ENGLISH- OPERA-HOUSE.--We last night witnessed for the fifth time (being
the thirteenth of its performance) Der Vampyr, which con- tinues to be represented at this house with the brilliant success that has attended it from the beginning. We do not know that full justice has hitherto been done to the merit of PHILLIPS'S acting in this opera, in- dependently of his performance of the music allotted to him. His action, his attitudes, the expression of his countenance, and the varied propriety of his demeanour, could not be exceeded in similar circum- stances by any actor : nor is the tasteful elegance of his costume un- worthy of notice. The general effect of the whole opera is splendid and elegant even as a spectacle, and would afford pleasure to one who was capable of deriving pleasure from the sight of agreeable forms tastefully combined. The adoption of our suggestion of curtailing the long re- monstrance which the Vampire addressed to Zeriny upon the subject of his oath, has given a lightness to that part of the opera which it del not possess before. The illness of Mr. Woon lastnight obliged the manager to omit the entertainment of Sold for a Song,—an agreeable musical trifle, in which that gentleman appears to some advantage as a ballad-singer ; and in which Mr. J. RUSSELL, with uncommon cleverness, embodies ona. reduced scale the abstract notion of Italian Operaism. RUSSELL
infect nfect the only English actor who combines the requisites of voice, musical accomplishment, and comic powers, to maintain the character of a Buffo.
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