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

MAItYLEBONE.

The Easter entertainments at this theatre com-
menced with a piece of the melodramatic school, entitled,
" Lost, 3 :,0001." Mons. Roland, alias Charles Marino,
(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 loft for Retire service
—he is, in 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, scion lee regles, 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 his consent,
promising, at the same time, to give to his daughter a
large dowry. While at Dufresne's he is confronted by Bas-
tion (Mr. E. Stirling), one of his troupe, who is there with
a view to plunder, and Bastion conceives the idea that the
chief is about to betray the gang of Bohemians; to the po-
lice. In the next act, " Lo Rouge Chat," the head-quarters
of the Bohemians, Bastion denounces Marine to the gang
as a traitor, and opens to them a scheme for robbing the
hence of Durfesno of 30,030 t., which is lodged in a study
there. Ile has scarcely clone this when the arrival of gene
d' armes puts the gang to flight; but they nevertheless re.
assemble somewhere, for, in the last act, wo find the scheme
fur 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, but 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
Marino, through that fatal weakness of dallying to
wake fine moral speeches, contrives to be captured.
In the last scene, the time of which is in the
morning after the robbery, we discover that Maringo
has effect° I his escape, for he appears in his usual
guise of a respectable merchant at the si4Ning of the
marriage contract between his daughter and Dufresne, and
hands to the latter, as Celestine's dowry, a portion of the
sp.,ils 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 aro turned through the treachery of
Bastien, who, having informed the police of his leader's
whereabouts, is shot through the heart for so doing, while
the loader himself is killed by the gene (Venues. Whether
Celestine or Dufresne wore married or not remains a mys-
tery, for the fall of the hero is simultaneous with that o
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. Tile theatre was wall filled.