The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

Dtama.

DRUM' LANE THEATRE. -- Mr. ltnioke essayed a
new character on Monday night, in a ti‘c-act play
called The liethruthal. The play itself is beneath
being 4.111 an American imitation, and
therefore an exavueration. of some of the most
glaring limbs of the Elizabethlui dramatists. But
it affords Mr. Brooke an opportunity to display the
power he elm wield iaer the merely physical attri-
butes of an actor, in the part of Marne. a miser, in
whom the passion of avarice is combated by that of
jealousy. The play has not been repeated.
Otsmetc THEATRE.—Mr. Farren terminated his
management of this theatre by a farewell benefit on
Thursday. when he played Lord Ogleby 111 The Clan-
destine Marriage.

sortiqn art, Vittraturt, &t.

(leo timitc Lereakri-ar..—The French Minister
of Public instruction has addressed a letter to Dr.
Firmenich. of Berlin, thanking him for his zeal and
exertion in the research of old French dialects and
literature. Dr. Firmenich had formed a project to
collect and publish a " Recueil general des l'as'sies
claims de la France.- This work has now. by the
t•olicitude of the French t;overnment. been entrusted
to a eollllllission, at whose head Messrs. Ampere,
Magnin, and P. Paris. The work promises to be
very extensive, as lately a collection of French songs
has heen uttered to the cotumission comprising as
many as Imo volumes.
PRoTESTANTISNI 1:114,41A/1 PoLANIL—The King
at Pntssia has presented the Evangelical Reformed
Congregation of Warsaw with a splendid copy of the
Bible. M which the following inscription. in the
King's hand, is recorded :—" Frederic Will.am,
King of Prussia. to the Evangelic Reformed Church
of Warsaw, in .1 lily. 1t453." Besides the fineness of
the edition, the binding is richly ornamented with
various jewels.
Switzettevate—Srly PrPPORTINO POOR-HorsE !'OR
CHILDREN.—The Swiss journals speak with especial
commendation of an establishment at Bof a.sle which is
attached to a large silk manufactory this .
About seventy children are here employed with the
preparatory occupations of this trade. But they are
net, as is the ease in other manufactories, sent home
at night. They are mostly orphans, who are entirely
maintained in the house. Besides the work of the
manufactory. and the usual elementary school roc
tine. they are also instructed in preparing their own
food. making their hells, mending, Sc. A small farm
and orchard are attached to the house, where, by
yural occupati 111 l • the children are kept healthy and
cheerful. Besides all this, the itta.ster puts to the
credit of t very child who behaves well the annual
sum of fifty francs; so, that after their three years of
training, they may leave the establishment with a
small capital of 150 f. The poverty of the humbler
classes in se itzerhuid is often so great that orphans
maintain themselves by collecting potato peels in the
streets. of such also this establishment has been
known to make useful and moral individuals.
(mouse Poen-test. CARICATURE.S.—AN it appears
that the Ametieans are siding with the Chinese
patriot". furnishing them with arms and ammuni-
tion, it may be that the Government of the Emperor
may 'revive some inspirations from the Courts of the
absolutist powers. There were profusely circulated
'tome three or four months since, through most of the
cities of China, hut especially by the criers of the
police ounce of Shanghai, woodcuts npresenting the
Imperial army besieging Nankin and Yang-Tshem-
Fon. both in the occupation of the patriots. Thole
wssslcuts are executed in the usual tinpersTes•tive
minim r of Chinese designs ; and the only fact we
may gather from them is that the imperialists pos-
sess but very few muskets, being mostly armed with
lances and cutlasses. That, in a production corning
from such a source. the Tartar armies are always
represented view:Mug, is easily to be explained.
tiuSSIAN LITERATURE.—Nt.w Won't ON BRETROWN.
It is a well-promising feet that within the last two
years a work on Mozart and Beethoven should have
conic from the pen of a Russian author. That on
Beethoven just published svo,, Leipaie)
is
the production of a rather high personage—States
Councillor M. de Lenz—and it treats of Beethoven
as a composer. as an artist and literary character.
IT. The author. in allusion to the connection which
existed between the great musician and the l'rinees
Lichnowski and I liummowski. is inclined to value very
high the Panslavic element active in the life of the
great composer.
CRYSTAL. PALACE: IM TIWIR ETHIC ANTI EDIVA-
TIONAL BEARINO.—The splendid crystal palace to be
erected in the botanical garden of Munich. mid which
is to be only one-third smaller than that of Loudon
in 1t45 1, will remain standing after having been used
for its temporary purpose. That of Paris, now in a
ilk way of progress for the exhibition of 1t44, will