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ginal that is to say, we never heard any thing like it before, and we 

 hope never to hear any thing like it again,and so the audience seemed 

 to think too. Wilson sang a song at the beginning of the third act 

 with much fire, and was loudly applauded ; and as for Templeton, 

 he improves upon us every time we hear him. We begin to think 

 that if he studies hard and continues to profit by his assiduity, he 

 will, some of these days, make a distinguished figure. He has a very 

 fine voice and a good person ; he is beginning to lose that wording 

 style of acting, and to seem, if not to feel, more at home on the stage. 

 We hope our prognostic will be verified, for at present there is a sad 

 dearth of first-rate singers, and more particularly tenors. 



Madlle. Duvernay made her re-appearance on these boards. She 

 looked very well and wore longer petticoats than heretofore. Her 

 dancing was very neat and very graceful. Not equal to Taglioni's or 

 even Fanny Elsler's, but yet very good, and well worth going to see, 

 though we do not think the dance arranged for her was remarkably 

 pretty. She is not, however, amenable for that fault, which rests 

 with M. Anetole. We trust soon to see her in some piece which will 

 display her powers to more advantage. 



The choristers were well drilled, the band effective, and for a first 

 night there were very few boggles with the machinery. The assault 

 of Corinth at the end of the first act was capitally managed, and a 

 view of Corinth met with deserved applause. But the triumph of the 

 night was in the view of Arrocorinth, than which we do not recollect 

 to have seen any thing more beautiful even from the brush of Stan- 

 field. We say brush, for pencils are not used on such occasions. 



It was truly a fine picture and was greeted with the most hearty 

 applause of the night. The explosion at the end was very welljmanaged, 

 and, if it did not give a good idea of the destruction of a citadel by 

 gunpowder, was perfectly satisfactory as a piece of stage effect. How- 

 ever, we could have dispensed with part of the sulphur and salt-petre 

 which filled the house with a suffocating smoke and set all his majes- 

 ty's lieges a-coughing. 



Cooper announced the opera for repetition, and we expect it will 

 draw pretty well for a few nights until some other novelty can be 

 prepared for the insatiable appetite of the public. The house was 

 full, but not crowded; for example, there was good standing room in 

 the pit till half-price began, and even then many more might have 

 been squeezed in. Mr. Bunn must not consider this as any thing 

 more than a stop-gap, but must follow it up with a succession of good 

 things, or we think he will have to strike a heavy balance against 

 himself at the end of the season. 



COVENT GARDEN. Macready, C. Kemble, Farren, Vandenhoflf, 

 and Mrs. Glover, have been running a round of Tragedy and Comedy, 

 restoring to the Garden its character as a potent theatre and giving 

 the public an opportunity of patronising the legitimate drama, if they 

 will. We wish them much success and a long continuance of it. 



OLYMPIC.- Charles Mathews has appeared in a part new to the 

 English stage in a translation from the French, styled "He would be 

 an actor." When a mere boy some years since he performed the 

 same part in the original piece, which he now does in the adaptation ; 



