The Press. — London, England, 1855-03-10 00:00:00

MARCH 10, 1855. recently made a great sensation in Paris. We also hear that Mdlle. Sophie Cruvelli is re-engaged for one month ; that there are to be no less than three tenors, the most celebrated on the Italian stage, namely, Mario, Tamberlik, and Gardoni ; Fanny Cerito, Angiolina Bosio, Carl Formes, Borghi Mamo, a contralto of great celebrity in Italy and France, are said to be engaged; and Meyerbeer's L'Etoile du Nord, most powerfully cast, and put upon the stage with extraordinary splendour, is to be brought out during the forthcoming season. Skt gram. LYczum.—Take that Girl Away, an adaptation of one of the most extravagant and improbable of Palais Royal vaudevilles, has been brought out this week with great success. The very point of the piece consists in its most ridiculous absurdities, and the manner in which Mr. Charles Matthews impersonates the hero, at once the most whimsical and loquacious of men, is incomparable. The extraordinary vivacity and energy which he throws into the character of this insane artist, who is alwayi, wanting what he cannot get, the supernatural rapidity with which he pours out, not words, but whole sentences at once, the cool impudence with which he commits the wildest improprieties, and the ingenious manner in which be either bullies or cozens every one over to his peculiar views, baffles description. The whole weight of the piece rests, of course, upon his acting ; and, although Mr. Charles Matthews has achieved much already in impersonations of such rattling, fickle, semi-lunatic characters as Charles Rocket, he surpassed himself on Monday night. The audience were kept in a roar the whole time, and the curtain fell amidst loud applause. It is certainly one of the most laughable farces which has appeared at this theatre for some time. ST. JAMES'S.—A melodrama, peculiarly French in its morality, was produced here on Monday night. The Northern Star is an adaptation of La Czarina, in which Mdlle. Rachel has lately appeared in Paris. The plot is exceedingly intricate, but the situations are certainly fine and well adapted for dramatic effect. The piece has been very well put upon the stage, and that is all that can be said, the company evincing signs of distressing weakness. Paincess's.—Henry VIII. is, we believe, to be brought out with great splendour at Easter, Mr. Charles Kean undertaking the character of Wolsey. We believe that Mrs. Charles Kean has so far re covered her health as to be enabled to return shortly to the stage she bas so long graced. CRYSTAL PALACE.—A very beautiful topographical model of Sebastopol and its environs, upon the scale of eight inches to the mile, was exhibited at a private view on Wednesday last. Sebastopol, and the whole valley of the Tschernaya, and the coast from Cape Chersonese to Balaklava, are included in the space represented, and, considering the diversified nature of . the ground, the elevations and depressions are very fairly represented. In tracing briefly the lead ing features of this model, it seems natural to com mence at Balaklava. In front, and a little to the north, of that now famous port, is seen a semicircle of intrenchments, which are defended on one side by the Highland Brigade, and on the other by a body of marines. On the outside of this work are the four small redoubts which were taken from the Turks on the morning of the 25th of October; and from these stretches towards the Bay of Inkermann, the valley of the Tschernaya. Returning to Balaklava, and having left a little to the right the cavalry encampment, we at length arrive at a range of hills, severa l hundred feet high , wh ich introduce us to the plateau that forms the scene of the actual siege, the British on the right, looking down upon the valley of the Tschernaya, while the most con spicuous opposing fortifications of the enemy are the redan and the Malakoff; the French attack, on the other band, being chiefly in front of the Garden Battery and the Flagstaff Battery. One is particu larly reminded of the numerical superiority of the French by observing, amidst the mingled colours, the points where the English have been obliged to yield part of their ground to their more fortunate allies. Sebastopol itself is very clearly r epresente of d, but no attempt ismade fix the positions m to the Russian ships, which are so located as to be tinder the protection of one or other of the enemy's forts. The field of Inkermann is traced in the form of two valleys or ravines, with a bill of considerable height intervening. The most con spicuous object on the side opposite Sebastopol is Fort Sievarna, a fortification which is 2,000 feet in diameter, and which completely commands the southern town; and hence the rumour that the bombardment and assault from the south are to be accompanied wi the th simlodg ulta- neous o perations having for their object dis ment of the enemy on the north. The whole model certainly possesses great interest ; and at a time when the thoughts of the whole civilised world are centred on the scene represented, it is a most appro priate addition to the attractions of the building. THE PRESS. tall aub 4a54101. Her Majesty held the first levee of the season on Wednesday in SL James's Palace. On the same evening the Queen and Prince Consort honoured the Duke of Cambridge with their company at a banquet. Several Court dinners have been given during the week, and her Majesty has paid the usual visits to the theatres. Yesterday the Queen held a Privy Council. A Cabinet Council was held on Monday at the Foreign-office, at which all the Ministers were pre sent, excepting the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the President of the Board of Control, who were iu the country at tending to their re-elections. The Earl and Countess Granville had a select dinner party on Saturday at their mansion iu Bruton-street. On Saturday the Lord Mayor gave a grand banquet to the members of the Garrick Club. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon gave a dinner on Monday evening, at their mansion in Grosvenor crescent, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge and a distinguished party. General Count de la Marmora, commander of the Sardinian contingent for the allied armies, was present. On Wednesday evening the Countess Colloredo gave her first grand assembly this season at the Austrian embassy, Chandot-house, Cavendish-square. The health of the Duke of Devonshire has very materially improved during the last month. His grace is still at Kemp Town. A deputation of members of Parliament had an interview with Lord Stanley of Alderley on Tuesday, at the Board of Trade, for the purpose of obtaining authority for the formation of an Art-Union in the county of York. MAJOR RosErirsow, D.A.Q.M.G., has resigned his appointment in Dublin for one at the Admiralty in London. IT is proposed to present Sir De Lacy Evans with a lasting testimonial in admiration of his glorious m ilitary career and his public and private worth. A committee, it is expected, will shortly be formed to receive subscriptions to carry out the object in view. LIEUT.-COLONEL H. A. TURNER has been appointed to the command of the northern district, on Lieute nant Dalton being placed under orders to proceed to Quebec, to relieve Colonel Thorndike, in command at that station since Ju1y,1852. VISCOUNT MONCK has been appointed to the Lord ship of the Treasury, vacated by Lord Alfred Hervey. This completes the Treasury Board, which is now constituted as follows :—Viscount Palmerston, first lord ; Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Viscount Monck, Viscount Duncan, and Mr. Chichester Fortescue, junior lords. The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter and Mr. James Wilson, joint secretaries. Mx. Mosszu. retains the clerkship of the Ord nance, the duties of which he has so creditably dis charged for the last two years. LIEUT.-COLONEL DUNLOP is to proceed to China by the next mail, to relieve Colonel Griffin in command at Hong-Kong. CAPTAIN G.nDINER, of the 40th Foot, is acting as aide-de-camp to General Lord Seaton, appointed to the command in Ireland. GOVERNMENT has ordered a large supply of surgical cutlery and medicine for the use of the depot now being formed at Malta, and which will be forwarded at as early a moment as possible. THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CONTROL has appointed Mr. Fitzpatrick Vernon his private secre. tary. Tire declared value of beer and ale exported in the month ending the sth ult. was 142,496/., and in the same month of last year it was only 71,5851. AT Wednesday's sitting of the Court of Aldermen, it was stated by Alderman and Sheriff Muggeridge, that Brown and Berry, two of the convicts who lately effected their escape from Newgate, had been cap tured, arid that the third—Bell alias Spiers—Was still at large. Ho also thought it right to mention, that neither Brown nor Berry had been taken by the police until immediately after a reward had been offered for their apprehension. A reward had also been offered for the capture of Bell. FIVE LIVES WERE LOST BY FIRE On Thursday. Four persons perished in a house in Clipston-street, Portland-road, where a fire broke out shortly after midnight, and spread so fast that many of the inmates of the dwelling, which contained not less than five families, had very narrow escapes, and when the flames were subdued the bodies of four, two women and two girls, were found in two rooms on the third floor. The fifth fatality occurred in Farringdon-street. A fire having broken out in a house kept as an eel-pie house, a young woman, find ing her retreat cut off by the flames, threw herself from the window into the street and was killed on the spot. tab ituart. 241 Emu. STLEHOPE expired on the evening of yesterday week, at Cheveuing-perk, near Sevenoaks, having been attacked by indisposition only two days previously. The deceased Philip Henry Stanhope was the eldest son of Charles, third Earl Stanhope, by his second marriage with Louisa, only daughter and heir of the late Hon. Henry Grenville. He was born on the 7th of December, 1781, and married, in 1803, the Hon. Catherine Lucy Smith, third daughter of Richard, first Lord Carington, by whom he leaves issue a son, Viscount Mahon (now earl), and a daughter, widow of Lord Dalineny, re married a few mouths since to Lord Harry Veue, M.P. The late earl was Keeper of the Records in the Birmingham Tower, Dublin, President of the Medico Botanical Society, a Vice-President of the Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. The noble earl succeeded to the family honours and estates on the death of his father—the distinguished inventor of the lens called after his name, and of an improved printing-press— on the 15th of December, 1818. The deceased peer was a Conservative in politics, and rendered himself conspicuous in public hfe for hia streuuous hostility to the new poor law measure, and to the repeal of the corn laws. He is succeeded in the earldom by his only son, Viscount Mahon, who was born in 1815, Ipd married, in 1834, Emily Harriet, second daughter Of the late General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., by whom he has a youthful family. The present earl is distinguished for his literary attainments, and was named by the late Sir Robert Peel his " literary executor." TELE RIGHT HON. AND RIGHT Ray. Jogs Ds.ea- POER HORSLEY BERESFORD, Loan DECIES, expired on the Ist inst., at the advanced age of eighty-two. The deceased, who was the son of the first baron by the second daughter of Mr. John Fitagibbon, sister of Lord Clare, was born in Dublin in 1771; he married in 1810 the only daughter of the late Mr. Robert John Horsley, of Northumberland, and succeeded his father in 1819, when he assumed the additional sur name of Horsley. He will be succeeded by his son, the Hon. William Robert John, formerly a cap• rain in the Grenadier Guards. IT is reported that fildlle.Rachel will visit London during the coining season, and appear in some of her greatest characters at the St. James's Theatre. A Linos FOUROON, containing a printing press for the army of the Crimea has embarked on board the Express steamer at Lyons. On it was to be seen this inscription " Armee d'Orieut lmprimerie Im- Oriole." Two of the best compositors of the impe nab printing establishment of Paris accompany it. THE Jesuits have been definitively expelled from Friburg. The archbishop had sent for two of the body to preach during Lent, and had notified what he had done to the Minister of the Interior. Anlorder was sent back that they should immediately quit the town. The archbishop has written to the Prince Regent on the subject. A RETURN just issued, on the motion 3f Mr. Ricardo, M.P., shows that in the y ear 1854 the importations of t a llow from all parts amounted to 754,859 cwt., against 1,175,754 cwt.. in 1853, and 1,049,703 cwt. in 1852. The falling off in the imports of tallow from Russia alone amount to 788,289 cwt.; the quantity imported in 1854 having only amounted to 58,584 cwt., against 824,853 cwt. in 1853. Tax ;award in the important libel case of Davies v. Pratt is now known. The arbitrator I Mr. Whately, Q.C.) finds in favour of the defendant, and awards and determines that the plaintiff shall pay to the defendant the costs of the reference and of the award. MR. JOHN CARDEN is to be released from Clonmel prison under the pleaof ill-health, and on the follow ing conditions :—That he shall enter into a bond, himself in 20,0001., and two sureties in 5,0001. each, to keep the peace towards all her Majesty's subjects for ten years, and that on liberation from gaol be shall quit the eountry until the term of his imprison ment shall have expired. Of course he will comply with these stipulations, and it is stated in the local journal of Cloninel that he has already arranged to proceed to Brussels. He will be discharged by the court at the opening of th e approaching Tipperary assizes. M. BONELLI, of Turin, has invented a new electris telegraph, by which trains in motion on a railway are enabled to communicate with each other at all rates of velocity, and , at the same time, with the te l egra phic stations en the line, while . the latter the are, at the same time, abl e to couununicate with trains. A DIIEL took place in B erlin on the 2nd, be B ar on Patow, member of the Second Chamber, conse awl C a pt a in Count Schlieffen , of the Guards in quence of some expressions which fell ' from the former in a recent debate, expression s whic h the Idinister of War declared to be an offence to the army. The parties exchanged five shots, one of the last of ethic& wounded M. de Patow slightly in the calf. ! i i NNW;