MR. THACKERAY AT THE SURREY GARDENS.
Our great humorist has this week found himself in the midst of a "new set." On'Wednesday evening he commenced his well-known lectures on the "Four Georges," in the large edifice which is now the principal object of the Surrey Zoological—we beg pardon, the Royal Surrey Gardens. We record with pleasure that the audience was perfectly successful. There is no error in this expression. The admirable quality of the lectures has been admitted long ago ; and on Wednesday the discourse answered the purpose of a standard whereby to test the Transpontine intellect It stood the test extremely well. The close
packing of facts by Mr. Thaekeray, and the extreme subtilty of his satire, appeal to a quick intelligence and a critical judgment, in the absence of which the different parts of his large historical pictures might pass unnoticed and his " points " remain unfelt. By the appreciation of Wednesday's lecture, the audience proved their possession of the mental qualities most in requisition.
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