M. Mario TJchard, an author new to the stage, has
written a four-act comedy, entitled La Fiammina which has recently been produced at the Theatre Francais. The subject is the false position of a young gentleman, whose mother has abandoned his father to devote herself to an artistical life at the opera, and has moreover become the mistress of an English nobleman. Some readers may be amused by the fact that the afflicted parent's name is Daniel Lambert—a name that with us is MOdated rather with physical than mental oppression. The aggregate receipts of all the places of public amusement during the month of February amount to 1,820,594f. 30c.; being an excess of 80,012f. 40c. on the receipts of January last, and an excess of 129,148f. 90e. on the receipts of February 1856.
Verdi's long-expected opera, Simon Docoanera, was brought out at Venice on the 12th instant. Visitors came all the way from Florence, Milan, Rome, Ike., on purpose to hear the first performance • and the receipts of the Theatre la Fenice amounted to something fabulous. The success was immense. The artists were Mademoiselle Bendazzi, M, Nogrini, M. Giraldone, and M. Ecthcvena.
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