The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN THEATRICALS.

A. change has taken place in the direction of
the Vaudeville Theatre. M. Lecourt having re-
signed, the Minister of the Interior has appointed
M. Cardillac, i,n conjunction wish M. Bouffe and M.
Hoffman.

Madame Doche has made her rentrie at the
Vaudeville in La Dime aux Camehas, which bids
fair to be as great a favourite as on its first pro-
duction.

An Italian contemporary states that next season
eleven French theatres will be in activity in the fol-
lowing capitals :—Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen,
Dresden, the Hague. Ilamburgh, London, Madrid,
Odessa, St. Petersburgh, and Vienna.
Few theatres in Iraly venture at the present time to
revive any of Rossini's operas, which they consider as
antiquated, and no longer to the taste of the public.
The real motive, however, is that there are not
a dozen artivs throughout the peninsula capable of
singing his compositions. Florence appears, how-
ever, to have been fortunate enough to secure one of
these rarer are, Mademoiselle C4ndiani, a young
prima donna, f..xciting the utmost enthusiasm at the
Borgognisanti in that city, in the immortal Barbiere,
and w at is more, drawing crowds.
The operatic autumnal season has commenced at
Trieste with Rigoletto, which was first produced
there at the commencement of the season last year.
Mdlle. Albertini, the English cantatrice, in the prin-
cipal part, met with a most flattering reception.
Messrs. Fraechini and Benet* in the other parts,
are spoken of as maintaining their high reputation.
Mdlle. Teresa Millanollo (says a Milan paper), has
narrowly escaped a fearful death. At a concert at
Aquisgrana near this town, her muslin dress caught
fire, but with remarkable presence of mind the fair
artiste succeeded in smothering the flame with her
instrument.

The op-ring concert of Mme. Sontag at New York
was unavoidably postponed from the illness of this
celebrated artiste, occasioned by alarm at a disgrace-
ful tumult which occurred at the serenade attempted to
be given to her a few nights previous by her German
compatriots.
The success of Madlle. Alhoni in the United States,
though the charm of her singing is universally ad-
mitted, has by no means equalled the expectations
formed by her European admirers. As in London,
she pleases, but dos not attract the public.
It has already been stated that Catherine Hayes
had been engaged to sing in California for the sum
of 10,0001. We find by the list advices that Mr.
Barnum is the entrepreneur. The great American
impresario ha-s engaged a concert troupe to accom-
pany her. They proeeed to California, Mexico, and
the llavannah. Mr. Barnum pays Miss Hayes 50,000
dollars, and, in addition, a share of the profits. The
party give their first concert in San Francisco early
in November.

IarTENSIVEFORGERIESIN THE WEST
On Monday William Banton was again brought
before Messrs. Joseph Starkey, George Armitage,
John Brooke, and Thomas P. Crossland, at the Police-
office, Huddersfield, and was charged with forging and
uttering two bills cf exclisnge, dated respectively
May 1, 185.2, and May 15, 1852, for 28/. 10s. and 301.,
both payable at four months, and drawn by the pri-
soner upon, and purporting to be accepted by, IV&
him Chadwick, tailor and draper, Hanging Ditch,
3klancheater, and Francis Mrkin Newton, tailor and
draper, St. Anne-street, Manchester. Mr. Clough, of
the firm of Clough and Bantofr, solicitors, conducted
the prosecution, and [lee prisoner was defended
by Ur. G. J. Freeman. Tne examination, which
'excited considerable interest, was opened at
ten o'clock in the morning, and continued
to five in the evening. From the voluminous evi-
dence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner, who is
a widower with four children, for some time past has
been an extensive buyer of woollen goods from the
warehouses of Huddersfield for which he was in the
habit of paying bills on parties stated to be his
customers. These transactions extend over one or
two years, bills dated as far back as 1850 being pro-
duced in court, and, if the transactions prior to the
present year are in any similar proportion to those of a
more recent date, they will have involved several thou-
sand pounds ; but, as the prisoner hag, uo to a short
period prior to his apprehension, succeeded in takingtakingup
mate amount. During the present year hiPsPprini--
cipal dealings have been with the firms of Messrs.
John Firth and Suns; Messrs. Barbour, Paton,
and Co.; Messrs. Lungworth, Brown, and Co. ;
and Messrs. Riley, Gledhill, and Co., from
each of whom be has purchased largely.
With the firm of John Firth and Sons his
dealings have amounted to a sum of 2,6001. ; and
they are at present holders to a large amount of the
prisoner's bills. In reply to the inquiries of the mer•
chants, the prisoner represented the acceptors as bona
fide acceptors, and so long as thehills were met little
or no suspicion was excited ; but the present bills
being returned dishonoured, inquiries were made,
and resulted in the discovery tout the acceptances
were forged, and that a system of wholesale forgery
had been pursued. A warrant was issued against
the prisoner on the 24th ult., and on the 25th he was
apprehended at the shop of Mr. F. B. Newton, in
Manchester, by Mr. Superintendent Thomas, when
six forged bills and eighteen pewn•tickets were found
upon him. He was removed to Huddersfield the
same evening, and his residence was then searched,
when other bills and several scraps of paper written
over with names and figures were discovered. The
alleged acceptors of the bills were called, and denied
that the signatures were in their handwriting; and