The comic piece of the King /neon wherein an adventurer
in love with at Mayor's daughter passes himself off for Charles the Second in disguise, is a broad farce, in which there are some tolerably good hits at corporations.
The serious drama, called A Father's Pita, is a picture of wretchedness in Ireland ; not overcharged, 'tis true; and with a happy termination, which is rarely the case with real Irish misery. But the characters are much to() tidily dressed ; the cabin is too spacious and well-furnished ; the pig, or the pigstye, is wanting; the peasants speak in the most approved phrase of Ni WMAN'S novels, and not only peel their potatoes, but eat diem with a knife and fork ! The story is that of a son who is saved from being hung for sheep-stealing, not by his " Father's plea," but by his brother, who had been to sea, suddenly returning as rich as a nabob, and who buys the estate on which the sheep were fed, and comes into court just in time to save his brother, by proving that he had been only killing his own mutton unawares. How it became his, being his bro- ther's, does not appear : but the Judge and Jury—for there was the whole court assembled—seemed satisfied, and we will not disturb the verdict.
Mr. and Miss MASON, who are really clever performers, were very genteel and sentimental as the sheepstcaler and his wife ; and the father had a solemn and stately representative, who looked unutterable things. Mrs. limaaim., as a cheerful and charitable neighbour, entered heartily into the spirit of the scene; and HuGnes, who personated the villanous steward, looked suitably sordid, ugly, and hardhearted. Theis was no lack of clap-traps bearing on Irish politics; but they were infelicitously introduced.
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