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nouncement contained in letter dated Sarawak,
November 2, lS49: ''The rains of the beginning OF
this month of last year fell in great Quantities IN
Sarawak. and considerable quantity OF the face OF
a ntain, called Trian, washed down into
the plains below The deposit was found to abound
in gold, and afforded work for full two thousand
men for about a month six weeks, and it was
reckoned that at the smallest average they pro-
cured bunknl a month per man. The gold was IN
Jumps, and not in dust, and several OF the Jumps
weighed from three TO four bunkals and they were
rarely less than or two amass III weight. This
fact may, in this locality, lead at some future day
To important conclusions.
PApEa FOR RooFs- MN. Ebard proprietors of
one Of the largest paper manufactures in Germa-
n.y. situated at Neustadt Elberswold, have just in
vented an incombustible cartridge paper, which
especially for roofing houses 1t is destined TO take
the place Of tiles over which it has this twofod ad
vantagc-that it s not fragile and IS very mex
pensve. By order of M. Won der Heydt minister
of trade and public works, the royal commission Of
buildings has submitted the stone paper Of NM
Ebard to numerous tests from which it results that
it is at the same time impermeable and freproof
The commission has strongly recommended 1t to
the peasantry a substitute for thatch.
NumIsmATio DIscoyEaY.-At lever, in the Grand
Duchy of Oldenburgh, remarkable discovery Was
recently made, composed of about 1000 pieces OF
silver money OF the period OF the different empe'
rors down to Antoninus the Pious. There is every
probability that Roman merchant vessel was
wrecked on a sand bank in that neighborhood some
seventeen hundred years ago Part of these coins,
unfortunately, were sold or smelted down by the
laborers who made the discovery Brussels Herald
London Theatricals.
As usual, Easter has been celebrated by the produc
ton of some novelty splendid in decoration, at near
ly every Of the English theatres. Pantommes,
by a rule whereof the memory OF man knoweth no
thing to the contrary, are always excluded from
Pascha rites; but grand specacles are the order Of
the day, according to the most unexcePtionable
canons; and in the category OF spectacle the snowy
burlesque ofthe present day is comprised.
At Drury Lane burlesque is eschewed, and an
effort is made to revive the serious spectacle OF
other days This sort of piece has recently become
obsolete; but there doubtless readers old enough
to remember Cherry and Far Sfdys Peter bitkins
and the like. The middle of the nineteenth cen
tury seems scarcely to retain faith enough TO
relish these fairy exhibitions in sober earnest; and
hence the modern burlesquc, while 1t claims admi.
ration from the eye always encourages laughter at
its subject. The DeuiPs Ring, as the Drury Lane
piece is called, ia exceedingly simple in its story,
while it is complicated in its mechanical effects
The whole object Of the piece Is to obtain four or
five gorgeous tableaux distinct as possible from
! each other; and here the manager has been most
successful the procession with which it concludes
being one of the most splendid things of the kind
! ever witnessed.
At the Lyceum the never TO. be forgotten Christ
mas piece of The Island Of Jrcels is retained, on
account of its enduring powers OF attraction. In
addition, however there Is burcsque ON Garrck's 5
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Mr. Panche, and illustrated by the magic pencil oil
Mr.. Beverley. The chief feature OF this work is the
reproduction of pastoral life in that peculiar form
which is represented to through the medium of
/ Dresden china. The effect OF the bewigged shep-
herds and shepherdcsses is at once comical and pic
turesque indeed, no understands better how to
turn the into the beautiful than the directing
powers of the Lyceum. The characters that most
bring histrionc talent the personifed First
of April,' permitting Mr.. Charles Mathews to dis
play all that vocal volubity in which he is unri-
vailed.
The brothers Brough, who have burlesqued loan
hoe for the advantage of the Haymarket theatre
have worked on their usual principle Of finding
modern equivalents for the personages Of an ole
story. "Isaac, the Jew of York, !" admirably payec
by Mr.. Kelley, is a compound of Fagin and tn,
modern outftter; Cedric" whose prejudices are
pompously rolled forth by Mr. Bland. is Protec
zionist and a six bottle man; and The cast
comprising Mrs. Kelley, Miss p. Horton, Mr.. Buck
stone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam, is more than usually
strong; perhaps, indeed, too much effort has been
made 10 secure large quantity of leading charac-
ters, for they do not ali come out with an effect
commensurate TO the histrionc rank Of their sup
i porters.
piece on the early career Of the musician Lulli,
which has been played with great success at Paris,
has been adapted into English by Mr.. Webster, and
was produced at the Adelphi on Easter Monday.
La Fee auI Roses, an opera-book by M. Scribe,
has furnished subject for the Princesss spectacle,
called the Queen of the Roses; which is gorgeous
affair enough. Astley's has had recourse To the
great Partisan shit Of Les Quabe Fills d. Ay,non,
which half turned the brains Of the most civilized
capital in the world at the beginning Of the present
year. Another "ieerie fantastique," with modern
illusions, has been produced at the Surrey, under
the title of The Three Princes Altogether this has
been very active and fortunate Easter.