22 NOVEMBER 1856, Page 9

The " entertainers," whose vocation is so eminently characteristic of

this age and this country, are resuming their pleasant labours. Miss P. The " entertainers," whose vocation is so eminently characteristic of this age and this country, are resuming their pleasant labours. Miss P. Horton has reopened her budget of facetiousness at the "Gallery of Il- lustration" • and on Monday the Egyptian Hall will begin to echo with the voice ofMr. Albert Smith,—who, it is said, has made considerable al- terations in the route to Mont Blanc, though he will ascend to its sum- mit as usual. That either of these established favourites will suffer greatly from the rivalry of a gentleman named Valentine Vousden, who has opened a new salle in which he attempts to portray a variety of national types, is not at present to be feared.