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London, England, 1854-03-04 00:00:00

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MR. ELLA'S MUSICAL WINTER EVENINGS.
WHAT Mr. Ella terms his first music winter even-
ing took place last Thursday week, in the presence
of a very numerous auditory, and the performance
highly satisfactory. The quartette selected were
Haydn's No. 80, and Spohr's in E minor, No. 45 ;
and the programme was varied by the introduction
of Beethoven's trio in E flat, No. 70, for pianoforte,
violin, and violoncello ; and Mentlelssolin's air and
variations concertante for pianoforte and violoncello.
The performers on stringed instruments were Messrs.
Molique, Goffrie, Hill, and Pistil; and Mr. Halle
was the pianist.

In consequence of the length which our notice of
the Etoile du Nord has run we are compelled to post-
pone our notice of Mr. Henry Leslie's oratorio and
Mr. Lucas's first musical evening until next week.

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THE ABBE DE LAMENNAIS, the well-known author
of " Les Paroles d'un Croyant," expired on Sunday
morning at his residence in the Rue du Grand Chan
tier, aged seventy. Every attempt made to induce
him to conform to the last duties of religion proved
ineffectual, as he refused to the end to receive the
minister of any religious persuasion. According to
his will, his body is not to be carried into any place
of religious worship, but to be taken directly from the
house in which he died to the burial-place of Pere la
Chaise. The funeral took place on Wednesday. It
is said that M. de Lamennais in his will disinherits
all his relations who took any part in suppressing
the insurrection of June, 1848. After the revolution
of February, M. de Lamennais was successively
member of the Constituent and of the Legislative
Assembly, being elected each time for the depart-
ment of the Seine. He was also nominated in the
first of these assemblies to the committee appointed
to draw up the Constitution of 1848, but refused to
take any part in the labours of that body. He almost
merited the title of " silent member," as he never
spoke but once during the whole of the time he was
a representative of the people, and that was to ear-
nestly entreat the house to let him be included in
the prosecution instituted against the responsible
editor of the journal the People Constitiutnt, of which
he was the chief editor, on the occasion of the re-
establishment of the caution-money on journals. On
the same occasion he spoke strongly against the dic-
tatorship of General Cavaignac, and against any fiscal
regulations whatever on the press. Although M. de
Lamennais was so peculiar in his religious opinions
as to regret revolution, he leaves a brother in Brit-
tany who is the head of a Christian community re-
sembling that of the Freres Chritiens.
THE PROPOSED COPYRIGHT TREATY between Great
Britain and the United States will shortly come on
for discussion in the American Senate. It is stated
that Mr. Everett, the American Secretary of State,
proposes a clause limiting the benefit of the treaty to
such British works as shall be reprinted in America
by their authors.
DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC COMMITNICATIONS have been
opened from Paris to Bavaria, by which the French
capital is directly connected with Darmstadt, Frank-
fort on-the-Maine, Stutgard, Berlin, Stettin, Vienna,
Munich, Weimar, Dantzic, Bremen, Dresden, Leipsic,
Konigsberg, Orsova, and Semlin.
THE pleadings in the great and long-protracted
cause of Aguado and Veron were brought to a con-
clusion on the 24th ult. The Government counsel
summed up against Dr. Veron, who will, therefore,
in all probability, have to disgorge the large sum he
appropriated to himself out of the purchase-money
of the Constitutionnel. Judgment was postponed

for a week.
THE editors of all the Paris newspapers have been
summoned to the Ministry of the Interior, and told
that they must not speak about the movement of
troops for the East, nor of any manifestations which
might have been made in the departments on the an-
niversary of Feb. 24. Even the Palace balls are pro-
hibited topics. The Indlpendance Belge was stopped
because it gave an account of the late fancy ball at
the Tuileries. The description was highly flattering to
all the parties concerned, but being contrary to orders
subjected the paper to seizure. Fortunately the
English papers, being written in a foreign language,
escape the annoyance to which their Belgian contem-
poraries are exposed.
THE premium for the best plan of a monument to
the memory of Senors Mendizabal, Arguelles, and
Calatrava, has been adjudicated by the Madrid com-
mittee formed for that purpose to Don Federico
Aparici, who was last year a pupil of the School of
Architecture. It is in the Greek style, and consists of
a cylindrical body surmounted by the statne of
Liberty, and around the ball of which cilindre are
the three sarcophagi.
AN UNPUBLISHED TREATISE BY LEIBNITZ in refu-
tation of Spinoza has recently been brought to light.
The discoverer, M. Foucher de Caren, during some
researches in the Hanoverian Library, lighted upon

SATURDAY,

a Latin manuscript entirely written in the hand of
Leibnitz ; and from this version has published one
in French under the title of " Refutation inedite de
Spinoza, per Leibnitz."
A SWEDISH PRINTER, HERR FAHLGREN, has in-
vented a new kind of alphabet types for the blind.
The whole number is only seven, and they resemble
runes, but by change of place, &c., they represent
twenty-eight letters.
THE shareholders of the New York Crystal
Palace are out of pocket 125,000 dollars by the
speculation.
MR. SAMUEL OWEN, an Englishman, to whom
Sweden owes the first introduction of steam-boats in
that country, has lately died in Stockholm. He went
over to Sweden as a simple workman, but by his in-
dustry and mechanical talents raised himself to the
position of owner of a large machine establishment.
He lived to a good old age, eighty years.
A SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE DWELLINGS OF THE
WORKING CLASSES has been formed in Paris on a
large scale in connection with a committee in London.
Its capital is to be 480,0001., of which 120,0001. is to
be raised in the first instance by an issue of 30,000
shares of 41. each, the company, in consideration of
that expenditure, receiving a subvention from the
Government of 00,000/. The first buildings are to
consist of lodgings for single men, to contain 1,800
beds, and of dwellings for about MO families. Ulti-
mately it is contemplated to extend the system to
some of the principal provincial towns.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION CHANDELIER, which at-
tracted so much admiration at the Crystal Palace in
1851, perished in the conflagration at Apsley Pellatt's
glassworks on Monday night. Nothing but a few
half•melted drops and its framework remain. The
value of the article was estimated at 3,000/.
THE LORD PROVOST OF EDINBURGH has been re-
cently in London, where he has bad interviews with
the Earl of Aberdeen, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and the President of the Board of Trade, on the
subject of a grant for a Scottish National Museum.
His lordship pressed the claim of Scotland to such a
grant very strongly upon those members of the Go-
vernment. The Highland S ciety are also about to
send a deputation to London on the same subject.
SATURDAY being the last day on which the public
would be admitted before the final opening of the
Sydenham Crystal Palace, the place was visited by a
very large number of persons, anxious to avail them-
selves of the last opportunity for some months of
seeing what is already a very remarkable display.
The public are now excluded except "on business,"
in order not to impede the rapid completion of the
structure and its innumerable appurtenances.