PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
.1. La _Cour et la Dot, a comedy, by M. Felicien Mallefille, which made seine sensation when originally produced in 1852, has been revived at the Theatre Francais.
At the Gaeite, there is a now drama by MM. L. Thiboust and E. Blum, entitled La Petite Polognc. The plot turns on the shabby conduct of a young painter, in whose house at Toulon an escaped force seeks refuge, while, at the same time, he indicates the spot where he has concealed the treasure plundered from a murdered victim. The artist, having killed the culprit, finds and takes the money, on which he lives, with a bad conscience and in disorderly fashion. Reduced to a state of destitution, the daughter of the murdered man nearly becomes the victim of the libertine wrongdoer, who, however, is honourable enough to marry her, when he learns who she is, and perceives that he cannot restore the money. The title of the piece denotes a quarter of Paris once celebrated as the resort of vagabonds of every description. The military events of the years 1792-6 have been reduced into dra- matic shape by MM. A. Monnier and E. Martin, and arc presented at the Aneien Cirque, with the title Le Bataillon de la Moselk.
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