PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
In some of the French papers devoted exclusively to the drama, it is the custom to commence each year with a complete list of the novelties produced in the course of the past twelvemonth. The statistics of 1855 give the enormous number of 296 new pieces ; being an increase of 32 on the returns of 1854.
The Bouffes Parisiens, a little comic theatre which started last year on the Champs Elysees, has been removed for winter-quarters to the Salle Comte ; which was opened for the season on Saturday last.
At the Theatre Lyrique, we have an instance of a rise from the Circus which is perhaps without parallel in theatrical history. M. Paul Cuzent, celebrated as an equestrian, not only in Paris but in St. Petersburg, has composed the music to a comic opera, written by M. Dennery, and pro- duced last Saturday with success : it is called L'Habit de Noce.
Lax as they arc in their matrimonial notions, the French, with strange inconsistency, exceed all other peoples in the respect they pay to the filial sentiment. A little piece by MM. Decourcelle and Lambert Thi- boust, brought out last Tuesday at the Gymnase, represents the celebrated Sophie Arnould, on New-Year's Day, anxious to make her femme de chambro dine with her, for want of any other company. The girl, bound to dine with her mother by the Gallic laws of filial obedience, refuses the august invitation. Sophie is enraged;—but her eyes happen to fall on the portrait of her own mother ; she puts it on the table, and exclaims, " Mei aussi, je dine avcc ma !" This exclamation gives the title to the piece.
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