21 OCTOBER 1854, Page 10

For a long time the world has believed that Miss

Rosins Wright, of the Lyceum, was the only English dancer -worthy of a comparison with foreigners. However, we now see the germ of a genuine Terpsichorean talent in Miss Lydia Thompson ; who imitates, at the St. James's, Senora l'erea Nena, the Spanish belle of the Haymarket. The piece in which she does this is a very poor burlesque, in which her performance glorioualy stands out, being no burlesque, but a result of noble emulation.