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COVENT GARDEN . SUBSCRIPTION NIGHT , MONDAY , MAY 23 . The Directors have the honour to announce that Monday , May 23 , will be given as a Subscription Night , in lieu of Saturday , August 27 . All Ivories and Tickets , therefore , for August 27 , will bo available for Monday , May 23 . ..... On Monday , May 23 , will he performed for the first time this season , Meyerbeer ' s grand romantic Opera , ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO . Alice—Mdmo . Jullienne ( her llrst appearance this season ) ; Isabella— Mdme . Castellan ; Elena— Mdllo . Besson . Bortriimo —Horr Formes : Eraldo—Sig . Polonini ; Alberto—Sig . Itomom ; II Priore—Sig . Tagliaflco ; Cavaliers—Sifj nori Mei and Soldi ; Rambaldo—Sig . Stigolli ; and Roberto—Sip . Tamborhk . The Incidental Divertissement will be supported by Mdllo . Marmot , Mdlle . Boason , Mdllo . Bsper , Mdllo . Barville , Mdllo . Santi , Mdlle . Rolemberg , Mdlle . Barvillo , and M . Desplaees . Composer , Director of the Music , and Conductor , Mr . Costa Commence at JCight . Pit , Hs . ; Amphitheatre Stalls , 7 h . ; Ditto , 6 s . ; Amphitheatre , 2 s . ( id .
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Jfrcnrft JDlag ^ S T . FAMES' 8 T II E A T B E . Last Week hut One of the Engagements of M . Regnier , M . Lafont , and Mdllo . Madeleine Ilrohan . On Mondav ISvoning next , May 23 , will bo performed , UNK FEMMK QUL BK J . ETTK TAR LA FENKTRiS and MDLL 15 . DE LA HEIGLIERE . Boxes , Stalls , and Tickets may be obtained at Mr Mitchell ' d , 33 , Old Bond Streot ; and at tho Box Oillco of the Theatre .
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Mil . ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC , EVERY EVENING , at Bight o ' clock , except Saturday . HtallH 3 b . ( whicli can be secured at tho Box-office every day fVom Eleven to Four ) ; area , 2 a . ; gallery 1 h . A Morning Performance every Tuesday and Saturday , at Three o'clock . A View of the celebrated Mor do Glace , from Moutanvore , hat ) bouu added to tho Illustration !) . . Egyptian ljLaU . Piccadilly .
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MR . BUCKINGHAM'S LECTURES ON INDIA at the Hanovor-Hquare Roomn—Morning Cour «<» on Monday , May 23 rd , at Three v . u . ; Evening Courso on Thursday , at Half-pant Eight . Tiokotit One Shilling oaoh . Seats reserved for Subscribers to tho Courao . Those Leel . ur < v » ? unbrace a general description of all parts of India and its inhahitantu , hh well as a review of its pant history and Aituru prospects , with dieouBsions on the Parliamentary inoaimroH nouoHHary for its better government . Full Prospectuses and Tickets to l > o bud at tho KoonjH .
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M l ? ,. JAMES HAN NAY , Author of " Singleton , Fontonoy , " &c . &e ., proposes to deliver SIX LECTUliES on SATIRICAL LITERATURE . -- The Courso will comprise Notices , Biographical and Critical , of Horace , and Juvenal , of Erasmus , Sir David LindHay , und George Buchanan , of Boileau , of Butler , Dryden , Swift , and Pope , of aome writers of tho last age , and of Homo contemporary writers and publications . Further particulars will be duly announced .
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ZU LU KAFIRS . —OPEN EVERY NIGHT . St . Guorok ' s Gam-khy , Hyde Park Corner . The extensive Premises , known as the St . George ' s flallery , Hyde Park Corner , formerly the Chinese Museum , have been taken by Mr . Caldeeott , a merohant of Port Natal , tor tno Public Exhibition , with the sanction of the colonial authorities , of a Troupe and Family of native ZULU KAFIRS , consisting of Eleven Men , a Woman , and a Child , from Eastern Africa . 1 no Exhibition represents , on a most extensive and unexampled scale , tho DomoHtic Habits , Nuptial Ceremonies , Superstition , Witoh-flnding , Hunting Tramp , and Territorial ConlliotH ol that wild and interesting tribe of savages . Tho effective development of tho various national characteristic scones is assisted by Scenery painted oxprensly by Mr . Charles Marshall . Tho EXHIBITION takes place at Half-pant Eight o ' clock EVERY EVENING , and a DAY EXHIBITION , on Monday , Wednesday , and Saturday Afternoon ,, 'a t Half-past Three . Admission Is . Front Seats ( numbered and reHerved ) , 4 h . ; Unreserved Soata , 2 s . ( kl . ; to be obtained at Mr . Mitchell ' s ltoyal Library , S 3 , Old Bond Street ; and at the Gallery .
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ffixmtl ) © lafig-MR . MITCHELL'S BENEFIT , Under the Gracious Patronage of Heb Majesty . Mr . Mitchell respectfully announces that HIS BENEFIT is fixed to take place on Wednesday next , May 25 th , on which occasion will be presented , the favourite Comedy of ( for that night only , ) LE MARI A LA CAMPAGNE , and ( for the last time it can be repeated ) LE BONHOMME JADI 8 , in which M . Regnier will repeat his admirable personation of " Le Bonhomme Jadia , " being also the Last Night but Two of the Comedy Performances . Mr . Mitchell solicits the favour of an early application for Boxes and Stalls . Royal Library , 33 , Old Bond Street , May 19 , 1853 .
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to lead to a separation ; but a benevolent solicitor who » % * ^ *™* ™ £ ? £ to the other personages , effects a treaty of peace between the . belligerentparties . The husband and wife , now comfortably established , find then * *«^<* °£ » more disturbed through the good offices of Mrs . Naggms who caUs thei ^ ^ n to the reported trial of the cause ' Naggins v . Brown' » t the morn ng < pa er Through circumstances explained by the action of the ece they have r ^* foe ** A the trial in person , and , now , the reckless inventions in which the ^ nsel on both sides have indulged arouse suspicions that never before euated . In fact thmgs are looking worse than ever , till the rival Serjeants , who appear as friends of the family , unblushingly confess that the scandals to which they gave utterance the day before were totally without foundation , being merely spoken to gain the cause , m accordance with the received princiles of professional morality .
p " The slight plot seems to bring together a more amusing assemblage of characters , and to afford more opportunities for good comic acting by a variety ot personages , than any new piece tbat has been produced for some time . There 13 , indeed , no interest , commonly so called , in the story , but throughout the whole piece some forcible trait of character is exhibited , and not oue of the draffhatts persona is a mere nonentity . The two serjeants—one celebrated for brow-beating his witnesses , the other for withering them with indifferent jokes—stand out as types ot a class , and their peculiarities , rugged and facetious , are admirably embodied by Messrs . F . Matthews and Basil Baker . The stormy mother-in-law—one ot those terrible advocates of the rights of women whom Mrs . F . Matthews so well knows how to portray—is ably contrasted with the less irascible , but by no means mild who shows that she
wife—a part played in excellent taste by Miss Robertson , can be spirited without vulgarity or exaggeration . The husband , intrinsically good-humoured , but easily irritated and distressed , is a substantial being in the hands of Mr . Boxby . No one can be more bland and business-like than the worthy lawyer , acted by Mr . Cooper ; while , towering above all the rest , is a personage to whom we have not yet alluded , as his position is rather external to the plot—a briefless barrister , played by Mr . C . Mathews . This is one of those voluble wights who belong to both generations of the Mathews family . His active endeavours to obtain a brief , and his delight when he has picked up a murderer as a subject for a brilliant defence , are constant , causes of amusement whenever he flings himself into the midst of the other personages . Scarcely do we know which to praise most—the author , for fitting so many actors with such appropriate parts , or the actors , for so
completely realizing the author ' s intentions . " With the full knowledge that The Laivyers is founded on a French piece , called Les Avocats , written by MM . Dumanoir and Clairville , and produced at the Gymnase last August , we would almost give the adapter , Mr . Slingsby Lawrence , the credit of an original production . In many adaptations the transfer from Paris to London is merely nominal , and M . Dubois , when he becomes Mr . Wood , is as much a Frenchman in his habits and sentiments as when he originally figured on the Boulevard . But The Laivyers is a thoroughly English piece ; the ^ dialogue is written with English vigour , and the abuses of the Bar are satirised with a perfect feeling for the professional peculiarities of this country . Although the cause of action borders on caricature , nothing can be more life-like than the deportment of the barristers as they lounge through the hall and utter frequent pleasantries on their engagements at the courts . And it is not the colouring alone that is original .
The adivter has altered the plot of the Gymnase piece in several essential parhcu-Ws ^ w U be ^ rat once by all who have witnessed the English version when iTi ^ the Character wLh is so well acted by Mrs . F . Matthew 8 ;> and . » important to the general effect , has no existence in the French original .
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THE ZULU KAFFIRS . But if you wa nt to spend an afternoon or evening at an entertamment at once novel striking and unusually agreeable , go and see the Zulu Kaffirs perform at the St . George ' s Gallery . Thirteen veritable Zulus -eleven men a woman , and a child ( the child engaging enough to make all SCTnd fathers , putative and real , go off into small ecstasies of sympathy !) are made to represent , amid painted scenes , as on the stage , var ious aspicts of their wild life , so that the spectator assists at a Kaffir drama in which the actors are no wretched " supers ' at one shilling a night , but the free , graceful warriors themselves , being what they represent . We see them in their Kraals—we see them at their meals—at their dances , at their councils of war , at their hunting , at their quarrels and fights , at their marriage ceremonies , and " witch findings" —we hear them smg , we hear their poet laureate recite his savage ode , accompanied hy : dance and gestures not in the least resembling those I presume Mr . Wordsworth was wont to employ ! We are at home among these wild animals . In a way no previous exhibition has ever attempted , we are made spectators ot something more than a few specimens of a savage tribe—we begin to understand their life . If the philosopher can go there without learning much , I would not give much for his philosophy ! But no susceptible Frenchman should venture there ; otherwise he will be painfully struck by the vivid resemblance of the howlings , quarrellings , gestures , and even intonations of these savages , to those of the Frenchmen who diversity seaport towns with their vivacity . The artist , however , will be delighted by their graceful forms , noble animalism , and free articulation ot jointsexcept the walk , which is large / tipped and dromedarian . I lave been too busy to find my way to the Adelphi , where , as the amazing play-bill informs me , " Shakspeare has made his hirst appearfl » iicG m THE MERR Y WIVES OF WINDSOR , accompanied by perfections of cast , scenery , and all that sort of thing , which are to make this dirty , disagreeable play , entertaining . Yes , I have written the words-dirty and disagreeable ! If youir reverence for the Swan makes you think otherwise , mine does not . The cast ol tnis play seems to me more strange than " powerful ; " on that , however , ± will be more explicit next week—perhaps ! CREMORNE , also , may next week tempt my lyrical enthusiasm ( or the reverse ) on its fireworks and balloons , its dances , its Hungarian brothers , its naountebankery , its bosquets , its happy visitants , smoking and lauffh ™{^ ana flirting a liberal shillingsworth ! For the Derby-day a grand JBalMasq ^ is announced . Go ! ViVTAW .
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FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last OwioiKh Quotatioh udbino thb Wbbk bndinq Friday Evening . ) Brazilian Bonds 100 * Russian 4 J per Cents . ... 104 | Brazilian New 4 } per Cts . 100 J Sardinian Bonds 98 fc Ecuador 6 Spanish 3 p . Cents . .... 49 Granada , ex Dec , 1849 , Spanish 3 p . Cts . New Def . 24 coupon 22 Spanish Com . Certif . of Granada Deferred 10 * Coupon not funded ... 6 J Greek , red 10 } Swedish Loan l * ( hs . Mexican 3 per Cents 26 | Venezuela Deferred 15 * Peruvian 4 * per Cents . Dutch 2 £ per Cents ^ . .. ... bo * Account , May 31 8 7 * Dutch 4 per Cent . Certif . 96 J Portuguese 4 per Cents . 39 J
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MONEY MAHKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , May 20 , 1853 . No great amount of business has been transacted during the past week , the Whitsuntide holidays and the usual fortnightly settlement of the account having been the causes . Money is said to bo still tight , and people still talk of the probability of the Bank raising the rate of discount a i higher . If such bo the case , we shall hardly have things much higher during the summer . There have been considerable speculative purchases in Buenos Ayroan and other South American Stock , also in ( Spanish Stock , other foreign Stocks remaining quiet . Consols are steady at lOOf , $ for money ; and } , i for the account . Mines have been flat . Land Companies have not yet rallied . The great feature during the weok has been the active dealing in Crystal Palace shares ; they have reached four premium , and fell again to 2 J premium , but they have been largely dealt in , and one would infer that the promoters of the Sydenham Palace are likely to create not only a most useful and beneficial place of reHort , but also a profitable speculation for the shareholders . In our own Railway Share-market but little has been done . The bouth-Weatern has hold a meeting ; shares generally in the heavy market are weak . French shares have been largely dealt in , principally on account of orders from Paris . The Paris and Stranbourg line it ) still a leader amongst the lines , and additional branches ure talked of in connexion with this line . The Lyons and Geneva concession would Heem to hang fire . The Victor Emmanuel , or Turin and Bwisa line , whicli would necessarily bo connected with the Lyons line , has obtained excellent terms from the Sardinian Government . Gold Mining shared are weak , even the Colifornian , although the reports are most encouraging , the . quartz-crushing and ore-reducing maohinory is likely to increase the supply of gold to a fabulous amount . Even in New Zeutand they are finding a field of gold . Copper Mines have slightly rallied during the week , Jamaica and Metcalfo in particular . Nova BcotiaH , of which so muoli won said , turn out to bo copperloHB , and the experiment of working the iron very questionable . CORN MARKET . Mark Lane , Friday , May 20 , 1853 . The supply ot wheat , oato , and barley was again liberal this week . On Monday , wheat won 1 b . to 2 h . cheaper ; to-day there was rather an improved demand from the country for inferior qualities at this decline , but the finer descriptions wero neglected . Thore was a fair demand for oats and barley at fully Monday ' s rates . The valuo of beans and peon is firmly maintained . BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Cr . onmo Pkioks . )
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Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1853, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1987/page/22/
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