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    • OLYMPIC T II E A T 11 E.— Lessee and Manager, Mr. Awked Wioan.
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      * w .. W , j .. o « A <; y , ( u vyuuiiuNMity , oeiug cue ij « isn xiireo Nights before ( "hriHtmas , will be repeated the Original Drama , in Three Acts , called PLOT AND PASSION . Principal characters by Messrs . F . Robson , Kmcry , Leslie , Cooper , White , and A . Wigan ; Miss E . Turner , " and Mr * . Stirling . Alter which the introductory Uxtravagaiiza ( railed THE CAMl AT THE OLYMPIC ; in which will appear Messrs . A . Wigan , Emory , F . Robson , Cooper , and Oalii ; Mesdames Stirling , P . Horton , Chatterlov , K . Turner , Wyndham , and A . Wigan . To conclude with Til 10 WANDERING MINSTREL . Jem HaggH , Mr . F- Itobson . Box-ofllce open fi-oin Eleven to Four . Doors onon at Seven , and commence at Half-past Seven . Stalls , Cs . ; Uoxos , 4 s : ; Pit , 2 s . ; CJallery , Is .

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      WEDNESDAY . EVENING CONCERTS , EXKTKIi HALL . On Wednesday , the 21 « f > will bu producod tho wholo of the Musio from Mendolssohu ' s MIDSUMMI'Mt NIGHT'S DRI 5 AM . After whioh , Selections from Halle's UOlIiOMIAN OIJtL , And a variety of popular lOnglisli (> omposers . « rand Pianoforte : Miss KATK RO ( JEltS . Solo Harp : Mdlle . LOirKSK CHK . ISTINM . Fantusia fOoutra Jtasso ) : Mr . A . C . ROWLAND' . VocalisU : Madamo AuHirtei , Miss McKsent , Mix * « raco AUeyne , tho Misses W <( I 1 h , Mdlle . Norie , Mrs . Ifc , Limpus , Mr . ' ( jeorgo Perron , Mr . George Gouge , Mr . l . avvler , Mr . ItuHSolI Cirovor , Ac . Tickets to be had at tho Hall .

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      MIL ALBEHT HMITII'S MOJNT B LANC EVURV I 0 VENIWI ( excoi ) t Saturday ) , at 8 , and Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday Mornings , at 2 . Stalin , . 'Is ., whioh can be taken tana plan at the JJox-ofllco , ovory day from 11 to 4 Vjaroa , 2 s . ; gallery , Is . — lilgyptian Hall Piccadilly .

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      1 WILL S 11 O It J' h Y CLOSE .- —Dr . rKAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM . PORTLANDflALIiEI { , Y , : itF 0 ( 3 KNT-ftTlfcIfll <] T , o ]) posil , e the Polytechnic . OP 10 N for gentlemen I > A UjY , at the usual hours , except ou Wednesdays and Fridays , from Two till Five , during which hours ladies only are admitted . Explanations for gontlemon by Dr . Loach , and for ladio » by Mra . Loach . Admission , la .

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      tion to the world of Music . Now , a man who has the requisite musical science must have served for the Divine Art as many years as Jacob served for Rachel , and from the same motive . Such a one is not very likely to becpme a literary artist ^ he would be a musician , and scorning the poverty of words , would find his fittest means of expression where the power of words fails—in the illimitable riches of harmony . We are not sceptical on the score of multiform talent—the crop of Crichtons to be got off our own land is manifestly abundant—it is only the Admirableness we doubt . We would rather wait patiently for a proper biographer of Mendelssohn to put forth his work in due season , than be obliged to read to-morrow half a dozen handsome volumes of undigested material , seamed with common-place criticism , purporting to be a life of the composer Mendelssohn . Until then Mr . Benedict ' s little pamphlet will : . deserve attention from the lovers of Music and Genius . It is an affectionate and reverential tribute to the memory of one whom he loved and whom he ranks among the brightest spirits this earth ever saw . Hear him tell of his first meeting with " the marvellous boy : " : —>' r "It was in the beginning of May , 1821 , when , walking in the streets of Berlin with my master and friend , Carl Maria Yon Weber , he directed my attention to a boy , apparently about eleven or twelve years old , who on perceiving the autkor of Freyschiitz , ran towards him , giving him a most hearty and friendly greeting . " "Tis Felix Mendelssohn , ' said Weber , introducing me at once to the prodigious child , of whose marvellous talent and execution I had already heard so much at Dresden . I shall never forget the impression of that day on beholding that beautiful youth , with his auburn hair clusteriug in ringlets round his shoulders , the look of his brilliant clear eyes , and the smile of innocence and candour on his lips . He would have it that weshould go with him at once to his father's house ; but as Weber had to attend a rehearsal , he took me by the hand , and made me run a race till we reached his home . Up he went briskly to the drawing-room , where , finding his mother , he exclaimed , ' Here is a pupil of Weber ' s , who knows a great deal of Iris music of the new opera . Pray , mamma , ask him to play it for us ; ' and so , with an irresistible impetuosity , he poshed me to the pianoforte , and made me remain there until I had exhausted all the store of my recollections . When I then begged of him to let me hear some of his own compositions , he refused , but played from memobt such of Bach ' s fugues or Cramer ' s exercises as I could name . At last we parted—not without a promise to meet again . On my very next visit I found him seated

      on a footstool , before a small table , writing with great earnestness some music On my asking what he was about , he replied , gravely , ' I am finishing my new Quartet for piano and stringed instruments . ' . . "I could not resist my own boyish curiosity to examine this composition and looking over his shoulder , saw as beautiful a score as if it had been written by the most skilful copyist . It was his first Quartet in C minor , published afterwards as Opus 1 . " But whilst I was lost in admiration and astonishment at beholding the work of a master written by the hand of a boy , all at once he sprang up from his seat , and , in his playful manner , ran to the pianoforte , performing note for note all the music from Freyschutz which three or four days previously he had heard me play , and asking , ' How do you like this chorus ? ' ' What do you think of this air ? ' 'Do you not admire this overture ?' and . so on . Then , forgetting quartets and Weber , down we went into the garden , he clearing high hedges with a leap , running , singing , or climbing up the trees like a squirrelthe very image of health and happiness . " We quote the following for the sake of its ill-recognised truth : — " All at once , and perhaps when least expected , the great gap left by the death of Beethoven seemed likely Jo be filled up ; and I am happy to adduce this success as another proof of the much underrated taste of the English public , and its discernment in appreciating , and even discovering new-born musical talent . " Not to speak of the Elizabethan era—of Orlando Lasso , Luca Marenzio , the great madrigal writers—did not Handel compose his immortal works almost exclusively in England , and for an English audience?—were not Haydn ' s finest symphonies written to gratify the London amateurs , before a note of them was heard or known in Germany or France ? —was not Beethoven revered and known by English artists , by English musical societies , when almost forsaken and neglected in Germany ? And so it was with Mendelssohn . His renown , after the enthusiastic but-just reports of his reception in London , both as a composer and pianist , spread like wildfire all over Europe , and gave the young and ardent maestro a new stimulus to proceed on his glorious path . " Throughout this Sketch the same enthusiastic love and reverence for his subject prevails . Weare of Emerson ' s opinion , that " like can interpret like . " Why should not Mr . Benedict be the biographer whose advent he desires ? For a reason given above—he is a musician , and music is his native language—though he writes prose well , upon occasions . We should like to hear some of the dirges , elegies , funeral songs without words , which he has improvised to the memory of his illustrious friend .

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      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices ^)

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      December 17 , 1853 ] THE LEADER 1221

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . . BIRTHS . - On the 8 th of December , at Norwich , the wife of Captain J . B . Woosnara , Bombay Artillery : a son and heir . On the 8 th , at 48 , Pulteney-street , Bath , the wife Of Captain Cummings : a daughter . On the 9 th , at Leversdown , the wife of Captain C-K . Tynte : a daughter . *^ On the 10 th , at 10 , Upper Grosvenor-street , Lady Buxton : a daughter . On the 11 th , at Brighton , the Viscountess Downe : a son . On the 12 th , at Kilkea Castle , county of Kildare , Ireland , the Marchioness of Kildare : a daughter . MARRIAGES . On the 25 th of August , at the church of the Holy Trinity , Hobart Town , by the Right Rev . the Lord Bishop ^ of Tasmania , John Bisdcti , Esq ., of Hutton-park , Van Diemen ' s Land , to Henrietta , Charlotte , daughter of Henry Miller , Esq ., lato Captain of H . M . Forty-eighth Regiment , Hobart Town . On the 3 ft ! h of November , at March , J- Lincoln Porter , Esq ., manager of the National Provincial Bank of England , to Louisa , youngest daughter of Edmund Barley , Esq ., March . On tho 8 th December , at the British Embassy , Paris , Charles Drury Hazen , Esq ., of Rudding , Notts , to Charlotto , widow of tho lato Thomas Radcliff Symcs , Esq ., of Ballybegg , in the county of Wicklow , and third daughter of the Right Hon . John Richards , one ot tho Bavons of tho Exchequer in Ireland . * On the 10 th , at St . George ' s , Hanover-squaro , his Excellency Commodore Sir Charles Hotlmm . K . C . B ., to the Hon . ? Tnnc Sarah I lolbcch , widow of Hugh Holbcch , Esq ., of Farnborough . Warwickshire , and daughter of tho Right Hon . Lord and Lady Bridport . On tho 12 th , at tho British Embassy . Paris , tho Baron d'Aerssen Bciiercn do Voshol , Chamberlain to II . M . the King of the Netherlands , and his Counsellor of Legation at Paris , to Anna Maria , youngest daughter of tho lato Robert Nassau Button , Esq . DEATHS . On the 1 , 1 th Novoniher , in Cork , Miss Louisa Moore , fifth { laughter of the lato Hon . and Rov . Robert Mooro , of Mooro-• ull , county of Waterford , aged seventy-live . Oh the « th December , of bronchitis , Helen Lang ford , widow of tho lato Captain R . S . Adams , H . E . I . O . S ., aged seven ty-nino . On the 8 th , at her residence , on Woolwich-common , Mary A »» o Hall Ilobo . eldest daughter of tho lato Colonel Sir Willia m Robe , K . C . B ., K . T . S ., and K . O . IL , of the Royal Hor . se Artillery . <>» the i ) Lh , at 10 , Eaton-place , Arabella , wife of Oeorgo ' - ¦ ii'y Flwen , Esq ., and oldest daughter of Thomas Fiosohi ' ! " <* the Hon . ArabellaHoueago ; also , on tho 10 th , of Hcarlot iuyer , Evelyn Robert Cary , their eldest son , aged fifteen . <> n tho Oth , nfc Lymo Regis , Dorset , Sarah , wife of Captain Maries Cowpur Bonott , R . N ., and eldest daughter of the in ( , e Willia m Iturlton , Esq ., of Wykin-ludl , ¦ Leicestershire , < l »< »> onhoad-lodgo , Wilts . <)»» the s )| , h , at Antigua-villa , Tor , Torquay , Devonshire , ' -iiziilieth , relict of tho Into Thomas StarcH . Esq ., of Wall , ( £ !'• ^'"' "harn , Hants , and the youngest ; daughter of the ll <<<> Vico-Adiniral Sir William Parlkor , Barfc ., aged seventy-

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      MONKY MAliKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE Friday Evoning , December HI , 18 K 5 . trjull , ?/; " havo boon ll 0 av / for the Inn * f « w days . The « on-Mas y ft «< ' <^» ntH of tho wtato of the belligerents in the ino . ' oTii ' , " , y B < M » P » toh dimming materially from the of i | ""? ii- ^ " til 0 rumour of a French loan to tho amount h'ru ' n IOM l nnd whioh , it is said , haw boon taken by the "f UiIi W llrni - nnd . *»¦»*> , but not . lcast , tho resignation l > niy 1 ) lan iu y | W 0 Bon ' minJHt , ™ u one believing

      in the reasons that the Times gives for his retirement- — all these concurriug circumstances have fluttered Consois , and that they have nofc fallen one or two per cent , is attributed to the heavy " Sear" account , and the operations for a fall that ought to have taken place weeks ago , according to the ideas of the speculators . Railway shares have maintained a strong value throughout the week . French shares look very firm considering the impending loan . Land Companies are rather worse , and Mining Shares , with a few exceptions , are no better . There has been another "trick " played about one of those suspicious Jamaica mines—the Port Royal—which was reported to have cut an extraordinary rich silver lode , worth 1500 Z . per fathom , and proves utterly false . Consols leave off at 3 30 and 91 h i ex dividend . Consols , 94 i , 7 ; Caledonian , 56 , 56 £ ; Chester and Holyhead , 16 , 17 ; Eastern Counties , . 131 , 13 J ; Edinburgh and Glasgow , 64 , 83 ; Great Western , 833 ; 84 ; London , Brighton , and South Coast , 094 , KWJ ; London and North Western , 103 ;* , 10-4 ; London and South Western , 774 , 78 . }; Midland , 63 # , 64 ?; Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverhainpton , 39 , 40 ; South Eastern , 63 , 04 ; York , Newcastle , and Berwick , 64 , 65 ; York and North Midland , 48 J , * 9 J ; Dijon and Besancon , 2 . } , 3 £ pm . ; East Indian , 1 $ , 4 pm . ; Luxembourg , 108 , a ; Ditto ( Railway ) , 6 ? , t ; Ditto , Prof ., If , 2 ; Namur andLeigo ( with Int . ) , 84 , 9 ; Northern of France , from pm . 35 } , 4 ; Paris and Lyons , 16 $ , 16 ? ; Paris and Orleans , 47 , 40 ; Paris and Rouen , 42 , 44 ; Itoucn and Havre , 10 i , 2 Q £ ; Paris and Strasbourg , 33 j | , 33 f ; Sambro and Mouse , 9 £ , 10 ; West Flanders , 4 J , 5 ; Western of France , 8 , 9 pm . ; British American . 75 , 77 ; Australian Agricultural , 4 i > , 47 ; Peel River , i , 5 pm . ; South Australian , 39 , 41 ; North British Australian Land and Loan Company , pm . i to j ; Scottish Investment , 1 i , 1 J pm . ; Union Bank of Australia , 74 , 70 ; London Chartered Bank , i , 1 pm , ; AguaFriaSj 5 . 1 pm .: Carson ' s Creek , J dis ., par ; Colonial Gold , {} pm ., U pm . ; Linares ( Spain ) , 11 to 12 x . 11 .: New Linares . $ dis . to par ; Nouveau Monde , } , A pm . ; United Mexican , 4 } , 45 ; Crystal Palaco , 2 pm ., 2 | pm .

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      C O K N MA IIK E T . Mark Lano , Friday Evening . With largo supplies of wheat , prices are fully 2 s . per quarter higeor than Monday . Barley 2 s . to 3 s . dearer . Oats firm at Monday ' s prices . Tho severity of the weather renders further shipments from the northern continental ports improbable till the spring ; wo need not , thoreforo , givo quotations of prices . Irish barley in offered at 18 s . ( id . to l !) . s . per barrel , and oats , black 14 s . to Ms . 3 d ., white 15 s . per barrel f . o . b . We have 110 advices from New York sinco our last . A considerable quantity of wheat and flour is now on the way for Liverpool and London , after which the supplies from thuro must ho very small , till tho ro-opeuing of tho interior navigation in tho spring . 1 'j . oATiNO- TKA . BIC—Thoro are only eight arrivals to report this week- The activity which began to appear at the oIoho of last , has continued this week , tho domand huving been chioflv <> eontiiuMital account . Our own markots , both English and Irish , have been very quiet as far an floating cargoes aro concerned , although a rise of Is . to 2 s . lms taken phiflo generally throughoui ; England . TJ 10 largo arrivals into London have failed to produce tho expeotod ell ' oef ; , and there aro moro inquiries from the country than wo havo had since the begiuniug of Nov . Tho French markets havo steadily risen to ( he extent 2 s . ( id . to . 'In . ( id ., with the exception of Marseilles , wljoro the imnieiiMO arrivals had oaimcd a dcoline of i )» . to 6 a ., Polish Odessa for present ; delivery being worth about Wts . per quarter there . This depression was nttributod to temporary local causes , and wheat for future delivery wan still nearly as high as it had boon previously . There would bo buyerw here now at last week ' s rates , but holders are not disnotiod to soil , except at moro than tho prices already paid . Tho nuinbor of cargoes for sale is very sinajl , le «» than usual at this timo of year , four-fifths of the shipments Jin the Blaok Sea having beon directed to tho Mediterranean ports . Fow shipments had taken place at Odessa in tho week previous to data of last advices from there . Indian corn lias again been quiet . Two cargoes of Oahit / , wold nt 4 f « . and 45 s ., cost , freight and insurance . Thoro is 1 very little on passage .

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      FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Thursday Evening . ) Brazilian Bonds 99 Russian Bonds , 5 per Buenos Ayres G per Conts . T > 7 Cents 1822 112 J Chilian 6 per Cents 103 Russian 4 £ per Cents .... 98 i Danish 5 per Cents 1033 Spanish 3 p . Ct . Now Dof . 22 Ecuador Bonds fi 5 Spanish Committee Cert . Mexican 3 per Cents . ... 243 of Coup , not fun . 5 $ Mexican 3 per Ct . for Venezuela 34 per Cents . Ace , December 10 2451 Belgian 4 i per Cents .... 902 Portuguese 4 per Cents . < 12 J Dutch 2 £ per Cents frt \ Portuguese 3 p . Cts ., 1818 ... Dutch 4 por Cent . Ccrtif . Oti

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      J Bat . 3 fon . TuesAWedATlmr . Frid Bank Stock 221 221 £ 220 i 220 *' .. 3 per Cent . Red 955 05 | 95 95 945 ! . 3 per Cent . Con . An . 96 ? shut 90 95 $ f Consols for Account 95 J 95 } 94 ; 94 ? Q 4 , \ 94 * 3 i per Cent . An 97 J 975 07 96 J 95 J tfew 5 per Cents Long Ans . 1860 . 5 5 5-16 5 * i India Stock shut shut 248 J ! Ditto Bonds , . ^ 1000 ' 2 p 5 p " 3 n Ditto , under £ 1000 5 p * 5 p . lp Ex--Bills , ^ 1000 6 p 9 p 6 p 9 p 8 p ' . ' . ' . Z Ditto , £ 500 .... Cp 9 p ' 9 p' 8 p Ditto , Small I 6 p 9 p Cpi Dp I 4 p , '

      Olympic T Ii E A T 11 E.— Lessee And Manager, Mr. Awked Wioan.

      OLYMPIC T II E A T 11 E . — Lessee and Manager , Mr . Awked Wioan .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1853, page 1221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2017/page/21/