The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-04 00:00:00

AMERICAN THEATRICALS.

The celebrated singer, Madame Marietta Albon
whose beautiful voice has no rival in the world, wi._
return very soon to Now York. She intends to give
several concerts at the Metropolitan Hall in the begin-
ning of Sept ember, and we doubt not that her triumph
will be as great as it was in all the principal European
cities. Her success iu the two performances which took
place a month ago, is a sure guarantee of the enthusias-
tic applause with which she will bo received on her
second sepettrance in our city.
Miss Emma Fitzpatrick, of Drury-lane, " the belle of
the British stage," and the only actress acknowledged in
England as the representative of the gay and dashing
high comedy parts, late the rival, and now the successor,
in that devrtment of the drama, of the retired Mrs.
Nisbett (Lady Boothby), is announced in the English
papers to be a passenger in the Atlantic, which sailed
from Liverpool on the 11th. It is said she will make
her debut at Niblo's, on the 30th inst., as Letitia Hardy,
in the Belle's Stratagem.
Mdlle. do Melisse, of the Grand Opera, Paris, a
danseusc who Is said to combine great artistic merit
with extraordinary personal charms, is hourly expected
by the Franklin, from Havre. She is engaged fur
Niblo's.
Sir William Don and one of the French ballet troupe,
says the Memphis Express, were arrested on Thursday
evening, after the performances at the Melodeon bad
closed, by Sheriff Wiggins, on the charge of fraudu-
lently obtaining passage for that troupe on a Mississippi
steamer, between New Orleans and Cincinatti.
Ou the occasion of Miss Julia Bennett's benefit on
Friday evening, at Detroit, Engine Company No. 4
attended the theatre in uniform, and greeted her per-
formance of Lady Gay Spanker, in the comedy of
London Assurance, with quite a shower of elegant
bouquets.
Jullien and his great band will probably visit America
in the autumn of 1853—has signed a contract to, that
effect, and cannot before.
The next grand move on the chess-board of coming
events, is the representation of Italian opera in New
York, Boston, and Philadelphia, in the same perfect
style, in every particular, and by the same artists,
singers, ballet, orchestra, chorus, costume, as in Paris and
London, for 60 or 80 nights subscriptions. Bair° is
likely to be the conductor, or else Benedict, and probably
Lumley will be the director.
Jamcs Anderson, the tragedian, will, most likely, visit
the United States again, for a term, to commence about
November; his eneagements up to that time prevents his
sailing earlier.—

CHANGE or Comma IN Fau.—The change of
colour in fish is very remarkable, and takes place with great
rapidity. Put a, living black burn trout into a white basin
of water, and it becomes, within half an hour, of a light
colour. Keep the fish living iu a white jar for some days,
and it becomes absolutely white; but put it into a dark-
coloured or black vessel, and although on first being placed
there the white coloured fish shows most conspicuously on
the black ground, in a quarter of an hour it becomes as
dark-coloured as the bottom of the jar, and consequently
difficult to be seen. No doubt, this facility of adapting its
colour to the bottom of the water in which it lives, is of the
greatest service to the fish in protecting it from its numerous
enemies. All anglers must have observed that in every
stream the trout are very much of the same colour as the
colourgrayelor sand on which they live; whether this change
of
voluntary or involuntary act on the part
of the fish, a
I leave it for
Sporting in Sutherlandsl 17re. the scientific to determine.—

Tne three Englishmen who have engaged to steer
their course down the Danube to Constantinople reached
Vienna, the 29th ult. The voyagers hoisted the Union Jaek
on catering the Vionnit C 41141,