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London, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

for the delivery in Paris of 5,300 quintals of oats , field he did not quit until all hope had vanished,
at 21f. 75c, the quintal, being a diminution of 19e. ' and he then returned with the Emperor to Paris.
the quintal as compared with a contract signed At the time of the second abdication, Jerome
quitted the capital on the 27th June,. and after
the 23d of May. Travellers who have passed wandering about for some time in France and
through Champagne state that the rye crop is Switzerland, re-joined his wife in Wurtemburg,
equal to any ever seen is that rye-growing district. where the allied powers permitted him to reside,
The spring barley, likewise, has an excellent ap- provided he remained in privacy and had none
pearance ; not so the winter barley, which is bad of his countrymen in his service, In 1816 his
both in the north of France and in Belgium. father-in-law conferred on him the title of :Prince
de Montfort, and for 30 years he resided by turns
The telegraph has supplied us with the prices of at the Chateau of Bamburg, near Vienna, Trieste,
and Florence. In 1836 the Prineess his wife died.
the provincial corn markets held on Saturday :
" Arras—A fall of lf. the hectolitre on wheat. having born three children—Jerome, Count de:
Prices, 19f. to 26f. 750. the hectolitre." " Dijon— '4'dontfort, who died at Florence 1817 ; the present
Prince Napoleon, and one' daughter, the Princess
Mathilde..
Magnificent weather. Large offers of wheat, and
sales difficult. A fall of lf. the hectolitre on ince-
Prince Jerome, in his own name, opened negotia-
rior quality." " Marseilles—Fine weather. Corn tions with the Government of Louis Philippe, and
w
market quiet. African wheat 37f. the measure•ofas permitted to return temporarily to Paris in
160 litres. ; Irka, 37f. ; Danube, 34f. 25c." " Metz 1847. After the revolution of 1848, and the elec-
-1,467 hectolitres of wheat sold at an average of tiop. of his nephew as President of the Republic,
Prince Jerome was made Governor-General of the
30f. 95c. the 100 kilogrammes. The weather is at Invalides, and soon after raised to the rank of
length most favourable for the blossoming of the Marshal of France. After the coup d'etat of 1851,
wheat." " Monterean—Fine weather. A fall on he was made President of the Senate, reinstated in
wheat of lf. the hectolitre." his title of French Prince, and provided with a
There was a good demand for beef and mutton at military household, a civil list, and a national resi-
the market of Poissy on Thursday last. The de-
dente. In the absence of the Einpeior, he on several
occasions presided at the Council of' Ministers. The
mend for veal was-not so good as at the precedinoc,
deceased Prince was always remarked for his
market. There were 1,868 oxen offered for sale, of Liberal opinions, even at a time when opposite
which 1,638 were sold at prices varying from if 23c views were prevalent. His talents as an adminis-
to if 48e the kilogramme ; 282 cows, of which 263 trator were
the calm c undoubteur d ; and if his tastes led him
to prefercourse of private life to the more
sold at from 94c to if 32c the kilogramme ; 11,938
shee ,of which 10,547 sold from if 28e to if 58c responsible duties of a sovereign, his ability was
p always found to be equal to the position in which
the kilogramme; 725 veal calves, of which 714 sold
fortune had placed him.
from if 64e to if 90e.
BOURSE, June 25.—The market has been de-
pressed, with limited business doing. The Bank
of France announced to-day its half-yearly dividend,
which is fixed at 68f. Last year it was only. 53f.
Threes, after having been done at 68f 70c, declined
to 68f 45c ; Mobilier varied from 673 f 75c to 667 f
50c ; Orleans, 1,342 f 50c to 1,340 f ; Northern, 9821
50c to 980 f ; Lyons, 878 f 75e to 875 ; Austrian
527 f 50e to 52.3 f 75c ; Lombard, 503 f 75c to 501 f 25c
The following are the last quotations :
ft per per Cents ... 96 90 Credit Foncier 845
Do end month.... Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents
Do. ecd month 6B 451 Roman
Bank Shares 2782 50 i Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 671 251 Spanish Threes ..
Do. Account 671 25 } Horae•Debt

711 E VISIT OF Till? ORPREONISTS TO
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.

Yesterday, at precisely three o'clock, a party of
above 3,000 gentlemen from France made their bow
to and.acquaintaßce with an assemblage of a good
many thousands of the British public. The meeting
was most friendly and cordial on both sides, each
party seemed quite delighted with the other. One
might almost have supposed that treason had been
at work, for the eyes of the French on their arrival
were met on every side by the familiar aspect of
the " tricolour." Marching, division by division, in
the direction of the great orchestra, situated in the
central transept, they found it already, as though
by magic, portioned out into 28 compartments, each
inscribed with the name of a French province, em-
blazoned on crimson shields, surmounted by wreaths

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans -
Northern • 985 .. 982 50
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 875
Geneva 4OO -- .. 400
Southern 5lB 75 .. 517 50
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 415 .. 412 50
Austrian
Lombard

of evergreens and flowers. Gilded eagles, were every-
where conspicuous ; busts of renowned compatriots
started from backgrounds of palms and shrubs, sug-
gestive of triumph; while in front of the organ the
likeness of an enormous eagle, with out-stretched
wings gave extra significance to a trophy of tri-
coloured flags. An emblematical device, represent-
ing two hands grasped in cordial amity, with
scrolls around the wrists of each, upon one of which
was labelled " France," and upon the other " Eng-
land," was symbolical of the work in hand—a
friendly trial of strength, in which the Frenchmen
were to show their English brothers the excellence
they had achieved in an art which the example of
a Handel has enabled us to bring almost to perfec-
tion in this country. The issue was honourable
alike to the competitors, who exhibited such vigour,
energy, and skill, and to those before whom they
competed, and who greeted their efforts with such
genuine enthusiasm.
The first piece in the programme yesterday was
our own national melody, " God save the Queen,"
which the Orpheonists sang in English, to the evi-
dent satisfaction of the audience. The other choral
pieces were as subjoined :

PART I.
Hymn—" Veni Creator"
" Chant de Bivouac"
"Depart du Chasseur"
Septuor (" Huguenots")
PART 11.

Chorus—" Les Enfans de Paris Adam.
Chorus—" 0 Isis" Mozart.
Part-song—" La Retraite" Laurent de Lille.
Part-song—" Le jour du Seigneur" Kreutzer.
" France ! France !"
The hymn, " Veni Creator," was a good specimen
of smooth singing—nothing more. The sonority
rather than power and depth of the bass voices, the
perfect balance of the different vocal parts—not one
unduly predominating over the rest—and the essen-
tially musical tone of the " ensemble," could not,
however, escape remark. In Kucken's lively
" Chant du Bivouac" (a choral arrangement of an
air known in English as "The Young Recruit,"
which Mademoiselle Jetty Treffz introduced so often
at Jullien's concerts), these qualities were more sali-
ently brought out; and this was followed by an
encore, to which the Orpheonists answered by re-
peating the last verse. The " Depart du Chasseur"
(Mendelssohn's exquisite " Lebe wohl"), was
given with delightful softness and faultless in-
tonation. The duel scene from the " Huguenots"
—which (with 4,000 more voices) is said to have
produced such an electric effect at the Palais
de l'lndustrie on the occasion alluded to—was
by no means so successful as had been anticipated,
the only striking passage being Marcel's solo
—" Ah ! quel chagrin pour ma vieillesse"—allotted
to the basses. That this elaborate and eminently
dramatic concerted piece should by any device be
brought within the sphere of a multitude of voices,
seems very improbable; nevertheless, we shall be
glad if the Orpheonists will afford us another, op-
portunity of correcting the unfavourable impres-
sion elicited by yesterday's attempt. In the second
part there was another failure—" 0, Isis" (an ar-
rangement of Sarastro's first air, with chorus, in
" Die Zauberflote"—an opera only known to the
French by a pasticcio, entitled " Les Mysteres
d'lsis," upon which the late Sophr is so severe in
one of this letters from Paris.) In the middle of ale
our worthy friends " broke down," and were com-
pelled to recommence, taking, however, a noble re°
venge by the unqualified success of their second
essay. Conradin Kreutzer's part-song, "Le Jour
du Seigneur," is a sombre affair at the best; but
the remaining three pieces in the second part
were perfection in the fullest sense of the word.
These, too, were the more welcome, inasmuch as of
all the programme contained they most completely'
revealed the French type and attained the Frenoll
ideal. " Les Enfans de Paris" (improvised by the
late Adolphe Adam, in the stormy period of 1848,
and first performed at the Porte St. Martin),
is, though simple and unpretending, a master-
piece of character and expression. This, and "La
Retraite" of M. Laurent de Lille—in its way ne,
less thoroughly characteristic, original, and
striking—won rapturous encores. Both were
triumphs of choral execution, displaying a eonl4
mand of light and shade that we have rarely heard
equalled, never surpassed, combined with a "chigoe
(the term may here be allowed to pass) 01-
which the French alone have the secret. In
the "-Retraite" a gradual progression (crescendo),
from the softest "piano" to the loudest "forte,
and subsequently of a retrogression ("diminuendo")
from fortissimo to pianissimo, produced4an effect
little short of magical, The close beat of a receding
corps of drums was imitated by the voices to admira'
lion ; and as the sound died away into something se
nearly approaching silence that the ear was on the
stretch to apprehend it the illusion was perfect. 111
France ! France !"—set to some stirring patriotic,
words by M. Vaudin (principal editor of the journal
called the Orpheon), and composed expressly for
this festival—M. Ambroise Thomas (to whom va,
are indebted for Le Caid and other popular opera
has succeeded in producing a cherns not pills' striks
in g in itself, but eminently ftted far
ioccasion. Ts, o
Iy
executed, like
predecessors—was o , too,—admirably
a receivedir
witha
the liveliest en'
thusiasni. Touched, no doubt, by such a frank
'this,
manifestation of sympathy on the part of they
English hearers, the Orpheonists again ustexpeP4
tedly broke out into " God save the Queen ;" and as
one good turn deserves another, the audience, 011,,
their side, shouted for " Partant pour la Syrie,
which was sung and played as only the Tench
can possibly sing and play their own national air;
Then followed cheers and counter. cheers, waving
hats and handkerchiefs, and other manifestations (1f
goodwill, which brought the first day's perfer"
mance of the Orpheonists in England
to a conele-
sion Battering alike to
themselves and to those for
whose gratification they had so sue"
zealously and
cessfully laboured. Nothing, in fact, could have
been more hearty and
spontaneous on both sides.