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~■ 68 to develop her great abilities. Possibly Mr. Buck stone's indefatigable energy will find a method of solving this problem. Time will show. Richard the Third and The Tempest are said to be in preparation at the PRINCESS'S, and will no dcubt be produced with all the splendour which invariably distinguishes the revivals at this theatre. We were much concerned to bear a report to the effect that Mrs. Kean was dangerously ill, and we look anxiously for the reappearance of her name in the bills as the indication of her restoration to health. Mrs. Kean has been so long and (so deservedly a public favourite that her indisposition must he a matter of the deepest regret to all frequenters of the London theatres. OLYMPIC THEATRE.—The visitors to this house on Thursday evening were surprised to find nothing offered for their entertainment except closed doors and gigantic placards of explanatory tenor, whose pith lay in the following message telegraphed that morn ing from Windsor : " Mr. George Ellis, Windsor, to Charles Kean, Esq., Torrington-square, London.--` I am instructed by Colonel Phipps to telegraph to Mr. Wigan to come down imme' diately to act Rolando. I send the message to you direct, instead, on my own responsibility. Mr. Wigan is to close his theatre, if necessary.' Being sent in this roundabout fashion, the message reached Mr. Wigan too late for him to substitute another piece for The First Night, in which his own presence was indispensable. He had, therefore, no choice but to adopt Mr. Ellis's alternative and close his theatre. The revival of The First Night has drawn great houses at the OLYMPIC. We are informed that the next novelty at this house will be a play, in three acts, by Mr. Chorley. For the present, it seems, the manager does not feel disposed to alter his attractive bill of fare. BY an oversight in our last number we gave the honours of the performance of Sir E. B. Lytton's play of Money at Windsor on the 12th to the Olym pic company. It was, on the contrary, a " coalition " performance, exhibiting the cream of all the London companies, and, among them, of four managers— Kean, Wigan, Buckstone, and Webster. 6U t. IVE never remember a winter so devoid of all musical entertainments as the present. Our good town does not contain even a speculator who will tread in the steps of Jutlien and treat us to scraps of classical music amidst a hodgepodge of quad►illes, altzes, thunder and lightning, and the like. All mart» of reports are afloat respecting the forthcoming opera season. Some say there is to be an English opera season at Drury Lane, others tell us that her Majesty's Theatre is to open under the direction of a well-known Hebrew speculator, and that Jenny Lind is to reappear. So much for theories. As to facts, the Philharmonic Concerts are to begin early in March. The New Philharmonic are also to try their chances another season, though their hopes during the last two years have been almost too heavy to bear. Sincerely we wish them better luck another time. THE LONDON ORCHESTRA.—A new musical experi ment has been made. The London Orchestra is an association of inst►umental artists (Mr. Frank Mori director) for the purpose of organising more complete orchestral performances of miscellaneous character than ,London audiences have as yet enjoyed. The first concert took place on Thursday night, and for the occasion some popular vocalists were engaged to assist. The most prominent feature in the entertain ment was Mendelssohn's symphony in A minor, which was given with effect. Miss A. Goddard's performance of Mendelssohn's pianoforte concerto in D (No. 2) was also worthy of the lady's reputation. Auber's overture to Le Domino Noir, and the war march in Mendelssohn's Athatie, formed the principal portions of the second part. Madame Amedei gave Rossini's " Pensa ally patria " with much sweetness and good taste. . A New THEATRE IN THE EAST.—Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, has purchased the site on which Shadwell workhouse at present stands, for the purpose of erecting a large and commodious theatre. The estate was sold by the Stepney union, under an order of the l'oor Law Board. It comprises an area of 17,066 feet. THE ORPHEUS ENGLISH AND GERMAN GLEE UNION. The company of vocalists united under tl►is title have just returned from a very successful tour in the provinces. Among the members are Misses Rycroft, Lizzy Dyer, and Mr. Suchet Champion ; and Mr. F. Kingsbury is director. 1e ti Bart, Xittrainte, tt-r. A MS. MASS by Michael Haydn, brother of the celebrated composer, has lately been discovered in the library of the Royal Academy of Music at Stock holm, This work was performed for the first time THE PRESS. before the Queen and Queen Dowager of Sweden on Christmas day, and is reported to contain many pas sages of singular beauty. The academy purpose to publish the mass, whose existence has hitherto been unknown. THE TOTAL RECEIPTS AT THE VARIOUS PARIS THEATRES during December last amounted to 1,207,415 f. 57c. (48,3001.) Of this sum the impe rial or sulwentionns houses attracted 432,268 f. 60e. ; the secondary theatres, 681,090 f. 77c.; concerts, balls, spectacles, and cafes' concerts, 84,296 f.; and " curiosities," 8,760 f. 20c. The receipts for the pre ceding month of November were 1,246,347 f., showing a considerable falling off in December, but this de crease has affected only the secondary theatres; the imperial houses and concerts, &c., exhibiting an in crease. On the whole year of 1853 the gross thee• trical receipts were 13,157,010 f. against 11,298,834 f. in 145►2. Thus it appears that the Parisians spend more than 500,0001. a year upon their dramatic en- tertainments. GAS has had a great triumph in Stockholm. On the Ist inst. the Royal Theatre was lighted up for the first time with this new medium. The public on entering found the house very dim, for, to make the surprise greater, the gas jets were turned as low as possible. But when the overture struck up the gas was turned on, and a flood of light thrown on every part of the house. The effect was admirable, and endless rounds of applause from the crowded spectators testified their satisfaction. DURING the year 1853, 250 new pieces have seen the light at the various Parisian theatres. Of these, six—four operas and two ballets—were given at the Grand Opera, nine at the Opera Comique, and twelve at the Lyrique. Seven new plays were given at the Francais, six at the Odeon, and ten pieces at the Gymnase ; twenty-five were produced at the V arietes, a like number at the Vaudeville, and twenty-seven at the Palais Royal. The melodramas have had a profitable year: six appeared at the Porte-Saint- Martin, eight at the Ambign, and thirteen at the Gaits. The rest is distributed among the Cirque, Comte's, and the smaller establishments. The greatest successes of the year have been, at the Odeon Ponsard's " L'Honneur et l'Argent," the fairy piece "Les Sept Merveilles du Monde" at the Porte- Saint-Martin, "La Priere des Naufrages " at the Ambign, and " Diane de Lys" at the Gymnase. The Francais comes next, with "Lady Tartuffe," which, with "L'Honneur et l'Argent," divides the nieces littl.raire of 1853. THE number of children educated in fixed schools in Sweden during 1850 was 143,526; in 1859 it was 152,039. The number in the ambulatory schools was, in 1850, about 126,000; in 1853, about 132,000. In the public gymnasia were educated, in 1850, the number of 6,228 children ; in 1853, 6,202. In private schools 17,465 children were taught in 1850, to 17,856 in 1853. In 1850, 128,096 were educated at home ;to 136,786 in 185:3. In 1850, about 14,280 children were left untaught; Ind in 1853 only 0,669. THE ADVENT OF MADAME SONTAG, and several other celebrated opera-singers from the United States, was, at the last dates from Cuba, looked forward to with considerable anxiety by the inhabitants of the Hsvannah. M. DE SACY, one of the principal writers in the Journal des Dibats, is to have the editorial manage ment of that paper; but articles relating to general policy, and of the kind that used to be signed by the late editor, will in future bear the signature of M. Edouard Bertin, his brother. Mr.r.E. CRUVELLI made her debut for the season at the Grand Opera, in Paris, on Tuesday, in The Huguenots. The Emperor and Empress were pre sent, and the theatre crowded in every part. THE three volumes necessary to complete M. " Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire " will be published about the end of this present year. THE PHILOLOGIST MITSCHERIICH, the Nestor of the German schools, died at Gottingen on the 6th inst., in the 94th year of his age. Dr. Mitscherlich was uncle of the famous chemist of the same name. M. MARIETTE, the French explorer, has at last succeeded in discovering the long-sought-for entrance into the Sphynx. The entrance leads into beautiful marble rooms, which are supposed to be connected by subterranean passages with similar chambers in the adjacent pyramid. M. ARMAND BERTIN'S FUNERAL took place on Mon day, and was attended by an assemblage which testi fied to the estimation in which the press is held by the Parisians. Among the eminent personages pre sent—men of letters, artists, deputies, and members of former legislative assemblies, members of the Institute of France, of the Council of State, professors at the Sorbonne, kc.—were MM. Thiers, Guizot, Dupin (aine), Duchatel, De Salvandy, Cousin, 'Vile main, Saint-Marc Girardin, Viennet ; Berger, ex-pre feet of the Seine ; Rouher, ex-minister, now president of a section of the Council of State ; do Royer, the proeurenr-general ; General Rtilhiere, all the writers in the 14bats, and most of the members of the Parisian press. M. Petit, the chef du bureau of the press at the Ministry of the Interior, was also preserit. SATURDAY, The only oration delivered was a short but exceedi ag i, touching one by the eminent publicist and old col league of the deceased, M. Saint-Marc Grirardin, NEw GOLD COINS, of five francs value, are p re . paring for circulation at the Paris mint. Th ey wiu weigh 1.0120 grains, and have a diameter of fourte tn millimetres. A DEPUTATION OF THE ROYAL Geoonarinem, SOCIETY, consisting of Sir Charles Fellows, Vi e ,_ President; Col. Everest, Mr. E. Osborne Smith, Mr. Arrowsmith, Mr. Kent, Capt. Hart, Dr. Hodgkin, and the secretary, Dr. Norton Shaw, had an intervi ew with his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, at the Colonial. office, on Wednesday, on the subject of the North Australian expedition proposed to Government by the society. Dn. Bowniato delivered, on Wednesday evening, a lecture at the Mechanics' Institution, Southampto n . buildint, , s, on " The Influence of Knowledge on Domestic and Social Happiness." The large hall wa, crowded. Sin Ronmix PEEL has consented to deliver, inßir. mingham and other towns in the district,alectnreo n " The Progress of Society—Social and Intellectual, on behalf of the Midland Counties Association of Mechanics' institutes. The Birmingham lecture will be delivered on the evening of the 24th inst. THE PAINTED HALL at Greenwich Hospital has just received a most valuable addition, by the erection of a statue to Lord Admiral de Sanmarez, executed by Mr. John Steele, R.S.A., of Edinburgh. ettitsinstical. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. \Vm. Bluntly, to the Curacy of Trinity Church, Hope, Stafford:lllre. The Rev. J. E. Austin Leigh, M.A., to the Vicarage of llrtr, near Maidenhead. The Rev. Leveron Cyril Randolph, M.A., to the Rectory of East Gallatin, Derkeltirc. The Rev. J. H. Comptuoi, M.A., to the Incumbency of Kidmote. end, Caversham, near Reading,. The Rev. R. T.ee James, 1.1..11., to the Curacy of Little Kemble, Ruckinghttmsliire. The Rev. Sydney George Selwyn. M.A., to the Vicarage ..1 Milton Clevedon, Somerset. The Rev. Henry Munn, M.A., to the Incumbency of Oaks church, Nailses. The Rev. Henry Charles Seller, M.A., to the Incumbency Trull, near Taunton. The Rev. F. Strong, to the Curacy of West Hatch, OW TatudAm. The Rev. W. C. Evans, M.A., to the Incumbency of Cast*, near Doncaster. The Rev. J. N. Vlieland, to Christ Church, TIMIIIIIIII-green. The Rev. T. Mitchell, M.A., to St. Paul's Church, Newington. The Rev. John Charles Col * M.A., to be Chaplain to the English residents at Chantilly. The Rev. P. Somerville, 8.A., to Milton, near Lynnogies The Rev. T. Valpy, 8.A., to the church and district of St Julia the Baptist, Leensitle, near Nottingham. The 11ev. Chitties Audley Assheton Craven, 8.A., to the Curacy of the parish church of Liverpool. The Rev. Henry Joseph Wilkinson, 8.A., to the Curacy o Windermere. The Rev. Henry Cooke, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Manias f Church, Liverpool. The Rev. J. Miller, MA., to the Incumbency of Orcop, nen Rosa, lierefordshire. The Rev. John B. Sparrow, MA., to the Rectory of Often, with the Rectory of Little Brustt annexed, near Needham, Suffolk. the ltev. Rees Jones, 8.A., to the Incumbency of Penman , near Newport, Monmouthshire. The Rev. Thomas Smith, MA., to the Incumbency of oaing. ton, neer Newark. The Rev. C. Jenour, M.A., to the Senior Curacy of All Saints' Church, Gordon-square, St. Pancras. The Rev. John Adams Cree, M.A., to the Curacy of N. flan 1 Church, Dover. N :lat h e u l in tk ue .v. r ti n a ,i. Cumby, M.A., to the Incumbency of Beatlndi, The Rev. Hugh Stowell Gin, BA., to the Chaplaincy of St' Luke's, Baldwin, Isle of Mall The Rev. Edward Mercer,ll.A., to the Tnemnbeney of Foie . field, near reeds. The Rev. Thomas Markby, M.A., to the I I esti Mastership °" t John's-wood Proprietary Collegiate School. The Rev. Henry Moore Mouse, 8.A., to the Curacy Brill' ford, near Derby. VACANCIES. The Curacy of Morsvenstow, Cornwall ; in the gift of the Iln. 11. S. Hawker, M.A. he Cur ac of Rmford, Rochster; worth 1001, a yetr• ia the T glft of the y Yen. Anthony Omi e t, D.C.L., Archdeacon of s t Alban'a. The Ineninheney of Breinton, nosy , Hereford, by the j he e lA'.ff the Rev. Walter uire, M.A.; worth 1201 . a year, in t the Bishop of I lereconi. he Rectory of Ludhorough, near 'Louth, incolushire, hyM 1 CPIOII of the Rev. Chinks Thurold, M.A. Value 1001. a )eel the gift of Mr. R. Thurold. The Curacy of Itarrowomon.llumber, in the diocese of Di. - cola. In the gift of the Rev. Richard Beverley Mitchell. It A The Curacy of Dymelitirch, near New Romney, Kent. It confer a title to orders upon a graduate of Cambridge, at l * Archbithop of Canterbury's lent ordination. The Curacy of learnworth, near Great Bolton, diocese of ". cheater. Value 1001. a year; In the gift of the Rev. Vdht Bunts. M.A. e ry Preaton. near Sudbury, Suffolk, by the the h Itev. William I leard Shelford, M.A. Value 5001. a )ear ,; the gift 14 the Master and Fellows of Emmanuel Coll., Carahnl y : The Vicarage of Pettingion, near Durham, by tbe death °tt; Ilev. James Miller, D.D. Value aKil. a year; in the gi ft 4 Dean and Chapter of Durham. By the death of Dr. oft minor canonry in Durham Cathedral becomes vacant. UK The Rectory of Southchureh, near South( tid, Essex. bir • preferment -of the Rev. John Henry Roberts on Sump. , Woo WO& a year; in the gift of the Archbishop of C The Vicarage of Boswell, near York , by the prefernies 1 1 ,f Rev. Samuel Gamlen, M.A. Value 4001, a year; Ith e P . the Dean and Chapter of Durham. EPP Ilim.