The Report of the Drury Lane Committee was read to
the renters and shareholders at the Theatre on Thursday. It is a long, wordy rigmarole, and appears as if it had been drawn up so as to veil the plain and unwelcome fact that there are no funds available to pay the claims on the property. The Committee attribute the ruinous state of affairs to the infringements on the patent monopoly (the old story) and to "a series of most unfortunate events ;" among which, however, the lesseeship of Mr. Binge is not specified. With astounding impudence or matchless simplicity, the Report says—" The Legitimate Drama, having been illegally wrested from the two National Theatres, it.liss been thereby lowered in public estimation, to such a degree that It is now become utterly distasteful to our patrons in general; and whenever it is performed on our own boards, it altogether fails to attract." No wonder. But SCHRCEDER, PASTA, and TAGLIONI, made no better for the Theatre than FORREST. We are afraid" the series of unfortunate events" i3 not yet terminated.
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