1 JANUARY 1853, Page 12

C4t t4tatrts.

The theatrical Christmas week having begun on Monday, the rush of " facts " upon our gate is quite overwhelming. When Boxing-day occurs towards the middle of the week, we have a sort of landing-place-we can divide holyday entertainments into the two categories of harlequin- ade and burlesque, and reflect what has been done in one of these depart- ments before we proceed to the next. But this winter we have really more than we can digest, and we cannot retire to that distance from the stream of events which enables the chronicler to become thephilosophical historian. We shall therefore content ourselves with casting the theatrical horoscope ; reserving the power of drawing inferences for some other occasion, if we think fit so to do.