25 SEPTEMBER 1858, Page 9

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Young gentlemen, who detest young ladies they have never seen, merely because they are expected to marry them, are exceedingly useful to playwrights, however troublesome they may be to their own families. The ingenious caterer for public amusement has simply to make the slighted damsel put on an effective disguise, and win the provoking youth's heart under an assumed name and character, and there is a plot at once—nay, a plot that may be used over and over again if care only be taken to vary the principal personage. The last piece written on this familiar theme is a trifling farce, written by Mr. Charles Selby, and pro- duced at the Strand Theatre, with the title, the Bonnie Fishwife. Here the requisite disguise converts the lady into a fair retailer of fish, and that her scheme may be fully carried out, the father and the valet of the perverse swain dress themselves as a grotesque Highland couple, supposed to be her parents. Thus, there are two "figures of love" 'represented by Mr. Selby and a rising comic actor, named Clarke and the pretty Miss M. Oliver has the advantage of wearing a novel costume, together with the opportunity of singing "Caller Herring," of which she avails herself to good purpose.

PANISILN THEATRICAL:4

Tke long-expected translation of the Wdipus .Rev of Sophocles by M. Jules Lacroix has, at length, been produced at tie Theatre Francais. M. Membree has composed the music, and the part of the fated monarch is sustained by M. Geoffroy.