PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
A work of the thoroughly, French school, called Le Roman d'Elvire, has been produced at the Opera Comique. The music is by M. Ambroise Thomas ; and, in the composition of the book, M. Leuven has been aided by no less a person than M. Alexandre Dumas. The plot is of the old simple kind. A young lady, whose hand has been refused by a libertine, assumes the disguise of a wealthy widow, and is married by the disdain- ful gentleman, who sees no other means of repairing a shattered fortune. By magical expedients, she then pretends to recover a youth that has never been lost, and thus gives rise to a new series of perplexities, that terminate when she finally avows her stratagem. La Mendiante, a famous old drama, by MM. Anicet Bourgeois and
Michel Masson, has been revived at the Gate. •
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