The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

HATILARKET.

The Man of Nary Friend', which is now arena-
leg w►at promisee to he a Ws rue at the Haymarket, kr
the latest novelty from the pat of Ile. Stara Coyne.
Peter Poppies, the mss of any Made, is • retired doll
soaker, Ma ilile-sed, who soddenly bessising wished by
• " Thumping Legasy," leers off dollqaakisg, takes a
villa at Norwood, and baying a wife who is abides" of
shining is the sure of Aar ten, speedily surrounds handl
with a hat of fashimabie Moods, who eat his dinners, sell
his Whew winded ►arses at esonness pasta borrow his
nosey wittiest any 'station of maples it—trader ha
behind his back, and perform all then other hisseserable
little radars. by which ash Meade are ere reedy to
prove the sincerity of t►olr sttashaest. There Is one Mad
who, berg es "!assurable,' feels bead to are the
'reeler nada in the way of friendship in pro-
perties to his Wawa* polities, •ad does so
by aleaveuring to sedum Ids estsesaiser's wife.
Peppier, heaver, maga all his fare Mesas, has cu tree
me he the pews of sea Bkrysteher, a Linesinehire
who la years gess by had lest um NIX wherewith to sec
up balsas, but who, so mist • visit to the villa, is
resolved with erases by 31n. Poppies, who abort pr-
esides bar husband to terse his the hospitality to whirr
he bed bees invited, lest a sherd offend by ►e Wow' her
fridesable acqsaistesser. 8r "sea dissevers that his old
Mead is being victimised, and that fashiosable life is to hint
• bore. He pranalgres • rumor that Poppies (w►o a only
tee happy to join la the plot) has het .11 his essay by the
failure of "the Pies' Bank," sad the antis, of • WWI'
sosepasy, ef whisk he woe a director. Of muse, the elegant
hind, the areas triad, the dais; freed, the useful
Mend, mad all the over Meads, sae and female,
w►w friesdalp is bred epos peressal interest, or wens
mares, fall off; bat by way of iseraileg the open sad
✓arities wee dearly the kind bolas of those dinar-
eart Wirral', who ►are hew satin is rabies sad
oasis. pose Poppies, the 'bey of the rola is sonadisted,
and as asaossosasst is esede that Petrie parses pre-
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seating M the OM amongst them whom ko may he ladt;ind
to regard as his truest friend, a valuable teetimesial.
la-
msdieWy sash one tries, by slaaderiag all the *tiara, to
peeve hls thle to the gift The slander is sommuniestod is
strict esoildence to Poppies; but he, with the aid of liata,
so contrives matters that every Gee overbears what the
Mhos say, sad the remit is that they quarrel amongst
themselves; and Wise oat that they have bees duped by the
man whom they had marked out fee their own victim, have
Poppies sad kb wife, who her now bosoms sonvisoed of the
Warne* of " faabiesable friends," to the quiet esjoympas
of dessestie f.Udty. Bash is a emend oaths' of the plot
fee whisk, es it will be non, the author has draws to some
moat, ups likakspeare's ?times dada", Elias up kis
iasidests partly from Balwer's Maw, somewhat reversed
perhaps, partly from iTheridaa's School for Smoutal, and
something more from the fares of The *Kayla* War w.
The borrowed materials Sr. however so carefully sad
artistically put together, that so is. need mint the west
of originality. The great merit of the pine is, that it is
natural sad free from szarratlos. The plot is obvious
from the first, and the mods of weals/ it out is what
everybody has anticipated, sad with which, therefore,
everybody Is satisfied. Mr. Baskets** Is the Peter Poppies,
MI Mr. Compton the Bam /Rupiahs? ; Kiss Reynolds
psentrays Mn. Poppies, and the friends "Elegant,"
/porting; " Dimas'," " Useful," " Lively," " Es-
podoesed," " &drama." sad " Humble," are permuted
by Mown. W. Panes, Howe, Bogen, Clark, ?dies Swan-
kiness.% Mn. Poystee, Mae A. Viaiag, sad Mn.
easibe. With one► a mate it is almost sups:Anon Way
Me- is admirably acted.