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      The Operas. Maih.I.E. Piccoi-Omini Essay...

      we remember in Konconi , sings the music admirably ; and Vialktti , in the small part of Bidebent , has proved his value as a sound and effective 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 Alboni as Rosina , and the elegant German te nor Reichakdt , who has won golden opinions in Paris this last winter , as Almaviva . We hope we shall have the Figlia del Reggimento again for Madlle . Piccolobhni . The Trovatore , supported by Alboni , Spkzia , GiboLiNr , and Vialetti , is in preparation , and great exertions are being made for the production of Bon 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 very strong cast . Madame Bosio will be the Violetta .

      4,52 The Leader. [No. 372, Saturday,

      4 , 52 THE LEADER . [ No . 372 , Saturday ,

      At The Second Performance Of The Musical...

      At the second performance of the Musical Union on Tuesday , Madame Clara Schumann appeared for the first time this season , and played from memory the Sonata Appassionata 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 .

      The Designs For The New Government Offic...

      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 projects . 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 . 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 doubt of an unprofessional character , it would be that there is' generally an excess of small ornament . Some of the facades bristle with minute detail 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 . Rusblin going mad arnonsthese architectural suggestions of the infidel and immoral nineteenth centurv 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—namel y , 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 beauty and enduring freshness .

      Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. C...

      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 Inglis Cowan : a daughter . . HARVEY . —At Bracondalo , the Lady Henrietta Harvey : a PRITCHARD . — At Bristol , tho wife of Commander Pritchard , R . N ., H . M . S . Insolent : a daughter . MARRIAGES . 13 OWEN—STANDLY- —At Nowton , Suffolk , James Bovan Bowen , Esq .. of Llwyngwair , Pembrokeshire , to Hariotto , daughter of the late Rev . J . Standly , of Southoo , Hunts . BYRNE—FRANKLAND . —In St . George ' s , Westminsterroad , James Byrne . Esq ., M . R . C . S . E ., to Lucy , daughter of tho late Thomas Frankland , Esq ., of Georgetown , Deincrara . DEATHS . BAYFIELD . — Alfred D . Bayfleld , Esq ., of Doans ' -courfc , Doctor ' s Commons , in his 10 th . year . BULL . — At Bourno , Lincolnshire , William David Bell , lDfiq ., in his OOth year . 1 MILD MAY . — On Thursday , at her residence 111 Bolgravia , , in her ninety-third year , Lady Mildmay . I

      From The London Gazette. I Tuesday, May ...

      FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . i Tuesday , May 5 . I BANKRUPTCY ; ANNULLED . —Samuel Danford . Batlorfloa-flolda , and George-yard , Lombard-street ' , City , money aorivener . BANKRUPTS . — TnoMAH Habribon . Harrictsham and Maids tone , coal and timber merchant—Thomas Ward , 4 , Bow-ohuronyard , City , stock manufacturer — Thomas Vkbpbriok Theed , \ Winchester-street , Waterloo-town , surgeon , chemist , and drugBist—Henry Batebon , 2 , Hoddon-placo , Watorloo-road , apothecary—JonN Fioo , Down-Ing-atroot , Farnham , Surrey , boot and shoo maker and leather bo hot-Lucy Oakley , Walsall , Staffordshire , draper and tailor—William Sheldon Witubrb , Mansflokt , Notts , m nv 7 nM « vnfi B in y iNewport Monmouthshire , brewer —David Meyriok . Buto-atrcot , Cardiff , Glamorganshire boot and Bhoq maker- KxioiuWman QuavX Halifax grocor-EHENEZBn Brooks . SUoinold ; Hnr ( ng-knffe > manufaaturor-WiLMAM . Swxnton Lauiuh , Liverpool and Now York , merchant—William William Joneb Port ' mwinn Carnarvonshire , shipbuilder-Qbok & ii ^ kii ^ S ^ k . cabinet-maker-Jamkb Wallwokk . . Chorloy , Lancashire cotton aplnnor ana manufacturer— A-Ndkiibon Stoker ( not Anderson STOicon . aa stated on tho X 7 th ult . ) , Flndon-hlU Durham , procor and flour dealer . " " IUOU *""• SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . - David Stewart Dundee , contractor and shipowner—Thomaq Walsh Hn nioston-stroot , Glasgow , wlno , spirit , and provision'

      mori chant and grocer—James Rctheeeord , CricfF , gala-cloth ! and 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 inason—Thomas Stutely , Shecrncss , builder , & c—James Summers , Mutton Garden , wholesale jeweller — William Geohoe Brown , Highstreet , Dartford , Kent , clothier and outfitter — Robert James Norton , Fleet-street , outfitter— Thomas Riley Ebswobtu , of No . CO , Wapping-wall , and of No . 2 , Forest ; Villa , Forest-hill , Sydenham , alo and boor merchant , dealer i and chapman . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION'S . — James Hamilton , Stonehouso , Lanarkshire , general merchant and bakeri Patrick Alexander Falconer , Glasgow , clothier , & c . — 1 JonN Fitzroy Young , St . Juinos ' s-squaro , Edinburgh—I Andrew Bremnjiu , formerly writer in Edinburgh — Roderick Chisholm , Inverness , tea merchant—James Macjpherson and Company , Leitli , plumbers , brassfounders and gasllttcra . I I |

      A Conversazione Was Held On Wednesday Ev...

      A Conversazione was held on Wednesday evening at the house of the Society 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 . Buskin 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. Wright And Mr. Pau...

      THEATRICAL NOTES . Mk . Wright and Mr . Paul Bedford have been creating much merriment among the frequenters of the Auelphi 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 fogginess with 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 of 1 ! Affaire de la Rue de Lourcine , recently produced in Paris .

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      —+— London, Friday Evening, May 8,1857. ...

      — + — London , Friday Evening , May 8 , 1857 . Since tho settlement of tho share account at tho end of last week , there has been so manifest an improvement In the Funds , that sanguine speculators predicted their price in Juno would bo i > 5 . ,.,.,, Yesterday , and oven tho day before , first alight , then heavy , and finally very heavy huIch , showed that there was something amiss . . Tho Bank directors at their weekly meeting had determined to stop all loans on stock by refusing to renew loans on such advaucos . There may bo somo reason for this , but surely tho time was ill chosen . Tho day of tho settlement of tho Consols account , and tho foreknowledge that certain brokers and others connected with tho Bank displayed by placing stocks to a heavy amount , guvo great scandal to tho Stock Exchango dealers , who havo more than once contended against tho very illegitimate uao made by tho Bank brokers and tholr friends of tho knowledge which their position given thorn of act Ing upon tlio market . Tho first announcement of this moaauro caused a panic , Consols falling nearly $ per cent . But so soon as iikiii began coolly to estimate tho effect of tho now improved stringency , tho funds slowly recovered , and il unity loft oil'at 034 to 1 > 3 J t Or MMinnt , niirl t . n . ilnv Iulvh IoikiIumI Oti .

      | The other securities in foreign and home shares partook of the fall , and even to-day the heavy market evinces sigus of a fall . Great speculators have sold largely . . There has been a violent agitation during tho week mine Grand Trunk of Canada Railway shares , and a tall or some magnitude has resulted . Tho debate now going on m the Canadian House of Assembly as to the aid to be nyiuslieu this national undertaking , is tho influence , no doubt , iliac disturbs tho market j and sales have boon pressed cuougu to drive the shares to Hit . per share , or Gti . per 100 / . stock . French and Belgium lines are ( irmly supported . £ . ast Indian railway shares of every description arc in di-jnantt . Eastern Counties rule tho same . Bcrwicks and Yorks arc ' A ' g ' r ' cat demand for Caledonians shows that tho aminKenicnt hinted at somo time back will bo curried out , niidtlieso shares possibly go to -10 / . per share . Mine shares havo been more fieoly dealt in this week . Groat Whoal Alfred mid Wheal Voraro in demand . Tho new undertakings do not take with tho public at all . Money is in domain } at / per cent , in the Stock Exchange . Tho Hue weather that is > iomining and an easier money market must tend to llgiuon matters before next settling . , At four o ' clock this day prices close as foI ' ° ; » pP . ^ for money , u : j g , 5 ; Consols for June account . Oil , {; 1 »| »' Six per Cent ., U 3 J , itli ; Turkish Four per Cent ., 0 , 1001 , Russian Five per Cent ., 101 , 102 ; Chilian , 102 , HMi Dutili Two-and-a-Half per Cent , 054 . ,,,, ninh-Blackburn , HJ , i ); Caledonian , 70 j . 7 U ; Chester ami H < IJ . Load , 34 , 35 ; Kastorn Counties lift , 111 ; Grout Wlw ; 117 , U 8 j Groat Southern and Western ( helamb 02 , j * . Great Western , ( J ( JA , 07 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire . U 102 ; London and Blackwall , 01 , Gi ; Lol ! lv i « n ios ' and South Coast , 110 . Ill ; London and No .-th-NVo . slo . i « j , 10 G 4 ; London and South - Western , 101 . 1014 i » ""?"" , ' 8 !!| , 83 ; North-Eastern ( Berwick ) b 0 » . 87 j ; South-ha * or ( l / over ) . 75 i . 7 . "> i ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , / , < i i ''' " •" ItSsh . 1 , 03 diV ; ICaHterii or Franco ( I ' ai-ia ami gi «» hourg ) , i > 2 , .-W 4 : Great Central of Franco , - . f . - '?• . ^ Vis Luxembourg 7 , 71 ; Northern of l- ' ramio , 3 s » 4 . . * ' V , " ., and Lyons , 584 , 5 »; Royal LWsh . 17 . lOx . d . ; Uoy . il fcwodlsl . , 1 , 1 } ; Sambro and Mouse , Hi , 0 .

      C O R N M All K K T. Mark-Lano, Friday, ...

      C O R N M All K K T . Mark-lano , Friday , May 8 , 1857 . Tim arrivals of all kinds of Grain into London « ° » S very moderate , and holders of Wheat gonerally ask W 8 « ratoH , but whioh aro not conceded by b yo . s . *^' , BV 0 more inquiry for Barley , and in somo IiimLii oois i let" " advanced (!(( . The supply of Oats barely equals Mie uo » but they remain without alteration in . «» " * ' - t A omo There have been very fev > arrivals ^ 1 the coast . A car * GnlntH Maiao arrived has boon Hold ut J 8 { i . . ><} - """ " goun of at S 7 s . 0 d ., and one of Ismail at 37 h . "'^ l ,,, , " -m / to HO lbrail on passage at 35 s ., and one of Galatss . 10 * . Continent , all cost , frolght , and insurance .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/20/