The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 12, 1853. society. Among those which will receive the earliest attention is Beethoven's " Grand Mass in 1)." The success which attended the reproduction of tlanders "Samson," with the masterly additional aecompani meuts of M. Costa, has also led the committee to make arrangements for the early revival of the same composer's " Deborah," a work which, although eon. wining several of the great toaster's grandest choruses, is comparatively but little known. It is also intended to give a performance of anthems and cathedral music on a scale of completeness commen surate with the society's present position. Madame Aiardot Garcia is announced to sing in the next con cert, on Friday, the :rah inst. She will sustain the contralto part of Micah in Ilantlers Samson. The third of the series of Wednesday Concerts took place on I‘'etinesday evening, and proved entirely successful. Mozart's nymph yin ti minor was the great work of the night. In addition were the piano forte performances of Mlle. Clauss, anti the singing of Miss Birch and Mr. Augustus Braham. Ely puma'. LYCEUM THEATRE. JF.Af.otsv, we are told by an excellent authority, is always a telling subject with theatrical audiences, 0 for that shoe pinches every foot." The new farce prepared, according to our surmise last week, for Wright, at the Lyceum, is a proof of the soundness of this maxim. In itself the piece is commonplace and somewhat wiredrawn; but. a jealous wife, capi. tally performed by Mrs. Frank Matthews, with Wright as the sufferer under her absurd suspicions, furnish the staple of the fun and carry the play triumphantly through. There is no plot worth men tioning. A series of trifles brought together with some ingenuity make Mrs. Dubchick jealous—some more trifles ease her of the complaint. Mr. Deb chick also upon trivial incentive takes the tit in his turn, and in his turn is trivially cured. The "tag" which furnishes the title of the farce offers some recommendations Hole to make Home Happy. The dialogue is not brilliant, the humour being chiefly of the practical sort. But the actors contrive to render it sufficiently amusing, and the spectators find H. cause fir complaint. The piece, we must add, is attached to The Commencement of a Itml Farce, vice the .original occupant of that post, Wright at Last, which has retired to half price, or what would be such at other houses. STRAND. 17vnwre the management of Mr. Al!croft a new season has commenced at this theatre. Monday was the first night of performance. The pieces produced belong to the light vaudeville class, with sprinklings of music in the form of introduced songs. Miss Isaacs is chiefly entrusted with these, and sings then► with much piquancy. A new burlesque, by which Hanact suffers severely, is played nightly. The house was once famous for its travesties, and this last specimen appears to be quite as good—that is to say as had—as its predecessors. On the whole the new management has opened the campaign with spirit. Miss Rainforth gave the second of her Scottish entertainments on Thursday evening at the Whit tington Club, and was received with discriminating applause by a crowded and attentive audience. Sir Walter Scott's " Marmion" was selected for the night's reading. Mu.Aven's bust( TOURISTS' ENvvirrvismENT, at the Hanover-square lbsuns, deserves favourable mention. The scenery is effectively painted, and conveys to the audience a lifelike idea of the locali ties it is intended to represent. The sketches of I►ish life and manners are cleverly &Weld. Miss llleadon sings the songs announced in the programme in a ladylike style, and with an archness free from affectation ; but the room is so low that the effect is marred by the necessary reverberation of her voice. We can fairly recommend this exhibition to our readers in search of an evening's amusement. THE DISCOVERY ny AxoritEn NEW PLANET IS an nounced by Mr. Hind. It is rather/brighter than stars of the ninth magnitiul. " This planet," says Mr. Hind, "is the ninth which I have discovered sinee the eommencement of a systematic search in 114441, and raises the number of that extraordinary group of worlds between Mars and Jupiter to twenty seven." Tilt: Nisei.: or Tarsstv, who has lwen , sine° 1M22, the protector of all the mattetlie Isoslgo..os of the kingdom, has, with the authorisation of the King. received his ion Fre derick WillitlM as freemason and member of the National Lodge oft iennany. The committee appoints•d by the +salmon•fiAiing pro• prietora of the Toy, fur promoting what is termed the a►li• hem' propagation of salmon. have already begin* operations. The spawning 'poxes and pond Lane bvtai commenced. THE PRESS. lottign (Art, iteraturt, &e. A Now BALLET, in which Rosati is to make her debut for the season, will be produced at the Paris Opera next week. It is entitled Jorita. THE Cri.rmt %TEO 30%1341 Brun:, has died lately in Frankfort, aged seventy seven. The de ceased was one of the most distinguished Tabun 41 is ts of the age, and enjoyed a great repaid' in tier• many and Poland. From all countries questions relative to the Talmud were sent to hint and resolved with nitwit perspieuity. CEitviNts* famous work, the .6 Introdnetion to the History of the Seventeenth Century," was seized at Koningsburg on the :tril inst. The booksellers in whose shops it was found were afterwards swatmoneil before the civic court on charges of having dissemi nated a work calculated to excite hatred and con tempt of the Government. Atter a long trial, the tribunal dismissed the case on the ground that the book contained nothing contrary to the law of Pnvisia. - THE l►tt-\MATIC SCHOOL rollllded in tinistiania in I$M) by the Norwegian violinist, t►le Bull, contains at present sixty-three pupils, of both sexes, of whom seventeen receive instruction in vocal and instru mental musk at the expense of the State. The pupils gave their first representation on the •14th of October, when two of M. Scribes vaudevilles were performed before an audience which crowded the little theatre belonging to the establishment. The performance was considered highly relicetable, mutt some o f t h e p u pil s are said to have evinced Very COW siderable dnunatie talent. Non►: ANCIENT t'o►\S were lately discovered near Prague. at II depth of twelve feet underground. They are of silver, dated 91:1, and coined by the Duke Vratislas, the first Christian Sovereign of Bohemia, and father of St. Weneesles. These are the most ancient Bohemian coins known. They bear on the obverse an open hand, with the legend, " I►esters MO on the revers.. the letter V, with the date in Roman numerals. The owner of the estate on which tiny were found has presented the coins to the Royal Museum of Medals, ,te., at Prague. TH►: Elk:craw TE►.EUl.%rtt Win►:s were ISM down across the Rhine at Worms on the :tlst nit. Three separate wires were joined into an eleetrie cable of 11,11410 feet in length, and safely deposited aeross the bed of the river. BY A LAW passed in 1t4:17, the Prussian managers are prohibited from performing any dramas hitherto enacted without the eonsent of the authors. A new edict is now preparing by which this prohibition is oxbanded to anted leapt, anti a oopyright secured to the authors or their representatives for a period of ten years from the date of the first produetion. RECENTLY there existed in the heart of Paris, not far from the Boulevard St. Martin, and bounded on one side by the Rue du Chateau d'Eau, a vast area covered with a chaos of squalid habitations, inter sected by blind alleys and traversed by open and fetid gutters. To this region, which was densely populated by more than six hundred of the lowest class of tenants, disease and vice seem to have laid constant siege, and the attentions of the police authorities as well as of the guardians of the publie health were constantly in demand on its behalf. This district has now been cleared of houses, and belongs to a new association called " la Siwiele l'Epargne immobiliere," or Savings. Estate Society, whose founders propose to raise, by the investment of small savings, a capital of :1,600,00i1r., in shares or " fractions" of live francs each. With this sum they are proceeding to erect upon the area in question u series of well-built houses, constructed upon the best principles, with wide streets, a good system of drainage, and a market-plaip, &v. The houses are intended to be of n superior class, lint the whole will form a real workman's estate, offering the 1114 t security and a lucrative investment for the small sums which are now so constantly invested at a risk or squandered in dissip,ltiou by the merriers in the absence of any means if turning them to pnititable acre amt. Tut: VotA-ANo Koz ‘nr.r‘t r, in the Crimea, which hum been %Helot for nearly horty yearm, broke oat into violent eruption in the eourse of Septenther last. Immense torrents of IMO, were thrown out, &rerun panied by subterranean thunder and (thanes of smoke inn! Hattie for several hours in sueeelisii in. Nearly the whole ilistriet around the base of the voles's() was o►•erwhelmed, and gnat destruction of houses, crops, and property ensued. No li►es are said to ha►•e been lost. Tim PncssiAss are using glass as a material for public monuments. A column, consisting entirely of ;lass, placed on a pedestal of Carrara marble, and surmounted by a statue of Peace, six feet high, by the celebrated sculptor I:aiteli, is about t o be erected in the garden of the palace at Potsdam. The shaft will be ornamented with spiral lines of blue and white. 667 TIIE CULTIVATION 1W THE TRUFFLE, so lons tleelllCa 811 agrieultural impossibility, has at length been aceomplisheil. The discovery was made at Macon, where Madame Nagel, proprietress of a elt:iteett in the neighbourhood, has this autumn sue eeeiled in pnidueing a large number of truffles grown in her garter. All the conditions under which the cultivation of this product must be prosecuted are known, and nothing more is ristuired than to improve and perfect them by experiment. The Macon Horticultural Ammo! says :—'• Like other crypt°. Ramie plants of the same tinnily, truffles are parasites, requiring hosisi of a special elituucter. For example, sitte-tnittun of chesnut or oak leaves, with an argilo calcareous soil, is just as neeessary to them as the bed of horsledung to the common inu g he o wni. We are satisfied that, it this new branch of culture were set.' ly studied, the prodnetion of the true.' would be as easy and protitahle as t h at o f th e most ordinary vegetables." MADAME SoNTAo Wet with an accident at Brooklyn On the 14th ult. She WolB returning by the retry, 811t1, on reselling the landingplace, miscalculated the distance when stepping out of the h ea t, a nd fell be tween the vessel and the pier. A hystiuider jumped into the water and rescued her, but Abstain'. Sontag sustained some seri o us 'bruises. She appeared, nevertheless, at a concert given tour days afterwards at Niblies, for the benefit of the Seamen's Orphan Society of New York. llustor.scr. eoorre, the novelist, at Albany, recently convened into an hotel, was burned down by the act of an incendiary on the I.lst , • r.NOl.lsll REKIIIENTS iu Paris are about to open it subscription for the purpose of contributing to the Itellot testimonial. _ ....... A ScIENTIFIC (!) AMERICAN WRITER 1'1.•1 recently undertaken to show that the moon has no influence over the tides. '.l•he results of the deep-ocean soundings, by the naval bri!, Win from the United States to the Azores, in a deed line from New York, and thence to England, give, lie states, some plausi bility to his eollallsioom. Ms theory is that, esthete are ranges of mountains on the door of theorem our respondinz with those on the outward surface of the all of which have been operated upon by hidden tires, main' , and other material convul sions, by means of which they have been perforated by vast raven's, extending towards the centre of the earth, we ran discover, in those huge abysses of the oceanic globe, sources for the rise anti fan of the tides. lie contends that through these internal raven's the waters of the ocean are regularly flowing, MS the earth regularly revolves; and that neither the moon, stars, sun, wind, nor clouds produce any effect whatever. Thy. 1 1 •01.1,411 JESUIT, Father Bohol*, who was fmulyrised in May, 1657, by the Russians, was val114)11111:4.41 at on the 30th nit. ile is the thirst .lesuit canonised in the course of this year. Tiff: different societies of artists, musiciinis, and traders of Alunich gave a 'insister birchlight sere mule to king Louis of Bavaria on the :29th ult. in honour of his Slajesty, as founder of the l'inakodirk. Tut: CF:itEmosv of uncovering the monumental statue of Copernicus took place on the 2,1111 ult. at Thorn. A .11:10 !-A11.13,1 PLoblroilf, and otht.r articles front the lloly hoot, limo snivel! at Roston for t h e' Crystal 1.1.1t:%'s ( . 41N4 ETIT at New York took place on the evening of the 21st of October. This concert, although his forty ninth consecutive one, M 11.4 C111%11441 141 overflowing. Mu. SWIFT, the tenor singer at San Caritas, in Lislssis, is lunch admired by the Ps srt ;wisest. dilettanti. THE Airs'i RIAN I ito% EltNkl ENT 1111$ efillehliled a treaty With that of Sardinia for the reciprocal transmission of telegraphic despatches. A t 1 n. Ito ilvilliSus is maintaining in New York the col ire praetieubilify of constructing an alma spheric tube from that city to Boston (2110 wiles ), through whirls mail hags of any description stay be regularly and safely sent in fifteen minutes. A con siderable part of the money required for building his snail tithe has already been subscribed by Ameri can capitalists. Tim hums or Daewoo( lately visited the atelier 4,1' tiimmaseti, to inspect the progress 44 the last pic ture he artier. '41 f 0r 3.4 MOO rltd.s, a noble painting of the battle of I hied. Ilia Majesty, who entered info familiar c MVersation with the artist, found the battle piece nearly ready. Al. Plod :mos, whose hook entitled " l.a Propriete, c'est 11, %ol," Attained sit 111111'11 Illtiortety, it. MIHAIL to produce a new work, to ItO called "IA Philosophic du Progres," and whirls lots reference to France in hrr present state as conspared with what she was before 1041 N. _ _ Titr. Anenniviiur 1•1 , CANT/11111'1:Y has conferred upon James Peel', E 411., and vealipch.er to the Countess lil Inuey, the degree of D o ct o r i n NflisiC. CATHERINE HAVES 11114 been very toteeemful on tile Paeitie shore, and it its stated that she ham iient bum. ro,ono Julian fur the purchasv of an onstati. qr. . i