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exquisite and finished performance. This new debutante unit«s 

 with a fresh and melodious tone a very pleasing personage and 

 is a satisfactory acquisition to the present corps. The season will 

 doubtless prove the most attractive, and it is to be hoped the most 

 lucrative, of many years. 



The management is an undertaking that requires vast energy of 

 purpose, an intimate knowledge of theatrical resources, and a profuse 

 and lavish liberality to command success. How well Laporte exhibits 

 these essentials the public are the best judges. Of the ballet, of 

 which before the curtain there are so many admirers, and behind so 

 many well-disciplined members to be admired, we must not omit 

 honourable mention. First, we have Mademoiselle Carlotta Grisi, 

 the new arrival, a cousin to her namesake, and from the relationship, 

 and the kindly feelings always uppermost on these occasions,her debut 

 was one of peculiar interest. The nimble tripping entree was checked 

 by one universal, " long, loud, and deep" flourish of applause. The 

 modest and graceful acknowledgment, the gentle curtsey, and the 

 speedy assumption of the character she was about to sustain, created 

 a most favourable impression; and, after the lapse of a iew flighty 

 evolutions, she was a confirmed favourite. She possesses a charming 

 person, an indescribably interesting countenance, and a flexibility of 

 movement little inferior to our own dear, but absent, pirouetting 

 Taglioni. Could the manager introduce them in companionship? 

 Perrot continues to lead. What cannot so gallant and able a com- 

 mander achieve ? 



CoTENT Garden Theatre. — This Jardin des plantes nightly rises 

 in our estimation. The soil needed but culture to render it prolifically 

 productive, and others than ourselves live to testify the worth of the 

 experiment. The skilful tiller well knew the vicinal wants, and 

 supplied them at a marketable estimate. The demand was propor- 

 tionate, and the harvest has been accordingly abundant. Dropping 

 all allegory, it is pleasing to behold the unceasing exertions of the 

 manager crowned with deservingly-earned success. Night after 

 night witnesseth varied, intellectual, and clever illustrations of times 

 past,'present,and in perspective; and the manner and method whereby 

 they are personified reflect great credit upon all the artistes engaged. 

 To particularize representations would consume more space than 

 we have to spare, and would be but an infringement upon our 

 hebdomadal intelligencers ; and to commend would be only to 

 re-echo the sentiments appended thereto. 



The new enlistments are judicious. The strength of the firm is 

 increased,' and the golden smiles of the tenants at will are secured. 

 If the treasury respond to the run, who may we expect to wear the 

 front of sadness? Mr. Dale and Miss Helen Faucit enact the lovers 

 and the loved, the faithless and forsaken, the miserable and happy; 

 and in the witness thereof emotions will arise that bring to our 

 reminiscences those of a remoter date. Shades of Siddons, and ye 

 Kembles ! it is a pleasing grief to ponder on what we have beheld 

 and heard when you were among us, and no dishonour to your 

 memories that we should revive such feelings, when listening to those 



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