The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-15 00:00:00

THE THEATRES.

DRURY LANE.-A new afterpiece, in one act,
intitled Love in Humble Life, was represented
for the first time last night. It is altogether a
light and pleasant comic sketch, and is under-
stood to be taken from the French. The fable
is simple :—A soldier named Ronceslaus had re-
ceived a large sum of money from his Colonel,
who died. He gives part of it to a girl, named
Christine, a bar-maid, who had nursed him when
in a wounded state, and intends the rest for
his father, but he finds is dead. His gift,
which he had sent without revealing the donor,
has enabled Christine to become the mistress of
an inn where he stopped for refreshment. He
offers her his hand, which she declines, having
promised to give it to her cousin. After some
little perplexities, he generously unites the two
cousins, and gives them the remainder of the
money intended for his deceased father. The
piece was so well represented by COOPER, as
Ronceslaus, KNIGHT, as the cousin, and Miss S
BOOTH, as the heroine, that it was received with
general applause.
COVENT GARDEN.—The Tales of my Land-
lord, one of those Scotch novels which have at-
tained such extraordinary popularity, have given
birth to another new Musical piece, which was
brought forward last night, under the title of The
Legend of Montrose, or the Children of the lllist.
As the Romance is so well known, it is needless
for us to detail the plot, to which we of course
refer our Readers, particularly as there is no ma-
terial deviation from the original. It is sufficient to
say that on the whole the transfer to the stage has
been uccepted by the audience. The Performers,
particularly LISTON, CONNOR, ABBOT, DURUSET,
Mrs. FAUCIT, and Miss STEPHENS, gate it effec-
tual support. The only objection was to the in-
troduction of horses, for the audience did not
seem to think that the moral purposes of the
drama could derive any great support from
Quadruped Actors. However, this difficulty
was in the end surmounted, and the general
beauty and grandeur of the scenery rendered the
piece successful. The Overture was composed
by Mr. BISHOP, and the rest of the music is
stated to be selected by him, Mr. WARE, and
Mr. WATSON. On looking at the printed book
of the songs, we find no mention of Mr. HAwus,
who, as we see by his advertisement (see our
front page), arranged and composed the air of
'' 0 we're a nocldin, &c." which was beautifully
sung by Miss STEPHENS, and was the most ad-
mired in the piece, and who also has added Go
much to another song, " Charlie is my darling,"
also sung by the same delightful warbler. We
hope that the musical gentlemen whose talents
have been employed in this drama were not aware
of what Mr. HA wrs had done, for we are not willing
to suppose that they could he capable of an in-
tentional suppression of his name. The poetry
is of a better order than usually appears in pieces
of this description; but whatever is derived from
WALTER SCOTT must indicate the inspiration of
the Muse. The piece, with the temporary objec-
tion to which we have alluded, was received with
warm anti well-merited favour, as the Managers
have done their duty in bringing it forward with
" all appliances and means to boot" that could
tend to secure public approbation.