It is quite a relief to turn to the gay
and pleasant Olympic, where Warms " shoots folly as it flies" with shafts of wit and ridicule, and makes agreeable sport even when she takes aim at " small deer" that should be held harmless. VESTRIS has been indisposed for a week, and her return to the stage ITER welcomed by a crowded house. Her hot new burletta, Which is the Winner? is an extremely slight, but withal a pleasant enough piece, in one act ; which succeeded by virtue of its brevity, and the amusing acting of Limas? and Mrs. ORGER. Lorron persoaates Mr. Lot, an auctioneer, who is very jealous of his fine-lady wife, but will not confess his weakness ; and Mrs. ORGER, as the Widow Nottleway, cures him of a fit, for which he really had some pretext, and gets Mrs. Lot out of a scrape into which her indiscretion (not criminality) had led her, by laying him a wager of the amount of her milliner's bill that she succeeds in making him jealous ; for, in order to win his bet, hem at; as mere fabrications the letter of a former admirer of his wife, and other incitements of his jeslouesfears. Lisroses way of laughing off his suspicions, and pretending that his real pas- sion was but a piece of acting,' and his resolute blindness to the most glaring facts, was droll enough ; and he pointed the stale jokes of the author so as to make them tell by their very age and obviousness. A Miss MALCOLM made her debut as Mary Dobbs, in My Daughter, Sir ; and acted in a very sprightly, easy, and unaffected manner. Though young, she seems well-versed in stage business ; and is a very agreeable and efficient acquisition to the company.
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