The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-13 00:00:00

DELPHI THEATRE.

" Le G amin de Paris," one of the best-known pieces on
the French stage, when it was associated with the inimita-
ble Bouffe, has been newly rendered into English by Mr.
Boucicault, with the title of the " Dublin Boy." Several
years since, while the original piece was still fresh in the
public mind, an earlier version was produced, in which Mrs.
Keeley sustained the part assigned to Bouffe, but Mr. Bou-
cicault has given an entirely new tone to his adaptation of
an old story, by a transfer of the scene to the capital of
Ireland, and the endowment of the principal character with
Irish peculiarities.
It may be as well to remind our readers that the boy
who is the hero of the tale is the orphan son of a soldier
who was killed in battle while saving the life of his general.
lie lives with his grandmother and sister), and is so hope-
lessly idle and mischievous that it is predicted by every one,
save his fond grandmother, that he will come to some dis-
graceful end. His better qualities are, however, called
forth by the discovery that his sister has lent too ready
an ear to the flatteries of a young gentleman, who
visits the house, disguised as an hunablD artist.
Without a moment's hesitation he proceeds to the Louse
of the seducer's father, an old military officer tor-
mented by the gout, and obtains matrimonial reparation
of his sister's honour, partly by the force of that plebeian
eloquence which has long been popular on the stage, partly
through the circumstance that the gouty old man is the
very general whose life his father preserved.
The t
very pleasant in its Irish dress, the dialogue
having beenory
well
se
coned with characteristic pleasantries
s
by Mr. Boucicault, and ,!1/4.11dY, as the " gamin" is now
called, is played by Mrs. Bout::
ault with a great deal of
spirit. She does not indeed complete;.;
convert herself into
a iubberly boy," but she depicts the hehtY
,6 l'
love of fun,
the sensitiveness to dishonour, and the ttror.',7
affection
which are the attributes of Andy's nature, with a fort::' that
does not lose its efficiency through the gracefulness by whiO2l
the part is somewhat idealised. The old General, now
called Daly, with his benevolence, his irascibility, and his
gout, is played by Mr. Emery in his best style, and stands
out highly
coloured without caricature. Mr. Stephenson,
celebrated as Father Tom in the "Colleen Bawn," displays
to advantage his Milesian peculiarities as the butt of Andy,
and Mrs. Lewis looks the complete picture of a doating old
grandmother. The piece is thoroughly successful.

FATAL ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM HANWELL
LUNATIC ASYLUM.-Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy coroner
for West Middlesex, instituted an inquiry at the Hartwell
Lunatic Asylum ye,terday afternoon as to the circumstances
that led to the death of Henry Todd, aged 37 years, a book:
duster of the British Museum, and an inmate of the asylum.
The evidence elicited from several of the attendants and
inmates of the asylum went to show that on last Monday
morning the deceased, being allowed to go into the open
grounds by the attendant in charge, was observed to run
acros the fallow ground, obviously for the purpose of escap-
ing from the asylum. Three of the attendants immediately
pursued him, but he outrun them, climbed over the
boundary fence, plunged into the river Brent to ford it, and
was drowned. After the examination of a large number of
-witntsses, as to whether any blame was attached to the
officials of the asylum, the jury unanimously returned an
open verdict, to the effect that deceased was found dead in
the river Brent, and that his death was caused by suffoca-
tion from drowning, into which he had fallen after escaping
from the grounds beloirging to this asylum, of which he was
humtic iuwate,