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ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . First Appearance of Mdllo . MADELEINE BROIIAN . On Monday , May 2 nd , will bo produced "J ™ ^ jj " Comedy , entitled LES CONTES * DE LA KEINEDE NAVARRE ou , La Revanche do Parie . Charlequint , M . St . Marie-Francois I " ., M . Lafont—Guattinara , M Langeval—Henri d'Albrot , M . Leon—Babieea , M . Tounllon—Marguentte , Mdlle . Brolian—Isabella do Portugal , Mdlle . Bertiu—Elconore , Mdlle . Edith . M REGNIER will have the honour of making his First Appearance this Season , on Friday Evening , May ( 1 th andI will perform in a new Comedy , entitled LE BONHOMME JADIS . Lo Bonhommo Jodis , by M . Regnier . Boxes Stalls , and Tickets may he obtained at Mr . Mitchell ' s 33 , Old Bond Street ; and at tho Box Office of the Theatre .
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MR . ALBERT SMITH'S MONT 13 LANC , EVERY EVENING , at Eight o'clock , oneept Saturday . Blu . Hn , 3 s . ( which wm bo secured at tho Box-oiUeo every day from Eleven to Four ) ; area , 2 h . ; gallery Is . A Morning Performance every Tuesday and Saturday , at Three o'clock . A View of tho celebrated Mer do Glace , from Montanvors , ban been added to the Illustrations . Egyptian Hall , Piccadilly .
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SATIRE AND SATIRISTS . —Mr . JAMES HANNAY , Author of "Singleton Fontonoy , " &c . &c , proposes to deliver SIX LECTURES on SATIRICAL LITERATURE . The Course will comprise Notices , Biographical and Literary , of Horace , and Juvenal , of Erasmus , Sir David Lyndsay , and George Buchanan , of Butler , Drydon , Swift ,, and Pojie , of some writ oiH of the last age , and of some contemporary writers and puhlicntions . Further partiouhirs will bo duly announced .
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T- ) OETKYand I ) KAMA . TIC MTEMATUlfE . I Willis's Rooms . —A COURSE of SIX LECTURES on POETRY and DRAMATIC LITERATURE will be delivered ut the above Rooms , by k > rofcnnor AYTOUN , of Edinburgh ( Author of " The Layu of the Scottish Cavaliers" ); the first of which will take plaoq on Friday Morning , May Oth , commencing at Half-past Three o ' clock . — Tickets for the Course ( tho seats lining numbered and reserved ) , 21 s ., to bo obtained of Mr . Mitchell , Royal Library , : » 3 , Old Bond Street .
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ON SUNDAY MOKNING , 1 st MAY , at Eleven o'clock , a LECTURE will bo delivered at the Oxford Rooms , Hrt , Ciwtlo Street , Oxford Street , on TUJUI BEVJaiNFOLD CJIIUHT . Hy WILLIAM . MAO 0 ALL .
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MB . BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES on INDIA . The MOKNING COUSE will commence on Monday , May 2 at 3 p . m ., and the EVENING COURSE on Thursday , Mar 5 , at half-past 8 o'clock , at the Hanover-square Rooms . Admission , 2 s . 6 d . ; reserved seats , 3 s . Course tickets at reduced rates are now ready for delivery to subscribers at the Booms , where programmes of the lectures may be had , as well as at the principal music and booksellers , or by note addressed to J . 8 . Buckingham , Stanhope-lodge , St . John s-wood . Subscribers to the courses will have the privilege of introducing t-wo friends each at the opening lecture free .
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/ GALLERY of GERMAN PAINTINGS . \ JT FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF MODERN WORKS . The following celebrated masters have contributed to tho above collection : —Lessing , Sohn , Achenbach , Hildebrant , Leu , Shirmer , Weber , Tidemand , Gude Hitter , Burnier , Mucke , &c . &c . Opens to the public on Monday next , May 2 nd . Admission Is . Season Tickets , 7 s . each . All communications to bo addressed to tho Secretary , at tho Gallery , 168 , New Bondstreet .
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THE COMMITTEE of tho TESTIMONIAL to Mr . G . J . HOLYOAKE will Lold a Special Meeting in the Coffee Room of the Literary and Scientific Institution , John Street , Fitzroy Square , on Wednesday , 4 th of May , to make final arrangements for the presentation of the lestimomal Persons having Subscrip tions to forward wilj please to do so f ° rthwith- W . TURLEY , Secretary Mr . YOUNG , Chairman . J . WATSON , Treusurer .
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WANTED by a BOOKSELLER and PUBLISHER , an Assistant wlio is well acquainted with his business , and who has had practical experience asa clerk . AN OUT-DOOR APPRENTICE WANTED ALSO . Application in both cases ( in the latter by letter only , in tho youth a handwriting , ) to bo made to Mr . John Chapman , 142 , Strand .
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SHIRT S . — FORD'S EUREKA SHIRTS are not sold by any hosiers or drapers , and can therefore be obtained only at 3 H , Poumpky . Gentlemen in tho country or abroad , ordering through their agents , are requested to ob-Borve on the interior of tho collar-band tho stamp" FORD'S EUREKA SHIRTS , 38 , POULTRY , " without which none are genuine . They are made in two qualities—First quality , 40 s . the naif-dozen ; second quality , 30 s . the half-dozen . Gentlemen who are desirous of purchasing Shirts in the very best manner in which they can be mode , are solicited to inspect these , the most unique and only perfeot fitting Shirts . List of prices and iiiHtmotions for measurement , postlreo , and pattornu of tho new coloured nhirlingH Drua on roooipt of six stamps . . RICHARD FORD , 38 , Poui , tiiy , Londok .
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rpEA . —IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT I Government having announced , by the Chancellor of tho "Exchequer , their intention to reduce tlio duty upon Tea from 'M . 2 Jd . per lb . to 1 » . KM ., with a further progroseuvo reduction until it ( lescendH to Onii Shim . ino om , Y : — Wo have much pleasure to inform our friends and tho public that the advantages arising from theso proposed reductions will , immediately they come into operation , l » o given to our customers , and the prices of the wholo of our Teas bo regulated accordingly . Should Parliament confirm the proposition of tho Minister , which is confidently anticipated , tho New Duties will probably be received at the Custom llouso ou Tuesday next . BIDJNMY , WELLS , & CO ., Tea Morchunta and Doolors , Bo , 8 . Lujdqaxii Uihh , Loxruoir .
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stags , on the shore of a loch , by moonlight . There is a mist rieing from the loch , and the moon is in her first quarter , so a favourite effect of Landseer ' s occurs ; but he has failed to give it with such truth as in that famous portrait of a Scotch mist , with a Highlander m the background , two seasons ago ; or as in a smaller picture exhibited by hinit this _ season introducing a lerd of deer . But the scene which gives the result of the ni < rht struggle is greatly superior in every respect . It is clear daylight , the sun brewing ™ the crags which shut in the lake , the combatants with antlers interlaced , dead on the shore , while a fox creeps cautiously themlooking for sure si that death has provided him a meal .
unon , gns Herbert gives an instalment of a picture . It is the '' Head of a Scribe , very life-like and expressive . Cope paints " Othello relating his adventures , " and enforcing a point with Macready s favourite gesture Brabantio is a respectable personation of mild dignity , inclining to patronise ; and Desdemona shows as much interest as , with regular features of no sort of expression , she could be required to show , Eastlake ' s " Ruth sleeping at the feet of Boaz , " has the usual warmth of . bastlake's colouring , which is like the flare of gas on wax-work A landscape , bv Creswick . token at the earlv budding of Spring—the trees _ yet bare .
the sky cold , but everything fresh and smiling in genial anticipation warmth-shames the real aspect without . Stanfield is great , especially in the picture of the Victory—Nelson's ship—towed into Gibraltar alter thebattle of Trafalgar . There has been a gale , and the anchorage is covered with ships . The Victory , with lowered flag indicating where lies « the dead Admiral , killed in Trafalgar's Bay , " occupies the . centwj ot the picture . The sweep of the sea across the foreground 13 just that kind ?* incident which best shows Stanfield ' s power . Roberts has several of his elaborate architectural displays , with their wonderful perspective . Ihe best is the interior of the Cathedral of St . Stephen , Vienna . Webster clings to the " Dame School , " and his picture is as great a success as the same subject now in the Vernon Gallery . Withermgton s trees are quite equal in merit to those of other summers , and Redgrave s are even more refreshing to look upon , while the delicate minutta of ferns and erasses round their rugged boles make a very noticeable point in Jtedtne Associates
grave ' s new line of composition . E . M . Ward , nrst ol , exhibits two large and very striking pictures— " Josephine signing tne Act of her Divorce , " and the " Execution of Montrose , the last being much the most remarkable for action and interest . Anthony s ' JMonarcn Oak , " a study on a very unusual scale , is painted after a description taken from Wordsworth . The merit of Sir John Watson Gordon s portraits is a very prominent fact . . - ,. „ .,, pi Wolf is a painter who has evidently studied animal life with careful
interest . Besides his chief p icture , the " Proud Bird of the Mountain , a grand old eagle , perched high on a jdtting rock , and half covered witn a mantle of snow—he has two small paintings , well worth notice : tne " Happv Mother "—a snipe with her young family ; and the Mourner , impersonated by a dejected ring-dove . Ansdell exhibits much the same feeling in his " Sick Lamb , " stretched on the grass at the summit ot a crag , while the ewe guards it from the meditated attack of a vulture . The two pictures by Millais are quite apart from and far above all the rest . They are his own subjects . One is named the " Order of Release ; " the other , the " Proscribed Royalist . " In the first , we see a brave , true-hearted woman , who has undergone every hardship to procure the release of her misband , a prisoner of war ; as she holds the paper , proudly , at arm s IPTio-th towards the turnkey ( her little child asleep the while on her other
arm ) , the man falls weeping on her breast . He was probably taken prisoner at Culloden ; and the sleeve of his frieze jacket now hangs loose , his arm being bound , and slung across his breast . A large dog leaping up tries to lick his hand . The primroses , which have beguiled the boy ori the road , have fallen from his grasp upon the prison floor . We turn to the second picture . The historical period may be the same A lady is bringing food to her lover , a fugitive from the law , concealed w . the hollow of a tree . There is a touching expression in the poor boy s face as he looks gratefully up , and kisses the hand of his mistress . You see that the constant recurrence of alarms has unsettledhis mind , and
bewilder-_ ment now enters into his very joy . As for her the beauty of her features is almost lost sight of in the exquisite grace of soul which the painter has indicated by points which when named may sound trivial , bhe is looking away from her lover , with an expression partly confident , as it she had striven to reassure herself as well as him , and partly apprehensive of observation . She is feeling in her pocket , and , until the picture is seen , no one can believe how far this little action goes to make up an
expression . As a triumph of skill we may observe now m eacn 01 xne «« . ™ u pictures the objects are made to stand out , by totally dissimilar means . In the prison scene the light is kept down , so that no outline of any object is defined . Yet the figures almost seem to be modelled in relief . The out-door scene , on the contrary , is placed in full sunlight , and the figure of the lady is cut out sharply as with scissors . And the effect ot relief is the same ! The simple picture by Collins , a childish rfliaieuse , is tenderly designed and finished ; and Hunt improves ; on his kleepst or wakest thou , joUy shepherd , " of last year , by getting nd of the shepherds , and returning more forcibly to his muttons . There are many noticeable ^ rks which , even in a list we cannot find space to mention , but we have enumerated the most prominent . <<*•
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Sermons to Pishes . —The devout piscatory tribes listened to St . Anthony , when , commiserating their spiritual wants , he preached them a sermon ; and whoever doubts the truth of the miracle , has only to journey to Padua , where "he will see the fact immortalized in a beautiful painting over the high altar in the cathedral church . — From Spenceb ' s Tour tJirougli France and Italy .
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FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Ofmcia& Quotation dttbing thb Wbbk ekdinq Fbiday Evening . ) Brazilian Bonds 100 | Peruvian 3 per Cent . Def . 68 * Ditto ( Rothschild ' s ) 100 * Portuguese 4 per Cents . 40 Brazilian New , 1829 & 39 102 % Russian , 1822 119 | Brazilian , Small 1034 Sardinian Bonds ........... 97 Ecuador 6 8 pamsh 3 p . Cts . New Def . 23 * Greek , red 114 Spanish Com . Certai . of Greek . blue 9 * Coupon not funded ... 6 * Mexican 3 per Ct . Acct . Swedish Loan . lf dm . May 17 .. 27 Belgian 4 * per Cents 100 * Peruvian Bonds 4 * p . Cts . 89 Dutch 2 * per Cents 6 b
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MONEY MAEKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , April 29 , 1853 . Oun markets have been tolerably quiet throughout the week , ponding the usual fortnightly settling , and the issuo ol the debate upon the Budget . The opinion amongst most men in the City ia , that Ministers will hitve a respectable majority ; ana monied men , of every shade of politics , doubtless secretly wish for Huch a consummation . The still vexed question between Turkey and Russia has had no apparent effect upon the iunds during the week , though there is every probability of a rise both in tho * funds and in shares , were this difference adjUHtod . On the French Bourse prices have fluctuated greatly , but the effect has not been corresponding here . There has hcen much inquiry after shares in tho leading Californian mines , and there has been a consequent ri » o in the prices of these shares . A belief is ourrent that the new methods adopted of crushing tho quartz rook , and extracting the auriferous mutter , will produce great results in California . Australian mines have been languid throughout tho week ; at tho closo there lias been a demand for the North British Australian Land Company's shares . The well-known firm of John Taylor and Bonn having Iimdiiki maiuigorH of this property , has probably given rise to increased confidence on tho part , of tho public . Australian Agricultural , and their attendant shares , the " Peel ltiver" have bemi flat all the week , notwithstanding tho excellent , reports communicated to the company lroni their agents in Australia . In tho other foreign mines , tho once much-talkod-of Nova S (! otia ' s are reported to he copperl « sn , and a dissolution of the company even rumoured . Jamaica Copper Minos command high premiums , imd every belief in their genuineness is entertained . Money Iuih been very easy and plentiful all through tho weelf , mid it is not improbable , if 'European politim intervene not , and the vole for Ministers on the Budget be in their favour , that we shall see a very groat rise before Midsummer . In our railway market , heavy purchases have been made m . North Westerns , Midlands , and Loeds ; also in Caledonians . In foreign lines , Htrasburg , Northerns , and Jiouenu , have hoen chiefly dealt in .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1853, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1984/page/22/
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