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Nov. 24, 1860] The Saturday Aimtyst and ...
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FOREIGN. The closing news of last •week ...
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ENTERTAINMENTS. Her Majesty's Theatre.—T...
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Nov. 24, 1860] The Saturday Aimtyst And ...
Nov . 24 , 1860 ] The Saturday Aimtyst and Leader * § 6 ?
Foreign. The Closing News Of Last •Week ...
FOREIGN . The closing news of last week was that General Salzano had proposed to General Fanti the surrender of the body of Neapolitan troops who remained outside . Gaeta , consisting of ten battalions of Chasseurs ' and a regiment of cavalry . General Fanti rejected this proposition . After the engagement of the 12 th inst . the Bourbon troops re-entered Gaeta . The Sardinians took up fresh positrons round the town . The garrison of Gaeta consisted of eighteen battalions , but a despatch announced that two merchant steamers , sailing under -French colours , had left Gaeta with troops . Their destination was supposed to be Civita Vecchia . As this week opened we learned that on the 12 th the Piedmontese bombarded the suburbs of Gaeta . The Neapolitan troops continued to fight resolutely , but the defection of staff officers was increasing . Pour generals , Salzano , Colonna , Barbalonga , and Polezzi , had resigned . The King had dismissed and sent away General Bertolini . Colonel Pianelli had surrendered a battalion of chasseurs to the Piedmontese . Further resistance bj the Bourbon troops was paralysed by the insubordination of their chiefs and the confusion which prevails . TJp to November 18 th no Northern Power had protested against the entry of Victor Emmanuel into the city of Naples . "When Sardinia claimed the cannons taken from the Neapolitans , who were disarmed on the Papal territory , General Goyon replied that at present it was impossible to give a decision , but that the artillery would bo given up later to the proper party . A military commission , composed of French and Sardinian officers , and presided over by Generals Goyon and Oialdini , was to settle the questions arising from the entry of the Bourbon troops into Roman territory . This week it was stated that only 16 , 000 Bourbon troops entered the Papal States , and that a convention had been signed for sending them back to their own country . The . exling of Naples issued a further protest against the course of events , in which absurdity he is supported by the Spanish Government . These sophists argue as if the pretended right of a family cr individual to oppress and torment a whole people , and govern a nation against its will , and to its affliction and ruin , were like the title to so maiy acres of land . They are too benighted to understand that a monarch is simply the chief public servant of a country , whom the inhabitants of that country are as much justified in changing for some other agent , as a joint-stock company is in changing its secretary or manager . And that in spite of all the nonsense inculcated about divine . right and legitimacy , the common sense and reason of mankind , the practical logic of life , and the workings of events , are so fast reducing this view to actual practice . Victor Emmanuel has issued a commission for regulating the degree & € the officers of Garibaldi ' s troops ; he invites the volunteers to enter the regular army , and bind themselves to two years' service ; this the volunteers , as might naturally be supposed , do not appear pleased with , as they consider that their degree , already earned , should be accepted . The pensions granted by Piedmont are to extend to the wounded among Garibaldi ' s army . From Naples we learned that on the reins being no longer held by the firm but skilful hand of Garibaldi , for whom so much enthusiasm and confidence were felt , things have been going rather to the bad ; which , also ? " was not to . be not expected . " It wa « reported that five provinces , including the Abruzzi , had been declared by the present Government to be in a state of siege . The fact seems to be that the people who expected the freedom of self-government , expect to bo saved like the ass in the fable , and only to experience a change of masters in the substitution of the Sardinian for the Bourbon family . All Italian territory under French ^ protection" as it is called—the accurate name is a very different one—is to bo left intact by the Sardinian troops . Accordingly , it seems , General Goyon claimed that Terracina , which had been occupied by the Sardinian General de Sonnaz , be forthwith evacuated , either as a pendant to , or as the prompter of , Antonelli ' s protest against what he complains of as an aggression on the Pope s dominions . On the day of our going to press with this portion of the paper , the la test news from Italy wns , thafc \ the French were about to occupy Terracina . From Rume we learned < ho arrival of t . he Dpwnger Queen of Naples , with the Princess and the children of King Francis . His wife preferred staying with him and hi * brothers at Gaeta , whore part of the palace hod been rendered bomb-proof . The ex-queen is a Bavarian Princess , and induced ? ior husband to make concessions when ; too late , She struggled , from tbio commencement-of her stay in Naples , against the influence of the ox-king ' s stepmother , who has now retired , At Venice , the Emperor of Austria ia attempting to cqncillinte the people , but ^ lns also rauafc be considered as coining too late . " From Sardinia there aro symptoms of renewing the war agaiust Austria , and to carry it , if possible , into Hungary . Sardinia , it was positively stated , had no intention of contracting the now loan that had been talked of . There is a rnmour that the French Erhjperor has put forth a " feeler " to ascertain the opinion of Europe as to his assuming the funotions of Head of the Churohin Franoe , and most of our contemporaries have pounced upon it as a marvellous mare ' s n « sfc . Tt may , or may nob be , that next week wo shall have something to sny upon this
subject . "It is reported that the Austrian Government is about toiss \ ie an amnesty rogarding political offences committed in 1848 ( that is , twelve years ago ) , in the shortestpossiblo time . "Better latp than never , " wo suppouo j but tho M Austrian Government" can hardly bo so innooenfc auto imagine anybody else ia innocent enough not to soo through this misornblp artifice . , Rumoura woro afloat at midweek , that Austria was about forming a corps of observation on the borders of Moldavia , in Transylvania , and thafc this was not without some relation to tho reports that Russia had bcon gradually moving troops in a southwn direction , towards tho point whioh both Powers would thus appear to have their eye upon . It is notorious that Russia still looks , with a uovotous eye , upon tho inhoritanqe of tho " sick man , " and has boeninoving- ^ -not heaven , eortainly- »~ bufc earth , and another place , perhaps , to get a modification of the Battlement of I 860 . Mr . Abraham Lincoln and Mr . Hannibal Hamlin . have boon eleoted roaneptivehr to the Presidency and . Vioe-PreijWenoy of the United States . The now prosidont '» plwtform is ftnti-sl « vory .
At the close of last week it was announced in the German press , that England , which up to the present time had only been represented at tho Imperial Court of Austria by an . Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary , was ab 6 ut ty raise the rank of her embassy , and would , in future be represented by an Embassy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary . ' At Berlin , November 18 th , it was announced that Lord Blooinfield was appointed English Ambassador to the court of Vienna , and Lord Loftus , English . Minister at Vienna , was to replace Lord Bloomfield at Berlin .
Entertainments. Her Majesty's Theatre.—T...
ENTERTAINMENTS . Her Majesty ' s Theatre . —The representation of Flotow ' o Martha at this house during the week , serves to remind the public of the great versatility whicli distinguishes the power of lyric characterization possessed by Mdlle . Titiens . We are accustomed to associate her in our mind with those tragic portraitures which excite the deepest emotions , and work so powerfully on the feeling of an audience in Tlie Huguenots , Trovatore , Don Giovanni , Lucrezia Borgia . But the truth is , she is equallv at home in lighter operas , such as the one which forms the subject of the present notice . She can assume such a character as Martha , and render it in a style of graceful efficiency which leaves nothing to desire , both in a musical and a histrionic point of view . Sig . Giuglini as
Lionel , having recovered from his indisposition , sang the music of tins character , which is so well adapted to his powers , with exquisite effect . And Sig . Vialetti and Madame Lemaire , alike deserve the most creditable mention for their respective performances as Plumk ,-tt and Nancy . This is one of the operas which is sm-e to be favourably received in England on account of having a favourite popular song wrought up in it . Everybody is delighted to hear " The last rose of summer " effectively sung any where and at any time ; and such a melody , of coui ^ e , lenda the attraction of its associations to the piece in which it is introduced . Robin Adair finds himself in the Scotch plot of a French opera—Boieldieu's Dame Blanche ; at which we should imagine he to the traditions
wad considerably surprised . And we find , according of the lyric stage , that the duloe dommn of our childhood is situate m the court of Henry the Eighth , as those who have heard Anna Bolena will recollect . We once asked Sir Henry Bishop about the transplanting of " Sweet home " into Donizetti ' s opera . He told us that Pasta , for whom the maestro w » 3 composing that opera , was one of his pupils * and that she took such a fancy to his song that she said she should have it introduced into the work . But according to some the air in question is an old Sicilian ineloiy which Sir Henry brought home with him irom . abroad . The performance of Martha vims a , great success , but as its merit chiefly consists in an ensemble , of lig ht music and characterization , there are not the striking features for criticism which are to be iound in such works as the masterpieces of Rossini and Mozart .
Drtxry-lake Theatre . — The Billet Dovx , is the French title of an Eno-lish version of a French piece , or a piece so like the French one ot Les JPattes de MoucJie , that we suppose it is " an adaptation . A gentleman rejoicing in the pecuniary name of Harry Blunt ( Mr . _ C . Mathews ) , and a lady who , when we first make her acquaintance , is a Mrs . Pencolin ( Misa Arden ) , had , prior to the latter changing her maiden name , formed , in the language of the original pieca , what is called a liaison . She had on one occasion left a note for Mr . Blunt in a hiding-place agreed upon betweem them ; but , as hand at least not
ill-luck would have it , it never " came to ' — to the hands it was intended to come to . Meanwhile J > lunt croes abroad with his regiment , and comes back a minor , with a erudfio against tho lady for jilting him . Having got hold of the billet doux in question , he evinces a disposition to use it for revenging himself : but a friend of tho family , Miss Bright ( Mrs . Churles Mathews ) . becomes awaro of this , and determines to defeat his purpose . The Plotting and counter-plotting that follow furnishes the matonal ot the piece . The adventures of this unfortunate letter are a thousandfi , M % n ™» Rxtvanrdinarv than any " adventures" oi any " guinea that
ever iincled through its protracted monetary existence . Wo doubt U the transmigration of any eoul that over existed at » U comes up to thdm . They aro much too numerous to mention , and to be appreciated oucht to be witnessed . Mr . Pencolin is a rather " wpoden and truculent bo & of husband ; and there aro a Mr . and Mrs . Wagstaff pressed into tho piece for the more effective transaction of the dramatic businessthe respective assumptions of which characters are allotted to Mr . M'Lein , Mr . Tilbury , and Mrs . Frank Matthews . Tho pieoe was well acted throughout .
66, Queen-Etroot, London, 23rd August, 1...
66 , Queen-etroot , London , 23 rd August , 18 G 0 . Messi-B . B . Wotherspoon & Co ., 46 , Dunlop street , Glasgow . Dear Sire , —I have , as requested , to-day visited the Royal laundry , with reference to the advertisement of the Nottingham firm , who state that their ataroh has been used for many years in tlio Royal laundry , and havo been assured by Mr . Thompson , the superintendent , hat none but yourselves have any right to state that they supply starch to hot Majesty ' s laundry , as no other etai-eh is thore uaod , nor has boon used for wine years / out tho Glonfleld patent starch . I have been further assured that your starch continues to give complete satisfaction , and that , though trial has boon made of samples of various sarohoa , „ "" " p ; l ««« i , nr « l ^ nn found noarlv caual in quality to tho OlonllM .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 24, 1860, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24111860/page/15/
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