10 FEBRUARY 1849, page 10

Metaphysics Of Taxation: The National Debt.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Sut—Mr. Rigby Wason's plan for the payment of the National Debt, though not exactly new, will at the present moment excite some attention, both......

An Official Announcement Has Appeared That The Royal...

at Covent Garden will open on the 10th of March; and a programme of the arrangements for the season is promised in a few days. At Her Majesty's Theatre, not a mouse stirring!......

Theatres And Music.

This week, the only site of non-musical dramatic novelty has been the Olympic Theatre. ta Cigue, one of those French pictures of Greek life common in Paris, which was acted at......

The Sacred Harmonic Society Had A Performance At Exeter Hall

last even- ing; consisting of Mendelssohn's Lobgesang or Hymn of Praise, Beethoven's Mass (or " service" as it is called) in C, and a selection of sacred pieces by Marcell°......

Money Market.

STOOK EXCRANGI, FRIDAY ArrIZNOON; The tendency of the English Funds during the week has been steadily upwards A regular and almost daily improvement has taken place, until, in......

An Addition Has Been Made To The Vocal Company Of

the Princess's Theatre, in the person of Herr Mengis, a performer of some ability, who appeared on Wednesday in the character of Franz in Flotow's opera of Leoline. He is a......