The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

THE EGYPTIAN HALL.

Here there was a morning exhibition of the magnificent
moving panorama, illustrative of the tour of the Prince of
Wales in the Holy Land, Turkey, and Egypt, comprising
17 pictures painted by Telbin, with a lecture by Mr. Arthur
Matthison, and at intervals a musical accompaniment by
Miss Fosbroke. The exhibition, which is one of great inte-
rest, was repeated in the evening.

THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY HALLS.
The Oxford and Canterbury are not, like the gentlemen
of the Oxford and Cambridge, in competition, and we can
at Easter time also put them under one head, both doing
their best, although not in rivalry, to gain the suffrages of
the public. We have very recently had occasion to speak
most favourably of the way in which the grand selection
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Mephistopheles, and Marguerite adds veay much to the
force and finish with which the morecaux are rendered.
Miss Russell, who has had many roles to play during the
period she has been the dist'etguished puma donna of both
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her undoubted musical talents, The choruses reel off
without hitch, and when the full vocal and instrumental
strength of the company is called into requisition the effect
upon the ear is equal to that produced by some of the fincat
representations of the opera itself we have yet had in this
country. Still, speaking of the Oxford, hero it is that
Unsworth revels in those irresistible sallies of mock-oratory
that have quite removed his name from the category of the
mere Nigger Entertainer. In his way, Unsworth is a
teacher, who contrives, under the rough exterior of
a stump crater, invested with all dae absurdities
of costume, and descending to every extravagance of
gesture, to preach an amount of home-spun pbilosopb99
and scatter an amount of good advice, seasoned with 'venter
and even denunciation against shams of every kiad, that
may often be looked for in vain from speakers who take
ethics under their especial care, and are more free in the
distribution of the pains and penalties which attach to
error. Here, too, Eugene, by the beauty of his soprano
voice, and the splendid apeing of the female niannenleaves
half his audience in doubt as to his sex. Maclagan (Icllo3B
" Bittar Bee -b.ar" song ought still further to sprcad the
fame of Bass throughout the world), W. Randall, Jester,
and little Nelly Power bring up the rear of an amount of
comic talent seldom equalled, even under Mr. Morton's
management, Of the Canterbaryliall we have also recently
had to speak in terms of especial praise in a notice of the-
brilliant Ghost illusion, called "Prince Blossom ; or, the
Fairies of the Magic Fountain and the Forest of Shadows,"
Its present representation more thanleonfirms the judgment
we then passed, namely, that it is the most extraordinary
and powerful representation to which the invention first
produced at the Polytechnic has given rise. It certainly
eclipses everything that has preceded it in the way of
eceaie effect, whilst the beautiful illvision of "Faroe pate-