19 OCTOBER 1839, page 15

A New Play By Sir Lytton Bclwer Is Announced At

the Haymarket ; and a play by a new candidate for dramatie fame, though a veteran author, .Mr. LEIGH IleNT, has been accepted by the management of Covent Garden.......

At The Adelphi, Van Amburgii's Elephant Is The...

the production of a new piece, announced with all the mystery of a paragraph of fashionable intelligence, which is to employ all the re- sources of the theatre. The elephantine......

The Theatres.

COVENT GARDEN has kept the lead, this week, by two " revivals "- an old comedy on Monday, an opera on Wednesday—and by several "first appearances." The performance of Artaxerxes......

Horace Vernet, The Celebrated French Painter, Is About To...

to Egypt, and thence to Syria, in order to paint on the spot a picture of the battle of Nezib, for which Ibrahim Paella is to supply him with the necessary information. The......

The Merriment At The Haymarket—the Very Atmosphere Of...

exhilarating as the laughing gas—has this week reached the con- vulsive point, by a combination of Powmi's oil of fun and BERNARD'S spirit of humour. Powsat, on His Last Legs,......

Drury Lane Opens On Saturday Next, The 26th. Mr. Haststoxy,

the new lessee, took leave of his Strand Theatre audience last Saturday, in a smart and amusing speech of negative import, implying that neither German operas, French......