17 NOVEMBER 1849, Page 11

THE THEATRES.

A farce produced at the New Strand Theatre, under the title of A Family Party, illustrates the danger, we have often set forth, of making a piece without iuterest of plot. In the French original, which is called to Pot our Roses, the shaking of a chapeau Chinois (the military "belle ') by the principal character was found highly diverting. But to the English audi- ence this mode of expressing feeling suggested nothing ludicrous; and as there was no plot to fall back upon, the success of the piece was moderLte.

The reappearance of Mrs. Glover, in the clandestine Marriage, has made an epoch in the season of this well-managed little theatre.