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Leader (1850-1860), 25th November 1854, Edition 1 of 2, Page 1125, Untitled Article

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      "" WJ ^ v ^ v ^ K ^^ H ^ HHKaamKsaEHKKKmm ^ nBvanHMaMMHB ^ HMHmi ^ a ^ M ^ aKnaM the startling title of Alone ( in yellow letters on a red ground ) , secures attention by a picture of a young- lady , finely developed in respect of bust and bustle , walking into a heap of weeds , apparently in the neighbourhood ot bhakspeare ' s Cliff , with clasped hands , a transcendental expression of lace , and no bonnet ? Can we assist books which thus assist themselves ? —We are not so deplorably -vainglorious as to think we can for a single moment .

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      We lave to acknowledge the receipt of several books of a useful and educational kmd ; one of which—The Planetary Worlds , by Mr . James Breen ( Hardwicke )—we can vouch for , after due examination , as a very dear and intelligible manual of astronomical science , thoroughly reliable as abook of reference for general readers who take an interest in the last new dispute about the Plurality of Worlds . The educational and useful works which we have not yet had time to examine with the necessary attention , axe lectures in Connexion with ike Educational Exhibition at St . Martin's Hall ( Boutledge ); The Young Child ' s Lesson Booh , by William Cort ( Simpkin and Co . ); Theatres , and Other Remains in Crete , by Edward Falkener ( Triibner and Co . ) ; and A Popular Exposition of the New Stamp Acts ( Arthur Hall and Co . ) . A reprint , -which we may mention by way of conclusion , but which we need not criticise , is the last volume of the " People ' s Edition" of Mr . Samuel Warren ' s works , containing Now and Then , The Lily and the Bee , and a Lecture on the Development of the Age . ¦

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      A BOOK OF ILLUSTEATIONS . Chicora , and other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered . By Mrs . Mary H . Eastman . Trubner and Co . The book , thus strangely entitled to English , ears , is a species of American annual , beautifully hound—finely printed , on such paper as is not often seen now-a-days—furnished with letter-press contents , illustrative of the early history of North America , and of the most interesting peculiarities in the character of its aboriginal inhabitants—and adorned with some of the most beautiful and striking illustrations that we have seen for a long time past . The engravings which form the illustrations to which we allude are from drawings by Captain S . Eastman , and depict Indian life and scenery in a singularly forcible and truthful-looking manner . The prints in which figure subjects occur show evident traces of inexperience and want of

      practical knowledge of drawing . But the landscapes are all deserving of the highest praise for their striking originality and evident truthfulness to nature . Among those which have especially delighted us we may mention " The Mountains in the Sea , " a magnificent bit of effect— " The Falls of St . Anthony , " in which the idea of vast space and of an immense mass of water is wonderfully conveyed—and a view of a town , in New Mexico , which , as a . piece of quaint and striking truth , is really delightful to look at . We closed the volume with the pleasantest possible impression of it- —thankful to Captain Eastman for having given us an idea of what the finest scenery in America is really like . If any of our readers want a good book of prints for the drawing-room table , we can honestly and safely recommend to them these Illustrations .

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      BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . The Story of the Peasant-Boy Philosopher ; or , "A Child Gathering Pebbles on the Sea Shore . " By Henry Mayhew . David Boguc . The Church and her Destinies . By James Bidcn . Aylott and Co . Tamerton Church-Tower , and other Poems . By Coventry Patmore . John W . Parker and Son . Lyric Notes of t ? ie Russian War , Parti . By Ituther . George Bell . Introductory Tesct-Book qf Geology . By David Page , F . G . S"William Blaclcwood and Sons . Espcranza ; or , the Home of the Wanderers . By Anne Bowman . G . Routledgo and Co . The Concessions of the Apostle Paul and tTia Claims of the Truth . From the French of Count Agdnor do Gasparin . Thomas Constable and Co . Travel Thoughts and Travel Fancies . By Henry Strickland . John W . Parker and Son .

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      FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , November 21 . BANKRUPTS . —William "NVeston , Chiswoll-streot , Finsbury , tooot aRont— Fukdeiucic Oakson , St . Helmi's-placc , Bishopsgato-atreet , merchant — Uenjami : * "Wohk . mau Peauch . Bayham-torraco , Cainden-town , liuildov—IIenuy Johns , Uattorsea , and Grango-tevraco , Urompton , distiller —T 11031 A 8 Bays , Into of London-road , Soutlnvark , and Wishcach , baker—Joiix Clkments , Mlll-stroct , Conduit-streot , Hauovor-Hqunro , woollen draper—Roueiit Quay , Uishopa "Walthniu and Southampton , corn merchant—\ Vjuiam Paxon , QueonVroacl , IJayswater , corn dealer—George Bashick , St . GtorBp ' H-plfico , Kni . ^ Utsbi'ldpo , tobacconist ~ TnoW-As NiojiTfiNOALK , Broadchnlke , Wiltsmro , innkeeper —15 ui 3 ) GH 3 U WooMJEHithQ yowiBor , Hcodiiifr , Sussex , wheelwright— Tjnsornii . ub Tixvntiuh , ltiloy-streot , Bornioudsoy . licensed , victualler—IIknhy Ukoo . mi ' , Portsmouth , licensed viotuallor—Anthony Madimbon Topi > , Oleniout ' H-hino , Iiomlwd-stroot , merchant—John Clay , 'YVodncHltold , Staffordshire , brleklayer-. ToHN liitowN , "West JJromwkh , ooru factor—Jobisvh EijMB , Blnhopntliorpo , farmer , nn < l York , bootmaker—llopiiit Duxuuky , Over IMrwon , Lancashire 1 ,

      faoturur—Edmund Suout , Blandford Forum , Dorset , horao dealor-GKoitGK Stokes , Hereford-lodge , Gloueostor-road , Old Rrompton , boardlns-houso keeper — William II . Woojijiouse , Woolwich , browcr .

      iuukcopor . Friday , November 21 . BANKRUPTS . —Alviied IIuynoi . ds , BlnniuKhron , iron r aorcliaiit—OiiAKJ . Ka Hiiadmcy , Tij > ton , Stnl ) V > rd , shlr <> , iron dealer—Bunjamin Sokivun , lUniuiiKhiun , bnilditr—I'kam-Ois Auoubti's IIatton , OhosLurllolil , DerbyHhiro , auctioneer- —Thomas Wiuanx 1-AWi'oui ) , of 1 'ivydall , Carnmrthou , markofc gardener—Jamjcs IJhown , Mnbgato , Leeds , flax and tow spinner—AVu . ua m Kuatino Stock . Manohontor manufacturer of cotton K » odn— Thomas U awoktu and Fhancih Ai . axoN , Ilurv , oolXou manufiuiturora-Jamhh Hammond , Chnnoory-Iano , Oily , furulliiro doaloi—Johhi'h Bkknhtjun , KMHOX-Htroot , Stnuul , oullltlor—llociiiii DixnujiY , Over Danvoii , Lauuashiro , innkoopor—J' ! i >\ vaki > Kirar , AVulwoi-th-voad , Surrey , Ihiondrapor— Joins Ci . osu , Stortford , bakor—Mohkim Huib Pjcmiimuton , Lhno-etroot , City , morehant—Wiw-iam Gkokok Bjiaiii- Mockiokd , Bood-lano , Oity , merchant— Kjouaiu ) Lkwih , Voottouurnlor . lpdgo , Qlouoo . stor , cloth mnnufnoturor—John Wnnwoiua . Jonkh and Thomas Oaiuuish . Woivorliainpton , hoaLoru—Max Ehsinciisu , Old CIuuiku , ulniw hat nmuu-

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      THE BRITISH INSTITUTION . Popularly , all that is known concerning the British Institution is this . It opens the picture season with a moderately good show of paintings , excluding portraits ; its proceedings are said to be next In importance to those of the Eoyal Academy , with which influential body it is rather in good favour , stragsrlinp ii ' T . bein £ exhibitors in Pall-mall occasionally , besides the perpetual Pickersgill . Moreover , the " British" gives a show of old masters , not by any means about thl "B - i " lat 6 r in the season > Po P ulaTlv > this is all that is know n But the institution is not only expository ; it keeps a school . A very bad schooltoo should to

      , _ , we say , judge from its results . No one beyond the walls ot the institution seems to know anything about this British school of painting , j-ail-niall , . London All we have been able to learn is , that the students « ouj ? ht to teel greatly indebted" to the nollemen and gentlemen who , having kindly lent their pictures for the exhibition of the old masters , do not see any particular objection to any one making copies while the paintings remain in the gallery So , to work go the students , and , after a time , up go their copies on the wall of the gallery , and down goes the market for " warranted" originals . Cuyps will be cheap for six months to come , and " Snyders' Wife" will be in every shop-window . Hurrah for "the promotion of the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom !"

      ^ There are one or two promising studies among the mass of absurd rubbish , this year . Mr . Wiehelo , who has been sensible enough to choose a single group fr an entire picture , and thus to concentrate his energy , has achieved considerable success in his free translation of the principal group of armour in Teniers picture of the " Guard Room . " Miss Fahey , by a similar exercise of discretion , has been ab le to produce a passable study from the large Vandemeer . The fine picture of 'f Belisarius , " by Salvator Rosa * has been copied entire by Miss Townsend , and although the result is not commensurate with her ambition , she deserves notice for the great care and labour bestowed on it . The only copies which indicate n atural taste and power in the artist , are the three small studies , by Mr . C . H- Stanley , after the Murillo , Cuyp , and Hogarth ' s figure of the Female Drummer , from " Southwark Fair . "

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      THE BALANCE OF COMFORT . A very amusing little comedy , by Mr . Eayle Bernard , was produced at the Hatmarkbt , under the above title , on Thursday night . The idea on which the piece is founded has been rather a favourite idea with the French dramatists of late years . A husband and wife , separated "by mutual consent , meet by accident and become respectively involved in certain strange situations , which end in reconciling them to each other , and in leaving them at the fall of the quptain a fondly-attached couple for the rest of their lives . Their is nothing original in this as the main idea of a play ; but Mr . Bernard has contrived to tell an old story _ m a new way , by means of some excellent comic situations , deservedly hailed with great applause by the audience . Bating one blemish in the shape of an ahsurd mock duel very clumsily and improbably introduced to bring the story to its foreseen end , Mr . Bernard ' s last dramatic work is in every way worthy of him . His dialogue^—always delightful in its neatness and vivacity is as genuinely and gracefully amusing in the Balance of Comfort as in any of his former works .

      The parts of the husband and -wife were performed "by Mr . Howe and Miss Reynolds . The lady—though a little too vehement , perhaps , now and thenacted with grace and gaiety , and made all the good points in the dialogue tell in the easiest and h appiest manner . Mr . Howe , rather loud at fi rst , and rather given to such stale conventionalities as entering a lady ' s drawing-room with his hat on , improved , and became heartily and naturally amusing as the play proceeded . Mr . Rogers , too , made a small part very prominent , in a quaintly humourous manner , and dressed it admirably . Mr . Clark , by wearing an inexcusably absurd costume , and by indulging in monkey-like contortions , for which a French audience would have hissed him off the stage , did his very worst to get a laugh from the gallery , and Ins very best to spoil the effect of every part of the play in which he appeared . It would bo unfair to the management , not to say a hearty word of praise , in conclusion , for the beauty of the drawing-room scene , in which the action of the play goes on . It was as beautiful and perfect a piece of painting and furnishing as anything of the kind we have ever seen

      Two new farces have been successfully produced at the Adelphi . One The Slow Man , is by Mr . Mark Lemon , and contains a part for Mr . Keeley . There is no other theatrical news this week .

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      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . JMdny Evening , November 24 , 1854 . Tub Funds during the past week have fluotu&tod not moro than H per coat , botwoon O 0 |« and D 2 J , but tho transactions have boon Sow and far between , and tho lack of biisinoaa very notable . Railway shavoH aro Hat , and hardly anything doing ; tho same may bo said of niir » on , banks , lie Turkish . Scrip has slightly rccovorud from its nlarmhitfly wouk state , buli i . s ntill at botwoon fi and 0 discount . Tlio Kiinriuitoo for tho regular pnymont of tho intorosl sooniH to bo of no Iooho a nature that tho public hardly fools justified in making heavy investments . The accounts rccoivcilof tho horoia doodii of our country men in tlio Crimea havo Umpired tho nmdholdor with every conlldonuu in tho undaunted courage of our troops , but tho dulay in hoimUiik rolul ' oreomitnts has boon much conunoutud upon , ltathor a bettor foifliiiK provailn this afternoon—rumours of part of tho fortress ofSobnstopol having boon takonby . Htonn , and a Vienna roporl whloh would hooiu to prodlofc iuuvltablo war botwoon Uuhrilu ami AuHtrlo .. Thoso rumours may have afl ' oolod . tho murkot ., but possibly l ' uiidn como butter from Paris . OoiihoIs closo at t o ' clock at D 2 J , 028 , liavinw oponod at MA , t ) lS , noiiifi hoavy puroluisoH having boon niiulu this afternoon , 1 vouch Routes come 11 percent bolter by telegraph .

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      CORN MA R K E T . Mark Lano . l'Ylduy JUvmiliiK , Nov . 21 . Wheat . —Tho Hiippliott of JWngliHh ( luring tho wook havo been inodurato , and of foroiuu trldinK , yot tho trado contlnudN Inactive . In tlio IJaHlo ports , owing- to tliu Hovurlty of iho weather , which thi'tiittoncd an early stopjiaKo of the unviKiitiou . overy oxertiouwHNbehiKinaduto load the vessola vlilch had boon cnBaged , l ' rlcos l ' or tlio miring woro u llttlo

      easier . Rostock Whoat , 01 lbs . to G 2 His . 0 < . ) s . to 70 a . ; WiHinar Wheat , 01 * lbs . to ( 52 lbs . 0 « s . ; Stettin , ( II lbs . to ( 51 j lbs . 03 s . to 04 s ., all f . o . b . for present shipment . Tho French markets continue ) to rise . . lURi . KV .-Tho supply of English has boon moro libonil since our last Friday ' s report , and prices declined Is . last Monday-Oath . —Th « arrivals lioro havo boon liberal , both of Irish ilnd foreign , sinccs lust Friday , but tlio t rado has been exceedingly tilow , the dualors eoutinuing to hold oil in oxiicetallou of lower ]> ricos ,

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      URITISU FUNDS FOR THE FAST WEEK . (( Ji . oaiNOj L ^ iiioisa . )

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      Sat . Mon . Tuos . ] Vod . Thur . Frttl . Bank Stock 2121 211 212 1 S 13 , 213 2011 * S percent . Hod mij U ()» l )() i S ) 0 ? j ) 0 * lioi A per Cunt . Con . An , lll i MA oij in * \ nl \) ik Consols for Account 1 ) 14 0 ) 1 \ m M 5 U 3 nit Ui por Cent . An ' , Now 2 J jior Oonts ' "" "" , ' Long Ans . 18 ( 50 ' 44 ^ , 0-10 < H ! U V-K 5 inuiaStoak 1 230 Ditto liouds , X 1 . 000 ! ... I li ' JO Ditto , under MUHIU 7 ' 7 Kx . 15111 a , . £ 1000 4 p 1 . f > Op 1 ( J it Ditto , .-cooo 41 ) n n ; i i > , r > 7 Ditto , Small 4 p n ' 0 1 ;) p ' « 7

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      FORKION FUNDS . ( Last Ori / ioui . Quotation dukino tub Wkisk undixq TuUUbJ ) AX JiVJJWJNOO Brazilian Uonds 117 ItuMMinn ltauda , 0 por UueuoH AyreHll ' porOnts . ... Cents 1 H 22 imj Ohllinu 0 per ( leulH 10 ^ HuHMlan 44 per Oonts .... HO Danish J per Ceula 'Mi Spanish : i p . Ct . Now Def . 1 m |{ Keuador IjoikIn Spanish Committee Cort . Muxioau ' } por ( - / "ills . ... « ' 3 of Coup , not fun () Mexican !( per Ot . for Voiio' / . ueln . " 56 por Couta . .,. Aoo . IS ' ov . JW 218 UolKlan 44 por Oonta l ' ortuKUoso < l por Cents . a « 4 Dutch aj per Cents 001 JL ' ortuBuoao ' " 1 !>• O ' cuta . ... Dutch 4 ii ) or 0 ont . 0 tjrtlf Dol

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      November 25 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 1125

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 25, 1854, page 1125, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2066/page/21/