THE THEATRES.
Though the season for dramatic activity is fast approaching its close, there is yet, we believe, a good deal to be done at Her Majesty's Theatre; and the production of Le Nozze di Figaro on a grand scale, with Jenny Lind as Susanna, is eagerly anticipated. Meanwhile, however, the subscrip- . tion is at an end; the Anthem has been finally sung by way of farewell, with Jenny Lind among the chorus; and the season may be said to have terminated "officially." Some of our morning contemporaries, anxious to fulfil the pleasant task of writing a summary, have taken advantage of the circumstance, and have rushed into the historical with considerable gusto. Of course, the events whereon peens are sung, in such a record, comprise the "great fact" of Jenny Lind's debut, the success of Gardoni and Col- letti, the enterprise of the manager in catching a real Italian composer and importing him here for our own benefit, and the glories of the ballet.
Last Thursday stood in a somewhat Hibernian position. According to the calendar and the received rules of chronology, it came after last Tuesday ; but practically it preceded that day, for it was a subscription night, while the Tuesday was the last night of the subscription! Jenny Lind, who was to have performed on Saturday, was prevented by illness; and the liberal manager gave all the subscribers, and other persons who had purchased tickets for Saturday and would not be satisfied with L'Elisir, the substituted opera, an opportunity of hearing and seeing Jenny Lind in La Figlia on the Thursday for the monies already paid, notwithstanding the subscrip- tion had closed. Thus is explained the anachronism of Thursday preceding Tuesday in the same week; a placnomenon not expected to arrive till the fulfilment of the celebrated prophecy that two Sundays would some time or other come together.
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