A fare:ral burletta, %skit the alarming title of Shocking Events,
is rendered very ainusing by the capital acting of FAIGIEN and KEELEY ; whose opposite qualities, heightened by contrast, combine like vinegar and oil in a a) of to produce a piquante flavour. Faluissi plays the part of Griffin/wife, nil old horse-doctor ; whose favourite crotchet is the comical nun sivnitur, that because be has been all his life em- ployed in curing dumb :inhibits he can cure human beings of dumb- ness: and KEELEY is Mr. Paggs, is little portly bass-singer, with a voice as low as his stature; upon whom the veterinarian, (mistaking him for a dumb patient, though he is only speechless for want of breath,) proceeds to exaerimentalize by pulling his chair from under him, firing a pistol off close to his ear, &c. The intensity of purpose, the philo- sophic indiffereece to the sufferings of the patient, and the coaxing, ir- sinuating manner of the professional tormentor, are satirized with caustic humour by FAIMEN ; while the horror and disgust of the victim at the succession of " shocks" the necessity of his situation compels hint to endure, are expressed most ludicrously by KEELEY. this dumb eloquence is an exquisite burlesque of pantomime ; and alternated as it is with 40ii0 cure grumb..ngs of impatience, its effect is irresistibly droll.
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