The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

SURREY.

The dramatic season proper commenced yesterday
at the Sum with The Bird in the Hand," a play which
had had a great success in the pees IOWI sauce. Mr. Shep-
herd on this odeasion sustained his original character with
improved effect ; but Mr. Cr...trickle place was filled by Mr
Basil Potter, who showed himself • promising pupil in the;
pereladar school of acting. Two entirely new faces, Mr.
and Miss Eburne, also made their appearance in the parts
of the disinherited prodigal end his wife, and received no
favourable a reception as to lead to the belief that they will
before long become established favourites with the Surrey
audience. Miss Chalmers, an importation from Dublin,
played the principal female part in the ploy, and also
had • ratisfectory reception. The novelty of the evening
was a burlesque on the Tratiato, written in the broadest
style of trenspontine exaggeration, and transferring the
scene to Piccadilly and Cremorne. When we soy that the
oonstunptive heroine was penonated by Mr. Widdicomb,
the reader will most probably geese the rest—tremendous
Crinoline, excruciating paroxysms of coughing, varied by an
occasional sneeze—a new reading, and introduced with great
effect—end the well-known drinking song, given in a style
which Piccolomini might in vain attempt to equal. There
was a good deal of laughing at parts of the burlesque, but
whether it was that the audience were not familiar with the
original, or that their eensibilitiee were wounded by seeing
it thus turned into ridicule, the piece hung fire on the whole,
and is not likely to have a very long run. The Christy
Minstrels performed twice during the evening, and were, as
usual, loudly and deservedly applauded.

GEOLL COLLEGE, VALE OP MUTH.

The council of this college, which is about to be in-
corporated es the Western University of Great Britain, have
at length elected their staff of profenes: and et.a about to

commence gyrations in the coulee of Octnber. The professor
of mathematics is Mr. Arthur Cayley, F.R.S., and barrieter-
et-law, late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge,
and moderator and examiner in that university. Ile was
senior wrangler and Smith's prixeman in 1812, and is the
author of several able papers in the "Philosophical Trans-
, actions." The chair of mechanic, they have conferred en
the Rev. C. B. Wolleeton, of Exeter College, Oxford,
'ricer of Felpham, Sure., and diyesen inspector of schools;
and that el physics on the Rov. A. Bath Power, one of
the honorary examiners of the Society of Arts, and
formerly superintendent of electric telegraphs on the
Norfolk railway.. Professor Rodger., well known as a lec-
turer at the school of medicine adjoining St. George's Iles-
ping, London. is to Ice professor of chemistry, while the
chair of natural history will be filled by Dr. Spencer Cob-
hold, lecturer on botany at St. Mary'. Roepita4 Padding-
ton; that of human history by the Rev. A. %Vitro's, late
senior tutor of Leamington College ; and that of design by
Mr. E. if. Dchnert, member of the New Society of Painter.
in Water Colour,. The professore will be assisted by reel-
dent tutor e and lecturer.. The object of the institution, to
mythe words of their prospectus, is "tn complete the edu-
cation of the eon. of gentlemen above 16 years of age, in
the practical epplication of science to the management of
land, numufactuna, and commerce, to the public Pe/Si/VS,
the liberal profiesiona, and other pursuits.' The education
at Gaell will be of an =sectarian chancier.