THE THEATRES.
Sadler's Wells Theatre was opened on Saturday last, for the season, with the revival of The Tempest, which was first produced at that house about two years ago. In point of decoration the revival is quite as creditable as the original production; but the cast is not improved. Miss Laura Addison and Mr. Scharf having quitted the establishment, their places are scarcely supplied by a Miss Carlstein and a Mr. Nye, who are the present Miranda and Trinculo. The latter, however, seems to possess some humour of the provincial kind, while the former has yet to learn—everything. The other principal characters remain unchanged. The most interesting feature of this early part of the Sadler's Wells sea- son is the debut of Miss Fitzpatrick, as Letitia Hardy, in The Belle's Stra- tagem; that bustling piece which Mrs. Cowley so cleverly rattled up out of
Murphy's Citizen and Congreve's Love f.r Love—and who shall say what besides? Miss Fitzpatrick "makes up " excellently for the lively belle,, and has a fresh vivacity about her that promises well for her career in a department of the histrionic art by no means overstocked. The applause of the Islingtonians is often somewhat indiscriminate, but the loud appro- bation bestowed on this young lady may be looked upon as fairly earned.
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