The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

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THE stiiN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1869.

SHARE LIST.

)RDINARY dHAitEa AND 3TOCIEB.

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

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10 Agra Limited, A all 104 104
13 Do B lO 2/ 21 21
50 Albion l5 8 6
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo-Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 194 204
20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 14 14
20 Anglo-Italian 1366, limited 10 54 44
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13
20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 5 54 1
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lim.
25 Bank of South Australia_ all 30 32
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 17 3:1
10 Bank of New Zealand all 151 16,1
50 British North American
20 Chartered of India, Austra-
lia, rnd China all 13 19
25 Chartered Mere. of India
London, and China all 301 31
20 City li 114 121
100 Colonial 25 38 40
10 Consolidated, lim.
50 Delhi and London, thin
50 East London, lima 5 2 1
20 English and American, lim 10 ... ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro lim
20 English, z>eattish, and Atte-
tralian Chartered
28; Bong Kong and Shanghai
tank Corporation all 36 38
281 Do new 54 24 24
100 Imperial, lim 2O 16 17
20 Imperial Ottoman lO 2 24 121
5 lonian. all 21 26
25 Do new 5 14 112
20 Lnd Mortgage of hlls, lien 4 31 44
100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6l, 30 all 76 75 73
30 London Bank] of Mexico
and South America, lim. 20 64 54
100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27
20 Do new 74 51 41
100 London &River Plate, lim. 40 9 11
25 Do new 10 24 2IP
20 London Chart. of Australia all 241 2b
20 London and County 2O 60 51
50 Do new, les at 20 p.m, 16pd. 11 ... -
London Joint Stock 1 311 3t4
London and South African al 84 94
00 London &S.-Western, lien, 20 13 11
150 London & Venezuela, lim 124 ... ...
100 London and Westminster 2O 611 621
100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm. 2O
100 Merchant, lim 25 51 41
10 Metropolitan, lien all 71 74
100 Midland, 1im...... 2O 14 4
5 National of Australia
25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 ld alp
100 National Provinc. of Eug'd 42 ... ...
10 Do
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50 National. BO ...
20 New South Wales all 41 13
20 North-Western
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 424 431
50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim. 10 6 6
00 Provincial of Ireland 25 83 90
10 Do new. all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 14
100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6
25 Union of Australia all 47 48
100 Union of Ireland, lim
50 Union of London

TELEGRAPLI COMPANIES.

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10 Anglo Mediter Tel., Km.— 10 121 13
st Atlantic Te1egraph........,, 10 22 24 201
st Do. 8 per cent. . ... .. 100 64 70
st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim. 100 153 163
st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 230 240
10 Do. New 8 9 Ilp
25 Indo-European Tel., lira— lO
5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all „21 3 21
1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all pr IP
10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., Kin, all si 31
25 Iteuter's Telegram all 45 LO
'A Societe Transatlant., Um— all 171 IS 18
at Submariuo Telegraph
1 Do. Scrip all 111
20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 17 171
6U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lin2 all 6:1
6 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 8 3)P

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h Tea Estates, lien, 9 7 51
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10 Do. New .
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100 Boichow Vaughan, lien, 3O 9 i I
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5 Bombay Gas, lint.
5 Do. New 4 11 id
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23 Canada Company all 66 7j
British Indian Tea, lint..., all 21 31
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Ceylon C • P
20 Do. A shares
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10 City Discount, lim 6 ..._ _
25 City of London Real Pro-
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10 Canadian Loan and
30 City of Milan Improv. lint, all 6 6
25 City of Moscow Gas, lint., all
50 City Offices, lint 25 26 25 1
50 Colonial, lint
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20 Continental Union Gas, lint. all 3 p
25 Copper Miners of England, 91 201
pref. 75 per cent
100 Corporation of London
Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent all 1031 1011
100 Do. 1879, If per cent. all
100 D, 1882, 43 per Cent all 1041 1055314)
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10 Credit Fon. of England, lint, all 10
21 3 21 4
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st Do. 6p. c Pexpetual Deb. 109 108 112
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and. Finance, lint,
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32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and
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100 Eug. and Scot. Ai urine, lint. S ... -•' l
10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 2 Id
20 Fore-streetWarehoaso,lim l2 4 11P
100 Fur. & Col, Gov. Trust and
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50 Gollivara, lint 2O
10 General Credit & Dis., lint 71 1) 11
15 General Steam Naviation 14 28 3) 174 8
50 Horns & Col Marine In. lint. 5 2 la
10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ... •••
20 Hudson's Ray all 121 121 121
20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar-
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20 Interna.Financial Soc. lint A .1) •
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20 Interns, Land Credit, lien 6 u '''
50 Italian Laud g ld p
20 'ltalian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31
100 Do. 6P. c. Bds , redeem
1870, issued 2.0 all 86 88
50 Land Securities, lint 5 21 11d
25 London African Trading._ 10 7 5‘1,, 25 Lou. & Caled, Marino, Rm 6 *** "*"
10 London County Land and
Building, lint
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4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 2 2/
50 Lond. and Glasg. Engineer
and Iron Ship, lint 25 21 161
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et Madras Irriga. & Caul. Gua.
5p.C. by India Gov. lOO 102 103 1021
10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and
Agency, lina ll I id
60 Merchant Shipping, lint.... all. 33 88
50 Millwall Iron Wor ks, lint. 122 •••
10 Natal Land and Colonisa-
tion Co., lint.
25 National Discount Co., lint 5 114 115
25 National Prov. Marine, lint. 4 4 3•1
10 National Steam Ship, lint. all 01 101
20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron, lint, 6 31 31i
10 New Consolidated Dis. lint. 3 it 14-'
5 New Quebrada, lim. 44 0 41 4
25 New Zealand Loan & Met'.
cantile Agency,lim 2l 4 iP
25 New Zealand Trust and
Loan, line 5 11 11
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50 North Brit. & slercan. Tn 64 9 194
25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 12 1
50 Oriental Financial, lint ll
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10 Otago and
5 Do. New .. 1 2 1P
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vestment, lint 2 id 413 5 Ottoman Gas, lintall 1i 21
10 Panama, New Zealand, and
Australian R. Mail lint all 17
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nerl, lint 100 31 34
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50 Do. Now 1867 lO 10 01
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20 Thames and Mersey Marine
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15 United Discount Corp., lint 6 11 11
20 Universal Marinean.), lim, s
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10 Upper Assam Tea, lint
30 Van Diemar's Laud
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cent. (Ilortgg)lLoan all 771 785
50 Warrant Finance, im.
India and Pacific
50 West
Steam, lint 2O
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Warehouses lO

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0ent.,1872.. .
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Oln.UoNr.6 p.o.Jan.°&July
1877-84
- Do. sp. o. Mar. & Sept lOO 102 104
- Do. 6p. o. Jan. & July lOO 6a 10 601 I
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do 1880-90 lOO 107 109
1.:-. (3.oDl.llsp(kl.BrOct 1890-1900 lOO Hi 113
- Do. Jan.&July, 18411
- Do. 5 per oeut. 15 April
and 15 Oct, 1900 . 100 03 1( 0
- Ceylon, Nov 1878, 6p. e.. 100 108 fit
- Do. 1872, d 0.... 100 105 10r
- Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1878,-
- Jan. and July
- Do. 1878 ... , 1)0 106 ips
- Do. 1882, Hay and Nit
- Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lO 100 08
- Melbourne! Corporate.,
- 1867-75, 6 per cent
- N.8.G0v.0 p.o.Ja.A;July lOO 10.1 It 4 10 1
- Natal 6 p et, Apl & Oct OO __
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- N. S. W. 5 rc., '7l to '73 lOO
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- Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to ',5
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LITERATURE.

The Life of Rossini. By H. Sutherland Edwards.
One Vol. Pp. 344. Hurst and Biackett.

Rapidly sketched though this .biography of the
greatest of all Italian Composers has obviously
been, it has still, quite as obviously, been produced
with all the conscientious care in any way possible,
bearing in mind'the remarkable rapidity of its pro-
duction. Mr. Sutherland Edwards, as a musical
critic of undoubted ability, has, in that respect, one
good qualification at least, for becoming the bio-
grapher of the great maestro. Beyond that, however,
he has other hardly less recognizable qualifications.
He was already " up" in his theme before its treat-
ment, thus, was by him fortunately undertaken. lie is
a skilled man-of-letters. lie has the journalist's rea-
diness of pen. lii has a wide acquaintance with
the Lyrical Drama. Hi has an exquisite appre-
ciation of the divine art—more particularly of
music of a dramatic or operatic character. The
present work is one almost confessedly of no par-
ticular elaboration. It iu no way affects to be ex-
haustive. It is a rapidly produced portraiture of the
dead musician—a portraiture as rapidly produced
as that pencilled by Gustave Dore. With this wel-
come difference, however, that Sutherland Edwards'
sketch is one of Rossini as he was in life, not—
es with Dore's almost painful deline ition—a limning
of Rossini as he lay in death. The Frenchman's
tribute partakes of the indecorous, partakes of the
irreverent. Not so our author's. Here, there is no
thought of irreverence pr of indecorum. The Italian
Composer par excellence is revealed to us successively
in the three great phases of his genius, or rather in
the three great stages of its manifestation. Naturally
enough, therefore, his "Life" is sketched in three
divisions. Part One—relates to " Rossini and his
Early Works." Part Two—to "Rossini at Naples."
Part Three—to "Rossiui's French Career." By an
astounding misprint on the first page of the first
chapter it is ludicrously set forth that " when in
1709 (sic) Paer's Camilla' was brought out at
Bologna, Rossini, then little more than an infant,
took the part of the child." So that, according to
this lapses, supposing Rossini then to have been
literally an infant, he would, at the period of his re-
cent demise, h been about 160 years of age. Born,
as Rossini was, and as Mr. Edwards correctly states
upon the very next page, on the 29th of Feb., 1792
just two mouths after the death of Mozart—he had
at the period of hie demise reached the age of 76, or
was, in other words, four years less than an octoge-
narian. D uring the first half of his life he waswonder-
f ully industrious. During the second he Was compara-
tively the reverse—reposing upon his laurels, as the
phrase is, or enjoying his reputation. When he was
thirty-seven, for example, he had composed thirty-
seven operas. ;Buts then, if afterwards he produced,
in quantity, comparatively little, in the quality of his
compositions, in their ripened and perfected beauty
as masterpieces, he surpassed himself, or at any rate
the mass of his earli .:r achievements. Beginning th 3
long and radiant list of his operas iu 1810 with La
Cambiale di Matrimonio, an opera in one act, for
which the composer (then eighteen) received £8
Ro:zsini in 1829 (when thirty seven years of age)
ended his career as a composer for the lyrical stage
with Guillaume Tell. After that he wrote in 1832
(when forty) the Stabat Mater, and, later on, (when
upwards of seventy) the Messe Sollenelle. Restrict-
ins
11
one's attention, however, exclusively to the
list of his operas—what operas that list of seven and
thirty comprises! His first grand success in that
way in 1813—Tancredi ! his opera of operas,
three years afterwards, namely, in 1816 —the most
intensely characteristic of all the productions of his
genius-11 Barbiere di Siviglia ! Another master-
piece, produced in that same year, 1816—Otello !
Two famous operas in the following twelvemonth,
1817—to wit, t'enerentola and La Gazza Ladra !
In the next, 1818— Mose in Egitto ! In the next,
1819—La Donna del Lago! In 1823--Semirantide
In 1829—Guillaume Tell! Then—the Stubut
dater! Then—the Messe Solennelle! To say
nothing of all the intermediate operas, the sym-
phenies, the quartettes, the cantatas, the choruses I
Here, indeed, was musical fecundity. Here, in
truth, and in the fullest degree, was the blending
together of originality and creativeuev. The
astouisSiog rapidity of moms among Rossini'e most
remarkable improvisations has been vividly in-
stanced by his English biographer. Due mention
is made, as a mater of course, for example of the
famous aria di rizi, the immortal "Di Tanti Pal-
piti," which was composed by him while a dish of
rice was being fried for his dinner, as the "Venetian
substitute for macaroni. The amusing inci-
dent of the maestro being threatened with assas-
sination by an infuriated drum-hater by reason of the
duet for drums opening the overture to La Gazza
Ladra, is duly notified. Mention is also made
laughably of Sigismondi's whimsical indignation at
the introduction, into the score of Otello, of horns
and trombones—Sigismondi, that foe of brass in-
struments, exclaiming, with a shudder, " Four
horns I are we a hunting party ?" And actually
mistaking the mention in the score of the let, 2nd,
and 3rd trombones (so the ludicrous story runs) for
123 trombones! As to the marvellous effect produced
by Rossini's performance of his own music on the
piano nothing can well be finer than Auber's cele-
bration of it in his record of their first interview.
Rossini had gone to the piano at Auber's request after
dinner, and there sang to his own accompaniment
Figaro's cavatina Largo al factotum della alit. " I
shall never forget," said M. Auber, " the effect pro-
duced by his lightning-like execution. Rossini
had a very beautiful baritone voice, and he sang
his music with a spirit and verve which neither
Pellegrini, nor Galli, nor .La.blache approached in
the same part. As for his art as an accompanyist,
it was marvellous. It was not on a keyboard,
but on an orchestra that the vertiginous hands of
the pianist seemed to gallop. When he had finished
I looked mechanically at the ivory keys—l fancied
I could see them smoking On arriving home I
felt much inclined to throw my scores into the fire.
It will warm them, perhaps,' I. said to myself ;
' besides, what is the use of composing music, if one
cannot compose like Rossini." Throughout the
whole volume Mr. Sutherland Edwards sustains the
interest of hie theme. As a biographical sketch of
Rossini the work is clever and vivacious, and—not
the least of its merits—delightfully anecdotal.

THE MURDEROUS ATTACK O,V THE POLICE AT

LEA BRIDGE.

The cowardly ruffian who committed the brutal assault
upon Ward, a constable of the N division, at Lea-
bridge, on Sunday night last, and which it is problible
may terminate fatally, was apprehended last night. His
name is David alias Thomas White, a " brickie," or
labourer in brick yards, and his past career affords abun-
dant evidence of his brutal nature. Hs was examined
to-day at Worship-street, and remanded. The magis-
trate refused to take bail, as it was not improbable tho
man might die.

AN UNFOI?7UNA7E WRITS UN

EXCURSION.

A number of Gravesend excursionists attended at Bow-
street Police-court, before Mr. Flowers, this morning, to
make application for assistance under the following extra-
ordinary circumstances:—

One of the holiday-makers, named Higgins, said they
were told when they took their tickets at Charing-cross
that there would be a return train at 12 at night, but at 11
there was no means of returning from Gravesend to Lon-
don. About 300 were left behind, and had to remain there
till this morning.

Mr. Flower advised the spokesman of tho unfortunate
holiday-makers to write to the directors or else proceed
against them in the County Court.

LATV LAITELLIGENCE.—phas Day.)

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ROLLS' CIL9.IIBERS.
(Before Mr. Church, Chief Clork.)
THE GREAT CONTENT CASE.-SAURIN V. STARR.

in this casa au application was made to the vaca •
tion Chief Clerk on the part of the defendant for
further time to answer the bill of complaint. —The
Chief Clerk inquired whether the plaintiff would
give further time. On the part of the plaintiff it was
stated that whatever time the chief clerk thought proper
would be granted. The Chief Clerk allowed fourteen
days further time for the defendant to answer the plain-
tiff's bill of complaint, on payment of Gs. Bd. costs. Order
accordingly.

The Flora Theatre at Cologne has been totally
destroyed by a fire which broke out just after the per-
formance had been concluded. The catastrophe is sup-
posed to have been the work of an incendiary.