The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-12 00:00:00

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The PRINCESS'S THEATRE closed its season, which
has lasted without intermission for eleven months,
on Wednesday last.
The season at the OLYMPIC came to a close last
(Friday) evening. Robson has been engaged by the
manager of the Dublin theatre, with whom he opens
on Monday next.

WHITTINGTON CLUB.—On Thursday evening an
entertainment, entitled "London Lodgings and
Lodgers," was given at the above club in Artmch 1-
street, Strand. The performances consisted of an
amusing lecture, by Mr. Edward Copping, upon the
miseries incidental to London lodgings, accompanied
by various laughable illustrations of lodgers and
landladies. The four imitations given of well-known
actors of the day were among the hits of the evening.
As the performance will probably be repeated we
suggest a little abbreviation in the comic songs, which,
with the one exception of "Fond Mothers," appeared
tedious ; and there should be a decided curtailment
of the "Farmhouse Misery." Mr. Copping, however
possesses great power of mimicry, and an astonishing
range of voice, and, with a little more practice, will be
able to make his entertainment highly acceptable to
the public.

THE NIGER-CHADDA EXPEDITION appears to be
unfortunate. The death of its experienced leader,
Captain Becroft has been already announced; and
we are now informed that the young Prussian
ethnologist, Dr. Bleek, who, through the influence of
the Chevalier Bunsen, was sent out to join the
Pleiad, has been invalided home in the same vessel
in which he started from Plymouth a few months
ago. Dr. Balkie, R.N. is now the leader, and Com-
mander Miller, of Her Majesty's ship Crane, has
permitted his second master, Mr. May, to assist in
the navigation up the river.

SATURDAY,

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THE NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENT has granted a sum
of 20,000 spd. for the purchase of an agricultural
scientific farming estate ; 30,000 spd. for buildings on
the same ; and 3,000 spd. yearly for travelling agri-
cultural teachers.

THE CHEVALIER ADRIANO DE REVEL, well known
in London society as the secretary and charge
d'affaires of Sardinia for several years, has died in
Turin of cholera. At the period of the diplomatic
rupture between Austria and Sardinia, in reference
to the Lombard sequestrations question, Chevalier
de Revel represented the latter Government at the
Imperial Court of Vienna, and since his withdrawal
from thence he resided in a private capacity at Turin,
Chevalier de Revel held strong constitutional opin ons,
and was a man of considerable talent and of mild
and amiable disposition: his untimely demise has
caused universal regret in Turin. He was only 42
years of age.
SOME time since, some grains of wheat taken
from an old Egyptian sarcophagus at Cairo were
given to a member of the Agricultural Society of
Compiegne, by whom they were sown, and the most
surprising result has occurred. The stems which
have risen from the seed are as large as a reed, the
leaves are rather more than an inch in breadth, and
the ears have each 100 grains of very large size, so
that several of the original seeds have multiplied
2,000-fold. It is thought that the seed dates as far
back as Sesostris, or at least Cleopatra.
THE TELEGRAPH CABLE between the islands of
Corsica and Sardinia was laid down on the 29th ult.,
the Persian having been obliged to anchor two days
in the Bay of Madalena, in consequence of heavy
westerly winds. The success of the enterprise has
acted as a stimulus to the Trieste people, who now
talk of laying down a wire between Dalmatia and
one of the lonian Islands. If this had been
executed as soon as the war broke out, a great part
of the expense of laying the wire might already have
been defrayed by the receipts.
THE RECEIPTS OF THE THEATRES, concerts, and
other places of amusement in Paris, for the month
of July, amounted to 543,453 f. 58c. ; being a
decrease on those of the previous month, of
388,767 f. 72c.
THE PARISIAN DRAMATIC JOURNALS say it is almost
certain that Mlle. Plessy will shortly reappear upon
the boards of the Theatre Francais. This is a
great piece of theatrical news. Mlle. Plessy, whose
performances will be fresh in the recollection of
those who were patrons of the St. James's Theatre
some ten years ago, was, after the death of Mlle.
Mars, without a rival in the highest walk of comedy,
and the void created on the French stage when the
Emperor of Russia beguiled her away has never
been filled up.

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