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THE DESIGNS FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES . An Exhibition was thrown open to the public on Monday in Westminster Hall , to which the press and a few favoured individuals were admitted privately on the previous Saturday . It consists of the designs sent in both by English and foreign artists for the new Government offices which have been necessitated , not merely on the grounds of taste , but by reason of the dilapidated condition of the tenements in Downing and Fludyer-streets . The proposed plan is to make a clear space on that block of ground which is bounded on the north by Downingstreet , on the south by the immediate vicinity of the Abbey , on the east by the river , and on the west by St . James ' s Park . Here is a very large space , offering ample verge for the schemes of the most practical or the fancies of the most dreaming architect ; and the competitors have taken advantage of the opportunity for shadowing forth a vast number of stupendous structures , all of which , with one happy exception , are destined to disappear in the limbo of unrealized proiects . Until the award is made , the names of the artists will remain a secret ; but each contribution is distinguished by a number , as well as by a motto or fanciful signature . ,,, , -i j- i * For the purposes of this Exhibition , the old Hall has been temporarily divided , by means of wooden partitions extending to the dais , into four long alleys , which are subdivided crossways . The dais is appropriated to large models , some of which are very interesting . The number of competitors is above two hundred , and the designs extend to upwards of six hundred . Many of these are merely diagrams : some are elevations in outline ; others are elaborate architectural drawings , with the minutest details beautifully worked in , and with various landscape accessories . The last named of course attract the greatest attention on the part of the general public ; and several of them are really very elegant works of art , considered merely as drawings . As to the quality of adaptationof fitness for the end proposed—we leave better-instructed heads than ours to determine in what degree it is to be found in the designs here brought together ; but obvious to the eye of any intelligent visitor is the wonderful amount of luxurious , though perhaps untrained , fancy , and of patient , drudging , solid
work , hung up from end to end of these long partitions . If we might hint a doubt of an unprofessional character , it would be that there is generally an excess of small ornament . Some of the facades bristle with minute details of embellishment , fatiguing the eye , and frittering away the total effect There appears to be an excess of the semi-barbaric , semi-mechanicai Renaissance style ; indeed , we could fancy Mr . Ruskin going mad amon » these architectural suggestions of the infidel and immoral nineteenth century " There are exceptions , however . We have the earlier Italian style , the Roman form of the ancient Greek , the pure Hellenic itself in its various types , the Gothic , the Venetian , the old English , the Flemish Town Hall , and the nondescript . One gentleman appends to his contribution a document , elaborately expounding the superiority of the Gothic over every other style for such a work ; but we confess our own choice would be in the direction of ancient Athens or Corinth . We decline offering any opinion on specific designs ; but one or two plans at the upper end of the Hall , sent in by visionaries who contemplate the rebuilding of half London , are too curious not to be noted . We here borrow from the account in the Times : — " A remarkable instance of the enlarged view of the matter is to be found in the huge model exhibited on the dais . Raising the buildings on the site more particularly under consideration , the artist has carried his solid map as far as Bermondsey , and has even thrown in a model of St . Paul's as an extra ornament . This is only one specimen among very many of the vast amount of industry and talent that has been brought into activity by the Government offer . With respect to the charts generally , it may be observed that they nearly all presuppose a new site for Westminster-bridge . One project is worth mentioning for its extreme oddity—namely , a scheme for carrying a park or flower-garden through the Thames lenthwise , so as to leave a navigable canal on each side . " To professional architects and builders , this Exhibition ( which will continue open to the public for some weeks ) is of course more interesting than to others ; but even the general public will find much entertainment in wandering through the walks of visionary palaces , vast and fanciful as the conceptions of ' the dreaming Piranesi , ' and comparing them with the solid web of the grand old timber roof above , which , after so many centuries , still looks down upon the modern Londoner in unrivalled beuuty and enduring freshness . A Conversazione was held on Weduesday evening at the house of the Societx of Arts , in the Adelphi , in connexion with the subscription for the widow and children of the late Thomas Seddon . The room , which was densely crowded , was hung round with pictures and sketches of the deceased artist . Mr . Ruskin delivered an eloquent address on the genius of Mr . Seddon , and pointed out his peculiar character of truthfulness . A vote of thanks to Mr . Ruskin was passed by the meeting . THEATRICAL NOTES . Mk . Weight and Mr . Paul Bedford have been creating much merriment among the frequenters of the Adelphi by their performance of two retired tradesmen who have been banqueting at Highbury Barn in company with their brother ' Social Villagers , ' and who next morning find themselves at the house of the one performed by Mr . Wright , in a state of horrible mystification as to how they got there . Their condition of mental ibgginess witli respect to recent events is increased by an account given in a morning paper of a murder committed on the previous night in Seven Dials , certain circumstances inducing in them a fantastic fear that they have been the authors of the crime ; and they are agonized with remorse and with visions of Newgate until the happy discovery is made that the paper was published six years back . The piece , which was well received , is called Fearful Tragedy in the Seven Dials , and is an adaptation ot U Affaire de la Rue da Lourcine , recently produced in Paris .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . COWAN . —On the 7 th inst ., at 19 , "Ufton-road North , Do Beauvoir Town , London , the wife of Mr . George Inghs Cowan : a daughter . T _ HARVEY . —At Bracoudalo , the Lady Henrietta Harvey : a PR ^ TCHARD . —• At Bristol , the wife of Commander Pritchard , R . N ., H . M . S . Insolent : a daughter . MARRIAGES . T 5 OWEN—STANDLY—At Nowton , Suffolk , James Bovan Bowen Esq ., of Llwyngwair , Pembrokeshire , to Hariette , daughter of the late Rev . J . Standly , of Southoe , Hunts . BYRNE—FRANKLAND . —In St . George ' s , Westminsterroad , James Byrno , Esq ., M . R . C . S . E ., to Lucy , daughter of the late Thomas Fraiikland , Esq ., of Georgetown , Dejnerara . DEATHS . BAYFIELD . — Alfred D . Bayfield , Esq ., of Dcans ' -courfc , Doctor ' s Commons , in his 10 th year . _ BELL . — At Bourno , Lincolnshire , William David Bell , Esq ., in his GOth year . MILD MAY . — On Thursday , at her residence in Bolgravia , in her ninety-third year . Lady Mildmny .
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London , Friday Evening , May 8 , 1857 . Singe the settlement of the share account afc the end of last , week , thoro has been ho manifest an improvement in the Funds , that sanguine speculators predicted their price iu Juno would bo » 5 . .... it Yesterday , and even the day before , first slight , , tnon heavy , and dually very heavy hiiIoh , allowed that there was something amiss . The Bank directors at their weekly mooting had determined to stop all loans on stock by refusing to renew loans on such advances . Thoro may bo some reason for this , but surely the time was ill chosen . The day of the settlement of tho Consols account , and the foreknowledge that certain brokers and others connected with tho Bank diaplayou by placing stocks to n heavy amount , gavo groat scandal to the Stock Exchango dealers , who havo more than once contended against tho very illegitimate uso uiado by tho Bank brokers and their friends of the knowlodgo which their position given them of acting upon tho market . Tho drat announcement ; of this measure caused a panic , Consols falling nearly 5 nor oonfc . But ho soon as men bogari coolly to estimate tho effect of Uio now improved stringency , tho funds slowly recovered , and dually loft oil ' at 5 ) 34 to WM t or account , ana to-dav havo touched ( Mi .
I The other securities in foreign and homo shares partook I of the fall , and even to-day the heavy market evinces signs i of a fall . Great speculators have sold largely . , There has been a violent agitation during the week intne Grand Trunk of Canada Railway shares , and a Call of some ! magnitude has resulted . Tho debate now going on m the 1 Canadian House of Assembly as to the aid to be tu . vnit >\ i (; u this national undertaking , is the inihiciico . no doubt , Hat disturbs the market ; and sales havo been pressed o'ovigli to drive the shares to 1 G « . per share , or CM . per 100 / . htof . h .. I French and Belgium lines arc ( irmly supported . i : su > i I Indian railway shares of every description siro in domiuiu . Eastern Counties rule tho same . Bcrwicks and VorKs arc "Xcrc'iit demand for Caledonians shows that the arrmmement hinted at sonic time back will bo curried out , and these " hares Possibly go to ML per share M ™****™* . ^?]} more freely dealt in this wook . Great Whoal Allreil nml Wlieal Vor arc in demand . Tho new undertakings do not take with tho public at all . Moiioy is in demand at , per cent , in tho Stock Exchange . The lino weather t ml is ioin using and an easier money market must tend to ligntcn matters before next settling . rvni «< . ls At four o ' clock this day prices close as fol » ows ^ -Coiisols for moncv 03 i . S ; Consolii for . 1 ime account , IMS , t ; * hi mmi Six per Vant ., bu , »** ; Turkish Four per Cent . 100 10 01 ; Russian Five per Cent ., 101 , 102 ; Chilian , 102 , 10 , !; JJutili "ttSf , SfoSiffi X < ,. 7 ., m I , Ch » U , r ., £ .. * iri ^^ lis !^ ii » afri ^ « 33 Great Western . 004 , 07 ; Lancashire and Yoi-Kshiio , 4 102 ? London and Bhiokwall , < U , 0 J ; ^ o'J 1 / 0 " : J $ ll ° ' and South Const . 110 . Ill ; Loudou . nnd Nort h- \\ ostdm i . IOo 1054 ; London and South - Western , 101 , 1014 ; •» «'"""• 8211 83 ; North-Eastern ( Uorwick ) , 801 , 874 i South-hw > ton ( Dover ) . 75 } , 7155 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam . 7 , i \ ; *> »•» l « Sfl . l . OJ-aiV ; Eastern of France d ' arla ni . d bu bourg ) .: W , 324 ; Great Central of Franco , 2 J | , •*« . < J ;! Luxembourg , 7 , 7 i ; Northern of Franco , 381 , . «> . » l ' i ' and Lyons , 584 , W ; Royal Danish , 17 , 10 x . d . ; KoyulbwoUlsli , 1 , li ; Sambro and Mouse , 8 J , 0 .
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , May 5 . BANKRUPTCY ; ANNULLED . —Samuek Danford , Battorsca-uclds , and George-yard , Lombard-street , City , money scrivener . BANKRUPTS . — Thomab Harrison , ITarrictsham and Maidatono , coal and timber merchant—Thomas Ward , 4 , Bow-churchyard , City , stock manufacturer — Thomas Fuederick Thekd , 1 . Winehostor-Htreet , Waterloo-town , surgeon , ohemist , and druggist—Henry Bateson , 2 , llad-( lon-placo , Watorloo-road , apothecary—John Figg , Downmg-streot , l ' arnnam , Surrey , boot and nhoo maker and leather seller—Lucy Oakley , Walsall , Stairordshlro , draper and tailor—William Sheldon Withers , Mansfield , Notts , miller—William Penny , Newport , Monmouthshire , brewer —David Mbyiuck , Buto-atrcot , Cardiff , Glamorganshire , boob and shoo maker— Kitohinoman Gravil . Halifax , grocor—EnKNEZBu Brooks , S . hoHlold , spring-knife mauufaoturor—William Swinton Lauiub , Liverpool and Now York , merchant—William Wilmam Joneb , Portmadoc , Carnarvonshire , shipbuilder-Ghor 0 h Giixett . Preston , cablnot-makor—James Wailwork , Ohorloy , Lancashire , cotton spinner and , manufacturer— Andkhson Stokeh ( not Anderson Stokob , as stnted on tho 17 th ult . ) , Findon-hill . Durham , grocer and flour dealer . BCOTOft SEQUESTRATIONS . - David Stewart . Dundee , contractor ana shipowner— Tiiomab Walhk , Fhv nicston-streot , Glasgow , whio , spirit , and provision
merchant and grocer—James Rutherford , Crieff , gala-cloth aud shawl manufacturer . Friday , May 8 . BANKRUPTS . —William Stephens , Gloucester , cattle salesman—Henry Wheeler , Derby , painter — Thomas Davies , Neath , Glamorganshire , contractor — Thomas Bradley , Kidderminster , apothecary—William Ogilvie , Cameron , Camomile-street , City , export oilman—James Catt , High-street , Southwark , brewer—James Swift , Milton-road , Gravesend , statuary mason—Thomas Stutely , Shoerness , builder , &c . —James Summers , llatton Garden , wholesale jeweller — William George . Brown , Highi street , Dartford , Kont , clothier and outfitter — Roiiert I James Norton , Fleet-street , outfitter—Thomas Riley I Euswortii , of No , 00 , Wapping-wnll , and of No . 2 , Forest 1 Villa , Forest-hill , Sydeiihaui , ale and buor merchant , dealer ! and chapman . ! SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . — James Hamilton , ' Stonehouso , Lanarkshire general merchant and bakor—I Patrick Alexander Falconer , Glasgow , clothier , &c . ~ - John Fitzroy' Young , St . Jamos ' s-squurc , Edinburgh—Andrew Buemnhu , formerly writer in Edinburgh — Roderick Chisholm , Inverness , tea merchant — Jamks i Macpheiison and Company , Loith , plumbers , brass-, founders and gaslitters .
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CORN MARKET . Mark-lano , Frldny , May fl , I 3 r > 7 > This arrivals of all kinds of Grain into komlo" ' ™ J V&F ! F ^ i ^^ $ & ~ gfa = a » ««« itt 9- 'f- ' »¦¦ but they remain without alteration » ' \ value . . A cftm 0 or Thcro huvo been very few arrivals oil tho c o »» t .. a w k „ Oalatss Malzo arrived has boon sold at »««• . •»«>••» ' ^ rgoun of at 37 s . 0 d ., and ono of Ismail at 37 h . <> a ' , ' £ 1 . )<) " to tt o lbrall on passage afc 3 Bh ., and ono of GalaU Jos . «» Continent , all cost , freight , and insurance .
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\ t the second performance of the Musical Union on Tuesday , Madame Cr aba Schumann appeared for the first time this season ; and played from memory the Sonata Appassionato of Beethoven with all the tranquil mastery , the earnest sincerity , and the true simplicity which distinguish her from the crowd of pianists even more than the unequalled tone , precision , and brilliancy of her playing .
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¦ we remember in Ronconi , sings the music admirably ; and Vialkiti , in the small part of Btdebent , has proved his value as a sound and eflective basso , and an unassuming but judicious actor . The orchestra was ; again , to our thinking , too loud in the accompaniments ; but ' the lovely rippling prelude on the harp , in the second scene of the first act , was played ravishingly . We are glad to see that the Barbiere is announced for Tuesday next , with 4 . LBONI as Rosma , and the elegant German tenor Reichardt , who has jron eolden opinions in Paris this last winter , as Almaviva . We hope we shall have the Fiqlia del Reggimento again for Madlle . Piccolomini . The Trovatore , supported by Alboni , Spezia , Giuguni , and Vialetti , is in preparation and great exertions are being made for the production of Don Giovanni , to which all the members of the company have promised to lend their aid . Rigoletto was produced at the Royal Italian Opera on Thursday , and Madame Bosio made her first appearance , singing as brilliantly and looking as elegant as ever . The performance of this opera at the . Lyceum is almost perfection in the general effect , and it presents the best singing of Mario and the best acting of Ronconi . The Traviata is announced for next week , with a verv strone cast . Madame Bosio will be the Violetta .
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422 THE LEADER . [ No . 372 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2192/page/20/
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