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164 the semblance of a run by dint of new scenery, deco rations, and newspaper puffs. We will not barrow the feelings of our reader s b y any description of the play or its plot, but content ourselves with stating that we fully agree in the sentence pronounced by the public, and that we can only wonder Mr. Wigan should ever have accepted a piece of such moderate pretensions. From this unpleasant portion of our task let us turn to one far more agreeable—namely, to bestow the highest praise upon the manner in which the play was acted and put upon the stage. Mr. Wigan, in the long and arduous part of the hero, displayed an amount of tragic power which the majonty of the audience in all probability never gave him credit for possessing. He traced the character from the flower of youth to the decrepitude of body and intel lect with the hand of a master, and, no . withstanding the constant interruptions of the audience, caused by the excessive imbecility of the piece, he never for one moment either forgot himself or flinched from his task. Miss P. Horton, Mr. Emery, Mr. Robson, Miss E. Turner, and, last but not least, Mrs. Wigan, dis charged their respective parts with great ability, and satisfactorily proved by their exertions that, even in these days, it is by no means impossible to see a play almost perfectly acted. The scenery and dresses were conceived in good taste and beautifully executed. In another theatre, where less high expectations were entertained on the part of the audience, it is not improbable that the acting, combined with the acces sories, would have carried the piece through. fortign ;trt, Sittraturt, &r. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LWOFE, whose campaigns have been dramatic, and whose victories were won with the pen and not with the sword, has been per mitted by the Emperor of Russia to resign his mili tary appointments. M. Lwoff is, in fact, a musical composer, whose works had obtained celebrity in Germany and Italy, and who in consequence was dignified by almost the only distinclion which the Czar dispenses to his favourites—that of mili tary rank. The maestro has accordingly figured in the St. Petersburg circles of fashion and of art as a major-general. Upon resigning this rank M. Lwoff has received a more congenial appointment — that of director-general to the theatres in the Rus sian capital, including three houses where Italian operas are performed—a French Opera, and a Ger man Opera. A MANUFACTURE OF PASTEBOARD from the pulp of beetroot has just been established at Foulain, in the department of the Haute Marne. THE TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION between Pied mont and Lombardy, Trieste, Venice, and all the other countries forming part of the Austro-Germanic line, was opened on the 9th inst. THE CELEBRATED LINGUIST, FILOSSENO LUZZATI, died at Padua on the Bth inst., in the twenty-fifth year of his age. Though so young, be had acquired much celebrity from his knowledge of languages, especially the Oriental and extinct tongues. He was the author of many important works upon the cunei form inscriptions; the Assyrian inscriptions found in Persepolis, Hamedan, and Khorsabad ; and of a volume entitled "Researches respecting the Hebrew Races said to Exist in the Interior of Africa." DR. PETERSEN, director of the Observatory at Altona (Holstein), who succeeded the celebrated astronomer Schumacher as the chief of that establish ment only a few months since, died suddenly on the sth inst. He was in his forty-eighth year. A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY was announced:to the Academy of Sciences by M. Dumas in its last sit ting. He stated that M. Saint-Clair Deville had succeeded in obtaining from clay (alumina) a metal as white and brilliant as silver, as malleable as gold, and as light as glass. It is fusible at a moderate temperature. Air and damp do not affect this metal, which is called aluminium : it retains its brilliancy, and is not affected by nitric or sulphuric acid, either strong or diluted, if the temperature be not raised. It is only dissolved by very hot hydrochloric acid. Several specimens of this metal were exhibited to the academy, and, on the proposition of Baron Thenard, it was voted unanimously that a sufficient sum should be placed at the disposal of M. Saint-Clair Deville to enable him to make experiments on a large scale. IN SWEDEN A NEW RELIGIOUS SECT has sprung up, called the Contemplators, because they believe that in meditating incessantly on the essence and quali ties of God, which they call contemplating God, they attain the perfection of saints. They are more in tolerant than the other sects in Sweden, as they think that everybody who does not join them will certainly be damned. Some short time since a pea sant named John Olsson, of the village of Otteslaett, in the province of Gothenburg, cut the throats of his two children, to, as he said, preserve them from eter nal condemnation. THE ephemeral duration of the periodical press in France is curiously illustrated by the remarks which the fact of the great Gallic literary serial, the THE PRESS. Revue des Deux Mondes, has actually reached its thirty-fourth year has elicited from the Paris press. The journals speak of this event as well nigh unpre cedented, and comment upon it as a wonder. Com paring this period with the date of the best-known English periodicals, we find that the Edinburgh Review is just 50 years old; the Quarterly, 44; the New Monthly Magazine, 33; Blackwood, 38 ; and Fraser, 24. ON SATURDAY LAST A SELECT DRAWING-ROOM ENTERTAINMENT was given at the London Mechanics' Institute, Chancery-lane, by the members of the Jerrold Dramatic Club, assisted by several eminent vocalists, for the benefit of the widow and four chil dren of the late William Willis, a compositor, many years employed at the Shipping Gazette. The pro gramme was gone through in a manner reflecting the highest credit on the parties concerned ; and the audience appeared highly delighted with the even ing's entertainment. Between 700 and 800 persons were present, and it is stated that there will be a handsome surplus for the widow. THE EQUESTRIAN STATUETTE OF THE QUEEN by Mr. Thorneycroft, which was submitted to her Ma jesty and the Prince last week, and elicited warm commendation, is being executed for the Art-Union of London in bronze for prizes. MR. ADAMS gives his annual music ball, for the eighteenth year in regular well.approved succession, at Willie's Rooms, on Tuesday next, the 21st inst. tittitsiasfical. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. WM. Buckton Holland, MA., to the Rectory of Brasted. (This appointment was originally conferred on the Rev. J. H. R. Stunner, M.A.) The Rev. John Braaten Harrison, MA., to the Incumbency of Weimer. The Rev. Thomas Reynolds, M.A., to the Incumbency of Trinity Church, Woolwich. The Rev. T. A. Vuules, M.A., to be Surrogate for Bath and Wells. The Rev. Croft Worgan Dew, M.A., to the Curacy of Caldbeek, near Wigton, Cumberland. The Rev. Charles Clayton Lowndes, M.A., to the Lectureship of St. Cuthbert's, Carlisle. The Rev. Francis Henry Coldwell, 8.A., to the Curacy of Wigan, Lancashire, and to be Surrogate for the diocese. The Rev. D. W. Davies, to the Incumbency of Llanelltyd, near Dolgelly, Monmouthshire. The Rev. Mark Warburton, MA., to be Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Ellesmere. The Rev. John Huyshe, MA., to be Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Devonshire. The Rev. Alfred Hewlett, M.A., to be Surrogate of the Man chester diocese. The Rev. John Edwards, M.A., to the Vicarage of Pittington, near Durham. The Rev. George French, MA., to the Stipendiary Curacy of Holy Trinity Church, Bolton-le-Moors. The Rev. Charles Doweon, to the Rectory of Lesbury, in the county of Northumberland and diocese of Durham. The Rev. J. H. Wake, MA., to the Vicarage of Sutton-in-the- Forest, Yorkshire. The Rev. Spencer Woodville Maul, MA., to the Vicarage of Bramford, with Btu-stall annexed, near Ipswich. The Rev. George Naylor, MA., to the Rectory of Rougham. The Rev. William Fleetwood, L.T..8., to the Vicarage of Swaff ham Bulbeck, near Newmarket. The Rev. J. W. Murray, MA., to the Curacy of St. Mary's, Truro. The Rev. Henry Blame, MA., has been appointed Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Glamorganshire. The Rev. Robert Collins King, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Georges Church, Everton. The Rev. G. P. Harris, M.A., to the Head Mastership of the Wrexham Grammar School, Denbighshire. The Rev. J. Thorp, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of the Oxford City Gaol. • The Rev. Granville Wheler Stuart Menteath, M.A., to the Rec- tory of liascomb. near Godalming, Surrey. The Rev. Dr. Richard Newton Adams has been appointed Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire. The Rev. T. Harrison, MA., to the Rectory and Vicarage of Newchurcb, near New Romney, Kent. The Rev. Walter Hamilton, M.A., to the Vicarage of Scalford, near Melton Mowbray, Letceatershire. The Rev. John Hayes, M.A., to the Incumbency of Colebrook dale, Shropshire. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Davies Owen has been appointed Chap lain to the High Sheriff of Anglesea. The Rev. William Sutcliffe, M.A., to be a Surrogate for the diocese of Bosley, near Prestbury. The Rev. B. W. Saunders, M.A., has been appointed Chaplain to the High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire. The Rev. Thomas X. Hunt, MA., to the Vicarage of Oulton, Norfolk. The Rev. George Parker, M.A., to the Rectory of Templedoran, in the diocese of Cloyne. The Rev. Charles Carus Wilson, M.A., to the Vicarage of Eaatry, near Sandwich. The Rev. Sydney Smith, M.A., to the Vicarage of Worth. The Rev. H. Battiscombe, MA., to the Incumbency of St. German's Chapel, Blackheath. The Rev. Daniel Paul Meek Hulbert, MA., to the Ministry of St. Philip's District Chapel, Kingshuid. The Rev. George Augustus Baker, M.A., to the Rectory of lb stone, near Stokenchurch. The Rev. T. Sewell, BA., to the Curacy of Twineham, near Ciokfteld, Sussex. The Rev. T. P. Metcalfe, M.A., to the Incumbency of Bil brough, Yorkshire. VACANCIES. The Rectory of Ousden, near Newmarket; worth 2501. a year, in the gift of Mr. T. J. Ireland. The Curacy of Westwood, in Bradford, Wiltshire, and the Chaplaincy to the Bradford Union ; in the gift of the Rev. W. If. Jones, M.A. fhThe Rectory of St. Paul's, Exeter. Value 2001. a year; in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The Rectory of Redfield, near Framlingham, Suffolk, valuo SOU a year; the Incumbency of Reydon, value 2201. a year; and the Incum bency of Southwold, yalaa look a year, All iu the gift of the Earl of Stradbroke. SATURDAY, The Curacy of Milford, Hampshire. Value 1001. a year; in the gift of the Rev. Thomas Robinson, M.A. The Curacy of Topsham, in the diocese of Exeter. Value 701. a ear;y in the gift of the Rev. Henry Thorp, M.A. The Curacy of Felby, Norfolk. In the gift of the Rev. Charles Lucas, M.A. The Incumbency of Trinity Church, Maidstone. Value 4501. a year ; in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Curacy of Boldon, near Gateshead. In the gift of the Rev. John Collinson, M.A. The Curacy of Christ Church, Dover. In the gift of the Rev. J. Ellison Bates, M.A. The Rectory of lisdon, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Value 8001. • year ; in the gift of the Duke of Northumberland. The Vicarage of Kirtling. near Newmarket. Value 1001. a year; in the gift of the Marquis of Bute. The Incumbency of Wickham, in the diocese of Ely. Value 70/. a year; in the gift of Miss Hatch. The Vicarage of Hedon, near Hull, value 601. a ear;y and the Vicarage of Preston-in-Holderness, near Hull, value 801. a year. Both benefices in the gift of the Archbishop of Ymk. The Incumbency of St. Edward's Church, Cambridge. Value about 1001. a year; in the gift of the Master and Fellows of Tri nity 1 I ell. The Rectory of Howick, near Alnwick, Northumberland. Va lue 8501. ayear; in the gift of the Bishop of Durham. The Vicarage of Lesbury. Value 2UOI. a year; in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The Rectory of Oxoomb, near Hoincastle, Lincolnshire. Va lue 1501. • year; in the gift of Mr. B. Grant. The Curacy of Belehfoni. In the gift of the Rev. William An. thony Fitzhugh, M.A. The Vicarage of North and South Ranceby, Lincolnshire. Va lue 1801. a year; in the gift of Sir J. C. Thorold, Bart. Enitnrsitg ntelliptt. OXFORD. Tin VICE-CHANCELLOR left Oxford on Monday, to convey to Lord Derby, the Chancellor of the University, the deci sion come to by the Hebdomadal Board as to petitioning the Queen for permission to alter the Caroline statute, which fixes the constitution of the University. The board proposes the establishment of two chambers, which are to communicate by means of joint committees. The mem bers of the second chamber are to be elected by convoca tion generally. THE CRAVEN SCHOLARSHIP was, on Saturday, awarded to Mr. Charles Uriffith, commoner of Wadham College. There were twenty-two candidates. THE following degrees were conferred on Thursday William Sykes, Oriel ; Arthur Pepys Whately, student, Christ Church; David Edwards, student, Christ Church; Alfred Bailey, student, Christ Church; Rev. .Francis R. Hepburn, Christ Church; Edward Templer Harrington, Worcester; Rev. Charles Robinson, St. Alban Hall. B.A.—John Lomax Gibbs, Grand Compounder, Exeter; Richard Goodhall Smith, Exeter. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, Heads of Houses, and Proctors have issued a serious caution to junior members of the University against the pernicious system of having deal ings with money-lenders. DURHAM. The following degrees have been conferred:— M.A.—The Rev. Henry Fred. Long, B.A , Chaplain of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, and Fellow of the University; the Rev. Francis Fred. Walrond, 8.A., Censor of Bishop Hatfield's Hall. B.A.—Wm. Hall Richmond, Wrn. Henry West, and John Hand, all of University College. 'ate grmg. WAR-OFFICE, Fen. 10. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Major John Wilkie to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Tritton, who retires ; Captain Lord George Augustus Beauclerk to be Major, by purchase, vice Wilkie ; lieutenant John Wal rond Clarke to be Captain, by purchase, vice Beauclerk ; Cornet James Alston Clark to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clarke. 4th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Trail Arnold to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stewart, who retires ; Ensign Samuel Winter, from the 59th Foot, to be Ensign. 47th Foot—Ensign the Honourable Bernard Mathew Ward to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Estwick, who retires ; Edward Croker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. 50th Foot—Edward Gregg Noot, Gent., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice .1. C. Purves, M.D., who resigns. bard Foot—Alfred Kirke Ffrench, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brooke, appointed to the 95th Foot. b4th Foot—William Arthur Galbraith, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Ord, appointed to the 86th Foot. 59th Foot—Adolphus Halkett Versturme, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Winter, appointed to the 4th Foot. 71st Foot—Lieutenant William Stratton Prince to be Captain, by purchase, vice Scott, who retires ; Ensign Evelyn Mirehouse to be Lieutenant, by purchase, •ice Prince ; George Peddle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mirehouse. 70th Foot—Ensign Walter Montford Westropp to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Poole, deceased; En sign George Henry Jehn Higham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Westropp, whose promotion by purchase has been cancelled; Gentleman Cadet George Hollings Best, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensip, without purchase, vice Westropp. turd Foot—Ensign William Fitzroy to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Richardson, who retires; Ensign Graham Mylne, from the 95th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Fitzroy. 86th Foot—Ensign Robert Edward Henry to be Lieu. tenant, by purchase, vice Edward Baker Weaver, who re tires ; Ensign Alfred Robert Ord, from the 54th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henry. 91st Foot—Ensign Thomas Thornhill Lane to be Lien: tenant, by purchase, vice Borthwick, who retires; Gardi ner Boyd Blacken, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lane.