14 JANUARY 1854, Page 11

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The melodrama of Paula Lazzaro, brought out this week at Drury Lane, is .a very featureless affair ; being a commonplace brigand tale, very com- monly treated. There is, moreover, a certain obscurity in the conduct of the plot, by which a paradoxical combination of transparency and opaque- ness is produced. Pieces of this sort may do very well now and then, just to fill up an evening already marked by some attractive piece ; but they should be as sparingly used as possible. Indeed, nothing can be less conducive to theatrical prosperity than that class of drama which startles nobody, melts nobody, makes nobody laugh, and gives nobody anything to talk about.