22 JANUARY 1848, Page 9

Madame Thillon has appeared to great advantage in an operetta

called The Young Guard, produced at the Princess's. The story is of a peasant girl, who during the civil war in Spain saves a Carlist prisoner, by assuming the disguise of a minstrel, and enlists in a regiment, so as to be appointed guard of the place in which the prisoner is confined. Mr. Loder's music is chiefly of the ballad style, and is adapted to the sparkling singing of Ma- dame Thillon.