The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

LYCEUM.

"The Lady of the Camelias" was produced at this
theatre, which on S tturday was open. d for a short
summer season under the management of Mr. George
Webster. In this adaptation the entire interest and
pathos of M. Dumas' play is summarily got rid of, the
whole of the demi-monde life, so accurately i lustrated,
is ignored, and the great point upon which the misery
of the unfortunate Marguerite Gaultbier was made to
binge, is the low birth of the heroine, instead of her
vicious life, being protested against by the respectable
father of her intended husband. It must be admitted
that the attempt to chasten the tone of the original
story has destroyed the dramatic charm, and com-
pletely falsified the meaning of the author. In
the interest of virtue, it is, of course, highly de-
sirable to make an honest woman of the heroine ;
but the effect upon the story is about as disastrous as to
su;nnit an ice to the Lrocess of boiling. The adaptation
has been effected in a very careless manner, the en
durance and pat•ienco of the audience was solely due to
the admirable acting of Mrs. Charles Young, who, sur-
rounded as she was by a set of incompetents, played
with sufficient force, sweetness, and pathos to en'ist the
sympathies of an audience, and to win from them coo-
stant demonstrations of approbation and respect. After
" The Lady of the Camelias" came a legendary extrava-
ganza entitled " Toe Lancashire Witches," which ap-
pears Itohe a compound of various nursery tales. The
elegance of the mice en•seene and the Melodious singing
of Min. Elowari Paul nasui el a safe passage for it. The
entertainments concluded with the musical afterpiece of
the "Chalet ; or, Why don't she marry ?"

STRAND.
Mr. SwaniTirough, the mana;er of this now elegant
p'ace of amusement, takes his bent fit this evening, and,
for the occasion, has provided a b:11 of fare well calcu-
-I,ted to please the ino t fastidious. The great novelties
of the eveninr, wi►l be the appearance of Mr. and Mrs.
nowar I Paul, and the debut of the Bone children from
America, in peaiso cf whose performances the whols
press of America has been teeming. Miss Marie Wilton,
one of our most rising artistes, a!so appears as Nan in
Bucketone's admiraVe conic drama, " Good for
Nothing," and the evening's entertainment concludes
with one of Morton's capital farces, in which Mr. Swan-
borough sustains the I :ading par'. We think Mr. SwaL -
boiough has claims on the public fit substantial reward
for the manner in which he has raised this theatre to the
postion it now occupies in the list of entertainments
with which the metropolis abounds.

The Princess's still holds out against the summer
heats, "The Merchant of Venice " and the farce a
" Dyinz for Lye" being the ontt.:rtainmeut3 for the
week.

At the Olympic, the comedietta of "A Handsome
Husband," with .the comedy of "Going to the Bad,"
and the farce cf "The Wandering Minstrel," f trm the
nighly bill of fare.
Mr. and Mrti. Barmy perform in three of
their favourite pieces evtry evening this week at the
Autrey.
The Adelphi c impany, with Mr. Webstt r and Madame
Celeste, commence a six night,' engagement at the
National Star,d.trd this evening. The pieces du ing the
week will be "The Green Bushes," and "Our French
Lady's Maid."
THE MAILS.—The Royal Mail steamship Europa kit
Liverpool for Halifax and Boston on Saturday. She
had on board 100. passengers, a fair cargo, and the
American mails. The screw steamship City of BAN-
more leaves the Mersey for New Yosk on Wednesday,
and the Cunard steamship Persia on Saturday for the
same destination.