THEATRICALS.
BOTH the Great Houses have been visited by the Queen in state, this week. At Drury Lane, on Tuesday, her Majesty chose BALFE's Aka/ sfroiis, nod the last new ballet, The Spirit qj Air—with the Lions again of course. LAsns times next picture of " The Queen's Pets" should represent V.sx A sint-non's beasts. The interest taken by Royalty in the feeding of the Lions has induced the manager to an- notmte the raw meat nightly as a bait for John Bull. Last night, the Queen was more intellectually entertained at Covent Garden, with The Lady V Lllwis—as a wag said, "The lady of Lams came to see her namesake :" Rob Rog, not the pantomime, was played as an after- piece. Roth houses were crammed with loyal audiences. I her Majesty need not apprehend an unfavourable reception on going to open Parlia- ment, if she only take as lively an interest in seeing her poor subjects sumaied with bread as the lions with beef.
The Queen was dressed in mourning, which becomes her, and wore a profusion a brilliants and it wreath of white flowers on her head. She scented conscious that all eyes were upon her ; and this slight restraint gave to her manner a sedate gravity ; which, however, relaxed in the course OF the perawmance. arm:READY 111IS hanottreh by the Royal applause, which he well deserved by his excellent acting. In the course of the first act a the play, the audience seized upon an opportunity a ridiculing the rumour of the Queen's intended marriage : one of the characters says, " A foreign prince ! a tbreign liddlestick"—whereat the house roared with laughter, and cheered repeatedly."
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