The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

Haymarket Theatre.

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Last evening the long-promised five-act comedy'
" A Wild Goose," written by Mr. John 14ater
Wallack, and " edited" for the London stage by air*
Boucicault, was produced. The piece was first pehre
formed in America two or three years ago, and t t
success it then met with led to its representation at
some of our principal provincial theatres, and finally'
it has, after passing through the hands of the acconl"
plished dramatist we have above mentioned, been
submitted to the London public by Mr. Bunkato.l3u
at his theatre in the Haymarket. The piece on t,a,
first production in America was called " Rosedale,
and although that title has been changed by 14r;
Boucicault for that of " A Wild Goose,":/s
trace many things in the play that forcibly remind
us of a romantic fiction published in Blackwood o°l
time ago entitled " Lady Lee's Widowhood." The
drama in question is elaborated into five acts, and
although everything that the most careful manage.
ment could do has been effected in the way °
mouuting,,, it seemed somehow to fall rather
tamely on the audience, the disappointment cocea-
sioned by the fact that Mr. Sothern was called 011
to sustain a character that created no more interest
than that of the ordinary " walking gentleman" In
English comedy. The audience, doubtless, °..d
pected something after the style of " Dav,sl
Garrick," or " A Lesson for Life," but such was II"
the case. " A Wild Goose" turned out to boa
and very improbable play, acted by the best troupe
comedians in the metropolis. The main story °:
" A Wild Goose " may be soon told. Lady
vale, a young widow, is left with an infant son in
such a position under the will of her husband
that she cannot marry again without the cons°t
of an executor, one Colonel Higham Ferrers, who
happens to be a rascal. This solitary guardian
plots with gipsies to destroy the child, who stands 6
between him and a baronetcy and a fortune, and l
outwitted by a dashing scamp or" wild goose," named
;
Robert Devlin (Mr. Sothern), who first appears as
a captain in the Lancers, and afterwards in a varlet/
of characters, all assumed to enable him to restore
the lost child to its sorrowing parent. As we llaYei
already said, Mr. Sothern's part does not take 1101'
of the audience, and that being the case, notwith-
standing that Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. 110-
gers, Mr. Gordon, Miss Ilill, Miss Burke, l‘fr°,:
Chippendale, and Mrs. Lawes, all supported alert
characters with the greatest ability, the play ~vent
very slow. In our judgment, it is not destined W
become a general favourite with the public.

The London, Brighton, and South Go°

Railway.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
you allow me to request, through
your columns, that the proprietors of the Loud°°l
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company 1:11,,
suspend their judgment and withhold any acti°:
upon the statement which has been issued byt"
committee appointed on the 9th inst. until thei
have had an opportunity of considering a re;
port which the directors will issue before the *eel!'
meeting called for on the 9th of May ?—I am, sir'
your obedient servant,
WALTER B. BARTTELOT, Chairman'
London-bridge, April 29.