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      Iiecokd Of The Week. Home And Colonial,....

      0 n Priday eveniiig , April 20 , a casK-lipx , containing £ 180 in gold tmd some checks arid memoranda , were stolen ; From ; the office at the well-known Horse Repository in Barbican , known as Dixon ' s Repository , but which has for several years belonged to Mr . Gower , There was a large sale of horses during the day , and in the evening during the momentary absence of the clerk the robbery was effected . In addition to the gold ; the cashrbox contained an Irish Bank bill at ien days ' sight for £ 120 , not endorsed . The directors have appoin ted Captain " Vine Hall to the command ¦ of the Great Eastern . Captain Hall has had a large amount of experience in the command of ships of the first class , in the Mediterranean , South America , Australia , and India . In 1857 he was elected a F . R . A . S ., and was the first officer in the merchant service who took a first-class ; certificate in the steam examination under the Mercantile Marine Act .

      An account of the gross public income and expenditure of the United Kingdom lor the year ending March 31 , I 860 , was issued on Monday , which shows a total income of £ 71 , 089 , 668 17 s . 4 d ., and a total expenditure of £ 69 , 502 , 289 4 s . 2 d . ; leaving an excess of income over expenditure in the year of £ 1 , 587 , 379 13 s . 2 d . The condemned Portuguese convict Annois was form ally ; reprieved on Monday , under the authority- of the Home Office . Despatches were sent off last Monday evening to the Governoi's of the West Coast of Africa . . On Monday last , the first stone of the Royal Dramatic College , at Maybury , near the Woking- station of the South-Western railway , was laid by its Master , Mr . Benjamin Webster , assisted by several of the officials connected with the project ; It is worthy of remark that the event occurred on the anniversary of the birth of Shakspeare . : . '¦ ' . .: ¦ '" . ¦ . ¦ .: ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . . London

      On Monday morning the ten o'clock express train from" to Manchester , in entering the Hatfield station , met with a fearful accident , through a portion of the train being thrown .. from the metals , which was attended with fatal results , two persons being killed , and others more or less injured . One of the deceased was a first-class passenger , Leslie Pym , Esq ., a ' -magistrate of Bedford- shii-e ; the other George Yenables , a plate layer . The thirty-sixth anniversary of the Royal Shaksperian Club was held at Stratford-on-Avon , on Monday , to celebrate the birth-day of Shakspeare . The occasion was observed as a general holiday . We understand that the suspension bridge across the Thames at Hunger ford Market will shortly be taken down , for the purpose of constructing upon its site the railway bridge of the new line of railway from London-bridiye to Charing Cross , and that it will , be removed to the piers at Ciiffcon , to complete the unfinished suspension bridge there .

      On Thursday , the 19 th inst ., William George Pullinger , chief cashier of the Union Bank of London , was discovered to have com ? mitted frauds to the amount of £ 2 G 3 , O 70 . He was appointed a cashier of the bank in April ,, 1839 , and was , about five years ago , raised to the situation of chief cashier . His salary was latterly £ 600 per annum . He was given into custody on , the same day that the frauds were discovered . Edward John Lyttleton , another clerk in the Union Bank , was brought before the Lord Mayor on Thursday , charged with stealing the sum of £ 1 , 240 ,. the property of his employers , the chairman and directors of the said bank . The prisoner was remanded for a week . . The deaths in London were 1 , 284 in the . week that ended last Saturday , and exhibited a decrease in the number of the previous week , which was 1 , 407 . Last week the births of 923 boys and 834 girls , in all . 1 , 757 children , were registered in London .

      A brilliant and successful banquet to the gallant , 78 th Highlanders , the heroic avengers of Oawnpore , and the saviours of our Indinn Empire , came off * on Tuesday pveuing lust , in the Coru Exchange , at Edinburgh . The annual meeting of the School of Industry for Female Orphans was held on Wednesday , at the Hanover-square Rooms . The Nerbudda Coal and Iron Company have reeeivied intimation from the Secretary of State for India that instructions have been given to the Government of India to grant them , their lease .

      408 The Leader And Saturday Analyst. [A-...

      408 The Leader and Saturday Analyst . [ A-vmia 28 ^^ 1860 .

      ' Foitkiqn. The Monitew Of April 23 Stat...

      ' FOItKIQN . The Monitew of April 23 states t ^ hat tho town of Chambery is decorated with Hags , and the enthusiasm is general . The same manifestations have taken place ab Antiecy . Tho clergy have "blesued the Fronch flags . , From Vienna the official TFeiner Zeitunq announces that the subscriptions to the now Joan already exceed 76 , 000 , 000 florins . Letler . i from Naples , to the 17 th inst ., state that tho armed bands in Sicily had been disnorscd , and that the remxnan ( is were being . pursued . Tho new Four-and-a-Half per Cant . Roman Loan for 5 O , O 00 , 000 f ., has beoft contracted in Belgium at 90 . It is asserted that tho correspondents of % \\ q JSford aud of the Journal dos D 6 hats have been expelled from the Pnnul States .

      From Barcelona , April 21 , we learn that the Count do JVIontemolin , his brother Feidinawd ,. and a vulet-do-chambro , were arrested at Amposta , near Tortoea . April 22 , the Boyal Mu ' il steamer Arabia , which loft Now York on the 11 th inst ., has arrived at Liverpool . She brings 50 , 000 dollars in spooie , Tlie mujorjity of the committee on tho President's recent Message , protesting against the action of tho House in ordering an invo « tigur tion into the conduct of the Administration , had made a report dissenting 1 from the President ' s views , and . assorting the right of the House to mulco tho contemplated , invostigation . Tho minority of tho

      Committee had also made a report , sustaining the President ' s position . By telegram from Vienna we learn that his Excellency the Minister of Einance , Baron de Bruck , expired , at 5 . 10 p . m . on Monday , 23 rd April . From Paris , April 24 th , we"learn that the result of the voting- in all parts of Savoy , exceeds all expectation . The majority for 1 the annexation is imniense . The intelligence from Turin ^ Tuesday , April 24 th , is that the King of Sardinia , following the friendly advice of France , has for the moment abandoned the idea of taking the title of " King of Italy . " The Court ofj the Tuileries represented that sueli a change of title would only complicate the existing international difficulties , without giving any practical advantage to Piedmont . Prince Czarto . ryski died on Monday , April 23 .

      We learn from liome , Api * il 23 , that , the Marquis de ^ Merode has issued an order of the day , in which he announces his appointment as Minister of War , and says , that he will fulfil his mission of attending to the interests and necessities of the army , with a lively solicitude for the soldiers , whose past fidelity to the Church is a sure guarahtee fur their future conduct . News has . been received from Calcutta that disturbances are reported , to have broken out in . Cabul . From Canton , March 14 th , we learn that the rebel disturbances are increasing throughout China . The state of affairs in Japan has become worse .. The foreign community are living * in great apprehension , two Dutch captains having * been murdered in the streets of Hakodalii , without giving any offence to the Japanese ,, . ,

      A letttr from Constantinople , dated 26 th ult ., states that the Viceroy of Egypt has been attacked by vomiting of blood , and is in a dangerous state . From Naples , Saturday , letters state that thirteen individuals have been shot at Palermo . In Madrid the opinion gains ground that the Princes will be tried by the Senate . The difl ' ei-ent articles of the : treaty of peace have been sanctioned .

      Extentaestmexts. At The Royal Italian Op...

      EXTEnTAESTMEXTS . At the Royal Italian Opera , Co vent Gaedex , one great sensation has been produced during the last few days by the revival of the- " . Fide-lip . " of Beethoven , a work more often sighed for , and now more warinly welcomed by the English connoisseur , than any novelty Mr . Gye could ha » e procured from the pdrtefolios of the modern Italian maestri ; and by the many whom Messrs . Benedict and Chappell at St . James's'Hall , and Mr . Hullah at St . Martin ' s , have trained in the appreciation of Beothoveh , and who have not yet heard tlie •\ Fidelio" in its entirety , an additional gratification , is in store when they' come to hear the Leunbra of the present cast , Madame Csillag . In this gifted singer and yet more gifted actress ,

      Mr . Gye has an acquisition that , to our mind , bids fair to more than compensate for the presence of Mdlle . Titicn's in the rival troupe . The part of Leonora affords scope for the display of the most passionate declamation , the most vigorous gesture , the softest emotions , and the highest proficiency in mere vocalization . In all these respects Madame O-siUag , if not quite on a level with Madame Cruvelli , is still , more than fully adequate to the . impersonation . The part of M ( , ircelliniv is chai'mingly assutned by Mdlle ., Corbari ; Signer Neri-Baraldi , though excellent in Italian opera , is not precisely the JTloreslan of the connoisseur ' s idea . In the best-known and worthily admired sentimental air of tho prison scene , " Delia ,

      Vita in su rAuroi-a , " known in England us " In my manhood s opening flower , " ho could not fail to charm , but for the intensity of the mad' allegro that follows ho has hnrdly sufficient pjiysfyuo . M . Zelger , however , demands notice as the best liocco of our time , not even excepting tho well-remembered Formes himself . That the difficult choruses are given with greater success than in our time on tho English stage , shows n marked progress among native chorivlists , that on tho occasion of former failures in this opera we have erst devoutly sighed for . Tho two overtures , or rather two of the four overtures that Beethoven composed for this opom are superbly played , tho " Fidelio" bol ' oro , and the " Leonora" overture after , the first not .

      Olympic Theathe . —A common-place episode in tho life of a gay lady of the domi-monde lias been skilfully adapted from tho French by Mr . Tom Taylor , for the display of Mrs . Stirling's versatile powern . The trifto . is culled " A Christinas Dinner , " aud the heroine is the celebrated Peg Wojfflngton ( Mrs . Stirling ) , who , with the male hall' of the fashionable world at her feet on every other day of the year , discovers on Christmas-day that ties of home she may not feel , and those of society that « ho aoorns are strong enough to withdraw flatterers and even lovora from her company . In tho relation

      midst of elegant profusion she finds herself friendless , aud - less and desolate . She urgea one after another of her buttorllies to dine with her } but nil decline on tho plea of family engagements . Hor tirewoman , JPat . oJt . ott , a charnotor well represented by - » Irfl ' Emdon , throws wp her place rather than plivy at company | in ? dino with her mistress . A soono and a burst of grief follow this last uiilaudesfc cut , but tears are succeed e d by joy when hor goodnatured old frie » d Will Ifogarth , Mr . H . Wigan , who brings as n Christmas gift the portrait of l ^ or / 'a mother , propose ?) to disguise his old playfellow as a country lass of his ftcqiiiiintunoe , and thus to

      introduce hor to his own modofit family oh'olo . Tho innocent sonemu is arranged ; Mn . Wojfflngton oluuig'es hov splendid robo for a very humble ono , nnd prepares ior an hf ' tornoon ' fl nnppinose } whon , W" " dqnly recolleoting 1 that she might sornohow compromieQ hor gonO "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 28, 1860, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28041860/page/20/