26 JUNE 1847, Page 13

M. Bouffd, after delighting his audience by his splendid exhibition

of avaricious despair as old Grandet in La Fills de l'Avare, and his admirable portraiture of a gay old French nobleman in an amusing but not very moral little piece called La Carotte d'Or, has favoured his admirers by appearing in one of the dullest nautical melodramas that ever was produced. If we fancy one of the Surrey pieces brought out in T. P. Cooke's days, shorn of its shipwrecks and combats and even heightened in its sentimentality, we shall have a pretty good notion of Le Mousse. The wonderful versatility, however, with which the actor, who has just personated a feeble old man, can assume the recklessness and hilarity of a heedless cabin-boy, is worthy of all admiration.