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The Climate , of-the Cape of Good Hope . —The natural features of the Cape , colony are such as to ensure for it a healthy climate . Stretching northwards from the extensive port of the Cape , the country is formed into a succession of mountain terraces , lying across the country from east to west , each terrace , rising above the other to a considerable height , till the highest mountain ranges attain a height of about 10 , 000 feet above the level of the sea . The Cape colony is thus most happily provided with sea breezes over a large portion of the country ; for upon the west , south , and east its 3 hores are washed by the Atlantic and
Indian Oceans , while in the interior the heat is mitigated by the cooling winds which pass from the mountain ranges over the plains and valleys . The consequence is a moderate and equable temperature , the coldest which has been noted being About 57 and the hottest about 79 degrees , the mean temperature deduced from observations made over several years at Cape Town , giving a result of about 07 degrees Fahrenheit , or about the eanic as Malta or Sydney , the capital of New South Wales , and three degrees above the mean of Madeira , Gibraltar , and Algiers . Additional evidence of the remarkably healthy character of the Cape is afforded by the fact that it is a pi uce of resort , a sanatorium , in factfor the officers of the Indian army , who , when
, affected by disease incident to the tropical climate of India , find that the salubrious and invigorating breezes of the Cape have an excellent restorative effect . This peculiar healthiness of the Cape rerfu » es only to be more generally known in this country to make it preferred , to the island of Mudcira , Algiors , or other parts to which invalids from this country goliernlly resort for the benefit of a change of climate . Many persons would , -wo are confident , select this flno British colony in preference to countries which are under foreign government . At the Cape of Good Hope the sufferer will find himself among his own countrymen , and would receive a degree
of sympathy and nssistanco which ho could not expect among foreigners , ftu < l would not bo exposed to the annoyance of living in a state of society to which ho hits not been accustomed , and to an irritating system pf government as strange ns it is unacceptable to tho invalid from a country whoro no such By at em is known . Tho opinion of Mr . Maclear , oftor many yours' observation , is , Hut upon tho whole tho climate approaches closely to tluit of Madeira , tho only dilVorunuo buing that tho winds nyo stvongor and more regular at tho Capo than at tlio latter place . — CVyw ami Natal Now * .
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Crystal P ^ ACK . -Kutum for six daya , ending Friday , November Ml ., leASi-Nm ^ er admitted , including season ticket holders , 12 , 7 UB .
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however , of a very fair operatic selection , varied bj one or two humorous songs of an innocent character But the ' occasion of our visit was the inauguratioi of a new feature . Mr . Morton ' s collection of pictures , has marched ,, it appears , pari passu with bit enterprise . He now owns some two hundred , and as his music hall became incouveniently crowded , he has relieved it , and found a permanent home for his hobby by building a very handsome exhibition-room . For a penny we purchased a regular catalogue , and for an hour or two found pleasure in renewing our acquaintance with some ¦ well-remembered works of art , and in musing on the singular concatenation of attractions at " the Canterbury" and the no less
singular enlightenment of the modest host , who richly deserves to enjoy the honest pride he claims to feel at the completion of his work . The most prominent of the pictures are—Haydou ' s " Marcus Curtius ; " No . 5 , the " Noah ' s Sacrifice , " by Maclise , exhibited four years ago in the Royal Academy ; No . 4 , " The Disconsolate , " by T . Couture ; No . 36 , " Fidelity—a hound oh his master ' s grave , " by T . Earle ; No . 49 , " The Marche' des Innocents" at Paris , by G . Prieur . No . 51 is an admirable " Bulldog ' s Head , " by Gerard . No . 57 is the well-known and very elaborate specimen of what we should call the true pre-Raphaelite scliool , called the " Fontaine de jouvence , " by Hausouillier . Mr . Niemann is pleasingly represented by ( No . 72 ) " A Rocky Waterfall . " and several other works . Devedeuxhas twoof which " The Pearl Necklace" ( No . 112 ) is
de Venise , " as tormented by M . Wieniawski on the violin . In this latter performance there is nothing . really to admire . One may wonder , perhaps , at the folly of a man Who would devote years to the mastery of three or four pieces of wonderful execution , and at the iguorance of a crowd who will accept such as evidences of talent or as music ; but we cannot help regretting to see taste , and power , and time , so thrown away , and the Muse herself so outraged . Of M . Wieniawski , whose name figures so prominently in the bills that we cannot pass him over , \ re have to say , that though not too rich in tone , his execution is marvellous ; but as with other marvellous players , seeing him is more than half the battle . We , undis
is also entitled to claim as proved , his allegation which in our last impression we took leave to corroborate , that the British public are now prepared to enjov quality where formerly only quantity of sounu could attract them . The mO 3 t classical pieces he has produced this season have been , perhaps , the anost enjoyed by the very numerous audiences he Las gathered round him . The " Andante from Beethoven ' s " Pastoral Symphony , " the Overture to Buy Bias , by Mendelssohn , and the same composer s violin concerto , seem to us to be more grateful to the more refined ears of the present generation ot amateurs than would be the repetition of such extravagances as the " Havelock ' s March , and , indeedthan the endless repetition of the " Carnaval
are always tempted to think , that if the most - tinguished performer in any first-class London band were to sacrifice himself for a few years of his life to the acquisition of one or two peculiar violin tricks , he would be just as wonderful a man as any of these Herrs and Signors who are introduced to the groundlings to be gaped at ; and therefore we protest against their being received by the public or recognised by the press as anything more than wonders of misplaced perseverance and retarders of good taste . Miss Louisa Viniiing has delighted us on each occasion of our presence at JuLlien ' s . Her " Tacea la Notte , " from II Trovatore , " Vedrai Carino , " from Don Giovanni , and "I ' m a laughing Zingarella , " are all excellent , and her " Home , sweet home" is worth a pilgrimage . M . Jullien ' s new compositions , the «• jetty Treffz" and " TheCampbells arecomin' " .
qua-In conclusion of our remarks upon the dramatis personce , we may add that Mr . Ryder ' Maccktf was thoroughly effective , and the witch-choristers , Miss Poole and Mr . Wallworth especially , very accurate and satisfactory .. We perfectly coincide with the views of the talented manager upon the subject of costume . That which he has _ seen Ht to adopt—and we regret , for our non-playgoihg , readers' sake , that we cannot quote the text of his critical essay distributed with the play bills—is infinitely preferable to the full suit of tartan , ostrich-feathered bonnet , and claymore handed down to us by theatrical authorities as the stage costume of the last century .
Though it is unfortunately too true that the more " we elaborate our scenery and our attempts at secenicillusion , the more painfully and ungratefully we become susceptible of irremediable short-comings , it is necessary to draw attention to the superb " effects " produced at this theatre . The half-illumined shade of Banquo at the feast , the moving forest of Birnam , and the " Pit of Acheron , " where the fiendish chorus of the fourth act stretches Macbeth on an intellectual rack with visions and oracular prophecies , are marvels in their way that will be remembered when the present direction has passed away , and will long indispose the town towards managerial efforts less intellectually conceived or less intelligently worked
but . CANTERBURY HALL , LAMBETH , is one of the " great facts" of transpontine London , which , when found , should be made a note of . Nestling in a corner under the railway bridge that crosses the Westminster-road , there was , a few years ago , an unpretending tavern , whose landlord , Charles Morton by name , having more fancy for music and pictures than for bull-dogs , fast trotters , and betting lists , hung his public parlour round with fairish prints and an unpretending painting or two , and engaged some professionals to sing for the amusement of the company there . His neighbours—mostly manufacturing people—yielded to the mollifying attractions of the
gentle arts , and presently overflowed the said parlour . It was , therefore , enlarged : so was the choir ; and the host continued to cover his walls with pretty " ' bits" of this and that modern master , and copies of some of the elders . The number of visitors increased as the squares of the space opened to . them , until , some five years ago , Mr . Morton made a long pull and a strong pull , built a very handsome , well-ventilated hall , lighted it by the most elegant lustres , ventilated it well , got together a corps of vocalists , sometimes eminent , always satisfactory , and won a position of mark among London pieasure-caterers . The popularity and well-known financial success of Evans ' s renowned supper-rooms
endrflles , and the "Fern Leaves" waltz , show great care and talent ; the effects introduced into the latter are peculiar and pleasing . The grand selection from Meyerbeer ' s Huynenots is no less than ever popular , and is rather improved than otherwise by the curtailment of the band . Mr . Hughes ' s version of the " FifE-Pa-ff" upon the ophicleide is an imposing one , and was deservedly applauded , as was the beautiful ( as well as wonderful ) performance of Duhem on the cornet obligate in the " Fern Leaves . " In conclusion , while we do not sc ruple to note points in which the arrangements do not accord with , our notions , and , we think , the public ' s now advanced ideas of sound taste , we shall have marked pleasure in recording the further progress of these pleasing and innocent entertainments , and the success of the worthy entrepreneur .
couraged " our host to think that the mere eating and drinking of his guests would pay-for the gratuitous concert ; but herein he erred , and was obliged to make a small charge , which has been subsequently raised to sixpence a head . With each advance in the entrance fee he has heightened the quality of his entertainment , until his music hall has become in the eyes of country folks , if not of Cockneys , a feature of London . Is worth the attention , moreover , of social economists , for thechiefest of its peculiarities is the admission of both sexes : and we take it that Mr . Morton has established the fact' —gall and wormwopd though it must be to a certain chief magistrate we could mention—that
PRINCESS'S THEATRE . —On Monday last Mr . Kean reproduced Macbeth , with the same profusion of effects and decorations as distinguished its revival by him on this stage in 1853 , and succeeded , with Mrs . Kean ' s invaluable aid , in rousing his audience to a degree of enthusiasm equal to that manifested on the occasion referred to . He has thus perfectly succeeded , because , in spite of an unfavourable physique , his impersonation so well realises tho conception of the great dramatist ' s coherent intention , which familiarity with the play haa now deeply graven in the public understanding . His Macbeth is no marvel of wickedness , audacity , or ferocity , but one the yarn of whose character is a tangled mass
crowds of males and females , neither intemperate nor immoral , but respectable enough and modest enough to rub shoulders even with a Mayor , and to regard his magnificent propriety without blenching , may be furnished with material for intellectual enjoyment and even improvement , in a place which , in truth , is no more nor less than a tavern . A tavern-keeper turned instructor ! Starched gentility , open your eyes , and wonder what next ! It is found by the pylico that no disorder accrues to tho neighbourhood from the gatherings nt tho Hall , and the officers on duty thore seem to think a " scene" or a " row" would bo almost a refreshing variety . The notion that tho thousands of people above tho artisan class , whoso homes are barely worth tho name , and to whom theatres are an expensive luxury , can be induced by tho prayers of
of generous impulses , sound convictions , and evil passions . The artist reminds us that tho infirmity of the thane ' s own character might have balanced for ever the good and evil in him , and might even have neutralised the evil promptings of his ambitious wife , but for the pressure of the antique fate , introduced by Shakspeare in tho shape of his ever nmbient witch chorus . This bears him down , and having long marked him for its victim , over thrown itself into the scale of evil , tearing and rending his nature until lie has taken his desperate plunge , and then gleefully abandons him to be harrowed by confidence and the sense of coming grief , until the mere
thogonteel and virtuous to immure themselves , with heavy and improving books niul a halfpenny " shortsix" lor company , night after night , between working hours and bedtime , is pretty well expli > ded . It is , at all ovonts , seldom advanced by rellectlvo persona ; and the difficulty is , of course , how and whore thoy are to amuao themselves . It would seem that these music halls have furnished a happy medium between tho Caainos and mure street-prowling . Wo were at all events , to make a long story short , very pleased to pbsorve , on Wcdnosduy week , that twelve hundred persons of both eoxos , and of tho most respectable appearance ,, w . evo really ¦ onjoying themselves at Canterbury Mall in so orderly and becoming a manner , that to suggost tho contrary possibility would acorn almost an insult to tltum nud to tho establishment . Wo havo not spuoo to notice tho musical programme in detail . It mainly consisted ,
rags of him , for tho sake of dramatio justice , are disposed of by Macduff , The alternate breathlossness and tumult of crowded audiences on Monday and Wednesday last may go further than any laboured panegyric of ours to show that tho exertions of tho principal performer to depict the various phases of character , of which tho abovo wollrecoived " argument" demands the development , were well appreciated . In tho sterner passages of Lady iMacboth , Mrflf Kean was all that could bo desired > and in the sleep-walking scene she contrived to east such ft spell upon the audience , that their utter etillneoo during that celebrated passage was a far greater tribute to her merit thun their eubsequont plaudits .
, the more interesting . Mr . Anthony ' s large " Beechtrees in Windsor Forest" ( No . 162 ) occupies one of the centres ; near it are Wallis ' s " Henry Martin in Chepstow Castle , " a " Flemish Fair" of merit by Adolf Dillingi two of Mr . SSant ' s well-known works , a clever Le Poittevin , and a small Skye Terrier , bjr Rosa Bonheur . Mr . Morton has also genuine specimens of Poole * Frith , Danby , Bright , Chas . Pettitt , Shalders , O ' Connor , and a host of other artists of repute . He is bent , we hear , upon making further acquisitions , and has no idea of picture-dealing or jobbing . Our readers will , judge for themselves whether his undertaking is or is not interesting , and worthy of ' public attention for the reason we have indicated . That Me are warmly with the ayes may be inferred from the space we have devoted to this notice of it .
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^ L * . K ^^ ( t . 1858 . 1 THE LEADER . 1191
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 1191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2267/page/15/
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