10 JUNE 1848, Page 13

The Palais Royal company give a good seasoning of mirth

to the St. James's Theatre, and relieve it from an insipidity that had been rather prevalent this season. Use Pierre Brulante is an extravagant farce in three acts, in which the greatest number of incidents are connected by the smallest possible plot. Ravel, as an unhappy gentleman, consumed by a hopeless passion, and indulging in eccentricities similar to those of our own Wright—and Grassot, as a morose husband, dressed up as a caricature of a diplomatist—are brought into all sorts of odd collisions, and keep the audience in a roar at their drolleries.