The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-12 00:00:00

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

The long-announced new comedy of The Men of Pleasure was
produced last night. It is written by Don TRUEBA, the author
of The Eequisites, and other successful plays, and was supported
by the whole comic strength of the company. The performers
engaged in it were MACREADY, FARREN, DowroN, COOPER,
BALLS, HARLEY, and BRINDAL ; Mesdames NEQturr, C. JONES,
Rymer, Miss PHILLIPS, and Miss CAWSR. The author has ex-
hibited and ingeniously commingled a number of slight but in-
teresting plots, the principal of which are the separation of a
Roue and his lady ; the distresses and remorse of the former,
and the generosity of the latter, which together lead to a final
reconciliation ; the intrigues of another Roué, who, in abetting
the gallantries of all his friends, at last finds that he has assisted
in the elopement of his own wife, who he loved "in private,"
though he assumed indifference towards her before the world,
" to save appearances ;" and the efforts made by a citizen and
his lady to marry their daughter to a man of title, which end,
in her running away with " a young man about town." The
comedy abounds in what may be termed the essentials of suc-
cess; there is a profusion of correct sentiment, which elicits
applause even as an echo, and no lack of points of humour,
which excite hearty and general laughter. The acts are short,
and the constant succession of varied incident keep the attention
fully alive throughout. MACREADY and Miss PHILLIPS, as the
parted but still loving pair, acted with great feeling and effect;
and FARREN, in the, to him, new character of a rather juvenile
and altogether rakish husband, exhibited that truth to nature
which is the great and praiseworthy characteristic of whatever
character he undertakes. The house was crowded, and the new
piece at its conclusion was received with tolerable applause.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, DEc. 11.--Wind W.N.W., light —Sailed the
French frigate Melpomene, far the eastward. Arrived from
the river and sailed the Ganges, Ingram, for Madras.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 11. —Wind W. N. W.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 10.—Wind W.S.W. fresh breezes.—
Sailed the Barracoata packet, for Jamaica and Carthagena ;
and Emulous ditto, for Halifax and Bermuda. Arrived the
Reindeer packet, from the Leeward Islands, sailed from St.
Thomas the 13th ult.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10.—Arrived the Jane, M'Leod, from
Jamaica; Eagle, Lyon, from Savannah ; Zebulon, Allen, from
Nova Scotia ; Hope, Hicks, from Newfoundland ; and Sappho,
Duncan, from Quebec. _ _ _

DUBLIN, BEE. 10.—Arrived the Brothers, Hinds, from
Quebec; the Comely, Stratton, from Riga ; the Resolute, Ro.
berts, and the Elbe packet, Geymer, from London.

CORK, Dec. 9.—Arrived the Tryagain, Hyde, from
Quebec; the Hero, Bell, from Miramichi; the Hebe, Ather-
den, from Navarin ; the Pheminer, from London; and the
Dragon, Smith, from Oushbubbing.

Arrived off the Wight the York, Ney, from New York.
The Olinda, Sanderson, bound to St. Andrew's, New Bruns-
wick, out since the 23d of September, has put hack to Liverpool.
The Josephine, Brown, from Belfast to New York, put into
Donegal Bay, after being twice on shore, and assisted off after
discharging about 183 boxes of linens.

The Mayo Constitution says, " The gentle
men j the Kilkenny Hunt were attacked last week at the
fox cover by the country peo
Ale, and obliged to fly."

At a late meeting of the Medico-Botanical
Society, Mr. BURNETT, in a lecture on the alga, stated
that an immense income WES derived by Noblemen and
landed proprietors from the on4o useless sea- weed ; tha.
0,000 tons of kelp,
at 20/. per top, were prepared it,2
Scotland and in England, A very large tract, is also car-
ried on in it on the western cwiat of Ireland, particularly in
thetcounties of Mayo, Clare, and OldwaY.
In 1590 Prince MAURICE of Nassau took
Breda by the following stratagem :—A boat was loaded
with turf, under which 70 men were concealed, the
Spaniards themselves assisting to bring in the boat.
11lArrnEw HELT, a Lieutenant of the 70, not being able
to suppress a cough, begged his comrades to kill him, lest
the enterprise should be frustrated by so inconvenient a
companion.—Mirror.

Sir ROBERT PEEL arrived at his seat, Dray-
ton Manor. near Tamtvorth, on Wednesday, from London
The Right Hon. Baronet and Lord CHARLES Vasa
TOWNSHEND will, it iS expee,ed, be again the Representa.
tires of Tamwortb in the new Parliament.

UENERAL ELECifOl4i.

MANCHESTER, DEC. 10.

On Saturday evening a deputation of the gentlemen who
have formed themselves into a Conunittee for the purpose of
securing the return of the Right Hon. C. Poulett Thomson
waited upon Benjamin Heywood, Esq., one of the Members in
the last Parliament for the county of Lancaster, with an invi-
tation to that gentleman to undertake the duty of proposing on
the nomination-day Mr. Poulett Thomson to the electors of
this borough. That invitation Mr. Heywood has accepted,
and this circumstanee will contribute in no trifling degree to
the prospect of a victory by the friends of Mr. Thomson over
the strenuous, well-directed, and able exertions still persevered
in by the party in favour of Mr. Hope. The elec-
tions in this district have commenced most auspiciously in
favour of the liberals. Wigan was heretofore the strong-hold
of the Conservative party in this county ; but the extension
of the franchise to inhabitants holding the necessary qualifi-
cation under the Bill generally, instead of confining the right
of election to the self-elected corporation tools of a wealthy
and noble aristocrat, has so far been most triumphant in the
defeat of one of the corporate body, in the person of Mr. John
Hodson Kearsley (the late Member), of ludicrous notoriety.
There will be no contest for the representation of the southern
division of the county, and Lord Viscount Molyneux (the son
of the Earl of Sefton), and Mr. George William Wood, both
stanch Reformers, it is at present expected will walk over the
course. The election takes place in the defunct borough of
Newton, on Tuesday, the 17th instant