2 AUGUST 1851, Page 10

Drury Lane has slid back into the position of an

equestrian circus, with a troop composed of French and American artists. Madame Caroline is a celebrity of the first rank, and Messrs. Stone and M'Collum are good men in their line ; but altogether it is a poor entertainment, undistinguished ' either by novelty or by taste. The fact that the theatre is crowded is a corollary of the general condition of affairs mentioned above.