ADELPHI THEATRE.
Teti theatre on Monday night presented a scene that was quite- reviving to the spirits of an old playgoer. The house was crowded before the curtain drew up ; and the boxes were thickly studded with the well-known faces of authors, actors, critics, and theatri- cal quidnuncs, attracted to see PLANCHE'S version of HEROLD'S opera Le Pre aux Clercs, which has lately been so popular in Paris. The music is pleasing; though, as a musical performance,. it will not bear the test of severe criticism ; and the drama possesses considerable interest, and is got up in splendid style. PLANCHE has Anglicized the characters as well as the dia- logue ; and the scene is raid in the court of HENRY the Eighth of England, instead of that of HENRY the Third of France. The story is briefly this. Reginald de la Pole, whose name and family are proscribed at the court of HENRY the Eighth, is ena- moured of Marguerite de Montal, the favourite companion of Queen Anne Boleyn ; and the lady requites his passion. Assum- ing the name of Dubois, he comes over to England in• the retinue of the French Ambassador; and, by means of his friend Canta- relli, Master of the Revels at the court, he obtains access to his
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