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ford , the music by Mr . Howard Gioter . The execution of this occasional piece betrayed ^ ludicrous haste and want of preparation ; the orchestra ( so excellently handled in its accompaniments to the opera ) was all abroad , and the singers nowhere . Nevertheless , the saddened grace of Madame Spezia ' s solo , especially in the touching lines , Royal bride , thine island home , Girt by ocean , ne ' er forget , found its way to th « hearts of the audience , and , if we mistake not , brought tears to the eyes of the young Princess . The spectacle presented by the vast audience upstanding while the National Anthem was chanted , was brilliant in the extreme , and one which the gentle Bride will not easily forget . She will find honour and respect elsewhere , but enthusiasm so affectionate and heartfelt belongs to the land of English homes . . _ Last evening the last State performance took place , and The Rivals was played by Mr . Bitckstonb and his zealous and intelligent Haymarket company , reinforced by Mr . KEEiiET and Mr . Hudson , Miss Fitzpatrick , and Miss Reynolds , with extraordinary animation and success .
The Photographic Art Journal , of which we have received the opening number fulfils the first condition of existence for any publication—it meets a want ! Success will follow discerning management and liberal enterprise . If we may judge by . the present specimen , the Photographic Art , Journal will be creditable to its conductors in external appearance ; and the two illustrations are v ery finely and delicately executed : the one is from a photograph of the Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan , an alto-relievo by M . Justin , a French sculptor , and is as rich as a mezzotint ; the other is a speaking portrait of William Russell , the sometime Crimean , and now or about to be Indian , correspondent of the Timet . The letter-press of the Journal will , no doubt , gain in strength and interest with succeeding months .
We hear with regret that Mr . Charles Kean is very seriously indisposed , and that by the earnest recommendation of Sir James Clabke he has been persuaded to snatch a brief interval of entire repose from the harassing labours and anxieties of manager and actor . He is said to be suffering from the effects of overwork and consequent nervous exhaustion , complicated by an attack of influenza . We hope , however , that a fortnight ' s rest and change of air will restore him in renewed strength and health to the duties of his profession and the applause of the public . His dignified and disinterested conduct with regard to the ' Festival Performances , ' has largely increased the number of those admirers who feel an almost personal interest in one who has , with perfect taste and discretion , equally removed from unworthy concessions and undue pretensions , vindicated his own self-respect , the dignity of his art , and his personal and professional relations towards the Court and the public . The following letter from a lady-correspondent ( with a pardonable dash of enthusiasm in the composition ) very fairly expresses , we believe , the general feeling on the % f U ^ rf ^^ ** ** * W ^ *^ ** ^ ™* ^ ** ™ — J * ^^ ^ ^ W ^ I " ^ B ^ m — _ ^^ —m- —m- rf * ^^^ ' ^ " ^
subject to which it refers : — " Sir , —By-and-by , when the effervescence of loyalty that atpiesent agitates the town shall have cooled down , it will be thought a strange thing that our Queen exhibited herself , on the occasion of her daughter's marriage , as a * theatrical star , ' to draw brilliant audiences for the purpose of dazzling her foreign visitors , who were unaware of the undignified machinery by which it was effected . " Strange , too , is thought the absence of Charles Kean from the Festival Performances , the tragic actor and accomplished gentleman , par excellence , of our day . And this omission becomes incomprehensible to those who know , that for the ten years he has managed the Windsor Theatricals , he has—besides closing his own theatrenever received any remuneration whatever from Her Majesty , his railroad expenses even being unpaid . " The public , who lately so generously sympathized with him , ought to treat him to one cheer more' on being apprised of these facts . I enclose my card , and remain , " Your obedient servant , " Fair Play . "
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Mr . Cobden on Parliamentary Reform , — Mr . Cobden has addressed a letter to Mr . Willans , the Chairman of his committee at the last election for Huddersfield , i n which he advocates the claims of the worki ng classes to the franchise , and doubts their imputed Socialistic tendencies . He observes : — " If we take a review of the conduct of the masses of the people on occasions of political strife , we shall find that they have generally been r ight before their ' betters ; ' and , although they have had no votes , their hands and voices have been raised in favour of every great principle of morality and justice . I have had great experience in appealing to all classes , and I say most sincerely that I should prefer an audience of which the working class formed a considerable part in all cases where I was the advocate of the rights of humanity . Great bodies of men are , no doubt , liable to be misled by appeals to their passions ; they are not always logical or capable of clear reasoning , but they are instinctively just and truthful ; the multitude are incapable of playing the part of hypocrites and traitors . The longer I live the greater is my reverence for , and trust in , the mass of humanity , which , in the aggregate , seems to sum up a total of virtues greater than can be traced in the individual units . There is much wisdom and truth in the saying of Montesquieu' Men , although reprobates in detail , are always moralists in the gross . ' It is strange how implicitly we trust the working class -with all that is most precious to us in private life—our property , our lives , and the lives of our children—and yet , in the far less important trust of a vote , along with ourselves , how timid and jealous we are . And yet wo see in America and Switzerland , where universal suffrage prevails , life is more secure than in despotic States , and property accumulates ( a proof of its security ) more rapidly than in other parts of the world . "
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Talking of Photography , we are disposed to take an opportunity of introducing to our readers a young German artist ( for artist he is , albeit sans le tavoir , if not absolutely malgre lui ) , by name Herr G . Schmidt , of Pusseldorf , who is to be found , we believe , at 15 , Argyll-street , in this metropolis . Is Photograph y , properly speaking , an Art , as its votaries and Professors assert , or rather an artistic application of science ? It has been often most unartistically used , but of late it has been taken up by men of art , and something of the dignity of art has been given to the sleight of the Sun . If not strictly creative , it is eminently reproductive in its functions ; and there are many of its actual Professor s who , at their will , can make the sun compose , and not be content to copy only . la the grouping and pose of portraits , as in the reverent and subtle transcript of nature in her lovely loneliness , Art becomes the handmaid to the ' eye of Phoebus . ' But to return to Herr G . Schmidt , who literally cuts out every sort of Art with a couple of loose blades of a pair of scissors . He takes a bit of black tinted paper , and ( like a tapestry-worker behind the picture ) , with a few easy , dexterous twirls of the scissors he creates—a fir coppice standing out dark and sharp against the evening sky , with a couple of belated sportsmen firing their last barrels at the partridges , and the pointers ' down charge , ' and all this with a life , a liberty , a movement not to be seen in many pictures ! . Or here is a thy my , heathery , breezy eminence , a wild stag
leaping over a hurdle , and others of the herd coming over the crest , foreshortened , in the distance . Or here is a group of horses , such as Rosa Boxheur would not disown ; or a bunch of flowers , on which a butterfly is pausing ; so tenderly , so lovingly , so truthfully expressed ; no pre-Raphaelite , no Photographer could be more religiously exact . In his landscape cuttings there is a life and air , a light and shade , in the tree tops , in the very grass ; in the figures an expression , a freedom which all the sleight of hand could , not produce , if the artist ' s eye and heart were not there to see and to seize . Now , it appears that Herr G . Schmidt has never learned to draw , and that ever since he was five years old he has been cutting out . Is he an artist ? is this cunning of hand an art ? We have said as much , but we recommend our readers to visit Herr Schmidt and decide for themselves . The young Cutter-out has at least all the modesty of real talent ; and at Paris , we have heard , he found the "welcome and the admiration due to genius . The misfortune , rather than the defect , of his peculiar workmanship appears to us to be the trivialitg of the instrument , and of the mode of operation . But the results are all the more wonderful .
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¦ i -i fi THE LBIBER . [ No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 .
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FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday * January 26 . BANKRUPTS . — Henry Holmes Woodj ? uix and Lowen Gimukb , Aldormanburv , City , stationers—Adiuham Jacob AyTon , Stoford , Wiltshire , cattle dealer-BrnUAiM Sabjbi , Ooloman-street , City , merchant— William Berxbam Gordon , Regent-street , hosier— Maeco Feknandes , Devonshire-square . Bishopgato , Importer or foreign sand—Frederick . Finnib and Alexandkk Mao-Nad , John-street , JMlnorlos , provision merchants—AKK Hughes , Northumberland-street , Strand , a »< l Cnnnou-row , Westminster , lodging-house keeper—Joun Your < o , lJliHtoi ) , Staffordshire , roll turner—William Sanbomk , Coventry , ribbon manufacturor—IlENitY Wiomore , EnvillcbuUJoroshlro , hotel kcepor—Wilmam Thompson , JJinmuKimm , coal dealor-Wu . i . iAjvt GEmtAnn , Bursloin , StnirordNliiro , grocer—Qeougk Lancashire , Casllc Douington , lj / J i ,,, " shiro , silk nianurncturor—Mauxjn JjjEifMANN . NoUuiK" !* "* laoo manufacturer—Jambb Beaven and Hkniiy J * kavj . h . Bristol , bulldors-JoHN Mobihs . Rhyinney , nonr 'rrcdoBnr , -Mollmo ^ tl » Nl » ro , _ drapp ^^ . ^ W 4 JULIAM ^ WJurlW ? , J ^»^»^ l Somersetshire , farmer — Hknuy Nuxtaxx . tinil •»** " ¦'' NuxXAid-, Rochdale , flannel manufacturers— Husai'iu "" Anow . Manchester , gonorul morcliant-John JJhoapubhi . Manchester , umbrella manufacturer—Wji > mam IIaiuubun , North Shields , Northumberland , ship ohuudlor . SCOTCH SEQUKSTK . ATIONS . ~ A . Aimxahww , Bout imuir of Klrrlomuir , cattle dcalor-J . M'Indok , DrumbrooK , Renfrewshire , gardener-D . Qihd , Glasgow , wrlgiii" -- ; Bmaqt , Glasgow , commission ngoiifc— O . HENiHcnooN »»» T . Dixon , Glasgow , commission inerohants-J . 1 < ini . a * so ?' Kincardine , Perthshire , and , Glasgow , wlno «»« jtoI » n . i »•* ~^" Duummond Bjcnton , Glasgow , wool merchant—J . I vi / iov , Alrdrlo , spirit dealer .
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FOREIGN FUNDS . Last Official Quotation puking the Week endjko Thursday Evening . ) Brazilian Bonds 102 Portuguese 4 perCents . . „ Buenos Ayres 6 p . Cents 90 Russian Bonds , 5 per Chilian 0 per Cents 103 Cents 1101 Chilian 3 per Cents 72 Russian 44 per Cents .... Wl Dutch 24 per Cents 05 Spanish 4 I » Dutch 4 per Cent . Certf . 100 Spanish CommitteeCer-Equador Bonds of Coup , not fun 5 Mexican Account 21 Turkish 0 per Cents 98 $ Peruvian 44 per Cents .... 79 J Turkish New , 4 ditto .... 105 Portuguese 3 per Cents . 45 Vunozuela 4 i orp Ccnts .. _ ...
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Cxosing Prices . ) Sat . Motu Tues . Wed . Thur . Frid . Bank Stock 226 226 224 224 225 3 per Cent . Red 95 f 954 95 f 95 J 95 } S per Cent . Con . An . 95 * 95 951 95 95 } Consols for Account 952 951 95 * 95 i 95 } New 3 per Cent . An . 95 J M 95 f 95 $ 95 £ 05 | New 2 * per Cents ff ., 79 j j Long Ans . 1860 g 2 * 1 16 i 1 10 India Stock F 219 221 I 2214 Ditto Bonds , £ 1000 7 » 17 p 17 p ! 19 p Ditto , under £ 1000 17 p 12 p 17 p 18 p 19 p fix . Bills , JeiOOO 21 p 19 p 20 p 23 p 21 p Ditto , £ 500 21 p 23 p 20 p 20 p 21 p Ditto , Small 17 p 19 j > 20 p 20 p Hi p
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Blookburu . Oi 9 } 1 Caledonian , 931 , 93 ! j Chester and Holyhoad , ' 67 , 30 ; Was torn Counties , 00 , 01 ; Great Northern , 105 * . 100 }; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) , 103 . 105 ; Great Western , 802 , 001 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire . Wdi , 94 ; . London and Black wall , 6 | , Of ; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 100 , 108 ; London ana North-Western , 101 , 1014 ; London and South . Western , 08 * . 90 * « Midland , 94 ) , 05 » North-Kastorn ( Berwick ) , 07 * , 08 * ; South-Eastern , "V , l ? ove , . ~ 744 ~ 75 * rAntworn-ana-Rottordamr 6 * rej > i ^ -Dutch ^ Rhenish , 41 , 31 dis . ; Eastern of Franco ( Purls and Strasbourg ;) . Z 7 t , 28 ; Groat Central of Franco . t Groat Luxoinbourg , 7 * . 7 f 1 Northern of Franco , 871 , 38 * ; Paris and Lyons , 34 * . 34 J 1 Royal Danish , 10 , 18 ; I Royal Swedish t , I ; Sambro mid Mouse , 8 , 8 * . -
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CORN MARKET . Mark-lane , Friday , January 20 . Wb lwvo hod moderate supplies Into London ; but a groat many oargoos havo arrived oir the coast . The trade continues exceedingly dull , and prices roraaln unaltered .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . riADOW . —On tho 10 th Doc , 1807 . afc Ohinsurah , near Oaloutta , tho wife of tho Rev . 0 . E . Hadow , Chaplain H . B . I . C S : a son . TOWNSEND . —On the 25 th iiisfc ., at the Croft , Swlndon , tho wife of J . Oopleston Townsond , Esq .: a son . MARRIAGES . . COL&ilUSS—HUMPHREYS . —On Wednesday , tho 80 th liiaXTat 1 tho ^ parlsiroiruTOhTFolixStOworSufrolkrWilliatn ( Jlow Collins , Esq ., to Adolaldo , second daughter of John Porter-Humphreys , Esq ., both of tho above place . H VR WOOD—H Alt WOOD .-On the Oth lnst ., at St . Duntitan ' s , Fleot-strcot , Edward Harwood , of East Moulsoy , Kurroy , to Elizabeth , daughter of the late William Harwood , of CO , Piccadilly , and 20 , Golden-square , London . DEATHS . BROWN . —On tho 11 th lnst ., at Constantinople , from sovoro eoro throat , Q . Karron Brown , chief physician of tho town and province of Bolon , Anatolia , Asia Minor , oldest son of J . Bnker Brown , Esq ., Con naught-square . Hyde Park . Ml Lisa—On tho 8 th last ., at Bishop Lydlard . hear Tauntou , Boraeraotahlro , Mrs . Elizabeth Miles , in nor 112 th year , and in full possession of her faculties .
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London , Friday Evening , January 29 . Thb Bant is now down to 4 per cent ., whilst outside the Joint Stook Banks will not allow more than 2 per cent interest on deposits . The influx of gold and expected arrivals will swell the amount in the bank coffers to nigh eighteen millions "between this and . Lady Day . The action on the money market has been , however , not steadily progressive . Consols have nearly touched 95 * , but have subsided to 95 qgain . Turkish Six per cents are a little firmer . Buenos Ayrean and Peruvian Stocks are in demand . Russian and Sardinian are without much change . In railway shares , foreign and East Indian continue in favour , No change in the Canadians or New Brunswicks . American , i . e . United States , improve ; by every mail from New York . The Brazilian 7 per cent , railway schemes are in great favour with the public . As yet the allotment has not been made in the shares of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway . Heavy shares are very languid ; receipts are falling off , and the state of trade in manufacturing districts operate against them . Caledonians alone , with a 5 per cent , dividend before them , are in advance . Manchester and SheQlelds , from some mysterious advantage that is suspected to bo gained by an alliance with the Great Northern , maintain their full value . Bcrwicks , York and North Midland , and Leeds Northern , are flatter ; Brightons are giving way—from sales . In Joint Stock Banks there has been a fair amount of business doing . Ottoman and Bank of Egypt are in better request . Mining shares havo been very active , and the price of tin and copper having advanced has given a healthy stimulus to buyers . United Mexicans are flattor . The rumours tb&t were current yesterday of fresh revolts In Madras , of imeutes in Rome , and the hostile tone taken by General Bazaino ' s division of tho French army in their address to the Emperor , servo to keep tho buoyant spirits of the Bulls down . Consols leave off at four o ' clock , 95 * 06 J for February 7 th account .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2228/page/20/
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