19 APRIL 1845, Page 13

Auber's comic opera Le Dec crOl.nne is got up at

the Princess's in a very creditable manner; though the English version is of the homeliest, and its performance will gratify those only who have not seen it on the French stage. The plot turns upon the last favourite incident with French dramatists—the extempore marriage of two persons entire strangers to each other: but in this instance the bride prefers another, though the bridegroom becomes enamoured of her without knowing she is his; and the ceremony proving in the end to have been invalid, the lady is united to the man of her choice. The disguise of the heroine in the habit of a monk, her em- barrassment, and the jealousy of the rivals, are the principal Incidents: but, neither in its operatic shape, nor without the music—es it was repre- sented at the Adelphi just before Christmas, under the title of Sidonut de Molina—is the drama very amusing. The vocalists, Messrs. Leffler and Allen, Miss Grant and Mademoiselle Helen Condell, gave Anber's lively music with commendable smoothness and vivacity. A set-scene in the second act, the terrace of a Moorish convent overlooking the plain of Cas- tile, painted by Beverly, is a most beautiful stage-picture.