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      As a pendant to Mr . Hargreave ' a work , which contains so many incidents of travel in wild countries , we have placed Mr . Galton ' s Art of Travel , in which the author has collected with singular research a series of recipes for the alleviation of every imaginable difficulty that can beset a man in the wilderness . These are partly the results of his own experiences in his explorations of tropical South Africa , and partly gathered from the works ot other travellers , sportsmen , and missionaries . As far as our own experience will guide us in judging of Mr . Galton ' s " shifts and contrivances —rand we have had the fortune or misfortune to be obliged personally to test many of them—we can strongly commend thorn . We should be sorry to endorse them all as infallible or even advisable ( are there many people who will adopt the expedient of cutting a hole in their arm and inserting in it a silver tube filled with gems , and letting the skin heal over it , as a protection against highway robbery ?) , but altogether the book is very entertaining to ' dip into , ' and will be useful to every man who wanders beyond the precincts of civilisation . -

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      FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , January 30 . BANKRUPTS . —Robert Desmond Suxivan , Great Tarmouth , shipowner—Geougb Boys , Belitha Villas , West , Barnsbury-park ,, wine merchant — James Daniejl , Bugbrook , Northamptonshire , coal merchant —> Yii , wam . Ro-Beet ScnwoNKE , Union-court , Old Broad-street , commission merchant—William and JosEtH Raven . Fish-strecthill , wholesale stationers — Tiro mas Mastehs , Crystal Palace Hotel and Beulah Hotel , Norwood , hotel keeper — Geoege Hall , Brighton , upholsterer—William Huguies , Shelton , Staffordshire , builder—John Latimer , Nowcaatleunder-Lynie , draper—George Bailey , Walsall , Jinnkeeper —William Gbaingeb , Dudley , builder—Edmund Lloyd Owen , near Wolvorhaunpton , mineral morehant — John Phillips , Broadwinsor , Dorset , baker — John Harris , Torquay , grocer—Thomas Ramsden and William Bradford Baxter , Bailiffo-bridge , Yorkshire , worsted spinners—Thomas Hodson Hodson , Peckferton , near Boeston , Cheshire , cattle-dealer—William Rbnnie , Jambs Johnson , and William Rankin , Liverpool , shipwrights — James Sidebotiiam , Manchester , grocor—Joiiir Richardson , Manchester , umbrella manufacturer . . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —J . M'GLASnAN Glasgow , morohant—D . M'Farlane , Oban , baker—W . and J . B . Low , Arbroath , drapers . Friday , February 2 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . —Rich aed Derbyshire , Liverpool , morehant . BANKRUPTS . —John Watney , Wimbledon , Surrey , baker—William SmrMAN , Manchester , baker—James Clapton , Exotor , provision doalor—Joiin Birt , Gun Mills , Gloucester , paper manufacturer—Samuel Sheppard Ireland , Brighton , cabinetmaker—Henry George Cable , Goswoll-stroot , Clerkenwell , draper — Henry Buckell , Portsea , draper—James Swank . Coventry , Warwickshire , hardware and general dealer—Wm . Perkins , Birmingham , soda water dealer— "William Harvey Fletcher , Klddormiustor , auctioneer—William Brown Nash , CollegohiU , Cannon-street West , City , wino merchant—Edward HoDOEa Baily , Nowinan-strcot , Oxford-street , Middlosox , sculptor—John Beaumont , son ., and John Beaumont , lun .. Commerclal-placq , City-road , coachmakors . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —James Ford , Edinburgh , provision merchant , &o . —JonN Smith , Cowoaddons , Glasgow , draper—Alexander Whytb , and Co ., Glasgow , merchants , &c .

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      GLUCK AND JOHANNA WAGNER . ( From an occasional Correspondents ) Berlin is the only city in Germany , or , indeed , in the world , where , in the course of a season , you are sure to hear one or more of Gluck's operas ; and that alone , to a real lover of music , makes Berlin worth a visit . For consider what it is to hear a chef-d ' oeuvre , especially the chef-d' ' oetivre of a master not to be heard in other theatres ! Consider the mingled instruction and delight derived from such a representation , compared with the mitigated mediocrity of worn-out French andltalian operas , represented by worn-out singers , or singers not worth wearing out ! Consider what it is to hear Gluck in Germany , where the representations of Italian operas are , as ^ Liszt wittily said to me one evening as we came from such a representation , like the railway imitated by a lumbering diligence ! I love the Italian opera ; I love its sensuous beauty , its "linked sweetness long drawn out ; " I love its melodies and passionate phrases , not being very critical as to whether the music is wedded to very mortal verse , or whether it , strictly speaking , represents the proper feeling of the situation . . 1 accept its faults for the sake of its beauties ; but I demand Italian singers , and cannot quite enjoy , even in the easy after-dinner mood , the a-peu-pres style of German singing . My real delights , therefore , in Germany , have been to hear Wagner ' s operas in Weimar , and in Berlin the operas of Beethoven and Gluck ; because in these : cases the interest of the music made one accept the mediocrity of the singers . But with Gluck there was the special interest , before hinted , of masterpieces to be heard nowhere else . It was like taking up Tom Jones or the Vicar of Wakefield after a course of French novel reading , to pass from a London opera season to the enjoyment of such a work as the Orfeo ; not that I mean to slight French novels , nor the London opera season—both pleasurable things in their way—but the pleasure- derived from a chefd ' oeuvre , especially when mingled with a certain historical interest , is altogether of a higher kind . Gluck ' s music , although very learned , is the music of a man of genius , and appeals , therefore , to the common apprehension as i

      well as to the musical erudite . It has a certain quaintness and simplicity which reminded me of Drjrden ' s prose , the slight traces of archaism only serving to set forth more vividly the manly vigour and beauty of the style . It is old new music—old in its instrumentation , old in a certain barren symmetry , occasionally approaching formality , and new with the eternal youth of genius , melody , and passion . Such marvellous musical declamation as is to be found in Orfeo and the Iphigenia I remember nowhere else ; and if Johanna Wagner were to make her appearance in London in the character of " Orfeo , " she would electrify the audience and conquer all the critics . I waited some time before seeing Johanna Wagner , repressing curiosity for the sake of doing her justice . It did not seem just to this artist to receive one ' s first impression of her in parts such as " Tancredi , " " Fides , " " Lucrezia Borgia , "" wherein she would be overshadowed by the recollections of the mighty Pasta , the intense Viardot , and the glorious Grisi ; for , even supposing that she equalled these great actresses , how could I think she equalled them , haunted by their images ? To see her in " Orfeo" was to see her in a trying part , with no other standard than herself . It was worth waiting for . Johanna Wagner ' s excellence lies in dramatic singing . Her voice , without being magical , is a fine one , powerful , not of great compass , but tolerably even ; a mezzo soprano rather than contralto , at least in quality , for her soprano range is limited . I know not what amount of execution m the voluble style she may possess , but her phrasing is large , passionate , and simple ; her modulations exquisitely managed ; her pianissimo delicate , yet full of timbre ; and her mode of singing recitative equals that of the greatest singers . I still hear the passionate expression , the musical agony of despair which she threw into the recitative which precedes the No perduto il vel sembiante ( an aria , by the way , which I reroinmend to any reader -with a contralto voice , as worthy of her immediate study ) . Johanna ' s singing of this aria was one of those things which to hear is to remember through life . Unhappily , her voice is not high enough to enable her to take the part of "Iphigenia , " so that , when I procured the tickets , I made a wry face at findin ° Johanna , but another was to be the heroine . Thanks to the lovely musicf the treat was almost as great with the Iphigenia as with the Orfeo ; the execution was inferior , but the music compensated . One thing very noticeable in this music , and especially grateful to those who have persisted in objecting to the modern style of instrumentation , which stuns the ear and -drowns the voices of the singers in meaningless clang of brass and rolling of parchment , is , that Gluck contrives to produce the most consummate orchestral effects , such as the noisy incompetence of moderns never approaches , and he produces them by the simplest of all means , * and" the truest —namely , by gradation . Never once does his orchestra overpower the voices ; never once does lie make it a misery to sensitive nerves ; and yet his storm and the hurrying agitation of the Furies are among the most expressive and powerful passages in descr iptive music . When a man masters his orchestra in the way Beethoven , Mozart , and Gluck mastered it , he is never forced to recur to noise any more than a good writer is forced to recur to violence . When a man knows the value of words , he knows how to dispose them , so that very simple words shall fall with overwhelming effect . Unhappily our modern composers do not , for the most part , master their orchestra ; they remind me of the bad writers described in Friends in Council , who use several epithets in the vague hope that one among them may be found to fit , with this difference , that their epithets are resonant brass and sonorous parchment . j

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      Febbhaby 3 , 18 & 5 . ] THE LEAD EB . 117

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      MARRIAGES . PIGOTT- —RICKETTS . —Feb . 1 , at Walcot Church , Bath , by the Rev . Loftus Cliffe , assisted by the Rev . William Wellington , the Rev . George O . Smyth PigoLt , Rector of Kingston Scamoor , Somerset , to Maria , only daughter of Alfred Ricketts , Esq ., of Lansdown-crescent , Bath . RUSSELL- NELSONv—Janr 25 v air Charlton-Church . -m the parish of Downton , Wilts , Robert John Russell , Esq ., of Great Finborough , in the county of Suffolk , to Lady Frances Catherino Nelson , eldest daughter of the late Thoruos , second Earl Nelson . DEATHS . COOPER . —Jan . 27 , at Isleworth House , Middlesex , Lady Cooper , relict of Sir William Henry Cooper , Bart ., aged eighty-seven . . _ JONES . —Jan . 26 , at the E . I . College , Hailoybury , the Rev . Rd . Jones , M . A ., for nearly twenty years Professor of Political Economy and History in that College , aged sixty-four . ' ¦ _ KERR . —Jan . 24 , at St . Cuthbert ' a College , Ushaw , Lord John Montagu Hobart Kerr , youngest son of tho lato , and brother of the present , Marquis of Lothian , aged thirteen . ¦ PHILLIMORE . —Jan . 24 , at Shiplako House , Reading , Joseph Phillimoro , Esq ., D . C . L , Regius Professor of Civil Law in tho University of Oxford , and her Majesty ' s . Advocate in her Ofllcc of Admiralty , aged eighty . ROBINSON . —Jan . 27 , at Dyrham Rectory , Gloucestershire , Sir George Best Robinson , Bart ., formerly Chief Superintendent in China , aged llfty-sevon .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS , BIRTHS . COTTON Jan . 28 , at 4 G , Clargos-strcot , Piccadilly , pro-¦ maturely , tho wlfo of Dr . . Cotton : a son , who survived but a short period . , t ' i HOLMES . —Jan . 26 , at Wcstovor , Islo of Wight , tho lady of th » Hon . " Wra . a Court Holmes ; a daughter . MILLS .-Jan . 26 , at No . ' 0 , Qrosvonor-aquaro , tho Lndy Louisa Mills : a son .

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      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , February 2 , 18 B 5 . Consols have fallen somewhat during the wook , principally owing to tho Ministerial crisis ; something is doubtless duo to tho continual arrivals of private letters from the Crimea with tho account of our gallant but unfortunate array , seemingly abandoned to tho rigours of tho oliraato , and consequent uiscaso , owing to the fearful mismanagement of tho transport and commissariat department . Yet , with all this , Consols are very strong—no real sales , that is the secret . At thia time lost year , when wo had greater confidence in tho 8 noedy termination of the war , when wo had tho finest army tliat over loft England , untouched by disease or tho sworu , tho Funds , nearly reached 85 . Now , with nearly half those bravo mon horsuo combat , with tho moHt gloomy prospects for tho survivors in tho Crimea , and , to crown all , a Ministerial criais , tho Funds aro between 01 and 02 . Tho solution of this contradiction is , that last year largo speculative sales took placoin anticipation of a panic , tho Boars woro caught napping , and so roughly handled that they have not dared

      to renew tho experiment this year . The universal hope in the City seems to have been that Lord Palmerston should becomo War Minister , and form a temporary strong administration . The leading journal ' s recommendation of Lord Grey docs not seem acceptable . To-night , one may suppose that some Ministerial arrangement will take place , and the j Funds-will probably . rise A . per _ CGnt . j \ vith . a strong adminis-! In the homo railway market there has been a good deal of business transacted ; prices arc hardly so good , lurkish Bonds are somowhat flatter - 70 about . In tho mining market there has boon some demand for North British , Australasian , Australian , Cordilleras , and South Australian coppor ; also Peninsulars aro slightly ' better . Crystal Palace aro stationary at 3 i , 3 * per share . Tho New Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to the Post-ofllco has issued a very promising prospectus ; the works to b ^ forthwith commenced . Four o ' clock . —Consols , close firmer at . 91 i , 918 . with an impression that Lord Palmerston has succeeded in forming a Cabinet . Caledonians , 02 , G 2 * x . n . ; Eastern Counties , 111 , 113 ; Great Northern , 89 J , 00 J ; Ditto ( A Stock ) 72 , 74 ; Ditto ( iJ Stock ) , 1-20 , 128 ; South-Westerns , 84 , 85 ; Biriningnams , 1004 , 100 J ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 74 * . 75 ; Berwicks , 754 . 704 ; Yorks , B 3 J , 544 ; Midland , 094 , 70 ; Oxford , 31 , 32 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 0 $ , 05 ; Eastern of Franco , 32 * 32 $ j Great Luxembourg , Zi , 2 i ; East Indian . 1 , U pm . ; Ditto Extension , « , $ pm . Northern of Franco , 344 . 34 f ; Par s and Lyons , 218 , 2 « jm » . ; Paris and Orleans , 47 , 49 ; l ' oris and Rouon , 42 , 4-1 ; Great Central of Franco , 2 J , Spin . ; Namur and LiCgo , 0 J , 7 J : Western of Franco , 7 , 74 pin . ; Agua Frias . | , V ; Colonial Gold , 8 , «; Linares . 04 , 74 ; Imponal Brazil , 1 J , 2 t ; Cocncs , 1 , 1 * ; St . John Del Roy , 28 , 30 ; Peninsulas , * dis ., 4 pm . ; Waller Gold , j , i ; South Australian Coppor , 4 S pm . ; Australasian Bank , 80 , 82 ; Oriental , . 17 . 39 , Union Bank of Australia , 05 , 07 x . d .: London ^ * r' ° jod Bank of Australia . 1 * . If pm . ; North British Australasian Land and Loan , i dis ., A pm . ; Australian Scottish Invostmont . i . i pin .: Crystal Palace , 34 , 8 i ; Screw btoam , U , 14 . South Australian Land , 344 , 354 ; Australian Agricultural , 314 , 324 x . d . ; Peel River , 2 J , 3 .

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      CORN MARKET . Mark Lano , Friday Evening . vtHn-r tbtt Whont doclinod Is . to 2 s . sinco last wook . Holders SSs as »« 'X . wssg fob m Alexandria , and Salonica as much . A cargo has been so ata » S . ad ., cost , freight and insurance , arrived off the Coast Oats are likewiso rather cheaper , which is owing to consUlcrable flupplics , nearly 100 . 000 qrs . having arrive *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 3, 1855, page 117, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2076/page/21/