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      of a " Nocturne" and a " Mermaid Galop . " And last , . not least , the Vocal Association , who . progress under the conduct of the learned beneficiare we have often noticed , rallied round him on this occasion with their most successful choral morceaux , including ; that beautiful lately - exhumed fragment of Mendelssohn ' s "Xorelei , " the " Maria . " The Phu-harmoxic Concert comprised an ample selection of the best classical music , both vocal and instrumental . Madame Novello , who sang splendidly

      in an air by J . S . Bach , and Mademoiselle Artot ( whom we alluded to above ) , gave " Una voce poco fa , " so as to heighten , if possible , the favourable impression of her abilities entertained by the critical and professional world , on the two previous occasions of her appearance . The instrumental pieces de resistance were Mozart ' s G minor symphony , Beethoven ' s " Pastorale " , and the popular " Zainpa " Herold , the very champagne of overtures . Mademoiselle Mdsner , an excellent harpist , was much applauded in a striking concerto ( accompanied ) by the late Parish Alvars .

      The Handel Choral Society ' s concert at the Foundling Hospital was all that the hundred amateur members of the excellent chorus and their twice two hundred friends could desire . Mr . "Willing , the conductor , has either had uncommonly good material to work upon , or has made vast progress , considering the limited , time since this society has been at work , in drilling and turning out an effective body of choralists . The only thing Handclian about the affair was the name , and so much the

      genteel and well frequented a theatre , as we can now happily call the Adelphi , a certain smartness of diction , neatness of work , and other attributes of the " slight and elegant " school of comedietta . We were not disappointed . Mrs . Mellon appeared tp advantage in uniform , and sang" Mr , Balfe ' s setting- of the ridiculous song " Riflemen Form " so nicely that the most cynical of cynics , could not withhold his sanction from the wild encore bestowed upon it by the groundlings . . Mr . Robert Bkovgh ' s Reading took place ,

      pursuant to announcement , on Thursday evening , at the Marylebone literary Institution , and if the attractions of Ascot week , and of fresh air generally ensured ample elbow-room to all present , the audience was yet remarkable for its literary character . Poets and poets ' sons were there gathered round the poet of the occasion , and delighted to welcome from his own lips the recital of polished strains , both comic and sentimental , that had moved them , or most of them on previous occasions , whether in print or from the stage . .

      The pathetic " Tent-maker ' s Story , " from The Welcome Guest , was the first piece read . Then came the quaint modern-antique ballad of " Kobin Hood and the Detective Officer . " This ingenious burlesque of the true Robin . Hood-ballad style is worthy of the author of the Ingoklsby collection . It was first printed , we believe , in one of those ephemeral serials ( to use a manifest Hibemieism ) of which the great literary forcing-house of ^ London is so prolific , and was a novelty to the majority of those present * and told admirably . The seedy circumstances of the Robin Hood gang , their shifts and dodges , their plentiful lack of money , the craft of Allen-adale who got his living as an Ethiopian Se ' renader

      in neighbouring Nottingham ; and the caption finally of Robin Hood himself , who had guided the detective to the forest haunt , are no less humourously treated in the lay than they were genially delivered by the lecturer . A pretty ballad called " Neighbour Nelly " was next succeeded by some of those admirable scenes from Mr . Brough's famous Olympic burlesque of "Medea , " in which Mr . Robson ' s dramatic energy so well seconded the -author ' s conception . After one or two other lyrical pieces the entertainment concluded with the " Story of Lady Godiva " and " The Vulture , " the last , a powerful imitation , paraphrase , or , shall we say , burlesque , upon Edgar Poe ' s well known " Raven . "

      If Mr . Brough lacks , at present , the confidence and little artifices of the hardened lecturer , he is at all events free from all those defects which are sometimes so objectionable in " Professors . " On the serious passages he appears , at present , somewhat disinclined to dwell at sufficient length , but his delivery of the more facetious portions Of the reading left nothing to be desired . The annual dinner of the Dramatic Authors '

      Society , at the new Opera Colonnade Hotel , on Saturday last , was , as might be expected , a very pleasant affair . X / ieutenant-Colonel Addison was in the chair , and contributed largely by his ready elocution and great geniality to the success of the . evening . Messrs . Planche , Robert Bell , Bayle Bernard , Sterling Coyne , 10 . L . Blanchard , 1 \ Talfourd , and other gentlemen prominently connected with the drama , were present , and worthily supported the gallant and popular president .

      The following distinguished persons have honoured the Royal Italian Opera , Drury . Lane , hy their presence during last week : —Prince Vogarides , His Grace the Duke of Bedford and party , the Countess of Winchilsea , the Duchess of Richmond , the Duko of Devonshire , Lady Cecila Lennox , the Baroness Kuchtcr , the Marquis of Salisbury , Viscontc Eugene di Morsant , Lord and Lady Kennedy , Lady Ingestrie , Lady Rollo , Lady Florenoe Pugot , I-ord Ward , Earl of Lonsdulu , Lady X . Tcnnent , » Sir Proby Cautloy , Bart ., Sir Alexander Wandford , Siv

      E . Hoarc , Hon . Captain Willis , Sir Charles Oakley , Marquis ofClanricarde , Lady Howard , Lady Palmer , Lord and Lady Saltoun , Lady Jolutnn , Lord llarios , General Robbins , Sir Ralph Steward , Sir Ralph and Lady Howard , Mrs . Witmoro , Miss Hulso , Lady Rolloy , Major Blake , Major Pole , Major Lyon , Hon . Mrs . North , Colonel King , Colonel Williams , Lord David Kennedy , General JBoulan , Major Gardiner , Captain Stuart , Colonel Gold , Henry Wombwoll , Esq ., C . Martyn , Esq ., — Arcodockno , Esq ., C . IHudyer , Esq ., C . Goslin , Esq ., &c ,

      better ; for after all a night with Handel with complete means is no light affair for Midsummer . The programme was short , comprising music by Mendelssohn , Mercadante , and some Duteli dulness by Van Bree . The soloists it is immaterial to mention . Quite a minor feature in the estimation of the committee and subscribers , they had no peculiar encouragement to exceed their powers , and did not do so . The honours were won and worn by choir and chapel-master , to whom we have given their due . .

      Mr . Js > Alfred Novello has liberally placed at the disposal of each representative of the press , at the ensuing Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace , a complete set of his " authorised" Handbooks of the Music for the three days . The St . James ' s Theatre opened as annouueed , on Saturday , with Spanish Balletand English Opera . The first of these articles formed tlie first course , and attracted , as we expected a gpod deal of fashionable company ; Mr . Edward Loder ' js " Raymond and Agnes , " a very pleasing work , new . to London , if not precisely to the stage , was worth a few more rehearsals by artists of such calibre as Miss Susan

      Pyne , Mr . J . H . Leffler , and Mr . Gadsby . It will , from present appearances , after a . short run , get somewhat into form , and do an amount of credit to the composer , which he at present fails to reap from it . The principal members of the troupe are Madame RudersdorfF , Mr . George Perren , and Mr . H . Braham . Mr . Perren is an excellent opera tenor for small theatres . We have heard him to great advantage on the Manchester boards , and his charming voice is likely to make a greater impression at the St . James ' s than would have been the case had he ventured again into the over-large arena of Dr . ury-Ianc .

      At the Princess ' s Theatre Mi * . Kean has produced a slight but well constructed and successful little novelty , under the title of " If the Cap Fits . " Miss Murray is the heroine , Mrs . JEllcrton , a . marriageable widow . Three military admirers of hers , all in each other ' s confidence , mid each sure of his lady-killing power in one particular masculine attrao tipn , are a captain , a lieutenant , and a doctor , played by Mr . Walter Lacy , Mr . Everett , and Mr . F . Matthews . These sons of Mars go so far in deciding the lady ' s fate , without consulting her own views or

      inclinations , as to toss up for first attack , and for the strategical operations each shall pursue . It falls out unluckily that each of them is forced by the lottery to adopt precisely that mode of fascination in which he is not at homo : and when their game is up , they find out that retributively tho embroidered smokingcap they had employed as a ballot-box , had been worked hy tho widow ' s fair hands for a successful rival , whom they had entirely forgotten to take into calculation . The piece is as smartly aeted as it is nicely put together , and will bo popular to the season ' s end .

      The Adujmmii has now taken rank beside timehonoured Astley ' s as a theatre of war . Tho last scrap of news we have to , offer from it—wo wpre almost tempted to aay tho last 'lullet-in-r-roUxlos to theonlistment ofMre . Alfred Mellon in " The Rifle Volunteers , " a pleasant trifle by Mr . EdwardStorling . Of course , in a thoroughly touch-and-go piece do circonstancc , knocked up , probably , at a few days ' notice , wo had to expect elaboration of nolthor plot nor sentiment . But wo hud every right to expect from bo practised a hand as tho author ' s , and in so

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      - THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON TRADE . TT ^ JS have searched in vain for any evidence that * ' the wiir has as yet . seriously affected trade . "NVe might expect , as one of its first results , from increased consumption , -waste , and the withdrawal of hands flora agriculture , that com should be dearer ; but the promising season lias much more influence over prices than the war , and our corn markets are falling ; , though the supplies sent forward are very short . The only evidence we any where see of the influence of war is , perhaps , the somewhat advanced prices in Germany , whither « - oes

      from Hull and other places some of the corn which comes from abroad . France , notwithstanding she feeds her army in Ttaly entirely from her own stores , continues to .-end us wheat ar . 'rl flour , and almost nil the foreign at present in our markets come from tliat country . Already insome parts oi the South of France the harvest has commenced , and the crops throughout that great country and Spain arc well spoken of . If the weather continue favourable , and the harvest turn out well , we shall not feel the war in the price of food . It" the harvest should be deficient here the war

      would interpose no obstacle to our obtaining stippli . es from the Black Sea—though they came down the Danube—from Egypt , and the United States , the great sources of our supplies of grain . They would be freely brought in our own ships , or in any neutral-ships , to our own shores : Thewarmust-. be much'more extensive and much more disastrous than we can at present fancy it likely to be before we shall feel any ill effects from it hi our own . corn market . . .

      From the countries from winch we . procure corn we also procure wool , and except-as the war should interfere to ' destroy the flocks in Hungary , and other places , we shall get as much as" we can require and pay for . At present one great source of supply is our Australian colonies , and up to this time they , ns well as other countries , have sent forward an increased quantity . We may anticipate some little deficiency in the silk crops from the presence of such large armies in Lombardy , but we believe that the care which has been taken this year in Italy and the south of France to procure additional worms from different countries will

      almost compensate for the loss ; and the crop , which has not been great for two or three years , will probably be equal to what it has of late been . So far , however , as our manufacturers are concerned , they derive their chief supply—ninetenths of tlie whole—from China and India , which will not lie interfered with by the war . Nearly the whole of our supply of cotton comes from countries beyond the reach of the war—India , the Brazils-, and the United States , and it cannot be affected

      by the war . [ t is accordingly noticed that in none of the great sonts of our" manufacturers " is there any remarkable stagnation . On the contrary , there continues to be a great demand <<> r cotton ut Liverpool , and considerable activity prevails at Manchester , Leeds , MacclesnVld , Nottingham , and the other centres of our ingenious and ennobled industries . Looking at the railway receipts , ami other indications oi business in the United States , and noticing there the terrible fraud and delusion which hns induced hundreds of thousands of people

      to waste tlieir substance and many months of their lives in a frantic expedition to Tncw ' s Phak in search of gold , where there was none to begot , wo cannot e .-spect from our great customer such it large demand for our goods , and such a large supply of goods irom the States as wo mig ht have hud , Ir tho people there had all boon prosperous . But tho decline of railway receipts and tho ravenouH chuso after gold nra reinanonts ov continuations of tho groat follies of 1857 ; and though they may -afreet our trade , wo shall know that thin in the consequence of delusions as

      disastrous in their ofieofs as wars . Nobody will for one moment suppose that 1 ho rise in the prjco of Piijjitr , oolite , and ten , which in taking place , is caused by the war , To soiau extent fl * o war might intoiTU . pt tlio importation of these nrtk'los into Triosto and Into Germany and Holland , for tho uso of Aust ria , and to lesson trade , though not directly—thv enrgoos oi those goods may bo freely convoyed in neutral bottoms into tho ports of tho bolligorontB—

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      Tub Hop Dutv . —Tho following official notification has been published : —Tho liop duty for the year 1858 may bo paid In four Instalments . One is to bo paid forthwith without txny further notice , and the others on tho following dates : August 10 , 1851 )} November 10 , 1850 } Vobruury 10 , 1800 , Or a joint note of hand may bo given for tho payment of the first moiety in November next , Avlth interest at 4 per cent ., bearing dtUo from tho 10 th of May . If payment bo niado in four instalments neither bond nor interest will be required .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2299/page/20/