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      On The Occasion Of The Centenary Festiva...

      On the occasion of the centenary festival of 1856 , in honour of Mozart ' s birth , the Viennese public were moved to subscribe towards the erection of a monument to the immortal composer ' s memory , upon the site of his burial . But , given the grateful recollections of a people among whom the great musician wrought his best and left his ashes , and the requisite funds for their embodiment—there remained the difficulty of discovering the precise spot in which his tardily-honoured remains actually repose . After considerable discussion , the cemetery of St . Mark was determined upon ; and , on a spot indicated , to use the words of a Viennese correspondent , by " a piece of wood not bigger than the lid of a child's

      toy-box , " mil inscribed " Mozart , " a monument was erected on the 6 th inst ., in the presence of a limited number of spectators , comprising town-councillors , committee-men , members of harmonic societies , and other amateurs , but none ( officially ) of the Imperial family , household , or Court—none of the armynone of the University . . The inevitable chief of police was , of course , present to represent the State ; but this was all the posthumous homage decreed by Vienna to Mozart upon the occasion ! . The work is in bronze , from a design by Gasser , and represents a mourning muse , whose one hand grasps the Requiem ,

      while from its nerveless fellow drops a lyre . The figure is described as being highly poetical , and the attitude extremely well pourtrayed . n Mr . Cox , of Homers-street , is now exhibiting a collection of pictures purchased at the great Northwick sale . Among its prominent features are Maclisc ' s iamous work , " The Marriage of Strongbow ; " Titian ' s " Reclining Venus ; " ^ King Lear and the Fool in the Storm , " by Dyce ; " Joan of Arc , " by Etty ; several most valuable and interesting Flemish and Italian pictures ; two Martins , and many other works by eminent masters of the English schools .

      Messrs . J . and R . Jennings , of Cheapside , are drawing attention to Mr . E . M . Ward ' s large picture , "Louis XVI . and his Family in the Prison of the Temple , " which was , we believe , exhibited at the ' Roj-al Academy in 1852 . The work is now about to be engraved , and if the plate conveys at all successfully the effect of the work itself—or so much thereof , we should say , as it is permitted to the engraver to catch and convey—it will , doubtless , find a place in the collections of all admirers of that art . The group comprises the figure of the unfortunate monarch sleeping on a couch . Queen Marie Antoinette , and Madame Elizabeth mend the royal apparel , and a villain goaler puffing tobacco smoke into the apartment , * while he casts such an exulting and peering look upon them as the true revolutionary tsans-culoUa of the period may be supposed to have indulged in during his tenure of office .

      The countless attractions of the South Kensington Museum are now beginning to tell ; and , although the masses are not , and cannot be , supposed to form any large fraction of the crowds who throng its charming hulls , the Commissioners are enabled to furnish us with a very imposing weekly tablo of admissions . During tho week cmling ^ 10 th December , 1859 , the visitors have been as follows : —Oil Monday , Tuesday , and Saturday ( frco days ) , a , 542 ' j on Monday unil Tuesday ( free evenings ) , ! 3 , Oo 7 . On the three students' days ( admission to the public , Gd . ) . 1 , U . "> ; ono ' students' evening ( NVuilnosihiy ) , JH ) ' . ) ; total , 8 . O / K ) . From the opening of tho Museum , llft 70 ( Jrt .

      ,, Tho Lambeth School of Art has oxhibited such strong symptom a of success in its temporary locution in the National-school , thut efforts are being made in this populous parish , of which bo many inhabitants are ouiployod in the arts of construction , ironworking , and pottery , to securu funds , and make arrangements fur a suitable building . A committee is being organised , of which a prominent member is tho reverend incumbent of- St . Mary ' s . The active co-operation of Messrs . Williams and Roupoll , tho sitting members , has been secured , and that of tho Government , lias been sought through tlio Committee of Privy Council on Education .

      Sir Frotlerlck Trench , remembered as tho sponsor for Wyatt , with respect to tho equestrian stutuo of Georgo 111 ., in Coekspur-streot , and as the unllinching defender of that woi'k , which ho pronounced " tho flneet equestrian etutuo in Europe , " against tho abburdly bitter criticism * of its first enemies , diod a fow days ago at Brighton .

      Music, This Drama, Etc.

      MUSIC , THIS DRAMA , ETC .

      Olympic Tiihatiijo.—Haynos Bayly's Smart...

      Olympic Tiihatiijo . —Haynos Bayly ' s smart old farce , " Tom Noddy ' s Socrot , " which , when oviglnally produced at tho llaymarket , onjoyod a very considerable popularity , has boon revived here by way of stop-gan , while the usual propagations are making for tho Christmas piece . Mr . Addlson , as Tom Noddy , ivncl Mr . Horace Wigan , as Inkpen , are

      both excellent representatives of those Characters , and divert us fully as much as did Messrs . Stricklarwl and Buckstone in the old cast . Mr . Gordon , as Captain Ormond , is a little out of his element . We prefer his marine pictures . As Gabrielle , Miss Marston is pretty ana attractive , as usual . The mise en scene includes & good deal of old-fashioned upholstery and costume , which are cut , coloured and arranged in an extremely picturesque manner . IiYCEUir Theatre . —Madame Celeste has wisely revived Mr . Bayle Bernard ' s long-established drama " St . Mary ' s Eve , " which she would do well , to our thinking , by placing first , not last , on her bill . As a dramatic work , it is of high class ; and it affords

      St . James ' s Hall . —Among the . tliousand-and-one entertainments schemed for Friday the 23 rd , an evening which the public seem unanimously to have appointed to take the duties of Christmas Eve , is the full dress ball , under the direction of Mr . Henri Laurent . This gentleman ' s popularity among the artistic world , and skill as a conductor of dancemusic have , we understand , already secured him very numerous promises of support . The visitors who , stimulated by an orchestra of eighty performers led by Laurent in person , manage to go through the two-and-thirty dances set down for them , will , we apprehend , hail with satisfaction the solid novelties ( at a ball supper ) of beef and plum-pudding that figure among other delicacies on the refreshment programme we have seen .

      1 certain room for displaying the good comic quality of Mr . G . Rouse as Tom Bags . Mr . Villiers is the Robert Vaughan , and the Misses M . A . Hatton and Fitzclarence , the Mistress Mayfidd and Mistress Ferns respectively . St . James ' s Hall—Monday Popular Concerts . —The concert of last Monday was rich in works of Mendelssohn . Two quartetts , a concerto for piano and violoncello , and a pianoforte solo ( Nos . 1 and 4 of the 6 th Book of the . " Liedeohne Worte ¦ **) . by Miss Arabella Goddard , were the great features of the evening . The success of Herr Becker , the new violinist , was unquestionable in both of the quartetts , and the famous songs Without words become . in the able hands of Miss Goddard , more full than ever of poetic

      meaning . The delicious "Kennst du das land , " Beethoven , was sung by Miss Fanny Rowland with the impulsiveness it demands , and Schubert ' s " Thine is my Heart , " lost none of its p lajjon in Miss Behren ' s version . The other pieces were Spohr ' s "Hose softly blooming , " and Macfarren ' s duet , " Two merry Gipsies are we , " by the ladies abovenamed . The leading features of next Monday ' s concert will be instrumental works by Handel and J . S . Bach , performed by Fiatti , Becker , Mr . Best ( organ ) , and Miss Goddard . The vocalists named are Mr . Ramsden and Miss Poole , who will give some of the delightful old ballads from the rich collection recently published by Messrs . Cramer ,. Beale , and Chappell . . ..

      _ Royal Gallery of Illustration . —The theatrical managers are so occupied in prepax-ing their post-Christmas novelties that , as our meagre notices above show clearly enough , they have , for a time , refrained from the production of novelties , and left room for the non-dramatic and semi-dramatic entertainers of all kinds , who are by no means slow to fill the void . Mr . and Mrs . German Reed have returned to Regent-street from their autumn wanderings , and are forward among the class referred to with their " Popular Illustrations from real Life . " Of these there are again two sub-classes , entitled " Our Home Circuit , " and « ' Sea-side Studies , " it is no . exaggeration to say , that while Mr . Reed ,

      whose amusing " Unfinished Opera " might still draw tears of envy to the eyes of neglected composers of works finished , in more than one sense , years ago , has improved in his character studies ; his gifted partner is no less than ever energetic and competent , as a comedienne and as a vocalist . Among the " novelties " bagged during the recess by our travelling constellation , and now here photographed for the benefit of whom may be concerned , aro Mr . Augustus Fitzdrcticl , a fast man of the present age , with the usual characteristics of his order , who

      and Mrs Mumbleday , a bourgeoisie , , having gone to enjoy a blaze of such triumphs as a wateringplace throws in tho way of fantastical widows of property , insists upon lionising the composer of the " Unfinished Opera , " thus deferring its completion yet more indoiinitoly . Miss Twitter , the Mrs . Niekloby of this entertainment , and tho delightful Sully Sfivuys seem as fresh and popular as ovor ; und tho same , ' "indeed , must once moro be said of Mrs . RcoJ , upon the fulness of whoso " houses" not all tho competitive talents from ono end of London to tho other seem to have the slightest effect .

      Crystal Pauvcu . —Our readers must be reminded , although we regret we are irt no position , to announce any prograinmo , that tho management ot tho Crystal Palace has no intention of abandoning its custom of organising a series of Christmas / utcs on a comprehensive scale . The number of admissions for tho six daye . ending Friday , Dec . ' 10 , was 5 , 201 . Tnu Uianciu Cnii-uitisN .- —At a private performance of tlioso little precocities , given at tho UUlory of Illustration , and preliminary to their being publicly announced as Christmas curiosities , wo were oininontly diverted by their comicalities , whlcli , if not ascribablo to nativo force , must bo taken as an evidence of aseiilupus training and docility , as one might say of llaroyfled or Battyilod quadrupeds . Tlioir " Bombastos Furioso , " in which an Infant ot three years old takes a character , is , considering an tilings , marvellous , and a "Duetto Fantastiquo , in which the gymnastic fiddling in all sorts ot complicated , contortionod , and inconreniont postures , so popular when performed by adults at other plucos of entertainment , has boon arranged for , the drawingroom , is no lees clever and astonishing .

      Lecture On Fichte.—On Tmirsday Evening, ...

      Lecture on Fichte . —On Tmirsday evening , Mr . J . A . Heraud gave a lecture on Fichte , Junior ' s , new psychological work , to the members of the Urban Club—a society of artists and writers , who hold their meetings at the antique and picturesque hostelrie at St . John ' s-gate , Clerkenwell . Here , witli old Johnson frowning on him from the panels , and Goldsmith looking down with a kind of surprise , Mr . Heraud delivered a couple of hours' discourse on the great German philosophers , commencing with Kant , and concluding with the younger Fichte . Mr . Heraud handled his very difficult and profound subject with great skill , proceeding from proposition to proposition in a manner which , if it did not carry positive conviction , at least was extremely suggestive . The wonderful truths thus developed made a strong impression on his audience , and , doubtless , will set many of them reflecting on these grand and important themes . The Chairman ( Mr . Stirling Coyne ) expressed the thanks of the meeting to Mr . Heraud for his interesting lecture ; and the company then dispersed to permit the gratification of that lower portion of our organisation which is sustained by the creature comforts .

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      "The Leadelt" Office, Friday Evening-, D...

      "THE LEADElt" OFFICE , Friday Evening-, Doc . lCtlu

      Praxce. Thk Monlteur Of To-Day (Friday) ...

      PRAXCE . Thk Monlteur of to-day ( Friday ) announces that last night the health of Prince Jerome continued to improve . The Moriiteur also publishes an article explaining ; tho law on the press , the wisdom and necessity of which ( it says ) lias been proved I » y eight years ' exercise .

      The Rumoured Abdication. The Paris Corre...

      THE RUMOURED ABDICATION . The Paris correspondent of the Globe says : —The rumoured abdication of l'rnuz Joseph , after ten years ' reitrn , is really assuming some tangible shape . The origin of this scheme is not at VU : unn , but at Prague , whore the great mother and now venerable Eyeria . of tho house of llapsburg , Archduchess tiophia , holds Imr Court in the Hrndachin Palace . This lady has alrervly brought about two abdications , that of Ferdinand ami of Archduke Charles ; she rules tho whole family , and haa bitterly reseated this banishment of her son , Archduke Maximilian , of whose voyage to Brazil I have twic < i spoken . Happily he has not leached ( Jiliraltar . Forei ; d into Messina by stress of weather , his further exile is stopped , and on iiim the Ktiisorlick crown devolves , though ' Franz Josftph has children . This looks very wild , but such is tin ; tnlk in JSohemia , us well uh Jluiiffary , -where ) serious doubt always prevailed .-is to Franz Joseph having a right to ivigi ) , not having heen crowned at Pesth with tho diadem of King Stephen .

      Execution Of Capta1n T ¦Ijhow.V. Cavtai ...

      EXECUTION OF CAPTA 1 N ¦ IJHOW . V . Cavtai ' s John BuoWN whs executed at Cliarlestowij on the ' 2 nd . Previously t <> gphitf t" thu ncutibhl he Jiuil an interview with several of liia fellow conspirators , and accused some oi them of U-curhrry . Th « uvijiinw lJulom the execution Urowu had an Interview with his wile . Ho died bravely . Numerous sympathy meetings hud boon held at Now York on the evening ^ th" ' 2 nd .

      Commission On Tun Itjiv. Jamks Donivell,...

      Commission on tun itJiV . Jamks Donivell ,-The inquiry wiih nwuini'd UiIh day ( l- ' ridny ) . After hearing further evidence , JJr . Twlsa delivered the decision , erf the Cominirfflionoi'S , which was , that , the wmduct ol tlie llov . Junww JJonwdl , prior and subsequent to the con-Hnemmt , of Elizul . elh' Yonilli , and in w *\ wv . t to Mr . Jjonwdl boing tl «» father of thu e ) ,::, l b » delivered , aftbnlud auillclunt ki-ouihIh lor fiirlli . r '"' i'fl'T- J /» 7 d not think it had been sulHc ! -nU . v |» rovcd that adulterous iutercoursu hud aetunlly taken itlnco In . U »< J i-ondon diocese . 11 would be tho duty of the Commissioner * to transmit to tho Uluhop oi ' hoiufou tho ovidenee which had iKinu laid before them , and alao a report ol their own on tho cuho . l ) v . tfhoplionl , the reulHtnir , then , by Sv of the ConniiisBionerH . declarer tlio coininlsBlon closed . I" oonsoquoiicu of tills decision , tho Wallop will Save to flit In th « next stugo of thu hoarliitf , with a lognl iMoaaur , and in thu ovont ot tho oa » u bolng proved agaUut Mr JUonwolI . will bo oinpowunid to puaH sentonce . Uio fUrthor hoiirlng cannot , in ooiwuquonou oi tho legal Ioptob which havo to bu go » " tluwitfli , tako place for B « voral wceke .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121859/page/11/