20 NOVEMBER 1847, Page 10

At the Adelphi, a melodrama has been produced, turning on

the some- what singular incident of an Irish gentleman in his travels bequeathing his heart to a Neapolitan prima donna, and than being killed in a duel. A penalty being attached to the non-performance of iris wish, his family fP Destrliplituged, into distress, but is saved by the interposition of the prune donna herself. This is but a weak piece;-hut it derives some interest trona the fact that it is the last work of the late Mr. R. B. Peake, and that the best actors of the Adelphi have kindly consented to support it by talcing parts inferior to those they are in the habit of filling. It is called Gabrteas