The Sun. — 1845-01-18 (London, England)

NEW THEATRE IN SHOREDITCH.—The new theatre  which has been fur some months in the course of erection in Shoreditch, facing the Eastern Counties Railway, has ;:t length been completed, and is to be opened on Jlonda evening. It is one of the most elegant and capacious minor theatres in existence. The building has been erected under the entire direction of Mr. Gibson, the architect. It will contain an audience of 2,200 people, namely--gallery, 700; pit, 1,000; and boxes, 500. The gallery is so constructed that an entire view of the stage can be obtained from every seat. The front rows of the pit are rather below the level of the stage, it then rises on a slope and the back rows are on a level with the stage. The boxes are so divided that no inconvenient pressure can arise from a full house. An excellent  arrangement is made with regard to the approach, so that those who have an objection to a saloon can enter and ieave the theatre without coming into contact with it. The saloon is large, and fitted up with every regard to com:ort and ease. The stage is thirty-seven feet from wing to wing, and nearly fifty feet from the foot lights to the back. Beneath it is au arena for horsemanship (during an equestrian season) forty feet in diameter. To display this the stage will travel with the greatest ease to another part of the building. so that the delay in prepaving the arena will be as short as if a usual interlude followed.. The proscenium boxes draw back to prevent any obstruction to the view, and, as the curtain iises, a pair of very elegant Corinthian gold moulded pillars draw off at the side, leaving the stage its entire size during the dramatic representation, and closing again as the act drop falls. The divisions of the boxes are supported by Corinthian columns, gold moulded, and the dome is in strict accordance with the saute style of architecture. The interior of the boxes is  hung with crimson. The ceiling is divided into six corn liariments, with the following devices :—'• Tragedy, Music, the Dramatic Poet, attended by Fame and Appl.iuse; the Comic Poet creating his subject; the Painter's :1: cam, and Romance borne by two youthful poets." 'Hie rtircle bet!, een the boxes and gallery are decorated with ni,utical and equestrian sketches in thepanels, whilst the circle between the boxes and pit are in the arabesque !,iyie, with vignettes and various devices. The house iii be lit by a chandelier of a novel description. The building lays great claims to external elegance, and o;)ens wilder the joint direction of Messrs Johnson and Nelson Lee, late lessees of the Pavilion Theatre.  St.ouGu, Fittn.ky.—Mrs. Hadler (the mother of the unfortunate Sarah Hart, who was murdered at Salt hill, on the Ist instant), with her husband, left the neighbourhood of the melancholy catastrophe yesterday morning for Gravesend, taking with her the two children of the deceased. A subscription has been commenced at Salt-hill, under the auspices of a lady sojourning at D,tham's Hotel, to which liberal contributions have been :trade by most of the principal inhabitants of the vicinity, the benevolent purpose of providing for their future t%etfare. We may mention that Mr. Butham, the proprietor of the hotel, hay, kindly consented to receive sub • scriptiuns in their behalf.