The Brussels Company performed Lea Huguenots on Monday; when they
displayed, as usual, their artistic talent as an operatic corps, but with. out that accuracy in the details which has characterized their other per- formances. The house was well attended; but the amount of pleasure was small compared with the length and enormously fatiguing study of this laboured and unnatural musical production. If Meyerbeer has made no advance in public opinion by this revival, it is at least no discredit to the Belgian musicians to have left unaceomplished that which the most gifted artists have before attempted with as little success.
The termination of the regular season at Drury Lane, on Thursday, enabled the Brussels Company to quit their filthy quarters in Covent Garden, and obey their Sovereign's command to repeat the performance of Lea Huguenots in a house better suited to receive the King of the Belgians. The dirty disarray of Covent Garden Theatre, with the damaged condition of the scenery and stage accessories, have been a great drawback to the success of the French Opera; and, these disadvantages being removed, the prospects of the Brussels corps have brightened. Les Huguenots, on its repetition last night, went much better-than at first ; and the miss en scene was incomparably superior.
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