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Feb. 11, 1860.J The Leader and Saturday ...
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FOREIGN. On Saturday, Feb. 4, the Moivit...
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THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS. At Dbtjry L...
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11ec0bd Of The Week. Home And Colonial. ...
stabb § din . WellcIose-squarej verdict ' ^ Wilful murder against per-SC > ¥ h . e wSy return of public health m London on Wednesday , Feb . 8 ,- gives a slight improvement : deaths 1 , 389 ; girths l , » 4 d ^ On Saturday , Feb ^ k died Captain Moorsom , R . N ., aged 44 ; distinguished in China and in the Crimea '; inventor of many / improvements in artillery . . . ' ,. ¦ , , . , , „„„„„ Qn 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 , ± eb . / , at one o ' clock ; the weather was fair , and the phenomenon beautifully visible ¦
. __ __ ... ' > - _ , _ . -n ^ T . ' n „ At the Great Ship Company ' s meeting onTuesday , Feb . 1 ' , a resolution was passed for an entire change of directors . —On . i nursday , Feb . 9 , at the half-yearly meeting of the ^ South Western Railway Company , a dividend was declared of £ 5 5 s . per cent .---Un 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 frates % brandy , Martell's IQs . 10 d . ; Jute sold at previous rates ; tallow , firm ; cotton , 100 bales sold ; indigo , more spirit in the biddings . —On the same day , latest price of Consols was 94 ^ to * for money , and 94 J to f for the account . French Three per Cents . 67 f 70 cshowing a fall of £ ¦ ¦ . .
. ., . __ _ 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 Wagherson the Abpoora ; British loss , 16 killed , including Lieut . Lewis * 1 st N . I ., and forty wounded . ~ \ v nnj 7 On Monday , Feb " . 6 , arrived the Australian mail . On the 2 & Nov ., the parliament of "Victoria met ; the Nicholson Cabinet were all re-elected . . ' . On the same day the Nova 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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Foreign. On Saturday, Feb. 4, The Moivit...
FOREIGN . On Saturday , Feb . 4 , the Moiviteur announced a reduction in the contingent of new recruits for the French army from 140 , 000 fo 100 , 000 . —rOn Sunday , Feb . 5 , the Pope ' s Encyclical was read in all the churches in Paris , with a mandate from the Archbishop of Paris calling attention to the protest of the Holy Father . —Oh Monday , Feb . 6 , numerous Sardinian officers were nominated to the Ligion d ' Hqnneur .. —On the same day , Lord Cowley had a very long intervie \ v with the Austrian Ambassador .
Oh Friday , Feb . 3 , Barons Vay and Prony , as a deputation from the Hungarian Protestants , were received at Vienna by the Emperor of Austria , who promised that in a legal way their legitimate desires should be soon satisfied . —On 3 fonday , Feb . 6 ,. martial law was . proclaimed in Venice and Trieste , and on Wednesdayi $ ih Feb . in the rest of Venetia and in Mantua . —On the same day , at Vienna . Count Rechberg 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 , Fob , 5 , there was a demonstration at the French theatre at Nice in favour of French annexation . —The fallowing day was an enthusiastic counter-demonstration at the Italian theatre of the same place . —On Sunday , Feb . 5 , the Marquis de Cadore arrived in Kome 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 Stado dues , ; Hanover proposed a special agreement > vith England . On Wednesday , Feb . 8 , England rejected this offer , and insisted on a general conference . On Saturday , Feb . 4 , Tetuan was taken by the Spaniards ; groat rejoicings in " Madrid at the Hews . —On Wednesday , Feb . 8 , P'l > onnel 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 wifh apoplexy , aud died in a few hours .
On the . 28 i 7 i January , the Kmperor Alexander gave a magnificent banquet at St . Petersburg to Marshal Prince Bariatinslri ; there were 350 generals present , On Wednesday , Feb . 8 , arrived the American mail ; Houso of Assembly adjourned on 28 th January , without electing- a Spoaker j the Senate was not in session . ' At Coluna , in Mexico , on the 20 th Deoomber , 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 taken 2000 prisoners and five guns . On Thursday , IFab . iHh , arrived telegrams in advance pf China mail of 21 st D ' eo . / the Chinese are fortifying- Pekin and the Poiho rivor , and have a , picked army of 100 , 000 waiting for us . Japan news is to \ % bh JDoq . Trade has been stopped by the outrageous demands- and insults of the Europeans $ tho British Consul has remonstrated against the conduct of the Europeans .
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THEATRES AND ENTERTAINMENTS . At Dbtjry Lank , Mr . E . T . Smith has revived , to the delight of Mr . 0 . Dillon ' s admirers , Sheridan Knowlos ' s " William Tell . " Mr . Dillon , still ambitious of expanding 1 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 « nd energy to secure great applause . Emma , ( Tell ' s wife ) and Albert were played by Miss Tell and Miss Thirlwall respectively . Mr . Emery played Gesler : 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 operettiha , entitled ' < Romance , " by Mr . Henry Leslie , of " choir" celebrity , was produced at Covent Gabden on the 2 nd inst . The plot turns upon the determination of a certain Lady Araminta Arabesque ( Miss Louisa Pyne ) , for an adventure —for mere romance sake—with Dick Turpin , and the siege and capture of her heart by Captain Wildlove ( Mr . Harrison ) , who adopts the charming manner , costume , and mysterious conduct oi 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 , " be cited as specimens . Mr . Honey , as the fussy mayor of York , has a good buffo song , " Important is my mission , and Mr . Harrison a sentimental serenade , " Look forth 1 [ look
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 delieiously , and is justly encored m a ballad , ¦ " Poor silly heart , wouldst thou bo bold ? " \ yhich will , or we venture to say ought ' , 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 harmoni ' , 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 position among composers of opera . A word should nob be wanting for the elegance of the inise , en scene , a Id Louis JSIV ,, and the perfection of the band and chorus ; aiid a hundred words would not be wasted in encouraging Mr . Harrison to persist in his loyal deviation from the ancient custom of wedding the best of music to the most execrable of . doggrel . Mi-. Palgyaye
Simpson wrote tlie agreeable libretto of " Romance . " Mr . Wallace s new work , in preparation at this theatre , is highly spoken of . At the Princess ' s Theatee we lately had in " Home . Truths , ' ¦ £ 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 amusenient is got out of sly iunuendos and home thrusts against the first if not the third of these three honourable things . A mere filament of 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 the niv nf an pxnansioir of a French compression of a yet longer Spanish air of an expansion of a French compression of a yet longer bpanish
aboriginal . One Don Juan de . Sylva ( Mr . George Melville )—who has no scope here for developing the quality \ ye thought lurked m him—lights during his travels with a comic servant of the regulation pattern { Lopes ) Mr . Saker , upon a fair widow , Donna Vtllona ( Miss C . Leclercq ) . In shepherd ( and very liideous ) guise he wins her . So does the valet . her dueua ( Mrs . Westc-n . ) Clothed magnificently by her lie becomes a presentable lover . His bliss is , hovyever , interrupted hy a summons from a match-making friend m Madrid , to repair to the capital and marry a certain lieiross . He starts , swearing constancy and speedy return : hut leaving also the letter of summons , from which the clever widow Jearn g his treachery . To catch him in his own trap she seeks Madrid , and by luck at
once obtains , the post of dueiia to her supposed rival , Angelica ( Miss Clifford ) , daughter of old Don Marcos ( Mr . F . Matthews ) . Once installed , filie breaks down , in five minutes , the parental and most un-hidalgo-lilce will of Don Marcos that his daughter should espouse Juan ; substitutes for him , also by consent of the parent , the rightful lover , Don T aldoa { Mv . Cuthcart ) ; and forgetting her wrongs and her womanhood together , herself marries the remainder , viz , the Juan aforesaid . Miss Leclercq , pleased us in some of her sprightly passages , displaying not more stage vivacity , but natural spirit . Mr . F . Matthews , w . h' o had a very inferior part , succeeded in making the audience laugh heartily at his general denunciations of womankind , and Ms particular anxiety to be r » d of his daughter as one of the sex . To Mr . Melville we cannot award the praise ot being so light a comedian as the part demanded . Mr . Graham was picturesque and emphatic as the time-honoured retainer , below
Monlafan . The piece , though , critically spenking , mediocrity , may , from the ** general public" point of view , bo reported successful . The Monday ToruLAit Concerts gain new force and popularity each season . The mustard seed hns so exceedingly prospered that we now hear of fjundreds turned from the doors on Monday Inst ; when , in addition to the standing corps of instrumentalists , »» " > ' »> £ from Beethoven and Moznrfc , Mr . Sims Hooves sang " Adolaicla , accompanied by Miss Arabolla Goddard ; and this popular ptanuto gave the fairly ( Willed " phis ultra \* Sonata of Dussek , and jjomed the accomplished clarionet of Lnsurus in Wotar ' s d « h < Moiis Sonata ( B flat ) for that instrument and tho piano-forto . Mms Siwannwii Smart is progrossx . i ff in popularity . Her old lulliiby , " OoWeu slumbers Itiss yowr eyes , " was perhaps tho most relished ot tlio minor attraction on Monday exeninff .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 11, 1860, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11021860/page/21/
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