18 DECEMBER 1852, page 12

Foreign Theltricals.

The "Cirque Napoleon" was opened last Saturday, and the French papers overflow with raptures at the beauty of the edifice. The Emperor " assisted" at the inauguration, and was......

The Harmonic Union, The Formation Of Which We Mentioned A

few weeks ago, gave its first performance last night, at Exeter Hall. The music consisted of a short motett of John Sebastian Bach, and the new oratorio of Joseph, by Mr.......

Madame Fiorentini, Hitherto Known Only On The Opera...

made a successful debilt as a Handelian singer. At the last performance of the Messiah by the Sacred Harmonic Society, she sang the great soprano airs, "Rejoice greatly," and......

Miss Edith Heraud, Who Has Been Acting For Some Time

in the pro- vinces, had a trial-night at the Olympic on Thursday, and passed through the public ordeal with credit. The character was Julia in the Hunchback.......

The Great Ecclesiastical Drama Of The Winter Season, The...

play, shines out with more than usual éclat this year, chiefly through the extraordinary talent displayed by Mr. Twiss in the " crack " part of Syrus. Soaring far above the......

English Opera, After Years And Years Of Gradual Decline, Has

now fallen to the condition of a puppet-show ; the Marionettes, at the St. James's Theatre, are the only operatic company that we have, or are likely to have. They have been......

Iquitrto Auli

This week Mr. Charles Mathews newly impressed upon us the fact, of which we had long been aware, that he is the most accomplished actor on the London stage. We do not mean to......

The Musical Institute Of London Has Resumed Its Weekly...

held on Saturday evenings during the season. This pleasant club is in a flourishing state, and is beginning to accomplish its objects of bringing the professors of the art into......

Money Market.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY APTERNOWS. The English Stock Market has been extremely inactive throughout the week ; chiefly owing to the uncertainty of our own Ministerial affairs.......

The Budget Division—tireasnar, Dec. 16.

MINISTERIAL MINORITY FOR EXTENDING AND DOUBLING THE ROUSE-TAX. Acland, Sir T. D. Beckett, W. Bruce, C. L. C. Christy, S. Adderley, C. B. Benbow, J. Buller, Sir .1. Y. Clinton,......