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The only dramatic novelty of the week is a short farce produced at the Haymarket, which, under the title The Rille and how to use it, warns us against the abuse of that popular weapon. Had not Mr. Floff, drunk, taken it into his head to fire at a human mark on his return from a mess- dinner, what horrors of contrition and remorse would have been avoided by Mr. FloA sober! However, his troubles, rendered exquisitely droll by Mr. Buckstone, are the provocation of our mirth, and he is ultimately relieved by the discovery that he has only shot a lay-figure. Revival has lately been the order of the day at this theatre. On Saturday Mr. Charles Mathews took leave of the public in the Road to Ruin and Paul .Pry, neither of which had been performed for several years, and Miss Amy Sedgwick not only inaugurated her reappearance on Monday by playing Rosalind in As you We it, but on Thursday acted Miss Dorillan in Mrs. Inehbald's somewhat obsolete comedy, Wives as they were. Her force and vivacity render her as popular as ever, and crowded audiences have assembled nightly to witness her performance.
Tonight the Princess's will open under the management of Mr. Augustus Harris with a new drama, called Ivy Hall, and an extravaganza, costumed after the Watteau fashion, and entitled Love and Fortune. Tonight, also, the season of the Olympic will commence, the first pro- gramme comprising the Morning Call, Payable on Demand, and Retained for the Defence. Mr. Webster will reopen the New Adelphi on Monday next, and appear in propria persona as the old dramatic copyist, in a Touch of Nature, the piece which, played only once last year, made so deep an impression through the excellence of his acting. The rest of the entertainment will consist of the burlesque Babes in the Wood, and a new farce called Love and Hunger.
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