The gap left by the loss of one good actor
shows the impoverished state of the stage. By the temporary secession of Mr. W. FARBER, a whole range of principal parts in comedy was left vacant. Sir Peter Teazle, for instance, was without an adequate representative till this our first comedian reassumed the character. The return of Mr. FAR.. REN to the stage is therefore a subject of congratulation to playgoers ; and the Haymarket was better filled on Monday than it has been for some time, by an audience who welcomed their old favourite most heartily : indeed, the greeting was almost too much for the veteran. Mr. FARREN'S attack has, we regret to say, left some evidences of its severity, that are visible in his face and audible in the enfeebled voice and occasionally indistinct utterance ; and his performance of Sir Peter Teazle was less vigorous and animated than usual. These effects of illness, however, it is to be hoped, may wear off. Being loudly called for at the end of the comedy, Mr. FARBER expressed his grateful feel- ings in a short and pithy speech. The entertainments of the evening included a solo on the violin by M. Sr. LEON, and terminated with one of those brief but fatiguing farct s whose heavy lightness at the end of a long sitting is insup- portable. Love in a Sack was the last feather added to the camel's load : in vain Was BUCKSTONE hoisted up in a bag in mistake for parched peas ; in vain was his concealment in a pepper-cask detected by mtroxysms of sneezing; in vain did he stagger under a basket of beauty, looking like a load of love-apples: all would not do. The audience were too tired to laugh.
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