20 JUNE 1829, Page 9

A THEATRICAL IMPETUS.

THE newspapers inform us, that, to give an impetus to Drury Lane Theatre next season, it is said to be the intention of the Select Com- mittee to erect the long-projected portico. How building a portico can give an impetus to a theatre, except in- deed by bringing it down to the ground, we cannot for the lives of us imagine. Setting mechanics aside, however, we would ask whether there are supposed to be in the world any fools so great as to go into. a theatre because of an improvement outside the walls ?