The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-25 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

The Easter entertainments at this theatre com-
menced with a piece of the melodramatic school, entitled,
Lost, 3 ,000 i." Mons. Roland, alias Charles Maringo,
(Mr. Stuart), the hero of the piece, is one of those old
friends of the playgoer who abound in their talk with so
much morality, that they have none left for active service
—he is, ix fact, a man whose "mission" clearly ought to
have been the pulpit ; but who, by some mischance, finds
himself a bandit and chief of the " Bohemians" of Paris.
He has a daughter—all virtuous bandits have daughters—
named Celestine (Miss Anderton) who, selon les reg!es, is
quite in the dark as to her parents mode of life, having been
placed by him in early youth under the guardianship of
respectable persons. At the commencement of the play
Celestine is about to marry Julius Dufresne (Mr. Langton),
the King's Advocate, to which marriage her father, who
drops in a "promiscuous" sort of way, gives Lis consent,
promising, at.theseme time, to give to his daughter. a
largri dowry. While at Dafresne's he is confronted by Bass
tien(M.r. E. Stirling), one of his troupe, who is there with
a view to plunder,a►nd Bastion conceives the idea that the
chief. is ;about to .betray the gang of Bohemians to the po-
lice. In thsenext act; " Le RougeCliat," the head-quarters.
of the Bohemians, Bestien denounces Marine to the gang
as a traitor, and opens to them a esheme for robbing the
house of *Durfesne of 30,0)0i., which is lodged in a study
there. He hasscercely done this when the arrival of gents
sl' arrnes puts the gang,t'o flight ; but they nevertheless re-
assemble somewhere, for, in the last act, we find the scheme
for robbing the houSe of Dufresne is carried into execution,
and Maringo, much to his apparent disgust, is forced to
take part in the robbery. In so doing, however, he is .en-
abled to shield his daughter from some of the ruffians of
the gang, bet not without her catching a sufficient glimpse
of him to arouse her suspicions as to his mode of life. The
arrival of the police
.again puts the robbers to flight, and
Maringo, through that fatal , weakness of dallying to
make timi moral speeches, contrives to be captured.
Io the last scene, the time of which is in the
morning after the robbery, we discover that Maringo
has effects 1 his escape, for he appears in his usual
guise of a respectable merchant at the signing of the
marriage Contract between his daughter and Dufresne, and
hands to the latter, as Celestine's dowry, a portion of the
spoils of the preceding night's robbery. A great deal of
trouble arises through the conscientious scruples of the
lady, and just as things.are on the point of being " made
pleasant," the tables are turned through the treachery of
Bastion, who, having informed the police of his leader's
whereabouts, is shot through the heart for so doing, while
the leader himself is killed by the gens d'armes. Whether
Celestine or Dufresne were married or not remains a mys-
tery, fer the felt of the hero is simultaneous with that ef
the curtain. The piece was followed by the " Fairy Fern
Flower," a musical spectacle, the plot of which was highly
successful. The music is the composition of M. Pierre
Calkin, and contains many unpretending melodies of much
sweetness. Tue theatre was well filled.