The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-24 00:00:00

STANFOR.

A superb map of Europe has just been issued
from the establishment of Mr. Edw-ard Stanford,
the map publisher, of :Charing-cross. It is a work
of extraordinary elaboration and complete-
ness. It has been constructed by no less
distinguished a geographer than Mr. Alex-
ander Keith Johnston, author of " The Physical
Atlas," F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., and a great many
other of the honorary letters of the alphabet
besides. The scale upon which this map has been
drawn is that of 50.8,235 miles to the inch, or
1:3,220,177 of Nature. It admits, therefore, of un-
usual detail in the execution. Enough will be
indicated in this way if we observe that, quite as a
matter of course, on glancing at the portion
of this remarkable work embracing our own
country, we find distinctly marked down a
little morsel of a place like Chertsey. Ex uno disce
miles. Furthermore, it is especially deserving of
note, in regard to Mr. Stanford's Map of Enrope,
that it is so carefully brought down to this present
time in every possible particular, that not merely
are the roads, the canals, and the railways, clearly
defined by distinctive marks, instantly distinguish-
able from each other—but there is that latest
triumph of the nineteenth century, the submarine
electric telegraph, delicately traced wherever it
has been trailed. From Port Patrick to Donaglia-
dee ; from Dover to Ostend ; from Dover to Calais;
from the Gulf of Spezzia, in Italy, to the north of
Corsica ;. from the south of Corsica to the north of
Sardinia ; from the south of Sardinia (otherwise
from Cape Spartivento), in one direction,
to Bona in Algeria; and in another, to the two
principal islands of the Maltese group, Gozo and
Valetta; and thence at a tangent to Corfu. As a
folding-map in a morocco case, as a map coiled
upon a roller, as a map hung up on a per-
manent frame, stretched and varnished—in
any form, however mounted, displayed upon
our walls, lying upon our tables, thrust into
a convenient place upon our•bookshelves—this noble
production, one of the most splendid maps of
Europe ever yet placed within reach of the general
community, will be acceptable as a boon to all ranks
and classes of the population.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

The success of Mr. Falconer's new corned;

,‘ Extremes ; or, Men of the Day," has been fully
confirmed by its continued and steady attraction
from its first production, and is now a great and
undeniable fact. It has undergone some conside-
rable loppings, which have lightened it of much
superiluous and ineffective matter, and it now pro-
ceeds briskly along to the marked content of the
audience. Another circumstance in its favour is,
that its cast has undergone two very impor-
tant and advantageous changes—one only last
night, by the substitution of Mr. Leigh Murray
for the author of the comedy in the principal male
part, and the other that of Miss Woolgar (now
Mrs. Mellon) for Mrs. Charles Young, who has
resigned the character of Lucy Vavasour, to return
to Sadler's Wells.

hero of his comedy by playing the character So little justice did Mr. Falconer do to the
him-
self, that it has hitherto presented a very near ap-
proach to that proverbial example of defectiveness—
" Hamlet," with the part of Hamlet omitted. In
the hands of Mr. Leigh Murray, Frank Hawthorn
loses all the dreary prosiness which had militated
so strongly against the interest he is designed to
appropriate, and from an impossible and rather
disagreeable abstraction, becomes a warm-blooded,
manly piece of reality. The subdued, graceful, and
gentlemanly tone with which the verbal encounters
between the self-educated son of the Lancashire
artisan and his aristocratic rival are conducted,
abates a great deal from their startling improba-
bility, and contributes powerfully to maintain the
interest of the situations. Mr. Leigh Murray's
greeting on his first appearance was of the most
flattering description, and after rousing his audience
to repeated bursts of applause by the impressive
and delicately-defined significance of his acting, he
was recalled, at the fall of the curtain, to receive
an especial demonstration of their approval. Mr.
Falconer is to be congratulated on the accession to
the company of an actress of such ripe and versatile
talent as Miss Woolgar, whose merits hive so long
placed her in the full light of public favour.