22 SEPTEMBER 1855, Page 8

Two instances of longevity in the amusement line occurred last

week. On Friday the 14th instant, Mr. Charles Kean closed the Princess's with the 100th representation of Henry the Eighth ; and on the following night Mr. Albert Smith bade a temporary farewell to his patrons after the 1155th ascent of Mont Blanc. There is cause for boast both in Ox- ford Street and in Piccadilly. Such a feat as a continuous performance of a Shaksperian play for a hundred nights was never before accomplished, and as for an existence requiring four figures to express its duration, such a thing was never heard of at all in connexion with any place of amusement, unless we so widen the circle as to take in-the British, Museum, the National Gallery, the Monument, and St. Paul's.