The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-28 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

Last night closed the summer season at this little dra-
matic snuggery. The performances were—Martin
Chuzzlewit, Binks the Bagman, and Aladdin. In the
course of the latter pieco Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Mont-
gomerie danced their celebrated Pas de Polka for the
.54th consecutive evening, and has it has been encored on
every occasion, it follows that they have danced this
celebrated pas 108 times. The season has been most
successful, the best proof of which is the fact that the
recess is for only one night. After the second piece
Mr. Roberts delivered the following address :
" Ladies and Gentlemen,—Brief as has been the
period of my management, I cannot pass over the oppor-
tunity of returning my sincere thanks for success ex-
ceeding my most sanguine hopes—success, I trust, not
wholly undeserved, but certainly unexpected.
" To the circumstances under which I took the theatre
I will not advert—suffice it to say that I instantly sought
for novelty, and found it—Martin Chuzzlewit—a work
from the pen of Boz dramatized by Mr. Charles Webb,
a young and talented author, and the Dickins must be in
it if that did not succeed.

" I sought the services of three popular favourites—.
not to displace, but to aid the regular company. The
result has shown that, in engaging BEDFORD, I was
RIGHT, and such has been their attraction, that, in con-
tradiction to an old adage, I have had no occasion to rob
Peter to pay PAUL.
" Of Miss Stanley, who, like a Noble Lord, is about
to be elevated to the Upper House—(that is to say, the
Princess's)—l need only add, that it will b© much easier
to make a Peer of my Lord than to find the peer of the
Lady.
" The rest of the performers, ladies and gentlemen,
have acted as brothers and sisters in the cause of their
fellow performers. The unanimity that has prevailed,
and the strenuous efforts of my stage-manager, have
literally converted the Strand Theatre into a happillial..
"I have omitted to speak of another novelty that has
been specially honoured by your approval. The extra-
vaganza of Aladdin has bsen a hit—a very palpable hit
—I have indeed changed my old lamps into new ones,
and you, you have been the brilliant lights that have
guided me on my way.
" Having said so much of the past, permit me to say a
little of the future.

" I intend commencing a winter season on Monday next.
—Martin Chuzzlewit has been so successful that I am
bound to continue its performance—it has stuck by me,
and I will stick by it.
" I have entered into an entragement with the celebrated
American comedan, Mr. Marble ; who will appear on that
evening. I need not enlist your sympathy in favour of a
stranger, assured that every lady and gentleman wkom
I now address, feels that nothing can, or should divide
England and America—but the Atlantic.

‘7on the same evening will be produced a burlesque
entitled La Slumbernambula—at which I trust you may
laugh as truly as you havo wept at the opera of La
Sonnambula when the inimitable Afalibran, or our own
inimitable Miss Romer, played the heroine.
" The aid of Mrs. Sairey Gamp has been procured at
an enormous expence, and that lady will sustain the
character of Ameaner. Now, as the cocknies say—this
is Hall.

" I have nothing more to add, but that past success shall
arouse me to greater exertions for the future—that I
most gratefully thank you in the name of the performers
and of myself, and that until the expiration of our re-
markably short recess, I respectfully bid you farewell"

MRS. NISBETT.—The patrons of the drama will
learn with regret that this accomplished actress has
quitted the profession she has for so many years adorned,
and entered into the bonds of wedlock with a gentleman
of title and large fortune, holding a high appointment in
the Customs. Mrs. Nisbett (then Miss Mordaunt) made
her appearance at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane in the
season of 1829, in the character of Widow Cheerly in the
Soldier's Daughter, since which period, with the excep-
tion of two years after her marriage with the late Cap,
tain Nisbett, she has continued to be a member of the
Theatres Royal Drury-lane and the Haymarket, the
latter being the last establishment in London where her
professional exertions were exhibited.
Mr. John Robinson, late of the Royal Adelaide
Gallery, son of Dr. Robinson, has been appointed analyst
to the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.