The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

HOLLAND.

The Minister of Justice of Holland, M. NEDER.'
MEYER VAN ROSENTHAL, has resigned. A letter
from the Hague, in the ladependance, of Brussels,
states that this will probably lead eventually to the
dissolution of the Cibinet. It was rumoured that
M. VAN SPENGLER and M. VAN SONSBECK, Minis-
ters of War and Foreign Affairs, were about to re-
sign. M. C. BACKER, King's Commissary in the
province of Overyssel, was spoken of as the suc-
cessor of M. VAN ROSENTHAL in the Ministry of
Justice.

The Courrier de Marseilles publishes a letter
from Bagdad of the 9th ultimo, which states that
an insurrection had broken out in that province.
The communications were intercepted, and the mails
could not be forwarded but with an escort of 100
or 200 horsemen. The Arabs are masters of the
country from Mossoul to the Persian Gulf. The
Turkish authority no longer exists but in the fortified
towns ; its moral force has almost entirely disap-
peared, and it is time for the Government at Con-
stantinople to put an end to this deplorable state of
things.
The French scientific mission had arrived at
Bagdad ; its labours will occupy i's members for
a year unless the state of the country should pre-
sent too many obstacles to the ucumplishuaent of it.

NATIONAL EXHIBITION, CORK.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE St
Dublin Committee Rooms, Niubeum of Irish In-
dustry, 51. Stephen's gr,,en Elst, Nlay 21, 1852.
you favour me by puollehing the enclosed
letter, which, I thibk, oanuot fsll to give additional con-
fidence in the putilic mind to our National Exhibition?
I am glad to be enabled to announce the following
additional subscriptions:--
Sir Joseph Paxton ..• •• ••• ••• £5 0 0
Roysl Hibernian Mining Company, per ll=nry
Gibson, E-q., Managing Director, London .20 0 0
John Sampson, E.q , Cution Waste Manufac-
turer, Stockport ••• ••• ••• 50 0
T. W. Kinder. E-q,,Contractor fur Locomotive
Service, Midland Great Western liailway..• 5 0 0
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JOHN C. DEANE, Lim Sec.

" BAIA of Ireland, 20,11 May, 1852.
"Sir,—l am desired by the governors and directors to
anfortn o for the information of the deputation from
the 37
Cork Exhibition that attended at the Bank this day,
111'4 tile Cork agent will be directed, by this night's post,
50,PftY to the executive committee at Cork the sum of
""415
Bank's subscription to the National Exhibi-
tion Arts, &c., to be held in Cork.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" John D." Wm. GRAVES, Secretary.
Atkin, E'q., 5, Merrion-square Elst."

THEATRICAL STATISTICS.
An immense volume of statistics, collected by order ro
the Chamber of Commerce by a special commission,
under the superintendexce of M. Horace Say, with a
view to ascertain the state of trade and manufactures in
the metropolis, furnishes—though it seems a strange
place to look for such information—some curious details
respecting the state of theatricals, past and present, in
France.
The gentleman charged
aa B indot, has not, like his
with this part of the
inquir, in. ''' colleagues, CM•
fined his researchearto PTarhise, hut
extended them to the
whole of the couet
etYd.own at 361; of theatres in the
t 36 out of that mina-1
86 departments !s Sale small dep;
ber bolongOng 'm e„ar,,t of the Seine.
cards do not appeacnrd
doing
The provincial
boa
rant companies aueplied with
performers, 40 itinerant ° ng duty far no
Three department". have no theatre
les% than 280 theatres, 4-5 onlybeing provided with
stationary troupe's. -1-1!
being aitUVed in tun soutliTL, zere,
whatever, all three
~:bouwn
thettprcseityierom
aaaae. M. R indat en,
Basses-AI ea and Sr- - - a that the unmated:e:les niB
general statistics by 5td:t0p,.0.,,,_31y estimated at
actors
and actresses in France is v
3.000 to 8,000. We are then 'Rider Louts XIII. -
crease of theatres in Paris.
,Lal ; unckr Lauis thereXfV
was Duly ono theatre iu the caP--
six wider Louis XV,
,is they increased to fise; there were
e ten theatres were
lvear 1807,
and under his ill-fated success°.
been &halal:tea • '
1 l hay itfi
full play. In 1791, all monopolies
Si' t heatres sprung up all at °one; •bu,! the
I j a privil. gc.a
we find them decreased to 34: At this r
e, ear only tone
wtre re-established, and in the following
Year
from 181 r,
were in existence. Paris enjoyed ten the
eaora 1819 to
to 1814, eleven from 1814 to 1819, fourteen
tweuty-three
1830, sixteen in 1831, twenty-one la 1832,
in 184,3, twenty-five in 1845, and twentrlh
"AS 000 places,
These twenty-three theatres contain ab ut. a -,
night ;„
and the average number of spectators ( vel
ree in 1851,
-I
calculated at 20 000. Besides theatres, the,ie are 145Hnity,
places of amusem..nt open iu the capital and ityiuballa
principally during the summer season— pub-le
such as Mabille's, Cafe concerts, Guicguette's, &c.;, th96l'
establishments are frequented by, it is estimated 24,00e0_
persons por diem, thus carrying the number of ples,sur
teekers in Paris to 44,000 daily. Not the least inter-
esting part of these statistics is that which refers to the
reeeipts of the metropolitan theatres, which have under-
gone many variations, as may be seen from the following
account. From 1807 to 1811 their average was nearly
five millions of francs; from 1822 to 1826, nearly seven
millions; from 1837 to 1841, they averaged more than
°lnc m'allions; from 1842 to 1846, more than ten;
.811"1 in. 1847 they rose to eleven millions. Here M.
°ndrit discontinues his own figarea, and quotes
the Government xeturns which stand thus:-1848,
6'747,4°81-.1 1849, 7,775,570 f.; 1850, 9,959,785 f.; 1851,
14,460,000 f. M. Rondot concludes his return by a
abatement of the number ,-4 the personnel employe° in
Use Paris theatres, from which it appears, commencing
ut the lower end of the scale, that there are !upwards of
400 b, keepers, male and females, and 750 empl,,yes,
clerics, &c., in the administrations, whose aggregate saa
!sties amount to 740,0001 a `the dress-makers. carpen-
ter 3, scenee,hifters, &c., are more than 600 strong, and
their average salaries amount to 500,000 r. The
reamber of musicians in taa
vari,,us orchestras
is 630, and their aggregate income is 600,850.
We now come to the performers, 0 whom, according
to M. Rondot, there are 1,152 . men, and 891 fe-
males. Of these 793 are artistes, and the remainder
choristers and figural:its. The omolizinenta of this 11"1"