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Mr. and Mrs. Wigan reappeared at the Adelpbi, on Monday last, in Mr. Tom Taylor's drama, Still Waters run Deep. They were heartily welcomed by the audience. On the same evening Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams commenced an engagement at. the Lyeeum„ which now rests wholly upon their talent. The event was signalized by the production of a new piece entitled the Lepracliaon, in which the principal personage is Phelim O'Donnell, an Irish soldier, lingering in Spain_ during the regency of Espartero, as a relic of the " British Legion." The Hibernian gnome, who gives the title to the work, has very little to do with the plot ; for when O'Donnell has got into a scrape with the police by beating an old man whom he mistakes for the "Leprechaun," he is simply detained on the erroneous supposition that he is General O'Donnell, until the fall of the Regent frees him from captivity. As the Irishman in difficulties Mr. Barney Williams is surpassingly comic, but the piece considered apart from the actor is flimsy and trivial in the extreme.
Le Mere de Famille, an old Vaudeville by M.M. Dennery and Lemoine, not even new to the English stage, has been dished up at the Haymarket,
with an original catastrophe pointing to Australia, as the Young Mother. Miss Emily Allen prettily but somewhat feebly portrays the devoted girl, who so kindly talma care of her brothers and sisters, and modern tastes are gratified, when family distress is alleviated by emigration. At Astley's Amphitheatre there is a new hippodrame, called 27w hun- dred Cuirassiers. The action, which is borrowed from a novel by Mr. Grant, is supposed to occur during the conflict between France sod Lor- raine under Louis XIII, and the effects arc of a kind that have been seen at the foot of Westminster Bridge at any time within these dozen years.
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