20 OCTOBER 1849, Page 8

The skating-scene in Les Plaisirs Miser, which gave rise to

such in- genious controversy between M. Paul Taglioni and the magnates of Covent Garden, has been made the basis of an Adelphi sketch, called Mrs. Bun- Wry's Spoons. The author, Mr. Coyne, has with his usual tact contrived to employ the whole comic force (and force it is) of the Adelphi on his work; but the main feature is, after all, the skating, with wheeled skates, by the corps de lallet. This is very ingeniously done; the merit of the performers being heightened by the smallness of the stage.