6 JULY 1850, Page 10

Messrs. Brough, who have lately ruled absolutely over the region

of broad burlesque, as distinguished from the elegant burlesque of Mr. Planche, and the burlesque with a purpose" of Mr. Tom Taylor, have at length found a competitor in a son of Sir Thomas Talfourd, who has burlesqued Euripides's tragedy of Alcestis with great success. The plot is not very strikingly brought out, and one might imagine that the story is scarcely familiar enough to the multitude to enable them to relish it in the form of parody. However, so many and so smart are the verbal jokes, and so lively are the songs, that, with the assistance of adequate acting, it keeps the audience of the New Strand in a roar.