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774 The Saturday Analyst and Leader. [Se...
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PARLIAMENT. In tho Houses of Lords on Fr...
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Record Of The Week. Home And Colonial. L...
element . Bishop ' s glee , " Hail to . the Chief" ( words by Sir Walter Scott ) and " Tramp ' Chorus , " -were sung by the chorus ., of , the Royal Italian Opera . The new ' spng , " Let every man join heart and soul , " composed by Mr . Alfred Mellon , " 38 th Middlesex ( Artistes ) , R . V . C , " was sung by Mr . Wilbye Cooper , also of the " 38 th Middlesex ( Artistes' ) E . V , G . " JuIIien ' s Quadrille , " The Campbells are coming , " Eosaini ' s Overture to " The Siege of Corinth , " Beethoven ' s funeral march from the " Eroica , " the new polka entitled " The Artistes' Corps " and " The Rifle ( Jalop , " were played by the band ; and Mr . Harper gave his inimitable trumpet solo , ' ± h « Soldier tired . " In addition to the above , and several first-class orchestral and instrumental solo pieces , Mdlle . Parepa gave Balfe ' s " Power of Love , " in addition to sustaining the solo part m the " Tramp chorus . Nor must we forget Mr . Mellon ' s . new Part Song , " lake heed ! have a care ! " The miscellaneous nights were fixed for
luesday , Wednesday , and Saturday , the programme being judiciously varied . Thursday was a " Mendelssohn Night , " the first part of the programme consisting of pieces by that eminent composer , while the second part opened witli an admirable selection from " Don Giovanni . Friday stands conspicuous for the production in its entiretj-, and with Mozart ' s accompaniments , of Handel ' s " Messiah ; " the principal parts being sustained by Mdlle . Parepa , Miss Augusta Thompson , Miss Leffler , Madame Laura " Baxter , and Messrs . Wilbye Cooper and Lewis Thomas . We shall give a critical estimate of this performance in our next number . . Want of space compels us to . condense the present notice within the smallest possible compass . We have only room to add that this week Mr . Mellon ' s concerts have not merely surpassed any others of the kind ever given , but have excelled themselves . Mr . George Perren , who appeared en the Mendelssohn night , was encored in both his songs , " The Giirland" and "Ah , si ben mio . " ¦¦ found ade
Princess ' s THEATRE . ^ -The Shakesperian drama has - quate exposition at this , house during the week . On Monday night Mr . James Anderson and Miss Elsworthy sustained with their wellknown justness of conception and fidelity and force of delineation , the chief characters in "Macbeth' , " and elicited a degree of applause equally enthusiastic and well deserved . Monday night was also marked by the debut of Miss Marie Harris , who made her first appearance on any stage in " The First Night ; " theEnglish version of the favourite farce , " Le Pere d ' une Debutantei" The " debutante , " in a two-fold sense , was a great success . Mis * Marie Harris is pretty , has a light and graceful figure , and elegance of carriage and deportment . She manifests considerable intelligence in her . reading of the cliaracter she had to sustain , and met with the most favourable reception from a discerning and fashionable audience . Mr . A . Harris enacted the part of the Frenchman , into which he infused his well-known vivacity and humour .
Olympic Theatre . —Mr . Montague Williams ' s new comedietta of " A Fair . Exchange , " was brought out at this house on Monday . The plot turns upon a confusion of names , and consequent mistaken identity . A gardener ( personated by Mr . H . Wigan ) rejoicing in the name of Dub / cins changes it to Dudley , for considerations into which ambition and euphony may be presumed to enter largely as ingredients . This causes him to be taken for a live peer , a certain JEarl of Dudley ( Mr . W . Gordon ) , who is himself in jeopardy of being taken by the police for being engaged in a duel , ho being also engaged to be married to a certain Lady Vane ( Miss Herbert ) , as the ( presently almost " broken-hearted" ) gardener is to one Mabel Grug ( Miss Louise Keeley ) . But when the J 2 arl changes dresses with the gardener , to escape under cover of the disguise , " there is no mistake at all" about the mistaken identity , which becomes a . fait accompli , The
gardener proceeding in the JEarVs clothes to Mabel ' s houso is arrosfced uud locked up , alFording considerable charitable and womanly satisfaction to the Lady Vane and Maid , who fancy they are both in lovo with the eamp person , and who , despite fhoir difference of ranks , give manifest tokens that one touch , of nature ( albeit not of the best developed and most rationalized sort ) makes the whole world of womanhood kin . As the reader , of course , foresees , that peculiar form * of miinia , incident to a low but unfortunately almost universal stuto of intellectual and moral development , known aa jealousy , plays a conspiouous purfc in tho matter , as it must do in all corroot dramatic representations of " lifo" " life " is now , among us , in this very irnperfect Btuto of sublunary
existence , whioh . the mania in question tends so rnuoh to embitter . Subsequently , howevor , the Earl and tho gardener ( who gots released ) nppear in theii ' own proper persons ( nt leust drossos—and dress , as wo know , constitutes tho person ) , and the ladies boiug curod of their lunapy , receive them respectively into their good graces . The piece was very well played , and very well reoeivod , achieving , indeed , a decided suocoas ; the excellent noting of Miss Louiso Keeloy eliciting tho most oordial and woll-meritod applause . The other pieces ployed havo boon " Somebody Else , " and " Shylook , " whioh alFord such ample soopo for displaying the extraordinary powers of Mr , Itobnon , who in thoso original characterizations whioh ha has made his own , is without a rival .
St . James ' s Theatius . —Mr . Burry Sullivan has beon playing JIamlot and Macbeth at this house with unequivocal and woll-ineritud Bupooss , to crowded audiences . Wo understand that Mr . Alfred Wigan , having bcoome tho lessee of this theatre , will , about tho end of next month , open thooampnign in brilliant alyle . Eastehn Opbua-Housb , Pavilion TnnATmr . — -Wo nro happy to reoord an enterprise at tho East JDnd , whioh pro miaou to rival—atloapt in tho spirit and energy with whioh it is oonduoted , tho suoooss whioh acorns destined to Attend it , and tho approoiation of not merely tho local but tho gonoral publio- —anything thut bus boon aooompliahpd in tho more fuehionublo regions of tho Weal ; . Mr , John Douglass , then , the proprietor df this houao , has operated ono of thoso " transformation scenes" itt the establishment , whioh involve tho outlay of considerable capital , and imply n somewhat during , bull we predict a well-founded , and wo are bupo a woll-dosorvod confidence in < ixtensivo populiir support . Ho has resolved to ont . iiblish u permanent / seat of tho Lyric Drama in the Euafc End , and with that obioal ; has yolainod tho serv ' oua
of a double company and chorus , for placing English and Italian operaa pn the etttgo in their most porfoot forms of rendering and development . has secured , an excellent band , under the able diroolion of Mr ,
E . Isaacson and Signor Vero . He has taken care to provirlo that all collateral appliances and means-shall be in an equally satisfactory atatc pf efficiency . The theatre has been rc-decorated and fresh painted . It will hold 4000 people . Boxes , " orchestra , and balcony stalls , and one of the best-constructed pits for seeing and hearing ever designed , all afford excellent accommodation for t ! i <; public , and in an acoustical point of view ( or rather point of hearing ) , the building has hardly a superior . Among the artistes engaged are Madame Lancin , Madame Siverne ( sopranos ) , MIessra . A . Braham and W . M . Parkinson , Signori Giuletti and Sal vie ( tenors ) , Mr . E . Itbsenthal and Signor Rugino ( baritones ) . Mr . O . Summers ( who , by the way , discharges the imporof the Then
tant duties of stage director ) , is the " buifb" compwsv . we have Miss Annie Leng ( from Covent-garden ) , Mr . Seguine , Mr . Lisle , and Mr . Morrow ( of the Italian Opera ) , Madame Seguiue and Signor Ruletti ( from the San Carlo ) .. The season commenced . on Saturday last with "Norraa" ( in English ) , with the recitatives as in tho original Italian , and was repeated on Monday , Wednesday , and Thursday , Madame Lancia playing the heroine , and Mr . Braham and Mr . Parkinson alternately sustaining the character of Tollio , and supported bv Mr . Rosenthal and Miss Leng as Orave . vo and Adalgisa . On Tuesday " Lucia di Lammermoor , " in Italian , " was produced , to be repeated on Friday , with Madame Lancia ( who combines tlio notes of a nightingale with the working powers of a steam engine ) , as the for the lirat time
principal character ; Signor Giuletti apjscaring , , as JSdqardo ; Signor Eugino acting and singing JSnr ' ico with adniirablo and deservedly-applauded spirit ;• . Miss Leng representing Alicia , and the other parts being wbll filled up . On tho English nights the performances terminated with the " Waterman , " Messrs . Parkinson and Braham sharing Tom Tug between them , Mr . O . Summers playing Itobin , and Miss Leng appearing as Wi / helmhia ; all these artistes sino-ing the favourite songs associated with the piece , amidst tho warmest applause . On the Italian ni g hts . " Love and "Wine" was given . On Saturday Wallace's " . Maritana , " in English , is to be produced . The crowds that visited the theatro on the opening night filled every inch of standing-room in every part of tho building , and the audiences have been crowded during the week .
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIAL OF THE FRENCH TREATY . We have received a "' photograph , representing , in a well-arranged group , the distinguished men who were recently engaged , at Paris , in arranging the ¦ terms of the French . Treaty . The photograph is one of the largest we have ever seen , being about twelve inches high by sixteen wide . The persons represented are M . Chevalier , Mr . Co . bdi « n , M . Baroehe , M . Foukl , the Count de Per . ^ ighy , tin ; Count do Kergerhty , M . Polfus , Lord Cowley , M . Roulier , M . Periere , and M . Pulbur . The figures are all full length , some seated and some standing , while M . Michael Chevalier in the centre is represented ns addressing bis colleagues on some point of the treaty . The size , the correctness of tho likenesses , and the highly artistic finish of this picture render it a very remarkable specimen of photographic art .. Wo should mention that it is from a work of Mr . John Easth-im , of 122 , Regent-street .
774 The Saturday Analyst And Leader. [Se...
774 The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Sept . 1 , 1860
Parliament. In Tho Houses Of Lords On Fr...
PARLIAMENT . In tho Houses of Lords on Friday , tlio Lord Chancellor , on tho first reading of a bill repealing certain statutes , took occasion to lament the fate of his seven bills for consolidating tho criminal law , which had been withdrawn . Tin ? , Savings Bunks and Friendly Socidies Investment Bill passed through committee . The Roman Catholic Charities Bill was read a second timo ( no umondmonts to bo introduced ) , and their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes to D o ' clock . —In tlio Commons ( Friday ) , Lord Palmeustox s ( ato < l that the report that Austria would rngat'd tho landing ol ' Garibftldi in tho Neapolitan dominions as a casus belli , was totally devoid of foundntiun . Austria , had m > inlontion of interfering boyond iior own . frontier . Tho Divovco Court 13 ill and the' Trustees Morlgngi > es , & c , Bill wore read a thinl lime und passed . Mr . T . DuNCO . uuu ' a . motion fur confinin ;; discurfaii > n on tho
question of adjournmont . from Friday to Monday ,, to tlio businoefi oi tho ensuing week was withdrawn . Lord Pai . mkuston ( in reply to Sir G . BowYEii ) , with roforenoo to tho courao of ncrt ion pursuod by Garibaldi , doolured thut lh . it gonoral had aoted entirely in accordanoj with tlie aspirations , and an tho auxiliary of tho people . In nnswur to Mr . Kinnaird , his Lordship stated that no period hud yot been UxoJ ior tho Oonferonoo propo « ud to bo hold at fclio instance of tho Swiss Confederation , and that tlieunnexnLiou of Savoy mv . l JS ioo did not at i > rosonfc form part of tho publio law of Kuropo ; thut cession took placp under peculiar ciroumatunoes , the province being hfld subjeefc to conditions from whioh the Sardinian Monarch or tho French I 3 nii . > eror ooulci emancipate himself ; on that uocount the , manner in whioh tlio cossioh was made , anil tlio oiroumatanooa attending it , had created a painful impression in the minds of the other European Sutos ; ho
liopod the result would bo , thai the transaction would oloso with dun nnd oompleto security for tho neutrality and independence of fcUvitzorland . In answer to Mr . KrNaxArcjE , lus Lordship stated that with respect to Syria tho British Government ; was aoting in conjunction with tho other great European Powers , nnd boliovod that tho Turkinh Government was sinooroly desirous to punish tho guilty and establish pouoo between tho hostilo raoea . In anawur to Mr . il . Skvmoxiu , witli rogard to Ilia reportod enoroaohmonts of Itussia on the Pertiiun shoron of tho Caspian Soa , and llussian attempt 8 to intorforo with , 1 ' orsia in tlio oxoroiso qf hop legitimate authority ovor tho Turkoman ^ tribes , his Lordship admit ! od tfiiit RuflHia was donii'oua of establishing hor
in-( Uionoo at tho Court of Teheran , but British relations with Puma woi'o on tho most ; eatisfnntoi-y footing . Tlio lEouso was countod out at a quurtop-puati six o ' oloolc . In tho lluuaa of Lords , oh fcJnt iirtlav , < U «' ltoman OathplioOliarjlioa Bill and ooma otUtu *» , wore road a Ihii-atimo , ivncl pivsaod , and tihp Houho adjotirncd till hnU' -pnstionnoriTuoHd'iy . — In the Commons , Lord I ' AiMiiJitBTON ( in rttply to Mr . GiuPinnr ) , slalod that Ajjp-kx . 'KadI'IU hud saved a ounfliilorablo number of UliriMtiuns from being murdurod in DumasoiiH , and tho Bi'ilialj consul hud been dirootiod to thank liim in ( . ho mvmo of t ho ( 3-ovorninOnt . On tliu motion fpr adjournment till ' Tuoadny , Lord l ? Ai . at mtHTON dirootod atlwiifcion to the great tvnd pooulmr lflbonvs gnvtuitouijly performed by tho Petitions
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1860, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091860/page/14/
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