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consists of—76 first violins , 74 second violins , 50 violas , 50 violoncellos , 50 double basses , 8 flutes , 8 oboes , 8 clarionets , 8 bassoons , 12 horns , 6 trumpets , 6 cornets , 3 ophicleides , 8 serpents , 9 trombones , 2 pair of kettledrums , 1 large long drum , 6 side drums ; 385 performers in all , who are arranged at 202 desks . The chorus , originally intended to consist of 2000 voices , slightly exceeds that number . The entire orchestra , therefore , is , as near as possible , 2500 . In the centre , between the organ and the band , the large drum made by Mr . Distin for the festival will be a conspicuous object . It is between six and seven feet in diameter , and when gently struck , produces a tone resembling the booming of a deep pedalpipe . The chorus comprises about 1000 metropolitan
amateurs , 200 professional chorus , and nearly 850 choristers carefully selected and rehearsed , from the great provincial choral societies and the cathedral choirs . These latter will arrive in London on the afternoon of Friday , the 12 th of June , and the final choral rehearsal will be held in Exeter Hall at half-past six o ' clock the same evening . With the exception of a very few seats reserved for distinguished visitors , the entire area , gallery , and platform will , on that occasion , be occupied by the chorus , who will be arranged in double choir . Israel in Egypt will , probably , be the principal feature of this rehearsal , and it is expected that the 2000 voices thus assembled will produce an effect far beyond anything ever before witnessed . The preparations are
gradually but rapidly progressing towards completion , and thus far every arrangement has been most satisfactorily carried out for the Festival . In order to record more fully the notabilities of the Festival a large number of the provincial press have signified their desire to send special musical reporters , and nearly 300 seats will be reserved for the gentlemen -who will attend for this purpose . In order to accommodate parties visiting London at the time of the Handel Festival , the principal railway companies have agreed to issue return tickets , available for that week , at reduced fares . Many persons who
¦ would otherwise have been excluded from attending the Festival will thus be enabled , to attend at a moderate expense . To musical amateurs the Festival week will present several attractions : the Benevolent Choir Fund will have a grand choral service at " Westminster Abbey , and , in connexion with the Madrigal Society , have their normal dinner at Freemasons' Hall . After dinner , madrigals , &c , will be sung by about 200 voices . The Sacred Harmonic Society have also arranged to have a performance of Mr . Costa ' s oratorio , Eli , at Exeter Hall , on the evening of "Wednesday , the 17 th of June , to which it is intended to invite all who attend from the country to take part in the Festival .
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STATE OP TRADE . The trade reports for the week ending last Saturday show continued inactivity at Manchester and the surrounding towns , prices exhibiting a degree of weakness likely to lead to an extended adoption of the short time movement . The Birmingham accounts describe steadiness in the iron-market , and an average home and foreign business in the other manufactures of the place . In the woollen districts , the increased firmness observable last week has been maintained , and the Irish linenmarkets are without alteration . —Times .
In the general business of the port of London during the same week there has been considerable activity . The number of ships reported inward was 241 , being 62 below the large total in the previous account . Those included 65 with cargoes of wheat , rice , oats , &c . ; 25 with cargoes of sugar , and one cargo of tea and silk . The number of vessels cleared outward was 125 , including 15 in ballast , showing an increase of 22 . — Idem .
In consequence of a notice from the masters of a reduction of wages from 6 s . to 4 s . 6 d . per day—the fortnight ' s notice having expired on Friday week — the shipwrights of the Tyne ani Wear turned out last Saturday , and remain on strike . The men offer to go to work for 5 s . per day , but there are no immediate prospects of a settlement . The shipbuilding trade is dull in the Wear . There will be near 8000 men out of employment on those rivers . The shipjoiners have also turned out .
The daily papers announce the suspension of Messrs . William Macintosh and Co ., of Manchester , with liabilities , supposed to amount to 100 , 000 £ , of which about 40 , 000 * . fall on London .
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IRELAND . Ootmoial ArrorMTMEMTs ov Irishmen . —Mr . Henry Arthur Herbert , meinbor for Kerry , has accepted the post of Chief Secretary for Ireland , in the room of Mr . Horuman , resigned . Mr . Ohichester Fortosoue , 1 ms been appointed Under-Secretory for the Colonies . Tarn Encumbered Ebtatbs Cauux . The Wostmeath estates of Peter Fitegerald , Knight of Kerry , who was the petitioner for the sale , wore disposed of on Friday week in eight lots , the gross produce of which amounted to 24 , 895 / . , , # i /• Death ov Lord Lismore —ViBcount Llamoro expired on Sunday morning at Shanbally Castlo , in the county of Tipperary . Ho had boon for a long time in extremely bad health . Ho is succeeded in his title and estates by his son , the Hon . George Ponsonby O'Cfdlaghaa .
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AMERICA . Cbntrai- American affairs still occupy attention in the United States . We how learn that the treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Honduras , together with the additional article guaranteeing the neutrality of the inter-oceanic railroad through the Republic of Honduras from Porto Cabeli ' o on the Atlantic to the Bay of Fonseca on the Pacific , has been ratified by the Honduras Government ; but that the two conventions relative to the Bay Islands and to JVfosquito , which were signed at the same time by Senor Don Victor Herran on the part of Honduras , and by Lord Clarendon on the part of Great Britain , have not been ratified . Some intelligence with respect to the policy of the United
States in connexion with the Chinese war is communicated by the Washington correspondent of the New York Times , who writes on the 17 th ult . : — " Despatches have been received from England stating that the position of our Government , as laid down in the reply of General Cass to Lord Napier relative to the Chinese affair , is entirely satisfactory to the British Cabinet . Joint armed intervention was asked for and decidedly declined ; but our Government agreed to co-operate by representation and joint remonstrance . " Lord Napier has again called the attention of the Washington Cabinet to the claims of certain English subjects for indemnity on account of losses at Greytown .
A storm appears to be gathering over Utah . Major M'Culloch is said to have declined the Governorship of that state , and it is believed that it will be found necessary to send troops there in large numbers , the command of whom will probably be given to General Harney . Governor Drummond has arrived at Washington , bringing with him accounts of the utter demoralisation of the people . From Mexico we learn that Crabbe's California Filibustering party has been attacked at Corborea by the Mexican troops , and forced to surrender at discretion . The Filibusters , including their leader , were shot .
A fearful riot ( say the American journals ) occurred at Louisville on the 14 th ult . The negroes accused of murdering the Joyce family some months since were acquitted . One of them turned States' evidence , but his testimony was not legal or corroborated . There was considerable excitement about the court-house during the trial , and about dark a mob broke into the cannonhouse and got & cannon , which they placed in front of the gaol . Several shots were fired by the mob and returned from the gaol . The gaoler , fearing the escape of the prisoners , formally surrendered two of them , who -were hung by the mob ; the third cut his throat with a razor , but the negro who turned States' evidence was unmolested . The remaining negro implicated in the Joyce murder was hung by the mob next night , making three hanged and one suicide .
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided a slave case in direct opposition to the decision of the United States Supreme Court , in the Dred Scott case . There has been a great discovery of gold at Upata , in the . province of Venezuela . The metal is exceedingly pure , and has been found in very large quantities . A bill has been introduced into the Californian Legislature to provide for the payment of the interest on the public debt due next July and January ; also another bill l to provide for paying certain equitable claims against the State of California , and to contract a funded debt for that purpose . ' The latter bill had passed the Senate and was before the Assembly at the last dates . A member of Congress , from Pennsylvania , has fallen a victim to ' the National Hotel disease , ' the result , it would seem , of foul air .
" The proprietors of the Daily Times-, says the Times New York correspondent , " offer 5000 dollars reward to whoever will discover evidence to convict the murderer of Dr . Burdell . Some of the other journals who do not make an offer make fun of the proposition . The Evening Post offers 5000 peanuts , and the Herald throws dollars to the winds in gratuities for the discovery of all the undiscovered murderers for the past twenty years . Mrs . Cunningham goes abroad an acquitted woman , and Eckel is discharged on his own recognizance , his counsel grumbling because the Government prefer to bring him to trial six months hence . " The news from the South ia said to be unfavourable as regards the cotton crop for this year . That of last year was also bad .
The allied forces of Central America ( according to despatches from head quarters , dated April 22 nd ) continued pressing Walker severely . Deserters woro continually coming in daily to the allies . Walkor's party woro living on hides . The nlliod fire was suspended for a time from want of ammunition , but a supply o f twenty quintals of powder reached the allies , und the fire again reopened . Walker ' s party wus reduced to throe hundred and twenty men . The allied forces mustered 2500 men , which number was dully increasing . The River San Juan is open to traffic by passports from Greytown and Fort St . Carlos . The American steamers have discontinued visiting Greytown , now that the transit is in the hands of the allies . Vivunco hits been repulsed at Gallno ( Peru ) , and Castoilo has embarked at Paeta , for Callao .
The Finance Minister of Venozuolu has announced that his Government declines to assent to the agroomonfc effected last January by their own Commlasionora with
the London committee of Spanish American bond holders . He adds that the Government intends to issue a decree for the settlement of the debt according to its own views . The New York money-market is easier . In the stock market there lias been a slight improvement
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THE ORIENT . INDIA . The disaffection among the native soldiers seems to h lessening , but had not quite disappeared when the last mails left India . Symptoms of an o utbreak have mani fested themselves at Umballa . The empty European barracks have been burnt down , and the Native Infantry hospital shared the same fate a few hours afterwards After the sepoy of the 34 th , who wounded Lieutenant Baugh , had been hanged , the Jemadar of the guard was similarly punished . The charges against the latter were as follows : —" For having , when officer in command of the quarter guard of the 34 th N . I ., on the day on which Mungul Pandy attacked the adjutant and quartermaster , told the men of the guard , when they evinced a
desire to go out and aid the adjutant and sergeant-major in resisting the murderous attack made upon them ' If a man leaves this guard , or attempts to do so , I ' will have him hanged for disobedience of orders . ' Further with having , in the lines of the 34 th regiment N . I . endeavoured to spread sedition by telling the men of ' that corps that if any of them brought him one of the new cartridges he would cut his head off ; also , for having warned the men of the 34 th N . I . to hold themselves in readiness for a general revolt on the night of Hoolee . Lastly , with having held a punchaet in his own quarters
for the purpose of organising a general rising of the sepoys against government ; at which punchaet two pay havildars , a naick , and a lance-naick from the 34 th N . I . were present . " On being brought to the scaffold , the Jemadar , who up to that moment had hoped for mercy , made a speech to his comrades , in which he acknowledged the justice of his sentence , said he had rebelled against a good government , and exhorted his fellowcountrymen to obey their officers . Everything passed off quietly , owing partly , perhaps , to preparations having been niade to overawe any hostile
demonstra-. A suttee has occurred in the village of Vung , in Kutch . A woman , sixty-five year 3 of age , immolated herself on the funeral pile of her son , a young man of five-and-twenty . The bystanders attempted to dissuade her ; but , finding her resolution firm , they ceased to oppose her wishes . The Rao , on learning what had been done , took the advice of Captain Raikes , our political agent , and sentenced some of the leading men in the affair to two years' imprisonment , with hard labour , inflicting fines on others . Another great tire in Pegu has completely destroyed the rising town of Bassein . Coal has been found in the Siwan district of Scinde . Trade is in rather an inactive state . PERSIA .
The Constitutionnel , of Paris , publishes a private letter from the Persian Gulf , received through Hagdad , which announces that on the 21 st of April the English troops evacuated the town of Mohammerah . The steamships Comet , Planet , and Assyria brought them back to Bushire . General Outram continued to evacuate the Persian Gulf . The troops were beginning to experience rather severo losses by disease . The Persian army on the frontiers of Afghanistan wus ovacuuting the districts occupied by it . It hud already quitted Furrah , and would soon evacuate Herat . CHINA . The war—if war it can be culled—goes on but languidly . Some successful uttucks have been made by our vessels on Chinese war junks , and several of them have been destroyed . In those enterprises , a few of our own men have been wounded , more or less seriously . boom
A fight has taken place at Ningpo between Frenchmen engaged in convoying junks and tho 1 ortugueso lorohamen , who claim a monopoly of tho convoy trade . The French boat was captured j but tho aliair has boon brought before tho notice of his Excellency w . Bourboulon . . . Tho traffic , both import and export , at Shanghai is threatened by tho successes of tho rebels and tho contemplated desertion of tho Imperialist * unions tuoic wagoa aro puid . . The Mandarin's son who , having gained admission < w » coolio on board tho Gulnnre , induced the emigrants " attempt to murder hor officors and crow , and taKo po » - session of hor , has suffered tho last penalty of tho aw . Ills flovontoen adhoronts , who aro to bo tranaportoa lifebogged that thoy miht die with him .
, g Mr , Markwioh , an old and highly roapootod member of tho English moronnlilo community <» t Ilon f , ° ,, has boon murdered with more than ordinary Jurou ^ . His thront waa literally torn away by tho »»' hand . Tlio object was plunder ; but tho ni » ' 2 j apparently dreading a surprise , flod buforo tlioy i « seouro anything . They were Mr . Markwldi ' s < w » J viuite . A reward h . id boon specially oilbrod to « omc « i « . by tho Chinese for tho heads of their Kn « ah m \ W ' A European and hia ClilnoBO accomplice b » vo J . tried and convicted of Homo very cruel t ™" "" , w largo body of Chinese oooIIob , whom aftor dolucnnf ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 6, 1857, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2196/page/4/
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