2 APRIL 1842, page 15

The Theatres.

COVENT GARDEN having no competitor this Easter in the production o f a holyday piece, the White Cat is not only matchless but unrivalled for beauty and playfulness ; and unfolds......

Parliamentary Inquiry Into The Slave-trade Preventive...

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR. Blackheath, 24th March 1842. Sxn—Lord STANLEY has moved for two Select Committees, one "to in- quire into the state of the West India Colonies,"......

The New Strand Has Been Opened By Mr. H. Hall;

who personates _Robert Burns in a piece of that name ; Miss DALY being Highland Mary—to whom the poet is married! The other entertainments, The New Footman and a mythological......

At Drury Lane, On Monday, Macbeth Was Produced For The

first time this season ; and was followed by a light operetta in one act, called The Students of Bonn, a musical version of the Boarding - School; the lovers being German......

The Haymarket Reopened On Monday, But No Novelties Have Been

produced this week. A new melodramatic actor, Mr. H. Hom., made his debut on Wednesday, in As You Like it, and stamped and bawled through the part of Orlando; while Mr. STUART......

The Olympic Put Forth An Easter Offering In The Shape

of Whittington and his Cat. The Queen's has adopted Jerry Abershaw for the hero of a Jack Sheppard sort of drama ; Sadler's Wells has taken up Madame Laffarge ; and the Surrey,......