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people hitherto kept in a state of ignorance and brutality, as socai as it 

 breaks its tetters for a moment." 



We are compelled to agree in the final observation, hostile as it may- 

 be to the march of intellect, and are very glad that we are not enjoying 

 its progress in the districts of Zips and Zemplin. 



The theatres will all open in a few days. Fascinating news ! The 

 stages, long and short, are as crowded with actors now rushing up to town, 

 as they were a fortnight ago with partridges, and will be, for a week to 

 come, with geese. And the lounging members of both houses, who 

 have battled, broiled, brawled, and bungled through this burning and 

 endless session, will have somewhere to rest their weary souls from the 

 perpetual bore of doing good to their country. They must, unluckily, 

 wait awhile for the opening of the King's theatre, where Mr. Monk 

 Mason, who speaks Italian hkea tiger, who has visited foreign lands, and 

 sat out all the operas for the last five years, is preparing to assemble 

 such a galaxy of operatical lights, as never yet were let loose upon the 

 optics of our foggy and philosophical island. 



" M. Laporte, released from the Opera, intends directing his whole 

 attention, in conjunction with M. Cloup, to the French drama, and the 

 company, next season, will be more efficient than any that has yet 

 appeared." 



The critics are still in doubt whether this active and very ugly 

 Frenchman gained or lost by his tenancy of the Opera.' Laporte says 

 that he ought to have made 15,000/. Others say that he ought not to 

 have made" the thousandth part of the number of farthings. 



" Macready is engaged at Drury-lane." We hope not to play Vir- 

 ginius and Werner, Werner and Virginius, through the season. 



" At Covent Garden, Young is positively engaged for a limited 

 number of nights. Lacy has prepared an opera — and the evergreen 

 Braham, has been studying his part for a month past. Wilson, and the 

 great card, ]Miss Inverarity, will, of coiu'se, form part of the company." 

 We have no objection to any of these engagements. But we must 

 enter a caveat against our being compelled to see Young in the Stranger, 

 Hamlet, or Brutus, for the last time. We have some sensibilities about 

 us still, and can be tired of the eternal repetition of the most delightful 

 of all human things, as much as ever JManners-Sutton was tired of a 

 debate on the Address. 



" The fascinating Mrs. Humby is enlisted in Captain Polhill's corps. 

 A Miss Kenneth, described to be in Miss Foote's line, will also appear. 

 Mr. Jones, from Edinburgh, takes the lead in genteel comedy. The 

 Honeymoon will be the opening play." 



By joining the captam's corps, we are to understand, nothing more 

 descriptive than becoming a portion of the captain's theatrical com- 

 pany, to which this gay and clever little actress will be a great acqui- 

 sition. Why has she not been a regular aitachee to the Winter Theatres 

 long ago ? They have not had upon their hst a prettier woman, a 

 livelier comedian, or a more piquant artiste, in dress, dialect, dialogue, 

 and dithyrambics. 



Bishop, the idlest of clever composers, who has enriched English 

 opera with some of the sweetest works extant, is generating a pair oi 

 operas at once. Under the general head of drama, we understand that 

 there never was a season so fertile in proposed performances. Forty- 



