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WEDNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS . The sixth , and last of the series was given on Wednesday last . The first part of the programme consisted of selections from "W " eber and Meyerbeer ; the second part was miscellaneous . The merit of the performers generally was " too little for a great praise , " being dwarfed by the genius and consummate art of Pauline Viardot Garcia , who looks in better health , and whose voice is firmer , and truer than when we heard her last . She sang , with equal power and perfection , the moonlight seena from Der Freiscliutz , " Ah ! mon fils , " from the JPropkete , and her own " Non piu mesta . " And as the rebellious encore of the last was not to be put down , instead of repeating it , she took to the piano , and with irresistible
insouciance threw off one of her Zingara songs to the enraptured audience . Mademoiselle St . Marc , a very pretty young pianiste , whose lovely arms were positively "features" of the concert , played with success a fantasia from Lucrezia Borgia , by Leopold de Meyer , which was difficult , and in no sense beautiful . Benedict ' s conducting was , as usual , excellent ; and the instrumental pieces ( especially the overture to Der FreiscJmtz ) were all efficiently performed . Why were no selections made from Weber ' other operas ? Next Wednesday evening , the first concert of a new series will be devoted ( the first part at least ) to Mendelssohn again . Mademoiselle Clauss will , we are rejoiced to be able to announce , repeat her exquisite performance of the Concerto in Gr minor—alas ! her last before she takes wing for St . Petersburg .
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PHOTOGRAPHY . [ third article . ] We arc far from regarding the silvered plate as exploded by the perfection of calotype paper , lor certain purposes , there can bo no doubt that the polished surface will always bo found the best ; but only in eases where precision rather than effect is wanted , as in copying machinery . - The continuance ' of the " dry process" of Dagucrro avi' 11 bo restricted to technical requirements , while most persons who art ; led to practise heliop-aphy by a general admiration of its pictorial results , will make the Talbolypo their exclusive study . Indeed , the facility of multiplying pictures taken by Talbofc ' s process ; of transmitting the several copies ; and , above
all , of ' publishing them , like engravings , will secure the Talbotype a mo nopoly of general favour . i ^ Ticephore JNTiepce , the originator , as we have already remarked , of he-Hography , died in 1833 ; and it . was not till 1839 that the process which he and Daguerre had struck out between them was made known . Niepee , however , had left a son , with whomDaguerre entered into anew agreement , of equal participation in the profits of their labours ; and in July , 1839 , the French Government purchased their secret with a pension . We shall give but a slender outline of the process , because , for reasons hinted , the Talbotype will engage our principal consideration . The tablet on which the pictures of the Daguerreotype are produced is
a thin sheet of copper , plated with silver , and rendered sensitive by an application to be presently described . It has been shown , that the difficulty ^ w hich baffled every precurs or of JNiepee was—how to arrest the action of light , or rather , of its accompanying phenomena , on the sensitive object . The triumph of JNiepce consisted alone in overcoming this difficulty ; and the operation , as may naturally be conjectured , forms the last step in the process . The first , is to prepare the silvered plate for the reception of the sensitive ioduret of silver . This is effected b y a gentle rubbing over the plate with finely levigated pumice and olive oil . When cleaned , the silver coating is again rubbed with diluted nitric acid . The plate is then placed on a frame , the silver surface being upwards , and a CtTMT * rf- lOTHTI TO It * ^ T" » + " "IT" ! TVI f \ T 1 f \ f * IT Tl H /^ TTIOOT Kl OA n a 4 ~ r \ Ti'MArlil / - »/ "V n f » rt-rrrtn 7- » - ** - » + tl Cl /
* OUilH ; JLCLXXA . LJ J . Q J ± . % j £ J U JLLX JU 1 V / KJ . VU UU . UUX JJ- *_<* UJ _ . j OU C * O V \ J JJJ . \ J \ A . IA . \ ^ K 3 J-L CVCU JXt /< XO throughout the metal . In a few minutes a white ; . film will be seen ; the plate is then allowed to cool as rapidly as possible , and the polisliing is repeated , with the application of the nitric acid . Great delicacy is required in the whole of this operation , as , indeed , in every step throughout the process , " dry" or " , " of heliography . The next step in the manipulation of the Daguerreotype is the vaporising process . The plate is shut in a box , peculiarly constructed for the purpose , so that the silver coating being downwards is exposed tea vapour arising from iodine . This operation must be terminated as soon as the surface has become the colour of gold . If left a few seconds too long the plate will be violet-coloured and useless .
The third operation consists in fixing the plate in the camera . This enters as well into the process of the Talbotype , and will be explained byand-by . In the camera the sensitive tablet is solarized . The development of the image is the next step , and is attained by submitting the plate to a temperature of 167 degrees Fahrenheit in the " mercury box . " The plate is adjusted with its face downwards , as when exposed to the vapour of the iodine , only instead of being placed horizontally , it is inclined at an angle of about 45 degrees . The box , of course , is carefully closed , and when , by means of the spirit lamp , a temperature of 140 degrees has been reached , it will continue to rise without further aid of artificial heat . When the thermometer fitted in the box indicates a fall
to 131 degrees the plate is transferred to another box , which is simply constructed , by means of grooves , to hold a number of such plates , and to exclude light . We now come to the final operation of arresting that solar action which , when found hj Wedgwood and others to produce a change in nitrate of silver , was employed by them to copy images , fading as they did under the continued influence by which the pictures wore produced . The removal of the iodine , leaving the image , was , in effect , the problem that Niepce solved .
Once solved , the problem is a common-place . No step in holiography so simple or uninteresting . A saturated solution of cliloridc of sodiumcommon salt , that is to say—will do ; hyposulphite of soda does better . After repeated plunging in one or other of these saline washes , the plato is held on an incline , while warm distilled water is poured over it . The Daguorreotypo is finished , and , being placed behind a glass ( for the light parts of the picture will come off at a touch , like the down from a moth ' s wing ) , is unalterable—thanks to JSTiopco and Daguerre—by the sun ' s
rays . Wo have not spoken of combinations employed since Daguerre first published his discovery . To have done so would have interfered with our purpose of making this particular branch subordinate to oilier brandies of our subject . Wo now turn to the calotype , or paper heliograph , invented by our countryman , Fox Talbot . <) .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On tho 2 St , h of Soptomber , at Singapore , the wifo of Captain J . W . Goad , l )(! j ) u ( , y Assistant ConnuisHary-General , and Buperinti'iuldni , lr . M . ' n Con ] Depot ,: a Hon . On tho Ht . h of October , at Muroe , Punjab , tho wifo of Lieutonanf ,-I'Olonol WolloHloy , H . M . ' h Tenth liniment : n daughter . On | . ho 2 Hth of October , at tho Itectory , Welwyii . Jlerfs , Lady ¦ Jwotliby : a daughter . <> n tho 2 flth , at Ilydo-park-tfardtMiB , tho Hon . Mrs . Arthur Kimmii-rt : a daughter . On Uio 2 Hth November , at Itatli . 'tho wifo of Captain J . F . Mwlnitf , li . N s n daughter . On tho 2 Sth , at Vornhnni-hall , nearlJury St . EdinnudH , tho Lady Wwhhu-h : a daughter . MAHHIAOKH . « r n" 'IV 1 2 (> l' 1 . Oetobor , at MountHtiiarl ,, RothoHay , tho residence ' »• uui Marchioness of Mute , Lieutenant-Colonel O . C . Yiirhorou ^ ii , ;•" ¦ , oi i | , ( , Ninoty-lir . st IteKinient , third win of tho late John vii i
On Thursday , tho 2-lth , at tho piuinh church , Dudield , James , son oi tho Into Charles Mathian , Knq ., of Lamphey-courl ; , Pembrokeshire , l , o Maria Harriet , daughter of tho Into William Itawstorno , Ihq ., of Jlowick , Lancashire . DI 0 AT 1 IS . On tho 21 h (; of November , at Torquay , AVilliam M . Do Rntls lalo Captain in the Kitfhty-eitfhth ( Oonnaiu , 'ht Hangers ) Regiment , second mirvivirty * hoii of Oonoral Sir AugustuH Do Butts , K . O . I I . apfod tliirty-HOvon . On tho 22 nd , at , l » at , shull , Htnllbrdshiro , tho Jti ^ lit Hon . William tho Karl of Dartmouth , aged Hixty-nino . On tho 2 ;) nl , at IlaniHbury-villas , Islington , Janet , last surviving Histor of the lato Sir Alexander i '' orrier , JC . d . II Jl . U . M . Consul at Rotterdam , aged eighty . On tho 2 Uh , at Lan . sdown-oroHcont , ChoUmihatn , Lidutoimnl-( Jdndi-al DuncunMoJ'liorHon , of ( , lio J { onKalArniy , a ^ ddHdv (! iil , y-llvo . On ( ho 2 'ti ( . h , in'London , tho lion , Lady 1 ' ahnor , wifo of Kir . John llonry J ' ahnor , Hart ., of Calt () ii-park , ' jNorfclimni > tonshiro , aired wixty-Hovon .
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING . Why Shakspeare ' s comedy was produced at the Haymabket , unless to prove the tediousness it was capable of creating when so acted , I know not . _ The entertainment was most Lenten in its kind y a painful , not a pleasing thing , it was to see princely gaiety with such extremely loose legs , and with tones and gesticulations which are considered facetious in farce ; painful it was to note how one was loud , and ungraceful , and another ungraceful and loud—how a general delirium of arms and universal exaltation of the voice were supposed to represent hilarityand how , when passion was demanded , noise , and only noise , was there to answer for it . Much Ado about Nothing hovers so constantly on the unpleasant , both in story and dialogue , the wit is often so forced and ( burn me , idolaters !) feeble , that unless the insolence of youth and beauty , and confidence and animal spirits be represented as such , unless the comedy be comedy , the mirth of high natures having the privileges of birth and beauty , it becomes mere impertinence , and is unpleasant . TiBeatrice be not made fascinatingif disdain and scorn do not " ridesparkling in her eyes " - —she is an ill-bred woman , whom every man would carefully avoid . If Benedict have not manly strength and power underlying the airy coxcombry of animal spirits which makes him " flout" the sex—if his sarcasms do not carry with them their own excuse and forgiveness , then Benedict is a very illconditioned gentleman , with whom we desire no further acquaintance . To-night we are to have Stirling Coyne ' s new Comedy . May it succeed , and keep us at least from Shakspeare travestied in this fashion . " Vivian .
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December 3 , 1853 . ] THE LEA D E R . 1173
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CORN MAlMvMT . Murk Lane , 1 'Yiday , Dorombor 2 , IRfi : ) . Loom , Tkadk . '—Tho mipplieHof all («' niin inlo London during tho week havo boon inodenile . Tho trado bun , liovvcvcu- , boon ox ceediutfly < iuinl ., and whoro hiiIoh aro prdHHod a nliKht roduoUoii iu jiriccfi nniMJ . |> o tiiihinil . led to . I ' - O . It . 'i'liD value of the / Incut doMcri pUoiiH of Wheat him HM'ain Hli ^ 'htly ndvaneed in New York , while necondnry ( iu * ilitii > M aro a ohado Jotvor . l ^ ino whlto Uuuohiiuu wan wurlh ( KJu u ' a j , Op
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MONEY MAJtKIST AND CITY INTJOLLIOENCE . I- ' ridiiy Hvoniuff , Dmioinbor 2 , IHHU . Tiiukk Iuih been a furfJior rally in tho Kn ^ liHlv FujmIh Tho fiwit thlil . no advance wan mado yoHt ( fi'day in tho rato of diMconnl and thu hopn Unit , tho dooreaHo In tho bullion may not prove ho Iniye an wuk iint . ioipaf . dd , havo had a good olloot , an < l im tho mstUinif ( lay approaches , it would npyuw that tho " contango" k « m
Kindlier , lipinpfixiw l-l « f f only . CoiisoIh bnvo been dealt , in at . ' M for money , and are last quoted D 1 J to I ) . ' , for immediate transler and Tucnday ii (> xt . K , cduc (! d , 'f per < Viitn . recovered fo ' . r . tf and Now : « i per Ccnl . H to i ) 5 J . itnnK Htoclc wns dealt in at , ^ 17 , and India Htoek iJ . W ^ 5 : { . India IJoikIh were ral . lier hcivy at par , and lOxcluxpier IHUh aro 3 n . to ( in . jinniiiiiin , Itein ^ Mtil ' l rather heavy . JKorei tfn KtoclcH are very (| uief , and for flic most purl ; only nominal . ItiiHHiiin 5 ]> er ('(^ iil . s . have been af , 111 ( o 111 ); , lieiu ^ fiteady . . Sardinian ltondn are ( nioted N !) , Dutch : 2 J per Centn . 0 } and t , h ( i Pour pcrCeiitH . Oiift . * There have been Home Kcvere ( lue / nalioiiH in the Share Hlnrlui /; , but ; the general tone of prices is better . ( Jivat NorfhnriiH liavo been heavy at H 2 i and H . 'l . OidedonianH wore II . higher . lOjmtoru ConntieH improved » . ijimeaHhiro and VorlcKhiro rid lied f . o <;/ . North WenleriiH wciv nlcady at KW-i . Midlands rose to < i 2 , ' [! Month KiiHtoriiH are ii 5 H hiL r b (! r to-diiy ; and York and North Mid-. lands havo recovered II . in price . Colonial Shares were iionie-What ; depreciated . I'Jiwt . ' India , ' SMI . ( irmid Trunk of (! an : tda lower at . 7 , 1 or il , , < 1 ih . lielifian Shares were nil lirni . << reaf , Luxoinhoui'KH recovered to iOfj ; ditt . o railway to Oi . Namnr inul iiit rofto naiiiuru iuoiimo iiic
^ c on , mm nun name . lves . 1 I landers Preference ntidised 1 ) . ' . Norl hern <» f li ' mure were higher . ' . Mines wero dnll , and Hunk KharoH Hat . Australian A ^ rhmltnral (; oni |» iiiy improved ( , < i'liti . Van l ) iemcn ' n Laud Company Htand at 11 ) . CryHial 1 ' alaoo , 1 J premium .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1853, page 1173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2015/page/21/
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