The Press.
London, England, 1854-06-03 00:00:00

fortign art, Xittraturt, Ikr.

" THE STORK BIRDS " is the name of a collection
of vigorous chansons which have just appeared in
Stockholm. One of them is entitled " Sir Charles
Napier ;" it is full of energy.
A MAGNIFICENT VILLA OF MARBLE erected in the
Park, Stockholm, at an immense expense, by the
late Swedish sculptor Byrstom, on his return from
Italy, has been purchased by another Swedish
sculptor, Professor Molin, who has removed from
Rome. This purchase is in connection with a large
and liberal plan. Professor Molin intends to pro-
cure casts of all the great, works of art in every part
of Europe, group and arrange them in the marble
halls of the villa, and throw the whole open as a
great museum of sculpture for a very trifling sum.
This will be a great triumph and gain for Stock-
holm.

THE recent death of Senor Cocina, a deputy, and
proprietor of the Madrid journal Oriente, has caused
that paper to stop after barely a year's existence,
during which it cost its proprietor upwards of 15,000
dollars.
THE great work of draining the Lake of Haarlem,
recently completed, after many years' efforts, has
thrown into cultivation land of the very richest
quality. Large tracts have already been cultivated,
with the most satisfactory results. On the 18th and
10th ult. the sixth sale of these recovered lands took
place at Amsterdam, and large sums were realised.
The total produce from the sales of the reclaimed lands
hitherto made exceeds 4,000,000 florins, or 400,0(X)/.
sterling. _ _

A FURTHER section of the Great Western of France
Railway was opened on Sunday last with much pa-
rade. This extension comprises sixty-two miles of
line, between Nogent-le-Rotron and Mane, to which
latter place a railway communication is now complete
from Paris. The inauguration of the line was cele-
brated in Mans with a benediction from the bishop
of the city, with speeches from M. Dubois, Minister of
Public Works, sundry local authorities, and Mr.
Scholefield, for Birmingham, one of the di.
rectors of the company, and with a banquet and ball
in the evening. The tete lasted three days, including
fireworks, illuminations, balls, concerts, horticultural
shows, fine arts exhibitions, theatrical performances,
ckc. The great feature was, however, a grand histo-
rical cavalcade, representing the entry of Charles 111
of Anjou, Count of Maine, into Mans in 1471.
THE number of newspapers and periodicals pub-
lished at Berlin at present is 103. Of the political
journals 45,451) copies are struck off, and 21,282 of
them are subscribed for at Berlin. There is one
journal for every nineteen of the population.
THE EGYPTIAN RAILROAD is in good workingorder,
and answers exceedingly well. The trains do not run
on it at present at any stated periods. The speed is
about twenty miles an hour. The railway will soon

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be open for the whole distance between Alexandria
and Cairo.
THE telegraph lines proposed by the Norwegian
Government are as follows : 1. From Christiania to
the Swedish border. 2. From Christiania along
he coast to Stavanger. 8. From Stavanger to Bergen.
4 and 5. From Christiania, over Oudbrandsdale, to
fronyem and the Bomsdale towns. 8. From Chris-
tiania, over Kongsvinger, to the Swedish border
towards Carlstad. 7. From Christiania overland to
Bergen. 8. From Tronyem, through StiirJalo and
Vterdale, to the Swedish border towards Jemtland.
PROFESSOR WAAGEN, the director of the picture
gallery at the Royal Museum in Hamburg, will shortly
leave for London, at the invitation of Prince Albert.
His stay is likely to be a lengthy one.
IT is reported that the furniture and all the im
perial recollections in the Napoleonian mansion of
Atrenenberg (Thurgovie) have been lately transferred
to Paris.
A SWEDISH OFFICER in Stockholm, who some years
ago took a drawing of the fort of Sveaborg, demands
for it not less than 4,0001. sterling.
THE owner of the Itigi Kulm Hotel, M. Burgi, is
said to contemplate the establishment, at his own
expense, of a telegraphic apparatus from his hotel to
Arth. This place is equally distant from Schwytz
and Lucerne, and would thus be put into electric
communication with the latter city.
M. THEILER, the Swiss inventor of the printing tele-
graph, has received in Paris a patent and 2,000/. from
M. Froment, the well-known improver of telegraphs.
SOME very ingeniously-designed wire apparatus for
training climbing plants to elegant shapes has just
been imported from France, and is intended for exhi-
bition in the Sydenhani Crystal Palace.
A SUMMARY of the conditions upon which the Paris
Industrial Exhibition will be conducted has been
issued by the Department of Science and Art, Marl-
borough-house. The exhibition will open on the Ist
May, 1855. The French commission will only com-
municate with exhibitors from foreign countries
through the commission appointed by each country
for that purpose. No articles will be admitted from
foreign countries except with the sanction of such
foreign commission. Every article produced or
obtained by human industry, whether of raw material,
machinery, manufactures, or fine arts, is admissible,
except :—Living animals and plants; substances
liable to become putrid from keeping ; detonating and
other dangerous substances ; articles of extravagant
size. All goods must reach Paris between the 15th
January and 15th March, 1855, which period may, in
a few exceptional cases, be extended to the 15th of
April.
M. ST. MARC GIRARDIN in the Dibats recommends
that a scientific and archaeological commission should
be attached to the French army in the East, similar
to the one which accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt.