t the Olympic, a laughable little piece, called The Emigremts,
gives °MERRY an opportunity of developing his peculiar humour. He per- sonates Mr. Shears, an unfortunate tailor, who embarked for America with his wife ; but the vessel being wrecked, each believes the other to be drowned. They are both in a fair way of repairing their mutual loss by second marriages, when the double bigamy is prevented by the tinily but embarrassing rencontre of the supposed widow and widower. The lachrymose aspect and matter-of-fact sorrows of the forlorn little tailor, and his sudden change to a state of hilarious expectancy when the prospect of wedded I liss again opens to him, are represented by ONB: airy with a comical effect of reality. His galopade dancing is in the very spirit of a nimble tailor; and the burlesque of PERROT'S pas de deux with CARLOTTA GRISL by him and MISS PINCOTT, is capital. Mrs. ORGER as Mrs. Shears —who supports her pretensions as a French milliner by a profuse garnish of French phrases Anglicised in the pronunciation,—assumes the vulgar airs of the would-be fine lady with due complacency. The unexpected meeting of the supposed drowned persons is excessively droll. The pair are so well matched too !—OXBERRY reminds you of a bantam-cock strutting beside a turkey-hen.
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