FOREIGN THELTRICALS.
The "Cirque Napoleon" was opened last Saturday, and the French papers overflow with raptures at the beauty of the edifice. The Emperor " assisted" at the inauguration, and was presented with a bouquet by the workmen. On Monday, he visited the Comedic Francaise, which was illuminated for the occasion.
No theatrical novelty of importance has appeared in Paris since our last record, but the various establishments seem to be in a most flourish- ing condition ; the total receipts of the month of October having ex- ceeded by 116,000 francs those of the preceding September, and being surpassed in their turn by those of November.
Madame Birch-Pfeiffer, the celebrated German actress and authoress, has been feted at Coburg, where she took her residence to consult with the Duke about some alterations in one of her operas. She attended a performance of her newest piece, Ein .Ring, and in a few days afterwards voluntarily appeared as Barbel, in Dorf and Skutt. The audience were in a state of rapture; and the feelings of the public have embodied them- selves in the shape of a poem of three stanzas, addressed to the " poetess and actress Frau Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, on her appearance at the Co- burg Court Theatre, on the 23d and 26th November 1852."
Herr Edward Devrient, brother to our friend Emil, and author of a history of the German stage, has recently become director of the Carlsruhe theatre. He inaugurated his management by the production, on the 22d of November, of a German version of the Tartufe of Moliere.
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