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There have been several novelties during the past week, but none of much importance. At Drury Lane, there is a version of Les Patter de Marche, called The Billet Dour, in which the principal characters are exceedingly well played by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, and which would have made a much greater sensation than it has, had it not been brought out so late in the evening. A long comedy, that does not begin till after ten o'clock, is in these days a mistake. At the Strand, a foolish little gentleman, who rules his daily conduct on the assumption that his nocturnal dreams are actualities, and may therefore, with perfect consistency, commit any folly whatever, appears as the hero of a farce, called Did I Dream It ? This is rivalled in absurdity by an- other farce, which has been produced at the Haymarket, with the title of The Lion Slayer, and which shows the inconveniences to which a harmless man may be subjected if he is mistaken for the famous Gor- don Cumming. At the Bijou Theatre, Le Roman d'un Jenne Somme Pauvre is creditably played, with Madame Doche as Marguerite. The Parisian repertory of this celebrated actress is so little accordant with the notions of the English licenser, that she has recourse to characters " created" by other artists. Mr. Tom Taylor's comedy, Still Waters Run Deep, has been revived at the St. James's, with the cast by which it was originally sustained at the Olympic.
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