23 FEBRUARY 1856, Page 11

#tatrts ank Music.

The week now closing is one of those blanks in point of production that occur periodically about this time of year. Meanwhile, those who take interest in such matters have leisure to reflect on the remark- able fact, that the holiday season of 1855-'6 has extended far beyond its usual limits ; and that the theatres, fashionable and unfashionable, Occi- dental and Oriental, Cispontine and Transpontine, have enjoyed an uni- versal and lengthened prosperity, unprecedented within the memories of the oldest chroniclers.