23 SEPTEMBER 1837, Page 8

THE THEATRES.

Tile Haymarket is keeping up its character for novelty and variety. On Saturday last, SERLE.13 drama, The Queen of the Beggars, was pro- duced—with but equivocal success. This was owing to the infeli- citous construction of the plot, which by making the result evident from the first, lessened the interest of the story ; and to the unskilful way in which the denouement was brought about. Moreover, the author's attempt, rather too obviously apparent, to create a factitious ground of sympathy for the poor at the expense of the rich, was re- sented by a few persons, who applied the sarcasms levelled at the state of the law in " the good old times" to the present condition of society. The story is as follows. /Margaret, the Queen of the Beggars, falls in love with Rowland Ormsby, a discarded illegititnate brother who has joined the gang : he refuses her hand ; but she finds a paper proving hint to be the lawful heir to the title and estates held by his usurping brother ; and another convenient document being discovered, showing her to be his cousin, the ci-devant Beggar Queen and her vagrant sub- ject become Lord and Lady De Burgh. The powerful acting of Bliss HUDDART as the heroine, in one or two highly-wrought scents that occur in the course of the play, creates a strong sensation ; to which the mock-royalty of the Court of the Beggars is an amusing relief. Though; there is much that is good in the piece, its defects overbalance its merits, and it is not likely to be permanently attractive. POWER'S petite comedy, Etiquette, or a Wife for a Blunder, was brought out on Wednesday. Jr is a concoctions of well-known stage incidents, to show off the author in his old character of an easy, good- humoured Irishman, whose blunders secure him and his friend a wife $ piece. Pownt, as Captain Dennis ()More, kept the audience in continual state of merriment, and prevented them from thinking of

the improbabilities of the story ; or perhaps they thought "the more the merrier," as, for our own par, did we.