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

STRAND.

17vnwre the management of Mr. Al!croft a new season
has commenced at this theatre. Monday was the
first night of performance. The pieces produced
belong to the light vaudeville class, with sprinklings
of music in the form of introduced songs. Miss
Isaacs is chiefly entrusted with these, and sings
then► with much piquancy. A new burlesque, by
which Hanact suffers severely, is played nightly.
The house was once famous for its travesties, and
this last specimen appears to be quite as good—that
is to say as had—as its predecessors. On the whole
the new management has opened the campaign with
spirit.

Miss Rainforth gave the second of her Scottish
entertainments on Thursday evening at the Whit-
tington Club, and was received with discriminating
applause by a crowded and attentive audience. Sir
Walter Scott's " Marmion" was selected for the night's
reading.
Mu.Aven's bust( TOURISTS' ENvvirrvismENT, at
the Hanover-square lbsuns, deserves favourable
mention. The scenery is effectively painted, and
conveys to the audience a lifelike idea of the locali-
ties it is intended to represent. The sketches of
I►ish life and manners are cleverly &Weld. Miss
llleadon sings the songs announced in the programme
in a ladylike style, and with an archness free from
affectation ; but the room is so low that the effect is
marred by the necessary reverberation of her voice.
We can fairly recommend this exhibition to our
readers in search of an evening's amusement.

THE DISCOVERY ny AxoritEn NEW PLANET IS an-
nounced by Mr. Hind. It is rather/brighter than
stars of the ninth magnitiul. " This planet," says
Mr. Hind, "is the ninth which I have discovered
sinee the eommencement of a systematic search in
114441, and raises the number of that extraordinary
group of worlds between Mars and Jupiter to twenty-
seven."

Tilt: Nisei.: or Tarsstv, who has lwen , sine° 1M22, the
protector of all the mattetlie Isoslgo..os of the kingdom, has,
with the authorisation of the King. received his ion Fre-
derick WillitlM as freemason and member of the National
Lodge oft iennany.

The committee appoints•d by the +salmon•fiAiing pro•
prietora of the Toy, fur promoting what is termed the a►li•
hem' propagation of salmon. have already begin* operations.
The spawning 'poxes and pond Lane bvtai commenced.

THE PRESS.

lottign (Art, iteraturt, &e.

A Now BALLET, in which Rosati is to make her
debut for the season, will be produced at the Paris
Opera next week. It is entitled Jorita.
THE Cri.rmt %TEO 30%1341 Brun:, has died
lately in Frankfort, aged seventy seven. The de-
ceased was one of the most distinguished Tabun 41 is ts
of the age, and enjoyed a great repaid' in tier•
many and Poland. From all countries questions
relative to the Talmud were sent to hint and resolved
with nitwit perspieuity.
CEitviNts* famous work, the .6 Introdnetion to the
History of the Seventeenth Century," was seized
at Koningsburg on the :tril inst. The booksellers in
whose shops it was found were afterwards swatmoneil
before the civic court on charges of having dissemi-
nated a work calculated to excite hatred and con-
tempt of the Government. Atter a long trial, the
tribunal dismissed the case on the ground that the
book contained nothing contrary to the law of
Pnvisia.

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THE l►tt-\MATIC SCHOOL rollllded in tinistiania in
I$M) by the Norwegian violinist, t►le Bull, contains
at present sixty-three pupils, of both sexes, of whom
seventeen receive instruction in vocal and instru-
mental musk at the expense of the State. The
pupils gave their first representation on the •14th of
October, when two of M. Scribes vaudevilles were
performed before an audience which crowded the
little theatre belonging to the establishment. The
performance was considered highly relicetable, mutt
some of the pupils are said to have evinced Very COW
siderable dnunatie talent.

Non►: ANCIENT t'o►\S were lately discovered near
Prague. at II depth of twelve feet underground.
They are of silver, dated 91:1, and coined by the
Duke Vratislas, the first Christian Sovereign of
Bohemia, and father of St. Weneesles. These are
the most ancient Bohemian coins known. They
bear on the obverse an open hand, with the legend,
" I►esters MO on the revers.. the letter V,
with the date in Roman numerals. The owner of
the estate on which tiny were found has presented
the coins to the Royal Museum of Medals, ,te., at
Prague.
TH►: Elk:craw TE►.EUl.%rtt Win►:s were ISM down
across the Rhine at Worms on the :tlst nit. Three
separate wires were joined into an eleetrie cable of
11,11410 feet in length, and safely deposited aeross the
bed of the river.

BY A LAW passed in 1t4:17, the Prussian managers
are prohibited from performing any dramas hitherto
enacted without the eonsent of the authors. A new
edict is now preparing by which this prohibition is
oxbanded to anted leapt, anti a oopyright secured to
the authors or their representatives for a period of
ten years from the date of the first produetion.
RECENTLY there existed in the heart of Paris, not
far from the Boulevard St. Martin, and bounded on
one side by the Rue du Chateau d'Eau, a vast area
covered with a chaos of squalid habitations, inter-
sected by blind alleys and traversed by open and
fetid gutters. To this region, which was densely
populated by more than six hundred of the lowest
class of tenants, disease and vice seem to have laid
constant siege, and the attentions of the police
authorities as well as of the guardians of the publie
health were constantly in demand on its behalf.
This district has now been cleared of houses, and
belongs to a new association called " la Siwiele
l'Epargne immobiliere," or Savings. Estate Society,
whose founders propose to raise, by the investment
of small savings, a capital of :1,600,00i1r., in shares or
" fractions" of live francs each. With this sum they
are proceeding to erect upon the area in question u
series of well-built houses, constructed upon the
best principles, with wide streets, a good system of
drainage, and a market-plaip, &v. The houses are
intended to be of n superior class, lint the whole will
form a real workman's estate, offering the 1114 t
security and a lucrative investment for the small
sums which are now so constantly invested at a risk
or squandered in dissip,ltiou by the merriers in the
absence of any means if turning them to pnititable
acre amt.

Tut: VotA-ANo Koz ‘nr.r‘t r, in the Crimea,
which hum been %Helot for nearly horty yearm, broke oat
into violent eruption in the eourse of Septenther last.

Immense torrents of IMO, were thrown out, &rerun-
panied by subterranean thunder and (thanes of smoke
inn! Hattie for several hours in sueeelisii in. Nearly
the whole ilistriet around the base of the voles's()

was o►•erwhelmed, and gnat destruction of houses,
crops, and property ensued. No li►es are said to
ha►•e been lost.
Tim PncssiAss are using glass as a material for
public monuments. A column, consisting entirely of
;lass, placed on a pedestal of Carrara marble, and
surmounted by a statue of Peace, six feet high, by
the celebrated sculptor I:aiteli, is about to be erected
in the garden of the palace at Potsdam. The shaft
will be ornamented with spiral lines of blue and
white.

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TIIE CULTIVATION 1W THE TRUFFLE, so lons
tleelllCa 811 agrieultural impossibility, has at length
been aceomplisheil. The discovery was made at
Macon, where Madame Nagel, proprietress of a
elt:iteett in the neighbourhood, has this autumn sue-
eeeiled in pnidueing a large number of truffles grown
in her garter. All the conditions under which the
cultivation of this product must be prosecuted are
known, and nothing more is ristuired than to improve
and perfect them by experiment. The Macon
Horticultural Ammo! says :—'• Like other crypt°.
Ramie plants of the same tinnily, truffles are parasites,
requiring hosisi of a special elituucter. For example,
sitte-tnittun of chesnut or oak leaves, with an
argilo calcareous soil, is just as neeessary to them as
the bed of horsledung to the common inugheowni.
We are satisfied that, it this new branch of culture
were set.' ly studied, the prodnetion of the true.'
would be as easy and protitahle as that of the most
ordinary vegetables."
MADAME SoNTAo Wet with an accident at Brooklyn
On the 14th ult. She WolB returning by the retry,
811t1, on reselling the landingplace, miscalculated the
distance when stepping out of the heat, and fell be-
tween the vessel and the pier. A hystiuider jumped
into the water and rescued her, but Abstain'. Sontag
sustained some serious 'bruises. She appeared,
nevertheless, at a concert given tour days afterwards
at Niblies, for the benefit of the Seamen's Orphan
Society of New York.
llustor.scr. eoorre, the novelist, at
Albany, recently convened into an hotel, was burned
down by the act of an incendiary on the I.lst
, •
r.NOl.lsll REKIIIENTS iu Paris are about to
open it subscription for the purpose of contributing
to the Itellot testimonial.

_ .......
A ScIENTIFIC (!) AMERICAN WRITER 1'1.•1 recently
undertaken to show that the moon has no influence
over the tides. '.l•he results of the deep-ocean
soundings, by the naval bri!, Win from the United
States to the Azores, in a deed line from New York,
and thence to England, give, lie states, some plausi-
bility to his eollallsioom. Ms theory is that, esthete
are ranges of mountains on the door of theorem our-
respondinz with those on the outward surface of the
all of which have been operated upon by
hidden tires, main' , and other material convul-
sions, by means of which they have been perforated
by vast raven's, extending towards the centre of the
earth, we ran discover, in those huge abysses of the
oceanic globe, sources for the rise anti fan of the
tides. lie contends that through these internal
raven's the waters of the ocean are regularly flowing,
MS the earth regularly revolves; and that neither the
moon, stars, sun, wind, nor clouds produce any effect
whatever.

Thy. 11•01.1,411 JESUIT, Father Bohol*, who was
fmulyrised in May, 1657, by the Russians, was
val114)11111:4.41 at on the 30th nit. ile is the thirst
.lesuit canonised in the course of this year.
Tiff: different societies of artists, musiciinis, and
traders of Alunich gave a 'insister birchlight sere-
mule to king Louis of Bavaria on the :29th ult. in
honour of his Slajesty, as founder of the l'inakodirk.
Tut: CF:itEmosv of uncovering the monumental
statue of Copernicus took place on the 2,1111 ult. at
Thorn.

A .11:10 !-A11.13,1 PLoblroilf, and otht.r articles front the
lloly hoot, limo snivel! at Roston for the' Crystal

1.1.1t:%'s (.41N4 ETIT at New York took
place on the evening of the 21st of October. This
concert, although his forty ninth consecutive one,
M 11.4 C111%11441 141 overflowing.
Mu. SWIFT, the tenor singer at San Caritas, in
Lislssis, is lunch admired by the Ps srt ;wisest. dilettanti.
THE Airs'i RIAN I ito% EltNkl ENT 1111$ efillehliled a treaty
With that of Sardinia for the reciprocal transmission
of telegraphic despatches.
A t 1 n. Ito ilvilliSus is maintaining in New York
the col ire praetieubilify of constructing an alma
spheric tube from that city to Boston (2110 wiles ),
through whirls mail hags of any description stay be
regularly and safely sent in fifteen minutes. A con-
siderable part of the money required for building
his snail tithe has already been subscribed by Ameri-
can capitalists.
Tim hums or Daewoo( lately visited the atelier
4,1' tiimmaseti, to inspect the progress 44 the last pic-
ture he artier. '41f0r3.4 MOO rltd.s, a noble painting of
the battle of I hied. Ilia Majesty, who entered info
familiar c MVersation with the artist, found the battle-
piece nearly ready.
Al. Plod :mos, whose hook entitled " l.a Propriete,
c'est 11, %ol," Attained sit 111111'11 Illtiortety, it. MIHAIL to
produce a new work, to ItO called "IA Philosophic du
Progres," and whirls lots reference to France in hrr
present state as conspared with what she was before
1041 N. _ _

Titr. Anenniviiur 1•1, CANT/11111'1:Y has conferred
upon James Peel', E 411., and vealipch.er to
the Countess lil Inuey, the degree of Doctor in
NflisiC.
CATHERINE HAVES 11114 been very toteeemful on tile
Paeitie shore, and it its stated that she ham iient bum.
ro,ono Julian fur the purchasv of an onstati.

MLLE. Soren CRUVELLt on Saturday last signed
an engagement with the Paris Opera for two years,
at a salary of 4,000/. sterling a year. She is to choose
her own parts, to play only twice a week, and to have
four months' vaeation in each year. In ease she
should be called upon totting three times a week, the
extra night is to be paid *lOl. A separate engage-
ment is entered into for two months of the lady's va-
cation during the Universal Exhibition of 1555, at the
rate of 1,000/. per month, so that the salary for the
second year will, in fact, be 11,1M1411.
MADAME PPFIEYER, the celebrated traveller, ar-
rived at San Francisco on the ?Nth September.

THE SoctErt or Aers.—The council of this so
eiety has just issued its premium list for the )tenth
senxion. The list of mubjects now put forth, in all
135 (exclusive of the Swiney Prizes of 200/. f, demon-
ideates to a considerable extent the objects which the
e have most at heart to promote, and the int
portance of which increases with the increasing
commerce of the country. In the journal of the
society several important communications have lately
appeared relative to the raw produce of India, New
Zealand, anti the Cape of Good Hope ; anti the pre-
sent list contains several premiums which have direct
reference to those countries. lint in the class Of raw
produce the council ask for eommunications on " the
existing means of crushing anti dressing herd rocks
containing metalliferous ores ; an account of the ma-
nufacture of tin, anti of reeent discoveries of new
sources of supply." There are also premiums offered
for the importation of dried fruits, such as the plan-
tain and banana, from the British possessions ; of
wines, dried fruits, anti olive oil, front Australia,
small and good samples of which have already been
received by the society. For the manufacture of oil
and other substances from the refuse cotton seed.
For improvements in the dyes of woollen cloths,
whereby the colours may be rendered twortanent until
capable of resisting the action of acids ; anti for an
essay on the flax plants of India, the purposes to
which they are at present applied, anti the best
means of utilising and employing the refuse. At a
time when so much attention is being devoted to the
calvary+ of flax it appears somewhat surprising that so
small a portion of the immense emits of this grown
in India are made available fey etaameree, blue
being done beyond the export to this country of the
linseed obtained therefrom, the fibre being allowed to
rot on the ground. There are several premiums
having reference to the manufaentre of paper, and
this section of the list is closed with the following in-
teresting and novel subject :—Four the best rteemmt
of the mode in which sire from seaweed is pre.
pared and used by the Chinese. The next divi-
sions in the list are tie iSe 4' maeltinery, mamifiletures,
including textile, metallie, vitreous, eerimie, anti
miscellaneous, and the fine arts ; front which it ap-
pears that the council are still following out the sub-
division adopted at the Great Exhibition.
A Nest:leers MEErtxtt of the seitottifie and literary
gentlemen of liverril, enlivened by the Illtlynt% was
held on Saturday m the Contwil.ehamber, for the
purpose of devising the means of giving a suitable
reception to the British Association. Ilt-sohniena
were passed and committees appointed to carry out
the objects of the meeting. From the respectability
and unanimity of the meeting them is little dente,
that the members of the association will, on their
visit in September, ISSI, receive a hearty and hos-
pitable welcome firm the inhabitants of s, the great-
est seaport in the world."
Tut: Forst) %ries nom of the monument about
to 110 erected to the memory of Or. nth', Mussel_
burgh (" Delta"), was laid on Tuesday, on the site at
the end of Bridge street in that town.
THE ()m's Or llt.sreit 10mo-sr-Arts% has been
conferred MI the distinguished genealogist, topo-
grapher, mid antiquarian, .lohn Bernard Burke,
Esq. The salary is 74)5. per aremm.
Tutu: 4. toy-met:mm.lr has just sanctioned the appoint-
ment of n second assistant-astro 1111 l ner at the Royal
Observatory, Calton hill, to enable the increasing
amount of duty at this establishment to be effeetnally
performed. They have likewise given a small grant
of money to enable some neeessary improvements to
he mule on the existing astrommieal instrument.
The At of the new sueeessful drama of
The Lane, rs ; or, the Geottentao's Mot, which has
recently been produced at the Princess's Theatre, is
Captain Erieester A'ernen, M.P. for Chatham.
Ati Esti; Asscsitt.v of At'atlCllllCiallS was held
on Monthly at the 'Royal Atoulemy of Arts, Trafalgar-
Fqeare, when Mr. Nlillais was duly elected an asso-
ciate of that institution.
Tue. CouirErtso MooEt.s for the Wellineton
nun-
nument at Manchester were examined by the judges
appointed for the purpose yesterday week. Their
choice fell upon one by Mr. Mat thew Noble, of London.
The aim of the artist in this design has been to re-
present the duke in his civil as well as his military
capacity. 'The committee are to pay ;Moo/. to tt e
anceessful competitor, which
is t.O oleos PAW'S cx-
pence connected with the erection of the qatute in
Volta., the pedestal, &-c.