The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

tortign Xitang an Artistic fassip.

THE NEW OPERA of the reigning Duke of Saxe
Coburg, which its royal author has entitled Tony,
will be performed on September 15th at Hanover, and
on September 21st at Munich and at the Court Theatre
of Berlin.

THE Da.turric EVENT of the week has been the se-
cession of Mme. Ugalde from the Opera Comique to
the Varietes. It is stated that Mme. Ugalde, who
received from the director of the Opera Comique the
net yearly sum of 30,000 f., wanted to establish be-
tween her and her young ival, Mlle. Caroline
Duprez, a difference of pay which should mark the
difference of position. She required a salary of
40,000 f. The impresario, M. Perrin, resisted ; she
insisted ; and the result was that she left the Opera
Comique for the Varietis, and exchanged the queens
of the opera for the soubrettes of vaudeville. Stige
made her first dAbut in the Trois Sundaes, the chief
work of Favart, written by him for his wife. The
attempt has been completely successful, and we shall
have a second edition of the case of poor Jenny
Colon, who, after having for several years held the
sceptre of song at the Opera Comique, became for
many more the most charming and admired actress
of vaudeville.

THE THEATRES are decidedly in the praiseworthy vein
to reproduce on the stage the masterpieces of the old
ripertuire. After the Chercheuse d'Esprit, the 7'rois
Su'tams, &c., we had, at the Opera eomique, Se
value's Deserteur, a piece of which three quarters of
a century have not exhausted the success. We ap-
prove the tendency, as a good old piece will always
he preferable to a bad new one.
THE ART ExmarrioN will open at Marseilles on
September lat.
VIEUXTEMPS, the clever Belgian violinist, is at present
engaged in a series f concerts at Hamburg. His
first concert was a complete success, and he was ad-
mirably seconded by Mlle. Anna Bocholtz-Falconni,
first cantatrice of the Court Theatre at Coburg.
THE KING 4/1, PRUSSIA has conceded the well-
merited decoration of the Red Eagle of the 2nd
class to M. Schomburgh, British Consul at St. Do-
mingo, who is pursuing there his geological studies,
and his scientific correspondence with his celebrated
friend Humboldt.

THE MOST CURIOUS PART OF THE FESTIVITY 110 W
organiming in Belgium for the marriage of the young
Prince Royal will be the cavalcades. In Bniistel4
some fifty chariots, the plasm of which have been

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furnished by the most eminent Belgian artists,
represent the different guilds engaged in their
avocations, all in their historical costumes
middle age, from which the custom of the pageantry
is renewed, and several symbolic ideas, such as Bel-
gium, Brussels, the Constitution, the Harmony, Le.
At Bruges and übent the show will be more curious
still: the cavalcades, or onevgange, will represent
the departure of Baldwin of Constantinle for the
Holy Land; the return of the guilds atter having
gloriously defeated the dower of French chivalry at
Courtray; Artevelde and his retinue, ,tc.
sums are to be expended for the purpose, mo": 14
furnished by voluntary subscriptions, each branch of
industry supporting the expenses of its special
chariot. The Royal Family will visit each town in
turn .

THE CONORKOATION OF THS INDEX AT Boss has
prohibited the reading of the book " Hippolytus and
his Age ; or the Doctrine and Practice of the Church
of Rome under Commoclus and Severna," &c., by
Chev. Ch. Josiaa Bunsen, 4 vols., London, 1852.

Tee LATE EXHIBITION OF THE ACADEMIE DEN ARTS
IN PAR I ri. —lt has Wen observed with satisfaction
in Paris that the Emperor hag deputed Prince Jo
rome Napoleon to preside at the distribution of
prizes concluding the Art Exhibition of this year.
The speech of tho Prince has been characterised by
a passage presaging the intention of the present
French Government to give art every sort of assist.
ance and countenance. On the 2nd inst. the Em-
peror gave a magnificent dinner at St. Cloud, where,
besides the Prince and the principal dignitaries eon.
nected with the exhibition, all the artists who re-
ceived the Legion of Honour on that occasion had
been invited.

SCIENCE ANTI ART IN .I.tvi.—The Dutch Govern-
ment have of late paid great attention to the mineral
riches of their Indian possessions, and the engineer,
M. Schroder, has explored the north of the island of
Macassar with the view of finding coal. Several
strata of this mineral have been already found, but
not of sufficiently good quality. The next research
will extend to the island of Batjan, where gold and cop.
per, as well as coal, are said to exist—ln the month
of September a public exhibition of the industrial
and agricultural products of Java will take place at
Batavia. The Musical Society of the latter plats
publishes (in the Java Gazette) an appeal to
amateurs for their co operation in the concerts which
are to take place at the same time. A French
theatre also exists at Batavia, where operas are per-
formed.

VACA NC I ES.
The Rectory of Auckland, with the Rectory of Forfarth sod
the Rectory of Mardenwell, near Louth, Lincolnshire, by the
death of the Rev. Charles Fleetwood Weston, M.A. The united
benefices are worth about S&U. pee annum, and are in the gift of
the Earl of Yarborough.
The Rectory of Motnerby, near adalitford-bridge, by the death
of Mr. Weston; worth 1501. a year; in the gift of the Lord
Chancellor.
The Vicarage of Thiutted, near Challastord, by the death of
the Rev. Thome+, Jee, M.A.; worth 5001. a year, In the gift of
Viscount Maynard.
Ily the death of the Rev. •lohn Oliver lie&ns, which took
place after a short illness on Monday haat. the toeumbsacy of fit.
Mary's, Shrewabury, and the rural deanery of fildep, are rendered
vacant. The incumbency Is of the annual value of 11121., and is
in the gift of the corporation of Miirewabuq.
Tli.. Head Mastership of Wilton Onsionsar Wog. Cbsskire,
11414 heetillie vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Charles Hand,
M.A. The appointment is the gift of the trustees.
The Incumbency of ML Mary a Church, Kirkdabs, Linesehite.
has become vacant by the resignation of the Rev. David Jsass,
M.A.; worth 1501. a year ; in the gift of the trustees.
The Perpetual Ctu acy of Mt. Nicholas, Ipswich, by the death
of the Rev. M. 0. Edgar, M.A. ; worth about 9001. a Olt; in
the gift of the parishioners.

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