The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

DRAMA.

Loa night Mr. and Mrs. Dina Buurcicault—tiis
led) retainiag is the WI. her maiden tame, Mile Agnes

/tobertson--empterel at this theatre after as absence in
America of several years' duration. A new drama, written
by Mr. Bunn:kenit, warn produced ou the =mint It is
entitled the Valens Bairn, and is founded co Gerald
Griffin's well-knows tale, "The Collegians." As reedered la
the drama, the story is somewhat complex; bet the interest
is worked up with considerable skill, due regard bete` had
to effecte and situations. It may perhaps suffice to state
the main thread of the plot. Hardrese engem (Mr.
Millington), the heir to • rubbed Irish estate, which
has fallen into the clutches of a mortgagee, who is
a valorous lawyer, has secretly married Eily O'Connor, •
beautiful peasant, known as the " Colleen Hawn." The
lawyer and mortgagee entertains • pessiou fur the mother of
Cregan, a remarkably strops-minded woman, sad is willing
to cancel his mortgage or the price of her band in marriage.
An alternative, however, exist. in the circumstance that it is
passible that Asa. Chute (Mho Woolgar), an heiress, might
became the wife el Hardreas but for the little obstacle of hie
preview marriage This becomes known to his mother at •
very critical sliellet, and everything seems lout bet for the
intervestion of Natty Man (Mr. Edmund Palouse* the
foiter-brothee of Herdreas, who offers to dispose of Eily In •
nsasser not wholly unknown in Ireland. Hisproposalisreje.W
with horror by Hanker, but Dainty derives that any time
that he seal him his glove as a token that be consent., be
will perform the duty lie had offered to undertake. Mn.
Creme °oiliness to send the glove to Denny, who, by
means of • feigned mange from her husband, inveigles Elly
aocompauy him in his boat to the Water Cave, in the
lakes of Killarney, which is known by the name at
O'Donughue's stables. There one Myles.na-Coppaleen (Mr.
Bourciusult), • rejected lover of Eily's, and consequeutly, as
he lam • poacher and smuggler, has established an illicit
still, sod happen to be ou the spot when Danny throws
the girl into the lake ; although be dues not me the
dead itself. H. only tree at aid wounds Deasy, whom be
takes ha the doubtful light for another ; but presently be
sexes the body of Lily in the water, plunges in, and rescues
her. The scene in which these incidents take place is a
very renorkible one. Nothing can be more precise and
complete than the manner in which the young girl is
dashed into the water; while the way is which Mr. Bauch
cask take, what is called in the dialect of bathers it tr.-
uirtalous "header" into the like it astounding for its
agility sod naturalness. The some, tee, is well pointed sad
set, and altogether the 1141.111ii011 WY SO • WW2( and betel am
to hnug the second set to a most triumphant aloes.
Sufficient (theatrical) evidence haviag established the death
of Lily, the marriage of Hardreas sad Anne Chute ha
deemed to premed. In the 1111111111iiia• Dailey, who hes
crawled back to hie mother's settege, is overheard by the
abominable lawyer maiming to a priest that he bad
murdered Eily, instigated thereto by the receipt of the
token which signified his fueter.brother's commit to the
deed. This leads to the arrest of Hardier just as hie mar-
riage is about to tabs palm ; hut, et course, it is all set
sight by the ',peeresses el Illy, mid all is eatiefsetorOy
sheered sp. There is • seeds ooderglot which is lased on the
loves of Kyrie Daly (Kr. 1). Maher) sadAame Chute, is the
COMO of while the letter is meals to soppees list Daly is
the swot Mahood of Eily, which cookyliessiso Is of ware*
duly deposed cd. Muth* could be better than Miss
Woolges'e troderrat of a port which is slight in Weal, bat
which hes a greet deal to do with the mesmerist of the plies.
Kr. Baureraele bee • chanieter whieh is isterwems with
the plot by orielly slight, but alai with eseestial, threads ;
while it digooded Wanly ou the mode in shish it we,