The Press. — London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

588 THE ITALIAN DRAMA—MADAME ItISTORI AT THE LYCEUM. Medea reappeared last Monday night, with her terrific strife of passions, and Rosmunda on Wednes• day evening stalked on the stage with her awful jealousy and intense hatred. In the former, the maternal instincts allay in some degree the horror which is felt at the crimes of the betrayed wife—in the last character there is no relief. Alfieri has created a natural. born monster, provoked to excess of iniquity by the fiercest jealousy. How beautifully Ristori individualises the two portraits ! How she manages to enlist sympathy even for Medea by her pataetic presentment of the bereaved mother ! Her fatats are forgotten in the portraiture of a woman wbo has been cruelly forsaken. In nosmunda the tints are uniformly dark. She is a fiend in human form, who plans her work of vengeance with unre lenting purpose and unceasing vigour. Ristori has returned, it has been generally remarked, " greater t ,an ever." Was this possible? Her audiences appear to acknowledge the possibility by displays of infinitely greater demonstrations than last season, and demonstrations bestowed, be it stated, with re markable judgment and good taste. There is no waste of applause for her entrance on the stage, and much of the action of the play is little interrupted by signs of approbation, except the involuntary murmurs which will break forth at the development of histrionic genius; but at the closing of the cur tain, between the acts, and step by step until the culminating point in the drama is reached, the ovations are given with almost southern enthusiasm. The two delineations which last year so astounded the London amateurs are more striking in their general execution. It st fri maintains her speciality in not working for is. LEed points—in not keeping back in order to attain a mule marked climax—on the contrary, the details are attended to by her even more carefully than heretofore. She is like the painter who conscientiously feels that his work is never completed, but essays, by retouching perpe tually his labour of love, to render the picture a masterpiece. THE THEATRICAL WORLD will hear with great re fret that the excellent manager of the Olympic, Mr. Wigan, is compelled by ill health to relinquish his pro f° -sional dudes for an indefinite period. Several m intlishave now elapsed since he was able to appear o t his own stage at the Olympic Theatre, which he hid raised to the highest degree of fashion and pro sperity. In a few weeks he proposes to take a fare w benefit, when he will, if possible, address his farewell to a puulic whom he has so often gratified by his acting, and whose comfort he so sedulously promoted by the arrangements of his theatre. A deeper n ortification can scarcely be conceived than this untimely check to a career that seemed to promise cer si 1 fortune. Aft arta and 6itg late Wpm FRIDAY EVZNINO. Tins return of the Bank of England for the week ending the 6th inst., shows the following changes compared with that for the week preceding : Decrease in Circulation X340,330 Increase in Public Deposits Increase in Other Deposits Increase in Securities Increase in Bullion Increase in Rest Increase in Reserve Bullion in Both Departments .... 10,290,649 Circulation, including Bank Post Hills The Bullion and the Reserve esch show a large increase, the former in consequence of the late purchases of gold, and the latter from the additions to the public and private deposits having considerably exceeded the money which th Bank has advanced on securities. The bullion, th nigh it shows a satisfactory increase, is now more than 1,100,0001. less than that possessed by the Bank of Fcance, a circumstance wholly without precedent of late ya irs. In other respects the returu does not require any ape !jai observation. The Monthly Debtor and Creditor Account of the Batik of Fiance, made up to yesterday, was published in the Moniteur of this morning. It is generally of a favour able character, especially with regard to the increase in the bullion, which now exceeds eleven millions and a quarter; but, as will be seen from the tabular statement below, this comparatively high sum has been attained by a large expenditure in premiums upon its purchase. Another favourable feature is the falling off in the discounts and advances of the Bank to its customers. It amounts to more than a million and a half, and it indicates less pressure for money among the commercial classes. The private securities have been reduced consequently from 23,410,000/. to 21,848,0001., whilst the private deposits have only fallen off 82,0001., and the public deposits have enlarged by 1,280,000/. Com pared with the previous return of May 14, the following Are the principal changes in the position of the establish ment during the month, expressed in English currency at an exchange of twenty•five francs to the pound ceiling : Decrease in Circulation . • Increase in Public Deposits Decrease in Other Deposits Decrease in Commercial Discounts Increase in Bullion Decrease in Advances on Bullion Decrease iu Advances on Public Securities Decrease in Advances on Railway Securities Increase in Premiums on Purchases of Gold and Silver Circulation (June 11) Stock of Bullion (June 11) The whole advances made by the Bank are shown com paratively in the following table : JUNE. Max. Commercial Discounts .. X 19,975,348 £21,313,382 Advances on Bullion .. .. 116,M32 133,352 „ Public Securities .. 1,052,213 1,210,705 „ Railway „ .. 702,532 752,842 Total .. £21,846,925 X23,410:281 Deduct .. 21,840,92.5 Decrease in June .. X 1,563,356 I The return, therefore, as a whole, is the most satisfactory that has appeared this year; and it certainly affords hopes of a reduction shortly in the rate of discount. The premiums paid on gold and silver purchases during the current half-year new amount to 84,843L —certainly a very large sum to be so expended ; but it appears to answer the purpose for which it is spent. M. de Germiny has been appointed Governor of the Bank, in succession to M. D'Argont. The Money Market has experienced a very moderate demand in the current week. The general trade of the country is unquestionably less active than for some time past, and the effects of the diminution are already felt in the discount market, in which there has been some little tendency towards lower rates. Ihe ease, however, brought about in this way is less satisfactory than that which is the natural consequence of an abundant supply ; for we take it to be a symptom that the profits of trade, notwith standing its activity for some time past, have not been enough to enable the mass of mercantile men to sustain the high charges required for discounting the common class of bills. It so happens that in this state of the demand, and in this condition of trade, we have in the last ten or fourteen days received enormous supplies of bullion from Australia and the United States, and that the Banks of England and France have largely added to their stocks, as appears by what we have stated above. Capital, conse quently, is just now showing slight and cautious but un doubted symptoms of accumulation in the banks and discount houses; and during the last day or two a disposi tion, certainly not very well defined, but sufficiently obvious nevertheless, has been manifested to seek for its employ. ment at current rates. Today, however, there was rather more tightness. The Continental Exchanges ate about the same as last week. This afternoon they were a shade firmer. The transfer books of Consols being now closed, quota tions are given ex-dividend. The final price this day week was 93 to with the dividend deducted, and they have been stationary at that price all week, the variations having never exceeded }. Business has been as languid as possible; indeed men of the longest experience in the Stock Exchange assert that they cannot remember a time when the market was less animated, or less disposition shown by the public to invest. Activity, however, will certainly follow uny decided improvement in the Money Market. To-day they opened and closed at 931 to ex div. Little or no business was done. Railway Shares have declined since our last, and among them London and North Western, in conse• quence of the loss of property by a serious fire at the principal goods-station in London. Several other descrip tions are lower. But Sheffields, Oxford and Worcesters, and some others, have rather lanzely advanced. Canadian shares are generally lower, the traffics being comparatively unfavourable. French descriptions were depressed in the early part of the week, but at present they are rallying. Foreign Securities have shown little or no movement. Turkish Six per Cents., however, are nearly one per cent. better, the Greeks having been large purchasers. Mexicans rather flatter. Joint stock Banks dull. Ottomans have improved to I die. to # prem, and have been repeatedly dealt in at par. The Discount Companies are heavy. . . Mining Shares hive been totally neglected this week in the Stock Exchange, the dealings in them not having numbered half-a•score bona fide transactions. Miscellaneous Securities remain without change. The amount of June Exchequer Bills sent in on Monday for which money has been demanded is said not to have exceeded :100,01X/1. The Bank of Australasia have declared a dividend and bonus at the rate of twenty per cent. Several mercantile suspensions have been announced during the week. The largest is that of Messrs. Evans, Hoare, and Co., a firm largely engaged in the Australian export trade, whose liabilities are stated to be between 1 50,0001. and 200,600/. The total sum' to be contributed by this country in redemption of the Sound Dues is 1,1'23,2081., and the Chancellor of the Exchequer has proposed to pay it down at once instead of spreading it over a series of years at four per cent. interest, as will be the case with many of the other nations interested in the settlement of tha question. The House of Commons has adoptei the proposal, and the measure is now making progress through the Legisla• ture. The prosperous state of the revenue is assigned as the main reason for at once discharging the British proportion out of the present balances in the Exchequer. Some apprehensions have.been felt lest the transmission of such a sum will disturb the Money Market; they are, how ever, exaggerated, though of course some effect will be produced by it. The bank of Messrs. Gotch and Co., of Kettering, suspended on Tuesday. The liabilities are not very heavy. The bank was established sixty-lve years ago. It was a bank of issue, with a circulation limited under the Act of 1814 to 9,1921., and, according to the last published returns, its total of notes out was 8,79!1. The sum paid into the treasury of the East India Company for bills on India from the 25th May to the 9th June was 72,3301. The Trade Reports of the week read better, but general complaint is made of the smallness of profits and the dearness of money. In the manufacturing districts of Lancashire the adoption of short time and the volun• tary idleness of Whitsuntide has already told so well upon stocks that producers of most sorts of goods have been enabled to command a shade better prices. But, on the other hand, cotton has advanced in Liverpool about Rd. per lb., and the brokers' circulars say that the raw material will go higher, and that the market looks now as unpromising for spinners as at any previous period in the year, even if money should become cheaper. This opinion is also held in Manchester. The cotton trade, therefore, will for some time continue to be watched with interest, if not anxiety ; but we hope that whatever disasters may be suffered by weak houses in consequence of the present and prospective state of things, they will not give rise to exaggerated alarms. The fact is, the cotton trade is in a state of transition with regard to the raw material, and the pending crisis must stimulate the spinning and manufacturing capitalists to endeavour to enlarge the fields of supply. BANK OF An Account, pursuant to the Ai for the week ending on Saturi EN GuAND. Let. 7th and sth Victoria, cap. 38 Iky, the 30th day of May, 107. PAK CIiENT, Government Debt 511,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin k Bullion 9 588 580 Silver Bullion .424,00,L80 P&RTXINT. Government Seen- rides (including Dead Weight An.) i 10.328 131 Other Securities l9 06t 740 Notes 6,277,00 Gold h Silver Coin 702 OG9 03.372 W of Natioual Debt THE PRESS, - • • SATURDAY, ISIRUR Pic sots. issued .... :21,063,k401 /24 063,580 BANKING DM Prupdators'Capitalg 14,353,00 Rest Public Deposits• :.)ther Deposits 9,796,389 Seven Day .fc other Bills • Including Exchegiter: Con;missions Savings' Banks. and Dividend Accounts. BRITISH FUNDS. Closing Prloan. OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS. ,11 oud.,Tuesd. Wed. Thurs. Friday 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account i per Cents Reduced per Cents Long Annuities liank Stock 7 per Cent New 23 per Cent Aunuit xoh. 61118, .. (June) India llonds,( 93j 24i 92 I! 92* 94 3A 931 4 93; 41' 94 3; 941 1 234 xd 941 d :411 ; 921 1 921 3 921 11 92 921 d 921 f 921 1' 931 2 7.16 2 7.16 -- 2131 41 -- 2121 4214 12 U )U 1 0 I 2p d 4 7d I 3d IGN FUNDS. Mond.,Tuesd. Wed. Mire. - 100 _- 65- e 651 -••• f c 6Sx di e f e: 2.21 1 751 I Tit FOl Per Cent. ►3razilian Danish Dtch. ( Ex 12 0 utl )144 Freuch 3 Do. 4 Do. hank Sto, - Mexican Peruviau Portuguese ktusaian ipanish furkish Friday. 1002 f e, f • 22; Maw. & Rttrdnid Belgian East. J. Dutch Rhenish ) east Indian Gt. Indian Pen W.ofCan.,Sh Lyons & Geneva Madras Sittuunt Lie4e Srthrti.of Frac( . Norw. Trnk.Prf. Paris & Lyons Paris & Orleans Paris & Rouen ::41 I 971 98 ..3 -- 42 1i 254 -- :0.8 241 t 93 931 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Alond.,7'mesday. IVednes. gi i 61 7 4 7 .6 2 ,2 1 1 4d 2 14dis WI i ,108 A 108 21 2l , 29/ ( 231 t !:31 1 98 t 294 284 241 234 291 19 40 19 20 19 2U i 1 8 81 33 371 81 33 d 1 1 81 5/1 81 91 lit 9t 57/ 3d 671 8, Z 8 I I bo 48 '56 6$ 156 5d f - 0 f c Thurs. , Friday. 3 7 i I 1 1 2 :id . 2 11 108 9 107 9 21 :9 / 23* 4 281 291 2d 29 19 20 19 20 8 b/ , 0 f 28} 4. 37 1 At 51 9/ 9 10 571 81 881 86 — . 8 b: — 9 FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, June 9. BANK RU PTS.—CHAILLER CULLEN MERCER, Margate. Kent, builder —JoBI4I.IA SHUCKFuItD, Studley-terrace, Larkhall-lane, Lambeth, builder —JoSEPH BROOK, Lawrence-lane, City, stuff merchant and manufacturer—WlLLlAM LYON, Guildford, Surrey, butcher —THottAs GREENwoon and SAMUEL NINO, Cannon street. Devonport, builders and contr. ctors—SAMUEL Wain% ANTHONY, Liverpool, ship and insurance broker—WILLIAM HASLAM, Sheffield. horn dealer and cutter. SCOTCH SEQUESTEATIONS.—JoHN CoLquitoutt and Co., Bridge-street, Paisley, bleachers—RonENT HEID, Bridgegate street. Glasgow, baker and grocer —WALTER JAMIESON, FAIsleY, w.iod merchant and wright—RonistsoN and NivEN, Greenock, drysalters. Friday, June 12. BANKRUPTS.—SAMUEL STONARD and LOUIS JOSEPH STONARD, Shoreditch, oilmen—JAMES HUODEE, Vincent-square , eOIIU - Setor—ECIDERT GRIFFITHS, Ferlehtlrel-Street, wine 'Her" chant—JOHN ELPHINIITONE FATQUA HO CHEE, Surrey, vendor of paint—JoHN JULIAN JACKSON, Lawrence-lane, City, dyer — JOHN BUSHER, New Bond-street,livery-stable keeper—CHARLES WINO, North End, Fulham, apothecary—JAMES ['SART, Bir mingham, bookseller—JOHN Lunar, Beruers-street, Oxfoni street,jeweller—SAMPAON HACKETr, Cradley Heath, Stafford shire, draper—Ono Roe MILNES HIRST, GEORGE HIRST, and WILLIAM FREDERICK WILMA*, Batley, Yorkshire, mainitsc• taxers —Dui mi. Bose, Bomford, Essex, grocer--C gams. Szut•