PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
The French stage is at the present moment in a very uninteresting con- dition. MM. L. Thibourt, Grange, and R. Deslandes, have laid their three heads together for the composition of a Vaudeville, called Lea Chevaliers da Pince-nez, but even the public of the Varietes, where it is played, begin, to get weary of the lorettes and vicious idlers which it exposes to view, and Paris longs for a little virtue by way of change. At the Cirque there is a huge feerie in thirty-two tableaux, written by M. liugelmann and Mademoiselle Thys, and entitled Cri-Cri. The personage to whom this name belongs is the genius of labour, who is opposed to Quibus, the demon of money, and the characters Mecanique, Travail, Courage, Per- severance, &c., are of that allegoxico-didactic kind that has been familiarized to the London public by the introductions to the recent Drury Lane pantomimes.
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