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      On the occasion of the centenary festival of 1856 , in honour of Mozart ' s birth , the Viennese public were inoved 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 xipon ; 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 , " an 1 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 .

      Mr . Cox , of Burners-street , is now exhibiting a collection of pictures purchased at the great Nortliwick sale . Ariiong its prominent features are Maclise's famous work , ' . ' The Marriage of Strongbow ; . ' . ' Titian ' s " Reclining Venus ; " " King Lear and the Fool in t lie 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

      Royal Academy in 1852 . The work is now aboxit to be engrave : ! , and if the plate conveys at all successfully the effect of the work itself—or so much thereof ,, we should ' , as it is permitted to the engraver to catch uiul convey—ic 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 sans-culullc . of the period may be supposed to have indulged in during his tenure of office .

      The countless attractions of the South Kensington Museum ure now beginning to tell ; and , although the masses aye not , and cannot be , supposed to form any luvge fraction of the crowds who throng its charming hulls , tho Commissioners are enabled to furnish us with a very imposing weekly table of admissions . During tho week ending 10 th December , 1859 , tho visitors have been as follows : —On Monday , Tuesday , and Saturday ( free days ) , 3 , 542 ; on Monday and Tuesday ( free evenings ) , 0 , 057 . On the three students' days ( admission to the public , Gd . ) , l , 14 f ) ; one students ' evening ( Wednesday ) ,. ' ) 09 ; total , S . OftU . Froin theyopening of the Museum , l 157 « oa .

      , , The Lambeth School of Art has exhibited such strong symptoms of success in its temporary location in the National-school , tliat efforts are being made in this populous parish , of which so many inhabitants arc employed in tho arts of construclien , ironworking ' , and pottery , to secure funds , mid nuiko arrangoinonts for a suitable- building . A committee is being organ is 6 u \ of which a prominent member is therovcrend incumbent of St . Mary ' s . Tho active co-pperatlon of Messrs . Williams and Koupoll , the Bitting inonihors , lma been secured , and tlmt of the Government has been sought through tho Committee of Privy Council on Education .

      Sir Frederick TroncJi , romomberod as the sponsor for Wyntt , with renpect to tho equestrian statuo of George 11 T ., in Cockspur-strcot , and as the unflinching delbndoi of that work , which ho pronounced * ' tho finest equQStrhiu statuo in Europe , " against tho absurdly bitter criticisms of its first onomies , died a few days ngo ut Brighton .

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      Lectckk on Fichte . —On Thursday 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 , with old Johnson frowning on him from the panels , and Goldsmith looking down with a kind of surprise * Mr . Heraud delivered a couple of hours' discburse 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 pf our organisation which is sustained by the creature comforts . rfn ¦ iii

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      FINE ARTS .

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      Oi . YMiMo Tumatkb . — Huyxios Bayly ' e smart old farco , " Tom Noddy ' s Sdcrot , " which , when originally produced at tho Haymarkot , onjoyod a vory conaiderablo popularity , liaa boon revived hero by way of stop-gap , while tho usual preparations aro making for tho Christmas piece . Mr . Adtlison , as Tom Noddy , and Mr . Hornoo Wigon , ns Inkpen , arc

      both excellent representatives of those characters , and divert us fully as much as did Messrs . Strickland and Buckstorie 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 and attractive , as usual . The mise en scene includes a good deal of old-fashioned upholstery and costume , which are cut , coloured and arranged in an extremely picturesque manner . Ltceum 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

      certain room for displaying the good comic quality of Mr . G . Rouse as Tom Bags . Mr . Villiers is the Robert Vaugkan , and the Misses M . A . Hatton and Fitzclarence , the Mistress Mayfield 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 Gth Book of the " JLiedeohne 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 becorrie . 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 passion in Miss Behren ' s version . The other pieces were Spohr's "Rose 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 Piatti , Becker , Mr . Best ( organ ) , and Miss Goddard . The vocalists named are Mr . llamsden and Miss Poole , who will give some of the delightful old ballads from the rich collection recently published by Messrs . Cramer , Beale , aiid Chappell . . ¦; . .

      _ . Royal Gallery of Illustration . —The ' theatrical managers are so occupied in preparing their post-Christmas novelties that , as bur 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 moans slow to fill theyoid . Mr . and Mrs . German Reed have returned t , o 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 , " and it is no exaggeration to say ,, that while Mr . Reed ,

      whose amusing " Unfinished Opera . might still draw tears of envy to tho 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 , are Mr . Augustus Fitzilrmcl , a fast man of tho present age , with tho usual characteristics of his order ,

      and Mrs Muwbleday , n bounjeoisic , who , having gone to enjoy a blaae of such triumphs as a watoringplaco throws in tho way of fantastical widows of property , insists upon lionising the composer of tho " Unfinished Opera , " thus deferring its completion yet more indefinitely . Miss Twitter , the Mrs . Niclcleby of this entertainment , and tho delightful Sully Skcyys scorn ns fresh and popular ns ever ; and the same / ' indood , must onco more be said of Mrs . Rood , upon tho fulness of whoso " houses" not all the competitive talents from one end of London to tho other seem to have tho slightest ; effect . remindou

      Cuystal Palacb . —Our readers must bo , although we regret we aro in no position to announce any programme , that tho management of Uiq Crystal Palace has no intention of abandoning its custom of organising a series of Christmas Jutes on a comprehensive scale Tho number of admissions for tho six days ending Friday , Dec . 10 , was 5 , 251 . Tim Bianchi Ciiiluhkn . —At a private perfomianco of those littlo precocities , given at tho Gullory of Illustration , ana preliminary to their boing publicly announced as Christmas curiositios . wo wero ominontly diverted . by their comicalities , winch , If not ascwbablo to native foroo , must bo taken as an evidence of assiduous training and docility , as one might say of llaroyfled or Battyfiod quadrupeds . Their »« Bonibastos Furioso , " in which an in fant of threo voara old takes a character , is , considering all

      tilings , marvellous ; and a "Duetto Fantastiquo , m which tho gymnastic fiddling in all sorts of complicated , contortioncd , and inconvenient posturos , so popular whoa performed by adults at other places of entertaimont , has baen arranged for the drawingroom , Is no leas clover and astonishing .

      St . James ' s Hall . —Among the thousand-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 , arid 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 .

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      TRANCE . The JMoniteur of to-day ( Friday ) announces that last night the health of ' Prince " Jerome continued to improve . The Moniteur also publishes an article explaining ; the law on the press , the wisdom and necessity of which ( it says ) Jias been proved by ciyht years ' exercise . -

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      " ^ ' "fltE LEADEll" OFFICE , Friday Evening , Dec . 10 th . '

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      THE RUZtfOUllED ABDICATION . The Paris correspondent ¦ of tho Ulohc says : —Tho rumoured abdication of Fran / . losi-pb , after ten years ' reitrii , is really assuming some tangible sfmpp . The origin of this " scheme is not at Vienna , but at Prague , where the great mother and now venerable E ^ eria of tho house of ' llapsb . ure :, Archduchess Sophia , holds her Court in the llrndschin Palace This lady lias already brought about two abdications , that of R-rdhmnd ami of Archduke Charles ; she rules the whole fumily , and has bitterly resented the biuiisluncnt of her son , Archduke Maxhiiiliiui , of whose voyagu to Brazil 1 have twice spoken . Happily he has not rwiched ( Jibrnltar . Forced into Messina bv ' stress of wontlier , bis further exile is stopped , and on him the Kiiisorliek crown devolves , though ' Fran / , Joseph bus children . This looks very wild , but such is the talk in Uolieinin , us well us Hungary , where serious doubt always prevailed » is to Franz Josqjh having a right to ivign , not having been crowned at Pesth with thodiudein of King Stephen .,

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      EXECUTION OF CAPTAIN J * HO \ VX . Captain John Uiiow . v wiih executed at Charleatown on the 2 nd . Previously to fw' » tf to the hciiItoIiI be had an interview with several of bia fellow conspirators , and accused some of them <> f trouelieiy . The evening . before the execution lii-own had an interview with Ihh wile Ho died bravely . IS ' uinemus Hyinimthy inuotinp * had been held ut JVuw York on tho evening of tho "Jiul .

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      Commission ox this Hjsv . Jambs Uonwisll . — The iiHiuiry was resumed this duy ( Fridiiy ) , After heariiur further evidence , Dr . Twlua delivered the decision at the CouuniiMioners , which w iih , that ; ¦ tho conduct ol tlio llctv . James Honwoll , prior and subsequent to the oonflnoiiK'iit of Elizultoth Yoruth , and In respect to Mr . Domvdl boiiiB tli « father of tlio c / if . M liaduhvorcd , ailbrdgd suHlclent . ^ roundH lor iurther iiKjiury . I hoy did not think it had buuu biiHIc ! uitly proved ( hat adulterous intorcoursu hud aetunlly mkun place in tlio . London ( lioeewo . It would bo the duty of the CoinmiBsioners to tnuwmit , to tho Bishop of Loiuton tho ovlilunco which liad been laid boforo tiiein , and also a report of their own iinoii tho ease . Dr . ahophord , tlui rdglHtrur , then , by ordei" of tho Coininlsalonera . doeluved tho aoniinliMlon elosud . Iu ooiwoqwoncu of this Uoclslun , tho Ulahop will hnvu to sit lu the uoxt stugo oftliu lioarhiB , with a legal usBGSBop , and in thoovont of tlio otiso beiuff provod against Air JJonwoll , will bo empoworod to pass uentenco . 1 lio fUrthor liourlntf cannot , In conaeqiionco of tho logal forms which havo to bo gone through , take place tor eovoral weokB .

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      No . 508 . Dec . 17 , 1859 . ] THE LEADEB . 1367

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 1367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2325/page/11/