THEATRES AND MUSIC.
The regular season of theatrical inactivity begins about this period of the year, and the dulness is still heightened by the unsettled state of affairs in Europe. Mr. Webster, who is about to close the Haymarket, finds a cause for this proceeding in the unusual number of foreign theatres, and the patronage bestowed upon them. There is a little mistake here. The only foreign theatres are the two Italian Operabouses and the St. James's, and all these were open last year. Probably the announcement was set up during the Drury Lane "demonstration,' and has survived its cause. Congreve's Love fur Love was brought out at the Haymarket on Tuesday; but, with the exception of the characters of Miss Prue and Ben, which were very well acted by Mrs. and Mr. Keeley, it produced no effect whatever. The tone of this comedy is too profligate, and the plot too ill-constructod, to snit the taste of the present day; while the stage is sadly deficient in light comedians, who might give effect to the brilliant dialogue, on which the merit of the piece really depends.