The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

THEATRICAL MISCELLANY.

Mr. Maddocks, the new Romeo of last night, is
from the Dublin company-, and played some years since
et the Victoria, in a round of second-rate characters.
The fair debutante, curiously enough, both a Capulet
and a Montague, who will personate the partner of his
" death-marked is Miss Emmeline Montague,
daughter to a gemtleman long at the head of his line, as
a light comedian, in the Bath and Liverpool Theatres,
but now disabled by a most unhappy accident from the
the pursuit of his professional duties.
The new play of I Night in Me Bastille, to have
been produced at Drury-lane, on F:iday last, is post-
poned on account of Mrs. Stirling's illness.
Mrs. E. Knight., once so popular on the London
boards as Miss Povey, is engaged at Covent-garden, and
will form a valuabl., addition to its vocal corps.
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer was present, last Thurs-
day. at the perfor►nance of his own Richelieu, in the
Hawkins-street Tb.catre, Dublin, when the audience
paid him high marks of personal respect as the author
of that admired production.

Young Lahlache, is engaged for the Paris grand opera,
and will make his appearance as Guillaume Tell.
Hammond is in. creaty with Braham for a brief en-
gagement, under if accomplished, he will play
his original part of .Fra Diavolo to Miss Delcy's Zer-
bum.

Mrs. Honey's et igazeniont at Dublin proved so suc-
cessful that it was found desirable to extend it by two
additional evenings..
Alexandre, the noted French ventriloquist, continues
in New York, perFerming his Rogueries of Nicholas
at the Park Theatre.

Ducrow, now on his way to fulfil a short engage-
ment at Newcastle, will open the Liverpool Amphi-
theatre during the Christmas holidays, intending to fit
up that edifice in n style of great splendour, and to
bring forward the 'whole strength of his London com-
pany.

An occupant is required for the Royal Kent Theatre,
at Kensington, which has considerably sunk in value
since the august lady, with whose name it is honoured,
ceased to inhabit the adjoining palace, and precluded
all hope of her personal patronage.
The Lincoln theatre closed on Friday, after a spi-
rited and not unprosperous season. Mr. Young, who
leads in serious bizsiness, seems likely to obtain a trial
of his talents on our London boards.

Mobile, in the 'United States, has not only been ra-
vaged by yellow fever, but desolated by incendiary fires,
during one of which—the twelfth that had taken place
within the short period of three weeks—the theatre
fell a prey to the flames, on Wednesday the 9th of
October.

Theatricals at Brighton are somewhat reviving, after
a long period of depression, by means of " fashionable
nights," for which the Saturdays are set aside, under the
patronage of various families, whose influence and dis-
tinction afford the manager, on these particular nights,
a fair degree of support to which his general merits
are entitled. Thisdramatic doings of Jack Sheppard,
which, at least, half a million of Londoners have
crowded to witness, will be brought forward this evening.
Mrs. Alfred Shaw made her debut on the Milan
boards last Monday week, as the heroine of a new Ita-
lian opera, and was crowned, during the progress, and at
the conclusion of her task, with enthusiastic acclama-
tion.

The York company, which comprehends Leeds and
Hull within its circuit, which commenced operations last
evening, headed by Hooper, late of the St. James's
Theatre, whose talented lady is to speak an introduc-
tory address.

Mrs. Fitzwilliam having completed her first engage-
ment at New York, with the most signal success, pro-
ceeded to Philadelphia, where her very versatile, yet
solid abilities, secured the same cordial reception.
Young Betty's decided success at Barnstaple, parti-
cularly in the congenial character of Claude Mellnotte,
has procured for him engagements at Tiverton, Taun-
ton, and other towns in the Devonshire district.

CHURCH-RATES, &c.

MANSION. HOUSE, Nov. 30.

Mr. Drew, the Vestry-clerk of' the united, parislies of
Allhallows the Great and the Less, and Mr. Smith,
Vestry-clerk of the parishes of St. Thomas Laurence
Pountney, and St. Mary Abchurch, had summoned
Messrs. Joseph Cooper and Thomas Box, of Laurence
Pountnev-lane, for Church-rates, Incumbent-rates, and
Impropration-rates to the amount of 261. Gs. 11d.
The Lord Mayor—Why do you object to the pay-
ment of these demands ?

I\lr. Cooper—We object to them because we do not
belong to the Establishment and differ from many of its
doctrines and more of its practices.

Mr. Samuel Wilson (late Lord Mayor)—Ah you
object to pay these things because your forefathers from
time immemorial have done so.

Mr. Cooper—Certainly not. It is not because our
forefathers objected, but because we cannot pay for, the
propagation of doctrines which, in our view, are incon-
sistent with Christianity, without acting against our
consciences ; and I am prepared, if the Lord Mai or's
time will allow, to expose the utter inconsistency of some
of the doctrines of the Establishment with Holy St:rip-
ture.

The Lord Mayor—lndeod I cannot go into any reli-
gious discussion here.

Mr. Wilson—Are you prepared to prove your own
,o be right ?

Mr. Cooper—l am quite ready to answer now upon
that subject if the Lord Mayor will allow.
Mr. Wilson—You have your opinions in:religion., and
members of the Establishment have theft's.
Mr. Cooper—Yes. But there is this difference be-
tween us : you put your hands into our pockets to sup.
port your system, and we do not put our hands into your
pockets to support our's.
Mr. Wilson—But you would if your's was the Esta-
blished religion.
Mr. Cooper—There we differ ; for our principles are
against all State Establishments of religion.
Mr. Wilson—But you must support the establish-
ments of any country wherever you are.
Mr. Cooper—According to that principle you would
support
unpcoortl\tlrayl:om howevere ci anismgrionss Te umrkr. ey,w7 any idolatry of
80n_
I would.
Mr. Cooper—Then I must, though with deference,
protest against such monstrous doctrine
; according to
which you would pay tribute to Juggernaut ; and again
according to which, the truth of the Christian religion
could never have been sealed with the blood of the
martyrs.
We have tried all
means pay,geVnetsletrinyacnletrok)
but in vain, and we
areMexr.cteSoemdciiontahgxly(tthhseoerry to proceed, for they are very re-
spectable people.
Mr. Drew—They are as respectable and kind-hearted
as any people in our ward. They gave me five guineas
for a charity only last week.
In the course of a desultory conversation it appeared
that the premises are situated in two parishes, in neither
of which is there a church. The Rev. Andrew St.
Head Master of the Merchant Tailors'
JV.invvce.n33t,eallanmoyn-,resident, is Rector of one; and the Rev.
Grammar School, is Rector of the other.
Here the parties withdrew, the Lord Mayor shaking
hands with Mr. Cooper in a very cordial manner.
[The preceding account has been sent to us by a
Correspondent. The voluntary principle may work very
well in religious affairs, but we have always found it
sadly partial and inefficient in business connected with
worldly affairs, and particularly with newspaper reports.
The present is a remarkable instance. Our Correspon-
dent gives us the amount for which Mr. Cooper was
summoned and the conversation between the parties,
but loaves us utterly in Ilia dark what was the result,
ffirther than that the Lord Mayor and Mr. Cooper
I shook hands.]