6 OCTOBER 1849, Page 10

The management of the Lyceum, generally characterized by its spirit

and elegance, bits on this occasion made be most featureless opening of all. Two piece's, not acted since the Vestris management of the Olympic, have indeed been revived, but neither of them is remarkably striking in it- self, or balculated to bring out any strong histrionic peculiarity. The pow- ers that-be must look about them, and not rely too much on the prestige of past glories.