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644 ikt prama. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Ma. BucxsxoNE's benefit on Friday, the 30th ult., introduced a new farce, entitled Like as Two Peas, which we have since discovered to be an adaptation of Deux Gouttes d'eau, a French piece, by M. Labiche. Mr. Buckstone plays a faithless husband, who en deavours to allay his wife's suspicions of his intrigues by representing to her that the delinquent in ques tion is another gentleman, whose likeness to himself is so strong as to give rise to the title of the piece. This circumstance is the foundation of the plot, and gives rise to a series of mistakes and incidents which are highly amusing. The part of the husband is well suited to display Mr. Buckstone's peculiarities, and he was excellently supported by Mesdames L. S. Buckingham and Fitzwilliam, and by Mr. Compton. LYCEUM. A NEW farce, entitled A Gentletnan Opposite, was produced on Monday night at this theatre, and has since been successfully repeated every night during the week. It is an adaptation from a French original, which bears the name of La Tasse Cassie, and is chiefly remarkable as being one of the innumerable instances of the skill with which our French neigh bours can make something palatable out of the slenderest and driest materials. Mr. Charles Mathews is the " gentleman opposite," a bashful admirer of a charming and most beautifully-dressed widow, Miss Talbot. The other characters in the piece are effectively sustained by Mrs. F. Matthews and Messrs. B. Baker and Swan. ADELPHI. NOT to be outdone by his brother managers in the cultivation of foreign exotics, Mr. Webster presented u-4 last Thursday night with a translation (not an adaptation) of La Joie fait peur, which the playbills informed us had been made with the " express per mission of the authoress, Mme. de Girardin." By far the best feature in the performance was Mr. Websters impersonation of the old servant; which, founded upon the model of M. Regnier, gave the part its right meaning, and in no respect degraded it into a mere vehicle for exciting the laughter of the au dience, as has been done elsewhere. Here, however, all commendation must stop. It is impossible to censure too severely the bad taste and want of judg ment which allow Mme. Celeste to mangle the English language in the part of the mother, and Miss Woolgar to appear before the public in male costume as the lost son. lortign art, Xittratuu, kt. THE GRAND OPERA IN PARIS, which has long been in a deplorable state, on account of the pecu niary embarrassments of its directors, is now to be reorganised. The Moniteur publishes a decree by which this establishment is placed under the direc tion of the Imperial Civil List, and within the attri• buttons of the Minister of the Emperor's household. A commission is instituted to give advice to the minister on all questions of art, and on all the measures proper to ensure the prosperity of the Opera. The whole of the present debts and liabilities of the director of the Opera are to be paid off by the Civil List, which is henceforth to conduct the estab • lishment at its risk and peril. M. Roqueplan, the present director, is to be continued as director under the new regime, but to have no risk or responsibility, and to receive a salary of 1,0 00/. per annum. The Opera closed on Saturday last for a recess of two months. M. lisLxvv is understood to be engaged on a new work for the Theatre Lyrique, the principal charac ter in which will be sustained by Mme. Cabel. The libretto is by M. do Sr. George. A NEW OPERA by M. Duprez is in preparation at the Opera Comique : it is entitled jelliotte. M. BERLIOZ' OPERA, Benvenuto Cellini, is about to be given at Dresden. IT is stated that M. Liszt is preparing for the stage an opera of Schubert, never yet performed : its title is Alfons and Estrella. THE ROYAL MUSICAL ACADEMY OF SWEDEN re cently gave a grand festival in the Church of Charles John at Stockholm. Mendelssohn's oratorio of Elie, and some fragments of the works of Handel, were executed by 480 chorists and instrumentalists. An historical concert has also been given in the same city. It consisted of selections from the works of composers of the end of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; amongst them were a trio and a chorus from Ramean's Dardanux, and the overture and air for a tenor from Lulli's Proserpine. No musical solemnities of such magni tude had ever before taken place in Sweden, and they attracted crowded audiences. ACCORDING to advices from Milan great efforts are making to restore.the opera at La Scala to some thing of its former splendour. A training school has been organised, where two hundred chorus or secon- THE PRESS. dary singers are to receive gratuitous instruction, and a brilliant troupe has been engaged for the carnival of 1855. New operas by M. Verdi and M. Chiaro monte are also promised for the new direction. THE following details are given by a Berlin journal relative to the construction of the building erected at Munich for the exhibition of Zollverein and German productions. The palace is constructed after the designs and plans of Chief Councillor of Architecture, 24. Von Voit ; by N. Clett, a rich master manufacturer, of Munich. The ground plan is cruciform ; the elongated portion running east and west, 800 feet long, and the arms 280 feet. The breadth of the transept is 100 feet, the square superficies of the whole 134,400 feet, the maximum height 80 feet, that of the transept 80 feet, and the minimum of the lateral alleys and branches 60 feet. The transept is divided into five parallel alleys by columns 20 feet high, serving as bases to the arches. The materials are iron and glass. The water runs off from the roof, through the hollow columns, into sewers and reservoirs constructed beneath for that purpose. The eastern and western ends, and northern and southern branches, are approached by 34 steps. The grand entrance will be by the northern arm, the exit by the south. About 30,000 cwt. of iron and 215,700 square feet of glass have been employed. The force of re sistance of the columns supporting the galleries was tried with a weight of 350 cwt. The cost is not stated. SOME trials on a small scale, made last year in Hungary, in the culture of the tea plant, having per fectly succeeded in point of quality, some more exten sive experiments are again being tried this year in the cultivation of the Chinese weed. ettlesiastical. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. Win. Beadon Heathcote, 8.C.L., to the Precentor ship of Salisbury Cathedral. The Rev. J. W. Hammond. M.A., to be Seocnd Classical Master and Assiatant•Chaplain to the Royal Naval School, New•cross. The Rev. Justice Chapman, RA., to the Incumbency of St. Peter, Bolingbroke. The Rev. C. W. Arnold. 8.A., to the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School, Congleton. The Rae. S. Bennett, 8.A., to the Curacy of Lopham, Norfolk. The Rev. A. S. Page, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. James's Church, Preston. The Rev. S. R. Tucker, BA., to the Incumbency of Castle Northwicb, Cheshire. The Rev. H. F. Seymour, BA., to the Vicarage of Barking, Essex. The Rev. Charles Brittain, to the Curacy of Kingswinford, Staffordshire. _ _ _ The Rev. John Brougham, MA., to the Rectory of Killea. The Rev. Adam Mulro, M.A., to the Pastoral Charge of the newly-created parish of T.ogiealmond, Perth. The Rev. Wm. Wilcock, M.A., to the Rectory of Cleeniah, near Fermanagh. The Rev. Thomas Talbot Day, MA., to the Assistant-Curacy of Nantwich. _ _ _ The Rev. John R. Brougham, to the Crown Living of Dun more, Waterford. :The Rev. Marsham Argles, M.A.; the Rev. Joseph Chris topher, 11. A.; and the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, M.A., to Rural Deaneries in the diocese of Peterborough. The Rev. John Edward Jefferson, 8.A., to the Curacy of An Saints' Church, Pontefract The Rev. Richard Jackson Steele, to the Curacy of West Rownton, near Yarm. The Rev. A. H. Huston, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Christchurch, Ashton-under-I.yne. The Rev. Wm. Brown, MA., to the Rectory of Broadwas, Worcestershire. . . - _ The Rev. Robert Heinle, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Andrew's, Halstead, Essex. The Rev. Charles B. Walsh, M.A., to the Incumbency of Deflated, with Kingsley, near Alton, Hampshire. The Rev. T. Fuller, MA., to the Rectory of Chulvington, near Ilurst-green, Sussex. The Rev. Dr. Somerset Lowry Townsend, to the Rectory of Louth, Ireland. The Rev. Fred. Fitzpatrick, MA., to the Rectory of Painstown, Ireland. The Rev. Edmund L. Walsh, MA., to the Curacy of St. Mary's Church, Athlone. The Rev. Edward R. Seymour, M.A., to the Curacy of Skryne. The Rev. John Blucher Wheeler, MA., to the Rectory of Cop. penhail, near Crewe. The Rev. Donald Mackay, MA., to the Incumbency of Stoer, Dornoch, Sutherlandshlre. The Rev. J. G. Cazenove, M.A., to a Tutorship in the College, Isle of Cuinbrae. _ - _ Th. Rev. David Williams, M.A., to the Rectory of Lieu&ly, Carmarthenshire. The Rev. Thomas Dnodecimus Platt, M.A., to the Incumbency of Holy Trinity Church, Portaec VACANCIES. The Curacy of Falmouth, in the diocese of Exeter; In the gift of the Rev. William John Coupe, M.A. The Curacy of St. Gabriel's Church, Pimlico, diocese of Lon don ; in the gift of the Rev. Brymer Belcher, MA., worth 1001. a year. The Curacy of Hingham, Norfolk, conferring a title at the next ordination of the Bishop of Norwich; worth 60/. a year, in the gift of the Hon. and Rev. William Wodehouse, M.A. The Curacy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London ; in the gi ft of th e Rev. Henry Mackenzie, M.A. The Curacy of St. Paul's Church, Birmingham ; worth 1001. a year, in the gift of the Rev. G. B. P. Latimer, B.A. The Curacy of Netherbury, near Beaminster, in the diocese of Salisbury; worth 1001. a year, in the gift of the Hon. and Rev. Aubrey Spring Rice, M.A. The Head Mastership of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School; in the gift of a committee. The Rectory of Kingsdowu, near Sittinglxutrne; worth SOU a year, in the gift of the Right 1i0n..1. Pemberton Leigh. The Vicarages of Norton and Lenchurch, Worcestershire; worth 2001. a year, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. SATURDAY, The Curacy of Bampton, Devonshire; in the gift of the Rev. E. Walden, M.A. The Chaplaincy of the Lymington Union; worth 601 a year, in the gift of the Board of Guardians. The Vicarage of Llanwnnen, with the Incumbency of Sellian annexed, Cardiganshire ; worth 2001 a year, in the gift-of the Bishop of St. 1/avid's. The Curacy of Leek, In the diocese of Lichfield; in the gift of the Rev. Thomas H. Heathcote, M.A. The Curacy of Broadwlnsor, Dorsetshire, diocese of Salisbury; in the gift of the Rev. S. C. Malan, M.A. The Incumbency of the Church and District of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington; worth 2QOI. a year, in the gift of the Bishop of London. The Curacy of Chepstow, in the diocese of Llandaff; worth 801. a year, in the gift of the Rev. J. B. Gabriel, M.A. The Curacy of St. Michael's Church, /Shrewsbury; in the gift of the Rev. Francis Morse, M.A. The Vicarage of Kilgettin, in the diocese of Elphin; worth 3001. a year, in the gift of the Crown. Unibtrsitg OXFORD. The Rev. Henry Charles Minchin, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, has been admitted ad swami. The following degrees have been conferred B.C.L.—E. W. P. Sandilands, Fellow of St. John's. B.D.—Rev. H. Hayman, Fellow of SL John's. M.A.—Rev. F. Forster, Queen's; Rev. J. Aitken, Exeter; H. W. Sotheby, Fellow, Exeter; Rev. G. Thompson, Lincoln; Rev. C. Haggard, Christ Church; Rev. W. H. Lewis, Jesus; Rev. R. F. Jones, Pembroke; Rev. E. Wilton, St. Mary Hall; Rev. S. G. Bellaire, Magdalen Hall; Rev. A. P. Cost, Fellow of All Souls. B.A.—Marquis of Lothian, Christ Church, Grand Compounder; J. D. Jago, Balliol; J. Braniston, Balliol ; R. J. Allen, BalUal ; F. M. Middleton, University ; A. M. Morgan, Exeter ; J. G. Lloyd, Merton ; E. J. Harford, Oriel ; L. Corbett, Christ Church; W. M. Birch, Trinity; G. Griffith, Jesus; T. H. Davis, Jeans; W. S. Allen, Wadham. B.M.—J. Peek, Magdalen. . . Messrs. J. T. Du Boulay, B.A. ; the Rev. H. C. Glan ville, B.A. ; J. Kempe, B.A. ; and A. Kekewich, 8.A., have been elected probationary fellows of Exeter College. Messrs. G. E. Thorley, 8.A., and F. Harrison, 8.A., have been elected probationary fellows of Wadham Col lege ; and Messrs. S. L. Warren (son of the author of " Ten Thousand a Year "), F. Halcomb, and T. G. Jack son, have been elected scholars of the same society. The list of clasamen in the several schools was published on Tuesday last:— IN LITMUS HUMANIORIBUS. CLASS L—Fowler, T., Merton; Martin, A., Christ Church ; Pember, E. H., Christ Church; Reynolds, S. H., Exeter; White, J. E., New; Wingfield, E., New. CLASS IL—Bosanquet, S. C., Christ Church ; Dupuis, T. C., Pembroke; Fryer, H. C., Wadham ; Hodgson, 8. H., Christ Church; Renshaw, G. S. W., Queen's; Ranken. W. H., Christ Church; Scott, W.,Worcester ; Wingfield, C. L ,-Exeter ; Wood house, G. G., Christ Church. CLASS R. J., Balliol ; Arnold, E., University ; Arnold, K. G., Balliol; Bacon, F., Balliol ; Barter, W., Balliol; Cooper, N. R A., Orlel ; Dodson, C. L., ex-Christ Church Gil lett., H. T., Wadhatn; Green, G. R., Lincoln; Jackasin, J., Queen's; Longe, F. D., Oriel; Monkhouse, A. W., Magdalen Hall; Steele, G., Worcester; Townson, R., Queen's. CLASS IV.—Brownlow, G., St. Mary Hall; De Boulay, J. T., Exeter; Hankey, R., St. Mary Hall; Murray, G.. Magdalen Hall; Paul, C., Christ Church ; Prickard, T., Jesus ; Taylor, J., Brase nose ; Winstenley, J. 8., University. IN SCIENTIIS MATHEMkTICIS ET PHYSICIS. CLses I—Birch, G., Cotton, A 8., Christ Church ; Nor ton, D.E., Oriel. CLASS 11.-Byrth, H. S., Bracenose ; Green, G. B , Lincoln ; Kekewich, A., Balliol ; Martin, A., Christ Church ; Otter, F., Christ Church. CL►ae Ill.—Topping, G., 13 rasenose. CLASH IV.—Brook, J. Worcester; Whittaker, W., Lincoln. IN SCIENTIA NATURAL'. CLaas I.—Fox, E.L., Dalliol ; Woodall, J. W., Oriel. CLASS IL—Child, G. G., Exeter. IN JURISPRUDENTIA ET HISTORIA NODERNA. .. - CLASS I.—Brodriek, G. C., Balliol; Lothian, Marquis of, Christ Church; Robbing, W., Worcester. CLASS ll.—Allen, W. S., Wadham ; Birch, W. M., Trinity; Bmmston, J., Balliol ; Butler, A. G., University ; Corbett, L, Christ Church; Egerton, W., Christ Church; Gatty, G., Trinity; Harfovd, E., Oriel ; Kington, T. L., Exeter ; Blade, G., Cu.ss lll.—Morgan, A. M., Exeter; Ross, G. G., St. Mary Hall. CLASS IV.—Barker, J. E., Exeter; Cole, R. E. G., University; Du Boulay, J. T., Exeter; Girtin, T., Pembroke; Green, C., Worcester; Jones, .1. E., Jesus; Pedder, W. G., Exeter; Sawyer, W. C., Oriel; Shuldliam, N. L., Magdalen ; Wickham, W., New Inn Hall. • CAMBRIDGE. M.A. COMMENCEMKNT.—At a Congregation on Saturday last the undermentioned degrees were conferred : D.L.—John Tozer, Caine College. M.D.—Adam Healey, Queens'; John Wycliffe Goodwin, ; Henry James Haviland, Pembroke ; Thomas Tattersludl Roscow, Downing. M.A.—William Hardman, Edmund Dickie Kershaw, Ralph John I,yon, Henry Charles Malden, Edward Norman Poehin, Morris Thomas, Robert Williams, Trinity ; Miles Bland, Major Ryder Bresher, James Albert Cheese, Richard Collins, Francis Haden Cope, Fitzroy Fuller Lofty, Peter John Francis Gautillon, Henry Minikin, Charles Parnell, George Rowe, Augustus Shears, Edward Peche Stock, William Fox Whitbread Torre, St. John's; Lewis Thomas Chavasae, Alexander Geddes, John Dickinson Knowles,James Porter, Thomas Henry Lee-Warner, John Wm. Taylor, St. Peter's; James Amos and George John Ridsdale, Clare Hall; James Harrison Watson, Pembroke ; Richard Ben son Stuart, Caius; Charles Bailey, William Greenwood, and Henry Watson, Catherine Hall; Frederick Carroll, Robert Hall, Robert Collins Kin q, and Frederick John Young, Christ' s; Georgo Smith Bayne and Frederick Richardson, Magd alen; James Wil son, Emmanuel. On Monday the following degrees were conferred : B.L.—Pbilip Bediugtield, St. John's; Henry Gover, Peter house; J. J. Howard, Trinity Hall; J. D. Jenkins, Christ's; F. 11. Lascelles, Trinity Hall. B.3f.—Thos. Trollope, Pembroke; F. Harris, Cahn. B.A.—Albert Wynn, St. Peter's; Oliver Mitchell, Jesus ; John Whitt, Trinity; Henry Montagu Butler, Trinity ; Thomas Bux ton. Corpus; T. J. Torr, Trinity; and J. J. Hedges, Queen's. C. Allen, Emmanuel. M.A.—H. J. Simonds, Kings; IL J. Simonds, W. M. Baillie, A. Baldry, J. H. Bignold, A. W. Bloomfield, J. B. Brooking, E. A. Cobbold, G. Cockle, J. Constable, T. G. Cords, G. Cubitt, John Ellerton, E. B. Evelyn, Robert Finch, J. Gill, C. Glynn, (.1. 1