The Sun. — 1832-11-20 (London, England)

ADELPHI THEATRE.  After the domestic drama of Henriette, which still continues extremely popular, a " new local, operatical, and squibbical burletta," (as the bills had it) called Bad Business, or a Meeting of Managers, was last night produced. Prior to the commencement of the pizce Mr. YATES came forward, and besought the indulgence of the audience for the imperfect manner in which the burletta would he performed, in consequence of the sudden and serious illness of Mrs. FiTzwituam, who was compelled to quit the theatre, and proceed immediately to her residence. Under these discouraging circumstances, Miss DALY would endeavour to read the part. When the curtain was raised, Mr. GALLOTT appeared as Mr. Gong, a " manager in distress," surrounded by his theatrical " familiars," anxious to devise some means for drawing full houses, empty benches having been the order of the night for a long time. He, in the first instance, sseks the advice of a French manager. Mr. YATES enters in that chat acter, and gives a clever imitation of Laporte, who is made to declare that he is friendly to " native" talent, for he employs natives of every nation in Europe. Indeed, like the retail oysters, he lives by " ❑atives." I.Hst REEVE follows, and proposes to secure full houses by playing the first line in tragedy (which he declares is his peculiar forte), with an occasional touch of serious pintomine; and in each department he gives us " a taste of his quality." Mr. 0. SMITH next enters as Signor .Paganani. He was most characteristically dressed, and ~it uff the strange gesture of the Signor very closely. Lastly, Mr. YATES personnates his colleague, Mr. Mut. Mews, as an Englistt manager. In answer to the usual interrogatory, " What entertainments are likely to draw good houses?" he advises outrageous melo-drama, and invites the company to witness, at the Adelphi, the rehearsal of a concoction of that description, denominated Crimson Crimes, or the Blood.stained Bandit. The action which follows, and in which Mr. J. REEVE figures as Diavola Staoberini, a murderous and atnarous bandit, is an extravagantly broad and very laughable burlesque on the various " robber dramas" which have of late days been so abundant on the stage. The first part of the burletta was perfectly successful ; some disapprobation was manifested in the progress of the second part, but compa • ratively little, and we think, had Mrs. FITZWILLIAM been able to play Cuddelina, the beloved of the " blood-stained bandit," there would have bee❑ none.  By the papers of Sunday we learn that tl'e Duchess de 13ERRI had arrived at her place of confinement in the castle of Blaye on the 15th, and that a brig of war is to be stationed before the fortress during her confinement there. M. de CHATEAUBRIAND had arrived at Paris to defend h r Royal Highness. Most likely the services of the noble Viscount will not he required, and it is at least certain that he has displayed his chivalrous courage at a very cheap rate. But if the Duchess is not to be benefited by his devotion to her cause, he has certainly succeeded in making himself talked of for a day all over Paris, and that is no small matter even for an author so sure of immortality. M. de CHATb:AUBRIAND is tormented with what his countrymen call a besoin of being iu the mouths of the world. The cholera arrives in P.ais, and he hastens from the mountains of Switzerland, with a new pamphlet in his hand, and 12,000 francs in his purse, to distribute among the poor, as a charitable contribution from the Duchess de