The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-04 00:00:00

SADLER'S WELLS:

This pleasant little theatre still continues its prosperous
career, under the able management of Mr. R. Honner.
'We visited it on Saturday evening, and witnessed the
performance of the new drama of Jack Ketch. This
new drama, which is from the pen of M. G. Alman, is
of the Jack Sheppard school, and Is illustrative of the
career of a certain John Ketch, from the days of his
his apprenticeship to a rope-maker, when he sees and
falls in love with the hangman's daughter, through a life
of crime as a highwayman and traitor up to the termi-
nation of his career, when, in order to save his own
neck, he consents to become the finisher of the law to
one of his old associates in treason and piracy, a certain
Jacobite knight, known as Sir Gregory with the Gash.
In justice to Jack, however, we should state that he
sturdily refuses " to accept office" until it is clearly proved
to him that the said Gregory had, in his
earlier days, murdered his (Jack's) father. The
piece is admirably got up ; the situations are
powerful, and the scenery, as it always is at this the-
atre, magnificent. The tirst act concludes with a most
animated scene, representing Fairlop Fair in the height
of the festivity. The second, with a grand tableaux vi-
vant, embodying a dream of Jam's. and representing
Tyburn Tree at the time of an execution, and the piece
concludes with the stoppage of the procession on its road
to Tyburn, at St. Giles's, and the offering of the bowl
to Sir Gregory of the Gash. Bonner was the hero of
the piece, and a fine bold highwayman bye made ; while
Mrs. Honner, as Barbara Allen, the heroine, was
very interesting and pathetic. Mr. John Hubert,f
an excellent low comedian of the John Reeve school, and
our old favourite Collier, elicited roars of laughter in the
respective characters of a- drunken rope-maker and an
aristocratic valetudinarian, The music of the piece se-
lected with great taste by Mr, Collins from old English.
airs, was very well performed. We congratulate Mr.
Honner on the married improvement which has taken
place in the musical department of the theatre since Mr.
Collins has had the management of the orchestra. After
the melo-drama came the farce of the Omnibus, in which,
Mr. T. Lee, perhaps •the best Irish comedian we have
left,. kept the audience in a roar as Pat Rooney. The
entertainments concluded with the new drama of the
Owlet's Haunt, a tale of mystery and murder from the
pen of the'veteran Moncrieff. The house was crowded
to excess.

LEEDS MEMORIAL TO HER
MAJESTY.
The following letter has been received from Earl
Fitzwilliam

Wentworth, Sept. 30, 1841.
Silt—l have received the Address which the inhabi-
tants of Leeds have done me the honour to request that
I would lay before her Majesty. As the Queen is not at
present holding her -ordin iry Courts' it would not be pos-
sible to present it personally to her Majesty, without in-
truding upon her in a manner which 1 am sure the ad-
dressers would be the last to sanction. I shall therefore
take the liberty of transmitting the Address through the
accustomed channel which is open to me under these cir-
cumstances Ibave the honour to be, Sir,
Yoti r most faithful servant,
John Goodman, gsq. FITZ WILLIAM.
Wentworth, Sept. 30, 1841.
Sin—ln pursuance of the request of the inhabitants
of the borough of Leeds, I herewith forward an address
to the Queen, praying her Majesty not to prorogue Par-
liament until the " Public diitresses shall have undergone
full discuSsion."

The Address proceeds from a meeting convened by the
Mayor. and presided over by one of the Aldermen. May
I beg that it may be laid before Her Majesty, and that
for the information of the addressers, I may be apprised
of its having been ps esented and received by her Majesty.
I have the honour to be Sir,
Your most faithful Servant,
(Signed) FITZ WILLIAM.
Rt. Hon. Sir J. 1. G. Graham, Bart. &c. &c. &c.
—Leeds Mercury. •