The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

Last night, after the entertainments at this theatre
had concluded, a silver cup of choice workmanship
and elegant device, was presented by the performers
to the manager, whose spirited interposition at the
moment of extreme embarrassment, we have been in-
formed, saved this popular place of resort from being
closed altogether. A select party of friends who were
invited were regaled in very handsome style upon the
stage to witness the presentation. The performers,
headed by Mr. H. Hall, the stage manager, ap-
proached Mr. H. B. Roberts, the lessee, to testify
their grateful sense of his liberality and enterprise in
rescuing them from the lot of even larger theatres,
which had unfortunately been compelled to close but
too prematurely for the interest of the performers.
Taking the cup in his hand, Mr. Hall said—
" My dear sir, or rather my dear Mr. Roberts, I
having been associated with you in the management
of this theatre can best bear testimony to the gene-
rous enthusiasm which led you to aid the company,
when others fell from them.
" It has been said of our unfortunate profession that
gratitude is not amid our virtues.
" It has been said, but what is the fact ? Here are
the ladies and gentlemen of the Strand Theatre
anxious to show that, as you have not been wanting
to them, they will not be wanting to you.
" This, Henry Ball Roberts (for I wont mister or
esquire you), is an humble, but sincere, tribute to
your genuine worth—there is not an individual here
but appreciates you as an actor, and as a man—not
one but feels that this theatre must have sunk had you
not (at a great risk) stepped forward to save it.
" Were you absent I could say much more, but,
present, respect for your feelings enjoins silence. Ac-
cept this cup, and believe that those who present it to
you thank you for your past exertions, anticipate
your future triumphs, and in all sincerity wish health
and prosperity to you and yours, and to all that are
near and dear to you."
The speech was received with great applause.
The inscription on the cup was highly appropriate :
" When the ship's all a wreck, he who steps forth to
lead her safe to harbour should be her captain."
On the cup was also inscribed the following testi-
monial :—" Presented to Henry Ball Roberts, Esq.,
by the ladies and gentlemen of the Strand Theatre,
as a slight tribute of respect for the manner in
which, under disastrous circumstances, he aided his
brethren." s

ILLUMINATION IX GLASGOW FOX THE LIBERATOR.
—On Friday evening, about nine o'clock, a number of
repealers, in Bridgegate-street and neighbourhood, com-
menced lighting up their windows, in honour of Mr.
O'Connell and the other traversers, on the occasion of
the reversal of their illegal sentence, by the House of
Lords, and by ten o'clock the illumination in that part of
the city became general. In Cowthiddens, also, the news
of the decision had the same inspiriting effect, and hearty
rejoicing in and out of doors where everywhere mani-
fested. A great part of St. Enoch's Wynd, particularly
the properties of Peter M'Cabe, Esq., were brilliantly
illuminated, there being, in one land, no fewer than 300
candles burning.
NOTHING so CERTAIN.—[From our Paris ' Cor-
respondent.]—We are informed by a remarkably fine
officer in the National Guards---(the gentleman, by-the-
by, is also a remarkably small dealer in coke and char-
coal)—that, in the event of a war, it is intended to pla-
card the Paris fortifications with " lists of impositions
upon English visitors," under the ebnyiction that, if they
could not keep the British out of Paris, nothing else
would.—Punch.
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aSliinTasFHHead, and George Head, was last night forwarded
shot at, and wounded, Stephen Whitlock, woodman to
Sir F. H. H. Bathurst, Bart., while returning from Salis-
bury to Fitton, and when net* Clarendon-wood. A re-
ward of 54 is offered for their apprebeuvion.