At the Haymarket, there is a new farce called A
Family Failing. The moral weakness alluded to is an exceedingly irascible temper, which is shared by all the members of an aristocratic family, and prompts them to a reckless destruction c porcelain. The perpetual rage of the father and daughter of the house' and also of a young nobleman beloved by the latter and rejected by the former, is kept up with the most comical fury by Mr. Chippendale, Miss Blanche Fane, and Mr. Buckstone ; and this exhibition of wrath is in fact the whole piece. Some years ago, the French vaudeville on which this farce is founded, and which is entitled Bmbrassons-noun, Folkville, was brought out at the St. James's Theatre ; but it seems to have escaped the notice of 'the English dramatists, usually so keen in scenting out French novelty.
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