The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-02 00:00:00

DISTURBANCE AT THE THEATRE.

Its consequence of the engagement of Mrs.
Oomvxs:, instead of Mrs. M'Ornito re, to perform the leading
female tragic characters at our theatre, thert have been very
seridne distutbances there every evening this week, with the
exception of the last; a number of Mrs. friends
having attended for the purpose of preventinttlie performance
from being heard, until their favourite was re.engeged ; and
we regret to say, that on Monday and Tuesday evenings COD.
siderable violence was offered to the performers, by pehint
them with oranges, apples, marbles, bullets, copper coin, and
other missiles. We had prepared for publication a very •
full account of these transactions; but the accomonode=l"
Lion which took place last night having in some degree
deprived them of interest; and as we' have no wish
whatever to prolong the recollection of eirounstences which
are beat buried in oblivion, we do; not .think it worth while to
insert It and shall therefore merelygivi a brief account of what
occurred last night (Friday), by which the contest was And-
dimly terminated;
As soon as the curtain rose for the commencement of the
play (nteherd the 'third) the accustomed signal was given •
y the hoisting of placards in various parts of. the house;'
And the disturbance commenced as on the preceding even-
ings but 'it was speedily checked by the advance to the
front of the range of Mr. Clarke, the stage.toaneger who
Intimated a wish to address the audience. Atter silence
was obtained, Mr. Clarke stated that he was desired by
the managers to make a communication which. he trusted
would have the effect of putting an end to all. further diS.
putes. Within .a very few hours eireumetanees 'had occerred
which enabled the nentagers to open a negociation with Mr.
Al`Gibbon,—(Loud cheers.)-4.,A full statement of the cis.
cumstances which had led to that negociatioit would speedily'
be laid before the public ; and in the mean time he hail the 4.6
defection to state that in all probability it would lead to a re. •
sumption of Mrs. MiGibbon's engagement on Monday next.
This announcement Was received with reiterated cheers; the
placards which bad been affixed to the front of theupper boxts
were immediately turn down and destroyed;' and the play was
permitted to proceed without the slightest interruption, except
that, when Mrs. Ogilvie appeared on the stage, in the character
of the Queen she was assailed with afew, and but refew hisses.
After the fall of the curtain, Mr. Clarke againmade his lip.
pearance, holding in his hand several letters. fie stated, Ow,
he cause to redeem the pledge which the Managers had given,
of laying before the public a i.,e,enent of the eiteuteeteocea at•
tending the negeciation with M'Oibbein. That statement
would be found in the letter:: he held he his hand, and which he
begged permission to read to the audience. fie then read—
irst—A letter from M. Lewis to Mr. Ward, dated Decceme
ber $O, in which the writer suited, that, not being able to bring
himself to concede a demand unwarranted either by justice or
by the rules of theatrical establishments, he OW no alter-
native but either to witness for an indefinite tithe, the earns
scene* of tumult and violence which had been' dieplayed at the
theatre for several evenings past,' or to withdraw .from the mu-
nagenient of the affair eltogetlier. Mature consideration bed
induced him, at whatever. I evuniary sacrifice, to adopt the
latter alternative; and he therefore left , the twine entirely is
Mr. Ward's hands, assuring him that any arrangement lat 4
which he might think proper to enter should meet with no one
stacle on his (Mr. Lewis's) part. The letter concluded by de.
siring Mr. Ward to convey his thanks to the.performers tbr the
patience fortitudethey had displayed i,,.th,,y. trying
Intuition in which they hail been placed.
The second letter we* front Mr..Wera to Mrs. ill+(libbon,
stating that Mr. Lewis had left the matter in his bends ; and
he therefore begged to offer her a renewal ut' her engagetneet,
to commence on Monday next. '
The third and last letter Was from Mrs. All-01bhon' to Mr,
Ward, thanking hint for his offer, and Informing trim dun Mr.
Ill'aibbou would wait upon, him on the subject the following
(this)ntorning. .
Mr, Clarke, after reading these letters, said, the audience of
course would Infer from them dad there was every probability
that a renewal of Mrs: ,M4.libbon'e engagement would Tenth
front the proposed Interview ; and he Whale doubt that that
fact would be annonneed in the bills which would -be printed
the following (this) day.
This communication Was bf course received ,with great Ap.
please; and the performance Proceeded,' and tertitinstted in per.
feet good humour.—(Afendieske Onaidifin.) •'• ,

VIRTUES OP Glm.--.Eigikty years ago, * hen the
retail of gin was found very destructive t morals of the
people in the metropolis, anti Hoerth assisted in raising
the cry, with hie celebrated prim of (lin-alley: an Act of p,
'lament wits passed to prohibit the sale of gin its Hotel! quanti-
ties. The Act wric however, Singularly .enotrgh infringed hr
several of the apothecaries kind chyoilsts of the•Atny; many of
whoth were tined 1001. each by' the L oininixsioneril of Excise.
One of them, a sir. Tamer, -litigated the question at a grtiat
expence ; his plea was carious. It %vita, that the'right of
lag spirituous ligners was originally in the apothecaries, they
being the bestjailges what rivahtitiaa slaiiiiii bn silodnlsteted...
that tse had expvtioneetil ~in to be very efficacious, partiAtierly
irk the gripes, and since the oommencement of the Act, he had
observed that disorder to In the epidemic nisledy of the king-
dutu, and thought in atinkinistering thereof ha hail not emelt..
id' the privilege of the faculty.

RUSSIAPI LONORTITY.----Thu last AlllOlOl
tUnty of the Russian Empire, published, at St.
Petersburg!), records the death of a nuns at the
very advanced age of 108, near to Polosk., on the
frontier of Livonia. 'Ho had seen sevrls
reigns on the throne Of
,Rossia, and remeinbered
the death of Gustavo*,Adolphus. He hag beets
a soldier in the thirty years' oar ; ttt the battle of
Poßowe, in 1709, he was 61 years of age. At the
age of O ,he married his third wife, with whtsm
he lived 50 years ; the two youngest sons ht. this
marriage were 80 and 01 respectively in, the yeas
1790 ; the oldest of his other sons in the cause year
were 05 and tr 2 respectively. The entire fancily
of this patriarch comprise% 138 sit acentieilnks, who
all lived together in the ;village, of Pollatltke,
which the Empress Catharine the Second caused
to tie built for ttlseM, granting, at thearo so time,
re considetakle4rmet fat land for.their, support
the Mid year of his tote this modern Nestor
its the enjoyment of theb most robust itealth4