11 DECEMBER 1847, Page 11

The appearance of the French Theatre, on its reopening, is

not remark- ably robust. A piece called La Cigui, in which an Athenian, who is about to take hemlock, tests the qualities of his friends by certain testamentary dispositions, is excellent as a literary production; being written in most elegant French verse, and with that worldly shrewdness which finds its proper field in the higher order of comedy. The dramatis personre are only four in number, and the play ought to be acted with extreme com- pleteness. As far as concerns M. Fechter, who performs the young Athe- nian, and Mademoiselle Baptiste, who represents an interesting Cyprian slate, there is no fault to find; but the two selfish friends, to whom the more comic dialogue is intruded, are by no means up to the mark.