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At Drury Lane, the system of reviving stock pieces, with two or three- parts well filled, and decorations the reverse of brilliant, is pursued with great vigour ; and the audiences are still numerous. If the pantomime be not the chief object of attraction, and London is really satisfied with the manner in which the first pieces are produced, we may expect that the professions of scene-painter and costu.mier will soon become extinct, aud that, like Roman augurs, they will be mentioned as appendages of an-an- cient superstition. At the New Strand Theatre, a system of revival is likewise kept up ; and as the same pieces are frequently performed both at the large and the small establishment, the public has an opportunity of studying the mathe- matical accuracy with which the former maintains a degree of inferiority to the latter. The ladies at both houses—Mrs. Nisbett and Mrs. Win- stanley at Drury Lane, and Mrs. Glover and Mrs. Stirling at the New Strand—are very good ; but when Mr. Basil Baker is played off against Mr. Farren, the decisive trick is certainly won by the smaller gamester. At Sadler's Wells, the respectable play of Coloynos, produced last year, has been deemed worthy of a revival.
The other theatres are as they were last Saturday.
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