The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-23 00:00:00

NEW YORK THEATRICALS.

(From the New York Herald,.of the Ist inst.)
Fanny Elssler is in town, having returned from Phi-.
ladelphia a tow days since. She is taking a little re-
pose after the fatigue of a long season. She has rea-
lized probably nearly $20,000 during the past season.
In a few days she will take her departure for Charleston,
Havana, and New Orleans, where a brilliant season
awaits her. Remaining in the " soft south " till next
spring, she will return and embark for Europa in May
or June next. It is expected that her southern trip
will yield her $30,000 at least.
John Braham recently returned from Boston, where
he was brilliantly received, and is new in Philadelphia
for a few days, until he makes his debut at the Park.
He has given three concerts in each of the large At-
lantic cities, which have probably yielded him
5,000 or $6,000, if not more. He is enthusiasti-
cally admired wherever he goes. He does not go south
this season, but remains in the Atlantic States, reaping
a splendid harvest during the whole season,
The Woods go south in a few days. As it is the
first visit Mrs. Wood has ever made to New Orleans,
we expect she will he brilliantly received. No vocalist
of such power, science, and skill, ever yet visited New
Orleans. Mr. Wood himself is as brilliant a singer as
an actor, and will be very popular in the south.
Leffler returns to England in the British Queen to-
morrow. His return has been partly caused by the bad
water of New York, which, since his arrival, he drank
in such large quantities as to affect his health.
Brough, a capital singer, and a gentleman every inch,
remains, and probably goes south with the Woods.

For the last month past, the city theatres have not
been well attended, although some few particular per
formances have drawn full audiences. Operatic pieces
have proved the m..st attractive, and of the two rival
troupes, that which was led by the Woods decidedly
bore off the palm. The National troupe, though drilled
with great care by De Begnis and Penson, has not an-
swered the expectations of the management, and cer-
tainly has not proved remunerative. The next experi-
ment is to be on Moz irt's Don Juan, which is now i n
the course of rehearsal. De Begnis, Seguin and his
wife, Guibilci, Miss Poole, W. H. Williams, and Horn-
castle, are to have parts in the rule. Lecompte's ballet
corps vias also put in requisition for a fen nights, but
their exertions proved abortive, and Madame's" lute-
resting family has now gone south.
At Philadelphia, last week, the stars were Power,
Forrest, and Hervio Nano. The first was at Burton's,
the second at the Chesnut-street, and the third at
Dinneford's, where also are playing Mesdames Flynn,
Mitchell. and other belles from the Bowery boards.
Racket is at Baltimore, playing Sir John Falstaff, Hain-
let, and King Lear, by turns. John lt. Scott supports
him. Browne, Mrs. Shaw, Miss Melton, and Abbott
are at Charleston. Lewis Fitzgerald Tasistro made his
debut at New Orleans on the 19th ult. as Othello. A
French troupe direct from Paris was also playing in that
city. At Galveston, Texas, a company of Thespians are
doing Suakspeare to the great delight of the natives. A
Madame Thielman is the directress of the troupe.
Latham, the buffo singer, is about embarking for Kings-
ton, Jamaica, with a company made up in this city.

QUARREL OF FRANCE WI ex
MOROCCO.

(From the Univers.)
The difference between France and the Empire of Mo-
rocco originated in the following incident : —A Spahi, taken
prisoner by Abd-el- Nader, having effected his escape to
Mogador, applied to the Consul of France in that town
fir relief, and for means to return either to France or
to Algeria. M. Dslaporte, the Consul, gave him some
money and sent him to an inn. The Spahi, having
inquired if there were any French merchants in the
place, was addressed to Messrs. F—. and Cremieux,
who gave him the necessary articles of an European's
costume. A few days afterwards, the Governor, being
informed that a Moor, partly dressed in the European style,
and who called hinisclt a Frenchman, had been met in the
streets, invited the Consul to present him. M. Delaporte
accordingly waited upon him with the Moor, and accom-
panied by Messrs. F— and Crimieux. The Governor,
having asked the Spahi whether he was a Jew, a Moor, or
a Christian, the latter replied—" I am a Moor, and shall
ever be our ; but I am an Algerian, and consequently a
Frenchman." " Thou art a Moor," exclaimed the Go-
vernor, " and thou dressest like an European, and thou
recognisest Christians for thy masters. Thou knowest,
nevertheless, that this is contrary to our laws ?" The
Spahi, confused by the apostrophe, hesitated to answer,
when M. Cremieux approached and whispered a few words
in his car. The Governor asked him why lie pre-
sumed to interfere, when his Consul was present. M.
Cremieux, having returned an insolent reply, the
Governor flew into a rage, ordered him to retire, and
pushed him violently. M. Cremieux resis ed, and struck
a soldier who had collared him. M. F— ran to the as-
sistance of his nephew, and had to contend with another
soldier, M. Delaporte interposed his authority without
being able to separate them or prevent the Sp -:lii from brillg
taken to prison. A few minutes after a Moor having struck M.
F— in the street, the Governor disapproved of Lis conduit,
and offered M. Delaporte to have the Moor flogged on the
spot where the offence was committed. The Colisul having
declared that in order to satisfy him the bostinado shun' d be
inflicted in front of the consular house, the Governor raid no
ftn ther attention to the affair. 'The next d ty Messrs. F— and
Cremieux, being determined on quittie,g :Wog* lor,we.. t dawn
to the harbour for the purpose of embarking in a Sardi-
nian vessel moored in the roads, but the customs officers
would not allow them to go on board without a permit.
They then called on the Consul, who sent one of his at-
taches to the Governor to protest against the breach of
the privileges enjoyed by Frenchmen, who, by the treaties
are at liberty freely to enter and leave the harbours of
Morocco ; but this functionary not heeding his message,
the Consul struck his flag, and having proceeded
to the house of the British Vice-Consul with
the French residents, and the Vice-Consul having
put on his uniform, they repaired in a body to
the residence of the Governor, when M, Delaporte an-
nounced to him that his authority being no longer re-
spected he had placed himself and his countrymen under
British protection, and no longer considered himself Con.
sul of France at Mogador. He immediately afterwards
apprised the Consul-General, at Tangiers, of his resolu-
tion, and the Governor reported the whole affair to the
Emperor. The latter, it appears, approved of the conduct
of his subordinate, threw the whole blame on the {Tench
Consul, and required his dismissal float that poet. On
the 23d ult., the date of the last accounts from Tangiers,
the European population lived in constant alarm from the
exasperation of the Moors, and Messrs. F— and Critnieux
had ever since been afraid to quit their lions,eS. A brig of
war had been ordered to Mogador I nevertheless, there
was every probability that the difference would be ad,josted
without a rupture.

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We have to record in our palitical obituary the
deaths of two Chartist journal*, the Western Star and the
Northern Liberator. The former died young, at its 9th
number ; the latter had reached its lti4th. The disease
in each case was deficient eire.tilation, and though at-
tempts had been made tct prolong the life of the Liberator
by infusion (and the Operative Champion, and we' be-
lieve some others had been incorporated with it), little
benefit was felt, 4% those who submitted to the transfer
of their names were afflicted with the oneiz can'P sad
e.ort faint
and moribund at the time of the operclt ii. We
that he preserved his consisten4 to the last ; for in com-
menting on cur notice a the Newcastle Chartists, in "n
few grave retitarks," he defended the charazt,„ or Cobbett
and Robespierre, and maintained tli
the national creditor nothi,,g propriety of P3Yng
in the pound. flappilY. at
present; it it sufficient to state these opinions withJat feel-
Just as the readers of fic;tioos were trig called upon to refute them.—Globe.
beginning to
exclaim that they had supped full of the fashienable cote-
ries of L.otidon, we
pereeive that Nira, Gale announces her
sketches of ‘‘ A Season in pir4.“ The novel readers had
a right ° C;P- Fi
titut %a their libraries from the pen , han addl.-
of this lively writer,
h
who has been for some years past living in the eart of
e._ almost a right to claim— such
the circle which we trust to find she has described with
her usual skill and truthfulness,