24 NOVEMBER 1838, Page 14

111r. Greenfinch, at the Haymarket, is another warning to old

bachelors, of the perils of matrimony, and the impossibility of escaping them when a woman "sets her cap" at her victim. Old Greenfinch, after escaping the snare laid for him by a couple of families, who, though always quarrelling, manage to conceal their domestic discords from him, till accident reveals the secret, falls a prey to the wiles of an artful impudent hussey of a housekeeper,—a cruel fate, that gives the farce a serious and unsatisfactory ending. The acting is excellent ; especially that of STRICKLAND as old Greenfinch, and Mrs. FITZWIL- LIAM as the housekeeper.