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

Haymarket Theatre.

Last evening the long-promised five-act comedy'
" A Wild Goose," written by Mr. John Lester
Wallack, and " edited" for the London stage by 2,lr*
Boucicault, was produced. The piece was first per-
formed in America two or three years ago, and the
success it then met with led to its representation 3'
some of our principal provincial theatres, and finally'
it has, after passing through the hands of the aeeelli-
plished dramatist we have above mentioned, been
submitted to the London public by Mr. Bucketef:
.at his theatre in the Haymarket. The piece en '7,
first production in America was called " RosePlef
and although that title has been changed by gr.
Boucicault for that of " A Wild Goose," vieo
trace many things in the play that forcibly renii3d
us of a romantic fiction published in Blackwood some
time ago entitled "Lady Lee's Wi,lowhood." ThAe
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 0
" mounting," it seemed somehow to fall rattle',.
tamely on the audience, the disappointment (NO-
sioned by the fact that Mr. Sothern was called nii°l3,
to sustain a character that created no more interest
than that of the ordinary " walking gentleman" ill
English comedy. The audience, doubtless, eci
peeled something after the style of " nal%
Garrick," or " A Lesson for Life," but such was 11°,,
the case: "A Wild Goose" turned out to be a
and very improbable play, acted by the best troupe ci
3omedians in the metropolis. The main atoll °f
" A Wild Goose" may be soon 'told. Lady Merl,
vale, a young widow, is left with an infant son
such a position under the will of her husb3l3
that she cannot marry again without the coese,llt
0
of au executor, one Colonel Higham Ferrers,
happens to be a rascal. This solitary guardil
plots with gipsies to destroy the child, who 5i'313.0
between him and a baronetcy and a fortune, and la
outwitted by a dashing scamp or" wild goose," naljle
Robert Devlin (Mr. Sothern), who first apPears $
a captain in the Lancers, and afterwards in a Vale'
of characters, all assumed to enable him to rest°r-
,
the lost child to its sorrowing parent. As we b3ce
already said, Mr. Sotheru's part dogs not take bed
ii,'
of the audience, and that being the case, notwitv.-
standing that Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Ilowe, Mr. t();
gees, Mr. Gordon, Miss Hill, Miss Burke, 1%-".:;
Chippendale, and Mrs. Lawes, all supported they
characters with the greatest ability, the play wellto
very slow. In our judgment, it is not destined
become a general favourite with the public.

The London, Brighton, and South Coast

Railway.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
you allow me to request, through
your columns, that the proprietors of the Load
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Compaq 11;10
suspend their judgment and withhold any o°4o
upon the statement which has been issued 11 t
committee appointed on the 9th inst. until thee;
have had an opportunity of considering a r 1
port which the directors will issue before the speel.;,
meeting called for on the 9th of May am) 131
your obedient servant,
WALTER B. BARTTELOT, Chairuto•
London-bridge, April 29.