The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

CINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. :his celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest ,ENCII BRANDY, i 3 Pare, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome, ,old in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by Aunts in the principal towns in England; or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL -STREET. W. ) bserve the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Zinahan's LL Whisky." ITEANI from LONDON to NEW YORK. The British and American Steam Navization Company invited) will DESPATCH one of the undermentioned lesdid Past Screw Steamers TWICE BACK MONTH for York:— Tons. Horse Power. )NDON ........ 2, 5 00500 Capt. Grimy En. URLESTIII MST E R . 2500 • • • 550 ..... Capt. Coucli IN Y0RK......... : 2'500 • • 500 ..... Capt. PROUD. '''‘V .. 2,500 ::::: 500 .. 4 apt. HARRIS. these m agnificent vessels are unsurpassed by any ocean lng stirner, and have accommodation for passengers re e wit° every comfort. The Line will commence at an Y date ; the exact day to be fixed in a tatter announce -nt. t• To load in the Victoria DOCkS. For freight or passage apply to the Company's Agents, tred Lami ng and C.).,70, Cornhill. ) THE n .-: O DIIOT,DP, RS OF THE ATL A_NTIC AND - . GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. SUE OF SECOND Nli 'RIG' AGE BONDS. 5 1 0 : 0 don dollars QBOPAYABLE IN LONDON. New Yor Division—Due in 1881. 4'0,0J0 dollars (£2?5,010) Pennsylvania Division—Due in 1882. SPeured by a Eegitered Mortgage, constituting* a lien ol ' T i ncome and all corpor a te rights. privilezes, lands, Iran l', plant and pro-erty of the Pe ansylvaida and New York ', , ,lsi e on4 of the Railway. ,I . ~t.l , Bonds are redeemable in New York or in London at j 13(1 . per dollar, and are tran.ferable ~ i bout stamp or en :seinen'. ; 4 per cent, of the gross amount will i , e drawn •arly i n T , 1::1,1C1011--- -thy, commencing* in 1865, to be pa'd off at par in ; In Coupons are attached to the:Bonds, pay ie7enli-annpally, at the Consolidated Wank in London, at xed rate of 4s. to the dollar. T he Bonds will be issued at 70. viz. : Onds of 100 dola. at £ l 5 155., with interest from April, 1,1861. _,", i ,0,2 ~ £78150., 1/ 11 11 Th 4'''' £ls7 105., 11 11 ..- - e Coupon's' represent £l4 per annum on each bond of ''o dollars (£225), or nearly 9 per cent. ~he plegf subscribing will remain open until the 6'h TApril for the present bondholders, either directly or through herokers sterms Of issue are as follows : Per cent on application, being Lll 5 0 per Bond of 1,0:0 dol. s ~ al otment „ 22 0 0 11 11 ) .. "Z 2cl May 11 33 15 0 ~ ~ ~ 16th May „ 45 0 0 /1 11 ~ Ist June „ 45 0 0 ~ ) II £157 10 0 d B UbSeribers have the option of paying the insta'ments in vane, and will be allowed a discount of 6 per cent. per an- After allotment Scrip Certifi ates will beissued to "bearer." hese Certificltes will be exchanged for Bonds to " bearer" 'n Payment of the final instalment, The early completion of the works of this great Railway notifies the Company in making this additional issue of f onds, following the financial policy adopted at the outset, . laming securities to the public only after the actual pro 3'ess of the Railway ha, secured the necessary income for ? r oviding the interest. There will remain only the Second Mortgage of the Ohio division, to be disposed of hereafter, Olen the total of the Bonded Debt will be only .£6,000 per orne of appl'cation may be obtained of the Bankers ; or it t hd Offices of the Company. ices of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, larch 23, 2, 18 61 Old Broad-street, London, B.C. 11 HE ALBION BANK (Limited). Capital £1,100,C00, in 20,000 shares of £5O each. beposit £1 First issue, 10,00 0 shares. per share on application, and Li per share on allotment. It is n ot i n tended to call up more than £l5 per 811 aTe. No call will be made for three months after allot ment. Three months' interval at least will elapse between w 0 , and no call will ex eed .£5 per share. iLiucorpora calls ted under the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1362, ' Wher ebY each shareholder's liability is limited to the amount of his shares. Thom DIRECTORS. J Esq, Sheriff of London and Midd'esex. . Pritchett, Esq. (firm of J. T. l'ritchett and Sons), 131, Fen church-street. Masters, Esq. (firm of W. F. Masters and Sons), Le" rgate-market. il njafilin Baugh, Eeq Bradford-street, and Balsall-heath, 1.1 - c„mlugham. i n las Arsgs, Esq. (firm of Thomas Aggs and Co.), 155, ,e s nc hurch-street, E Potter, Esq. (firll.l street. of It. F. Potter and Co.), 21, Newgate. Th e With power to add to their number. Provisional arrangement for merging the old-established trainTe bank of Messrs. Challis and Son with he Albion VIT 11 (Linaite3 , has been confi ?nd the active partner I be the general manager of the lank. GENERAL MANAGER Thomas M. Chal is, Esq. BANKERS. lreLsrs...Challis and Son, 16, West Smithfield. Th', l % °I London, Threadneedle-street 7 Lon don and Norther Bank, 2, Bank-buildings, London ; fuld Newcastle, Leeds, and Hudder.field BROKER. James Shepherd, 1 4 :sq., Auction Mar`. SOLICITOR. (1. W.Coming Dean, Esq., 27, New Broad-street. 1 9 4 illainasnzCooper Esq, Publi3 Accountant, !3, George-street, A ndre/gig 11 9 C. V 011 Manager United Kingdom Elee'r l o Tele graph Company, SECRETARY. PRO TEM. Mr. H. L. Trice. Temp Arary Offices—?, Bank-building,3. PROSPECTUS. NAlfil°ugh the system of joint-stock banking, has been este.- ts is a deci to meet the require nents of most de partme ats of -4, e, it has rot been introduced for the business of the agri !!iltural and cattle markets of the metropolis ; and t hough toe Population has doubled within the last 25 years, and, con tegil ntly, the necessary quantity of supplies, yet the whole Ilainess, amounting to 15 to 2 millions per annum, is left in the hands of a few private firms. The Albion Bank is introduced to prod 'e increased facili ties for this t rs de by establishing an office In the City, as well 4 s at Smithfield and the Metropolitan Cattle Market ; and s ubsequently should it be Sound desrab'e, by opening branches fu the agricultural districts. he value of the rapidly-increasing commission business to be transacted by the Albion Bank can be readily appre ciated by a knowledge that the method in which dealings are circled on at the Cattle Market consti utes the Bank the Prodepository of all the moneys passing from the buyer to the u , c r . T he Metropolitan Meat or Poultry Market in in Smithfield, now in course of erection, is destined, by the terms of the 8 ,t of Parliament to combine and suersede all other mar t for meat in the metropolis. To this market will be con centrated all transactions for the supply of butchers' meat. poultry, and other prod u c e t o th e i n h a bitants of the metro- P O 2lB and a cir c l e o f 1 4 m il es roun d it . fo r he Direcsors having confirmed the provisional agreement ~.,,,1 11„ 0 purchase of the lucrative busineas of Messrs. Challis oon, the advantage of commencing upon an established _.t?oection, under competent and experienced anagement i;_ 1 11 be secured to shareholders from the commetremt nt of t g„ B ,,idess, by whicli the directors are warranted in expecting n r "' ‘ ' t heY will be enabled to declare a dividend during the ' 8 „", ar. t the number of joint-stock banks may be advan igvously increased (more particularly under special eir rmatance., such as have led to the formation of the „. -*Po Bank), is demonstrated by the fact that, so late B I.X years ago, when the number of joint-stock banks London was not more than six, their total deposits sale, not exceed £2?,000,000 ; while, now that the number 1(1? th ese banks has been doubled, the joint deposits are Th adY more than trebled, amountmg to a total ot £71,702,300. „,_e dividends of the older banks ramr,e from 15 to 30 per s ' a „tt., in accordance with the da es of their establishment : c „ - ,',,the preius on their shares are tram 260 to 300 r of in a Precisely similar ratio. The deposits and dividends the joint-stoce banks recently farmed show a rapid pro gress towards identical results. Should no allotment take place, the deposits will be re- Trued i n f u l l. Should a less number of shares be allotted Lt_tall are applied for, the deposit will be made available to wards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned t a the a plicant. t , plication for shares may be aodressed to the bankers, , rokers, or directors of the Company, and to the secretary at the oMces of the Company. THE ALBION BANK (Limited ) . The Directors have to announce that the PRO-VI MAL AGREEMENT for the PURCHASE of the Old estab'ished BANKING BUSINESS of Messrs. CHALLIS and SON, together with their Bank Premises, No. 16, West t'utithfield, and Bank Buildings, Metropolit CAtla M rket, natli teen CONFIRMED; and that Mr. Thomai M. Challis, the active partner in the firm, will be the General Manager of the Albion Bank (Limited). THE AL 810 N BANK (Limited) NO FURTHER for in this Bank will be .RECEIVED f tor APPLICATIONS U ESDAY , the SHARES sth April, N°. 22,389 rr,ERSONS SEEKING LAND ED ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPERTIES GENERALLY — TO BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-bine, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY NEGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its .manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Register affords, by sending the particu'ars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 07, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible chara ter, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon veniences. :'HERE Is NO CHARGE 'floured, unless a tenant or pur °miser is introduced throne - It Messrs. Lumley's Agency, aid :then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. URNI I'URE, CARPETS, BEDDING, end FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class goods at second-class prises. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select rom, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted CIARGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4lo actin -able engravings of every description of Furniture and I,easteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised cab : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto 1 0 A Ten-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto l9l 11 0 - - - -• Together with a erlce List of purified Bedding, and a mass of valnable informationto all requiring househ 31d furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde , Plymouth , Wells. Oxford. Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Welling ton. Croydon , Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Br.tq COB BETT and CO.. General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E, G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. No. 11, Lombard-street,"London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. J. Shaw Lefevre;Esq.,M.P. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. William Steven, Esq. Fredk. H, Janson, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. 'ORS. AUDI' Lewis Loyd , Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, Jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In urers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded In ash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existinv, Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Use Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, •ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at home and abroad at mode rate rates. No expense is incurred In effecting a new Insurance be yond the paymmt of the Annual Premium and Duty, when the Premium amounts to ss. _ Claims liberally and promptly settled. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies which expire at Lady Day must be renewed within fifteen days at this Ofce, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's street, corner of Pall-Mall ;or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. Application for Prospectuses and Agencies to be made to the Secretary. R. W. g. WOODIN'S ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY, and BACHELOR'S BOX, an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, C!,aring-cross, EVERY EVENING, at eight (except Saturday); Saturday Mornings at three.— Stalls, and box sta is, 3s. ; area, 25.; amphitheatre, ls. A Plan of the Stalls may bt seen, and Seats secured at the Hall :rom e even to live. Next Morning Performane:, Saturday, April 2, at three. THE ORIGINAL OYAL BUCKINGHAM SAUCirE ~ for Roast Meat, Hashes, Gravies, Stews, Steaks, Sour is igh, Game, &e. Prepared Only by the proprietors, MOS. BUCK and Co., 10, Bath-Owe, Dalston, London, N.E. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one led with in te , Indistion, or Biliousness, trou take PAGE Wind WOOD h COCK Stomach 'S WIND PILLS. Thcir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. .nd 9d. ; or free by VVet for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist AIESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO. ar execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and wes tminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber park. Ad dress—Borr and JACKSON, 11 DDian of the World" Wine t ores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. riE NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL BUST. ELIX M. MILL tllt, Professor of Sculpture, Govern- School ef Art, published under the special sanction of c ational Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon Temente art C ommittees, by HOWELL, JAMES, and CO. a c e d Zies will be issued, in the order of registration, to sub - Only, and are executed in— eQgxvood Ceramic Statuary, 12 in. high, price One Guinea. t r r eonnezhe Terra Cotta 15 One Guinea. 8 Three Guineas ehie S'abse r i 11 11 bers' names received bv the agents in Lodon and provincial towns (where capies of the Bust may ro be seen), • by the publishers, By HOWEL o fAMES, and Co.; Goldsmiths, &c., Vointment the Queen and Prince and Princess of ale s , 6 . 7, and O. RE,iENT- STREET, LONDON. Dirc h at ° lol raphs and praepcCtuses forwardel post free on ap- PRIZE MEDAL-INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, Ir•. ---"ANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax lB62 Chandlers, &0.. &0., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) teT t lie Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, taaniutlizttour!r excellence of the quality of .tlessrs. Tuckers' TApstinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis er and Co., on the subject of AX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:-- virld - ch nave found them fully equal to the recommendation niena` You gave them, and can sincerely. in my t , urn, corn ,. them to the clergy tor the use of the altar. ' Vuest rdinarTLitYwith Flatted Wicks, patented.. 2d. per lb. quality •zs. Od. per lb. BestVEGETABLE LkNDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. qUality per lb. lnd quality •• • • • ••• •• ls. 3d. per lb. 'laird qu a li ty • • • • • • • is. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. PRANCIS TUCKER AND CO. , 8 , South 1101 ton-street. Grosveno--squar 3lanufactory— Th,. , by Kensington (Establishedi73o). Large Est ablishmmt in Enaland for the Manufacture Wax candles for the use of the Altar. T" E OXIf 0 D, 11 , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAU=T, embracing the entire company of this establishment, with augmented band and chorus ; and other Musical Entertainment s, supported by the following talented. artistes —Misses Russell. Fitz-Henry, Tyrrell,.lNalmsley ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green, &c. Director, Mr. P. Jonghmans. UNSWORTH and EUGENE will make their re-appear ance This Evening. Comedy, by Mr. T. Marl Igan, W. Randall, G. ITutchenson, G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Pow4r (the 2;uvenilo comedienne), &c.. eza. Will shortly be produce I, THE MERRY - WIVES OF WINDS O R„ by Otto Nicolai; and THE TWO GENTLE MEN OF VERONA, by Sir Henry Bishop. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balmy, Is. ; private boxes, 108. ed. CANTERBURY HALL. The Fairy Entertainment, ent;tled PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS! Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. Vander veil, author of the celebrated " Enchanted Flash," and en ables Mr. Morton, with the aid of Professor Pepper's Optical Illusion (known as the Ghost), to produce effects never before contemplated, and which have all been duly registered by him and Mr. J. H. Weston under the title of "The Ghost in the Magic Fountains." By this new arrangement, that which is in reality nothing but a shadow, becomes to all ap pearance endowed with life, and when "Fame" takes her fliht through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek the g ir beds in the Crystal Waters, form a coup d'cell of beauty unparalleled even in fairy romance. Prince Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley. The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at half-past Nine o'c'ock. All the wonderful entertainment of the establishment, as usual, in addition to the above. Admission—Area, 6d. ; Stalls and Baloony, is. Open every Evening. ROYAL ALHAMBRA.- TRIUMPH ANV SUCCESS of the NEW , CIRQUE, EV3 knowtedged to be the best ever produced in England. ROYAL A.LHAMBRA.- The zreatest Fem , le Rider of the Age, the wondrous 11Idlle. LOUISE LOISSET. ROYAL ALH AMBR A.— Brilliant Equestrian Scene, " THE RIDE FOR THE RIBBON." ROYAL ALHAMBRA. MORNING PERFORMANCE en Monday, Wedne- day, and Saturday, at Two. Every Evening at Ralf-past F even o'clock. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL IVIL GALLERY ; established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. RECENT ADDlTlONS.—President Lincoln and Presi dent Davis ; Ancient Effigies of Henry IV. and his Queen Joan. in magnificent costumes of the pe iod (1396); and in the Chamber of Physiognomy is a full-length model of (leo. Victor Townley. Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night. Admittance, 18. ; extra rooms, Bd. ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street, Piccadilly, IS OPEN EVERY EVENING. During the eveninz an unparalleled repertoire of Dance Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele brated Argyll Band, forty in number. Door Open at Halt-past 8, commence at 9. Admission le. Manager, M. GRENET. 41A, MADDOX-STREET, REGENT-STREET, W. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. Open daily from 10 till 10. Where may be seen the Astees ; Bushman and Wife; Julia Pastrami and Infant; En r ,c , and Shawl . , the Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Preparations, &e. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling (tor Gentlemen only). OLLYRID GE'S BALM of COLUMBIA, established upward. of 40 years, is scknowledged to be the only certain remedy ever discovered for preservinZ, strengthening, beautifying, or restoring the Hair, Whiskers, or Moustaches, and preventing them turning grey. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and Its.—C. and A. Oldridge's, 22, Wellington street, Strand, W.C. ; and all chemists and perfumers. For Children's Hair it Is most efficacious and unrivalled. TEETH, —Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in tha construction of ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the following anvantages :—A set of teeth, of excellent work manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the moat perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without lain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining Mr. Eske:l's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. Inspection of specimens and consultations iree.-B,Grosvenor street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham- TAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN .II EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad flitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which pi °yokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it Preparea only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-Wiliam-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 134 d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address ae. ograVed on the stamp. 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'1)11Orr• ''' "' ''‘ '''''''''' •--ige- , -' '' D ......,--... .-', - ..., t- - - , -41;' . • r 5 ,• - •'''' 4 3 , -4% : 0- 4-. t" * .W.P 4 , - •• ' ' "' QOHO ESTATE, HOUSE , AND GENERAL BUSINESS AGENCY OFFICES.—Persons requiring Freehold or Leasehold Property, or having Business and Houses to be disposes of, should apply to Mr. CHARLES MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer , 26, Gerrard-street, Soho, W. Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail way Compensations, &c. Rents Collected. SHORTHAND. -PITMANS PHONOGRA PHIC TEACIIER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d. PRICE ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. but the forerunner to a series of demonstrations of scarcely less uproarious character. SURREY. This theatre, in accordance with unvarying ens.- tom, presented its patrons with a novelty for their Paschal entertainment, and in accordance also with their unvarying custom, the patrons of the theatre assembled in overflowing strength to welcome the novelty. Tue ardour of Surrey audiences for the drama cannot be doubted, for none but the most devoted enthusiasts would undergo such bodily agonies, such physical pressure, as were endured last night for nearly six hours by the occupants of the pit and gallery of this theatre. While it cannot truthfully be said that they endured their sufferings uncomplainingly or unresistingly, yet it marked an advanced stage in civilisation to notice how much good humour and how little angry feelin; was dis played among so vast a mass of persons. The novelty presented last evening bore the promising title of " The Soldier of Fortune, or the Devil's Death Tower," and was stated in the bills to be a translation from and adaptation of a French piece, by Mr. J. Anderson, one of the managers of the theatre. The story, as dramatised, although his torical as history, as represented in Damas's novel is exciting, and to a sensitive mind startling, if not revolting. Marguerite of Burgundy, the Queen of Louis X., during her husband's absence from Paris, indulges her and her sisters' guilty passions by receiving lovers in the Death Tower, on the banks of the Seine, and, at the conclusion of each evening's revel, their unfortunate paramours are assassinated, and their bodies cast into the river by a band of ruffians; under the orders of one Guido Malatesta, a creature of Marguerite's, and ostensible keeper of an auberge adjoining the Tower. At this auberge meet Leander de la Croix, an orphan, who has come to Paris to his twin brother Lionel, who is Captain of the Queen's Body Guard, and high in Marguerite's favour, and one Captain Ber trand, the soldier of fortune. The latter oppor tunely interferes to save Leander from a cowardly attack by an envious Paris mob—a noble action, which elicited the loudest applause of the Surrey audience, probably because their English notions favoured the man who ventured to fight one against nine, as was the case in this instance. The two be come intimate, and from their mutual confidences it appears that they have each received an assigna tion to meet an unknown lady that evening. Lionel, the captain, who appears, endeavours to dissuade his brother from keeping the appointment, but in vain. In the next scene, the circular room in the Devil's Tower, the Queen and her two sisters are seen masked and retiring from the tower ; bat Lionel, after in vain essaying to obtain a glimpse of his fair companion's face, determines to insure re cognition by puncturing the cheek with a silver pin. This act alarms and enrages the masked Queen, and she revokes some exceptional orders which she had previously given for the safety of the young man, and accordingly he and another victim are mur dered, and their bodies cast into the river. Ber trand is more fortunate, for although doomed to the same fate he finds in Jacques Sangnoir, the chief assistant of Malatesta, an old comrade, who per mits him to escape. In the second act Bertrand appears at the Queen's Court in the disguise of a Bohemian fortune-teller, and by his subtle hints so works upon Marguerite's fears that he extorts from her the promise to meet him at Malatesta's tavern. At the interview which there takes place Bertrand threatens to acquaint Lionel de la Croix with the fact that his brother had been assassinated by the Queen's order,to avert which disclosure Marguerite gives Bertrand a warrant appointing him chief minister of the realm, which she subsequently nul lifies by another warrant for his arrest, which imme diately takes place. He is visited in his prison by the Queen, who comes to gloat over his suffer ings, and to taunt him with his prospective fate, but by a disclosure that he is her lover of past times, Bertrand de Lon gueville, the parent of the twin children and the murderer of her father, he invokes her fears anew, and to prevent certain eli minatory letters from reaching the hands of the King, she agrees to release Bertrand, and to carry out her former promise to make him chief minister. Notwithstanding this arrangement mutual distrust exists between the two principal characters, and a plan is laid whereby each plot the death of the other at the Devil's Tower. Lionel, drawn thither by his infatuation for the Queen, is murdered by her creatures, and Bertrand, who has learned too late the identity of the two La Croix with the off spring of himself and Marguerite, arrives only to acquaint her with the dreadful fact that she has been the murderer of both her children. She in despair stabs herself, and Bertrand, re sisting a Royal order for his arrest, is mortally wounded. The piece thus terminates, if not pleasantly, at least intelligibly, as none of the prin cipal characters remain to invite speculation as to their future earthly career. The drama, full of in cident and of horrors as it was, seemed to afford satisfaction to the large audience, who warmly ap plauded the most striking passages, and with a slight curtailment it will probably be found attrac tive for some time to come. Mr. 3, Anderson as Bertrand, and Miss Pauncefort as the Queen, were sufficiently ♦igorous in the delineations of their respective characters, and were honoured with spe cial notice at the close of the piece. The perform ances concluded with the nautical drama,of " Ashore and Afloat," itself se full of sensations and striking situations as to fairly entitle it to stand alone as an Easter attraction. ST. JAMES'S. Mr. Planche's burlesque, the " Golden Fleece," revived at the Haymarket last autumn, when Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews reappeared after their return from Paris, is brought out at the St. James's with the same excellent artists in the principal characters. ADELPHI. Easter brings back Miss Batemw, and the celebrated American actress again comes forward as the persecuted OLYMPIC. As Christmas was powerless to remove the " Ticket o' Leave Man" from the Olympic bills, so likewise is Easter. THE EXHIBITIONS. The day being raw and cold throughout, the number of visitors to the various exhibitions was much less than usual, There was, nevertheless, a goodly company at all of thew some of the more popular were crowded at intervals. POLYGRAPHIC HALL ENTERTAINMENT. Mr. Wocdin had his full share of visitors last evening. His little hall was crowded to suffocation, and laughter and applause greeted him throughout his entire performance, GRACE EGERTON'S ENTERTAINMENT. The "Drawing Room to Let" drew a large g ratified at the exertions the accomplished Grace Egerton ma de to please her many visitors. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S ENTERTAINMENT. Mr. Sketchley received his full share of Easter holiday visitors, and we mistake very much if those who went turther afield for Easter amusement fared as well as those who p a s s ed the evening at the attractive entertainment in the Eg,)ptian THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Yesterday a large crowd assembled, as is usual on Easter Monday, at the Crystal Palace. The day was cold and gloomy, more than once threatening rain, so that the visitors were less scattered over the grounds than is usual at this season. But the attractions within doors are at present so much greater than those without that the ab sence o f sun shine was no t neceesary to explain the preference shown for the interior of the building. It seas delightful to leave the frost-nipped lawns and leafless landscapes for the perpetual summer of the south nave and transept, in which the vege tation is now particularly brilliant. 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Retail throng Wholesale by Prices Patent Lou, VI any Grocer. t Candle Company (Limit:AP, STRAND. The Christmas burlesque of " Orpheus and Eury dice,' continues to be so attractive that it retains its place in the Easter play bills. A new comedietta, by Mr. I. P. Wooler, was, however, produced for holyday visitors, entitled " A Hunt for a Husband." Mr. Poppleton (Mr. H. J. Turner), a retired farrier and susceptible old bachelor, has proposed to a fair widow, Mrs. Courthope (Miss K. Carson), who consents to accept a husband as soon as her young niece, Sophy (Miss L. Weston). is married. That capiicions young lady, however, rejects all the swains whom the indefatigable Poppleton brings to her feet. An anonymous letter at length ap prises him that she is privately married. The widow now seems to be his own, for he has only to tell her of the match, as he thinks, to win her. But Sophy is not the only young married female in the house who is believed to be a spinster. Mr. Poppleton's servant Mary Ann (Miss F. Hughes) is secretly married to Jack Sharp (Mr. A. Wood), groom to Mr. Arthur Stanley (Mr. D. James), the favoured lover of Mrs. Courthope. Jack Sharp comes to visit his Mary Ann, and is hid in the bedroom of Miss Poppleton, Mr. P.'s ancient and romantic sister. When detection seems inevitable ho reappears in feminine guise, having arrayed himself in Miss P.'s " front" and other garments. Jack Sharp is the real hero of the piece, but another comic personage presents himself in Chicory (a young grocer), who writes Jove-letters to Sophy, which are picked up by Miss Poppleton. Jack Sharp finds one of these letters in his Mary Ann's apron, and, becoming jealous of the grocer, bastes him freely with a culi nary ladle, and is admirably seconded by Mr. Pop pleton, who, having a spite against young Chicory, wears out several pairs of boots in kicking him about the house as often as he sees him. Jack Sharp, in his female habiliments, is successively claimed by Miss Poppleton and Sophy as their dis. guised lover, but he is taken possession of at last by his lawful sponse Mary Ann. Arthur Stanley appears at the right moment to claim the widoW's hand, and Mr. Poppleton having remembered that, although Mrs. Courthope promised to marry when her niece took a husband, she omitted to say " whom," is Tronaded to live on terms of amity and friend ship with everybody, and to consent to the ladies being happy in their own way. Mr. A.Wood played Jock Sharp in petticoats with great humour and drollery ; and, in a character admitting of great exaggeration and presenting some temptation to coarseness, had the good taste to tone down the part, and to divest it of everything objectionable. The piece, although light in structure, was amusing and successful. The curtain then rose upon "Orpheus and Eurydice," in which Miss Marie Wil• ton, Miss Ada Swanborough, Miss M. Simpson,Mr.G. Honey, Mr. A. Wood, and the other characters in this popular burlesque exerted themselves with more than their accustomed vigour. The scena of " Polly Perkins" created the usual furore. It appears to be the custom to encore this song five times every night ! The entertainments concluded with " Mar. gate Sands," The house was well attended. ASTLEY'S. The entertainment provided by Mr. E. T. Smith for his patrons last night was on a more than usually liberal scale. Two new pieces were pro duced, and both, with respect to scenery and ap pointments, inja style:of splendour and completeness with which even a transpontine audience would have been more than satisfied. Of the first—" Ro salie; or, The Chain of Crime"—we must be con tent to say at present that it introduced the clever Miss Furtado (from the Royalty Theatre) in the part of the heroine, brought for ward Miss Fanny Clifford in a character well suited to exhibit her graceful talent as an actress to much advantage. and comprised one of the most vivid, lifelike, and picturesque representations of a shipwreck ever exhibited on the London stage. The specially cha racteristic attraction of the evening was a fairy ex travaganza, written and constructed by Mr. T. H. Higgie, with music, both spirited and characteristic , by Mr. J. H. Tully. " The Trap of Gold" is a bona fide piece of the good old stamp, with a plot not very e asy nor very necessary to unravel; personages, natural and supernatural, whose actions are fre quently rather fantastic than accountable, rather diverting than logical; costumes and scenery moie calculated to puzzle the eye by their variety, and dazzle by their magnificence, than to conciliate the understanding by their propriety or fix the identity of time and place—an Easter pantomime, in short. The chief character—Roprecht Schampt, "student and libertine," a sort of cross between Faust and Don Giovanni —at the instigation of the Bhargeist, head of the tribe of Kobolds, enters into a compact, by force of which, in return for the privilege of be ing allowed to pursue his career of dissipation and profligacy under the guise and possessed of the attributes of one of those malignant sprites, he is, at the termination of a certain period, either to send a substitute, or go to perdition himself. In the end, after a series of adventures, during which he enjoys t he power of becoming invisible at will, Poetical justice is done ; and, at the critical juncture —when the pseudo-Kobold fancies he has caught a deputy, by the sacrifice of whom he will be entitled to a new lease of immunity—he is entrapped him self through the unexpected failure of his own de vice. His intended victim, Pipelee (Miss Booth), a sprightly and handsome village maiden, is under the protection of a beneficent fairy, called Nixa (Miss Grace Eaton), an avowed enemy of the Bhar geist and frustrator of all his demoniacal plans. g rouped around these principal The personage s fi gure s are sufficiently` vari▪ ed and consistently gro• ho represents the character tesque. M. M ilano, of Roprecht Sch am p t, besi▪ des exhibiting a consi derable amount of humour, is a model of agility. His invisible ce-operation in the progress of a Danish rustic dance (the scene takes place in Schleswig, on the banks of the Eider) leads to endless diverting incidents ; while his " grand pas fantastique" with,Mies Fanny Brown (a dancer of more than ordina r y skill) is in its way a master piece of ealtatory burlesque. The entire scenic business is admirably arranged ; and the last tableau "the Fairy Transformation and Fiery Denoue ment" —in which the supernaturally transformed libertine is caught in his own trap and consigned to the nether regions, raised a storm of approbation. An audience more determined to be pleased has seldom assembled together on Easter: Monday ; and tra the ns as port of enthusi with whicti Mr. E. T. Smith was summoned after th e wonderful was eoibition of the ehipvireci, in the first piece, EASTER AMUSEMENTS. DRURY-LANE. IVhatever may be the style of the performances at Stratford-upoE - Avon on the celebration of the Shakspere Tercentenary, they will not for certain exceed in magnificence Messrs. Falconer and Cauttertones revival of the first part of Henry IV., which was performed last 'evening in presence of one of the largest audiences that ever assembled within the walls of Drury-lane Theatre. During the management career of Macready at Cavent-gar den many years ago, he astonished the metropolis by the production, in a style of unsurpassed splendour, the exciting play of" Henry f,," but since that time nothing of the kind has beer; attempted at either of the national establishments until last evening, when with the combined abilities of Mr. Phelps, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Walter Lacy, and Mr. R. Roby as the principal actors; Mr. W. Beverley, the celebrated acepic artist, and Mr. Keene, as designer, the Managers of Drury-lane Teatre made their Easter offering at the shrite of Shakspere. The reception of Mr. Phelps, who sus tained the part of Sir John talstaff, was enthusi astic, and on his rising to acknowledge the compli ment the cheering seemed to increase in intensity. When the fat knight stood erect we had an opportu nity of admiring the artistic manner in which Mr. Phelp's dressed the part. The make-up of the head and face was a masterstroke of art, while the other peculiarities of the portraiture were brought out with the utmost skill. Who but Mr. Phelps now a-days could be found to represent Sir Jahn, the boon companion of "Madcap Hal," and most cer tainly he never appeared to enter so heartily into the character as last evening. From the first line of the part, "Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?" down to the closing speech in the fifth act, " I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, Heaven reward him I If I do grow great, I'll grow less ; for I'll purge and leave sack and live cleanly, as a nobleman should," he was in the best of humours, and chuckled with the highest relish over his sins and follies. Perhaps the culminating point in the performance was the relation of the part he had taken in the robbery of the carriers on the road by Gadshill. The audience fairly gave vent to the heartiest laughter during the recital, but on the discovery of the mountain of falsehoods, the exclamation by Falstaff of the well-known words— " By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye," the mirth of the audienee burst all limit, and for some moments the action of the play was stopped by the tremendous applause that followed. Mr. Walter Montgomery, as the firy and impetuous Hotspur, won great applause by his acting, and Mr. Ryder supported the part of King Henry with becoming dignity. Although Mr. Walter Lacy played the part of Prince Henry with much care, it was by no means the best thing we have seen him do. However, he did his best, which, we are bound to say, pleased the audience; but, notwith standing, we must honestly confess, we should have wished to have seen a more juvenile actor sustain the character. Mr. Robert Roxby's Poins was a capital performance, and Mr. Edmund Phelps, as Sir Richard Vernon, acquitted himself with much ability. The first scene in the third act, in which the disc pute arose between Hotspur and Owen Glendower, has been restored, and with it the Welsh song, by Lady Mortimer, which was prettily sung by Miss Edith Wynn. Lady Percy was well sustained by Miss Rose Leelercq, and the part of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess of the tavern in Eastcheap, was given with great point by Mrs. Edmund Falconer. The scenery, which was entirely new, was of the moat splendid description, and often as we have had to compliment Mr. W. Btverley, we never did so with more pleasure than on the present occasion, for certainly a more remarkable production has never been contributed to the stage than his moon light view "On the Road to Gads hill." The bat tle who witnessed and it will lon g b e remembered it. The de vas t a tion andnessed field of Shrews bur y is, however, th e great scenic by effort of the wh confusion of war is vividly represented, and what with armoured knights, waving pennons, bands of bowmen, smoke, and confusion, a sensation scene is produced that excels everything that has yet been ero attempted on any s ta g e . Th e success of the revival was decisive and un mistakeable, taoknbl mis congratulate Messrs. Fa the triumph that has crown ed their production of "Henry IV." e e a ra e n , d and e ha w tt e cordially n ••••••• , HAYMARKE T. Buckstone has provided for T h h i e sE n my tholo - peal extravaganza from the pen of Mr. p . C. _ y pa w tr h o i n c s h is M a r. Burnand, entitled " Venus and Adonis." The playwright's treatment of his theme is certainly very fre e, and on the whole is very successful. The Olympian divinities are b r ought upon the stage in the drollest guise, and made to speak and act in the mos t ludicrous fashion. The presiding Sp i rits of the net h er wor ld also mingle in the scene, and seem to carry on a keen rivalry with the upper powers as to whieh shall " carry on" most e xtravagantly . But that is not the only specie s of rivalry which exists between them. Venus (Miss Nelly Moore) neglects her ill-favoured spouse Vulcan (Mr. Compton) to cultivate the favours of the handsome Adonis (Miss Louise Keeley), but her penchant for the youthful mortal is shared by Proserpi na (Miss Lind ley), and the two goddesses contend, as goddesses only can, for the e xclusive possessio n o f hi s affection. This is, as it were , the pivot of the piece on which all the other characters and incidents are made to turn. It is not, indeed, always easy y to trace the thread of connexion between the different parts of the action ; but that is of t he lee s consequence, inas much as the mere story is but a very subordinate affair in all such works of art. Their chief interest is derived from the music and dancing, the gorgeous or grotesque costumes, the grand scenic effects, the rattling action and dialogue, and the li vely play of wit. • In all these essential respects it is but fair to say that a high pitch of excellence is attained in the new Easter piece, which alternately dazzled and convulsed the audience. Perhaps the most exq u i s ite scene of all was " The Forest Pr imaeval," in which Venus is seen reclining on a flowery bank, near a beautiful cascade. The view of a fashi ona bl e water . ing place at Paphos, whither Venus and Vulcan repair to spend their honeymoon, is greatly enlivened by the terpsichorean feats of the sea- nymphs. Here the corps de ballet is introduced with great effect, the whole scene being strikingly picturesque and animated. The gardens of Adonis, in which the action of the play culminates, are a perfect blaze of spectacular art. The piece is of course, like all ire class, thickly sown with puns and hits at the follies of the day. These are considerably above the average in quality; although certainly that is not saying a great deal. The acting was throughout spirited and effective, Miss Louise Keeley as Adonis and Miss Nelly Moore as Venus (her first appear ance at this house), both acquitting themselves with especial credit. The curtain fell amid loud and reiterated applause, and Mr. Burnand was called to receive the tribute due to his undoubted success. The extravaganza was preceded by " Our American Cousin," in which Air. Sothern appeared for the 455th time as Lord Dandreary with as much apparent freshness as if the part of the half-witted lord were new to him. II•••••P..III. PRINCESS*S. Mr. Watts Phillips' new play, " Paul's Return," and the drolleries of the Brothers Webb in the " Comedy of Errors," continue:to Attrtult such large 1 tic,4,,,,,t) I charm to the Alhambra, Egyptian; and Assyri Courk and here it was that the crowd chiefly gathered i noon. The amusements in the transept, under the dlratOen , ,?* Mr. Nelson Lee, opened at 1 o'clock with - the per: 0 ;4 . 4114Z by Orville Parker, the " negro v ocalist, " The y were- fl4l- lowed by a comic entertainment, or pants mime, in whit' harlequin, harlequin junior, and a third performer, repre senting a tortoiseshell cat, performed a neumber of sur prising summersaults with stilts on. A dance by the D'Aubans was much applauded, but a more sta riling enter tainment succeeded—that of " les Qeatres Pieyrots"— four French clowns, each with a fiddle, who went through all the evolutions of acrobats without ceasing to play and keep time, although in attitudes which seemed to re.nder such operations absolutely impossible. The performance was well worthy of the favourable reception it met. Various other entertainments followed, among which the mast re markable was perhaps that of the infant Polandus, specially intended for the young, but amusing to every one. One of the most interesting objects exhibited yesterday in the Palace was a model of the house at S tratford-on-ANon in which Shakspere was born. Occupying a conspicuous place in the great transept it was during the day constantly sur rounded by a group of visitors. It appears that Mr B. T. Perri , : has been engaged for some months in constructing, in wood, plaster, and canvas, a copy of the house of the exact size of the original. On the 23d of next month, the day of the great fete, it will be placed in that part of the great transept yesterday occupied by the small model. Several parts of the large copy were to be seen yesterday on the basement. These gave ample evidence of the care and fidelity with which the monument will be represented. Very judiciously Mr. Parris has imitated, without the slightest deviation, the house as it now appears. The building has been restored or rebuilt without any attempt being made to give the newer patchwork the tints of age, and the appearance so produced has been faithfully repeated in the great model. The cracks and furrows and blisters, which the beams exhibit, have been carefully imitated with the chisel and paint-brush. The small size of the building will surprise many of those who are familiar with the wood cuts representing it, It is 60ft. long, but the whole height is 25ft. from the ground to the roof of the red brick roof, and it will form btit a small object when placed under the lofty roof of the transept. The more interesting part of the interior of the house, including the room in which it is said the poet was born, has also been reproduced, even the cracks in the old-fashioned window panes, on which visitors have scratched their names, having been carefully imitated, as far as it is possible to do so by stucco moulds and photo graphs. The visitors to the Palace a few weeks hence will thus have it in their power to form quite as correct an idea of the appearance of Shakspere's house as they would have after ajourney into Warwickshire. As a guarantee of the correctness of the reproduction, a photograph of the house by Negretti and Zambra is to be presented to each visitor on 23d proximo. In the grounds yesterday there was little doing. This year, however, the booths of Edmonds' (late Womb well's) menagerie have been erected in the grand walk of the Palace gardens, and, yesterday they were visited by immense crowds. It was amusing to see how gently the elephants pushed their way through the closely packed crowd, and how familiarly they were stroked and patted by the ladies and children, who would have rushed in terror from a drove of bullocks cross ing Blackfriars-bridge. The performance of an African, who enters the cage of full grown lions and leopards, and makes them perform tricks which would be surprising in dogs, were repeated yesterday every hour, and seemed to excite more interest and wonder than any other part of the day's entertainment. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS, REGENT'S- PARK. In spite of the gloomy aspect of the weather, which did not promise much enjoyment For those engaged in outdoor amusements, a large concourse of holyday makers resorted to these gardens yesterday morning, and continued to do so during the greater part of the day. The entrances up to the time of the closing of the gates amounted to 15,250, a large number, but less than those that have visited the gardens on several previous Easter Mondays, when that national holyday has fallen later in the year, and the weather has turned out more genial. It is satisfactory to be able to add that the behaviour of the pleasure. seekers, a large proportion of whom were young people, was most ex emplary, and that no injury was done to the society's valu. able collection of living animals. THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, GREAT GEOR.3E-STREET. This exhibition, which is not yet so generally known as it deserves to be, attracted 1,184 people in the course of the day; last year there wore 912: in 1562, 670 ; in 1861, 279; and in 1860, 771. It is the property of the nation, as its name imports, and is exclusively devoted to the portraiture of eminent British worthies of all classes, by the first masters. It was opened a few years ago with about a score of rare portraits and busts, -presented by private indi viduals as a beginning, which have now increased to 182. The collection is vested in a body of trustees com posed of noblemen and gentlemen, end is free to the public ordinarily on two days in the week, and on Easter Mondays and Tucs,lays. Among the latter additions to the gallery are portraits. of Lord Nlausfield,William Woodfall, the first Parliamentary reporter, Archbishop Laud, Lord Heathficld, and a bust of Dr Arnold. The whole collection is made up of contributions by about 40 donors, at the head of whom is the King of the Belgians. THE POLYTECHNIC. This institution, which has flourished during a period of 25 years, was re-opened yesterday with several fresh attrac tions, conspicuous among which were the interesting optical illusions ani a new ghost entertainment by Professor Pep per, with a lecture. Many novel scientific improvements and arrangements have been introduced into the ghost illusion by the professor, and hundreds of people assembled yester day to witness the entertainment, which took place at 3 o'clock, and was repeated in the evening. The piping bull finch warbled at intervals during the day. There were also dioramas and dissolving views, most of them new; exhibi tions of glass working, and of the oxy-hydrogen microscope, experiments in magic, buffo songs, ant an entertainment in. ventriloquism, besides experiments with the diving bell. MADAME TUSSAUD'S. As usual on a great holiday, this popular place of recrea tion attracted a crowd of visitors, especially in the evening. Although upwards of half a century has elapsed since the exhibition was first opened, it is still as great a favourite with the public as ever, and being wholly unique in its kind it remains without a rival. Of late many new figures of dis tinguished and historical personages have been added to the collection which greatly enhance its interest. Among these are all the principal members of the Royal family, in appro priate groups, the late King of Denmark, and other Royal personages; while Presidents Lincoln and Davis, Messrs. Slidell and Mason, Count Cavour, Garibaldi, and Cardinal Antonelli are conspicuous among the political and histori cal celebrities. The part of the exhibition familiarly known as the Chamber of Horrors is now designated in the pro • gramme as the Chamber of Physiognomy; and there, among the latter additions, is to be found a figure of the murderer Townley, THE EGYPTIAN HALL. Here there was a morning exhibition of the magnificent moving panorama, illustrative of the tour of the Prince of Wales in the Holy Land, Turkey, and Egypt, comprising 17 pictures painted by Telbin, with a lecture by Mr. Arthur Matthison, and at intervals a musical accompaniment by Miss Fosbroke. The exhibition, which is one of great inte rest, was repeated in the evening. THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY HALLS. The Oxford and Canterbury are not, like the gentlemen of the Oxford and Cambridge, in competition, and we can at Easter time also put them under one head, both doing their best, although not in rivalry, to gain the suffrages of the public. We have very recently had occasion to speak most favourably of the way in which the grand selection y from "Faust" has been presented at the former establish. meat, and if we may judge from the a pp lause bestowed upon the performance last n i g ht, the audience f ully ratified morethe good the opinion select io n i to whichs Bung the we morelatel gave expression. The smoothly do the choruses go, whilst familiarity with the great solo airs for Faust, Mephistopheles, and Marguerite adds veay much to the force and finish with which the morecaux are rendered. Miss Russell, who has had many roles to play during the period she has been the dist'etguished puma donna of both p h : 6 a s ff e o l ci r d o end b fo e r e n t h b e e t t d e i r s r suited with t e Ox music,f or d a o n r d h C a d a n na t e o r r b e u r s y c , o her undoubted musical talents, The choruses reel off without hitch, and when the full vocal and instrumental strength of the company is called into requisition the effect upon the ear is equal to that produced by some of the fincat representations of the opera itself we have yet had in this country. Still, speaking of the Oxford, hero it is that Unsworth revels in those irresistible sallies of mock-oratory that have quite removed his name from the category of the mere Nigger Entertainer. In his way, Unsworth is a teacher, who contrives, under the rough exterior of a stump crater, invested with all dae absurdities of costume, and descending to every extravagance of gesture, to preach an amount of home-spun pbilosopb99 and scatter an amount of good advice, seasoned with 'venter and even denunciation against shams of every kiad, that may often be looked for in vain from speakers who take ethics under their especial care, and are more free in the distribution of the pains and penalties which attach to error. Here, too, Eugene, by the beauty of his soprano voice, and the splendid apeing of the female niannenleaves half his audience in doubt as to his sex. Maclagan ( I c llo3 B " Bittar Bee -b.ar" song ought still further to sprcad the fame of Bass throughout the world), W. Randall, Jester, and little Nelly Power bring up the rear of an amount of comic talent seldom equalled, even under Mr. Morton's management, Of the Canterbaryliall we have also recently had to speak in terms of especial pra ise in a notice of the brilliant Ghost illusion, called "Prince Blossom ; or, the Fairies of the Magic Fountain and the Forest of Shadows," Its present representation more thanleonfirms the judgment we then passed, namely, that it is the most extraordinary and powerful representation to which the invention first produced at the Polytechnic has given rise. It certainly eclipses everything that has preceded it in the way of ecea i e e ff e ct, whilst the beautiful illvision of "Faroe pate- i), r EIVS PAPER 544 :4;-‘ :4 7-4 7 s A 1 I