Mr. Charles Mathews and Mr. Robert Roxby are combined in
an amusing little farce, of that kind in which two comic personages play off practical jokes on each other,—and which first became familiar in this country through one of the English versions of Passd Minuit. Such pieces have to the elegant duo-diames of the boudoir and the salon the same relation that the Palais Royal bears to the Gymnase; both being equally French in their origin. In the present instance, the heroes are two lodgers in the same house, who having narrow means, and broad views of the law of meum and tuum, gallantly seize on each other's ha- biliments when they want ready money, and pawn them at Number One Bound the Corners a locality from which the piece derives its title. Mr. William Brougb, the author, has taken the hint of this piece from a French vaudeville called En Marche de Chemises; but his process hat been the very reverse of that employed by gipsies with regard to stolen children. Those professional kidnappers are said to conceal the identity of their prey by washing it with walnut-liquor ; but Mr. Brough rubs the uncleanness of his prize, so that from a very indelicate original he produces a spotless little specimen of harmless mirth.
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