The only novelty at Drury Lane this week has been
a revival of the old ballet of action The Deserter of Naples, with an effective cast, as an afterpiece for the off-nights of DUMILATRE. The Syren is also an- nounced at this theatre for next week ; and another version of Don Cesar de Bazan is advertised at the Haymarket on Monday ; CHARLES MA.TREws personating the hero. Managers run in couples. A ver- sion of another Parisian novelty, under the title of The Seven Castles of the Passions, is in rehearsal at the Lyceum.
The laughable new farce at the Haymarket is not of French origin ; but taken from a cleverly constructed tale, entitled Ten Minds. that appeared in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal several months ago. BECK- STONE has done little more than put the incidents of the story into a dramatic shape, introducing the " thitublerig " to heighten the fun : the farce was ready-made to his hand,-though one would not think of seeking for such materials in the sober pages of Chambers.
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