LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. (1855, October 9).

Mr Black and the Theatre Royal – It will have been observed by an announcement yesterday in our impression of yesterday, that Mr John Black, the projector and father of the Theatre Royal, has sequestrated his estate; and that he has been obliged to go into the Insolvent Court. We understand the immediate cause of this result was an enormous claim from the ground landlord, or the person claiming to be the ground landlord. We have no wish to intrude into the private affairs of individuals, and though theatres and theatrical managers belong rather to the public things and public men of the time, we only allude to the topic in its relation to the gossip of the day. On dit that the formidable demand made by the representative or holder of the fee is mere moonshine; but that the only remedies for the case were an action of replevin, which would have been necessitated finding bail for nearly £5000, or the sequestration of whatever estate Mr Black might have in the property. The latter alternative was the more facile remedy and hence its adoption. We understand that this act will not interfere with the management of the theatre, nor with the proprietor of the establishment, Mr Bayne. Still less has it any connexion with the affairs of Messers Spiers and Hennelle, the respectable parties who are the lessees of the licensed hotel facing Bourke street, and who are secured against all interference by the hands and seals of all persons interested in the property. We may add that he means adopted by the claimants of the property is in point of fact only an intrusive, but very energetic mode of asserting their rights, real or supposed; but which however just, well-laid and legal, are at any rate at the present time the subject of undecided litigation. R. E. Jacomb, Esq., is appointed the assignee of Mr Black’s estate.