10 JULY 1830, Page 15

THEATRICALS.

THE theatrical seasons are torrid or frozen. People seek amuse- ment in theatres in the winter before the gay season has com- menced, or after its conclusion. January and July are play-going months. Vacant evenings are then discovered, and the Haymarket or English Opera is " made out," as the fashionable idiom ex- presses an attendance. The company of the Litter title is suffering the inconveniences of the Adelphi Theatre, famous for bad smells and the rudest half-price visitors. WRENCH, BARTLEY, Miss KELLY, and KEELEY, however, make us forget our discomforts, —provided they do not play in the Sister of Charity or Master's Rival; the first of wi4ch is the worst hash of stale melodramatic situations, and the s*ond the clumsiest and most cruelly pro- tracted is at fun, we remember to have witnessed. A melo- drama s surely not to be borne, of which the circumstances are- a good creature doomed to death, the generous devotion of one person for another,- a change of dresses in prison, escape, re- capture, execution prepared, hysterics executed, embraces, breaking from guards, clasping in arms, and boisterous demands never complied with for death in the dual number, reprieve, shouts of joy, eyes raised to heaven, and curtain falling to stage. As original in the way of farce is—a servant passing for his master, scenes of gormandizing, mistakes of chambers, apprehen- sion of wrong persons, and final discovery of the real Simon Pure—" nulli magis nota domus est sua." At the Haymarket, there is KEAN in tragedy; which to us seems a false concord with the genius of the house. The wisest of men tells us there is a time for all things ; and we are quite certain the summer is not the time for the sorrowful sympathies. FARREN maintains the more appropriate comedy ; and the broad humour of REEVE, rich in vulgarity, ample in coarseness, and titillating like a nutmeg-grater, supports the farce. In the female department there is a great deficiency. Mrs. HUMBY will not satisfy when there is a Madame VESTR1S or a Mrs. WAYLETT to be had.

Cant has delighted in representing the exhibitions of the stage as of moral tendency. We must confess that we have seldom been able to detect any good lesson in comedy or farce ; and are of opinion, that if, at the fall of the curtain, persons were to ask themselves the effect of what they had seen, the answer would not be very satisfactory. People are apt enough to love, to trick, and to lie, without examples and the sanction of applause. The performance of the Wedding Day, which we saw at the Haymarket this week, presented a fine. specimen of the morality of the stage. A young wife is married to an old husband; and this circumstance allows of course of many delicate witticisms, turning on the conjunction of January and May. The wife being introduced to a young lord, suffers him instantly to declare love to her, kneel, press her hand, &c.; and in the background, in the same chamber with the uneasy husband, the respectable parties go through all the manual and platoon exercise of flirtation. The lady afterwards, in reply to the importunities of her noble admirer, modestly confesses that his presence and amorous instances make her tremble for her husband,—or, in other words, that infidelity, the apprehension of succumbing to temptation, is never from her thoughts. Another wife, a legitimate December, comes forward, however, to claim • January ; and May, finding herself released from her hoary spouse, tenders herself as wife to the young lord, who rejects the offer, as unsuited to the nature of his wishes. The effect of all this is to make a loose woman, fit to jump into a Mr. Woon's arms, appear gay and engaging—to place the duties in con- nexion with the ridiculous—and to associate the licentious with the agreeable.