26 NOVEMBER 1842, Page 9

Certain mysterious announcements appeared in the Chronicle yester- day respecting

"a hitch" in Covent Garden Theatre ; which has been closed for three nights this week, on account of Miss Adelaide Kemble's indisposition. Today it is no longer concealed that there has been a total revolution in the theatre ; produced, like many revolutions, by a ruinous state of the exchequer. Mr. Bartley announced to the com- pany, in the green-room, on Thursday night, that "Mr. Kemble had been removed from the management of Covent Garden Theatre, that day, by the proprietors ; and that Mr. Bunn was appointed its future manager." Yesterday at two o'clock, Mr. Bunn met the company, and announced that his lesseeship was to begin after Christmas ; but he offered his services to the company in the interval, if they liked to open the theatre themselves. Mr. Bartley stated, that, after paying wages, choruses, and so forth, not a shilling would remain in the trea- sury today for the other performers. All this is attributed to the cost of getting up operas for Miss Kemble and Mrs. Alfred Shaw, and to the want of public patronage on the "play-nights" or "off-nights "- namely, those on which the two ladies did not appear. The company are in treaty with the proprietors, but the negotiation has not yet made much progress. The Tempest is announced for Monday, Semiramide for Tuesday, and Masaniello for Wednesday ; but, of course, all is un- certainty in the present state of affairs.