The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-18 00:00:00

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

This establishment closed on Saturday night after a
short season. The performances were the The Aven-
ger, The House of Ladies, Blinboozling, and the Two
Greens. After the third piece Mr. Baker advanced
and delivered the following farewell address
" The House qf Ladies is closed, and it is with min-
gled feelings of pain and pleasure that I Wow presume
to address you. The pain arises from the cernvicrioa
that to-night our exertions for your amusement terrhi-
nate—the pleasure springs from the anticipation of again
meeting you on September 29th. During tilt recess
the house will he completely re-embellished—nom pieces
will be procured, and the services of old favourites re-
tained, and of new candidates for metropolitan fame
secured. During our short season of threw months,
we have produced twenty-nine new piece§, all of which
have received the stamp of your approval. In the
midst of unparalleled theatrical depression, I am proud
to say, by the high and liberal patronage bestowed upon
us, we have flourished, and this recollection will. stltau-
late us to, if possible, greater exertions to deserve
your favour. In the name of the lessee, the performers,
r.nd myself, I now most respectfully bid you farewell.'

LANCASTER.—We have just seen a plan of the
great scheme proposed by Mr. Hague, the engineer of the pro-
posed embankment over Alorecombe Bay, to which is
*flitted
the project of forming Lancaster into the fizest port osi die
Nestern coast of England. .N.! r. Hague proposes to carry LA*
Lune by a canal ItiO feet wide, to be cut through the level Leaf
from Oxeliffe to Poulton, where the waters, joipip,,7
the Kent in the bay, would sweep out a deep navigable chatra
capable of bringing up the large'st vessels. lls arso proposes to
forma floating dank at Lancaster, to contain twelve
having at all times twenty feet of water, with a ship lockttoma
ships in and out. Another great feature in the plan is the Iv
accretion of land. In addition to 52,000 enclosed by the ecta
bankment, Mr. Vague expects 20,405 acres to accumulate on
the outside of the embankment, and 26,551 along the shwas
from Poulton to the W
yre. The following is Sir. liague's ea.
profits:—
nei,avt of the
te.ixopine
X76,66;3 nranacnadster to Poulton
Land to be purchased
Floating dock at Lancaster
Expenses in training the rivers and embanking 38,3.52,

16-1,11
Land roclaimed 26,551 at 25/. per acre.,. 664, ,f2s

Profit ...
—Lancaster Guardian

. X500,24)0

It has been
,c;iven out that Weirter is to pay
Charles Kean 50/. per night, for twenty nights ; that to say,
1,000/. for a first series of performances, which will last ten
weeks; he is to play only twice a week on the nights that
Macready does not actin or any other play, surpoliugj
Glencoe not to rim, which we will not suppose, becaase we are
quite confident of its success. It mac be very well tro I,am-
graph in the newspapers that Charles Kean is to hare 501. pOr
night, but these things are always managed in a tertain wa7:
Kean, the father, never used to perform under thiit sum, ac-
cording to his articles, but he threw in such a number of extra
nights, especially in the latter part of his career, as to make his
receipts perhaps anut more than half the stipulated and published
sum. This is always an understood matter, and is easily assranged.
The interests of tile actor and the manager are both promot•
by making it appear that the former is such ao attraction. _that
it is worth while to secure hits at a very grekt enfioe.--b-gao
day pacer.
The May meeting of this old-established
dAiistTlelitilw as held an
KENDAL AGRICULTURAL AS3DC.IATtoInOkI4;:z
on Saturday last. The show. of bulls an
the Beast Banks in the morning
interest. of that day, and created much