THE THEATRES.
THEATRICAL doings this week afford very slight occasion for remark. Opera and spect5ele reign uninterruptedly at the two Groat Houses; and the approach of Christmas is nut likely to change the order of things, further than to sastitute tine slaps and bumps of the Hark- quinade for the "clink and fall " of swords in Jowl of Arc, and the grimaces of tine clown or WILT AND.S irenieli drollery in tie Danghkr of the .!aerobe. Peepoig Tout of Cercnfry is tlic, suijoct of tine Covent Garden pan- tomime; and no sooner is this mlnounced, than 01(1.111.'s forgotten farce is revived at the I I:tym;tr!:ct, and a ilece of the same title is announced at Prury Lane. When ninvegets "do :reeve, their una- nimity is wonderful : " jest DOH; thew perlerming the old farce " Every Manager Ti= ov.-n STANFIELD, we hear, is 'saintlier, a " diorama," as it is miscalled, fer Covent Garden. Welcome bark to the stni.ro, prince of scene-painters? In the scene-room STAN1 IELD achit V,:ti his nothm triumphs. The
heatre rang with warm and hearty applauses, far more grateful to the painter than the cold compliments of jealous R.A.s or the qualified approbation of carping connoisseurs. the Academy may look grave and think it below the dignity of their order ; but he may tell them that CANALETTI was a scene-painter also. It was in this same school, where the great Venetian artist in landscape gained his power of reali- zation, that ROBERTS and STANFIELD have acquired that boldness and distinctness of style and facility of pencil that characterize their works. In easel pictures STANFIELD s' genius seems " cabined, cribbed, con- sined : " in a scene he has "ample scope and verge enough" for the exercise of his skill.
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