20 JANUARY 1849, Page 9

An English version of a French comic opera—Herold's Marie—was pro-

duced at the Princess's on Thursday. This piece, though constructed of very ordinary dramatic materials, has much musical merit, and was, when originally produced, almost as successful as its author's other works, Zampa and the Pre our Clercs. But it was so imperfectly exhibited in its English dress, and its beauties were so effectually concealed by the unsa- tisfactory performance of everybody except Mr. Allen and Miss Poole, that it proved all but a failure, and can have very few repetitions.