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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, several hundred feet high, which 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 epresenteof
d,
but no attempt ismade fix the positions
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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 conspicuous 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
theth simlodg-
ulta-
neous operations 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.

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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
military 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.

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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 year 1854 the importations of
tallow 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 the 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
telegraphic stations en the line, while. the latter
the
are,
at the same time, able to couununicate with

trains.
A DIIEL took place in Berlin on the 2nd, be
Baron Patow, member of the Second Chamber,
conse-
awl
Captain Count Schlieffen,
of the Guards in
quence of some expressions which fell' from the
former in a recent debate, expressions which 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.

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