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    FOREIGN.

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    THJSAl'ltES AND MNTEJR.TAINMENTS.

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    stabbed in Wellclose-square ; verdict " Wilful murder against persons unknown . " , -,- , j The weekly return of public health in London on Wednesday , Feb . 8 , gives a slight improvement : deaths 1 , 389 ; birth s 1 * 943 - On Saturday , Feb . 4 , died Captain Moorsom , JJ . N . aged 44 ; distinguished in China and in the Crimea ; inventor of many improvements in artillery . - . . ,, , , ¦ • . On Sunday , Feb . 5 , ; a boat was upset in Shields harbour by gross carelessness ; three seamen were drowned . _ _ . An eclipse of the moon took place on Tuesday morning , * eO . 7 , at one o ' clock ; the weather was fair , and the phenomenon beauta-At the Great Ship Company ' s meeting on Tuesday , Feb . 1 , 9 resolution was passed for an entire change of directors . —On _ Ih-ursday , Feb . 9 , at tlie half-yearly meeting of the South Western Kailway Company , a dividend was declared of £ 5 5 s . per cent . — -Oa the same'day , at Mincing Lane , the sugar market remained steady ; refined lumps 51 s . to 53 s . ; coffee very firm ; tea trade steady at previous Jrates ; brandy , MarteH ' s 10 s . 10 d . ; Jute sold at previous ratesj tallow , firm ; cotton , 100 bales sold ; indigo , more spirit in . the biddings . —On the same day , latest price of Consols was 9 < % to * for money , and 94 J to f for the account . French Three per Cents . 67 f . 70 c , showing a fall ' . ¦ of f-. „ . On Sunday , February 5 , arrivedlthe Bombay mail of 9 th Jan . ; the force for China is to be 20 , 000 men , of which 8000 natives , under Sir Hope Grant , —On Dec . 18 , Major Homier routed . the Waghers on the Abpoora ; British loss , 16 killed , including Lieut . Lewis , 1 st N . I ., and forty wounded . ¦ '¦ : ¦ . ., ¦ ' ,, ¦ nj 7 On Monday , Feb . 6 , arrived the Australian , mail . On the Wtfi Nov ., the parliament of Victoria met j the Nicholson Cabinet were all re-elected . . , On the same day the Novai Scotia mail was received . On . Jan . 20 the Earl of Mulgrave opened the session of the Assembly ; Mr . Stewart Campbell was chosen Speaker .

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    Feb . , 1860 . J The Leader and ' Saturday Analyst . J 40

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    On Saturday , Feb . 4 > , the Moniteur announced a reduction in the contingent of new recruits for the French army from 140 , 000 to 100 , 000 . —On Sunday , Feb . 5 , the Pope ' s Encyclical was read an ail the churches in Paris , with a mandate from the Archbishop of Paris calling attention to the protest of the Holy Father . —On Monday , Feb . Q , numerous Sardinian officers were nominated to the Ldgiond'Honneur . —Oh the same day , Lord Cowley had a very long interview . with the Austrian Ambassador . On Friday , Feb . 3 , Barons Vay and Prqny , as ,. a deputation from the Hungarian Protestants , were received at Vienna by tie Emperor of Austria , who promised that in a legal way their'legitimate-desires-should be soon satisfied . —On Monday , Feb . G , martial law was proclaimed in Venice and Trieste , and on Wednesday , Hth Feb . in the rest of Venetia and in ifanttia .-r-On the same day , &t Vienna , . Count Ilechberg announced the rejection of the proposals of England by the Emperor Francis Joseph ; Austria will not accede to the annexation of Central Italy to Piedmont . On Sunday , Feb . 5 , there was a demonstration at tho French theatre at iface in favour of French annexation . —The following day was aft' enthusiastic counter-demonstration at the Italian theatre of the same place , —On Sunday , Feb . 5 , the Marquis de Cadore arrived in liome from Paris , with instructions to Gen . Goyon to take measures for the preservation of order . On Monday , Feb . 6 , it was announced that England had offered a delay of three months from the 16 th Feb . for regulating the redemption of the Stade dues Hanover proposed a special agreement with England . On . Wednesday , Feb . 8 , England rejected this offer , and insisted on a general conference . On Saturday , Feb . < t , Tetuan was taken by the Spaniards ; grent rejoicings in Madrid at the news . —On Wednesday , Feb . 8 , O'Donnel was created Duke of Tetuan and a Grandee of the firstclass ; the ground on , which the victory was won was given to him by Queen Isabella , On Wednesday , Feb . 8 , at Copenhagen , M . Rottwitz , President of the Council of Ministers , was seized wiih apoplexy , and died in a few hours . On the 28 th January , the Emperor Alexander gave a ' magnificent banquet at St . Petersburg to Marshal Prince Bariatinski ; there wore 360 generals present . On Wednesday , Feb , 8 , arrived the American mail ; House of Assembly adjoumocl oft 28 th January , without electing a Spoakex ; the Senate was not in session . At Colunn , in Mexico , on the 2 , 0 th December , Miramon , with 3000 men , is said to have defeated the Liberal forces under Rosas , numbering 7000 , to have killed and wounded 700 , and to have token 2000 prisoners and five guns . On Thursday ' , lJfcb . Oth , arrived telegrams in advance of China mail of 21 st ZW ; the Chinese arc fortifying Pokin and tho Poilio rivor , and have ft picked army of 100 , 0 . 00 waiting for us . Japan news is to 12 th Doc , Trade has boon stopped by tlie outrageous demands and insults of the Europeans ; the , British Consul , has remonstrated against the conduct of the Europeans .

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    At DntTRY Lank , Mr . E . T . Smith has revived , to the delight of Mr , 0 . Dillon ' s ndmirors , Sheridan Knowlos ' s " William Toll / ' Mr . Dillon , still ambitious of expanding his recognised melodramatic

    ability to tragic dimensions , gives his Tell somewhat too much fussiness . His acting- must still be admitted to exhibit certain points worthy of praise , while its defects are by no means irremediable . He , in some parts , delivered the high-flown patriotism of the text with sufficient-appropriateness and energy to secure great applause . JEmma ( Tell ' s wife ) and Albert were played by Miss Tell and Miss Thirlwall respectively . Mr . Emery played Gresler : a rugged tyrant of the true Austrian school , profiting judiciously by the light thrown upon characters of the class and nation during the last few years .-A neat , amusing operettina , entitled " Romance , * 1 Mr . Henry Leslie , of " choir" celebrity , was produced at Covert Garden oh the 2 nd inst . The plot turns upon the determination of a certain Xady Araminta Arabesque ( Miss Louisa Pyne ) , for an adventure —for mere romance sake—with Dick Turjpin , and the siege and capture of her heart by Captain Wildlove ( Mr . Harrison ) , who adopts the charming manner , costume , and mysterious conduct ot the highwayman the better to please her fancy . The opera , which is styled a choral one , is , as might be expected of the composer s bent , rich in concerted pieces and duets , several of them of very great beauty . The ensemble , " Though wild has been the robber s fate , a morceau of the old school , with a very pretty burden . "Say , can you not divine ? " ¦ " The Ball invites ; " and especially the " Welcome , Spring , " may be cited as specimens . Mr . Honey , as the fussy mayor of York , has a good bufio song , " Important is my mission , and Mr . Harrison a sentimontal serenade , " Look forth . ' Joolc forth , " to which they both do justice . Miss Pyne ( whose exceedingly pretty costume' is one of the most becoming we have seen her in ) , sings deliciously , and is justly encored m a ballad , " Poor silly heart , wouldst thou so bold ?; . " which will , or we venture to say ought to , become popular . " Romance " has not yet had full justice done to it . As ( we believe ) the first opera of the maestro it is worthy of consideration . The overture , as well as much of the music , displays melodic invention , knowledge of harmony , and feeling for instrumentation ; and when Mr . Leslie has mastered the airy as well as he has done the solid style of composition , to take a leading positibn among composers of opera . A word should not be wanting for the elegance of the mtse en scene , a la Ijquis XV ., and the perfection of the band and chorus ; and a hundred words would not be wasted in encouraging Mr ^ Hari-jsoii to persist in his loyal deviation from the ancient custom of wedding the best of music to the most" execrable of doggrel . Mr , Pulgrave Simpson wrote the agreeable libretto of " Romance . " Mr . Wallace s new work , in preparation at this theatre , is highly spoken of . At the Peincess ' s Tkeatee we lately had in > ' Home Trotlis , '" n play honouring the . fair sex , domestic virtue , and affection . Mr . Holl has now given us three acts of easily versified comedy , called " Caught in a trap / ' whereof two thirds of the anmsement is got out of sly innuendos and home thrusts ogainst the first if not the third of these three honourable things . A mere filament q £ plot , another of sense , another . of action , and one more of probability , will twist into a tender yarn ; and such is this ?' comedy , " which has t _ air of an expansion of a French compression of a yet longer Spanish aboriginal . One Don Juan de Sylva ( Mr . George Melville)—who has no scope here for developing the quality we thoug ht lurked m him—lights during his travels with a comic servant of the regulation pattern ( Zopez ) Mr . Saker , upon a fair widow , Donna Vritona ( Miss C . Leclercq ) . In shepherd ( and very hideous ) guise he wins her . So does the valet her dueiia ( Mrs . Weston . ) Clothed magnificently by her he becomes a presentable lover . His bliss is , however , interrupted by n summons from a match-inaking friend in Madrid , to repair to the capital and marry a certain heiress . He starts , swearing constancy and speedy return : but leaving also the jotter of summons , from which the clever widow learns his treachery . To catch him in his own trap she seeks Madrid , and by luck at once obtains the post of duoiia to her supposed rival , Anf / elioa ( Miss Clifford ) , daughter of old Don Marcos ( Mr . F . Matthews ) . Once installed , she breaks down , in five minutes , the parontul and most un-hidalgo-like will of Don Marcos that his daughter should espouse Juan ; substitutes for him , also by consent of the parent , the rightful lover , Don Valdez ( Mr . Cathcart ); and forgetting her wrongs and hoy womanhood together , herself marries the remainder , viz ,, tho Juan aforesaid . Miss Leclercq pleased us in . some of her sprightly passages , displaying not more stage , vivacity , but natural spirit . Mr . F . Matthews , who had a very inferior part , succeeded m making the audience laugh heartily at his general denunciations of womankind , and his particular : anxiety to bo rid of his daughter , as ono of the sex , To Mr . Molville we cannot award the praise ot being so light a comedian ns tho part . demanded . Mr . Graham wns picturesque and emphatic as the time-honoured retaxnor , Montafan . Tho piece , though , critically speaking , below mediocrity , may , from tho " general public" point of view , bo reported successful . Tho MoNP ^ y PoHJkAK Ccwceiits gain new force nnd popularity each season . The mustard pood hns so exceedingly prospered that wo now hoar of hundreds turned from tho doors on Monday lost ; when , in addition to tlio standing corps of instrumentalists , plnyiuff from Boothoven and Mor . orfc , Mr . Sims Rooves sang , " Adolaula , acepmpaniod by Miss Arabella Goddard ; and this popularpimtsttt gave the fairly called " plu » ultra" Sonata of Dussok , and joined the accomplished clarionet of Lazarus in Webor ' s deH «» P « s Sonata ( E flat ) for that instrument and tho piano-forto . Miss S"flflnnaJi Smart is progrossing in popularity . Her old lullnbv , ' wWj »»» slumbers loss' your ovon , " was perhaps tho most relished oj uw minor attractions on Monday oxoning 1 .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 11, 1860, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2333/page/21/