After the second performance of Acis and Galatea, on Tuesday,
the Prisoner of War, a two-act piece written by Mr. DOUGLAS jERROLD, was produced ; and kept the house in a Continued state of excitement, alternately mirthful and tearful, from first to last. The scene is laid at Verdun, where a number of English are detained "prisoners of war" : among them are Lieutenant • Firebrace and his Captain ; to whose daughter, Clarina, the Lieutenant is secretly married : the claims of an. artful rival, and the anger of the father at the double disobedience of his child and his officer, furnish situations of suspense and agitation, that are made the most of by ANDERSON and Miss FonrEscon as the wedded lovers, and PHELPS as the rugged but kindly old Captain. KEELEY, as Peter Pall Moll, a Cockney, who prides himself on his pa- triotism, which he manifests by extolling every thing English, and out- boasting, the Frenchmen,'M. as he has it, " trumping their cards "—and Mrs. KEELEY, as his sister Polly,, 'who lives but to realize what she has • read in romances, a lover 'being the first requisite—are a comic pair of irresistible drollery. Peter Pall Mall has two sources of solace, feeding and the flute, and he is always determined to have his blow-out : his sister Polly divides her time between her book and her bonnet. Mr. HUDSON, the sailor whom Polly is smitten with—MOBRIS BARNETT,, a French Jew—SELBY, an officer of Gendarmerie—and Mrs. C. JONES and Mrs. SELBY, a pair of landladies fighting for lodgers—contribute severally to keep up the fun.
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