THE THEATRES.
The event of the week is the appearance of Rachel; whose supplemen- tary season will, we suppose, become as regular as the annual opening of the French Plays. She is welcomed with applause, and she draws crowds to the theatre.
In point of physical strength, Mademoiselle Rachel seems to have gained, if we compare her performance with that of last year. There is less ap- pearance of delicate health; and the painful apprehension that the intense mental exertion will prove too strong for the corporeal frame, is leas fre- quently excited. She retains in the highest degree all those excellences which may be classed under the respective heads of powerful utterance of passion' great acuteness in discerning and expressing nuances of feeling, and perfect ability in preserving the tone and entirety of a character. Marie Stuart still presses the whole weight of her admirably sustained grief upon the audience, and excites them by the momentary triumph over her rival; and Camille still rends the heart by her mournful exclamation, "0 mon cher Curiace 1" and astonishes by the variations of her soliloquy.
With the exception of the Britannicus of Racine, which is announced for next week, it does not seem that any pieces new to the English public will be produced. The Polyeucte of Corneille was in the original programme, and there was a notion of performing the Alkalis of Racine; but it appears that religions objections stand in the way of this arrangement.
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