The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-29 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales returned to Osborne Cottage last night
from a cruise.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish are expected in town early in the ensuing week
from Chatsworth, to ho present at the wedding of Lord
Edward Cavendish and the lion. Emma Lascelles.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester will arrive
in town early in the ensuing week from visiting the Princo
and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar at Mokola, Good-
wood.

The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort arrived in town
on Thursday evening from Lord and Lady Londesborougl
scat in Yorkshire.

His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness de Cetto and family have arrived at Munich from
Paris. His excellency will not return to town till the first
week in October.

The Earl and Countess of Stair and the Ladies
Dalrymple have left the St. George's Hotel.
The Countess Somers has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent.

Count Petrarchi has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel
from Vienna.

Lord and Lady Colchester arrived at their resi-
dence in Berkeley-square yesterday, from visiting the Earl
and Countess Amherst, at Montreal, near Sevenoaks,
Kent.

Professor Anderson.---A Remarkable Career.

Tho Roman of old time went forth as Caius Marcius and
came back as Coriolanus. "In troth" says Valeria, in the
play, " there's wondrous things spoke of him." So, with
Professor Anderson, who went forth some time back as
" Wizard of the North," and returned " Wizard of the
World." Wondrous things aro spoken of him, but infi-
nitely more wondrous is the extraordinary character of his
career. Magicians have usually confined themselves to a
national fame. Albertus Magnus was great in Germany,
and Michael Scott was the dread of Caledonia. Merlin
was not known beyond the realms of the Heptarchy, and
Dr. Dee never bewitched any other country than England,
except Poland. Cornelius Agrippa was a little more pere-
grinative in his character, and, Germany not being large
enough for him, ho wandered into Holland and France.
Cagliostro, more adventurous still, tried what he could
do with the greater part of Europe. But Professor
Anderson, fired with nomadic ambition, and, anxious
to juggle with the whole world for Os gilded ball, has
encompassed the earth with his magic, and sought out its
most remote corners for the exercise of his professional
skill. What shall be said of a man who has plied his
vocation on all the continents and most of the large islands
to boot ? We have before us some curious statistics of
that which he has done, and in their peculiar character, we
presume them to present facts the parallel of which cannot
be found in the records of any other public man. Professor
Anderson has been many years a wizard. His reputation
is not a thiLg of yesterday, but a growth of nearly half-a-
century. The events and incidents crowded into that long
period, and occurring to a professional whose life has been
spent in so migratory a manner, and whose branch of art
is in itself so singular, must be remarkable in the
extreme. We find in looking over the stati..stics offered for
our inspection that Professor Anderson has performed in
431 different theatres, halls, and concert-rooms of the
United Kingdom. In some of these his stay has extended
over a period of three or four months—in others not longer
than a week. About three weeks is the average for each
place, and, multiplying 18 nights by the number of places,
we get a total of 7,758 nights ; then, placing the average
of attendance each night at no higher figure than 500, we
obtain a total of audiences for the British isles only amount-
ing to the immense number of 3,879,080—a clientele which
may fairly entitle " The Wizard " to be recognised
as one of the most popular men of his time.
In London only he has performed in every theatre
the metropolis has, with the exception of three--Her Ma-
jesty's, the Haymarket, and the New Royalty. The larger
the stage the more ample the dimensions of the house, the
more is Professor Anderson at home. It has been his aim
everywhere alike to engage the largest place, and with a
truly Benthamite desire play for the greatest good of the
greatest number. Among his latest engagements was that
at the Crystal Palace, and we doublif even the magnitude
of the capacious structure was any too much for the bound-
less ideas of a performer who has found the whole world
almost too small for his stage.

The travels of Professor Anderson in Europe embraced
Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia. The royal theatres
everywhere were placed at his command, and he estimates
his audiences on the continent of Europe as making up a
grand total of 1,027,300. Large as the number may appear,
it is far exceeded by the total of his American audiences.
He has twice visited the 'Western World, and travelled it
throughout its length and breadth. His magic wand has
waved as efficiently in New Orleans as in Canada, and in
California as in Now England. The theatres and halls of
America being so much larger than those of England tho
amount of patronage he received in that country was cor-
respondingly greater, and the total, extending aver periods
amounting in all to about five years, is no less than
2,374,900 persons.

Next in order comes Professor Anderson's Australian
triumphs. Nowhere was ho received with greater acclaim
than at the antipodes. His wanderings over the great Austral
world comprised nearly the whole of the colonies held by
the British Crown in the southern seas. He visited every
gold-field of Victoria and New South Wales, received a per-
fect ovation in illelbourne, was the " rage" among the miners
of Ballarat, and the sensation among the diggers of
Bendigo. Ho voyaged down the Murray, dared the dangers
of the Razor-back, crossed over the Blue Mountains to
Bathurst, and explored every township of Tasmania. In
his statistical table ho sets down the number of his Aus-
tralian patrons at 176,000, a number remarkably large, taking
into account the present sparseness of the population of
the colonies, but amply compensating for their numerical
inferiority by the liberality of their payment, as the price
for being enchanted as well as amused. From Australia
the Wizard voyaged over the Pacific to Polynesia, seek-
ing new magical conquests in the remote isles which gem
the waters of the sunniest of oceans. Tahiti and Hawaii
both came in his way, and to them he was the very Capt.
Cook of magicians, taking to their choral shores the first
entertainment of the kind their inhabitants have at any time
seen. At Honolulu he received special commands from King
Kamehamcha, the husband of Queen Emma, at present in
this country, and was granted the use of the Royal Ha-
waiian Theatre for his professional place of business. The
Wizard puts down the total of his audiences in the Pacific
at 13,500, a large proportion being Kanakas, or, in other
words, aborigines. Fancy playing to 13,000 inhabitants of
what used to be the Cannibal Islands ! What a myth,
what a remote entity, old as Artaxerxes, antique as Cyrus,
and archaic as Sesostris, becomes the friend of our child-
hood, the celebrated Okee-pokee-wanky-wum !
From the statistics supplied to us we arrive at the fol-
lowing estimate of that which Professor Anderson has ac-
complished in the way of enchanting the inhabitants o
this little *globe, for little it seems to the imagination when
in these days a magician can circumnavigate it and come
back again to London, just as if he had done nothing re-
markable and were only an ordinary man.
Audiences in the British Isles 3,879,080
71 on the European Continent
in America 2,374,000
in Australia 176,000
„ in Polynesia
in Asia and Africa
t 7

7,725,780
To have been soon and to bo known by so many persons
is beyond all dispute a popularity which very seldom falls
to tho lot of any public person. In fact, it would be diffi-
u '
one other. Next to his popularity comes
l'°rr
Anderson's benevolence. In roaming round the
world
his aim to leave souvenirs of his visit in
placeDrase been a
a
bn3yd'onating largely to the public charities.
e'clh'eletfl to m
;d There t° h
is scarcely an hospital in any of tho large cities of
the kingdom to which ho has not been a contributor. In
Manchester and in Edinburgh he devoted a whole week
of performances to the cause of public charity, and in
Melbourne, Australia, he did the same. To the benevolent
institutions of other countries ho has been as generous as to
those which acknowledge the sway of England. At Honolulu
in the Sandwich Islands, he contributed £ll5 to Queen's
Emma's hospital, and to tho public charities of San Fran-
cisco he donated over £2OO pounds. The sum total of his
charitable contributions to public charities exceeds £5,500
sterling.

lii these specialties of popularity cud benevolence, if in
no others, the career of Professor Anderson is a remarkable
one, and the man himself is as worthy of being seen as are
his magical performances. Ho has become lessee for
a period of St. James's Hall, in Piccadily, where he
had so successful a season last winter. Recent
good fortune has befallen him in the sudden rise of value
in some property he possesses in Australia, and we under-
stand that ho would at once go out again to that country
were it not that he has pledged himself to the production
of his protegd, Mr. Frederick Maccabo, at St. James's Hall,
and could not give up the hall without playing false to his
friend. lie announces that at the conclusion of his en-
gagement he will sail for the other end of the world ; and
we may reasonably ask ourselves the question, What will
be the end of a man whose career has been in every wilY.
so remarkable ?