The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-13 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The frequenters of this celebrated establishment,
and the music-loving public generally, will learn with
lively feelings of satisfaction that a new era "looms in
the future," or, more properly speaking, dawns
brightly in its fortunes. A novel speculation has
been organized. The prospectus of the new company,
entitled " Her Majesty's Theatre Association," has
been issued, with the names of the Duke of Leinster,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, Frederic Mildred, Esq.,
and B. Oliveira, Esq., M.P., as trustees, and the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Harrington,
Major-General the Hon. H. F. C. Cavendish, Sir
John Bayley, Bart., and C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., as
committeemen. A large proportion of the shares have
already been subscribed. The prospectus says :
" A contract has been entered into for the purchase
of the lease of her Majesty's Theatre from the present
proprietor, and the association will have the benefit
of this agreement, the purchase money being
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which has nearly forty years to run, estimated at
100,000/. ; the properties greatly exceed in value
30,0001., but amount to be paid by the association is
not to exceed 25,000/. ; the effective capital, 75,0001.;
total, 200,0001. The affairs of the association will be
conducted by a managing director appointed by the
committee,and previously to the commencement of each
season the personal privileges to be reserved to the
shareholders will be defined by the committee."
Let the appointment of managing director be con-
ferred on Mr. Lumley, and the assurance of the suc-
cess we cordially wish to the undertaking will be
rendered doubly sure. Experience, energy, tact, and
judgment are the qualifications that combine to
render Mr. Lumley the fit and proper person for this
delicate and arduous post.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
Towards the close of the last season of her Majesty's
Theatre, it was reported that steps were being taken to
remove, for the future, certain disadvantages under
which the establishment had laboured, and to introduce
and inaugurate a new administrative energy and ability.
These rumours have now, we rejoice to learn, taken form
and consistey. It will e sen, from an announcement
which we p b nclish elsewheb e
re, that the programme of the
proposed scheme has been matured and decided upon;
and everything now bids fair for its immediate prac-
tical realization.
The association which is in the course of being orga-
nized comprises, as its leading members, not a few of the
most distinguished patrons of operatic art of the day.
Mr. Frederick
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prospectus published gives a brief, but clear anti most
encouraging outline of the proposed arrangements. It
dilatea upon the peculiar advantages of the situation of
Her Majesty's Theatre, as near the Palaces of the Sove-
reign, the Houses of Parliament, and the clubs; and it
justly adverts to the beauty of the interior of the
theatre, the harmony of its proportions, and its
unrivalled acoustic construction, as admirably fit-
ting it for the production of the master-pieces of tho
greatest musicians—not forgetting to hint at its old-
established habits and associations, and at its having
been the scene of the triumphs of all the leading artists
of Europe. It is next announced that the present lease
is being purchased .for a sum of money represented
by 20,000 paid-up shares—each share amounting to 51.
which sum is to form the only liability of each share-
holder. There will be 40,000 shareholders, represent-
ing a total capital of 200,0001. This sum will be in-
vested as follows:—in the lease of the theatre and concert
room, which has nearly forty years to run, 100,0001.; in
the purchase of the properties, &c. 25,0001.; leaving an
available ready capital to the amount of 75,0001. With
this handsome sum to start:upontufmanaging director will
be appointed, who will act under the control of the com-
mittee—the latter undertaking the entire responsibility
of the receipts and expenditure. No name has yet been
officially announced for the position in question; but it
seems impossible to doubt that the committee will use
every exertion to obtain the co-operation of the late ma-
nager, Mr. Lumley—whose unrivalled zeal, energy, and
tact, have done so much to carry the theatre through
stupendous difficulties, while his admirable judgment
and taste have most powerfully contributed to promote
the interests of the lyric drama in this country.
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BERLIN, SEPT. 7.—Mademoiselle Wagner made
her debut this evening in Romeo, and carried a full house
with her by her powerful singing. Her success was im..
mense.
IRISH STONE.—A. vessel just arrived from Galway,
has brought an entire cargo of marble, amounting to 160
tons' weight, the produce of that part of the sister island;
and another vessel arrived in the river on the same day from
Arklow, brought 100 tons weight of pyrites, the produce of
that district of Ireland.
PoWDER MAGAZINE AT STONEHOUSE.— Some con-
siderable anxiety has been occasioned among the inhabitants
of Stonehouse of late on finding that a building, the erection
of which has just been completed on land adjoining the
Marine Barracks, is to be used as, and is built for, a powder
magazine. A memorial is in course of signature on the
subject, and it will be presented in the proper quarter in a
few days.
THE KEY SIAM Doca—These works are proceed-
c re-
ceiving p
docksnsteadily. The Loch basin has
ibng towards com letion very
completed since August, 1851, and is capable of re-
gwveerseseltsn atbaen vtime.
formally It
nhpaesnebdeenduanrinnoguntcbede
re
that the
autumn by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, but no day
has
yet been fixed upon for the ceremonial.
A field of corn of seven acres was last week cut
at Daisy Knoll Farm, near Middlesburgh, belonging to Mr.
Isaac Sharp, which yielded the large crop of 100 "k 2
an
Acre.-.Newcast4 Journal.