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Leader (1850-1860), 12th May 1855, Edition 1 of 2, Page 453, Untitled Article

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      S urprised : we question if a better Leonora could be found than Madlle . Nky ; certainly Madame Rezzomni , with her listless air and worn-out voice , was immeasurably inferior . Madlle . Jenny Net disclosed a power and a passion which no one ascribed to her . Her voice , clear , full , and brilliant , revealed a range as well as a quality of the rarest order ; and , in the last act especially , her acting recalled for a moment the . fire , the tenderness , the abandonment of Maubran . Graziani , as the Count de Luna , completely won the ears and hearts of the public by his delivery of the air in the second act , "II balen del suo sorriso , " admirably fitted to the richest notes m his limited but beautiful voice , whose full and manly resonance it is a luxury to hear . It is only in falsetto that it becomes uncertain and weak . Tamberlik , as Manrico , was a vast improvement upon Baucardb , whom we heard at Paris in the part , and who was as dull and heavy in his acting , as he wa 3 spungy and stuffy in his singing . In the last act , in the farewell to Leonora , Tamberlik surpassed himself , and this scene will be talked of like the finale to the third act in the Huguenots in the days of Grisi and Mario . I I Trovatore will be an increasing success , and will enable us to wait patiently for the Etoile du Nord . The house was crowded to the ceiling , and among the audience were Madame Grisi and Signor Mario , looking in the best preservation .

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      FltOM THIS LONDON GAZETTE . Tnosday , May 8 . BANKRUPTS . —Hknry . Toskph Pratt , Now Bond-streot , trunk-makor—Thomas Puiipy , Groat Yarmouth , wine merchant—Erasmus Symondh , Great Boll-alloy . Moorgatoatroot , merohant-Josurn Wiiitemc y Hiioai > itbai > , Groon Owlora . Yorkshire , woollen manufacturer—David l ' osrnu , Goolo . Yorkshire , ironmonger—John BnAPnonv . Shofllold , Joiner-HHNKYl ' UBDBniOK Nkwhjx ,. Bradford . Yorkshire , linondrapor—Thomas SrunniEii . Wa sail , maltster—John

      le-M * v > rs , Lancashire , corn merchant—Thomas Thompson , Sunderland , bookseller . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION . —R . Leckie , Pollokshaws , Renfrewshire , wright . Firiday , Hay 11 . BANKRUPTS . —Patrick Fens , Camden-town , linendraper— Geokge Bell , Holland-street , Brixton , tailor—¦ John George Cx-ans , Liverpool , merchant and shipowner —James DALTOif , Newton Heath , near Manchester , emery grinder — Charles Oondeon , Macclesfield , silk manufacturer— Jons' Lofts , Strand , printer and publisher—Thomas Grist , Salisbury , clothier and woollen draper—Morgan Evans , Aberdare , Glamorganshire , grocer—David Davies , jun ., Neath . Glamorganshire , railway contractor"William : Powell , York , linondraper — John Aeeradt Hagestadt , Kingston-upon-Hull , " licensed victualler — Robert Thomas and James Innes , Manchester , drysalters Charles Greene , Charrington-street ., St . Pancras , stationer—Edwin Stanley Brookes , Loughborough , hosier—William Jackson , late of Dewsbury , Yorkshire , woollen cloth manufacturer — John Ritching-, Clayton , Bradford , grocer—Alexander John Heath , Gloucester , boot and shoe maker—John Brooks , Weston-super-Mare , Somersetshire , wine and spirit merchant—William Jefferson and Thomas Dixon , Jarrow , Durham , alkali manufacturers — William Cockell , Battersea , licensed victualler — John Elsdon , Church-row , Limehouse , shipowner SCOTCn SEQUESTRATION . — Donald Fraser . juii ., Inverness , ironmonger .

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      CORN MARKET . Mark Lane , Friday Evening , May 11 , 1855 . The arrivals of English and Foreign Wheat during the week have been moderate , but the weather having become milder and some rain having fallen , there is less activity in the trade . Holders , however , are firm , and prices remain unchanged . The supply of Barley and Oats is short , and prices have been well maintained . Some quantity oi Oats feffc over from recent arrivals mot a freo sale at a trifle under Monday ' s rates ; to-day tho sale is slower , and prices are Gd under those of last Monday , and we cannot ropoit any alteration in tho value of Beans or Peas . Tho arrivals off tho coast are fow . Saidi Wheat has been sold at 49 s . and Bohoira at 47 s . Saidi Beans at 35 s ., buyers at 34 s .

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      MR . ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS . Mr . Alfred Mbllon ' s second Grand Orchestral Union Concert at St . Martin '* Hall , on Thursday last , was even more crowded than the first . We heartily concuJ with the excellent critic of the Times , who says that " the orchestra of fifty performers , which Mr . Alfred Mellon directs so well , is likely to become a topic of conversation in all circles where music is discussed . The praise bestowed upon its recent performance of the Pastoral Symphony of Beethoven was fully justified by that of Mendelssohn in A minor ( the ' Scottish' ) , a composition of great difficulty and of a totally different character . The execution of this noble and imaginative work was worthy of any band that could be named , and made an impression upon the audience which must hav . e been gratifying to all who feel any interest about the prospects of good music in this country . The burst of applause at the conclusion was a startling contrast to the breathless silence that prevailed during the entire progress of thy symphony . The overtures were Der Freischutz—which was encored with acclamations , La Gazza Ladra , and Le Domino Noir , two delightful specimens of the Italian and French schools of operatic prelude . The orchestral pieces , indeed , could scarcely have been selected more judiciously . " . The reappearance of Signor Bottesini , the renowned double-bass , after three years' absence , was , however , the event of the evening . Signor BoTTESiNr , says the critic whom we have quoted , " plays even better than before . " When you hear that colossal instrument under those weird fingers , warbling like a flute , like a bird , like a woman ' s voice , you can scarcely believe that the colossal barbiton is not a familiar spirit .

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      HAYMABKET THEATRE . Man ? of our readers will remember Madlle . Rachel ' s exquisite performance of La Tisbe , in Victor Hugo ' s drama of Angelo . Mr . Buckstone has produced a version by his own hand of this drama , with a slight alteration or two , for the sake of rendering the situations more " proper" for a highly moral British public , such as killing off the tyrant husband , so as to leave a clear stage and no favour for the lovers . In other respects the translation is very faithful , and often felicitously renders the grace , the spirit , and the point of the original . Miss Cushman ' s version of La Tisbe is a very different one from Rachel ' s ; and

      without instituting comparisons , let us say that the American tragedienne make up for fascination by force , and for coquetry and passion by tragic purpose an intensity . It i £ a very striking" and effective performance , broad and strong rather than delicate and subtle , but always full of intention and intelligence Miss Reynolds , as Catarina ( poor Rebecca Felix played this part with hei sister ) , was exquisitety" dressed . The play is well put on the stage .

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      Mat 12 , 1856 . 1 THE XEABER . 453

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . COLE . —May 5 , at No . 10 , Queen ' s-terrace , Bayswater , the wife of George Cole , Esq ., F . R . C . S ., Assistant-Surgeon , Bengal Medical Establishment : a son . CRACROFT . —Mny 6 , at No . 2 , Upton Villas , Baling , tho wife of Major H . Cracroft : a daughter . PETRE . —May 9 , at Colby House , Kensington , the Hon . Mrs . Charles E . Petre : a daughter . MARRIAGES . BETHELL—OHAPLIN . —May 9 , at St . James ' s Church , Westbourno-terracc , Slingsby , second son of Sir Richard Bethell , Her Majesty ' s Solicitor-General , to Caroline , daughter of William James Chaplin . ; Esq ., M . P ., of 2 , Hvde-park Gardens . RICHARDSON—RADCLIFFE . —May 8 , at St . Mark ' s , Surbiton , Rowley W . C Richardson , Esq ., of the Admiralty , and of Borrylands . Surbiton-hill , sou of Captain William Richardson , R . N ., to Sarah Emma , older daughter of Captain Wm . Radcliffo , R . N ., of that place . VERNON—BOILEAU . —May 8 , at St . GeorRo ' s , Ilanovorsquaro , tho Hon . William J . Version , second son of Lord Vornon , to Mi =. s Agnes Lucy Boiloau , third daughter of Sir John and Lady ' Catherine Boileau . DEATHS . GAVIN . —April 21 , at Balaklava , aged thirty-nine , Dr . Hector Gavin , F . R . C . S . Ed . HALL . —May 5 , at 13 , Tavistock-torraco , Upper llolloway , John Edward Hall , Esq ., aged eighty-nine , only surviving son of the late John Hall , Esq .. historical engraver to his late Majesty King George tho Third . INGLIS . —May f > , at his residence in Bedford-square , tho ¦ Right Hon . Sir Robert Harry Inglis , Bart ., aged sixtynino . MEROIER . — May 7 , at his residence , 25 , Konsington-parkgardens , of oouto inflammation of tho lungs , Francis Morcier , Esq ., F . A . S ., F . G . S ., of tho Stock Exchange , and late of Lordship Lodge , Tottenham , formerly of tho H . E . I . O . S ., aged flfty-nino . STRAOHEY . — May 5 . at 18 , Upper Montaguo-strcot , Roar-Adniiral Christopher Straohoy , Knight of St . Vladimir of Russia , aged sovonty-sovon . VIVIAN . —May B , at Niton , Isle of Wight , tho Hon . Mrs . J . C . W . Vivian , aged thirty-six .

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      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , May 11 , 1855 . Tub Funds aro still rather doprossod . Thin laat settling has wrecked two tolorably largo speculators in tho Stock Exohango ; it is understood that they have gone for a considerable amount , and as they woro sturdy Bulls , it has made an improsaion on tho funds . Turkish Scrip acorns to bo

      recovering in public estimation ; whispers of a guarantee by the French and English Governments for the payment of the half-yearly interest , and a conversion of the stock into another form , are the causes . There is little doing in the share market , or in the way of mines , &c . A good many purchases in Great Western of Canada Railway shares and debentures , also in East Indian lines—more particularly Bombay and Baroda—have been made during tho week . Foreign shares are all very quiet as regards railways . Considerable interest is afloat as to Lord Ellenborough ' s and Mr . Layard ' s several motions next week , and the result . Mb . appeal to the country , should the Premier resort to it , will flatten the funds considerably ; and as this is a very short account , and the next account proportionally long , there will be margin for three or four per cent ., rise or fall . Mines are greatly neglected ; nothing but bona fide dividend-paying mines will do for the public now ; they have found out , and are sick of , the innumerable shams hitherto foisted upon them . Peninsula , Pontgibeaud , Waller Gold , &c , all promise immense success and a dividend . Wo shall see . Until then , perhaps , tho public may be allowed to be a little sceptical . . ..

      ____ _ _ Consols opened this moruing at 88 ! , 8 S 5 ; Turkish at 74 ; and close , four o ' clock , Consols at 8 S | , 8 SJ ; Turkish at 741 , 75 . Caledonians , 59 ? , 60 J ; Eastern Counties , llj , llg ; Great Northern , 89 £ , 904 ; ditto , A stock , 74 , 76 ; ditto , B sto k , 123 , 125 ; Great Western , 04 , 64 S ; Lancaster and Carlisle , 65 , 70 ; Leeds , 76 i , 76 f ; Brightons , 99 , 99 ; Birmingham , 9 . \ 984 ; South Westerns , 80 , 81 ; Midlands , 69 , 69 J ; Berwicks , 71 , 72 ; Yorks , 47 , 43 ; Oxfords , 26 , 28 ; South Eastern , 59 $ . 60 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 78 , 71 ; Eastern of France , 35 , 85 $ : East Indian , 4 , 4 > h pm . ; Extension , 2 g , 2 i pm . ; Bombay and Baroda , i , f pm . ; Great Western of Canada , 19 J , 202 ; ditto Bonds , payable in 1857 , 99 , 101 ; ditto , 1862 , 102 , 104 ; ditto . 1876 , 104 , 106 ; Lyons . 24 $ , 25 A pun . ; Orleans , 45 , 47 ; Rouen , 39 , 41 ; Northern of France , 34 s , 854 ; Western of France , 5 , 6 pm . ; Australian Agricultural , 28 , 30 ; General Screw , 14 , 144 ; North British Australasian , * , 1 ; Scottish Australia , 1 J , l ' £ ; South-Australian Land , 36 , 38 ; Australasian Bank , 80 82 : London Chartered Bank of Australia , 20 , 21 ; Crystal Valace , 3 i , 3 S .

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      street . Being asked by Mr . Ballantine , the prisoner a counsel , if he could take his oath that the prisoner was the man , he replied , with some agitation , " Between myself and ray conscience , it tells me he is the man . " Upon being further pressed , he said , after a pause , " Between God and man , he is . " Mr . Ballantine still insisted upon his pledging his oath ; ufcon which , the witness said , " I pledge my oath on hia face and person . On my fair faith and belief , he is the man . " Still , Mr . Ballantine demanded a more direct answer ; and , after considerable hesitation , Coolie said he had " every reason to believe" he was tho man . Mr . Ballantine said he was ready to prove by numerous witnesses tho utter impossibility of the prisoner being in Mr . Russell ' s yard at the time : but ho was remanded , and bail was refused .

      A Drunken Militia Man , at Brighton , literally impaled his head and neck , last Sunday morning , on some iron railings in front of a houso . He was roughly pulled away by a labourer who came to his assistance , and screamed horribly ; but ho is going on well . Dk . Vkuon . —By a recent official paragraph in tho Moniteur , wo find that Dr . Vo " ron , the celebrated bourgeois de Paris , is authorised to bear on his breast no loss than six foreign orders of tho highest distinction .

      rapidity , " seeming to hop , as it were , over the intervening spaces . The prisoner had been in Mr . Russell ' s employ as a shipwright , but left about three weeks previous to the fire , owing to a strike among the shipwrights . Mr . Dixon , superintendent , corroborated this testimony , and said that about twenty-five minutes past eight he had been over the vessel , and there -was then no appearance of fire . There had been a clearance of chips and shavings that very evening . The next witness was John Coolie , an elderly man , and a shipwright in Mr . Russell ' s yard . lie deposed tliat on going into the yard on tho alarm of fire , he saw a man coming from the bows of the battery , who was running hastily , and who escaped over a kiln and an adjoining shed into the

      whole of the buildings and machinery - ment escaped without injury , and continue uninterruptedly at work . "—There seems to be a strong probability that the fire was incendiary ; and , indeed , a man is now in custody on that charge . The prisoner , Layton Edward Hopper , was examined on Wednesday , before Mr . Ingham , at the Thames Police-court , when Mr . Campbell , cashier to Mr . Russell , described the appearance of the fire when he first saw it . It was then running along the sides of the vessel , as if some inflammable matter had been spread on the timbers ; and the flames were communicated from one prop to another with great

      of the establish The late Fire at Mill wall . —Mr . J . Scott Russell , in whose dockyard the recent fire took place , has published the folio-wing statements with respect to the results of that calamity : — " No ship was burnt on that occasion , except the steam-battery ; but that was hopelessly destroyed . Two ships on each side of the battery were injured , but only slightly , so that the injuries of one will probably be remedied in a week , and the other in a fortnight . All the other ships in the building yard escaped without the slightest injury , including the great ship of the Eastern Steam Navigation Company . The

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      FOREIGN FUNDS . Last Omou . ^ T . oK g ^ o y Wm i * a Brazilian Bonds .......... 05 Russian Bonds , 8 per rEfpH ? -::: sSSfSws ra ! h , r I midH SpanishCommittooCorfc . Ecuador JJ 0 I 1 UH ...... nfnnun nnt full \ "SF ^ : sSSHSe * •• kSSw ' S :: ::: gSaac&SSSaa- , SS

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      END BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . ) Sat . Won . Tues . Wed . Thur . Frid 1 } nnk Stock 209 209 209 ! 211 I ...... 20 i > 3 per Cent . Rod 88 & 80 } 87 S 874 | ««< * tf 3 porCont . Con . An . 88 fl 88 J 884 88 | ' 81 i 88 | Consols for Account 89 J 883 88 « 88 S 88 ? 881 3 i per Cent . An , ' < New 2 i per Cents 78 ...... ' . •¦•••• Long Ans . 1800 31 31 31 fit 3 S India Stock I 231 ! 230 230 2 . J 0 J Ditto Bonds , . £ 1000 I 17 | •••¦•¦ | }* ¦ , ¦¦¦ Ditto , under jf 1000 13 17 ** h Ex . Bills , . £ 1000 8 5 6 , 8 8 Ditto , . £ 500 ' 7 B 0 •••••¦ , ™ , : Ditto Small ! 7 __ JJL __ JL __ JL _ 9 12—

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 12, 1855, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2090/page/21/