The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-07 00:00:00

THEATRES.

LYCEUM,
A new piece, called Matteo Falcone, was produced at this
theatre last night. The pieoe is a melodrama, and Matteo is
a brigand. Incident in the former there is but little—interest
in the latter almost as much. Mr. Perkins' Matteo can be so
easily conceived that it would be superfluous on our part to
notice it specially. Mr. M'lan appeared in the part of the
second brigand. He danced the tarantula with a wildly vi-
gorous gracelessness, which won him an encore. He also dis-
tinguished himself at the end by imitating the fall of those who,
being shot mortally, spring from the ground some feet bef':;,.,
they give up the ghost. Ho should know, however, tott such
springs betoken the abrupt and total extinctior of life,
in so
much, that when the individual so sPl.iging returns to the
ground he it a corpse. The reception which this piece re-
ceived was not very animated, yet it Was announced for con-
stant repetition. We were glad to see a pretty full audience.

URRR
Another of these natiticsll dramas which, since the engage-
ment nf Mr. T. P, Cook, has So In uch characteriied the per-
formally° of this theatre, Vl,ll¢ last night produced here, and met
with unequivocal success. The piece is named after Captain
Chamier's popular novel of Ben Brace; or, tie Last of Nel-
son's Agamonnwi, from which it is avowedly taken, but with
certain yariatiens fox the sake of stage effect, and adaptation.
The wain business of the drama has reference to the earlier
exploits of the lamented Nelson, and ends with the battle of
the Nile, of which is given an animated representation by way
of a concluding- talae4s. Mr. I'. Y. Cooke, of course, sup-
ported in the character of Ben Brace the entire interest of the
tc vhich is eked out w4h an affair of smuggling, of which
Qobham was the leader, and by way of episode the gentle
loves of Jooy (Mr. W. Smith) and Jeannette (Miss Martin.)
the htnise was extremely crowded in every part.

SIi,IPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
(FROM bLOYD'S.)
- •
Dx.y.,, JUNE 6.—Wind W. S. W.—..,Arrived and proceeded
for the river the Courier, Proud'oot, from the Cape of Good
Hope ; Ewell Grove, Burton, from Jamaica ; and Moslem,
Vale, from Odessa, Arrived from the river and sailed the
Roxburgh Castle, Cumberland, for Madras ; Iris, Cuddy, for
Belfast ; and remain the Columbine, Pilchor, for Africa; and
Sea Witch, Hearne, for the Cape of Good Hope. The Re-
pulse, Pryco, for Calcutta Greenock, —, for New York ;
and Norfolk, for Bordeaux, have also sailed.
Pot-cm:mm.ll, JUNE 6.—Wind W. S. W., fresh breezes.—
Arrived his Majesty's ship President, from Bermuda,-
port the Lady Raffles, Pollock, from the
31st
January, Cape the 4th April, and St. Helcua the Ugh.
PLvatouTir, JUNE s.—Wind N.W ti 2 l'.l.7.—Arrived the
Naples Packet, Coterill, from 1.:30414 aria Jane, --, Lisbon.
FaLmourtt, JUNE 5, W: to W. N. W.—Arrived the
Herme, Garret, iVAIN Licata.
JkiNE 6,—Arrived the Patriot King, —, Canton.
tit ANCIATE CREEK, Jv 6.—Arrived the Treasurer, Low-
rie, and Hellespont, Longridgo, from Odessa ; Newbaven,
.Robson, from Trieste; Amazon, Pitcairn, from Amona ; and'
Margaret, Gray, from Marseilles.
Li ‘'SRPOOI., Jima s.—Arrived the Cordelia, M'Lay, from
Laguayra ; George Canning, --, from Porto Cabello ;
Thomas Dixon, Lyon, from Mobile ' • Erin, Leadbitter, from
Savannah ; Reacoe, Delany, from New York ; St. Ander,
George, from St. Ander; Alexander, 'D
-staff, from St.
Petershurgh ; Lees, Braithwate, from liarbadoes; Richard,
Cowdpie, from Venice and Swift, Truman, from Sines.

The Jahn and Mary, Foreman, from Folkstone, has arrived
at Ilridlington, and the Sisters, Morley, from Stockton, the
farmer bound to Sunderland, and the latter for Rouen, both
with considerable damage, and very leaky, having been in
contact.
shinse Cov's.
",,try, Purdie, and Skerne, —, with many other
. end colonial vessels, were driven on shore at the Mau-
ritius during a hurricane previous to the Ist April.

The dinner party at the Marquis of
Holderness-house, on Saturday evening, consisted of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cuinherland, Duke of Rutland, Sir R.'
Peel, Earls and Countesses of Jersey and Mansfield, Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter, Viscounts Castlereagh and Sea.
ham (the Marchioness's eldest son), Lord Hill, Lord Abinger,
Lord Lyndhurst, &c

EASTERN COUNTIES, RAILROAD.—We last
week spoke. in favourable terms of the Eastern Counties Rail.
road, because we were convinced of its feasibility and utility.
Our views upon this subject have been fully justified by state-
mews which we have received from persons best qualified to
exhibit its merits. The Bill was brought in by that stanch
friend.of the country, Sir Charles Broke Yore, and appears to
us to promise—as it is the longest line of road which has this
session received the sanction of Parliament—to be the most
profitable ; the length of line is 127 miles. The estimated
number of annual passengers is upwards of two millions ! and
the_amount of goods nearly four hundred thousand tons The
revenue from these sources is anticipated at 502,9001. per
annum, and, be it observed, is entirely exclusive of the revenue
(certainly not inconsiderable) which will arise from the con-
veyance of cattle and sheep to London, from the great grazing
counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, as well as from the
re-establishment of packets from the north of Europe to Yar.
mouth and Harwich, which is certain to take place as soon as
the Eastern Counties Railroad is completed—at least if •,:„
saving of one entire day in our communication with -..orthern
Europe be regarded as a matter of any itaport.:,,,,;: In the
conduct of this Bill through Parliarivent, to much
praise can-
not be given to Mr. Braithwaite, tine engineer, and Mr.
Robertson, the secretaq, for .the clearness 'and ability with
which they gaYO fltelr 9-v•' ence before the Committee.—John
Bull,

A petition to the House of Commons was yesterday
received in town from Leeds, signed by 5,000 persons, in favour
of the Irish Municieal Corporation Bill passed by the Com-
mons, and in opposition to the Bill brought into the House of
Peers by Lord Lyndhurst.
A controversy occupies the attention of the mem-
bers of the United Unit;'ersity's Club (whose house is now
building near at. James's Palace), on the subject of having a
smakin'' room attached to the house. A strollg party of the
3
school objects to smoking cigars, as a sottish and bad cus-
tom, while younger nimbus defend it as neither one nor the
other. The number pro and con. are nearly balanced.
Some absurd reports have been in circulation for the
last two days that the plague had appeared in London. One
version stated that seven persons had died on unlading some
ship in the river. Another, that at a large linen-draper's in the
vicinity of Oxford-Street, seven people died, after being em-
ployed in opening some bales of foreign goods. A third, that
a house in Seven Dials, in which it commenced, was on Sun-
day burnt down, "by authority," to prevent further mischief.
We are enabled to state, from the best authority, that the whole
oldie circumstances from which this rumour arose have been
strictly investigated by Sir William Pyrn, and that there is not
the slightest foundation for the report.—Morning Paper.
A most daring attempt at burglary and murder has
lately been made at Lydiard, in this county. The Rev. Giles
Daubeny and his family bay, absent from home, a man ser-
vant, named Fletcher, was left in care of the house, and which
office lie certainly filled in a most praiseworthy and courageous
manner. In the middle of the night he heard footsteps,
which, of course, excited his suspicion, and gently walking
out at the back of the house, came to the front, and discovered
a ladder at the drawing-room window, into which two men
had just made their toothy: he immediately ran to the foot
of the ladder, and hailed' them, when both of the villains
jumped to the ground, and one of them instantly discharged
a pistol, the ball from which passed through Fletcher's hat ;
he being provided with a brace of pistols, fired off both at the
wretch who attempted his life ; there is no doubt the felloW
is severely wounded, as a great quantity of blood hp'
traced for a considerable distaPico. A reward of -
offered, but as /et uoitteeessfully,.....-0
Saturday,
court-martial
April, to of
;as held at Malta on the 19th
14— ..y Lieutenant Puddicombe, R. M., and Mr. I •
....cock, midshipman of his Majesty's ship Portland,
duet unbecoming the character
of an officer and a gentleman.
The Court sat five hours, and the charges being pro%•e
d Lieu-
tenant Puddicombe was sentenced to lose one year's time in
the service, and Mr. Hancock two.—Plyninath Journal.
M
IMPRISONENT FOR DEBT.—Speaking on this
subject, Lord Eldon (no mean authority is recorded
)for eon-
ductto m-
act
in a manner more injurious and inhuma • n than was ever done
said—" The law of imprisonment for debt is a license to
o
towards slaves."

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