27 SEPTEMBER 1856, Page 10

Sadler's Wells, having been "legitimately" open for some three weeks

to very good purpose, is beginning to give signs of the periodical energy of its managers. The Merry Wives of Windsor is revived with new and appropriate decorations, and Timon of Athens may be expected next

week. Mr. Phelps's delineation of Sir John Falstaff is a elabora- tion of a theory we once beard propounded in a lecture by Mr. James Russell, that gentlemanlike bearing and consequential gravity are to be deemed essential attributes in the character of the dissolute knight.