13 MARCH 1847, Page 12

Whether the success of M. Alcide Tenses at the St.

James's in London will correspond with the reputation acquired at the Patois Royal in Paris, is matter for serious debate. The last thing which one nation can under- stand is the niaiterie of another; and here we have to feel the convention- alities, not only of a Parisian theatrical public, but of that small portion of it which forms the audience of one particular theatre.