The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-22 00:00:00

DRAMATIC INTELLIGENCE.

The season will commence at Covent-garden, as we
stated some weeks ago, on the 3d of September, but
it is not finally decided what will be the opera selected
for the re-appearance of Miss A. Kemble, now
Madame, or the Countess Sartoris. We have
some reason to believe that it will be Bellini's
Sonnambula, the principal parts all to be filled as the

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piece was performed last year. Many of Miss A.
Kemble's friends are for a repetition of Norma, and
tho point is really of little consequence, since, even if
it were Elena cla Feltri, the least popular of Miss A.
Kemble's characters, the house would be sure to be
filled. One point has been decided, viz., that Madame,
or the Countess Sartoris, will still be called Miss A.
Kemble in the bills of the day. There are a number

of stories current respecting her marriage, and the
immediate cause of it, not one of which we believe to
be true, and we shall therefore add to the currency of
none of them. As we said a fortnight ago, her father
was • quite taken by surprise, and at first ap-
prehended that it would interfere with his
project at Covent-garden, but he was soon undeceived
upon that point, and it has from the first been our
opinion that the effect of the marriage before Miss A.
Kemble has quitted the stage will be to keep her longer
before the public than was originally anticipated.
If M. Sartoris has no objection to his wife's con-
tinuing on the stage immediately after his union, we
can see no reason why she should not remain there as
long as she finds it profitable.
It now seems certain that the members of the Co-
vent-garden company, or the principal performers in
it, will hire the Lyceum as an experiment, in order
that they may play there on the alternate nights when
Covent-garden will be closed. We are told that this
arrangement does not apply to the vocal department,
and that C. Kemble has engaged them at proportionate
salaries, on condition that they do not appear else-
where. We apprehend, however, that a license will
be necessary from the Lord Chamberlain, and that,
under the circumstances, it may not be a mere matter
of course to procure it.
The Surrey Theatre has lately been carrying all
before it by the introduction of regular operas on that
side of the water. A new opera, called Little Red
Riding flood, has been brought out there with great
success, the principal vocal parts having been excel-
lently sustained by Miss Romer, Harrison' and Leffler.
The enterprise does great credit to Mr. Willis
Jones, who is now at the head of the establishment ;
and, although the additional expense incurred has
been very considerable, it has been so amply repaid as
to leave the lessee a very large profit.
Macready begins at Drury-lane on the 24th Sept.,
his arrangements not being sufficiently complete to
enable him to open for the season earlier. Extensive
preparations are making for the production of Dry-
den s King Arthur, with the old English music, on
the first night. This is the opera which was post-
poned last year. Comm is also to be revived
with the cast nearly as " underlined" last season,
when it was withdrawn in consequence of the produc-
tion of it at Covent-garden by Madame Vestris. Now
Madame Vestris will lend her assistance to the piece
at Drury-lane. It is stated in several quarters that
the play at the opening this year will be Shakspeare's
Richard the Second, but we are not enabled to speak
positively on the subject. Managers do not like to
pledge themselves, lest some accident should intervene
to prevent the execution of their design. If Richard
the Second be not acted on the first night of the season
it will be produced very soon afterwards on a scale of
most extraordinary splendour and completeness.
Macready is resolved to spare no money upon these
revivals, and to follow up his designs commenced at
Covent-garden, and which, on his second season there,
so well answered the purpose of the u lessee. S nday
Paper.

SUICIDE.— Shortly after four o'clock on Saturday
morning, as a ballast engine was conveying some police-
men and excavators along the
.Eastern Countiesßailrothade
from the terminus at Shoreditch to Stratford, they no-
ticed what appeared to them a man silting against
pailings which divided the line from the Old Ford-road
Bow, apparently asleep. They, thinking it a very dan-
gerous place for a person to be, particularly at that time
of the morning, immediately stopped the engine and
reversed it ; and on coming to the spot where the man
war, they soon discovered that he was su,pended by a
rope, it being made fast to some hooks on the top of the
palling to prevent persons getting over ; and to carry
his design into effect, he was obliged, the pailing not
being high enough to extend his person in a sitting po-
sition, to tighten the rope round his neck and
strangle himself. He is about forty years of age, and
was dressed in a blackfrock coat, black waistcoat and
trowsers, awl his hat had a piece of crape around it. No
proi,erty was found in his possession, except a pocket-
book and a duplicate. The engine-drivers and stokers
of the various engines, who were going up and down
the line all night, have been questioned as to whether
they had seen him before, but not the slightest informa-
tion could be obtained.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Leeds Mercury.)
FOREIGN WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUG. 18.—There
has been very little business transacted in this branch
of trade during the past week, in consequence of the
disturbances which have taken place within the last
few days.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, AUG. 19.—The
proceedings of the turn-outs in other places, as well
as in this town, during- the present week, have en-
grossed so much attention, that business -has been
quite suspended. Indeed, so long as the mills are
stopped, it is not to be expected that the manufac-
turers will buy wool. We trust, however, that tran-
quility will shortly be restored, and trade resume its
ordinary course.
DUBLIN WOOL MARKEF, AUGUST 17.—We have
had much more business doing in wools this week,
particularly on English account, but we cannot quote
any alteration in. prices. Buyers purchase freely at
our former rates, viz. :—Hoggetts 16s. per stone;
wethers and ewes 15s. per ditto.
TRADE or LEEDS.—The alarming state of the
manufacturing districts has brought business to a
complete stand. The cloth markets on Saturday
were below an average even of the dull markets we
have had of late, but on Tuesday there was literally
nothing done. he same remarks apply to the state
of business in the warehouses ; very few buyers have
visited the town during the week, and those who
have come with the view of making purchases have
purchased only for the present need, and with the
greatest caution.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, TUESDAY, AUG. 16.
Our market to-day opened amidst the most gloomy
auspices, all the numerous mills in the immediate
neighbourhood having ceased working, and the im-
mense population employed therein standing idle in
the streets and the highways, or being worse em-
ployed in stopping the very few establishments which
have not yet been visited by the rioters. No business
seems to be thought of to-day. Manufacturers and
merchants are collected in groups outside our Cloth-
hall, earnestly engaged in discussing the recent occur-
rences, and looking with fearful apprehensions to the
Ito the 'future. Though the proceedings of the mis-
guided operatives have succeeded for the time being
in arresting the usual current of business, it is grati-
fying to know that the untoward circumstances by
which trade is at present affected, have merely a tem-
porary origin, and, though prostrated for the present,
it will recover its elasticity when the dignity of the
law is vindicated, as it will be. We would indulge
the hope that the peaceful aspect of our political rela-
tions with America, and the benign influence of the
seasons, will ere long conduce to a better state of things.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The attendance
of merchants to-day in the Piece market is far below
an average, and the business doing is of the same
limited character, which is fully accounted for by the
stoppage of mills on Tuesday, since which time no
goods have been manufactured. The demand still
continues on the mixed fabrics of cotton, wool, mohair,
and alpacas, both in plain and fancy goods, merinos,
&c., the product of wool is hardly so of ready sale—
prices of all kinds remain very firm. Since Monday
last the production of yarns has been nearly extinct,
owing to the stoppage of the mills by the mob rioters,
who caused, with very few exceptions, the total to be
idle till this morning, when the whole of the mills in
the towns and the immediate neighbourhood resumed
work, with generally a good attendance of hands, who
appear very anxions to be out of the riotous tumult.
in sales we cannot hear of any marked increase or
improved prices. During the week the spinners have
done but little in the purchase of any kinds of wools,
consequently no marked alteration in prices.

BELFAST ELECTION.
FOURTH DAY, AUG. 18.
The numbers at the close of this day were—
Mr. Ross
Mr. E. Tennent 798
Lord H. Chichester

SEIZURE OF THE MEXICAN
MONTEZUMA STEAM-FRIGATE AT BLACK-
WALL.
About ten days have elapsed since, at the in-
stance of General James Hamilton, citizen of
Texas, affidavits were laid before the Board of
Customs by S. Amory, Esq., solicitor, of 25,
Throgmorton-street, setting forth certain facts as
to the manning, arming, equipment, general ob-
jects, and destination of the beautiful and power-
ful Montezuma steam-,rigate. Immediately
those affidavits were lodged at the Custom-house,
two officers were sent on board the Montezuma,
and there continued until Monday last, when Mr.
Forsyth, Custom-house searcher, seizrd and took
formal possession of the vessel. The affidavits
before alluded to were grounded upon violations
both of the Navigation and Foreign Enlistment
Acts. The Foreign Enlistment Act (59 Geo.
111., c. 60) renders subjects enlisting or engaging
to enlist or serve in foreign service, &c., or per-
sons luring others and without licence front the
Crown, guilty of a misdemeanour, and punish-
able by fine or imprisonment. Vessels having
such persons on board may be detained by
officers of customs or revenue. Masters en-
gaging to take such persons on board forfeit 501.
for each persen, and the vessel may be seized
until the penalty be paid, or bail given. Persons
fitting out to such vessels are guilty of a misde-
meanour, the vessel may be forfeited, and
officers of customs or revenue may seize it.
Aiding the warlike equipment of vessels of fo-
reign states is a misdemeanour. Under those
provisions of the law the Montezuma has been
seized.
The allegations of the affidavits upon which
the seizure has been effected are to the effect—
That the Montezuma has been built as a war
frigate at Blackwall, for the Government of
Mexico—is under the cotnmdnd of Richard
Francis Cleveland, a Post-Captain in her Ma-
jesty's Royal Navy—has eight or ten officers,
boatswain, gunners, and 150 seamen, in addition
to twelve marines, all of whom have been in her
Majesty's service. Her armament consists, or
was to consist, of four long 32-pounders, two
short 32-caronades, one 68-pounder, 500 muskets,
rockets, shells, &c.
The Montezuma in her construction, equip-
ment, and steam-power and crew, is a very for-
midable vessel It was observed by_ one of her
crew, an old man-of-warsman, that she was " as
warm a thing as he had ever seen." The crew
had received 61. each in advance; they were en-
gaged for a term of teree years certain, at 3/. a
month, with permission to terminate the en-
gagement at the end of one year. Each man on
retiring from the service was to receive Si. be-
sides his wages to carry him home.
A somewhat similar vessel was constrncted at
Liverpool, called the Guadalupe, except that her
material is iron. General Hamilton's arrival in
this country was, howelTr,:too -late to intercept
hea, and she is now (fully equipped and manned)
on her way to Mexico. Relatice to her similar
affidavits have been laid before Government, hut
to what purpose remains to be seen. Both ves-
sels are so built as to draw only nine feet of
water : thus admirably adapted for their pur-
poses of running in with troops, &c., to the Bay
of Galveston and other shallow harbours on the
coast of Texas.
The crews of both vessels are picked and ex-
perienced men, and those of the Montezuma,
whom we saw on oue of the days appointed for
sailing, looked as happy as if they were going to
a ball.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—SHOCKING SUICIDE OF AN
OLD MAN, 77 YEARS OF AGE.—On Friday afternoon an
inquest was held before William Carter, Esq., at the
Leg of Mutton and Cauliflower, Ashstead, Surrey, on
view of the body of John Tanner, aged 77 years, a gar-
dener, who died in consequence of a desperate wound he
had inflicted on his throat with a razor, under the fol-
lowing circumstances!—Emma Tanner, daughter of the
deceased, deposed that on the afternoon of Friday,
the 12th inst., her mother requested her to seek her
father, who had been out of doors for some time, and
on going to a shed, at some little distance, she saw
the deceased coming out of the shed with the blood
pouring from a wound in his throat. Witness gave an
alarm, and a neighbour came to her assistance, who
asked deceased why he did it ? To which he replied, "I
did it ;" and putting his hand up to his throat, said
"He wanted to feel if it was asunder." Deceased had
before attempted to commit suicide, but had been pre-
vented, and a careful watch was set over him. Mr. Maw-
ry, a surgeon, deposed that he attended the deceased un-
til his death, which took place -on Tuesday last. lie
found an incised wound in the throat, about three inches
in length and two inches deep. There was a treat dea;
of movement of the muscles of the left side of his body,
indicating disease of the brain ; also considerable wild-
ness in his manner. The Jury returned a verdict, " That
the deceased died from disease of the brain, accelerated
by cutting his throat, being at the time of unsound mind."
BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, AUG. 19.—Our market
wears a heavy and lifeless appearance, and not the slight-
est disposition to purchase beyond what is immediately
wanted ; but the firmness of the merchants sustains
prices.—Bristol Mercury.
" Have you filled up your Schedule ?" is the ques
tion one hears asked now by every body of every body.
This puzzling tax has given a new turn to the com-
mon intercourse of society. People don't ask now
after each other's health, nor do they talk much about
the weather, glorious as it is ; nor do you hear
a great deal even of the alarming riots •in the
north. There may be, now and then, a slight
glancing at these things, but there is a mat-
ter of deeper import, a weightier mystery, which sits
upon men's souls, and " harrows up their thoughts."
The people you see going about the streets with an ab-
stracted air, the solemn groups at the turning speaking
sotto voce, young tradesmen looking prematurely care-
worn, and here and there an elderly gentleman appearing
disgusted with the werld—especially if he is a Tory, and
so feels himself caught in his own trap—all of them are
in !`en internal ferment about their Scliedules.—lVest
Briton.