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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . OUISE . —At Ecclcston-Btrcet , Chester-square , Frodcrica , widow of Captain Henry John Guise , Into Commandant of the 13 th Irregular Cavalry , H . E . I . C . S . ( who was killed on the 4 th of Juno , at Benares ) : a son . SALTMARSHE . —At Saltiuarshc , Yorkshire , tho wifo of Philip Salttnarsho . ' Esq .: a son . MARRIAGES . BIGGS—WILLIAMSON . —At Hastings , Major John Uigga , Madras Native Infantry , son of tho lato General Biggs , H . E . I . C . S ., to Sarah Brott , daughter of tho lato J . O . Williamson . Esq ., Oth Lancors . FITZGERALD - BETTESWORTII . — At St . George ' s . Hanover-squaro , Major Fitzgerald , son of Lord William Fitzgerald , to Charlotte Georgiaua , daughter of Henry Bcttesworth , of Cnorhays , Cornwall . DEATHS . CLARKE . —In Dublin , Sir Arthur Clarke , M . D ., Member of tlio lloynl College of Surgeons , London , and for many years Physician to tho Bank of Ireland and to tho Metropolitan Police , at tho advanced ago of 88 . DAMPIER . —Ah ( iucen ' s-road , Bayswator , J . Digby C . S .

      Dam pier , Esq ., son of tho lato Rev . Jon Dampior , of Colinshays , Somersorahirc , in his list year . GEEY . —At Whickham , Cntherino , daughter of the lato Honry Groy , Esq ., of Bamborough INorthumboand , nged SI . ¦ ¦

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      thing rather than business . The last thing that you would think him is a tradesman , and all his conversation is about other things— 'theworld , ' politics , sporting , his country estates , the Opera . He is a man of Walter Scott ' s favourite stature—rather below than above the middle height , with a figure square , but exceedingly neat , a young face , not unlike Byron ' s cut , only harder and smoother . He looks ' the perfect gentleman . ' infiguTe , carriage , and dress ; for he is dressed as carefully and quietly as the First Violin at the Opera ; he leans back in his chair with an inimitable ease . The thing least like gentlemanly repose about him is the excessive rapidity of his utterance . It is like a smart boy . All conies out of a quiet still figure like a fountain of gossip , statesmanship , anecdote , from a quiet sculptured face . He is master of many things , thinks himself master of everything , and imagines he does not let you perceive his wish that you should know it . With the good faith of a perfect gentleman , he looks upon the politics of the City as beneath him , and only condescends to their level when much solicited on grand occasions ; and , between you and me , his small success is both result and cause of his ' distinguished' style of behaviour . He professes to be independent of all parties , wedded to none , like a coquette , from a doubt whether he is so much appreciated as flirtation feigns him to be . This is one of the men to whom ' the country' has turned for redemption amidst the break-down of great parties ; and , really , he performs the part of a man-ofrant statesman as cleverly as if he were Alfred Wigan . However , I ought not to complain , for he was very kind to me , especially about Aunt Eugenia ' s affairs . He affects to regard his property as close to ours ; for what is twenty miles to a man who half lives in the saddle ? He has arranged for aunt to put her money in the London , arid Empire Bank , which is doing immense business . He did not seem to think of using the money himself , but gave me three half hours in the week , all devoted to chat , and to the thought bow he could oblige you , dear aunt ; so you will get the papers from Mr . Monson at the same time with this . Sign and send back . 1 must post , so good-by , all . As to health , I am splendid . I only wish Polwhele had a tenth of mine . Your ever affectionate , v- .. . . ¦ / . ¦ ;¦ ¦ .. : ¦ - ¦ ¦ - . ¦;¦ ¦ ¦ . ; ¦ . ; ... ¦ j . a . w .

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      OPERA BUFFA . —ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . Ox Tuesday evening an occupier of a stall at St . James ' s Theatre might fairly have supposed that , instead of the depth of November , as it most uninjstakably was out of doors , it was the lieight of the Season , to judge by the appearance of the boxes . Only- Mr . Mitchell could ' bring together so brilliant and distinguished an audience at such a time of year . The occasion-was the first night of the Opera Buffs , which had been announced some months since . There waa an Opera Buflfa . many -winters ago in London , and a very pleasant institution it is reported to have been in those days . It is true that of late years we have had a double dose of Italian Operas through the summer , and that Italian Opera has gone the round of the provinces , and become familiar to the most benighted of country towns . On the other hand , the peculiarity of trie Italian Opera in London , these latter years , has consisted in its being , for the most part , not Italian , but French or German Opera . At all events , November is a dull month , and if -we cannot have the Opera Comique ( most delightful of exotics !) , by all means let us try an Opera Buffa . We are pretty sure that Mr . Mitchell did not play his trumps on Tuesday evening last , and we are not disposed to estimate the probable success of the experiment by the reception of Calumetta . A more indulgent audience is not to be conceived . Probably very few only in that distinguished public were able to follow the language of the piece at all ; fewer still the Neapolitan dialect , and in this twilight state of apprehension , intense and inexhaustible comicality in the principal performer is occasionally apt to produce a sort of savage and bewildered gloom rather than the desired hilarity in the audience . But we are happy to say that Signor Carrione , the Puldnclla of the evening , contorted himself like a string of maccaroni to some purpose on the opening . night . The audience laughed with if not at him , and it is just to add that he sang the rapid buffo music very effectively . What shall we say of the rest of the singing ? Signor Colombo , the barytone , displayed a truly fine voice , and sang with strong feeling ; Signor Galu , as II Dottore , sang in . tune ( a quality not to be despised ) , and like a musician ; but the tenor—we fear that if he had a voice he would not know how to use it ; the seconda donna sang ( nearly six feet ) high , and acted with self-possession , but Signora Fojugalli was too frightened to pay proper respect to the remains of what we fear was never more than the ghost of a soprano . The orchestra was Avell kept in h ; ind by Signor Alberto Eandegger , and the chorus was highly respectable . But what music ! Y " e gods ! what sterility—nay , what absolute poverty and exhaustion ! A whine and then a giggle , a giggle and then a whine . The rest is—fiddlesticks . We do not care to be better acquainted with the operas of Maestrino Fiorav-anti , and we trust Signor liANDEGGiiit will be able to provide something more tolerable than Columella from his poTtfolio . Tho National Anthem was sung at the conclusion of the opera , in the Neapolitan dialect , we believe . The truth is , our attention was absorbed by Signor Caiirione ' s face , which we were curious to see out of Pulciiiella ' s mask , and we can certify that a very noble countenance it is , reminding us a little of Ronconi and of Frederick Lem / utre . We are glad to find Dohizettl ' s II Campandlo announced for to-night . Is there not an opera buffii or two of Rossini ' s early youth worth bringing to light ?

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      THE HAYMARKET THEATRE .- — 'AN UNEQUAL MATCH . Without ascribing to Mr . To » i Taylok the highest rank in the art of dramatic invention and-construction j to which , as one of the most popular and successful of ' original adapters , he would probably be the first to renounce a claim , we may very fairly and warmly congratulate him on the undoubted possession of the secret of mastering the sympathies of the public , and measuring the capabilities of the actors . It is just possible that a critic of forty-lurcher power might be able to put his finger on the pages of some French novel or novels to which we owe the leading situations of An Unequal Match . We have no desire to try the seent ; we are perfectly satisfied with a good evening ' s amusement , and we return our thanks'to the author and to the manager and his company with the best grace we can . Who does not know that the opposition of the heart and the world , and the conventional falseness of good society , are not , strictly speaking , a discovery in dramatic literature or a novelty in stage life ? . Teak Jacques might have suggested the earlier scenes of An Unequal Match , and our disinterested and ingenuous audiences , in this blessed year of grace 1857 , applaud the moral which is so happily enforced by the heir to a baronetcy , and weknownothow many thousands a year , ' keeping company with'the daughter of a blacksmith with theniosfc honourable intentions , and what is ( better or ) worse , actually marrying her out of hand and not repenting of his bargain until Act the Second . Were we morbidly hypercriticsil , we might pick out a situation or two in An Uneqyal Match not entirely consonant with our own limited experience ¦ of actual life . But a quoibon ? Nothing can be more consistent with our experience of stage life than a defiance of probability , and we are quite content to enjoy a hearty laugh tempered every now and then by the suspicion of something better than a laugh rising * 4 the throat and dimming the eyes . In short , An Unequal . Match-is a perfectly successful , because a thoroughly enjoyable play , written with taste and feeling , and put together with considerable dexterity and tact , and above all , with a singular adaptability to the personnel of the theatre in which it is so admirably performed . Our daily contemporaries have recited the plot , in all its longth and breadth . We will only advise as many of our readers as may bo willing in this dismal season to escape for an hour or two into a sunnier world , to go and see Buckstone , as , first , a * general practitioner' in a country district , next a body-doctor to a lady of the misunderstood' order , and lastly , as the Court Physician to II . lt . H . the Grand Duke of tieidlitz Stinkingen . Besides , there is one of tho best bits of acting we have seen for many a month in Comiton ' s Bkttkinsop—in other words , a Jeames out of livery . Mr . Thackeray ' s ideal picture of the Belgravian flunkey is here represented to the very life . Mr . William Faruen , as the young baronet , is agreeably easy , natural , and gentlemanlike , and we know not what

      higher praise we can give hint , when we consider what an apparition the stage-gentleman usually is Every part , great and small , is carefully and intelligently acted and contributes to a most satisfactory general effect : but we have reserved for the last mention the fascinating and accomplished youll lady who has lately been brmging all the world to the Ha ^ marLt , and whf by her original performance in the new play , has confirmed the good impression which her JPaulzne and Constant * had made . Miss Amy Sedgwick is oositivehr a . bonne fortune . to the London stage , and a treasury in herself to tbeHAXJiARKEX Theatre . She is gifted with ; many of those natural advantages which no amount of discipline or experience can replace , and to these advantages she aDpears to us ( we hope > ve are not deceived by our own simplicity and goodwill !* to add what no natural advantages can dispense with , careful conscientiousness zeal , and sympathy . In the first act of the new play , as the simple country girl , she showed a true instinct and a genuine feeling ; in the second as the young wife caught and caged in high life , the alternations of behaviour and of expression were happily conceived and expressed ; and in the last act , as the quasi-convert to the conventional hardheartednesa and hypocrisy of society ( sound and true below the surface as ever )—beating the woman of the world with her own weapons , and shaming her husband out of his own social selfishness—Miss Sbdgwick played with a quiet certainty and variety of power , and with an elegance and ease of manner , which belong only to the highest rank in the art . Nevertheless , we are too warm admirers of this young lady ' s gifts and accomplishments not to warn her of certain superficial defects . She has not yet learned the art of concealing the art : she is frequently too emphatic and elocutionary in the delivery of simple phrases ; she is too conscious . And the voice , the speaking voice , in which , perhaps , more than in any other gift of nature , resides the secret of that indefinable * something than beauty dearer , we ca \ l charm f We are almost afraid to touch on this point , lest the defect we are suspicious of among so many promising advantages should be not absolutely remediable . Is there a certain hardness , a wiriness in Miss Amy Sedgwick ' s natural voice which no cultivation can remove ? Or is it but a trick of the stage . tone ,..-which-a finer and more practised sense of modulation may correct ? We forbear to solve the doubt which we suggest ; we are persuaded , in any case , that Miss Amy Sedgwick . will take good counsel , dictated by kindness , not unkindly .

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      No . 399 , November 14 , 1857 . ] T HE LEAD EE . 1101

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      FltOM . THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday ^ November 10 . BANKRUPTS . — William CiunLiis Baiines and Wil-IHM Oor . uinoi . kv , Bow-common , manufacturing chemists —Robert Bradle y . Trafalgar-road , Old Kont-raad , and Cumbcrland-placo , South wark , manufacturor of paperhangings— James Robert Pagk , Wollhigton-cliambors , Cannon-strcet-west and clsowhen * , iron manufacturer — Chakleb Warwick , Friday-street , Cheapsidc , fancy dross warohousomau—Wulum Bunjamin Phillips , Uirminghnm , bolt manufacturer—John ' Iurton , Nottingham , lnco manufacturer—Benjamin Flktciieii Burton , Nottingham , timber merchant—Charles Gray , Cheltenham , bakor —Charles EmvA . iti > Merry , Bristol , grocer—John Scott Pbkkin . Batloy , Yorkshiro , builder—Wituam Barber Dunston , Derbyshire , cattle denier—William Stevenson , Shollluld , cooper—Samuel Hawkins Napier and John Hewitsojt , Liverpool , ship chandlers—Joseph Slatbr , Vlatt and Henby Sutowbp , Manometer , manufacturora —William Harbison , Rochdale , draper . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . — J ) . Park , Glasgow

      . warehouseman—J . Faulkner , Glasgow , upholsterer — J . Lawhi e , Kolso , bookseller . Friday . November 13 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . —J . Thomas Bundle and Bicton Hull Rundlts , Plymouth . BANKRUPTS- —J . Mubto and Co .. Milo-eud , onglnoors - Tho petition for winding-up tho National . Deodokizino and Manure Company ( limited ) , will be heard in the Court of Bankruptcy , on Wednesday , Novombor 25 . — Thomas Rioitahdbon Hyde , Chester , clothier—James Ulacketx , Leeds , grocor—Benjamin Ba . bton , Wortlcy , grocer—William Cristaxl , Rothcritho , ti-mbor merchant — Lazarus Sampson , Houndsditcb , morchant—Alfbkd SnucKioRTn Francis and Geobge Austen , Chcapsido , warehousemen—James Williams , Boer-lano , City , a « ont — Tiiomab Browne Hannapord , Ratcliffo-cross , IVfiddlcsox , slate merchant—Hknry Newoabb , Nowgate-strcot , City , importer of foreign goods—Tkomas BlAMriBS , JAtchurch , Derbyshire , millstone mnnufacturor — Wiiaiam Atjlton and John Sanderson Butler , Nottinghnm , laco manufact \ iror—Joun Mason , Westminster — Kukkowes Willcookb Arthur Slkioit , Strand , nowsvojulor-OiiivBU Mohgan Lilly and JDe-izabkih Klranor M Dowall , Bristol , timber mcrohant 9-Jo « N Dodw . UnnoIIy , Brecon , hay-dealor—William Gkekn . University-stroot , Tottonham-oourt-road , builder — Wnuam Guanoer , Wolvorhampton , Hconsod victualler — Thomas Smith Dbekbr ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 1101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2217/page/21/