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      saw that he should , judge forliim ; he considered a long while that he had notlriug to give , and he followed liis brother on foot . It happened that oa the way to to- » vn the two brothers hail to go over- a bridge ; and the poor man , thinking that he should not return alive from the judge Shernyaka , threw himself over the bridge , to put an eud to his life ; but just at that instant a young man was driving his sick father to tlie bath-house ; and the poor fellow fell upon the sledge , and crushed the old man . So the son went to the judge to make his cornp laint , that ; the poor brother had killed his father . The rich man came before the judge Shemj-aka , and complained that his brother had pulled off the tail of his horse . The poor man took a stone , and tied it in a ^ ^ *

      handkerchief ; and standing behind his brother , he held it up to the judge , intending to kill him , unless he decided in his favour . Then the judge bethought him that the handkerchief might perhaps be filled with roubles , and he ordered the rich man to give hack the horse to the poor one , -until his tail had grown again . Then the son came , and accused the poor man of having crushed his father to death , and made a formal complaint to the judge . The poor man took up the stone again , and showed it as before to the judge , who fancied that the man would perhaps give him for this charge another hundred roubles . So he ordered the son to station himself on the bridge , and the poor man under it ; and that the son should in like manner leap down upon the poor man and crush him .

      Then came the poor brother to the rich one , to fetch the horse without a tail , according to the judged sentence , and to wait until the tail grenr again . The rich man was v ery loath to give up the horse , arid instead made him a present of live roubles , three bushels of corn , and a milch-gbat , and thus they settled their quarrel . Then the poor man went to the son , and said , " Come , the judge has said that you must place yourself on the bridge , while I stand under it , and you must throw yourself down on me and kill me . " Then the son thought to himself , " "Who knows but that , if I throw myself from the bridge , I may perhaps , instead of falling upon this man , dash myself to pieces 1 " So he tried to make peace with the poor man , and gave him two hundred roubles , a horse , and five bushels of corn . But the judge Shemyaka sent his servant to the poor man , to demand two hundred roubles ' . Then the poor man showed him tlie stone , and said , " If the judge had not decided in my favour , I should have killed him . " So the servant went back to the judge , and told him . what tbe poor man had said ; whereat the judge overjoyed exclaimed , " Heaven he thanked that I decided in this man ' s favour' !"/ Children will travel with- 'delight into this new Kussian realm of Fairy .

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      _ THE HANDEL MUSICAL FESTIVAL . Let-us hear no more of ' monster concerts . ' Monster is but a feeble word to express the stupendous idea which lias been conceived by the Sacred Haxmonic Society , and which they propose to carry into execution next May . The greatest previous effort of the same kind becomes " a very shallow monster" ia the comparison ; nay , we shall expect to hear of some atmospherical disturbances , consequent on _ the tempest of sound which will be hurled forth from the Syden-Atan rlte ^ w 111 e d ei \ ^ f year's merry , but somewhat cold and cloudy , montli . _ "The subject of a" great musical celebration of the centenary of Handel ' s death in 1859 , has abready occupied considerable attention . In order to demonstrate the cap abilities of the Crystal Palace for this purpose , arrangements have been concluded between the Sacred Harmonic Society and the directory of the Crystal Palace Company , for undertaking , in May next , in tlie central transept , a preliminary Grand Handel Festival of Congress , with a carefully selected orchestra of the unprecedented extent of 2300 performers . "

      . Nervous persons are beginning . to ask alarming questions ; as—Are we to have a repetition of the catastrophe before Jericho ? What is likely to be the amount of damage in broken glass ? what in fractured girders ? Will all the bells in London be set vibrating in sympathy with the amazing body of souud ? and is there not reason to fear that the speakers at the May meetings at Exeter ¦ Hale .- will not be able to hear themselves ? Such are the inquiries of the timid - but to the musician and the hover of music the performance will be of the profoundest interest , and it is already anticipated with mingled curiosity and confidence . Some interesting additional particulars ( derived from the published letter of the Society ' s treasurer , Mr . Eobeut Bowley ) are given by the Daily Newt , together with some judicious observations : —

      " It is intended that the orchestra shall consist of 2000 chorus singers , being 5 00 to each of the four vocal parts ; that the instrumental band shall number about 3 OO performers—viz ., 112 violins , 3 G each of violas , violoncellos , and double basses , with quadruple ^ vind instrument s , and .- ' the most powerful organ that can be built for the occasion . ' . : V . . It is certain that the choruses of Handel , with their breadth , simplicity , great masses of sound , and absence of minute or complicated details , admit of much larger choral and orchestral bodies than the more elaborate and intricate harmonies of the modern school ; but to what extent . the scale of their performance may be carried ( for it must have a limit ) can be ascertained only by actual proof . It cannot be doubted that every possible precaution , ia regard to the acoustical properties of the building , the arrangements of the orchestra , the quality of every performer , and the careful discipline of the whole body , will be taken ; and we look forward to a most interesting experiment Avitli every hope of its success . "

      Tlie power of giving utterance to harmony on a vast scale , yet so admirably managed that the result has all the completeness of a smaller performance , has marvellously increased within the last few years ; and the Sydermana building itself has given a great impulse to those stupendous developments of the musician ' s art . Exeter IIaxl , and the other large erections scattered over the kingdom—not to speak of the choral performances in our grand old cathedralshave done much ; but , on the opening of the People ' s Palace in 1 S 54 , an effect such as had never before been heard by mortal ears surged and echoed among those crystal , courts and airy galleries . The success of that attempt maybe regarded as an earnest of the success of the much more stupendous efforts of May , 1857 , and May , 1 S 59 . England , the adopted land of Handel , has the best of llandelian performers ; a society such as the Sacred Harmonic will know how to organize this vast musical army with a view to the total effect ; and with Mr . Costa , for a conductor , the public may be said to have a guarantee for the most perfect result . We may almost imagine that the ghost of the master himself will not be absent from so noble a tribute to his honour—that ho will float on tlie great llux and rellux of modulated sound , and look dowu upon his devotees from the midst of the " pomp ami threatening harmony . "

      It should be added that the season of the Sacred Harmonic Society commences at Exetjj u 'Haul , with IIandei / s Solomon , ou Friday , tlie 28 th inst . "The coming festival imparts additional interest to the performance of Handel ' s Oratorios at the present time .

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      THEATRICAL . AND MUSICAL NOTES . Mr . Thei-ps has made his twenty-ninth revival of Suakspbare ' s plays in the production , last Saturday , of The Taming of the Shrew , Like Mr . Websteh at the Haysiakket , in 1844 , Mr . Phelps has retained the delightful Introduction —manifestly the -work of the great dramatist , and containing some of his finest poetry , being , indeed , of a far superior order to the play itself ; but , unlike his predecessor , the Islington manager has not dispensed -with scenerv . " Sly , the tinker , is performed by Mr . Piieljps himself , with a stolidity and brutish subjection , to mere sensual indulgence—an utter abandonment to the pint pot and the heavy stupidity of drunkenness—which makes the small part he has to represent another off his careful and elaborate portraitures . After the play has ¦ advanced an act or / two , the tinker is carried off insensible , and his place knows him no more . This parts of Petruchioand Katherine are sustained by Mr . Marston and Mies Atkinson , to the great satisfaction of the audience .

      Wkight , Mr . bEi / BY ( the adaptor of the piece ) , Miss Wvndham , and Miss Maky Keeiev ; and , the scenery being brilliant , and the story pleasant the audience expressed their entire satisfaction with the entertainment . ' A little drama Calso of French origin ) was produced at the Pjrincess ' s oa Tuesday evening , under the title of Our : Wife , or the Rose of Amiens . The scene is laid in France during the time . . of . Cardinal Richelieu , and an entertaining and original story serves to bring out the respective merits of Mr . Harlet Mr Ryder , Mr . D . FisnEn , ]\ liss Leclercq , and Miss MrjBKAY . .-. - ¦* TJie Operatic performances at Deory Lake continue to attract admirinar audiences . Mozart ' s Do ? i Giovanni was brought out on Saturday with an admirable cast—Donna Anna being performed by Garsr , Donna Elvira by Madam © KuDEKSDOiip , Zerlina by Madame Gassier , the Commendatore by Herr Formes ( who , out of a fine feeling- for his art , abandoned his own character of Lenordfo to Signor Rovere ) , and Don Giovanni by M . Gassier . The house was crowded , and the enthusiasm worthy of the grandeur of this greatest of musical dramasT . Xhe oratorio of Israel m Egypt was performed before a large audience ia ; Martin s Hall on Wednesday evening . Mr- Huucah was the conductor , and Madame RuDERSDORTF was among the vocalists . . ^^^^^^^™^^^^^^^^^ ,

      The first of the series of winter concerts , to be given on Saturdays at the Cktstal Palace , took place last Saturday . The music -was chiefly instrumental , the only vocalist being Madame RiiDEitsi > ORFF , who lias been engaged for a series of six concerts . In addition to the Saturday Concerts , there are to be musical performances on Fridays . Miss Blanche Fane—the charming young lady who set all the male heads and hearts of London aflame some year or more ago by the exquisite grace and apparent spontaneity of her acting , but who has recently withdrawn her light from the dramatic world—reappeared on Monday , at her former theatrical home , in . a new piece called . 1 Family Failing , in which she and Mr . Buckstoxe perform two irascible lovers of the time of Charles II ., -who , after raising a devastating storm about their paths , and hanging like two destructive meteors over the doomed crockery and furniture , finally appease their ruffled spirits in the calm waters of matrimony . The -vaudeville is from the French , and is almost devoid of plot ; but , -with so genial a piece of wrath as Mr . Buckstoxe , and so fascinating a bit of mischief as Bliss BiiAXciiE Tame , the success of the trifle was not to be doubted ; and successful accordingly it is .

      A French ballet , produced at the Grand Opera of Paris , has sprung up at tlie London Adelthi into a strange , hut pretty , kind of mongrel , half ballet , half extravaganza , called The Elves . Lovers of stage fairyland will here find a romantic story of a Hungarian Count , who finds a statue of a Dryad among the ruins of an antique temple in th-e depths of one of his native forests , and who falls in love -with the marble riymph when the Queen of the Elves has endowed at with life—a transformation , however , which only endures in the daytime . The statue-lady , thus quickened with a dubious vitality , is performed by Madame Celeste , who dances with her accustomed grace . There are also parts for Mr .

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      FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , November IS . BANKRUPTS . —William Charles SruAUT , Cambridge , tailor—James Poorx > , Dover , licensed victualler—Cjiarlics Vajt Ijohh , Brend-Btrect , woollen warehouseman—Geohoe Kelly King , Brighton , dealer in embossing pressesvBATfTiiis Hawkins , Strand , camp equipage manufacturer ~ -Mabia . Kaye , Tottenham-court-road , hosier—William tfOBTBtt , Birmingham , timlicrr merchant—William HumjPHhieb , Kingswipforil , Staffordshire , innkeeper—Benjamin Bakeh , Moncltton Combo , Soinersetshire , dairyman—• Jambs Mackenzie and STurnEN Cotton , Leeds , machine makers— William "Willitokd , Scarborough , wine mc : r-« nant—TnOMAB Howitt , BholUold , licensed victualler- ' ¦* AMEB HABOiisorr , Boutliport , l ^ incashire , collee-house Keeper . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS .-J . 1 ) . Hcktek , GlaafiOWt tool ageut—J . Rawkin , Glasgow , wino mcrulmnt—A . Tn * ° > "wii mercliant—a . G . Dodub , Airdrio , ciiKuioer—A . SXBWAUX , GlatKow , tailor—A . Thomson , Portsoy , Uanil-^ wj . mill er—J . Mahtin , Cavluko , Lanaik , timber uiern » imrr >«™ Friday , November 21 . « t ? ANKRTJFTS . —William Jonics , JJroadway , Wostminator , d rapor—HEWBY Clauk , Winienton , ribbon nianulncmror ~ B 4 EYEK JACOBS , Stowai-d-strcot , Bi ) italUelds ,

      manufacturer and printer—Kowland Nvckltzstok , llackneyrpad-cresccnl , lioot inanulauturcr— John Wilkinson , fcjit-I iiiKbouvno , Kent , railway contractor—li UN uv 1 ' iullimoek VViNCiicoMDU , Swansea , Bhip broker— Itojjeut Kadnok , PrcstQi ( i ; n , county ol' ltudnor , maltster- Sam vuv Ja . mus Haiuuson , Kiiluerminstor , cabinet maker—Ja ^ iks Lk ~ xland , St . Helen ' s , Lancaster , bocrseller—Hyi . a Holukn , Walsall , Btall'ordaliire , currier— KnwAiti ) Gvles Crook , CliorJor , anotliecary — Kojjuhx JJuj-sjjy and Joskpji Helbiiv , tiarstou , Lancinhiro , builders—Domekicuo JiitAUGiOTii aud 1 ' aul Tksxa , JLombaitl - street , merchants .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . 31 IRTHS . BENIIAM . —On tho 11 th inst ., nt Syon Lodge , Islcworlh , the wile of E . lknham . lCsiq .: a son , stillborn . KENNEDY—On the 12 th inst ., at St . llelicr ' s , Jersey , Lho I ^ ady Gilbe rt Kennedy , prematurely : a , son . 3 TARRTAGJES . HOLTOM—WILIiHS . —On tho isth inst ., at Kenninpton Church , Alexander Holtoni , youngest son of Thouius lloltoin , to Christiana Willis , youngest , duuglitor of Lho late Ooruo Willis , ol Claiiham . TOWGOOL )—WALLINOTON .-On the lStli iust ., at

      Crudwell , Wilts , "William Tow-good , Esa -, Jfito of Cardiff , to Anne Elizabeth , only daughter of John Walliiigton , Esq . DEATHS . rOUTESCUR—On Sunday , the 2 nd inst ., from a fall from lho riKKiiipr , on board tho It . Y . S . schooner Fancy . cruising in lho J \ loilitemuieai » , Coor ^ o Grcuvillo Fortescuo , Ksq ., eldest sou ol' tho Hon . Gooi go and Lady Louisa Fortoscue , need 21 . HAL ] .. —Ou the 10 th inst ., at the Camp , Aldershott , Captniu Jasi ) cr Hall , 4 th ( King ' s Own ) ltcKimout , n ^ ed ao , la . to A . 1 J . C . to Liicutenant-Uencral Sir William J . C ! odriiigton , TltELAWNY . —On tho 15 th inst ., at Ins scat , Ilnrowood , Cornwall , in tho 70 tb year of hi . s ago , Bir William Lewis Salusbury Trelawuy , JJart ., her Majesty ' s Lieutenant for the county of Cornwall . POWEH .-Uu tho ITMi insf ., nt No . 8 , Groevcnor-terraoe I JJelprrave-road , Pimlico , Lieut .-Col . John Praueis Power , Commanding Depot of ihu liritishGormau ljegion , Sliornclill ' c , late of the antlxllegiiuent , aud formerly of the iivd Hussars , King ' s German Legion , nged 0-1 Ho fouglit at CopcnhiiKcn , JJenavcnto , Oorunniv , and Waterloo . IMAlTLANp . —On tho 16 th inst ., of ague , contracted intljo ( . / l'iiuca , in his 32 nd . year . Captain William Whitakor Slaitlaud , of her Majesty ' h 40 th Regiment , oldest son and lu ; ir ot" William Whiinker Multland , of Lougliton Uall , in tho county of Essex , Esq .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 1123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2168/page/19/