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The prosperity of the various theatres, which arose as a

sudden re- action to a state of unexampled depression, continues in full force, but is no stimulus to dramatic productiveness. Mademoiselle Rachel has re- vived the dullest piece in her repertoire,—the Jeanne d' Arc of M. Sou- met, which even her own admirable acting can scarcely render palatable; and the two novelties, Angelo Tyran de Padoue, and Valerie, are still in the bosom of futurity. Mr. Hackett has appeared at the Haymarket, in his stock part of Palatal' ; which he plays as of old, with ungenial stu- diousness, gaining an appropriate reward in the shape of cold approbation. At the so-called Punch's Playhouse there has been an attempt to revive the oldfashioned school of operetta, with its troop of stage rustics, in a weak little piece called the Village Nightingale. These small facts can hardly be considered to form an event, even in the aggregate.