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London, England, 1865-11-18 00:00:00

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MRS. SIDDONS AS CONSTANCE IN "KING JOIIN."—
It was Mrs. Siddons' boast that she gradually im-
proved in all her characters, and that she never repeated
her performance of any part without studying it anew.
Her Constance, it is remarkable, did not, in the first in--
stance. meet with that recognition from the public that it
afterwards received. No doubt it was originally a less
powerful and perfect performance than it became ultimately;
I but it is also true that, early in her career, a large party of
critics had, for reasons into which it is not necessary to
enter, banded themselves together to hinder the success
of the actress. Campbell, her biographer, was present at
her performance of Constance ton years after she had first
undertaken the character, and speaks in glowing terms of
the consummate geniuS of the representation. "I could
speak," he writes, "as a wonder-struck witness to her
power I see her, in my mind's eye, the

embodied image of maternal love and intrepidity ; of
wronged and righteous feeling ; of proud grief and ma-
jestic desolation. With what utterable tenderness
was her brow bunt over her ' pretty' Arthur at one
moment, and in the next how nobly drawn back in Q. look
at her enemies that dignified her vituperation ! When
she patted Lewis on the breast, with the words, Thine
honour ! oh, thine honour !' there was a sublimity in the
laugh of her sarcasm. I could point out the passages
where her vicissitudes of hurried and deliberate gesture
would have made you imagine that her very body seemed
to think. Her elocution varied its tones from the height of
vehemence to the lowest despondency, with an eagle-like
power of stooping and soaring, and with the rapidity of
thought."—Onee a Week.
RIGGING THE MARKET.—Oa the Monday after we
came out, a notice was inserted in all the papers
that the share-list would be closed on the Thursday, and
this made the rush for shares all the greater. There was
not a member of the board but received numerous applica-
tions from his friends to put their names
usedown,their t
and use
their interest to put their names down, and
'nt -
rest to obtain shares for them. The Universal Financial
Association did its work well. In six hours after the pro-
spectus had been published, it was quoted at 11 to 2 pre-
mium, and the next day was at 21 to 31. These fictitious
prices are in no way whatever the work of the Stock Ex-
change. The members of " the house" almost invariably set
their faces against rigging the market ; but they are power-
less in the hands of men who, with money at command, are.
determined to run up tho value of any named scrip. 'ph,
operation is carried on by the outsiders, who go to a stock-
broker, and tell him to sell, say, a hundred Rio Grande
shares, but at no less than ono premium. At the same
time a confederate goes to another broker, and tells him he
must buy fifty or a hundred of the same scrip, as he has
promised to deliver them, and will go as high as one and a
half or even two premium. Of course the broker set to
work. The one, anxious to do his best for his client, gets
the highest possible price for the shares, the premium of
which will be paid back to the other party on settling day.
When this operation is repeated perhaps a hundred times
in the day, and parties determined to run up certain shares
are ever sending brokers into the market to buy this scrip
for them at any price, the quotations must go up it is im-
possible to be otherwise. In our case neither money nor
energy was wanting to push our shares up in the market,
and so well (lid the Universal Financial perform this part
of their duty, that the success exceeded all theiranticipa-
tions. The premium increased to ton, twelve, fifteen, and
eighteen premium.—Dickens's "All the I ear .
Round." The market
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, Nov. 15
is dull, and, though not quotably lower, prices a
in are gene-
rally the turn in buyers' favour ; but
the case of Ame-
rican, holders seem indisposed to. make any further con-
cession. Sales 6,000 bales; 2,000 being on speculation
and for export. The transactions for arrival comprise fair
Bengal, Nov. sailing, 101 d. ; fair new open Egyptian,
shipment Nov., 21d., Dec., 20id.