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THE OPERAS . To * entertainments at Hee Majestt ' s Theatre have not been quite so su-T ^ L ! iJ divertinir this week as the last . We have had no Anglo-Italian tenor with a voice like a sponge , singing always half a tone too sharp , or ever so « v tones too flat , to the bewilderment and exasperation of the orchestra , and wfBt ' bringing the house down' by the dying contortions of an apoplectic it ntoccino We have had no Teutonic Lucrezia Borgia t storming at the pit nA callery- but , en revanche , we have had Tancredi , an opera for ever opiated in the memories of opera-goers with the names of Pasta and TCminn We have had Tancredi ' interpreted' by a German prima donna Svwe ' d with a prodigious power of screaming out of tune : we have had a . mail German tenor with a thin reedy voice straining to be noisy , and successfnllv ineffective : moreover , we have had a * house crowded to suffocation , a j vxny * _ « 4 . * u—„„ . « , 1 » - >< - > r > + 1 m fitonp hv a inTwvHmis Hi if , not flowershow of bouquets thrown upon the stage by a laborious but not
T ^ Trfpct - 5 ? £ reet claque . On the other hand , we have had , by way of a refreshing contrast , smother Thursday evening with La Piccolominj , who needs neither bouquets nor cfoaue to convince the world of her success , but whom the smiles , and tears , and Bvxnpathies of her audience accompany evermore . So true and so potent is the charm of youth , o its fr eshness , its f ervour , its enthusiasm ! Madlle . PiccoLOMiNi is not a consummate or even a great singer , or a great dramatic artist- perhaps she has not even the promise of greatness ; she is not of the calibre of a Gbisi , or a Viabdot Garcia , or a Jenny Lind . But her chie defects at present are those of limited physical powers , and of immaturity in art and she possesses already what no power or study can bestow : we mean that indefinable charm which the bird-like sweetness of the voice , and the impulsive abandonment of the acting , and the somewhat apocryphal romance of the singer ' s young career do not wholly account for . Let us recommend our readers not to miss Le Corsatre . It is the most beau - tiful ballet that has been produced in London for ten years ; and Eosati's dancing is delicious .
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A Detective Telescope . —Some thieves on the Glasgow and Renfrew Railway have been detected in a novel way in abstracting spirits from some barrels . They had eluded discovery for a long time ; but at last the station-master swept the line with a telescope , and perceived the men at work on the barrels . They have been committed for triaL Cetstai . PAiiACE . —A charming addition has been lately made to the attraction of the tropical end of the Crystal Palace , in a collection of 1000 living birds , which have just arrived from South Australia . They consist mostly of the smallest Australian variegated parrot ( Melopsittacus undtdatus ) , and are in a very hardy and healthy state . The Estate of James Sadletr . —A motion has been made before the Irish Lord Chancellor , to the effect that Mr . George M'Dowell , the official manager , be appointed a receiver over the personal and real estates of James Sadleir , and that , in case of the manager ' s refusal to act as such , it be referred to the Master to appoint another receiver . Some of the absconding Tipperary member ' s furniture has been traced to the sale-rooms of a Mr . Dillon , residing in Dublin , upon whom a copy of an injunction has been served .
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The Elisir d'Amore was repeated at the Royal Italian Opera on Tuesday , to introduce a new light tenor , Signor Neri-Baraldi , who has sung for a short
time , and with moderate success , at the Itamens , and also-at the Academie h Paris . Signor Nebx-Babaldi enjoys a pure tenor voice ( a rarity now-a days ) , sweet and sympathetic in quality , not too deficient in power or in culti vation . He may , with due care and study , become very acceptable in such parti as Nemorino . Otello , with Mario , ' Gbisi , and Ronconi , is announced zn the bills . Thi ; opera enjoys the peculiar privilege of always coming in at the death of th < s eason . Our readers will be glad to learn that Madame Ristori is to be engaged foi four more nights .
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Under the title of Monday Evening Concerts , a series of musical entertainments , with a graduated scale of admission from twopence up to one shilling , has been commenced at the Philharmonic Hall , Newman-street . We trusi the enterprise may succeed , and we believe it will , for the Englishman , after all . is a music lover , and only requires that his natural tastes shall be educated . Music is also being popularized at the Surbey Gardens , as we mentioned last week ; and Jullien , enthroned in the new Music Hall of those once zoological regions , wields his lordly baton as of old , and directs the varied harmony which gives delight to crowded auditories .
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The Haymarket on "Wednesday evening produced a new comedy by Mr . Palgeave Simpson under the title of Second Love , in which Miss Reynolds reappeared for the first time since her severe illness . Mr . Buckstone likewise pe rformed , and was roughly and grotesquely humorous , as usual . The piece was entirely successful . A stage favourite of former days—Mrs . Chattebley—has returned once mor « to the boards , having appeared at the Adelphi with much success in the parl of the Countess Molinga in Born to Good Luck . The Lyceum , it is announced , will be opened for the ordinary dramatic season at the latter end of September , under the management of Mr . Dillon with a Shakspearian tragedy , in which the lessee will sustain the principal part A burlesque by Mr . William Brotxgh : is also spoken of .
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CORN MARKET . Mark-lane , Friday , July 25 , 1856 . The weather during the week has been most favourable for the growing crops , the supply of English Wheat has been as small as for somo time past , but the arrivals of Foreign have increased , and amount to 27 , 750 qrs ., besides 6720 barrels of Flour . The demand for Wheat and Flour on the spot is confined to the supply of pressing wants , and to effect sales to any extent , lower prices must be submitted to ; this , however , holders refuse to do , and the trade is therefore little more than nominal . There have been very few arrivals of Wheat and Maizo off the Coast since last Friday , and as most of those which were then waiting for orders were either sold or otherwise disposed of , there has been no great pressure to sell , yet to effect sales it has been necessary to take less money . Danube Wheat arrived has been sold at 56 s . 6 d . and 58 s . Od . Taganrog Ghirka on passage at 64 s . with guarantee of condition , and 61 s . without guarantee . Galatz Maize arrived at 30 s . 3 d ., 30 s . 6 d . and 31 a ., and a cargo of Odessa at 30 s . Ibrail and Foxauian at 29 s . Barley continues to advance in value , and the demand for Maize on the spot is consequently on the increase . Its value , ex Ship , duty paid , is 31 s . Od . to 32 a .. weighed 480 lbs . Oats have arrived in considerable quantity , and the trade to-day is excessively slow at a decline of ( id . to Is . per qr . Beans and Peas scarce and fully as dear .
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE FAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . ) Sat . 3 fon . Tites . Wad . Thur . Frid Bank Stock 2171 217 J 217 * 3 per Cent . Red 05 } 96 » 6 5 ) 64 004 90 * 3 per Cent . Con . An . 05 } 05 * 951 » 5 S 95 j 954 Consols for Account 95 } 95 f 95 } DO 96 95 % Now 3 pur Cent . An . 961 Otii 00 $ 961 961 D 6 § Now 24 per Cents Long Ana . 1860 3 5-10 3 3-16 34 3 3-16 3 & 3 7-K ' India Stock 234 235 Ditto Bonds , . £ 1000 22 p 22 p 21 p Ditto , under jtflOOO 26 p 22 p 22 p Ex . Bills , -e 1000 23 p 21 p 21 p 21 p 24 p 21 p Ditto , £ 500 23 p 24 p 24 p 24 p 24 p 21 |> Ditto , Small 24 p 24 p 24 p 25 p 24 p | 21 p FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation pumno tut . Week bkdino Fhiiiay Evening . ) Brazilian Honda 102 * Portuguese 4 por Cents . ... lluonosAyreH 0 p . Couts 80 Russian Bonds , 5 por Chilian ( 1 ]> er Con I * 101 * Conta Ulj Chilian 3 por Cunts Russian 4 J por Couts . ... 98 i Dutch 24 per CoiUm HSi Spanish 44 ? Dutch 4 por Cent . Oortf . 97 Spanish Committee Cor . lOqniiilor Itorulu of Coup , not fun 61 Mexican Account 234 Turkish 0 nor Oonts 104 jf Peruvian 14 por Cents .... 81 Turkish Now , 4 ditto ... 100 J Portuguese 4 por Cents . ... Venezuela , 4 tpor Conta . 33 |
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London , Friday Evening , July 25 , 1856 . There is no alteration in the Funds—a great absence of business , speculative or real . Money is very cheap , and the drain of bullion to the Continent slightly diminishing . In the Foreign Stock market there has oecn an improvement during the week . Turkish Four and Six per Cent . Stock is in demand . Our home heavy railway market is hardly so good as at the commencement of tho week . French and Foreign shares but little doing in . Tho London and South Western are enabled to announce a dividend of 54 per cent . Tho management of this lino is worthy of imitation . In tho now adventures , there aro transactions in Riga Railway , Bengal , Coylon , and South Eastern of Bengal . Tho Joint-Stock Banks aro woll maintained in prices . National Discounts have wavered a littlo yesterday and to-day , one or two similar undertakings having been announced . Minoa aro all neglected : tho groat depreciation of ores , oscopting tin , and people llndinp other means of investing money more safely and profitably , aro tho causes . It would scorn that tho Bank of England will wait until tho harvest is safo before decreasing their rato of discount further . At four o ' clock Consols close 05 J-I . Aberdeen , 28 , 30 ; Bristol and Exoter . 95 . 97 ; Caledonian , 004 , 61 ; Chester and Holyhoad , 17 , 174 ; Kast Anglian , 18 , IS ); Eastern CouuMoh , 10 , 1 , !<* ; Edinburgh and Glasgow , 01 , 03 ; Great Northorn . » 7 | , 98 ; Ditto , A stock , 78 , 79 ; Ditto , U-stook , 130 , 132 : Groat Southern nnd Western ( Iroland ) , 114 , 116 ; Groat . Western , 015 , " , 'fl 2 j ; Lancaster and Carlisle , 7 : 1 , 76 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 1 ) 74 , 98 ; London and Blackwall , 7 , 71 ; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 109 } , 1104 ; London and North-Western , 107 $ , 108 i s London and South Western , 108 . KHtj Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire , 3 t , 34 J ; Midland , 834 , 8 *; Birmingham and Derby , 54 , 06 1 Newport , Abirtfavonny , and Hereford , 141 , IS * ; North British , 374 , Mh : North-Kastem ( Berwick ) . 874 , 88 i ; Ditto , Extension , 34 ,: i < lis . ; Ditto , Groat North-Eastoru Purohaso , 2 . 14 din . ; Ditto , Leeds , 18 * . ID ; Ditto . York , 624 , < W 4 ; North Stall ' orcishiro , 44 , 4 J dm . ; Oxford , Worcester , ami Wolvorhampton , Hi . 34 ; Scottish Central , 108 , 110 ; Scottish Midland , 77 , 79 : South Devon , 154 , 1 » U ; South Eastern , 7 ; lJ , 74 |; South Wales , 81 , 88 ; Vale or Noalh . ll > 4 . 2 » 4 i Wont Cornwall , OJ , 74 ; Antwerp ami Rotterdam , 8 , N 4 ) Bombay and Baroda , 24 . 28 pin .: Dutch Rhenish , 24 , 21 pm . 1
Eastern of France ( Paris and Strasbourg ) , 36 | , 37 i ; Eas 1 Indian , 23 i , 23 ? ; Ditto , Extension B , 23 i , 23 f ; Grand Trunl of ^ Canada , A issue , 13 | , 14 j ; Great Central of France , " 7 £ 8 pm . ; Great Indian Peninsula , 22 * . 22 i ; Great Lmem bourg , 5 J , 5 f ; Great Western of Canada , 25 f , 26 i ; Ditto New , 3 , Si pm . ; Great "Western of Canada Bonds , payabl < 1857 , 100 , 102 ; Ditto , ditto , Bonds , payable 1873 , withouf option , 111 , 112 ; Madras 4 i per cent , guar ., 21 i , 21 f ; Namur and Liege , with interest , 9 , 9 £ ; Northern of France 42 i , 42 * ; Paris and Lyons , 56 £ , 56 f ; Paris and Orleans , 54 56 : Royal Danish , 19 $ , 204 ; Sambre and Meuse , 114 , 111 Scmde , guar . 5 per cent ., 23 , 3 | pm . ; West Flanders . 5 5 i ; Western and North Western of France . 37 , 38 ; Braza Imperial , 2 | , 3 *; Cobre Copper , 56 , 58 ; Great Polgootn , . i , l Great Wheal Tor , 1 , 4 dis . ; Linares , 8 £ , 8 |; PoatjgffiflH 104 , 114 ; Santiago do Cuba , 24 , 3 ; South Australian , i , Austraiasiau , 102 , 104 ; Sank of London , 70 , 72 x . d . ; Lon don Chartered Australian , 204 , 214 ; Oriental Bank Corpo ration , 404 , 414 ; Australian Agricultural , 25 , 27 ; Canada 127 , 130 ; Crystal Palace , 2 J , 21 ; Oriental Gas , li , 14 ; Pee River Land , 2 J , 2 J ; Scottish Australian Investment , If , 15 South Australian Land , * 36 , 37 ; Van Diemen ' s Land , 16 , 17 .
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , July 22 . BANKRUPTS . —Arthur Ai-leit , jun .. Wharf , Harrowroad , Paddington , dealer in drain pi p es—Edwin Kat , Dukestreet , Manchester-square , and Lewisham , licensed victualler —Frederick William Webster , Snow-hill , tavern-keeper —Edwaed Ind Tiiuhgood , Orchard-street , Kentish-street , builder—Hylton Cabr , North Hylton , Durham , shipbuilder . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —P . Dbnholm Dunbar , floshor—J . Hopkins and J . Bell , Glasgow , engineers—A . FiiASEn , Edinburgh , builder—J . Johnston , Airdrio , wine merchant , and Blaokbraes , grocer—T . Macdonald , Fort William , writer . Friday , July 25 . BANK RUPTS . —JonN D annam , New Oxford-street , boot manufacturer—David Stevjens , Montague-place , Poplar , cattlo dealer— Robert Nbwens , King-street , Richmond . Surrey , baker—Isaac Blanckensee , Birmingham , merchant — Edwakd Williams , Birmingham , commission agent—JonN Lowe , Manchester , merchant—James John Long , Holbeaoh , printer—James Bixobakrow , Coventry , haberdasher—Peter Hall , Manchester , smallwaro manufacturer—Richard Adams , Dudley , Worcestershire , grocer and provision merchant—David MAnairALL , Bristol , tailor —Joseph Porter , Salford , onginoor-CiiARLEs Douglas Hope , . Great Marlboiough - street , publisher — Thomas Matthew SnKPPBARD , Cambridge , corn and coal merchant—Jambs Uttino , Wisboach , iron founder—Louis Roohkfort , Brood-stroet , City , importer of foreign goods —William Clarke , Tipton , Stafford , miller . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —James Pringle , Forth , farmer , cattlo-doalor , trader , and woolstapler .
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BIRTHS MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . A ^ Rrril T On ? , ridft - ' tho 18 th lust ., at Backbarrow , Tkia « « r ?^ i ? lwhllra * . - Ainsworth : a daughter . DA 8 HWOOD . -Onthoi 8 thinst ., at Stone Lodge , Suffolk . ^ At ^ -. ^ ' M r s Q oorgo Doshwood : a daughtor . ? hi ™ ~ iS 2 T ^ A th ^ ? k at tho OId 1 > al * " ouso , Derby-VAiTfMfA & ^ . nna Chn »« ° 8 Folo : a daughtor vni ? NOT \ f V ? m ° ? L } ? ' - M ««»« w Vaughan : a son ? ^ nSvoinonVa ' 1186 - * SudbUry " *"• Dorby ' **** W ' the rtM ^ lll 8 t V » at Oaatloton . Monmouthshire , tho wife of Sir Goorgo Walkor , Jlart . ; a won . MARRIAGES . BEKE-ALSTON . -Ou tho . 25 th of April , at tho Cathedral 1
Church of St . James , Port Louis , by the Right Rev . Vincent W . Ryan , D . D ., Lord Bishop of Mauritius , Emily , youngest daughter of William Alston , Esq ., of Harewoodsquare , St . John's-wood , London , to Charles T . Beke , Esq ., Ph . D ., of Mauritius . FELLOWS—HILL—On the 22 nd iust ., at Hampstead , Frank P . Fellows , Esq ., of Wolverhamptan , to Louisa Mary , eldest daughter of Rowland Hill , Esq ., Secretary to the Post-office . VINCHIATURO—GOSSET . —On the 15 th iust ., at the British Embassy , Paris , the Marquis de Vinchiaturo , to Charlotte Sinclair , youngest daughter of the late James Douglas , Esq ., and widow of the late George Bagot Gossefc , Esq ., 4 th Dragoou Guards . DEATHS . FAULKNER . —On the 17 thinst ., at Evington , near Cheltenham , Lady Brook Faulkner . FERGUSON . —On the 22 nd inst ., at his residence . Parkhill , Clapham , John Ferguson , Esq ., M . D ., late of Kingston , Jamaica . JONES . —On the 29 th ult ., at Brant ford , Canada , West , the Rev . Peter Jones , Indian Missionary and Chief , aged 55 . OTTLEY . — On the 16 th inst ., at Millbrook-park , Southampton , George Wetherill Ottley . Esq ., late a Member of H . M . 's Council of the Island of Antigua . WEST . —On the 28 th of April , at his residence , Champ de Mars , Port Louis , Mauritius , of cholera , after twelve days * great suffering , the Hon William Wade West , Commander , R . N ., and member of the Legislative Council in that island , aged 72 .
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JTO * 26 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 717
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Leader (1850-1860), July 26, 1856, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2151/page/21/
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