3N mar.
A French Opera company, under the management of M. Remusat, have established themselves at the St. James's Theatre. Their first per- formance which consisted of Auber's comic opera, La Part du Diable, drew a ft:11 house, and was well received. The opera is by no means equal to the charming works of the composer's earlier days—Fra Diaeolo, Zr Domino Noir, or Les Diamans de la Com onne ; and it labours, more- over, under the disadvantage of having one of the poorest librettos that Scribe ever wrote. Still it has many marks of genius on the part of both poet and composer, and is not a work to be thrown away, though a more effective piece might have been chosen as a coup d'essai. The per- formance was on the whole agreeable, and characterized by that com- pleteness of ensemble which belongs to the French stage ; though none of the individual performers seemed (as far as could be gathered from on specimen of their talents,) to rise above mediocrity.
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