the multitude are incapable of playing the part of hypocrites and traitors . The longer I live the greater is my reverence for , and trust in , the mass of humanity , which , in the aggregate , seems to sum up a total of virtues greater than can be traced in the individual units . There is much wisdom and truth in the saying of Montesquieu' Men , although reprobates in detail ,-are always moralists in the gross , ' Jt is strange how implicitly we trust the working class with all that is most precious to us in private life—our property , our lives , and the lives of our children—and yet , in the far less important trust of a vote , along with ourselves , how timid and jealous we are . And yet we see in America and Switzerland , where universal suffrage prevails , life is more secure than in despotic States , and property accumulates ( a proof of its security ) more rapidly than in other parts of the world . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. 11irths. ...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . 11 IRTHS . J-IADOW . —On the 10 th Doc , 1867 , at Ohinsurah , near Calcutta , the wife of the Rev . 0 . E . Hadow , Chaplain U . B . I . O S : a son . TOWNSEND . —On the 25 th inat ., at the Oroft , Swlndon , the wife of J . Conloston Ipwnsond , Esq .: a son . MARRtAGIiS . COLLINS—HUMPHREYS . —On Wednesday , the 80 th iuttt ., at tho pariah , oliuroh , Follxatowo , Suffolk , William Clow Collins , Esq ., to Adelaide , second daughter of John l > w £ or = Hu n » ihr ^^^ JIARWOOD—HARWOPl > .-On fho Oth insfc ., ac Sfe . I > unhtun ' s , Fleet-street , Edward Harwood , of East Moulsoy , . Surrey , to Elizabeth , daughter of the late William Haru-ood , of 00 , Piccadilly , and 20 , Golden-Hquaro , London . DIJATHS . BROWN . —On the 11 th inst ., at Constantinople , from sovoro soro throat , G . Itarron Brown , chief physician of tho town and provlnco of Holon , Anatolia , Ania Minor , oldest son of J . Baker Drown , Esq ., Oonnaughti-aquaro , Hyde Park . MILKS . —On tho 8 th insD .. at Bishop Lydlard , near Tauntou , Somersetshire , Mrs . Elisabeth Miles , in her 112 th year , and in full possession of her faculties .
Talking Of Photography, We Are Disposed ...
Talking of Photography , we are disposed to take an opportunity of introducing to our readers a young German-artist ( for artist he is , albeit sans le savoir , if not absolute l y malgre lui \ by name Herr G . Schmidt , of Dusseldorf , who is to be found , we believe , at 15 , Argyll-street , in this metropolis . Is Photography , properly speaking , an Art , as its votaries and Professors assert , or rather an artistic application of ecience ? It has been often most unartistically used , but of Lite it has been taken up by men of art , and something of the dignity of art has been given to the sleight of the Sun . If not strictly creative , it is eminently reproductive in its functions ; and there are many of its actual Professors who , at their will , can make the sun compose , and not be content to copy only . In the grouping and pose of portraits , as in the reverent and subtle transcript of nature in her lovely loneliness , Art becomes the handmaid to the ' eye of Phoebus . ' But to return to Herr G . Schmidt , who literally cuts out every sort of Art with a couple of loose blades of a pair of scissors . He takes a bit of black tinted paper , and ( like a tapestry-worker behind the picture ) , with a few easy , dexterous twirls of the scissors he creates—a fir coppice standing out dark and sharp against the evening sky , with a couple of belated sportsmen firing their last barrels at the partridges , and the pointers * down charge , ' and all this with a life , a liberty , a movement not to be seen in many pictures ! * Or here is a thy my , heathery , breezy eminence , a wild stag leaping over a hurdle , and others of the herd coming over the crest , foreshortened , in the distance . Or here is a group of horses , such as IIosa Bovheur would not disown ; or a bunch of flowers , on which a butterfly is pausing ; so tenderly , so lovingly , so % truthfully expressed ; no pre-Raphaelite , no Photographer could be more religiously exact . In his landscape cuttings there is a life and air , a light and shade , in the tree tops , in the very grass ; in the figures an expression , a freedom which all the sleight of hand could not produce , if the artist ' s eye and heart were not there to see and to seize . Now , it appears that Herr G .. Schmidt has never learned to draw , and that ever since he was five years old he has been cutting out . Is he an artist ? is this cunning of hand an art ? We have said as much , but we recommend our readers to visit Herr Schmidt and decide for themselves . The young Cutter-out has at least all the modesty of real-talent ; and at Paris , we have heard , he found the welcome and the admiration due to genius . The misfortune , rather than-the defect , of his peculiar workmanship appears to us to be the trivialit y of the instrument , and of the mode of operation . But the results are all the more wonderful .
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London, Friday Evening, January 29. The ...
London , Friday Evening , January 29 . The Bank is now down to 4 per cent ., whilst outside the Joint Stock Banks will not allow more than 2 per cent interest on deposits . The influx of gold and expected arrivals will swell the amount in the bank coffers to nigh eighteen millions between this and Lady Day . The action on the money market has been , however , not steadily progressive . Consols have nearly touched 951 , but have subsided to 95 again . Turkish Six per cents are a little firmer . Buenos Ayrean and Peruvian Stocks are in demand . Russian and Sardinian are without much change . In railway shares , foreign and East Indian continue in favour . No change in tho Canadians or New Brunswicks . American , i . e . United States , improve . by every mail from New York . The Brazilian 7 per cent , railway schemes are in great favour with tho public . As yet the allotment has not been made in the shares of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway . Heavy shares are very languid ; receipts are falling off , and the state of trade in manufacturing districts operate against them . Caledonians alone , with a 5 per cent , dividend before them , are in advance . Manchester and Shefflelds , from some mysterious advantage that is suspected to bo gained by an alliance with the Great Northern , maintain their full value . Berwicks , York and North Midland , and Leeds Northern , are flatter j Brightons are giving way—from sales . " In Joint Stock Banks there has been a fair amount of business doing . Ottoman and Bank of Egypt are in better request . Milling shares have been very active , and the price of tin and copper having advanced has given a healthy stimulus to buyers . United Mexicans are flatter . The rumours that were current yesterday of fresli revolts in Madras , of dmeutes in Rome , and the hostile tone taken by General Bazalno ' s division of the French army in their address to tho Emperor , servo to keep tho buoyant spirits of the Bulls down . Consols leave off at four o ' clock , 954 95 J for February 7 th account .
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Blackburn . O } 9 J j Caledonian , 93 $ , 033 » Chester and Holy .-lioad , 37 , 39 ; Eastern Countiea . 00 , 01 ; Great Northern , 1084 , 1001 ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) . 103 , 100 ; Great Western , COS , 001 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 931 , 04 ; . "London and Blackwall , 04 , 6 jf ; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 100 , 108 ; London and North-Western , 101 , 101 j : London and South-Western , 98 i , 00 * : Midland , 944 , 95 j North-Eastern ( Borwick ) , 07 * , 08 * ; Sotith-Easterii , ( Dover ) , 741 , 701 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 04 . 6 } ; Dutch Rhenish , 4 i , 3 i dis . ; lSastorn of Franco ( Paris and Strus-Luxembourg , 74 , 71 ; Northern of Franco , 37 J 7 384 ; l * arls and Lyons , Uk , Mi ; Royal Danish , 10 , 18 ; . Royal Swedish 4 . 3 ; Sambroand Mouse , 8 , 84 .
Corn Market. Mark-Lane, Friday, January ...
CORN MARKET . Mark-lane , Friday , January 20 . We have had modorato supplies Into London ; but a groat many cargoes havo arrived off tho coast . Tho trade continues exceedingly dull , and prices remain unaltered .
British Funds For The Past Week. (Closin...
BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . ) Sat . Mon . Tues . Wed . Thur . Frid . Bank Stock 226 226 224 224 i 225 3 per Cent . Red 95 ft 95 * 95 f 954 95 * 3 per Cent . Con . An . 95 ft 95 954 95 95 * Consols for Account 951 951 95 * 952 95 * New 3 per Cent . An . 95 J M 95 f 95 § 95 $ 05 i New 2 i per Cents & 794 ) Long Ans . 1860 g- 24 1 16 ( 116 India Stock W 219 221 ' 2214 Ditto Bonds , £ 1000 V 17 p 17 p I 19 p Ditto , under £ 1000 17 p 12 p 17 p 18 p \ 19 p Ex . Bills , £ 1000 21 p 19 p 20 p 28 p 21 p Ditto , JE 500 21 p 23 p 20 p 20 p I 21 p Ditto , Small 17 p 19 p 20 p 20 p 24 p
Foreign Funds. Last Official Quotation D...
FOREIGN FUNDS . Last Official Quotation dtjrino thb Week ending Thursday Evening . ) Brazilian Bonds 102 Portuguese 4 perConts . ... Buenos Ayres 6 p . Cents 99 Russian Bonds , 5 per Chilian 6 per Cents 103 Cents- HOi Chilian 3 per Cents 72 Russian 44 per Cents .... iml Dutch 24 per Cents 65 Spanish 4 'i Dutch 4 per Cent . Certf . 100 Spanish Committee Cer-Equodor Bonds- ' ... of Coup , not fun 5 Mexican Account 21 Turkish 6 per Cents 98 f Peruvian 4 i perCcnts .... 79 $ Turkish New , 4 ditto .... 105 Portuguese 3 per Cents . 45 \ Vunezuela 4 i erp Cents
From The London Gazette. Tuesday-. Janua...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday-. January 20 . BANKRUPTS . -- Henkt Holmes Wpodfttm . and Lowbn GiMiinn , Aldermanbury , City , stationers—Abraham ; Jacob Ayton , Stoford , Wiltshire , cattle dealer — Ephkaim Sabkl , Coloman-streot , City , merchant—William Bbrtbam Gordon , Rcgont-streot , hosier—Maiico Fernandas , Devonshire-square , Bishopgato , importer or foreign sand—Frederick Finnis and Alexanpbu Mac-Najb , John-street , Minorles , provision merchants—ANN Hugiiks , Northumberland-street , Strand , and Cannon-row , Westminster , lodging-house keeper—John Young , Bilston , Staffordshire , roll turner—William Sanbomk , Coventry , ribbon manufacturer—HnNitv WiaMOBE , Envlllo , Stnil ' orushiro , hotel keeper— Wuxum TuomI'Son , Blrmliwjinm , coal dealer—William Geuuaiid , Burslom . Staubruwiiiro , grocer—Geokoh Lancashire , Cub ! lo Donington , l . olo < J « torshiro , silk itiauufaoturor—Maiitjn Likjtmann , NoUliignaui , loco manufacturoi—Jambb Beavkn and Hknby UmAvbn , Bristol , builders-John Mokius . Rhyinney , inrnr TredoBar , Monmouthshire , draper—William Wmitk , TluUnhuH , Somersetshire , farmer —Henry Ncttall and Jami . s Nuttall , Rochdale , flannel manufacturers—biKOPiiiMi "ARoNrManclvostorrKOnoral-m orohant ^ JoH w-B ko a uuk n v , . «—~~^ . Manchester , umbrella manufacturer— William Haiuuson , North ( Shlolda , Northumberland , ship ohaudlor . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS .-A . Alexandkk , Soiillimulr of Klrrlemuir . cattle dealer—J . M'Inuok , DruinbiooK , Renfrewshire , gardonor-J ) . Gibb , Glasgow , wrwlit—a . Elliot , Glasgow , commission agont—0 . Henderson nua T . Dixon , Glasgow , eommlsslon merchants ~ J . 1 'INlaVBOn ,, Kincardine , Perthshire , and Glasgow , wino merchant-JDhummond Bunion , Glasgow , wool merchant—J . 1 ' ulton , Alrdrlo , spirit dealer .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30011858/page/20/
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