The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-23 00:00:00

OPERA HOUSE.

Mr. B. KEEN presented a petition on behalf of
Pierre Frangois Laporte, the lessee of the 'i:pera
House, under the demise of the assignees of Messrs.
Chambers, bankrupts. Upon the representation
that M. Laporte was extremely desirous of proceed-
ing to Italy and other parts of the Continent, for
the purpose of engaging performers and making the
necessary arrangements for the ensuing season, the
Court had directed yesterday that this petition
should be heard immediately after the case of " Bel-
cher v. Moberly," then before the Court; but that
case having occupied the whole day, and ❑ot being
yet concluded, M. Laporte's petition was allowed,
under the circumstances, to take precedence of it
this day. M. Laporte, in 1832, took a lease of the
Opera House for three years, from the assignees of
Messrs. Chambers, at a rent of 13,2501. Notwith-
standing all the exertions made by M. Laporte
during the last season, he had found it impossible,
under the pressure of so excessive a rent, to derive a
fair remunerating profit from the theatre. The ob-
ject of the present petition was to obtain the sanc-
tion of the Court to a reduction of the rent from
13,2501. to 10,0001. per annum, which was the
amount of rent found to be just and reasonable by
the report of Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, and also
to relieve the petitioner from the embarrassment
occasioned by a sub-lease of boxes to a trustee,
which was one of the conditions under which he at
present held the theatre.
Mr. SWANSTON and Mr. MONTAGU for the assig-
nees of Messrs. Chambers, stated that an offer had
been made by a gentleman, who ,vas ready to find
unexceptionable security, to takc A lc c of ►lie
theatre for five years, at a rent of 11.0001. per an-
num. If, therefore, the Court acceded to the pre-
sent application, they were bound, with a view to
the benefit of the bankrupt's estate, to insist at least
upon M Laporte paying a rent of 11,0001. for the
residue of his term.
Mr. B. KEEN contended that a rent of 10,0001.
was the maximum fixed by the Commissioner; that
the consequences of letting the theatre at an exor-
bitant rent had already been_ proved in the case of
Mr. Monck Mason, who had taken the Opera-house
at a rent of 16 0001.

The COURT granted the petition, and it was re-
ferred to the registrar to settle a new lease to M.
Laporte, at a rent of 10,0001. a year, and without
the sub-lease of boxes to a trustee.

VALUE OF LAND.—Owing to the traffic
produced by the railway and new collieries on Whitwick
waste lard, which twenty years ago would not have
fetched 201. per acre, is now selling in lots at from 4001.
to 5001. fur building. The high chimneys, and numerous
other erections upon the spot, give the neighbourhood
quite an improved appearance. It is intended to call thin
new colony " Coalville."—Leicester Chronicle. —LWe
wonder if the landlords in this neighbourhood fear the
importation of food, and consequent increase of population,
as a circumstance likely to bring down rents.—En. SUN
Some curiosity was excited in York last week
by fee arrival of a man in a sailor's dress, with a travel-
ling machine, as he termed it, of his own construction.
It is on the velocipede principle, but an improvement upon
those hitherto seen. A circle just wide enough to admit
the traveller's person encompasses his waist, and to a hori-
zontal shaft proceeding from each side of this circle are
fixed a pair of wheels, light in their construction, and about
six feet in diameter. Close by the ring arise, to support
the arms, two short crutches, which, with the circle, are
cushioned and stuff-d. The body is thus so supported
that the feet can just point the ground to make a stroke,
which puta the wheels in motion. The whole is directed
by a lever upon which the hands rest, and by this simple
contrivance the man says that on a tolerably good road
he can travel nine miles an hour with great ease. Ile
was very expert in his motions, and guided the machine,
as regarded turning and stopping, with facility.—York
Herald. - _

LITERARY NOVELTIES.—Mr. Horace
Smith's novel of " Bramhletye House," we understand,
will form the December Number of " Calburn's Modern
Novelists," which are publishing at a lower price than
the Waverley Novels. On the first of the next month,
with the Magazines, will also appear, on the same plan
of cheap monthly publication, the first number of the
" Irish National Tales and Romances," containing Mr.
Banjul's story of the "N owlans," and the first number
of the " Naval and Military Library of Entertainment,"
containing Captain Marcyles " Naval Officer," also
" Lord Byron's Conversations with Lady Ressington,"
complete in 1 vol.—Mr. Carne's Account of his "Travels
in Switzerland," 1 vol.—and Mr. Leigh Hunt's prose
sketches, entitled " The Indicator and the Companion,"
2 vols. Orders for these works should he forwarded im-
mediately to the Booksellers, to prevent disappointment.
EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING.—_A gentle-
man of Leeds having occasion to go to Edinburgh, left
that place by the Telegraph coach on Monday morning
week, and arrived in Edinburgh the following morning
y nine o'clock, transacted his business, and left by the
Eclipse, a new coach, the same afternoon at four, and
.
arrived at his residence Leeds at three o'clock on Wed.
Marriage in
nesday afternoon, having travelled a distance of 420
miles, and at a cost of ..11.—Huddersfield Express.
'1 he remarkable scene at Vauxhall, which so
vmaterially t
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thedenouement
authoro of "r yM ofrr " Tre-
! tle story
High Life," actu illy took place a few s a'one ago. The
are, no doubt,
rlieb4elapinevesognaallgaen:,; and the
the libertinetdentlty ofh the wife,
whose ho-
flour was so happily, and by so strange an incident pre-
served, though her peace of mind. and even life was even-
wally sacrificed, would not be difficult to discover.