The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

increase of expense, however small, nor any injury to the
service of the Treasury or other department.
" Art. 6. All legislation to the contrary is repealed.
(Signed) " The QUEEN.
(Countersigned) " ANTONIO JOSE D'AVILA.
" Palace of Necessidades, Nov. 9, 1541."
AN APPEAL TO THE GENEROUS

PUBLIC.
TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN.
SIR-I observe with pleasure in your valuable
Paper, there are contributions and subscriptions
open for the relief of the distress of the labour-
ing classes of the town of Paisley. My anxious
prayer and wish is to see a general fund, call it
the British :National Fund, for the relief of every
distress of the manufacturing classes throughout
England, including printers, tailors, me-
chanics, and every trade that is in want of
employ. If the goodly inhabitants of every
market town and large village in Eng-
land were to form Committees composed of
gentlemen and respectable tradesmen, and so-
licit subscriptions for the same, I think great
good would be done if the head ofevery family
were to subscribe Is. per week, every Society
of the different trades who are in employ ls. per
week, servants in every establishment that is in
constant employ—in fact, every person who is
not in actual want, I feel assured would come
forward with their Gd. per week, others ld. per
week, according to their means. This, col-
lected with the bounties of Royalty (if applied
to our beloved Queen would be at the head of
so glorious a cause), the nobility, and gentry of
this country, would procure for every starving
family in England daily bread.
Oh ! then, let not a widow's prayer or appeal
be made in vain. She seeks not gain or fame—
she is a humble and unknown individual, who
feels that if something is not done for the relief
of the thousands or our distressed country-
men, they must die in our streets from hun-
ger and cold. What a disgraceful record
in the annals of Great Britain, to be
handed down to posterity that England's indus-
trious sons were allowed to starve and die in this
our land of plenty ! May God put it into the
hearts of those men who have so much of this
world's treasure, to come forward with their
200/., or 5001. They well know, where much
is given much will be required--he that giveth
to the poor, lendeth to the Lord.

A WIDOW.

DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE.

There is a strong rumour (we can yet treat it as
nothing else) that we arc not only to have C. Kemble,
but his daughter, Mrs. Butler, again on the stage after
Christmas. This, in fact, as tar as regard one of the
individuals we have named, is only a repetition of infor-
mation which we communicated to our readers several
months ago, when we adverted also to the supposed
cause of the re-return of C. Kemble to the stage. Since
then we were told (as we believed) that there was no
such reason for the renewed experiment of our modern
Betterton ; but the story is revived, and it seems put
upon a fair footing when it is said that the veteran still
hankers after a new opportunity for public exhibition on
the boards of Govent-garden ; and we are most happy
to hear that his health and strength are such as to en-
able him to sustain parts like Hamlet, the Stranger, or
Penruddock. With regard to the statement that C.
Kemble is to be supported by Mrs. Butler, we must be
permitted to doubt it until the intelligence reaches us
in a more authentic shape. We can see no sufficient
ground for such a course, and many against it, with-
out adverting to the facts that Mr. Butlr is a rich man,
and that Mrs. Butler always avowed her aversion to a
profession to wh.ch she was only driven by the necessi-
ties of her family.
There is another report current of considerable in-
terest, to which we have not hitherto adverted, because

we waited to hear some confirmation of it. We allude
to the assertion that Mr. Young also is about to revisit
the glimpses of the foot-lamps, and to go through a
round of his principal characters. One of these ru-
mours seems inconsistent with the other, for C. Kemble

and Young would take much the same line of parts—
Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, &c. lf, indeed, they could
be induced to appear in the same tragedies, as for in-
stance in Othello, it would form a most singular attrac-
tion ; but Young would be quite sufficient of himself to
fill a theatre for many nights. They could hardly act
together in Venice Preselect, for though Young was
and would be famous as Pierre, a younger tragedian
than Mr. C. Kernblc, at seventy, must be found for
Jaffier. It is said that the Queen has especially re-
quested Mr. Young to take his place again upon the
boards, that she may have an opportunity of seeing
what good tragic acting of the old school really is ; but
we doubt the truth of what we are told upon this point
now just as much as we did a season or two ago, when
a report of the same sort was got up in town as an ex-
cuse for C. Kemble again to come forward in public.
Such an excuse cannot be wanted by Mr. Young, if
he think fit to give himself the trouble of getting up
some of his great parts. He retired in the vigour of
h:s life, and that only a comparative!y few years ago ;
and if he will consent again to gratify the town, all we
can say is, that the town ought to be, and will be, very
much obliged to him.
We mentioned seine time since that the Sub• Co-
mmittee of Drury-lane had come to the resolution of ex-
pending a considerable sum of money upon the house
beyond what was originally calculated. It now appears
that Mr. Beazley, the architect of the theatre, has
made his report, and the result is, that 2,000/. will not
cover the necessary outlay. Of course, in a building
of such magnitude, even 2,0001. will go a comparatively
little way ; but when, as some months ago, it was ge-
nerally stated that 5001. only would be expended by
the Committee, the inadequacy of the amount could
not fail to strike everybody. We think that the pro-
prietors will have reason to think themselves very well
off if the whole of the first year's rent to be paid by
Macready be not absorbed by the inevitable repairs.
We are happy to learn that these works will not inter-

fere with die commencement of Macready's experiment
on the 27th of December next, as we announced early
in the autumn. Of course, under the terms of his en-
gagement at the Haymarket, he will not be able to
lend his personal aid as an actor until after the 15th of
January. We see that Webster still keeps in his bills
the announcement of Macready for such parts as Wol-
sey, king John, &c., and if they really are produced
towards the close of the season at the Haymarket, the
performances will be very useful to Macready as a spe-
cies of public rehearsal before he undertakes them on
his own boards.

The great success of Peake's compound comedy
Court and City at Covent-garden gives us unfeigned
pleasure : it will fill up the off-nights of Miss A.
Kemble's vocal performances very admirably, and we
hope profitably. Madame Vestris will have some cause
until the middle to regret that she deferredantdthheetphiereencperteo.saentation of it
from last season ; and certainly to put it in rehearsal
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are singin-
g at Birmingham, and we hope to good houses.
It is much to be lamented that they should at this mo-
ment be, as it were, banished to
had been driven away by the success of Miss A. Kemble.
We have often said that it is the fault of our English
opera singers, and of themselves only, that they are not
now at Drury-lane. Had they rallied round Eliason
as they ought to have done, and supported him heartily
in his undertaking ar Drury-lane, they might have had
good salaries, and have been in the enjoyment of a re-
putation which would have rendered Miss A. Kemble's
triumph less complete. We hear that Eliason has
turned his attention to opera in another department—
as a composer—and that he has at this moment ready
a piece which has met with the bigb approbation of all
the musical judges who have bad an opportunity of
hearing it. We do not know the subject, but we un-
derstand that Eliason has taken care to avoid the error
of many modern composers, by procuring a well-con-
structed and an interesting story. It is a singular fact
that Meyerbeer was obliged to come to Paris in order
to obtain words adopted to his style of composition.
Scribe has furnished him with them.
When C. Kean quitted London it was generally
supposed that he would return to the Haymarket be-
fore the end of the current season. It now appears
that he is not expected in town until soon after the 15th
of March, when Webster will commence his new
-
season. As soon as C. Kean shall have gone through
a few of his principal parts, he will bring out the
play, with a Spanish story, which Sheridan Kn
it, new
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has written for him. He will be supported in ow-,
and
in the other plays where a tragic actress of ern•
irience is
required, by Eden Tree, who has been performing
him at Liverpool, Manchester, &e. We shall with
be most
happy to have her among us once more, b
vinced that she does not consult her own being
con-
reputation by
being only seen in London at long
intervals. S
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Paper.

The severe indisposition of the Very Rev. the
Dean of Down, at his residence near Downpatrick, con-
tinues.—Belfast News Letter.
CHURCH-RATE QuAsHED.--On Thursday a
meeting of the inhabitant householders was summoned
to be hld at the parish church, Stoke, to levy a Church-
rate. The notice was short, and not extensively pub-
lished. The people, however, met in numbers, and did
their duty by quashing the rate.—StaffordskireExam iner.
BRISTOL, SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 19,
Sugars remain very firm, and the better qualities rather
dearer. We have still the same observation to make re-
lative to our market ;
" hardly any thing doing for
want of a supply." We have no Mauritius, no Bengals,
and the show of West India, during the Week, not worth
notice.—Bristol Mercury.