The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S.

Miss Wyndham presents her holiday patrons
with two novelties. The one, a comedictta by Mr.
Howard Paul, entitled "A Change of System," ei-
hibits the stratagem by which the wooing of that
eminent advocate Mr. Littleton Page (Mr. G.
Spencer) is at last brought to a successful conclu-
sion. This gentleman has for a considerable time
been conducting a suit for and prosecuting a
suit with Mrs. Darlington (Miss Murray), a widow,
of whom a fortune -of £5,000 is her least charm.
The two gentlemen and the lady, on whom the
whole action rests, play their respective parts with
great ability, and the little piece may be set down
as a success.

Tho.other novelty is a burlesque on the opera of
" Luerezia Borgia,"-by Mr. Leicester Buckingham.
The scenery and the dresses are exceedingly good ;
and there is a pretty ballet, in which Miss Clara
Morgan, Miss Maskell, and Miss Caroline Mac-
ready take a prominent part.

LYCEUM.

The entertainments prividLa J the Lyeani
evening
" Th6l\-eit b.; bi
scribed. There is a large fortune, the inheritance
of a deceased nabob, fallen due to somebody. The
father of an arch and amiable young lady, Miss
Clara Mountjoy, is the nabob's relative, but a.ras-
cally attorney, Mr. Grubton, whom Clara has just
rejected, brings forward a grandson, whom he.pre-
tends to have discovered, as the next of kin. It' is
a clownish lad, hitherto known as Timothy Chump,
and as the supposed son of Mrs. Chump, the laun-
dress who washes and starches the fair Clara's deli-
cate apparel. It now turns
.out that when MrS.
Chump, a soldier's widow, was coming home from
India, she was entrusted with the care of a child,
which, if living, would be no less 'a persln than
Theodore Villiers, Esq., licir to the nabob's- estate.

In default of the necessary documentary evidence,
the attorney secretly forges as many papers as he
requires in order to force Mr. Mouutjoy to a com-
promise, one condition of which is to be Clara's
hand for Mr. Grubton. The honezt lout, Timothy
or Theodore, having £lOO given him on account,
and himself, being passionately in love with Miss
Clara, dresses himself up in gorgeous Splendour,
calls at Mr. Mountjoy's house, and makes himself
ridiculous. The attorney mercilessly urges his
own suit, and Clara, to escape his persecution, and
avert her father's threatened ruin, appeals to her
other admirer, faithful, though uncouth as he is.
A quarrel takes place between him and Mr. Grub-
ton, whose villany he learns just in time to defeat
the compromise, by exposing the f)rgery and re-
nounces all advantage from the false inheritance.
But Mrs. Chump, who has acted in 'good faith
throughout, produces the real certificates and
letters to prove Theodore's opulent parentage, and
the attorney is kicked out with his gratuitous fraud.
Miss Clara does not promise to accept her awkward
lover, but kisses him in gratitude when he leaves
her a share of the fortune. The piece was amusing
enough, and the chief part was cleverly acted by
Mr. Calhaem. The author, Mr. Falconer, was
called for and applauded.
The burlesque of the " Forty Thieves," lately per-
formed by the Savage Club, was next put on the
stage, and there was a third piece.