21 JULY 1855, Page 12

" Am I thinner, think ye ?" said a fat

Welsh gentleman, in one of the late Mr. Charles Mathews's entertainments, whose whole life was devoted to the reduction of his bodily dimensions. A similar motive for action lately occurred to the fertile MM. Marc Michel and Labiche, who have given visible form to so many odd notions ; and they accordingly com- posed a farce out of the perplexities of a married gourmand, who, suddenly terrified at the consequences of his gluttony, goes through the most vio- lentlind of discipline to become a thinner man. This piece, entitled Un Mari_ qui prend du centre, has been transferred to the Princess's, and en- dowed with the English name, Hato stout you're getting.