ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY. — The season closed to-night, with the following address,
spoken by Mr. Serle.
" Ladies and Gentlerneu-4 am deputed by the Proprietor to offer you. on this, the last night of his season, ids sincere thanks for the patronage with which you have honoured this establishmeut during a period of calamity and general depression almost Unparalleled in theatrical history. He has desired me at the same time to state, that many unforeseen difficultiei have hitherto prevented the building of the New English Opera House ; but that tle.se V. i5as impediments have been gradually removed by unremitting perseverance, .1re is now every reason to hope that a very fee: months will en4ble him to welcome his friends and the public in a theatre worthy of them, and of the purpose for which it will be erected—namely, the advance. meat of Dramatic Music in this country. The proprietor feels confident, that he will then be enabled to redeem his pledge of restoring the English Opera at least to that degree of credit whielt it bad acquired for some years before the disastrous event that drove him to an asylum where all his energies have been cramped, and his main object defeated. Ladies and Gentlemen, in this hope., and in his name, as well as in that-of my brother aid sister performers. I bid you, for the present, most respectfully and sin- cerely, farewell."
The busy Adelphi will now shut its doors till the 30th, when the Winter season of Messrs. MaTnEws and YATES commences.
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