1 SEPTEMBER 1849, Page 11

Mrs. Alfred Phillips, of the New Strand Theatre, is a

clever comic actress, with a great deal of breadth, as she shows by her performance of a maid-servant in Hearts are Trumps; but she is not the person to sustain a piece dependent altogether on a delineation of Hibernian character Hence, she produces no great effect in a farce called Hefty from Connaught; the heroine of which, on the " Stoop-to-Conquer " principle, assumes the disguise of an Irish domestic. The dialogue is not without smartness, but is here and there too warmly coloured.