PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
The Marquis de Belloy has written a "pastorale," in three acts of verse, entitled Le Tasse d Sorrente. Tease, having quitted the court of Ferrara, is supposed to be staying with his sister at Sorrento, where he falls in love with a fair kinswoman, who has already become enamoured of his works. However, a visitor from Ferrara awakens the remembrance of the Duchess Leonora ; and, leaving his poor cousin in the lurch to marry a man for whom she does not greatly care, he hastens to the place rendered world-famous by his unhappy passion, and there finds a prison. The Marquis de Belloy seems to like unhappy catastrophes. To him the Parisian public was indebted for La Mat aria, afterwards developed at greater length in that Pia del Tolomei which became so attractively repulsive in the hands of Madame listen. His "pastorale" was brought out at the Odeon last Saturday.
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