11 DECEMBER 1858, Page 10

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Were it not for the announcement of a new and original comedy, by Mr. Bayle Barnard, to be produced at the Haymarket on Monday next, we should expect little variation in the play-bills of the day, before the lemon of Christmas, when, of course, the whole theatrical world will be revolutionized by simultaneous pantomimes. The manager of the Prin- cess's has definitively settled the proportion in which for some time to come, he will administer rations of Shakspeare' giving Macbeth three limes, Much Ado About N ' Nothing twice and King John once every week, so that he and Mrs. Kean appear regularly every night in important cha- racters. At the Olympic a decided success has been attained by Mr. F. Robson, in the Porter's Knot, and the burlesque „Maid and the Magpie, now a fixture for several weeks at the Strand, is undiminished in at- traction,—so it would be useless to look for a change in either of those establishments.

Considering the extensive patronage that is now bestowed on theatri- cal exhibitions of every kind, and in every quarter of the town, people begin to wonder, that Astley's does not turn to better account its exclu- sire advantages for the production of equestrian drama. The feats in the ring are always satisfactory, but on the stage one drama follows an- other, without making the slightest impression on the general public. Ever since the notion of representing tragedies of Shakapere, with horses in the battle-scenes was adopted, there has been a tendency to rely more upon biped and less upon quadruped artists,. than is consistent with the purposes of the theatre. At Astley's the appeal thould be made not to the interest connected with ordinary drama, but to that taste for histo- rical spectacle, of which certainly there is no lack at the present day. With the capibilities of the Astley's stage and the docility of the Astley's stud, what wonders might be accomnlished if the work of dazzling were begun in a truly archseological and pictorial spirit.

PARISIAN TRRA.TRICALS.

Madame Caroline Barbet, wife of a celebrated tenor of the Opera Comique, who has lately been promoted to the Imperial Opera, has made her debat at the latter theatre as Valentine in Lee Huguenots. In the revived ballet of Marco Spada, 'Mademoiselle Zina Rich'ard has been so successful as almost to rival the fame of Madame Ferraris.

A farce in three acts, of the Palais Royal school, with the odd title Yen Nez, mee Year, ma Bouehe, has been produced at the Iritrietes. The idea is ingenious. A young pianist, whose face serves as a model for an ptilit, is painted in the three characters of a "dandy," a Spanish trou- badour and a Swiss female. The three pictures fall into di&rent hands, and bring their hapless original into as many separate scrapes, for they have all been illisqki414ld wigkerptheobject Of LetaltIntnri vapolcion, and en the head eft-thre- c ini4stal oil Wadi they have palled into existence. The authors of the piece are MM. Siraudin,

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