The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-01 00:00:00

ADELPHI THEATRE.

Last night a drama in three acts, freely translate I
from the French by Mr. B. Webster, jun., entitled
4, Eve," was produced with much success. The
principal part in the piece is supported by Mr. B.
Webster, and the novelty of seeing this favourite
actor in a new part drew a very brilliant and
crowded audience. Eve, the heroine of the
drama, is the young wife of Hugh Wallaston,
a solicitor, whose sentimentality has brought
about a carelessness of the duties of home, a::d
who is in continual danger of lending too indulge..t
an ear to the unlawful addresses of a young bar-
rister who importunes her to elope with him to a
foreign land. Though ever seemingly on the
verge of falling a victim to his villaay, she is pre-
served from so fatal a sin in some degree through
the influence of a fe 1:ale relative, who watches over
her with the fondest solicitude, but mainly through
the magnanimity of her husband, who, instead of
reproaching or thwarting her, confides in her
to the last, and makes an irresistible
appeal to her sense of dignity and duty.
The great part in the piece is that of the husband,
and as Mr. *Webster warmed in the part he in-
creased the intensity of his acting. In the second
act, where the discovery of the secret of his wife's
indifference is discovered, he gave the audience a
taste of his great qualities as an actor, and this fee ling
he gradually intensified until, in the concluding act, he
rose to such a high standard of excellence that
this, his last new part, may fairly be placed
side by side with that of Triplet in " Masks and
Faces," which has been acknowledged by all to be
one of the finest specimens of dramatic art ever
seen on the metropolitan stage. Mr. IL
Neville, as the lover, looked the beau ideal
of a lady ki►ler, and sustained his part
with much excellence. Miss Furtado, as Eve, threw
much intensity into the character, and Mrs. H.
Mellon, as the good and true wife of a retired
tradesman, carried the audience with her by the
warmth and geniality of her acting. Little Miss
Lillie Lee, a child about six or seven years old,
acted with extraordinary t dent, and there was not
a lady in the house but who envied Mr. Webster the
privilege of kissing her for her pretty impersona-
tion. The piece was received with loud applause,
and will doubtless attract the playgoers to the
Adelphi for a considerable time.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--lhis Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISORDMILIES.— Mr. John Wilkinson, gentleman, of
the Junior United Service Club, Regent-street, and de-
scribed as iu her Majesty's service, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwliitt with being drunk and disorderly in the
Fluymarket.

From the evidorce of polio-constable Smith, 188 0, it
appeared that ho saw tho defendant in tho Haymarket
about half-past one that morning in a state of intoxica-
tion, and surrounded by a number of low characters. He
tried to get the defendant away, and as he refused to go
ho took him to the station.
The defendant was fined ss. or four days.

Mr. George Crosby Brooks, surgeon, of Nc. 30, Vic-
toria-park-road, Hackney, and Mr. Brinck, a tailor, of
Panton-street, were fined 10s, each for being drunk and
disorderly, and fighting togother in Tiohborne-stroet.