Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-11-05

| WARLIEE PREPARATIONS AT JERsrY.--Every pre-
Paration is making pla the fortifsatons in this
island in complete state f defence The guns are
being mosned on Fort Regent, and orders have been
issued TO mount guns on all the towers recently e.
rected around the coast. There is at Fort Regent
battery OF "a pieces OF artillery, which is
to add to those already in by che Royal Jersey
Militia. 1t il also stated, that in the Of war;
brigade, composed "a pieces OF artillery of the
same calibre, would be sent from England TO relieve
the depot garrisoned here. We understand that the
lh regiment of the line is shortly t. be garrsoned
in this island in which the 18th depot will be
| quartered at St Peters Barracks.-Jspsey Chron'-
| A FIRE happened at Manchester on the evening of
the 18th, which ragged with undiminished fury seye-
raj hoars Ii broke out in extremely coniue To-
caity and destroyed several warehouses, with their
contcnts-the hole loss estimated at thirty TO forty
| Thousand pounds.
| The Great Western Railway Company heye offer
| ed 10 undertake the consi ruction Of Railway
through the couaty of Cornwall, if the sum OF EOO
| 900 be raised in the county.
The ship James Pattison, Cromarte, master from
Bombay for London, destroy ed by fire about 100
miles west OF the Azores the crew took to their
boats were picked up by bark from Newfonsd-
| land and carried int Lisbon. The captain and IA
OF the crew came passengers in the Braganza steam
ey; the cargo (cofton) supposed to have igniisd
from spontaneous causes.
| SINGULAR FAcT.-There are al the present mo-
ment six brothers in the LIST battalion OF Gresadisr
Guards now lying in Wellington Barracks, st James
| park They all enlisted at the same time, are al
nearly six feet and have served under his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, Portugal and
France, also in the recent affair in Canada. hat
renders the circumstance more interesting is that
their mother, nearly 50 years of lis in the re-
wa: granted to her through the interest of the late
Duke oil ork short time pre- vious to his decease,
who considered the fact without parallel in the En-
giish or any other army
| Theatrieals.
Astley'sha closed for the season, which has prov
ed one of unexampied prosperity. The storming Of
| Quito, or the Temple of the Sun, the latest
| novelty. No farewell address was delivered.
| Drury Lane is open for the Sc Concerts dHiuer
Musard, the inventor of these s0irSes amusantes,
| the conductor. The experiment appears as if it
would succeed, and infusc u better musical taste in
| the minds Of the Londoners.
Reynolds, the veteran play wright, has new
drama the stocks at Covent Garden. John of
Procida was still running at that house. A comic
has also been produced for two actors in which
Kelley and Charles Matthews nightly convus-
ing the house with laughter
The Haymarket continues open, notwithstanding
the ateness of the season. James Wailack is play
ing there, and we see him quietly put down for Dick
DashalI, in the second piece, without any parade.
The little Olympic is in thriving way. The
mayer lately produced three new vaudevilles in one
Estate is said 10 be great hit
The English Opera House and the Princes Thea
tire both going the Concert system, and appa-
r.nty with every prospect Of success
| The veteran Reynolds, author Of great number
| Of dramas, whose first play, called Werter, was
brought out sixty years ago, has piece accept
| ed at Covent Garden Theatre.
THE ITALIAN OpIRA-There is at present a
greath dearth Of good singers in Italy, and should
| any untoward event occur to break up the illus-
trious quar- tctt comprising Grsi, Rabni, Tamburin
and Labache, which has so long sustained the lta-
liam opera, both in London and at Paris II does not
seem that worthy successor could be found at this
moment any Of them Italy, instead OF being,
as formerly, the nursery ground OF musical talent,
| appears to have become the receptacle for those
whose period Of blossom has past, and who go to
eld up, in the land that produced them, the last
remains OF their sweetness Denzelli Is at this mo-
ment Of the frat tcnors and Ronzi de Begins, one
Of the first soprani Italy, both Of whom have long
ago been noted obsolete by the diettanf of the Hay
| market. Asthe only possible successor Of Rubini,
Young tenor named Mariani 10 spoken Of, and even
he whose greatest triumph is in the final air &c Lu
cia di Larnermoor, is so bad an actor as to place
him in this respect inf bitey below "the great Eu
| ropean celebrity" whom he will have 20 fellow.
In basscs Italy is promising for il boasts Of
Ronconi Cartagenoya, and Coetti, though the last
| Of these with all his great and admitted talent,
gained little by the collision with Tsmburni, into
which Circumstances, much against his own nell
| nation, last season brought him. Tamburini, We
are glad to saw there chance Of our losing Just
yet provided he and the directors OF the opera can
come 20 terms he gives out to his private friends
that he purposes singing eight years more before he
retires finally into Italy. lie has purchased spen-
did hotel in Paris, the whole OF when NE mas ie on
lease OF twenty years, eSceP'ns .ns "p Iony'
wn,en nc - oudon occ"cis. y.rv unpretendins
first floor, IL the proprietor OF several Italian pa
lacss. IL must, however, be r'%e%o.red that nearly
every good sized house, though the basement story
nay may .; !. oI LIT y
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