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      Drury-Lane, He Cannot; Now Bo Given Up. ...

      ^ jUEC dBaI *'' ^^^^ w _ . . - i . . — ¦ fnVhion - " a theme not Avithbiit capabilities , which she lias ' deli vcred with some success at the Pavilion Kooms , Brighton . . ¦ . , ' ¦ . Tetters from Paris say that a tremendous amateur vocal society , G , 000 strong called the << Orpheojxs » or Children of Urpheus , " has descended from the nrovinecs upon the French capital , Our ICxeter HpII C ' rrsfal Palace , and Yorkshire choruses must look ' to their laurels indeed . If volume of sound be fastheir bills , it must . be confessed , too often seem to savi the -great tiling to aim at , our neighbours have snnitMT ahead of us Indeed . Thrice has this vocal stonu threatened the stability of the " Palais de l'Industrio , " in the Champs Elysoes—on one occasion for the benefit of the poor .

      On Tuesday night , Mr . T . Mason Jones , to whose oration ou " Cumin and his Contemporaries " we referred in our last impression , took " Grattan" for his text and i ' or two hours much interested a very large and well-composed auditory . —The PolygrnphicI lull , best known as the seat of Mr . Woodin ' s entertainment , is now occupied by a troop of female Creole melodists . "We are iri-no position to-speak of their attractions , or talents , arid coniine ourselves , therefore , to -the announcement of the fact , for the benefit < tf amateurs of this school of minstrelsy . —Mr . James

      Bennett , an actor well known in the provinces and in . the United States of America , has been perform-In" - during the last week in " Othello" and the " Lady of Lyons , " at the I . ycenm Theatre . . . The main attraction of the company , which is for-the most part urisuited to . the higher drama , is Mrs . Charles Young , the Pauline of Bulwer ' s play .- ^ On ¦ Wednesday-- a" complimentary dinner was given to Mr . lienjainiu Webster by his personal' friends , dramatic patrons , and literary connexions . The toast of Mr . Webster ' s health , and the prosperity of

      of the Commemorative choir ; and there is no doubt but that thousands of applications to take part in the performances will have to be rejected . The " Messiah ¦ * ' and " Israel" oratorios will be given entire on two separate days , and on the third there will be a selection from others . Vouchers for tickets may be now applied for , at Exeter Hall , or at the Palace , Syderiham ; and these will be exchangeable ' for admission tickets , on and after the 28 th of April . It may be as well to observe that the issue of single tickets will follow the order of application , but that the allotment of " sets " of tickets ! will be attended to first of all . The chorus is expected to number four thousand . The great orchestra is being enlarged for its accommodation , and : for the better concentration of sound will be entirely bucked , as well as covered by a wooden roof , extending farther forward than the line of tlie conductor ' s seat .

      At last Saturday ' s Winter Concert , Madame Anna Bishop was the star . She was very well received . Among other airs , she sang " Oft in the stilly night" with intense feeling , and on the inevitable encore , substituted" I ' m waiting for thee , Katty Darling . " Mr . Poussard ; a French Violinist , maybe looked on as a valuable addition to . the company ' s fine band . "We are well pleased to observe -that at the concert of to-day , the magnificent opera of " ITtlelio" will be given entire . This graceful homage to the memory of the immortal of his death

      Beethoven , paid on the anniversary , will doubtless stimulate the many German artists engaged—not to say our own compatriots—to a w ' orthy -performapce of a work so highly appreciated by intelligent amateurs , yet so seldom , owing to its difficulties , heard to advantage here . We always admire Madame llurtersdorrFs Leonora . Mr . Weiss we have not had the advantage of hearing in livccc ; but if he be sufficient in volume , lie has , we know , the other requisites for a concert-room representation of the part .

      his new theatre , which last desideratum , by tne . way , the public have taken in hand to secure for their old favourite , wcra very warmly responded to , and several very fair speeches were made during the course of the evening . Madame Kistori is in Paris , and , asseconda Jonnda requisite her ' pieces , have hitherto been weak inhas secured Madame Santoni , an Italian actress ot

      real emmencc .. At the Adelaide Koonis , Lowther Arcade , the morning performances of a Miss Margaret Cooper ' s " Skits and Sketches , Past and Present , " are creating a minor sensation . The " aspiranteis aided by JNIr . J : B . Dale , whose imitations , of actors are highly

      amusing . . The trade in counterfeit pictures has received a check in the right place , namely , at the source . The Bulletin tells us that a prolific manufacturer of pictures of the " Diisseldorf" school , has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment , three years ' suspension of civil rights , and a fine of 100 thalcrs . The programme of next Monday ' s Popular Concert is identical with that of the last , consisting entirely . of ilccthovcn ' s music . Those-. who -v \; ould hear this muster ' s works aright , will thank us for recommending the interpreters selected by the managers of these concerts . The " Sonata Putliotjque—acknowledged to be Beethoven ' s pianoforte hands

      chef d ' ecuvre—could not be m more capable than those of our gifted countrywoman , Arabella Ooddard , and her last performance of it was in her own best stj'le . Three paintings have recently been added to the National Portrait Gallery , 29 , Great George-street , . S . W . King James the First ( artist doubtful ) , upsue , thoughtful-looking child , in trunks and jorkiri , with a hawk on his list . Mary Sidney , Countess of Pembroke , a superb portrait of an elderly person , iii an elaborato laced velvet robe , over a crimson and black brocaded petticoat . The hitter , the muslin

      rinT , and-the lace cap and gruuntlcts , arc exquisitely imitated . The painter is unknown , but the oxeoution . reminds one of the debauched artist of Henry the Eighth ' s tii . , who , having spent in drink the jnoney allowed him for a suit , of damask , pain toll so satisfactory a surcoat of pupcr tluit ho passed muster very well in a procession ' . ¦ Tho very lust acquisition by the collection is a portrait of ]) r , JNntlmiiiel Hooke , tho historian of . liome , presented during . Iho present week ' by Lord Boston . The days ou which alone tho public nre admitted to view the gallery arc Wednesdays ami Saturdays . On Thursday Mr . Jj ' nleoner produces his now jiluy of Fraweica ; the scene of which is luid in Von loo , in tho seventeenth ticntuvy . It is said to bo founded on a story which appeared many years since , CHYSTAT . I'AI . ACK . Q uit plonauruMo recollections ? of tho Crystal Pulaca Handel mooting of lbS 7 , wliich was , independently of its ' illusion ) ({ lories , the most splondicl gathering show of British ladies nnd gentlemen It lifts over boori our fortune to witness , nro being from , day to day revived by the advertised program mo of the festival , which tho' Sncrod Harmonic Society are about to hold there , Mr . Coat ft is already at work drilling tbo motrcpjlitun division

      No 470, March 26, 1859j T H E X E A D El...

      No 470 , March 26 , 1859 J T H E X E A D EL _ £ _______ _;__ _ , ¦¦ __ . __ . : . : ; 4 O ^

      Facts And Scbaps.. . •——->

      FACTS AND SCBAPS . . . - >

      3fessrs. Pcrrotm And Boiteau Have Alread...

      3 fessrs . Pcrrotm and Boiteau have already collected 2 , 200 of Beranger ' s letters for their projected publication of the poet ' s correspondence . The Gazette Musicale of this week announces that a Str . iduarius violin has . lately changed hands at Paris , for the sum of IS . OOOf . ( 600 A ) The anniversary ' festival of tlio Royal General Theatrical JFund . will be held on the 18 th of next month , Mr . Charles Mat hews in the chair . A Turin letter , dated Wednesday , says :: — " Garibaldi is here , and may bo seen walking-about in an eccentric hat and semi-military surtout . " The Lyons Knilway has incurred ^ reat . odium by refusing to convey Sardinian recruits at reduced fares . ¦ . to her

      The EaTl of Carlisle laid the foundation o f a very large church , to be built in the : early . English , style , " at Welburn , near Malton , Yorkshire , on Monday . The earl is the chief donor . Dr . Hook was installed in the Deanery of Chichester Cathedral oii Saturday last . On Sunday the very Rev . Dean preached in the cathedral before an immense congregation . On the anniversary of the birthday of-. the Prince Imperial of France , their Majesties gave a sum of 100 f . to each child born on the same day , arid whose position may render such gift needful . Sir Charles Xouiige , and his . assistants * have placed in St . George ' s Chapel , over the stall of his Koyal Highness , the Prince of "Wales ,, as Knight of the Garter , the banner and insignia of that order .

      Mr . " Joseph AVyo : n , a very promising young medallist , asvell aj the son and grandson of excellent engra vers , has received the appointment of chief engraver of her Majesty ' s-seals . 'Mile . " Marie de la Roch-ejacqueleln , daughter-of the marquis and senator , took the veil three days ago in the Convent clcs Oiseaux . The J 3 ishop of Poitiers officiated . The rectory , of Petwortli , Sussox , ' has become vacant by the death of the Jlev . Thomas Sockett , M . A .. The benefice , which is worth nearly i , QOOf . a year , is in the gift of Colonel Wyndhfun , M . P . " Mrs . Asshetcm Smith 1 ms given . directions for a church' to be erected ' at Ted worth , in memory of her lute-lamented hiisband . It is to be built , of ; stone from ' - the Tisbury quarries , and to be completed in November : ¦

      The municipal council of Marseilles , which a few months aao voted 400 , 000 f . towaf . ls the completion of the * ' i ^ glise de Ketbr mos , " has just voted a sum of . 4 ^ -5 , G 90 l * . for finishing ' the ne \ y church of St . Michael . The Prince de Liane has been nppdinted-president , and CountL ,. " tie Beauffort sseretary , of . receiitlv constituted Commission of-the Museum at Brussels . The Commission has . already entcreil on the discharge of its duties ; The negro market is . lively in Georgia ; good slaves "in demand , " prices'extraordinarily , high . The Savannah Iivpublicim says that at a s : i ! e in that city last week , " prime young men " brought 1 , 250 ' dol 3 . to 1 , 35 . 0 dols . apiece ; a family of . six was sold for 0 , 025 d ' ols . . rs wlio Iioi ii in

      Among the passen . ^ o came o . the Matfdalena were some negro soldiers belonging to JJriiis'li West India regiments , wlio have been sent to England to -learn the use of the nt e vr instruments of war . They are dressed like the French Zouaves . Mr . J . D . Fitzgerald , M . P . for Ennis , and late Attorney-General tor Ireland , was burnt in effigy by his late constituents on Monday , the motive being to denounce the right hoir , gentleman for prosecuting the two priests—the Kev , Messrs . Con way and Ryan . Madame Ristori has arrived in Paris . She brings'with her Madame Santoni , one of the bpst actresses in Italy , who -would only consent to play second to the first tragedian in the world , which title — after the death of JKachel—Mauiime llistori may claim without a competitor . .

      A prisoner in Alton Penitentiary ,. U . S ., whq was requested to give up a knito he had in his posscssio . Hj duclined to do so , and the pflicera fearing- to resort to force adopted starvation measures . At the end of ninty-sevoii hours the man was so Aveak that ho was overpowered and the weapon' taken from him . A communication from Vicnnn , in the Nnrembcrtj ' Correspondent , states tlmt . nn envoy is to be shortly sent by tlio Austrian government to London , and that Field M » rs ) ial the Princo »! o Windisch-Rratz is to bo selected to carry an autograph letter 1 ' rom tljct KinpiM-or to Ciuocn Victoria . A letter Jrom Vitonia , in tho Unissols Indcpendnnctt , atutbs that thu death of tho young Princess WinUlsoliHrnU wan caused by mi excessive uao of chloroform , to whiuh iho unl ' ortiuuito lady wlwlo sufluring ncutoly from nervous liciuluuho h . ad re-1

      course . Du . vriia . —The Karl of 3 ) ovon died on Saturday at Whi'ivenlnun , in JJurUwhire , in his 8 ^ ud your , ilia lordship was tho tcntli Karl , und has " boon twice married , liy his -first wifo ho Jiml t )» reo sons ( ol whom tho eldest , the present earl , ' has for some yours , as Lord C » nrtonay , fulllll < kl tho dutlosof Secretary to the X- » oor-law JJoard ) . Tliu Into e . u-l wna called to tho burin 170 ' . ) , and wn « * '<» ' ««• oll ( > ™ ° ^ l , Olmncory . —llichnrJ I ' roudorgiiHr , bsq , Q . y ., JU « SO of the City tihovltW Court , dlpd on . aunday . Iho loarn od ¦ oontlonwn was for many yours llucovder of Norwich . Ho AVfta culled to tho bur in November , 1820 . His election ua judge of tho bliorHt " 8 Court took place sonic two years ago . Tho appointment rest * in tho Common Council ; the salary la understood to bo ] , 0 f )()/ . ft year . —Wo reptrot to notice tho death , of Mr . William Alers 'HanHoy , the banker .

      The present of'lier ^ Injesty grandson on his chi-istening , is a splendid and very valuable coral , of the most tasteful style of manufacture . Tine Puke nnd Duchess of Saxe-Cobourg may be expected to reach London in the early part of April , and \ vill be the guests of her Majesty . The Medical Times says : — -Seanzoni , ot ' TVurzbiirg , attended the Kmpross of Kussia in her last confinement , and received for his services 5 , 000 / . A letter from Berlin contradicts the news , which whs not very probablo , of the Count do Paris being about to take service in the Prussian army . The Journul de Saone-at-Loire states that a young lndy , named Martin , who resided at I / Aiglo (() rnc ) , lately died , ' bequeathing by will to M . do Laninrtine n , farm , nnd a house in tho town .

      A brother of JYIadnwu Histpri is about to start for Piedmont to enlist in Garibaldi ' s brigade , A son of Tnnihurini has already left Paris to take sorvice in tho ynnlinum nriny . Vt o loarn tluU tho Jtiylit lion . W . K . Gliulstono , Ar . P ., will take the chair at- the anniversary dinner of tho Hoyul Wtcrary lTund , iixed for Wednesday , tho 18 th of Muy . INIr . Uonnctt , tho respected proprietor of tho Salisbury Journal , was found dead in his bed on Wednesday . llo is suppyae to have died from an ufil'otioh ot" tlio heart . The American papers avnnouiico a lust reading by Mrs . Funny Kcmhlo previous' to her retirement from public ' l , Uu . This luily is expected to arrive in JKnglund before tho nutunin ,

      AVo umlerritand that tho Earl of Shruwabury and Tnlbot has conauntod to prosldo at thu forthcoming ttniilvorsnry dinner of tho Printers' I ' onsion Society . According to n loiter in n Turin joumiil , tlic prohibition of tho export of horsos is so strictly onforooil that a company of circus riders , which was about cross into Piedmont , to glvo performances at one of tho Turin thoatroa , hua been dotninotl until it can bo nscertninod from Vlonnu M'hothor Its egress is to bo pcrmJttod I

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), March 26, 1859, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26031859/page/23/